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Tigers scrimmage in Death Valley
Swinney: "It was just the first scrimmage, but I was encouraged."
Marc Dopher
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The Tigers held their first stadium scrimmage of the preseason on Saturday morning and Head Coach Dabo Swinney was pleased by what he saw overall."It was just the first scrimmage, but I was encouraged," said Swinney, who is in the process of getting his team ready to face No. 12 Georgia in the season-opener in Athens on August 30. "We have had a tough last four days of practice and the team has worked hard. We have made it hard for them during this period. This is a veteran team who has demonstrated they can meet a challenge."I liked the tempo that was set by the offense at the outset. The first-team offense went right down the field (against the first-team defense) and scored a touchdown on the first drive. Then the defense came back strong and at the end of practice won the short-yardage situations we scripted. The defense dominated the goal-line situations. We will have another situational scrimmage Wednesday and we will see how the offense comes back."Swinney pointed out some areas that impressed him."The tight ends showed up today. Jordan Leggett had a good touchdown reception. The running backs did a good job. Right now it is too tough to say who will get the most carries. We will have a lot of players involved. C.J. Davidson did a good job today, and so did Zac Brooks. D.J. Howard had one of his best practices as well. If we had to play today, we would probably be 'running back by committee.'"Cole Stoudt was outstanding today. He was awesome in his reads. He has had a very good week of practice. So has Deshaun Watson. He had a very good day also."As was the case the previous two practices, starting offensive tackle Isaiah Battle missed the scrimmage with an ankle injury that is not serious. It gave Swinney an opportunity to see his offensive linemen in more than one position.Defensively, the front seven was very impressive. Grady Jarrett had two sacks and red-shirt freshman defensive tackle Scott Pagano had a team-high three tackles for loss."The defense dominated the short-yardage situations toward the end of practice," reiterated Swinney. "That is where our depth shows. I don't see much difference between our first-team and second-team defense. There is more of a separation on the offensive side of the ball."As Swinney stated, the offense got off to a good start, driving 13 plays for 70 yards and a score. The drive ended with a five-yard scoring pass from Stoudt to Leggett. For the day, Stoudt and Watson had two passing touchdowns apiece. The four touchdown receptions were scored by Brooks, Germone Hopper, Leggett and Kyrin Priester.Wayne Gallman had the only rushing touchdown on a one-yard run. C.J. Davidson was the leading rusher with 25 yards, while Howard added 21 yards. Nine different receivers caught passes, led by three for Hopper and three for tight end Jay Jay McCullough."The most impressive stat of the day might have been that we did not have a turnover in the first scrimmage," said Swinney. "That was good to see from an offensive standpoint."The biggest disappointment was that we had too many penalties. Demarre Kitt made perhaps the best play of the day on one catch, but it was wiped out by a penalty."Battle, Travis Blanks, Sam Cooper, Tyshon Dye, Kellen Jones, Shaq Lawson and Charone Peake were all held out of the scrimmage due to injury.The Tigers will take Sunday off and return for two practices Monday.
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The Tigers held their first stadium scrimmage of the preseason on Saturday morning and Head Coach Dabo Swinney was pleased by what he saw overall.
"It was just the first scrimmage, but I was encouraged," said Swinney, who is in the process of getting his team ready to face No. 12 Georgia in the season-opener in Athens on August 30. "We have had a tough last four days of practice and the team has worked hard. We have made it hard for them during this period. This is a veteran team who has demonstrated they can meet a challenge.
"I liked the tempo that was set by the offense at the outset. The first-team offense went right down the field (against the first-team defense) and scored a touchdown on the first drive. Then the defense came back strong and at the end of practice won the short-yardage situations we scripted. The defense dominated the goal-line situations. We will have another situational scrimmage Wednesday and we will see how the offense comes back."
Swinney pointed out some areas that impressed him.
"The tight ends showed up today. Jordan Leggett had a good touchdown reception. The running backs did a good job. Right now it is too tough to say who will get the most carries. We will have a lot of players involved. C.J. Davidson did a good job today, and so did Zac Brooks. D.J. Howard had one of his best practices as well. If we had to play today, we would probably be 'running back by committee.'
"Cole Stoudt was outstanding today. He was awesome in his reads. He has had a very good week of practice. So has Deshaun Watson. He had a very good day also."
As was the case the previous two practices, starting offensive tackle Isaiah Battle missed the scrimmage with an ankle injury that is not serious. It gave Swinney an opportunity to see his offensive linemen in more than one position.
Defensively, the front seven was very impressive. Grady Jarrett had two sacks and red-shirt freshman defensive tackle Scott Pagano had a team-high three tackles for loss.
"The defense dominated the short-yardage situations toward the end of practice," reiterated Swinney. "That is where our depth shows. I don't see much difference between our first-team and second-team defense. There is more of a separation on the offensive side of the ball."
As Swinney stated, the offense got off to a good start, driving 13 plays for 70 yards and a score. The drive ended with a five-yard scoring pass from Stoudt to Leggett. For the day, Stoudt and Watson had two passing touchdowns apiece. The four touchdown receptions were scored by Brooks, Germone Hopper, Leggett and Kyrin Priester.
Wayne Gallman had the only rushing touchdown on a one-yard run. C.J. Davidson was the leading rusher with 25 yards, while Howard added 21 yards. Nine different receivers caught passes, led by three for Hopper and three for tight end Jay Jay McCullough.
"The most impressive stat of the day might have been that we did not have a turnover in the first scrimmage," said Swinney. "That was good to see from an offensive standpoint.
"The biggest disappointment was that we had too many penalties. Demarre Kitt made perhaps the best play of the day on one catch, but it was wiped out by a penalty."
Battle, Travis Blanks, Sam Cooper, Tyshon Dye, Kellen Jones, Shaq Lawson and Charone Peake were all held out of the scrimmage due to injury.
The Tigers will take Sunday off and return for two practices Monday.


It follows news of a new European tour.
Crystal Fighters have dropped their new EP 'Hypnotic Sun', and it's streaming online in full.
The release stars recent songs 'Goin' Harder', which features Bomba Estéreo, and 'Another Level', alongside the title-track.
The release follows the announcement of a new European tour; the band will play loads of shows from March through to April, including the UK with a night at London's O2 Academy Brixton on 4th April.
Check out 'Hypnotic Sun' below.


I am a Wilson Dyslexia Practitioner (WDP) and a Structured Literacy Dyslexic Interventionist through the Center of Effective Reading Instruction- a subsidiary of the International Dyslexia Association. Other advanced level trainings and certifications include Wilson Reading System Level II Upper Steps/Group Mastery and Basic Language Skills at the Rawson Saunders Institute. (The International Dyslexia Association lists the Wilson Language Training and the Dyslexia Therapy Training Programs at the Rawson Saunders Institute as independent teacher training programs accredited by the International Dyslexia Association). I completed the Reading Intervention Master Teacher Program (RIMT) through the Hillsborough County Public Schools and the Department of Exceptional Student Education. I am also certified in the Schools Attuned Program/All Kinds of Minds Institute.
I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education with highest honors from the University of Texas in Austin.
As a certified teacher in Texas and Florida, I have taught in both public and private schools since 1990. From 2005-2008, I taught at Rawson-Saunders School, a nationally recognized private school for children with dyslexia. I also held a Dyslexia Specialist position and provided dyslexia interventions for students in Kindergarten through fifth grade from 2008-2013 in Georgetown Independent School District. To inform instructional decision making, I screened and tested students for dyslexia, evaluated the dyslexia testing results, wrote reports and participated in 504/IEP meetings. To educate parents and the community about dyslexia, I also participated in community forums. As an Academic Intervention Specialist (AIS) in Hillsborough County Public Schools, I taught "Structured Literacy" to struggling students in grades Kindergarten through second grade from 2015-2017.
My husband and I took the opportunity to relocate to Florida so we could live closer to our daughter, son-in-law and sweet, little grandson. We enjoy living in Florida!
I believe a dyslexic child learns to read, spell and write differently, and I am dedicated to providing evidence based reading interventions that allow each child to succeed and reach his or her personal best.


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Géographie

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Monuments et patrimoine

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Communes limitrophes
Cercino, Dubino, Mantello, Novate Mezzola

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Commune dans la province de Sondrio

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A pair of scissors and a pencil, each using its own special skills, decides to make rabbits one morning in Leo Lionni's classic 1982 fable, reprinted in this sturdy board book edition for the youngest reader. The pencil-drawn rabbit and scissor-crafted collage bunny promptly become fast friends. When they grow hungry, they turn to their creators for paper carrots, which they enjoy heartily... until they come upon a real carrot (they know it's real because it casts a shadow). What happens next will surely enchant readers of all ages.


SALEM — On election night, Oregonians blocked attempts to overturn the state's sanctuary status for undocumented immigrants and affirmed public funding for reproductive health care. In so doing, Oregon voters rejected socially conservative priorities by large margins and held to its status as a socially liberal state.
They also roundly rejected fiscally conservative measures that attempted to restrict tax increases, opening the door for broader tax hikes in the 2019 legislative session.
"By rejecting Measures 103 and 104, Oregonians came together to defend our values from outside special interests who tried to increase their profits at the expense of Oregon families," Our Oregon Executive Director Becca Uherbelau said in a written statement. "Voters once again made a statement for all of Oregon's leaders to hear: we want strong investments in health care and education."
Proponents of Measure 104 said the measure's complicated ballot title presented an insurmountable challenge.
"The complicated and confusing ballot title was just too much to overcome," Shawn Cleave, government affairs director for the Oregon Association of Realtors, said in a written statement. "Our coalition will continue to fight to protect important deductions like the mortgage interest and property tax deductions that keep homeownership affordable for many of our friends and neighbors."
Measure 105 would have overturned a state law that prohibits local police from using their resources to apprehend people in the country without legal permission. About 63 percent of voters said no.
Supporters of the measure challenged a law that has been in place since 1987 and designed to prevent racial profiling by police.
Voters also blocked Measure 106, mounted by a pro-life group that wanted to ban public funding for most abortions. About 64 percent of voters rejected Measure 106.
"Together, we made sure that Oregon voters saw Measure 106 for what it was: a backdoor ban on abortion," Grayson Dempsey, executive director of NARAL's Pro-Choice Oregon political action committee, said. "In Oregon, we trust women to make their own decisions — and a right is not a right if you cannot afford to access it."
"Housing is affecting everybody, whether it's our workers at OHSU who are getting priced out of Portland or workers in Pendleton who are worried about finding housing," Joe Baessler, political director for Oregon's American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) said. "It took me by surprise how strongly our members felt about that measure."


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About Wednesday 16 January 1660/61
Louise on 17 Jan 2014 • Link
We in the 20th century are so used to clean clothes and clean bodies that we don't think about what sanitation was like 400 years ago. If we were to go back to Pepys' London we'd be horrified at the lack of cleanliness--by our standards--even among the aristocracy. The smell of dirty bodies would be overpowering. Don't forget, it was the era of the contents of chamber pots being thrown out of windows--the only means of sanitation. Baths were nearly unheard of. It was said of one of the queens that she took a bath once a month whether she needed one or not.
"And so to bed" was like saying, "Day is done."
About Monday 14 January 1660/61
Judy Bailey wrote:
"This is apparently quite eye-opening for him compared to his wife's housekeeping habits and slovenliness that he has previously commented on, in spite of her now having two maids."
Of course, Pepys, being a proper English gentleman, would nevert think to lift a finger himself. Wives were in charge of keeping the house neat and clean. Men were apparently incapable of being slovenly--that took a woman.
About Sunday 13 January 1660/61
" the eldest being his wife's daughter is a very comely black woman."
She might not have been "black" in the sense of African, as most Westerners would today. English people until well into the 20th century had a habit of calling Italians, Greeks, Spaniards, and Indians, among others, "black." Black hair, brown eyes, even slightly olive skin is all it took to qualify as "black".
About Thursday 10 January 1660/61
Kissing his wife. Probably on the hand or cheek. Ladies were unlikely to kiss passionately in public in those days--certainly not the upper classes.
About Tuesday 1 January 1660/61
Louise on 2 Jan 2014 • Link
After supper I sent them home by coach, and I went to my Lord's and there played till 12 at night at cards at Best with J. Goods and N. Osgood, and then to bed with Mr. Shepley.
I take myself now to be worth 300l. clear in money, and all my goods and all manner of debts paid, which are none at all.
In 2012, the relative value of £300 0s 0d from 1661ranges from £35,950.00 to £7,206,000.00.
A simple Purchasing Power Calculator would say the relative value is £35,950.00. This answer is obtained by multiplying £300.00 by the percentage increase in theRPI from 1661 to 2012.
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Looks as if he was soung pretty well. Probably closer to the £7,206,000.00 figure.
About Friday 21 December 1660
Louise on 22 Dec 2013 • Link
Sam's Aunt Anne Pepys was not his blood relative. She came into the family when she married Sam's uncle, Robert, so her kidney stone affliction could not have been hereditary from Pepys family, though perhaps from her own.
The Princess Royal was not dead on this day as Sam had heard from the Countess of Sandwich. She died tree days later on Christmas Eve.
About Wednesday 19 December 1660
It was 39 degrees Fahrenheit in Essex on December 19. I'm American, what do I know about Celsius? ;)
It was the middle od December. Cold enough to keep meat cool enough to last a few days, or a week if it was cooked. It is 39 degrees in Essex today, December 19, 2013. The temperature was probably similar in 1660. (Josselin did say it was "very wintery cold, wet weather). Meat would keep as well and as long as it would in a refrigerator today.
About Tuesday 18 December 1660
More likely Pepys was overlooking rather than overseeing the workmen. Oh, well, everyone needs a day off once in a while. He probably felt guilty about it and felt he had to appear busy.
About Thursday 6 December 1660
It looks as if his mother and father are living in separate residences. Does anyone know the reason for this? Unlikely they were divorced since it was so rare in those days. Perhaps just living separately. Does he mention this?

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KATHMANDU, June 23: The equity market maintained an overall negative bias this week. The Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index posted losses of more than 8 points in three out of five trading days, while the remaining two trading days witnessed gains of less than 2 points only. Consequently, the benchmark index ended the week 28.84 points lower at 1,218.46 points.
The market extended losses further this week, fueling continuation of the long-term downtrend in action. Stocks made an attempt to consolidate last week. However, amid a lack of any major catalyst ahead of the new monetary policy and among bland trading sessions, the market failed to gain any foothold for recovery.
The exchange witnessed a minimal turnover of Rs. 1,123 million – a decline of 34.72 percent compared to a week earlier. Performance of Class 'A' stocks also suffered with the Sensitive Index declining losing points, or 2.31 percent, to finish at 255.75 points.
Weakness was also visible among all sub-indices. Insurance sector turned in the worst performance of the week as its sub-index tumbled 2.79 percent. Hydropower and Microfinance sub-indices followed suit posing loss of 2.6 percent each. The Banking Sub-index fell 2.37 percent.
Nepal Bank Ltd was the most active stock of the week as investors scrambled to buy its shares after Securities Board of Nepal (Sebon) approved the bank's Further Public Offering (FPO) of over 17 million units of shares at Rs 280 per unit on Sunday. Shares worth Rs 73 million of the bank changed hands during the week. Similarly, shares worth Rs 47 million of Mega Bank Ltd were traded in the secondary market this week. Next on the list was NMB Bank Ltd with Rs 46 million units worth of shares traded. The bank's FPO of over 11 million units is currently undergoing.
More than 16 million units of shares of various companies were listed for trading in the secondary market this week. It includes 397,800 units of bonus shares of Nerude Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha Ltd and right shares of Asian Life Insurance Co Ltd, Neco Life Insurance Co Ltd, among others.
In news, Nepse has published a schedule regarding implementation of the fully automated online trading system. As per the press release issued by the bourse on Friday, transaction test and user acceptance test will begin on the first day of next fiscal year i.e. July 17. Hence, access to the online trading platform to general public can be expected soon after.
As per the ARKS technical analysis, market witnessed extension of the downtrend with the index sliding 2.31 percent this week. With the week's decline, the index is trading near the support zone of 1,200 points as well as below 20-day and 50-day moving averages (MAs), suggesting that bearish trend is still predominant in the current scenario.


Think of it like a soaked granola-nut topping. We eat it for breakfast - really.
*Apple: Cut into large cubes (they fit better on the fork). Put into glass bowl. Drizzle with lemon juice, and zest if you have it, sprinkle with just a pinch of salt. Let sit together while you cut up the rest of the apples. Stir together and sprinkle lightly with brown sugar (about 2-4 T).
Saute in the cast-iron skillet in more coconut oil just briefly until they release some juice and that juice reduces some.
Top hot fruit with nut mixture and bake about 15 minutes at convection 375*.


A digital detox is just shutting down, turning off and stepping away from technology. A detox, just like a food detox, is a chance to give your body and mind a much needed break or short rest from overindulgence.
Round-up your family's devices, drop in the bag and take a break. Enjoy!


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THE CITY WITHIN THE CITY
How real estate and shopping center developers can profit from district and
neighborhood developments despite strenuous demands and economic risks.
Paul Sargent, CEO of the British Property specialist Queensberry, can't believe his luck. "My team has been focused for the last 18 months on winning this major instruction. It is a dream come true." Sargent's elation is understandable. After all, the Sheffield City Council chose the company Queensberry Real Estate as the exclusive partner for the development of the new Sheffield Retail Quarter—a £480 million (€610 million) investment in the heart of the city. A growing Sheffield demands a modern environment for retailers. Currently, demand for good-quality, modern retail space outstrips supply in the city center. Many of the UK's largest retail brands, such as H&M, Next, New Look, and Topshop, trade from stores that are over 60% smaller than their average-sized stores in UK cities with similar populations to Sheffield. Any disruption will be kept to a minimum by building the new shopping area in phases and by careful management of the surrounding area. A top priority is to ensure building work has as little impact as possible on existing shops and businesses in the surrounding area. The specific construction plans will be confirmed in 2016, but work is already underway to ensure that everyone who lives, works or visits the city center is kept informed and provided with advanced notice of any works beginning.
Although Sheffield, in the English county of South Yorkshire, can hardly be referred to as a hub of the world, the city of 500,000 is following a trend with such a project. District and neighborhood developments are currently all the rage in large European cities. In many places, mayors and councilors have committed themselves to making their cities more attractive and have declared war on the forces pushing retail to the cities' outskirts. This is no easy task due to the varied difficulties inherent in such projects. Open spaces and room for parking are often lacking, various groups and stakeholders have different interests, and there are architectural challenges like conservation. In addition, the requirements for sustainable urban planning and the high economic risks of such mammoth projects often quickly push political leaders and project planners to their limits—and that's not even considering the long planning horizons involved.
In the heart of Brussels
One of the most exciting current neighborhood development projects is located in the Belgian capital Brussels. With the mixed-use NEO urban plan, the City of Brussels wishes to exploit the huge potential of the Heyzel plateau for new housing, economic, and tourism opportunities. The tourist appeal of the world-famous Atomium and the business tourism linked to Brussels' biggest exhibition center and the Trade Mart, help underpin this development opportunity. These already attract over 1.5 million people annually. This inspiring, mixed-use project development plan includes the building of an international-scale convention center, a concert hall, a shopping center, a hotel, housing, and leisure facilities on an estimated area of 18 hectares out of the 68 hectares that make up the Heyzel Plateau. All of this will also feature exemplary public transportation. On-road parking is set to be eliminated, with the space freed up for broad bike paths and pedestrian boulevards. Europe's largest listed property company, Unibail-Rodamco, has been selected by the City of Brussels as the new co-developer of the NEO 1 project, with the 112,000 sq m "Mall of Europe" as its centerpiece.
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The Franco-Dutch retail giant will develop and operate the Mall of Europe, representing a €550 million investment, while its partners CFE and Besix will develop the residential element. Unibail-Rodamco said that the 230-unit shopping center will feature a "complete set of 4-star services, iconic shop fronts, a 9,000-sq-m 'Dining Experience' element with 30 restaurants, the largest cinema in Belgium with 4,000 seats, and the first indoor 'Spirouland' in the world at the heart of a 15,000-sq-m leisure center."
The shopping center specialist Unibail-Rodamco is not just active in Brussels, however. The Group's most important current development project is located in HafenCity Hamburg. The shopping center giant developed the southern Überseequartier together with HafenCity Hamburg GmbH. At 260,000 sq m, this has created a new center of life in the Hanseatic City, including around 80,500 sq m of retail, about 55,000 sq m of housing, and approximately 65,000 sq m of offices. Around 12,000 sq m are planned for culture and entertainment facilities and approximately 8,000 sq m for catering. Hotels will take up around 40,000 sq m (all figures in Gross Floor Area or GFA). Overall, Unibail-Rodamco is planning an investment of €860 million in HafenCity.
Grand project in Helsinki
How retail is working to benefit from the "neighborhood development" trend can also be seen Finland. In autumn 2013, Helsinki launched the Smart Kalasatama project, which aims to make Kalasatama a model district for intelligent city development—Helsinki's very own Smart City district. The area is being developed flexibly and through piloting in close co-operation with residents, companies, city officials, and other stakeholders. Kalasatama will house 20,000 residents and offer work to 8,000 people. The district will be completed in the early 2030s, but it already has 2000 inhabitants. The Redi Shopping Center is planned to open well before that. The REDI shopping and experience center's café and restaurant premises, which will open at Kalasatama, Helsinki in 2018, have found tenants very quickly. The shopping center's 38 restaurants, cafés, bars, and take-away points, representing a total of 3,500 customer places, have already been reserved.
According to REDI Leasing Manager Jonna Majanen, companies particularly value the shopping center's central location, good transport links, and large customer streams. "Experiences will be important in REDI. That's why we wanted to include quality, trendy, even surprising restaurants. No two places will be the same. Enthusiastic and bold restaurant entrepreneurs with great ideas are coming to REDI. Among them are restaurateurs with experience of the cuisines of different countries," explains Majanen.
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REDI, scheduled to open in 2018 next to Finland's most densely populated area, will have around 60,000 people living in its direct proximity and its catchment area will have over 500,000 people, a third of the residents of Greater Helsinki. REDI is located at the intersection of three large highways and the metro will stop 500 times a day on the third floor of the shopping center. There are 45,000 jobs within a 10-minute walk of the center.
An innovative feature of REDI's restaurant provision is a "fast-casual dining area": 10 restaurants side-by-side, offering dishes to suit all tastes. Each restaurant in the area will have at its disposal around 100 sq m of dining and kitchen facilities. The restaurants will have a strong emphasis on street food. REDI's normal restaurant and entertainment world, open until late in the evening, will operate on three floors linked to each other by elevators and escalators.
Significant pre-letting
Of the REDI shopping center's leasable commercial floor area, nearly 40% has a final or preliminary lease agreement. Including final and preliminary agreements, active negotiations are under way on 85% of the leasable commercial floor area. The shopping center will have around 200 stores, including experiential and restaurant services. In its first full year of operation, the shopping center is expected to receive 12 million visitors.
REDI, implemented by SRV at Kalasatama, Helsinki, will consist of the inner city's largest shopping and experience center, six residential towers, and hotel and office towers. Kalasatama metro station will be located on the shopping center's third floor, in addition to which there will be bus stops next to REDI. Below the center will be a 2,000-space parking facility, usable by both the towers' residents and the shopping center's customers. REDI's popularity is not restricted to its restaurant facilities. Of the first residential tower Majakka's 283 apartments, more than 200 apartments have already been reserved during the first pre-marketing period. Construction work at REDI, Finland's largest urban construction project, was launched in spring 2015 and is expected to continue until 2023.
Centrally-managed shopping street
Seestadt Aspern in the Austrian capital Vienna shows that multifunctional district developments are also quite sensible on the outskirts of a city and that retail enterprises can benefit from them there as well. Covering an area of 340 football fields, a 21st-century city is being built in several stages over the next 20 years with high-quality housing for some 20,000 people and twice as many jobs. The first "Seestädter" moved into their homes back in 2014. This year, another 2,600 residential units for approximately 6,100 people will be added. The Seestadt (lakeside town) takes its name from the 50,000-sq-m lake in the middle of the development project. The shopping center specialist SES took over the central management of the shopping street located there—a novelty in Europe.


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The Honorable Shirley L. Fulton is perhaps the most recognizable figure in the Mecklenburg County Courthouse, having spent over 20 years in the court as Senior Resident Superior Court Judge, Resident Superior Court Judge, District Court Judge and Assistant District Attorney. While on the bench, Shirley led the courts in developing a system-wide strategic plan, successfully campaigned for bonds to build the current Mecklenburg County Courthouse, and developed programs to address the needs of non-English speaking court participants.
A well-respected community leader, Shirley has served on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Task Force, as Chair of the Board of Advisors for the Charlotte School of Law and as President of the Mecklenburg County Bar. Shirley is a founding partner of Tin Fulton Walker & Owen and is now retired.
Shirley L. Fulton has continued her lifelong commitment to active leadership in community-based programs as the president of the Wesley Heights Community Association and as the owner of The Wadsworth House, a meeting place for corporate, civic and social events.


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Myron's Bunker
It hadn't always been a goal of Myron; to own a bunker. But with all of the talk of disease and those inscrutable Chinese it had begun to feel like a necessity.
"Trump is really on to something," Myron had thought.
So, he had saved and saved from his job as a clerk to get a bunker built in his backyard; he had bought tins and tins of food, toilet paper, books, a television, an hour glass and a ten gauge shot gun to ward off any Democrats who thought they could get their hands on his supplies.
Then Covid 19 hit, and Myron knew that the time had come to use the bunker so that he could help re-populate the USA. Sure, he didn't have any women in his life as such, but when the rest of the planet had been wiped out by the Chinese pandemic, how picky could they be?
"I mean," Myron had often said, "I would be willing to mate with a Democrat for the sake of repopulating America."
But, deep in his heart he knew that not a single Democrat would have been clever enough to build a bunker like he had and so he felt safe that his Republican values wouldn't be compromised when fulfilling his patriotic duty.
He entered the bunker, spun the dial so that it wouldn't open for 6 months and hunkered down in his bunker for the duration of the pandemic. He turned the hourglass (a whimsical inclusion he knew, but everyone needed a bit of fun) and wandered about the small 30 by 30 square foot space while the sand fell through the hourglass, admiring his ability to prepare for a disaster.
He stomach rumbled.
"Lunch!" He announced to no one.
He grabbed a tin of spaghetti and meatballs; his mouth tingling with delight at the prospect of eating his first meal in the bunker.
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He turned the stupid hourglass again and watched the sands fall again as silently as his tears slid down his cheek.
There would be no repopulating America for him.
Across the country every Democrat voting woman felt a surge of relief and not a single one knew why.
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The Future Farmers of America, or FFA, will be implementing new technology-based curriculum materials to more than 11,000 agricultural education teachers across the country, by way of a new partnership with Microsoft Philanthropies.
The partnership, announced Tuesday and called "Blue 365," will see supplementary curriculum based in coding, artificial intelligence, science, research and entrepreneurship brought to the forefront of pre-existing agricultural education classes already being taught in districts across the country.
Poeschl said ideally, this partnership will allow kids to see that they can use cutting-edge technology and skills to build their careers right where they grew up and based on what they learned in FFA chapters, of which there are over 8,600 nationally.
The FFA is a federally chartered nonprofit organization that provides leadership and educational opportunities to more than 650,000 middle and high school students nationwide. School districts will be able to choose which aspects of the new curriculum they will integrate into their classes, depending on the region's agricultural needs.
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The curriculum has yet to be finalized, according to Mary Snapp, lead of Microsoft Philanthropies. Some of the curriculum will simply involve using burgeoning technology tools — machine learning and data analysis, for example — to solve current agricultural issues in horticulture, animal science, biodiversity and environmental sustainability, she said, but Microsoft's role won't be as a primary hardware or software provider to the classrooms.
Snapp also mentioned incorporating Microsoft's computer science initiatives, such as the Hour of Code and AI for Earth , into the classroom.
The three-year deal between the FFA and Microsoft will also see Microsoft sponsor the FFA's Blue Room, which is a 17,000 square-foot technology showcase the organization will have on display at its annual convention in Indianapolis this October.


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Full Interview with Ariel Gordon
Ariel Gordon kindly interviewed me for Prairie Books NOW and has posted a copy of the finished article on her site. As a "bonus," I've posted the full interview below.
What would you like readers to know about The Politics of Knives?
That it's not just a collection of nine long poems, but that they bleed across one another and have strange, sometimes hidden, sometimes clearer connection. That it's not typical poetry: it's more of an amalgamation of poetry, prose, fiction, and essay. That it's secretly a book about film, just as Ex Machina was a book about books, and Clockfire was a book about theatre. The next poetry book I plan will be about visual art and tentatively titled The National Gallery. Then maybe I'm done with poetry, after that tetralogy of sorts. I feel almost done. We'll see.
You say that The Politics of Knives is "secretly a book about film." What do you mean by that, precisely?
At its core, The Politics of Knives is about how narrative requires and produces violence. Since film (by which I also mean video) is modern culture's main method of recording and producing narratives, in various ways the book centres itself around film techniques and technologies. Sometimes obviously, as in the poem where K. (of Kafka's The Castle) becomes a camera, or the poem about Hitchcock's film Psycho, or the poem where a character records an elaborate suicide. Sometimes, though, in hidden ways, as in "That Most Terrible of Dogs," which moves as if like a steadicam shot towards the very edge of the realm of Hades, or in "The Politics of Knives," where black bars censor "sensitive" text as if in a government-censored document or a "cleaned-up" pornographic film.
What was your goal for this book? Do you think you met it?
My goal is always just to finish the book! So I definitely met that goal.
I spend a long time considering ideas and projects before I commit to them. I'll spend years taking notes and thinking about a possible project while engaged in something else. When actually writing the book, by the time that happens, I've committed to a set of ideas and a core concept. My goal from that point on is just to develop the concept and trust the ideas. So by the time I actually start serious work on something, it has just become about the daily grind of getting the thing closer to being finished. When people usually ask a question like this, they mean artistic goals. But my artistic goals are achieved before I begin writing. My artistic goals are always to come up with a good idea for a book, one worth spending years to write, one I don't see other people writing. Then I just try not to ruin the ideas, and finish the book.
My goals are all technical, then, by the time I actually begin writing in earnest. One of my goals while writing this book was to craft an invocation of the muse, but a modern and anti-Romantic one, to announce in some ways my "epic" subjects (violence, narrative, assassination, death, war). Once I settle on a goal like that, certain things fall into place. Invocations appear at an epic's beginning, so I knew I'd have to put that poem first. It seemed that the manifesto in some ways was a type of modern, atheistic invocation, so I brought that idea to bear on the poem. I came up with the title "The Process Proposed" to suggest both that the poem triptych was an introduction of sorts, outlining the process I proposed to use throughout the book, but also to suggest that the process itself was a sentient force proposing a perverse marriage.
And so forth . . . when you talk about "goals" this is a difficult question to answer because my goal is just to execute the book. However, "executing the book," for me, is a complicated process of varied, multi-level goals that involves a lot of decisions and technical experiments and, as in this case, can take years and require the help of outside readers and editors to help me gain or regain perspective, and so on.
I've heard you say in public that you're bored with poetry. Or is it that you're bored with your poetry? I can't remember. Explain both/either statement, keeping in mind that you've published a book of poetry each of the last three years.
I probably said both. I'm bored with most poetry, maybe because I read so much, since I inherited that Winnipeg Free Press poetry review column from you. So much poetry is the same. You can just swap the poet's names and swap the place names and swap a few other nouns. The song remains the same. They all have the same emotions. It's funny to me that poets believe their emotions are unique and personal and then write a poem with the exact same emotional landscape as another poet, even some of the same imagery. My joke is that I don't write poems about my feelings because as a straight, white male, aged 18-45, my experience is adequately represented in the culture.
I'm bored with my own poetry in the sense that early in my poetry career I became very good at writing those emotional poems (though I didn't become excellent, as others are, since it wasn't exciting for me). Now that I've abandoned that mode and tried to play with more experimental, cross-genre work, I find what most excites me is crossing genres to the point where I am almost entrenched in another genre. The prose-poem-plays of Clockfire would be the most obvious example, but in The Politics of Knives you can see a sequence like "He Paints the Room Red" as crossing over into fiction, and in fact that "poem" began life as a short story. A lot of the non-book poems I write are technical exercises, so even when they work out well, they seem somewhat mechanical to me, and I don't write or publish that many as a result. The work in the books does not come from those exercises, they are more like practice for these books, the stuff that for me has real life and energy.
If you look at the books, The Politics of Knives is the one that seems the most like poetry, yet it works almost like an experimental novel, which may have been authored by the character inside of "He Paints the Room Red." I could argue that Ex Machina is an experimental science fiction novel, and in fact it's taught as such in a course in Calgary. Clockfire clearly shares more with Calvino's Invisible Cities than it shares with other poetry. So I feel that my "poetry poetry" is some of my least successful work, whereas I'm proudest of these so-called "poetry" books, which I see as sort of an experimental, poeticized fiction. I'm happy to publish them as poetry because I think that's the audience most likely to engage with them. In any case, I think of these books as "books" rather than poetry, which leads into your next question.
You've stated elsewhere that you're uninterested in collections of poems. Why is that? Isn't it enough that poems work at the unit of the poem? Why does the unit of the book take precedence for you?
I should clarify that I'm still interested in reading collections of poems, although it annoys me sometimes that they haven't been presented in some more creative manner. They all seem to have the same structure, 3-4 sections of roughly equal length, etc. — it works for some books, like your Hump, but that's an example of a book where I think it does have that sense of unity due to the subject of pregnancy, and there's a clear pre-/during/post- structure that falls naturally into three parts. In most other cases it seems like the poet just opened up some "poetry book template" that came pre-loaded with the word processor and filled in the blank areas with so-called "epiphanies."
I think that with the advance of new technologies, we need to ask a question we should have asked a hundred or more years ago, which is, What constitutes a book? For me, the book is a unit of composition and a conceptual object. It's not a physical container for text (e.g., the codex) and so it's not just a place to put poems. A poem working at the unit of the poem is important, of course, but books aren't poems.
The assumption that once you have 80 pages of excellent poetry you should slap on a title and call it a book seems insane to me. That's just 80 pages of excellent poetry. Great for the poet, but once s/he has that there are literally 80 different things that those pages demand. Do they demand to be in a book? Possibly. Maybe there is a book lurking there somewhere. But most of the time instead of a "book" we get a bunch of pages of poetry, however good. I might still love reading it, but there's a difference to me. The book is a unit of composition and once the pages sit between covers, along a spine, or even as a single file in my eReader, the context of presentation alters the meaning of each work. It opens up vistas of possible play that don't get developed, because the poet isn't truly engaged with and attentive to the medium s/he has (by default, and therefore accidentally) chosen.
The unit of the book takes precedence for me because I prefer books to single poems. There's no necessary reason why it should take precedence otherwise: it's a preference. Besides, all those poems have so many ways to get out into the world, why pick the most culturally invisible mode (the book) as your default choice? Of course, it's my own bad luck that I've selected this mode as my unit of composition, but others don't need to suffer this fate.
Has writing screenplays and poems helped you write fiction, as I understand was your original plan?
Yes and no. It certainly took more time. It may have been smarter to just write fiction, as practice for fiction, which seemed idiotic to me at the time even though it seems commonsensical now, and to most people. However, I feel this odd tactic worked. Instead of just becoming better at producing the kind of fiction I see around me, I began to look at fiction from the perspective of both a poet and a screenwriter, and I think I'm producing more visceral, innovative, and interesting work than I would have otherwise — but I'll never know. At minimum, I've published three books of poetry and sold a short film to The Comedy Network, so if I fail as a fictioneer I'll still have those accomplishments to build upon.
How do you approach performance? Has your approach changed as you've toured your books?
I hate performing, so I just try to be as brief and engaging as possible and as the audience seems to desire. I don't like to take myself too seriously, even when writing about serious subjects. The reader can read the book herself or himself. The only reason for anyone to go to the event is to engage with the author. So I try to engage, and be a personality, not a blur with a monotone. That said, my best reading was the Toronto Clockfire launch, which I couldn't attend. Instead I sent an actor to play me all night (Aleksander Rzeszowski). He gave a reading and signed books and stayed in character as "Jonathan Ball" for the entire evening and by all accounts it was the best reading I ever gave.
How does teaching literature help/hinder your writing?
It helps to see how students read, what they respond to — I've found that, on the whole, they respond well to unusual texts. They are fine with complex concepts, strange writing methods — as long as they find something visceral and engaging in the work. I continually use strange, demanding texts alongside more canonical, conservative ones, but they rarely fail to engage if the text attempts to engage them. They rate the texts higher than they rate me! Which is certainly not common wisdom in publishing, where something strange gets viewed as a tough sell. It's an easier sell to students, who find the uncommon exciting.
Then again, they are a self-selecting group, in the sense that they signed up to take an Intro English course. Major publishers have primarily targeted non-readers for decades, people who only buy books by celebrities at Christmas, or only buy the nonsense that everybody's talking about for no good reason, so it wouldn't make sense to a major publisher to actually wonder what readers read, but I do. However, it takes time to teach, and because I teach on contracts it takes a lot of time for very little money, so it's a hindrance in that respect. On a basic level, studying literature helps you understand literature, so I feel that as my analytical skill increases, I become better at analyzing my own work and thus more efficient in writing and editing, so I hope that helps "make up" for the time I spend marking when I could be writing.
Tell me your theories about time management.
My goal is to be as creative as possible in the work, and to achieve that I need to mechanize my life as much as possible outside of the work. I'm always in the process of developing and refining routines, and trying to follow them (the hardest part), with the goal of getting menial tasks done as quickly and thoughtlessly as possible and freeing my mind and time up for being creative with the work.
I literally have index cards lying around with numbered routines written out on them, to complete regular tasks without getting distracted or obsessive, which are both far too easy for me to do and which waste tons of my time. The point of this is to keep myself focused as much as I can. If I don't, not only do I waste time unproductively, but I even waste it productively (which is still a sort of waste). In the past, I've had the problem of jumping from project to project. That's created a situation where I have so much half-finished or first-drafted stuff that I am now mostly just rewriting and finishing things, and doing very little "new" writing (although I did a lot for The Politics of Knives recently).
I see books as the main things I do, so I try to force myself to focus on them before I move on to the obligations. I try to force 500 words on a book project out of myself every day, if not more. 250 minimum, although I fall off the wagon from time to time. I suspect this simple thing is the reason I'm relatively productive compared to other writers. A lot of writers waste time waiting for inspiration or trying to boil their tea or find the perfect writing song or hat or some other bullshit.
People sometimes tell me that it's not possible to have rigorous habits and schedules and be creative and original. As if should you drink the same tea every day you can't come up with a truly impressive line of poetry. In fact, slavish adherence to habits frees you to focus your creativity elsewhere. I don't waste creative thinking on making the perfect iTunes playlist, one that the character in my story might listen to, or one that suits the mood of the piece. I just listen to the same 500 metal songs on random for a decade. When I suck it's when I am too lazy or stupid or stressed and I ignore the routines and habits I've set up. That's when I produce lousy work or nothing at all or start procrastinating or freak out about everything left undone and the pile of papers messing up the shelf over there. These routines and habits aren't random, they're designed to reduce the energy that goes elsewhere and focus me on the work, against my slothful instincts or anxieties.
A lot of my writer friends say that walking can be writing, or reading can be writing, or some other thing, as long as you're working on the book in your mind, or doing an interview like this to promote the book, you're still writing. That's absolute horseshit. Look up writing in the dictionary. Taking long, thoughtful walks or pondering a character's motivations over tea isn't writing. Maybe such things are important, but they are of secondary or tertiary importance. They are to be done in spare time. Only putting words on a page and revising those words is writing.
Where will you be as a writer in ten years? (I'm sure you have a plan…)
I'm trying to be better at having plans. I have a list of things I want to do, and in ten years I just want to have checked off as many things as possible. Here's the rundown of what I'm doing "next" (it always changes, depending on circumstance — my novel keeps getting pushed back because another book is accepted, or grant awarded, or whatever). Let's say (generously!!!) that 10 years = 10 projects.
• Revamping my website (www.jonathanball.com) to fill it with resources for writers and students
• An academic monograph on a Canadian filmmaker/film called John Paizs' Crime Wave
• A short story collection called The Lightning of Possible Storms
• A debut novel called The Crow Murders, a literary horror
• A book of literary criticism called In the World of the Dead
• An academic study called The Book to Come
• A graphic novel called The Eye Collector, an adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Der Sandmann"
• A poetry book called The National Gallery
• A comic book series called Dirk Dirkson vs. The Demons from Mars, a horror comedy
• Syndicating my "Haiku Horoscopes" column
If I could do all that I'd be impressed with myself. Cross your fingers!
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Q: first replacement of a string in a file using sed I would like to know how can I replace the first occurrence of searched pattern in the entire file.For example,
import java.io.File;
import java.io.File;

should be replaced by
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.File;

How do I achieve this using sed ?
Thank You

A: There's certainly no need to write some big long script when it only takes on substitution to do all the work in one line. You just have to pick the right Power Tool for the job.
Here's a Perl one-liner:
% cat -n /tmp/f
     1  import java.lang.Character;
     2  import java.io.File;
     3  import java.io.File;
     4  import java.util.Pattern;

% perl -pe 's//IoException/ if m?import java\.io\.\KFile?' /tmp/f
import java.lang.Character;
import java.io.IoException;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.Pattern;

And if you want to do it with an edit of the file, just add -i.bak:
% perl -i.bak -pe 's//IoException/ if m?import java\.io\.\KFile?' /tmp/f

% head /tmp/f{,.bak}
==> /tmp/f <==
import java.lang.Character;
import java.io.IoException;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.Pattern;

==> /tmp/f.bak <==
import java.lang.Character;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.Pattern;

The reason that works is because when you give the m// operator a ?? delimiter, it has some built-in state to remember to match the first time only.
Then in the substitute, the empty pattern means to reuse the last matched pattern, so you don't have to type  it again and risk the two ever divering.
Finally, the \K in the pattern reneges on the match, "keeping" the stuff to the left, so that it doesn't get gobbled by the substitute.

A: cat file | sed -e ':l
    0,/my_search_str/ {
    /my_search_str/! {
            N;
            b l
            }
    s/my_search_str/replace_this/g
    :t
    N
    b t
    }
    '

this is working for me:
file: (before)
hello1
my_search_str
hello2
mysearch_str
hello3

file:(after)
hello1
replace_this
hello2
mysearch_str
hello3

A: What I would do is to append all the lines in a great line and replace the content.
$ cat f
import java.io.File;
import java.io.File;
$ sed -n 'N
  ${
    s/import java.io.File;/import java.io.IOException/
    p
  }' f
import java.io.IOException
import java.io.File;

How it works: first, I suppress the line printing, which is the default behavior, passing the -n option to sed.
Then there comes the sed commmands. The first one is the N command: it appends a newline and the next line of the stream to the current one, maintaining then at the pattern space. This will change the current line to the next one, and then the next line will be appended... until the end of the file.
At the end of the file and after the N command to be executed at the last line as well, the pattern space will contain all the lines. Then, at the end of the file (which is specified by the $ address) we just replace the desired line with:
s/import java.io.File;/import java.io.IOException/

Since the s/// command does only one replacement per iteration at the pattern space by default, it will only replace the first line. Now the pattern space has the line replaced, but will not be printed out since we used the -n option. So, we need to print it with the p command. Once we will execute two operations at the end of the file, we adress it with $ and put the operations between brackets ({}).
There, we just presented the sed commands in more than one line for clarity. We can use them all in one line; just separate them by semicolons:
$ sed -n 'N;${s/import java.io.File;/import java.io.IOException/;p;}' f
import java.io.IOException
import java.io.File;

HTH

A: you can use a shell script (Bash)
#!/bin/bash

declare -i toggle=0
while read -r line
do
        case "$line" in
            *import*java.io.File*)
            if [ $toggle -eq 1 ];then
                echo "$line"
                continue
            fi
            echo "import java.io.Exception";
            toggle=1
            continue
            ;;
        esac
        echo "$line"
done < file

Sample output
$> more file
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.File;

$> bash search_replace.sh
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.io.Exception
import java.io.File;

Or you can slurp the whole file into memory and do a one time substitution
data=$(<file)
echo "${data/import java.io.File;/import java.io.IOException}"

A: Just do it on the command line as below:
cat text.txt |
awk '/File/{
  if ( count < 1 ){ gsub("File","IOException")}
  count++
  print
  }'

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Q: How do I monitor "system status" for an application that spans multiple components/servers in Zabbix? Assume I have an application with the following setup:

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*5 webservers running Apache

*2 databases configured for failover

In Zabbix (or even another monitoring suite, for that matter), is it possible and how would I monitor "application status" and only alert when the following conditions are met:

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*If 1 webserver stops responding, send an "info" alert

*If 3 webservers stop responding, send a warning

*If all webservers stop responding, send a critical

*If one DB is offline, send a warning

*If both DBs are offline, send a disaster

I know this looks like 5 questions, but the root question is: how do you create an alert that's abstracted away from a specific host?  In every monitoring suite I've used, monitored items/alerts are bound to hosts, which leads to ugly workarounds like "check the database to see if all the servers checked in in the past 10 minutes," and if one hasn't, you get an alert email along the lines of "Host: database01.company.com - webserver05 hasn't checked in in 10 minutes".  The email leads you to believe there's a problem with the database (since the check is tied to the database) but the problem is actually with the webserver.  Ideally the alert would be tied to an abstract thing like "Corporate Application 1".  Can this be done?

A: In zabbix you can use triggers, which can have an specific severity bound to them. Every time a trigger changes its status, it generates an event. You can define actions to take place if some event occurs. Also, zabbix has the capability to monitor user-defined web monitoring scenarios.
The way to associate events taking place in different servers in zabbix is to define and configure an IT service. This can be very fine-grained tuned, and addresses the five different possibilities you propose.


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Hyperion Quotes.
1. "It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another."
2. "To be a true poet is to become God. I tried to explain this to my friends on Heaven's Gate. 'Piss, shit,' I said. 'Asshole motherfucker, goddamn shit goddamn. Cunt. Pee-pee cunt. Goddamn!' They shook their heads and smiled, and walked away. Great poets are rarely understood in their own day."
3. "Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings."
4. "Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity."
5. "In such seconds of decision entire futures are made."
6. "After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil."
7. "In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure."
8. "There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain."
9. "Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers."
10. "Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful."


You inherit a factory. Over the decades it produces a mildly toxic sludge in a small lake that is part of the factory's gated compound, but your factory is efficient by virtue of cut corners like being able to raw release your waste into your lake, and due to your pressure on the workforce to accept paltry wages, and it makes you more money. You get richer and richer. Eventually though you mostly make money from your money. The money you make on the factory becomes negligible. Yes the factory makes something useful and employs people, but it's future is questionable due to your poison lake and it isn't worth the trouble or risk anymore. You close it down.
After awhile of your factory just sitting there you get sick of it being useless. You want more money. You don't want to pay to clean up your sludgy lake. And you have an idea. You're good at marketing and know how to sell things. So you reopen your factory and you start to pump your lake sludge into jars. Weakened consumer protection laws make your gunk, with a bit of cleanup and tampering, just this side of legal. Your people are excellent at just this side of legal. Other very clever people design you some lovely nature friendly looking labels and packaging. Wildly suggestive health claims are made, manufactured, and planted all across the Internet, TV, and print. You even manage to slip bits of news you made up about it into neutral places.
Your sludge takes off. It has a beautiful name. It's natural, almost magical. It cures things.
Because it costs extremely close to nothing to make (you pull it out of your lake!), and because it sells for a lot and it looks beautiful, it makes you so much money that batting away the lawsuits of people sickened by it is like having to swat at a mosquito or two in paradise.
What does your lake sludge do? Does it cure cancer, shrink piles, make you young, make you virile, prevent all colds and flus, cause you to lose weight?
Yes. Though it is not for you to say. It is merely an issue for scientists. You can buy scientists too, as long as you don't need very good ones.
Now you are rich and famous and a little guru like, what with your magic elixir. Things are good. Until you start to feel sick. And old. And tired.
You go to Doctors. You go to everyone you can. You spare no expense. You eat right. You fast. You do yoga. You see someone.
Then, one day, ill and depressed, you are sitting in one of your offices. An assistant brings in a new case of your lake sludge so you can see a new product design. You look at it listlessly. You start to wonder. You open the case. You open a jar. You take off all your clothes and smear the gloop all over yourself. And you never stop, nine times a day, until the day you die.


Much to the relief of dedicated gamers, Microsoft has finally revealed new details about its next Xbox, codenamed Project Scorpio. The Redmond giant previous revealed some its specifications, but now, it gave Eurogamer's Digital Foundry an exclusive preview of the technology used in the next Xbox -confirming some big upgrades over Xbox One.
As promised, Project Scorpio will run at 6 teraflops, ahead of its competitor PS4 Pro's 4.2 teraflops of graphical power. Running on an eight-core custom Jaguar x86 CPU clocked at 2.3GHz, the console will perform seamlessly, not to mention 30% faster than the original Xbox. Many hoped for AMD's latest Ryzen architecture CPU in the console, but for now, let's just say, Microsoft has got some big plans with a custom Jaguar-based processor.
And, if you think this processor isn't up to the mark, rest assured. Microsoft is making up for it with prolific memory and graphic configurations. Moving a step ahead, the company is replacing Xbox One's 8GB DDR3 RAM/ 32MD ESRAM with a whopping 12GB of GDDR5 memory. This will come with a bandwidth of 326GB/s – making things faster and snappier than ever before.
Microsoft's custom GPU engine on Project Scorpio makes an exemplary improvement. It uses 40 customised compute units clocked at an impressive 1172MHz, which is a big increase over both the Xbox One's 853MHz and the PS4 Pro's 911MHz. In addition to this, it comes with a UHD Blu-ray drive and a faster 1TB 2.5-inch HDD.
Promising to do a lot with this power, Microsoft also plans to run 900p and 1080p Xbox One games at native 4k on Project Scorpio. The console will hold more than enough juice to offer high-quality graphics and framerates. In fact, according to Eurogamer, the console ran ForzaTech demo at native 4K resolution at 60fps, using just 60-70% of the console's power. Even when graphic settings were increased, Scorpio handled everything perfectly!
The report also revealed that all Xbox One and Xbox 360 games will see a noticeable performance boost. This stands in contrast with the PS4 Pro, which recently received a Boost Mode that added minor improvements to some PS4 games and requires custom patches for significant upgrades to each game.
In a nutshell, taking the battle straight against Sony, Microsoft has included some big hardware upgrades in Project Scorpio, which is set to debut this Summer!
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The Buddy started joy school yesterday. He LOVED it! Couldn't stop talking about it all day. . . "We did singing" . . . "I liked the joy fish!" . . . "I know pokey bear." . . . "I didn't want to stop playing duck duck goose!" It was so fun to hear him talk about it, especially since we did the first day at our house so I knew what he was talking about. He had a spill of words when his daddy came home and showed him his melted crayon art project. We had so many crayon "crumbs" left over that we did a bunch more after the other kids went home. I thought this one turned out so cool. Don't you think it looks like a bird?
They were really easy to do. We just shaved crayons with a paring knife and then folded a piece of printer paper in half and sprinkled the crayons inside, put a bunch of newsprint on top and melted it with the iron.Then open it up quickly before the crayon dries. It would be fun to do with fall colors in mind as fall decorations. Turn them into garland or place mats or whatever.
Also, quick reminder that Thursday night I will be announcing our giveaway winner! Last chance to enter!
mmmm...it kind of looks like a umpa lumpa with a red beard.
Really glad the first day went well.


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List of Shares
Signify Innovations (Philips Lighting) India Unlisted Shares
Signify Innovations India Limited was incorporated in 2015, after demerger of Lighting segment from Philips India Limited. The name of the Company has been changed from Philips Lighting India Limited to Signify Innovations India Limited. Signify leads in LED lighting innovation and is at the forefront of the industry's expansion into systems and services.
· Signify Innovations India Ltd (formerly Philips Lighting India) is a subsidiary of Dutch multinational Signify Holdings BV, a world leader in lighting solutions and systems. In 2015, Philips India demerged its lighting business into a separate company- Philips Lighting India Ltd (now Signify Innovations India).
· Signify is the world leader in lighting for professionals, consumers and lighting for the Internet of Things. Company's energy efficient lighting products, systems and services enable customers to enjoy a superior quality of light, and make people's lives safer and more comfortable, businesses more productive and cities more livable.
· For more than 125 years Signify have pioneered breakthroughs in lighting and been the driving force for many innovations. It has track record in innovation is strong and invest heavily in R&D to stay at the forefront of technological developments.
· The company has one manufacturing plant located at Vadodra, Gujarat. The company is behind the lighting projects of landmark buildings – Arch Bridge (Bhopal), Kusum Sarovar Complex (Agra), Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium (New Delhi).
· Signify provides smart and energy-efficient lighting products, systems, and services for Professionals, consumers -
For Professionals - Professional Lighting Products, Professional Lighting Systems, Professional Lighting Services
For Consumers - Consumer Lighting Products, Smart Home Lighting.
Promoter-Management
Mahesh Iyer Chairman
Sumit Joshi, Vice-Chairman, MD & CEO
Vinayak deshpande Independent Director
Sangeeta pendurkar Independent Director
Vikas Malhotra Whole time director
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Category of shareholder No. of shares Holding (in %)
Philips lighting holding(B.V) 55290242 96.13
Others 2225874 3.87
Total outstanding shares 5,75,16,116
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Investing Opportunities
With 2020 sales of EUR 6.5 billion, approximately 39,000 employees and a presence in over 70 countries, we're unlocking the extraordinary potential of light for brighter lives and a better world
Signify Innovation India Limited reported a profit after tax(PAT) of Rs.267.6 crore in financial year 2020-21.PAT/revenue stood at 10.7% which increased from previous years 6.3%.
Company's impactful actions such as solid price management, stringent cost measures, rigorous working capital management and curtailment of uncommitted and non-essential capital expenditures have led to the increase in efficiency ratios in FY 2021.
Profits grew at 12% CAGR during the last 3 years despite declining sales, almost debt-free company.
Market Leader in lighting segment in India with around 30% market share. The Indian LED market is expected to grow at around 25% CAGR till 2026.
The company achieved carbon neutrality for all its operations across the world. We are also using 100% renewable electricity for its operations.
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Bank of Canada Calls for Nominations for the 2017 Fellowship and Governor's Awards
Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario
The Bank of Canada is calling for nominations under its Fellowship Program for 2017. This program provides monetary awards to foster excellence in economic and financial research in Canada, and supports the Bank's development of partnerships with leading experts.
Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
Integrating economies through trade affects monetary policy, Governor Poloz says
Media Relations Bellingham, Washington
In the first annual Paul Storer Memorial Lecture on Canada–US relations, given at Western Washington University, Governor Poloz said that the evolution of international trade practices, such as building global value chains and establishing foreign affiliates, suggests that economies are becoming more integrated.
The Paul Storer Memorial Lecture—Cross-Border Trade Integration and Monetary Policy
Staff Discussion Paper 2016-20 Stephen S. Poloz
In this paper we explore the nexus between cross-border trade integration and monetary policy. We first review the evidence that trade liberalization has increased the degree of integration in North America and conclude that, while robust structural inferences remain elusive, there is sufficient supporting evidence for central banks to treat the issue seriously.
Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Economic models, Monetary policy, Trade integration JEL Code(s): E, E3, E37, E5, F, F1, F4, F41, F6
Lower-for-longer interest rates require adjustments, Governor Poloz says
Media Relations Québec, Québec
Canadians need to understand the forces that have led to a prolonged period of low interest rates and make adjustments, Bank of Canada Governor Stephen S. Poloz said.
Living with Lower for Longer
Remarks Stephen S. Poloz Association des économistes québécois, the Cercle finance du Québec and CFA Québec Québec, Québec
Governor Stephen S. Poloz talks about the adjustments that savers and companies need to make in response to low interest rates, and economic policies that can help.
Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks Topic(s): Credit and credit aggregates, Interest rates, International topics, Monetary policy, Potential output, Trade integration
Slow global growth poses risks for financial stability, says Senior Deputy Governor Wilkins
Media Relations London, United Kingdom
The decline in the global economy's potential to grow, and the lower interest rates that come with it, pose risks for financial stability, Bank of Canada Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins said today. Those risks can be mitigated through deliberate efforts from the private sector and policy-makers.
(S)low for Long and Financial Stability
Remarks Carolyn A. Wilkins Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum City Lecture London, United Kingdom
Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins discusses the financial stability risks associated with slow growth and low interest rates, and explores strategies to mitigate them.
Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks Topic(s): Financial markets, Financial stability, Interest rates, International topics, Monetary policy implementation, Potential output
Committed to a better Canada: The Bank of Canada's role in challenging economic times
Presentation Timothy Lane Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce Thunder Bay, Ontario
Deputy Governor Timothy Lane discusses the outlook for the Canadian economy and the Bank of Canada's mandate and responsibilities.
Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Presentations
Bank of Canada maintains overnight rate target at 1/2 per cent
The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1/2 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 3/4 per cent and the deposit rate is 1/4 per cent.
Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity in Canada during April 2016
During the month of April, the Bank of Canada and 51 other central banks and monetary authorities conducted the latest survey of turnover activity in the foreign exchange and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets in their respective countries. This worldwide effort was coordinated by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and is undertaken every three years.
Content Type(s): Press, Press releases Source(s): Canadian Foreign Exchange Committee


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Probe faults Boeing over 737 Max details given to FAA before certification
Multinational review follows two crashes that killed 346 people
Posted Oct 11, 2019 1:50 PM
Jessica Wehrman
Emotional support animals could be banned from planes under DOT rule Emails ensure Boeing scrutiny will continue, DeFazio says Emails show Boeing employees derided FAA and worried about 737 Max simulators
Boeing 737 MAX airplanes are seen parked on Boeing property along the Duwamish River near Boeing Field in August in Seattle, Washington. (David Ryder/Getty Images)
Boeing did not adequately brief regulators about the flight control system blamed for two crashes of its 737 Max aircraft that killed a total of 346 people, according to a multinational task force that reviewed the plane's certification process.
In a report released Friday, the Joint Authorities Technical Review, a panel chartered by the Federal Aviation Administration that included aviation regulators from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe and other countries as well as representatives from the FAA and NASA, found that increasingly complex aircraft systems have certification requirements that the FAA has yet to match.
The reviewers found that the flight control system was not presented to the FAA by Boeing "as a complete and integrated function in the certification documents" and the "extensive and fragmented documentation made it difficult to assess whether compliance was fully demonstrated."
"As aircraft systems become more complex, ensuring that the certification process adequately addresses potential operational and safety ramifications for the entire aircraft that may be caused by the failure or inappropriate operation of any system on the aircraft becomes not far more important, but also far more difficult," the report read.
The review focused on the FAA's certification of the 737 Max's flight control system. The new automated system, MCAS, was believed to be a major factor in the crashes of a Lion Airlines flight in Indonesia last October and an Ethiopian Airlines flight in March. In both crashes, pilots were unable to recover control of the plane after a damaged sensor in the MCAS system steered the plane into a nose-dive.
The panel was led by Chris Hart, a former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board.
Boeing, in a written statement, said it "is committed to working with the FAA in reviewing the recommendations and helping to continuously improve the process and approach used to validate and certify airplanes going forward."
FAA Administrator Steve Dickson, meanwhile, vowed to "review every recommendation and take the appropriate action."
"The accidents in Indonesia and Ethiopia are a somber reminder that the FAA and our international regulatory partners must strive to constantly strengthen aviation safety," Dickson said in a statement.
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Students Campaign to Keep Bookstore
By Taylor Umlauf
Dec. 20, 2009 1:36 pm ET
Students at C.M. Macdonell Elementary School in Laredo, Texas, wrote letters to B. Dalton asking the company not to close the sole bookstore in their town. All of the B. Dalton stores nationwide are closing, as corporate parent Barnes & Noble shutters the chain. Hear the children read some of their letters. (See related article.)
Fourth-grade students at C. M. Macdonell Elementary School in Laredo, Texas, wrote letters to ask that the bookstore remain open. From left: Andrew Jasso, Alexandra Lopez, Joseph Liendo Jr., Arnulfo Rangel, Daniela Gutierrez, Victoria Esquivel, Karma Flores. (Matt Nager for The Wall Street Journal)
Letters written by the students explaining the need for the bookstore, which has been a fixture at the local mall for 31 years. (Matt Nager for The Wall Street Journal)
The B. Dalton in Laredo's Mall Del Norte is decked out for its final Christmas season with giant red signs: "30% Off Everything!" (Matt Nager for The Wall Street Journal)
Karma Flores, a fourth-grade student at C. M. Macdonell Elementary School. (Matt Nager for The Wall Street Journal)