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(Another Timbre - UK)
Three extended improvisations documenting the first meeting of an exciting and unexpected electro-acoustic quartet with a unique sound and instrumentation.
Catalog ID: at06
Squidco Product Code: 9514
Packaging: Jewel Tray
Recorded in London, September 2007
Max Eastley-arc
Graham Halliwell-electroniccs
Evan Parker-soprano saxophone
Mark Wastell-tam-tam
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"Max Eastley is an internationally recognised artist who combines kinetic sculpture and sound into a unique art form. His sculptures exist on the border between the natural environment and human intervention and use the driving forces of electricity, wind, water and ice. He has exhibited both interior and exterior works internationally. His work is represented in the permanent collection of the Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Since 2003 Max has been an artist with the Cape Farewell Climate Change Project (http://www.capefarewell.com), for whom he has created a number of installations, compositions and performances. From 2010 to 2013 he was an Arts and Humanities Research Council Senior Researcher at Oxford Brookes University, investigating Aeolian phenomena through artistic practice and historical research. He is also currently one of the artists involved in a project, Audible Forces, touring festivals in the UK, using the wind as an energy source.
Max's largest solo exhibition in 2013 was at the Water Tower (Wasserturm) in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin: a cavernous, labyrinthine space inside which he installed ten acoustic sculptures. On the roof of the building he erected 8 Aeolian harps and their live sound was projected into the interior of the building to mix with the acoustic sounds inside. In 2014 he had a solo exhibition at the Teatroinscatola in Rome and took a residency in Bonn as the City Sound Artist, during which he created an Aeolian Installation at the Botanical Gardens.
He is well known as a musician and has played many solo concerts and also played with numerous other musicians such as David Toop, Evan Parker, Steve Beresford, Alex Kolkowski, Rhodri Davies and John Butcher."
-Max Eastley Website (http://www.maxeastley.co.uk/about-max/)
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"Graham Halliwell, born Liverpool, August 1959,, is a saxophonist, whose work has recently been exploring ideas of stillness and sparseness, to this end he has been supplementing its normal sound by utilising it as a device for shaping feedback. This has lead him to work with some of major names in the "reductionist" or "lower case" school. He plays in the brilliant trio +minus with Bernhard Gunter and Mark Wastell, and has recorded with Rhodri Davies and Steve Roden. Other groups include VHF (with Simon H Fell and Simon Vincent)."
-Bagrec Blogspot (https://bagrec.blogspot.com/2006/09/music-questionnaire-no-7-graham.html)
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"Three extended improvisations by an unexpected quartet of musicians, crossing different generations and different playing styles. A shimmering, weightless music of unusual timbres, featuring Evan Parker as you've never heard him before and the welcome return of Max Eastley and his self-built 'arc' to a group-playing situation. Graham Halliwell deftly employs a combination of field recordings and live sampling, while Mark Wastell offers subtle support on tam-tam, Japanese bowls and Indian harmonium. The recordings in a church in north London document the first meeting of this quartet in September 2007, though they have continued to work as a group since. A beautiful and fascinating combination."-Another Timbre
European Improv, Free Jazz & Related
Eastley, Max / Fergus Kelly / Mark Wastell
Halliwell, Graham
Recorded Delivery
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Gubbrora
Parker, Evan Trio & Peter Brotzmann Trio
The Bishop's Move
Tracey, Stan / Evan Parker
Suspensions and Anticipations
Parker, Evan / Sainkho Namtchylak
Mars Song
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Артем Володимирович Буцький (народився 24 серпня 1981 року) - український професійний баскетболіст київського "Будівельника " Суперліги UA.

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Around the NBA: Gilgeous-Alexander calls game as Thunder pick up last second win to open the season
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TORONTO, Ont. (December 26, 2020) -- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander opened his 2020-21 NBA campaign in a big way. With 1.4 seconds remaining and the score tied at 107, Gilgeous-Alexander calmly sank a jumper to give the Oklahoma City Thunder a 109-107 victory over the Charlotte Hornets on Saturday. Gilgeous-Alexander's long two capped a wild fourth quarter that saw the Charlotte Hornets come back from double figures before ultimately falling to Gilgeous-Alexander's Thunder.
Game on the line. #ThunderUp | @shaiglalex pic.twitter.com/v8gtOghMeJ
— OKC THUNDER (@okcthunder) December 27, 2020
The 22-year-old from Hamilton, Ont. contributed a lot more than just the game-winner for Oklahoma City. In 34 minutes of action, Gilgeous-Alexander flirted with a triple-double, finishing with 24 points, seven rebounds, nine assists and a blocked shot in the victory.
"I gave him a left-handed in and out," Gilgeous-Alexander said after the game, as reported by Thunder beat writer Joe Mussatto. "I had been doing it all game, going left. So then I crossed over, went right, and [Hornets forward Cody Martin] was backing up so hard. And I figured if I stopped on a dime and pulled up, it'd be hard for him to get a good contest. That's a shot that I practiced a lot."
The Thunder were slated to open the season in Houston against the Rockets on Wednesday, but the game was postponed when the Rockets did not have the necessary number of players available as a result of multiple players not with the team due to health and safety protocols. When the NBA made the decision to postpone the game, Saturday's contest became Oklahoma's season opener.
After Miles Bridges hit three consecutive three-pointers for the Hornets to tie the game at 107 with 10.3 seconds remaining, the Thunder called timeout. Gilgeous-Alexander brought the ball up court, then calmly sank his jumper to put Oklahoma City ahead for good. Gilgeous-Alexander scored nine of his 24 points in the fourth quarter, including six in the final 31.4 seconds.
This is Gilgeous-Alexander's third season in the league. Following his rookie season with the Los Angeles Clippers -- after being selected 11th overall in the 2018 NBA Draft -- Gilgeous-Alexander was traded to the Thunder during the 2019 offseason. He averaged 19.0 points, 5.9 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.1 steals in 70 games with the Thunder last season.
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Power Outage: Care & Reception Center at Northwood High
Irvine Police Department Press Release
Power outage impacting 28,000 in Irvine; Care and Reception Center set up at Northwood High
Irvine, Calif. (Aug. 2, 2019) – An electrical fire at a substation at Jamboree and Michelson in Irvine has caused a power outage impacting 28,000 customers, Southern California Edison reports. Power is expected to be out at least through the night.
A Care and Reception Center for those affected by the power outage has been set up at Northwood High School, 4515 Portola Parkway. The facility will be open as a cooling center or for those who need shelter. Accommodations will be made for those with pets. Pet owners should bring food, water and other supplies for their animals. Dogs should be on a leash, and other animals should be in appropriate carriers.
Up to 50 intersections in Irvine were on "red flash" or blacked out as a result of the power outage. Additionally, 100 residents at Villa Siena Apartments on Palatine were briefly evacuated and have since been allowed to return to their homes.
The Irvine Police Department has increased patrols in areas impacted by the outage, which primarily consists of the Irvine Business Complex (IBC). The impact on traffic is also being monitored.
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The Other Side is a 2012 short film directed by Muhammad Danish Qasim. It is about drone attacks in Pakistan by the United States.

Plot
The film is about a child in Miranshah, Pakistan, whose neighborhood gets bombed by US drones. He then becomes part of a terrorist group.

The Film is raising the voice of thousands of innocent families which have been a target of
the brutality of drone attacks. After the demise of their families, the hatred towards America
ignites the feeling of revenge in the other family members, which is further exploited by the
established terrorist groups. The film also depicts the contradiction that though Pakistan is
blamed for patronizing the terrorists, it is yet the biggest victim of terrorism.

Awards
The film received the 2012 Audience Award for International Showcase at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth. However, Qasim was denied a visa to the United States and hence could not attend the award ceremony. Qasim said he believed that "the most probable reason for the visa denial was the sensitive subject of my film".

See also

 List of films featuring drones

References

2012 films
Drone films
Pakistani short films


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Mahiru no Tsuki
by Rinoa on September 3, 2005 · 4 comments ·
Photoshoot from 'Mahiru no Tsuki'
Artist: Hitomi Shimatani
Product Code: AVCD-30805
Debut Ranking: #12
Approximately six years have passed since Hitomi Shimatani's debut in the J-Pop Industry back then in 1999 with her debut enka single 'Osaka no Onna'. Since then her music has undergone through multiple genres. She has released twenty singles, 4 studio albums, a best compliation album, a mini album and a concept album. Apart from her impressive singing career, Hitomi also has an acting and seiyuu career. In August, Hitomi was proud to release 'Mahiru no Tsuki' to commemorate the release of her 20th single.
'Mahiru no Tsuki' was released just 21 days after her single 'Falco'. Despite the fact that this single was promoted more than 'Falco', it sold much less. In fact 'Mahiru no Tsuki' sold only around 10,500 copies, making it one of her lowest selling singles. The reason could be due to the fact that ballads do not sell so well and the release date was so close to another single.
The cover for 'Mahiru no Tsuki' itself is very artistic and has a simplistic concept. The black and white colour gives a distinctive sense of timelessness and elegance. An interesting concept is the use of chiaroscuro, where the photographer played with shadows and different shades of grey. The cover features Hitomi only with a plain background. Her hairstyle is arranged in an elegant manner while still retaining a simple and fresh look.
1. Mahiru no Tsuki
The title 'Mahiru no Tsuki' means 'Midday Moon' in Japanese. I believe this ballad reflects Hitomi's career quite well. It gives you the feeling of reminiscence and transition. Hitomi has gone through numerous ups and downs in her career and has moved from one genre to another. Nonetheless she still releases beautiful music for her fans to enjoy.
The lyrics were written by shungo and talk about how she found comfort in the moon during the phases of her life when she was happy and also when she was not so happy.
This ballad is simple and very soothing in itself. Even if the tone of this ballad is not as emotional and heart-rendering, it conveys a feeling of serenity and peace in a subtle manner. The background music is quite nocturnal, composed in a pensive and dreamy manner with a piano and violins.
The promotional video reflect the concept of the cover art. It's extremely simple. The setting is in a room, where a window shows a view to the moon. Hitomi and a group of musicians are situated in this room, where they perform. Basically the phases of the day are displayed from the light coming from the window. I loved how this symbolised the phases of her career.
2. Prayer
'Prayer' follows the typical ballad and slow song format. The tone of this ballad is less serious than most of her ballads, especially with the tinkling background music reflecting her past releases back then in 2003. I felt this gave a fantasy and magical atmosphere to this song. Her vocals really seem to stand out in this track since the instrumentals are quite faint in comparison.
The composition and lyrics were in the hands of BOUNCEBACK. The typical style of BOUNCEBACK is predominant, where poetic imagery is predominant. The lyrics also speak about how the moon symbolises the love of the woman and her lover.
Overall this single was a relatively good single, considering the tight schedule. It wasn't anything exceptional, but it had a consistent tracklist which fitted the theme of the 'moon' and reflected her career well. The concept, the promotional clip and artwork fitted perfectly to her anniversary single.
However I have to admit that this single was quite disappointing for a 20th single. It seemed to be thrown in at the last minute, making this single a generic ballad single with nothing that stood out in particular. The promotional clip was beautiful but it was obvious that it was on a low budget, which is pretty disappointing when an artist is celebrating her 20th single. It had nothing really special to encourage people to pick up and buy. The least avex could do was to add a first press extra, such as a sticker.
Mahiru no Tsuki Cover
Mahiru no Tsuki (Instrumental)
Prayer (Instrumental)
Tsuki ni Shizumu Ayumi Hamasaki stars in Tsuki ni Shizumu, a short musical film that is based on her 28th single 'Voyage'. The story is about a pair of soul-mate who was separated in the past life because of a ritual. The two continues to look for each other in the present life, without even realizing that they are looking for each other. This movie marks Ayumi's debut as an actress since joining avex trax.......
Garnet Moon/Inori Garnet Moon was Hitomi Shimatani's 17th single. It was a continuation of the overall mature-sexy image from 2004. avex wanted to ensure that this single would be fairly popular with the audience by attempting to target this single towards the young adult audience.......
PASIO Hitomi Shimatani's latest single is released in November, with an ethnic and latin flavour. Will it be successful or will it flop? One can only wait and see.........
Hitomi's Neva Eva Hitomi's 2007 has certainly been yet another hectic years. With two singles and one album under her belt, Hitomi would immediately start working on a summer single. Apparently sales do not equate to Hitomi's energy since she has been very busy and rather positive, despite the fact that sales kept sliding miserably. In any way, summer was sounding rather promising with yet another change of style. With her stunning looks and her bright personality, Hitomi would yet release another exotic single for 2007.......
ANGELUS / Z!Z!Z! -Zip!Zap! Zipangu "ANGELUS / Z!Z!Z! -Zip!Zap! Zipangu" is Hitomi Shimatani's 16th single, which would be a tie-in with the anime Inuyasha. ......
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jon July 19, 2008 at 7:18 pm
This song is my favorite of hers.
Matt Ramsden July 21, 2006 at 2:57 am
This is such a cool song and thanks for letting us download the mp3's. This one of the best sites I've come accross.. pitty no Minimoni. Petitmoni. or Coconuts Musume. Oh well! I'll live. Lol.
spellcheck September 4, 2005 at 6:19 am
Rinoa…how dare you sneak up on me with a ballad like that! It's SO GOOD. And the same goes for "Prayer"! This is a well thought out article and your word choice is right on. Great job!
It's a really like this ballad, but it's so simple. Like you said in your article, it isn't very emotional or passionate like other singers' ballads. I like the simplicity of the piano tones. I don't think "Prayer" is really a ballad, it's a lot more bouncy. It's a good song, though. Great article! ^^
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N. Philly resident: We helped cops nab 2 after dozens of anarchists hit area
After dozens of anarchists allegedly caused more than $100,000 in damage to new buildings and high-end cars Monday night in North Philadelphia, two of them apparently became trapped between groups of residents on either end of the short 1500 block of North Palethorp Street.
"Everyone is coming out and they are surrounding these people and there's the two of them completely alone … Immediately they started changing clothes, sat on a stoop, and said they were waiting for a friend," said Amberlynn Kabana, a neighborhood resident and real estate agent. "We held them until police arrived … They picked the wrong spot to come in and terrorize people."
Police said one of the pair – 45-year-old Geoffrey Suchocki of Doylestown – had a mask, a scarf, a device used for shattering windows, and a "mission statement on how to disrupt capitalism" when he was searched.
Kabana said the 40 to 50 vandals – who smashed property, spray-painted "Leave" on several buildings, and carried a banner that read "Gentrification is death and revolt is life" – had a mission.
"It's very clear what they were doing, in my opinion," she said. "It's all aimed at gentrification and new construction."
But the protesters misjudged the residents who came out in droves to film vandals' misdeeds, confront their criminal activity, and support their neighbors, Kabana said.
"The whole community got together and everyone was helping at 1 in the morning, whether it was boarding up windows, power washing damage, getting rid of glass, or rehousing people," Kabana said. "We were all checking on each other and making sure we were OK."
Police said the vandals, believed to have been associated with an anarchist protest group called "Summer of Rage," did their damage within a three-block radius of the 1500 block of North Second Street around 9:16 p.m. Monday.
Kabana said members of the group – many of whom wore dark clothing and had their faces covered – tried to open residents' first-floor windows, including her own. They also smashed glass, spray-painted messages on buildings, and threw Christmas ornaments filled with paint, she said.
"There were lots of hammers, metal objects, and paint," Kabana said. "They were being very violent."
As a real estate agent for Berkshire Hathaway and the property manager for nearly 270 tenants in a two-block radius in the center of the vandalism, Kabana's phone began ringing off the hook. Her first concern was her tenants, and one in particular, she said.
"There is a tenant on the first floor who is a single mom and nurse and an amazing human being," Kabana said. "Seeing how scared she was [was hard] … because so many of her windows are on the street level, it was very easy for them to attack that area."
Once Kabana checked on that resident, she and a group that grew to about 60 residents began filming the vandals and shining their phone lights on them.
"It was like we turned the lights on and the cockroaches ran in all directions," she said. "We basically created this big wall. We decided to come out and be just present."
That's when the residents were able to corner the two alleged protesters, Suchocki, 45, of Doylestown, and Patricia Monahan, 28, of the 1700 block of Lansing Street in Rhawnhurst. Police charged both of them with causing and risking a catastrophe, criminal mischief, and related offenses.
At Suchocki's Doylestown residence, which is owned by his mother, a woman who answered the door Tuesday said she did not want to comment. One neighbor in the cul-de-sac of large duplexes said Suchocki was known as a bright artist who did oil paintings and sometimes walked dogs in the neighborhood.
Meanwhile, nobody answered the door at Monahan's Rhawnhurst home Tuesday. A man who answered a phone number associated with Monahan hung up when a reporter asked him for comment.
Kabana said she hopes that more of the alleged vandals will be caught. Although several people ripped out surveillance cameras in the area, the cameras have a hard-wire back-up and retained the recordings, she said.
"I have surveillance cameras everywhere," Kabana said. "The 26th District was given all that camera footage, so we definitely have a few faces there."
Mayor Kenney, asked about the vandalism at an unrelated news conference Tuesday, called it "just atrocious."
"There's never a rationale for that kind of activity. There are ways in which you can address these issues of gentrification," he said. "There are ways in which you can address issues of injustice or unfairness, but it's not by violence."
Alex Ciesielski of the 1500 block of Palethorp Street said one of the vandals apparently shot a high-velocity marble through his house window.
"It looks like a bullet hole," he said.
Ciesielski said windows of a Mercedes and a BMW were smashed.
"Only the nice cars," he said.
Older homes and cars appear to have been spared. Jill Long, a bartender who lives on Palethorp, was among those whose property was not hit.
"I have a [lousy] car and I'm in the rear unit, so I'm good," she said.
Long said she gets irritated by gentrification and the disruption caused by loud construction, but she said the vandals' priorities were misplaced.
"I like my older houses, too," she said. "But there are so many other things to be mad about."
Kabana believes the vandals who struck in her neighborhood were the same masked anarchists who protested in Center City Monday as part of May Day protests. May 1 is traditionally a rallying day for anti-capitalist and anarchist groups, dating to the 19th century.
"I feel I do know that these were part of the anti-Trump ralliers in Center City," she said. "They had the same banners they brought there to leave for us."
Philadelphia police said Tuesday it was unclear whether the vandalism was connected to the May Day protesters in Center City.
The North Philadelphia vandalism happened hours after an arson fire broke out at a township construction project in Point Breeze, another section of the city often described as gentrifying. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has offered a $10,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of suspects in that case.
City and police officials said Tuesday they knew of no connection between the fire and the vandalism, but that investigations into both were ongoing. Spokeswomen with the ATF and FBI said those federal agencies are not involved in the North Philadelphia vandalism investigation but they are ready to assist, if needed.
As for Kabana, she wondered what the vandals got out of targeting her neighborhood.
"You're attacking the wrong type of people to send your message to," she said. "We have such a mixed neighborhood of people and there are no barriers for us."
Kabana said just as the vandalism strengthened her community's resolve, it strengthened her own resolve as well.
"We're not offended and we have no shame in what we're doing," she said. "And we're not going to stop doing it."
Staff writers Justine McDaniel and Jason Nark contributed to this report.
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Genelec Announces G SongLab to Empower Young Music Creators
Published 22nd April, 2020
Genelec is proud to announce the launch of G SongLab, an initiative that forms part of the Genelec Academy and offers young people free access to a safe on-line learning community, through which they can collaborate and engage with others in developing their skills in songwriting and music creation.
Launching in Helsinki, the initiative is a collaboration between Genelec and a number of operators including the Tiuku Public Information Cultural Factory, the City of Helsinki, University of the Arts Helsinki and the ArtsEqual research initiative, all of whom have joined forces to encourage and support young people's active participation in music creation – and the sense of social integration and companionship that this brings.
The G SongLab concept has been developed by a team of songwriters and music educators led by Petter Korkman and Anna Kuoppamäki. The project provides an international online learning community for all young songwriters aged between 13 and 29, allowing them to participate from the comfort of their homes and share their songs with others – which is particularly beneficial in view of the recent COVID–19 outbreak. Also, Genelec themselves will contribute to the educational program by teaching some of the basics of sound and audio monitoring, so participants can learn how to evaluate and improve the quality of their work.
A selection of the music created during the workshops will be shared with the wider public via the Genelec Music Channel on YouTube, along with live performances by workshop participants being broadcast from Helsinki via the Genelec Artist Room in the future.
As a company with an international standing, Genelec have a long tradition of supporting educational programs that help young people realise their dreams through the creation of music. With a partnership already in place with the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus in the US and Europe, and the establishment of the Ilpo Martikainen Audio Visionary Scholarship in conjunction with the Audio Engineering Society, G SongLab is a natural extension of this commitment to global music education. Genelec's Juho Martikainen explains "This is an excellent way to express our values of enthusiasm and justice. Music creation belongs to everyone, and if we can help young people to learn and find their own way in life, then that is the best prize there is. In the difficult times we currently live in, we believe that music can help create hope, a sense of belonging and a shared determination to support each other and survive."
Petter Korkman and Anna Kuoppamäki add "Anyone can write a song just as anyone can draw a picture. Songwriting is a powerful means of self-expression and connecting with others through music. It's a way of sharing your views, experiences and feelings, and a way of spelling out who you are. We want to be both ears and loudspeakers, as it were, carefully listening but also actively projecting this polyphony of voices out into the world."
To celebrate the launch, Genelec will be staging a G SongLab Songwriting Challenge, inviting young music creators to submit their original songs. The challenge will be open to young people worldwide, with the three most innovative entrants receiving a premium quality home studio recording package, and the chance to perform their song live at the Genelec Artist Room. More details of the Songwriting Challenge will follow very soon.


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How One Millennial Fought Back Against Red Tape
November 4, 2017 / by Brittany Hunter
Millennials have been major catalysts in changing the rules of the traditional marketplace. Impatient and eager to move on to the next big thing, we are a generation born to innovate. But venturing into uncharted territory, though groundbreaking, means that we have to force the traditional market to evolve with our revolutionary methods.
From the sharing economy to food trucks and hipster-made craft beer, millennials have found a way to make money in a manner that fits their unique lifestyles. As with most successful market endeavors, the only thing preventing millennials from making an even greater impact on the economy is government bureaucracy.
Rebecca Mueller left her career in the finance world to pursue her dream of being a fashion designer. After graduating from fashion school in Chicago, Mueller decided not to relocate to greener pastures and instead set out to contribute to the local economy.
Planning to buy all her supplies from local vendors, Mueller wanted to open up a mobile boutique that would operate like a closet on wheels. Confident in her interpretation of the city statutes on peddler licenses, Mueller headed to City Hall full of hope and ready to make her dream a reality. It didn't take long for her dream to turn into a bureaucratic nightmare. At City Hall, she was denied her peddler's license.
Mueller had purchased a 25-foot truck and had planned to stop at different locations around the city and sell her original clothing. Unfortunately, the city informed her that in order to qualify for a tradition peddler's license, she would not be able to park her mobile boutique and set up shop. This is a problem that many foods truck owners have faced while attempting to start their businesses.
The city assured Mueller that they were working on legislation to cater to innovative businesses like hers, but there was no clear answer as to when this would actually happen. After months without any real answers, Mueller was no closer to opening up her boutique.
Enter Institute for Justice
Desperate to get the wheels rolling, she decided to seek help from Institute for Justice's (IJ) law clinic on the University of Chicago campus. IJ was able to tell Mueller what the government neglected to, that in fact there was a license available that would allow her business to operate her unique business.
The "emerging business license" was created in 2012 to accommodate for innovative businesses which do not fit into preexisting regulations. The emerging business license gives the entrepreneur two years to operate their business. The understanding being that in those two years, the local government will work to create reasonable regulations. However, prior to Mueller's inquiry, the license had only been issued once since 2012. Fortunately for Mueller, she was able to get approved for the emerging license and after large amounts of time and money were spent, her mobile boutique was able to open up earlier this month.
When it comes to innovative Millennials trying to start new businesses, Mueller's sentiment expressed in her local op-ed really drives the point home:
I hope the next novel business to make its way to City Hall is met with a red carpet instead of a maze of red tape.
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Kashmir Solidarity Day – 06 April 2018
April 6, 2018| Rabat Embassy Post|
The Mission organized an event to highlight Indian atrocities in Kashmir The Pakistan Embassy here held 'Special briefing' at its Chancery today to highlight continuing India's reign of terror in Kashmir and to express solidarity with struggle of the people of Kashmir against Indian oppression.
The event began with recitation from the Holy Quran followed by a photo exhibition of Indian atrocities committed against the people in its occupied part of Kashmir. The photographs graphically portrayed the violence and brutality of Indian armed forces against innocent Kashmiri civilians including women and children.
A comprehensive 'updated fact sheet' compiling Indian atrocities and brutality against the innocent and unarmed Kashmiri people since 1989 was also released. The 'fact sheet' also highlighted recent incidents of intensified Indian state terrorism against innocent and unarmed civilians starting from 8 July 2016
The videos depicting these brutal acts of the Indian occupying forces were also shown.
Speaking on this occasion the Ambassador of Pakistan to the Kingdom of Morocco, H.E. Mr. Nadir Chaudhri, explained the origin and history of the Kashmir dispute between Pakistan and India calling it the 'unfinished agenda of India's partition". He said India has consistently defied the international community by not implementing UN resolutions calling for a solution of the Kashmir dispute nor seriously engaging in bilateral talks with Pakistan to resolve this dispute.
He said the Kashmiri people were kith and kin of Pakistanis who were suffering horrific atrocities at the hands of "900,000 Indian occupation forces that had killed 94,952 people, arrested 143,381 and raped 11,058 women since 1989". He added Pakistan would "never" let the Kashmiris down and will continue to provide political, diplomatic and moral support to them.
He further said the new generation of Kashmiris has again stood up against continuous use of brutal force by Indian occupation forces. The latest wave of violence started on 8 July 2016 when Indian Armed forces used disproportionate force and Pellet Guns against unarmed and innocent civilians, protesting over the extra-judicial killing of a Kashmiri leader Burhan Wani. Since 8 July 2016, more than 240 civilian have lost their lives and 21,183 have been injured, many of them in critical condition. About 250 youth including girls have permanently lost their eyesight due to pellet injuries to their faces.
The Ambassador called upon the international community to take notice of the plight of the Kashmiri people and play their part in allev.iatingtheir miseries.


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Pedro Moya de Contreras (v. 1528, Cordoue, Espagne — , Madrid), prélat et administrateur colonial qui détiendra les trois plus hautes charges de Nouvelle-Espagne, soit inquisiteur général, archevêque de Mexico et Vice-roi. Il fut le sixième Vice-roi et gouverna du  au . Durant cette période il occupe les trois charges simultanément.

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  Article « Mendoza, Antonio de », Enciclopedia de México, v. 9. Mexico City, 1988
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  Orozco L., Fernando, Fechas Históricas de México. Mexico City: Panorama Editorial, 1988, .
  Orozco Linares, Fernando, Gobernantes de México. Mexico City: Panorama Editorial, 1985,.

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  Liste des gouvernants du Mexique selon ElBalero
  Liste des présidents selon le site de la Présidence du Mexique
  Vice-rois de Nouvelle-Espagne selon Texas A&M University
  Héritage hispanique de L'Amérique selon Britannica

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Noble espagnol de l'Ancien Régime
Vice-roi de Nouvelle-Espagne
Inquisiteur espagnol
Évêque catholique du XVIe siècle
Évêque espagnol en Amérique latine
Archevêque de Mexico
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The number of companies joining a U.N. corporate responsibility initiative grew 30 percent last year.
Nearly 1,500 global businesses signed on to the United Nations Global Compact in 2008, signaling the growing interest of businesses that want to align their practices with the initiative's environmental, social and governance principles.
Though interest is up, progress in integrating the principles beyond corporate headquarters lags, according to the Global Compact's annual report. The voluntary initiative, launched in 2000, encourages businesses to enact policies that reflect its 10 human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption principles. Members must also report on their implementation.
Just 7 percent of the 700-plus respondents in the annual survey require Global Compact participation when selecting suppliers. About a third said they extend their commitment to the Global Compact to their subsidiaries.
"The Annual Review 2008 underscores the Global Compact's positive contribution to the worldwide diffusion of responsible business practices," George Kell, the Global Compact executive director, said in a statement. "However, companies everywhere must do much more to ensure that environmental, social, and governance challenges are understood and properly addressed. For corporate responsibility to deliver tangible results, suppliers and subsidiaries my be made part of the equation."
The Global Compact removed 404 companies from its corporate reporting initiative last year because the organizations failed to communicate progress on their efforts. More than 800 companies have been de-listed.
More than 5,000 global companies in 130 countries participate in the initiative, with engagement growing in China and India.


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INXS was an Australian rock band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney, New South Wales. They began playing covers in Western Australian pubs and clubs, occasionally playing some of their original music. Mainstays were main composer and keyboardist Andrew Farriss, drummer Jon Farriss, guitarists Tim Farriss and Kirk Pengilly, bassist Garry Gary Beers and main lyricist and vocalist Michael Hutchence. For twenty years, INXS was fronted by Hutchence, whose "sultry good looks" and magnetic stage presence made him the focal point of the band. Initially known for their new wave/pop style, the band later developed a harder pub rock style that included funk and dance elements.
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© Estate of Pablo Picasso %2F Artists Rights Society %28ARS%29%2C New York
Femme torero. Dernier baiser?, June 12, 1934
Pablo Picasso; Publisher: Atelier Roger Lacourière, Paris, France; Printer: Atelier Roger Lacourière, Paris, Franceexpand_more
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Emerging from Spanish tradition, the bullfight is a central and symbolic theme in Picasso's work. Since the 19th century, women have established successful careers as bullfighters. In this imposing print, Picasso portrays a female torero (bullfighter on horseback), a subject that appeared in his graphic work only briefly in the mid-1930s, with each representation bearing the face of his mistress and model Marie-Thérèse Walter. Among the largest of Picasso's prints, Femme torero. Dernier baiser' presents the passion, violence, and drama of the bullfight as a metaphor for his deteriorating relationship with his wife, Olga, and his desire for Marie-Thérèse. Here, the torero, her horse, and the bull (representing Picasso) merge into a chaotic whirl of tumbling figures, posing the question: Who will prevail' First printed in 1939, the etching was never formally published, but fifty unsigned impressions are known. Mia's impression is one of only three printed on vellum (calfskin), the only impressions signed by the artist.
Femme torero. Dernier baiser?
Pablo Picasso; Publisher: Atelier Roger Lacourière, Paris, France; Printer: Atelier Roger Lacourière, Paris, France
(active France), 1881–1973
24 3/4 x 32 1/16 in. (62.87 x 81.44 cm) (sheet)19 1/16 x 26 7/8 in. (48.42 x 68.26 cm) (plate)
The Miscellaneous Works of Art Purchase Fund
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Etching on vellum
[Goldschmidt Galleries, New York, until 1957; sold June 14, with "La Grande corrida, avec femme torero" (P.12,554), for $2,900, to Mia]
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Catalogue Raisonne
Bloch 1329; Baer 425 and Addendum; Z.234
Because of © restrictions, we can only show you a small image of this artwork. (You'll have to come see it in person.)


A talented sport journalism student has won a top award for his football blog at a prestigious national event.
Luke Beaumont, who is in the second year of his degree at Teesside University, won the Best International Football Blog award for his website, Major League Shocker, at the Football Blogging Awards.
Now in its sixth year, the awards celebrate the stars of the football content creation industry, whilst also paving the way for new and up-coming-talent. A total of 21 awards were up for grabs on the evening with categories ranging from Best Gaming Football Content Creator, to Best Football Podcast.
The ceremony took place at Alexandra Palace in London on 17 May and recognised a number of individuals and teams, with the winners chosen by fans and judges. This year over 200,000 votes were cast by members of the public.
Luke, 20, started Major League Shocker in 2016 as a small project to run alongside his degree studies and manages the website and Twitter account singlehandedly.
Focusing on Major League Soccer in the United States, Luke's blog brings a British perspective to the American league. He was both surprised and delighted to win the Best International Football Blog this year.
Luke said: "I am amazed at how things have gone so far. I have built up a large following of friendly and intelligent MLS fans who welcome my opinions with open arms and I appreciate that so much.
"The category in general was extremely strong. I didn't for one second believe that I would be travelling down to Alexandra Palace in London to pick up the award.
Luke will commence the final year of his studies in September and he's already thinking about what the future holds. Originally from Huddersfield, Luke has ambitions of living and working as a sports journalist in the United States.
"I wanted to make myself stand out in America which is why I chose to blog about Major League Soccer – it was unique and not something that anyone else was doing in this area,' Luke explained.
Paul Bailey, Senior Lecturer in Media in Teesside University's School of Computing, Media & the Arts, said: 'I am delighted that Luke's hard work has been recognised at these prestigious national awards. I am sure that this will provide Luke with an excellent platform for the future.


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News item prepared by Randall Reeves (CSG Chair) and Louisa Ponnampalam and Brian Smith (CSG Asia Coordinators) On 13 February 2022, an article appeared on this website concerning the existential threat of net entanglement to Taiwan's endemic humpback dolphin subspecies (Sousa chinensis taiwanensis; known locally as...
News article submitted by Barb Taylor and Jay Barlow On a visit to San Felipe, Mexico on 27-28 November, we witnessed illegal fishing-related activity with no sign of enforcement and no attempt by fishers to conceal their activities from authorities. In the area we observed, the...
Totoaba begin spawning in December in the shallow waters where the last vaquitas survive. With only around ten vaquitas left, it was hoped that the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) would use its authority and motivate Mexico to stop the illegal trade...
A new report reveals evidence that many pangas have continued to use the ZTA (mostly for gillnetting). Observations of this illegal activity were made both from the sea by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and from land by ZTA Watch. Pangas were present inside the...
[caption id="attachment_375681" align="alignright" width="300"] Mother and calf vaquita surface near San Felipe, Mexico. Credit: Paula Olson[/caption] New research shows that the endangered vaquita in the Gulf of California in Mexico remains genetically healthy enough for the species to recover if illegal gillnetting stops killing them. The paper, "The...
Illegal fishing remains the sole immediate threat to vaquitas
Recent claims have been made that a reduction in illegal gillnet fishing in the northern Gulf of California is allowing for a gradual population recovery of the vaquita, Mexico's endemic, critically endangered porpoise. Earlier recommendations by the Vaquita Recovery Team (CIRVA—Comité Internacional para la Recuperación...
Last Mekong dolphin in the Cambodia-Laos transboundary pool dies
The most recent of the seven news items on this website concerning the Critically Endangered population of Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) in the Mekong River was posted almost exactly four years ago. Since that time, the information on this population in the Focal Taxa section...
Dead Taiwanese White Dolphin stranded in Tainan City
News Item Prepared by Megan Kuo and Amy Tian of Wild at Heart Legal Defense Association, Taiwan [caption id="attachment_375489" align="alignright" width="339"] Photograph of Joker with his distinctive lip gash as well as an unpigmented (white) healed line scar on the front edge of the flipper. Photograph...
Vaquitas seen in autumn 2021 survey
From October 17 through November 3, 2021, a vaquita research effort was privately funded through the Museo de la Ballena y Ciencias del Mar and a number of private donors. The survey focused on the last stronghold of vaquitas, the Zero Tolerance Area (ZTA) declared...
Letter sent from IUCN SSC regarding strengthening protection measures for the vaquita
On 14th August 2021, the Chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, Jon Paul Rodríguez sent a letter to members of the Government of Mexico, the Government of the US, Government of Canada, the Trilateral Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Government of China, European Union, CITES...


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The rear suspension was even simpler than the front, as there are no half shafts to deal with.
Over 5 million Minis have been made, most of them before 1985 when front disc brakes were standardised. Previously, standard Minis were fitted with drum brakes all round, adequate in light traffic but prone to fall out of adjustment, not very progressive unless recently overhauled, and not up to the quick responses needed to avoid accidents in modern high-density traffic.
In 1992 I brought together a few friends to form what was soon called "The Alberni Valley Autosports Club" (AVAC). We had about 4 of us with one Austin Healy Bug Eyed Sprite, a Mini 1000 ("The No Brakes Mini), a Toyota Corolla and one rather worn out Datsun F10.
The other 4-way valve on the bulkhead on later cars (part number FAM7821) is frequently wrongly identified as one of the above as they are similar. However, this unit does not have the electrical connection, and has a cylinder sticking out one end. This IS a brake pressure regulator, only fitted to front/rear split systems as far as I'm aware. The PDWA is built into the master cylinders in these applications.
What you actually need for the disc/drum conversion is pretty straightforward. Disconnect the steering arms, top and bottom swivel-pins, CV joint, and flexible brake pipes at the subframe - that's it. There are, however, a number of ancillaries to consider.
You can only use the MS72 adjustable brake regulator/bias valve with a front/rear split system. Definitely NOT the diagonal split type (for identification see 'Brakes - Rear brake bias adjustment'). These should have been 'X-ed' at birth.
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The classic AP Power Boosters is back. The cast iron body is identical to the AP 5.5 type as fitted to the MKI/II Cooper S Mini. These new brake servos are a perfect upgrade for your Classic Mini, or to replace a bad unit, or if your servo is one of the earlier, "less than original" types."


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Q: postfix statistics for BI I was wondering if there is any way to present all Postfix log in comfortable format for BI (Business Intelligence) team.
BI team works with MySQL, I tried to found how exactly can I push all logs to DB in readable format.

A: If you just want readable reports about postfix logs, you can use pflogsum.
If you need to use mysql, you can store a copy of postfix logs in mysql, for example using rsyslog, then set up a web interface to look at them.

A: You might be interested in mysqmail-postfix-logger. From the description this may exactly do as a BI-unit may like to see.

MySQMail is a set of tiny daemon loggers for mail and FTP servers
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This package provides a logger for SMTP traffic handled by Postfix.

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The first photos of Sabrina and Harvey from Netflix's new Sabrina The Teenage Witch reboot, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, have been revealed.
Last year, the streaming service confirmed it was producing a new Sabrina-focused series to serve as a companion show to Riverdale.
The original 90s Sabrina the Teenage Witch TV show was based on an Archie Comics series of the same name, and the new show will be based on the more recent – and much darker – Archie Comics series, The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina.
Mad Men star Kiernan Shipka has been cast to play Sabrina Spellman in the show. Shipka portrayed Sally Draper in Mad Men from 2007 to 2015.
Showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has now shared a picture of Shipka on set with Ross Lynch, who will portray Harvey Kinkle in the series. Disney star Lynch is a member of the pop-rock band R5. See more photos here.
"We're all such huge fans of Kiernan's work that when we started talking about who this new incarnation of Sabrina could be, her names was on everyone's wish list," Aguirre-Sacasa previously said of Shipka's casting.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is expected to premiere later this year. It was reported last year that production would begin in Vancouver in February 2018. The show will also star Lucy Davis and Michelle Gomez.
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Hardworking and rough-around-the-edges, Koahsiung is a big, hot port city and it feels like it. Internationally renowned for hundreds of years as Takow, Taiwan's industrial heart is still beating strong here - giant cargo ships, fishing boats and tankers literally queue up to enter the port, officially one of the world's busiest.
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Alongside the heavy mechanics of those huge operations the softer patterns of everyday life are everywhere to see: locals linger in parks longing for a breeze, the sticky streets ooze a laid back atmosphere, and the creativity that often comes hand in hand with a hardworking city is alive.
Born amongst the relics of the old port and its Japanese-built warehouses, a creative scene has awakened with wallfuls of graffiti, bright, bold and daring splashed across the sides of repurposed warehouses, historic walls alive with murals. Strange sculptures stand making statements, there's a statue of Guan Yu holding a real-life mop instead of his trademark halberd and a raging bull with an equally raging demon-faced erection, parents chortling as they coax their children to pose for photos next to it. This is Pier-2 Art Center (新化里), a few minutes' walk south of Yanchengpu MRT. Full of cafes and exhibition spaces (see the official website for event listings and information) we browsed the surprisingly vast area infused with the creative vibe, paying particular time and attention to an all-in-one record shop, live venue and radio station, In Our Time, which was dedicated to releasing music from artists of aboriginal origin. Nextdoor to Pier-2 Art Center is Hamasen Railway Cultural Park and Takao Railway Museum, where old buildings and tracks like many tentacles spread out through an expanse of grass, parks and sculpture, remnants of the Japanese Hamasen railway now photo-ops, like one of the steam trains that used to traverse the line. This is just another example of what Taiwan does well: preserving the past and turning it into a place of leisure and play. Strangely there's another upside-down house plonked here, just as there is at Huashan 1912 Creative Park in Taipei. The regenerative art aesthetic and ideas of old into to new have also spilled into the streets surrounding Pier-2 and the Railway Parks, whose new trendy establishments are neighbours with machine-filled workshops and oily tinkers. Likewise, where the Instagram-friendly meets actual practical working lives, a stroll further along the port will bring interesting scenes of fisherman trying to catch dinner next to No Fishing signs and boat crews taking up various positions of chill on their docked vessels. Leading up and away from this area where the past meets practical present is a legitimate blast from history: the old British Consulate. It was at some point recently discovered that this was not in fact the consulate but rather the residence of those who worked at the consulate. So now it's Official Residence of British Consulate at Takow. It has its own website, if you're interested. It was built in 1865, and reflects a period of history in which the established nations of East Asia were being coerced to open up to trade with Western Powers. It was no different in Taiwan, then the territory of Qing Dynasty China; the 1860 Treaty of Peking forced open the ports of Tamsui (in what is now New Taipei City), An-ping in Tainan, Keelung, and of course Tak/ow/au/ao. We expected to be able to waltz in here for free and have a lovely cup of tea as us British do, but you have to pay like everyone else to get into this tourist attraction. We didn't pay, and instead rested our sweaty, sweaty bodies after walking all the way from Pier-2, ascending a steepish portion of backstreets and temple-strewn trail up the modest mountain atop which the Residence sits, Shoushan (壽山), watching the endless slow-moving nautical traffic coming in and out of Kaohsiung Port. Far from this, literally and figuratively, is the Lotus Pond (蓮池潭). This man-made lake, which opened in 1951, is touted as a major tourist attraction and we found it fascinating – not for its history, nor particular beauty, but for the strange structures surrounding the park, the genuinely old temples on its busy ring road, and for a glimpse into how an older slice of the local population spend their days, vagrant and idling, lounging in groups, gambling with cards, playing chess, staring at anything that walks by, and snoozing in almost impossible positions: our favourite was flat-out on the backs of scooters, legs dangling over handlebars. Slightly north of the pond, the Confucius Temple (孔廟) does offer a peek into the history and mystery of Confucianism with its ceremonies and musical instruments explained briefly thanks to a smattering of good English signage. For those with a penchant for days past it's an interesting wander, constructed as it was in 1684. It's the logical starting point for a loop of the pond if, like us, you decide to trudge by foot from the nearest MRT station, Zuoying, instead of getting a shuttle bus like a normal person. The shore itself is lined with different sections of parkland, monuments, and various temples and shrines, gaudy and interesting. We circumnavigated the pond anti-clockwise. One of the first things you see, because it's hard to miss, is the giant, red-faced Xuan Tian Shang Di statue (玄天上帝神像), a Taoist deity, presiding over the pond, 72-metres tall, at the Pei Chi Pavilion (北極亭), built between 1991 and 1995. We found a more interactive monument a little further round, where we ran childlike through the long belly of a dragon at the Spring and Autumn Pavilions (1976), emerging into the bright light of the world from its rear end, more like something from an amusement park than anything spiritual. It is wholly spiritual, however: a depiction of Guanyin Riding A Dragon (觀音騎龍像), a sort of Taoist-Buddhist crossover, in that Guanyin is the representation of the bodhisattva of compassion. You can once again embark on an internal journey through another dragon, and a tiger, at the the southern end of the lake thanks to another temple, the Dragon And Tiger Pagodas (龍虎塔) (1953)—you go in through the former, out through the latter for good luck. Whilst all set for tourism, with all the statuary and bridges over to islands and edifices built over the glassy water, as well as older temples dotting the outskirts, the park is decidedly rough (for instance, we stepped on a dead rat), but it's an interesting way to spend a couple of hours, especially if you like people-watching or pagodas and traditional Chinese religion. From one body of water to the next: Love River (愛河) is the sugary name given to what apparently used to be an open sewer. A bit of cleaning up and a polish has made the area pleasant for a stroll in the evening, if strolling's your game. Gondalas festooned with strings of lights pass by, a karaoke bar at the edge of 228 Memorial Park blares romantic classics out into the promenade, and in the park itself people practice Falun Gong – more popularly known as Falun Dafa in Taiwan – perfectly accented with the sweet smell of evening flowers. We enjoyed this dreamy, gentle atmosphere. Taiwan's second city lives in the shadow of the northern capital; despite being an important centre for trade and politics with its own metro system and the second largest mall in Asia it is sleepier with less evidence of affluence. The city can however pull its own weight being the bustling port that it is, having historical global credentials and the infrastructure of a world city—enough to've hosted the World Games 2009. Driven between Kaohuing's sluggish somnolence and dogged industriousness is a fat wedge of excitement comprising zings of creativity and youthful abandon, a lust for the future and a space in which to create it at the feet of a growing forest of skyscrapers and highrises. Taiwan's tomorrow is under construction in the deep south.
THINGS THAT ARE TASTY 🍄 Liuhe Tourist Night Market (六合觀光夜市)
Important distinction: this market got its name because tour groups began stopping off here, probably for being an easily navigable one street, not because it was made for tourists, so don't worry about that. And don't believe the bad hype you read online, it's alright really. For those with no dietary limitations, carnivores of the first degree, it's a treasury of taste. For vegetarians there aren't a great deal of options, but the deep fried mushrooms are wonderful. Crunchy, juicy, golden snacks with none of the slimy, slug-like-ness associated with mushrooms. Served up in a cardboard cup by a lady with a friendly face who was happy to chat (though neither of us fully understood each other). Then there's the wholly not-vegetarian pig's blood cake (豬血糕). It's chewy, it's salty, it's warm, and not as blood-flavoured as the more intense black pudding of the U.K. or rich boudin noir from France. Described by the Taiwanese adopted character 'Q' meaning 'bouncy', it's more rice cake than offal. Spicy or non-spicy available. Night market staple. A pork bun also made its way into our mouths. This is no char siu bao: it's a 胡椒餅 (hújiāo bǐng) or pepper bun, originally from Fuzhou Province, Mainland China, and super popular all over Taiwan. To describe it, well, it's akin to a Cornish pasty with Chinese flavours: a melty but firm minced pork and green onions mixture in a slightly glazed shortbread-y casing topped with sesame seeds. It's a snack and a half. Watch out for its porky oil that leaks out everywhere after the first bite.
🌯 Rueifeng Night Market (瑞豐夜市)
There are countless food stalls here: rows upon rows of how-can-we-choose and that-looks-amazing turned this into a huge operation for us. We sweated and wandered and sweated some more as locals came and went, swiftly honing in on their snack of choice and zipping off into the night on their scooters. Clothes stalls, with a decent sense of style, dominated in some parts; mahjong, ancient pachinko and other games also made many appearances. It's busy and we loved it.
The green onion pancake (葱油饼) is famous stuff, here no less than anywhere. Layers of batter mixed with green onion to make a fluffy, chewy, nicely greasy wrap stuffed with a filling of your choice. We went for one smothered with egg, and one with pork floss—that's pork, of course; it looks like ground-up fibre glass, but it's sweet and inexplicably peanuty with a unique candy-floss texture. Would eat again right here right now. Another Taiwan staple: fresh fruit and ice blended together. A cheap, refreshing way to cool down in a market, especially after a few of its spicy, mouthwatering snacks have left their mark on your tongue. Strawberry is super sweet and delicious, like drinking summer without any of the additives. Watermelon, however, is everywhere.
🍕 Cafe Grazie (義式屋古拉爵)
Spoilt with options for dinner at Taiwan's biggest mall, take a step aside from the crowds at the food court on B1 and try out this oshare but reasonably priced Italian restaurant. The vegetable pizza comes with a good selection of fresh toppings and the pesto and sausage pizza is loaded with a garden of rocket, the thin golden base showed this isn't just an idiosyncratic interpretation of a pizza, but simply good and tasty pizza. If you go to Dream Mall (夢時代) to check out Asia's second largest shopping complex and you are feeling peckish this is an easy, satisfying option. The red wine is good too, weirdly refreshing since it's served cold – as is usual is East Asia. Dream Mall is located around a ten-minute walk from Kaisyuan MRT station. A light railway is planned and scheduled to open mid-2017, however, and by the looks of things there's a stop right on the threshold of the mall.
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THINGS THAT ARE NOT SO TASTY / HYPEFRAUD
❌ Kaisyuan Night Market (凱旋觀光夜市)
After sweating it out along the highway intersection at Kaisyuan MRT trying to find this night market, past a run-down closed theme park, we finally found the Kaisyuan Night Market (凱旋觀光夜市), barely a quarter full of vendors with a dozen or so customers. After a quick browse around we left stumbling over the deserted streets and amongst other things discarded near the entrance to the old theme park, a used needle. Note: we should mention that we visited the day after Typhoon Nepartak had hit the island and this more than likely had an effect on the business of the market. This area is nonetheless strange and desolate, comparable to wasteland, a wide road with little traffic and much less going on beside it. From here we trekked to Dream Mall instead.
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We stayed at Chung Cheng Hotel (中正大飯店), located a five-minute walk from a Yanchengpu MRT (捷運鹽埕埔站) and a minute's walk away from 228 Peace Park and the West bank of Love River. The hotel was more than sturdy during the onslaught of Typhoon Nepartak that hit during our stay on 8th July 2016. Standard twin room, two double beds, great selection of satellite TV and a free breakfast, which is always appreciated in our books. A free breakfast seems to be the standard in Taiwan, with mainly Chinese buffet and a small toast making station for those who can't stomach rice and veg in the morning. NTD$655 per night. On the day the typhoon hit we were even able to watch a typhoon-themed episode of Shin-chan.
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Microsoft continues patching the Windows 10 October 2018 Update — Here's everything you need to know.
As part of a continuous effort to fix the long list of problems with Windows 10 version 1809 (October 2018 Update), Microsoft is now rolling out KB4464455 as a cumulative update, but only for participant of the Windows Insider Program with devices enrolled in the Slow and Release Preview ring.
KB4464455 bumps the version number to build 17763.104, and according to the software giant, it addresses a Task Manager problem that was showing the incorrect details under the Processes tab.
The update fixes issues causing compatibility issues with third-party antivirus software and virtualization products. In addition, update KB4464455 address driver compatibility issues, certain application becoming unresponsive after resuming from standby, and Microsoft Edge not working correctly with the Input Method Editor (IME).
Although the new cumulative update addresses many problems with the October 2018 Update, Microsoft isn't saying when is planning to re-release the new version to public.
The update is available immediately, it'll download and install automatically, but you can always force the update from Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update and clicking the Check for updates button. You can find more details about the most recent updates in the Windows 10 update history tracker guide.


In 2013, St. Stephen's established a partnership with the PATCH (Parents and their Children) program which is an outreach to children who have an incarcerated parent in Essex County. We offer a week-long summer camp where kids ages 6-12 learn African Drumming, and other arts and crafts. Professional instruction is provided, along with support from our local community volunteers. Many local restaurants donate a wonderful dinner to the camp for the kids and volunteers.
The Drumming Camp has become an essential part of the life of the parish. In addition to the original summer program, we enjoy our relationship with these children and their families throughout the year, year after year. Young adults who were campers return to help with the summer camp. When we were planning our Celebration of New Ministry in April 2019, when we installed our new Rector and committed to living our faith joyfully together, it seemed inconceivable that we would celebrate without these children. They and their wonderful drumming teacher, Yah'Ya Kamate, were a significant part of our celebration.


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Q: ExternalInterface.call causing error in IE I have a menu screen that for various reasons consists of a number of buttons as separate flash movies. When a button inside these movies is clicked, it is supposed to call a javascript function to move to the appropriate page. It works fine in firefox, but is currently failing in IE7. I don't have an IE6 handy to test on.
This is the error I get in IE:
Line:1
Char:25
Error: Expected ';'
Code:0

I can't locate what char 25 of line 1 might actually mean. I only get the error when I click on the button, and after installing Visual Web Developer to try and get some actual debugging, it doesn't seem to be actually firing the function that is called, so it seems like the error is happening in whatever mechanism actually makes ExternalInterface.call work?
The code on the flash movie is literally just:
ExternalInterface.call('gohere',skip_id);

Where skip_id is passed into the movie as a flashvar - it seems to get a sensical value as I can print it to a textfield inside the flash movie. The javascript function is equally complicated:
function gohere(i){
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}

But as i said it doesn't even show up if I put a breakpoint here and debug it. If I put a javascript:gohere('id') link in the html screen and click that it works fine.
I have ExternalInterface.call working in other parts of the same project, and can't for the life of me see any differences in the way it has been implemented.
Ideas?

A: Turns out I had a - in the ID of the object tag, which IE doesn't take kindly to at all.
sigh

A: I'm terrible at debugging these sorts of things even more so in IE, so for starters I would put an "alert()" in my gohere.  Then I would start putting carriage returns in my javascript, and see if the line with the error moves, and figure it out by deduction.
as an aside, there is a piece of software called IETester, which should show you what your page would look like in IE 5.5/6/7/8RC1.


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Urinetown: 'not your typical musical'
Drama department presents an unusual spring show
The Drama Department's production "Urinetown," an unusual but acclaimed show, is running through Saturday, April 7.
Courtesy Michael Bailey
By Thomas Roades
"A tyrant has taken over the city … and he has set up a system where everyone has to pay to pee," "Urinetown's" director Robert Chapel said.
It may not sound like anything one would expect from a musical, but nonetheless, the Department of Drama's spring offering opened last weekend to an excellent audience reception. The show, which tells the story of an oppressed underclass that rises up against a pee-taxing tyrant, is running Tuesday to Friday of this week, with a final matinee show Saturday.
If the opening weekend was any indication, the cast members and directors agree the quirky, unique musical will be a hit. Third-year College student Jack Gereski, who plays one of the show's leads, Bobby Strong, said "Urinetown" is unlike any other musical he's seen.
"Opening night was crazy," Gereski said. "The cast is loving [the show] and the audience will too."
Robert Chapel, the former chair of the University's Department of Drama, has returned from retirement to direct the production — one that he said is "not your typical musical." He agreed with Gereski's assessment of the opening weekend.
"They were amazing, the audience went nuts, both nights," he said. "I've been directing a lot of shows for many years, and I don't recall having an audience be so scream-crazy about the show. It was great fun."
Though it's an unusual show in many ways, Chapel thought it would still strike a chord with the audience, especially among students. He noted that the show's fictional town is placed in such dire straits as the result of a 20-year drought — a sort of issue which plagues parts of the real world today.
"It's ecologically very current, in terms of water shortages and what the world is going through," he said.
First-year College student Payton Moledor, another lead actor starring as Hope Cladwell, shared similar sentiments, as did Gereski, who said the show is "very relevant right now."
"I think 'Urinetown' is very different from a lot of shows that have been done at U.Va. in the past few years because it addresses important issues," Moledor said. "The music is wonderful and the choreography is fun and it's exciting to watch, but at the same time you leave questioning your life."
She also noted there are plenty of fresh faces onstage in this production.
"There are a lot of people who haven't performed in a U.Va. drama show before but are so talented," Moledor said. Moledor, a first-year, and Gereski, a third-year, has never performed before for the Department of Drama, but Chapel quelled any doubts as to their experience or ability.
"Both of these actors are real theatre people," he said. "They're very at home onstage ... There was never a question in my mind that they'd be able to handle the roles, and they have."
Chapel described his directorial approach to the show as slightly hands-off — "more of an editor," he said, guiding the actors' choices onstage, rather than a director making the decisions for them. This approach is best, he said, with talented actors who will make good choices on their own.
"I was very blessed with having a really tremendous group of actors," Chapel said. "I love to trust actors who have good instincts, and these people do."
Moledor said she'd appreciated Chapel's open-minded approach, explaining that having more artistic control made her actions on stage feel more natural.
"This is my favorite thing that I've worked on in a really long time," she said. "This entire semester I've been in a place where I felt like I could make artistic decisions, which doesn't always happen when you're rehearsing for a show."
While "Urinetown" is so quirky and outside-the-box that it almost defies description, the cast members and director are certain of one thing — just how enjoyable the show is, both as an audience member and a performer.
"It's so much fun," Moledor said. "There were a couple moments [on opening night] where we had to hold for laughs and weren't expecting to."
Chapel was no less enthused.
"I think that especially the University community will respond to this in a good way," he said. "We'd love to have full houses at every show."
"Urinetown" will be showing at 8:00 p.m. in Culbreth theater weekdays through April 6, with a final Saturday matinee April 7 at 2:00 p.m.
The Matrix Resurrections didn't need to happen, and that's why it's brilliant
By Randolph Brownell | January 11, 2022
"The Matrix Resurrections" released to theaters and HBO Max on De.c 22 with Neo — played by Keanu Reeves — back in the Matrix, but under some interesting circumstances that help to keep him asleep.
'Don't Look Up' is a bit of a loud mess, but that's kind of the point
By Jamie Jeong | January 10, 2022
The parallel between characters and events in the movie to those in the real world make apparent that the film is an allegory for the world's treatment of scientific crises, whether that be climate change or COVID-19.
Steven Spielberg's 'West Side Story' looks gorgeous but falls short of greatness
By Charles Burns | December 31, 2021
The first word that comes to mind when describing "West Side Story," the second cinematic adaptation of the influential stage musical, is virtuosic.


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"Nobody wants to be average these days," says Eleanor Conway. "We either want to be amazing or shit. Even when we're shit, we're like, 'Everyone thinks I'm shit.' That's still high ego, isn't it? That's still thinking everyone's looking at you. It's weird, a bit of a headfuck."
At the time of talking, the stand-up is in Australia, where it's nearly midnight. Her quiet voice becomes more audible as she moves away from those sleeping near. The self-described "comedic love child of Amy Schumer and Russell Brand" is down under (where she's enjoyed 40 degree heat) for Adelaide Fringe. Do Australians talk to her about the state of Britain? "Not really. They don't care."
She's performing Walk of Shame 2, which earned her an award at Perth's Fringe World Festival earlier this year, and is now touring the UK. It's "Breaking Bad meets Sex and the City" and a sequel to her Walk of Shame show, which wasn't enough to cover all her shame – "I've got loads of it." In June she'll be five years sober. The show is about how while she's "been asleep under a pile of coats" for 20 years, the rest of the world has been carrying on. "This is me waking up. It's a coming of age show, two decades too late, about establishing boundaries and living life in real-time now that I don't get to blackout – I don't have my superpower anymore."
I ask how grim things got when she was drinking and taking drugs. "I don't really like answering that question." We get into contest territory then, she explains. "It's like, 'Did you try heroin?' Well, no, I didn't try heroin. 'Well, it can't have been that bad.' You know what I mean?" She says it should come down to what's excessive for each person. "It's all about the desire to stop. If you think 'I'm drinking too much' then you're probably drinking too much." She speaks of an attitude that looks down somewhat on someone who only drank two bottles of wine a night in their debauched days, whereas others could manage five. "What do you want me to do? Go back out and drink five, or seven, or do a bit of crystal meth? Do I have to go back out and do that to qualify for the extreme Grange Hill 'Just Say No' idea of what an addict is?"
Even when she got sober, she allowed alcohol in her vicinity. The first week saw her spend four days at Glastonbury, where those she was with were "really heavily on it". For the first year or two of sobriety, she also lived "in a bit of a party house". She wasn't going to get through it by just sitting watching reality television, she tells me. She needed alcohol to remain part of her life, to be comfortable having drink in close proximity. She doesn't advise it for others wanting to get dry, but "that's just where I was. I don't fear alcohol or substances when they're around me, it doesn't really faze me at all, and I feel fortunate to have that as part of my recovery story."
She's in a craft where certain individuals might be tempted to have a little livener before performing, to boost their confidence. This isn't an issue for her; she's got enough confidence as it is. "You don't want to see me when I'm drunk and on drugs; you look at me when I'm wasted and go, 'That girl has got too much confidence.' So I don't really worry about it."
What about after gigs though? Great shows can leave comics, actors and musicians on a high they might try and stay on via narcotics or booze. But her "benders end up with something horrific happening – I sleep with someone I shouldn't, I wake up in hospital or covered in vomit." A session might feel like a good time, she says, but they're limited. "You're just going to go to some stranger's house, pretend you're going to be friends with a woman in the toilets you're never going to see again, start a business with a stranger in the smoking area. Nothing new ever happens and nothing real ever happens. So, anything that isn't an utter bender is a good thing."
Before sobriety her mental state was unhealthy. "Drinking excessively to solve problems isn't a good idea. You've got to learn to sit in the pain of solving a problem," she says, as opposed to attempting to fix things with wine or cocaine. "I know how to deal with painful stuff now. Before I'd be like, 'I know what will help me stop feeling: sex with a stranger. I'll just drink more, so I don't have to think anything. And then the hangover will stop me thinking, then I'll wake up at some point, and I'll have forgotten.'"
There are many stories from the inebriated years, though, that she's able to laugh at now. Walk of Shame 2 "is just all the ex-party girl stories". She once drank so much she climbed to the top of one of Trafalgar Square's lions. It didn't end well. "I woke up in hospital; I couldn't walk for three months." She doesn't feel bad about such occurrences now, because she's no longer in that place. Instead she's serving as "a warning to young millennial women. I'm a folklore; this is what happens if you're not careful – in 20 years, this is where you end up, mate."
Touring "a feminist show with award-winning dick jokes"? It could be worse. In the very least, it's above average.
Eleanor Conway plays The Stables, Milton Keynes 11 May, and London's Trapeze Bar 30 May-1 June.
eleanorconway.com
King Arthur's Knight School
at Oxford Castle and Prison
This summer, King Arthur is preparing for his next quest and has enlisted the team at Oxford Castle & Prison to train his latest recruits in sword handling, archery skills and jousting skills – the essential skills for going into medieval battle...


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Many companies have implemented big data applications. These applications consist of a very large data store, hybrid hardware and software to store and access the data, and a sophisticated software interface that accepts the queries of business analysts, accesses the data store, and provides answers that can be used to understand customer needs, simplify business transactions, and increase profitability.
As success stories (and failures) have appeared in the news and technical publications, several myths have emerged about big data. This article explores a few of the more significant myths, and how they may negatively affect your own big data implementation.
Myth #1: Big Data Applications can Stand Alone.
False. Your big data application certainly contains a lot of data. However, of equal importance is the analytics software used to query the data. Analyzing business data is common, especially in companies that already have a data warehouse. The data warehouse contains time-dependent snapshots of operational data, and your current data marts and analytical reports depend upon dimensions in the warehouse.
Dimensions are entities by which an analyst would subset or categorize information. These include time, geography, customer type, store, department, and so forth. A query that sums customer purchases of electronic items for retail stores in several states during the Christmas holiday season includes dimensions of product type (electronic items), stores, geography (state), and time (Christmas holidays). Each dimension gives a different way to summarize data, and may provide clues regarding customer preferences, item availability in stores, or profitability.
Big data applications require such dimensions as well. Since this data is already stored and maintained in your data warehouse, it is natural to integrate the data models of your warehouse and your big data application.
A natural outcome of this integration is that you will be upgrading your data warehouse so that analytical queries can encompass the warehouse data. A good enterprise data model and a comprehensive data dictionary are a necessity.
Warehouse upgrades will include adding new dimensions, inclusion of data from new operational systems, and storage of large objects such as scanned images and XML. This last is especially important, and was mentioned earlier in the discussion on budgeting. Large, complex objects may not be directly analyzable by your business intelligence software package, but basic information about them may be stored in the data warehouse. For example, XML documents can be decoded by some database management systems and stored in a database as tables. This table data may then be analyzed by the BI software.
Myth #2: The Only New Budget Items are Big Data Hardware and Software.
False. Despite some vendor's claims, any IT enterprise implementing a big data application will incur significant costs beyond the investment in big data hardware and software.
First, plan for the near future. Your big data application must have the ability to scale up. This refers to the ability of the system to react to larger volumes of data, faster data transmission speeds, and increasing numbers of users of data-consuming applications. Initial symptoms of this problem will be slower perceived response times, long job run times, and elongated transaction times.
For many applications these issues would be perceived as capacity-related and the response would be to add more CPUs, more memory, and more disk storage. However, in a big data environment more power may not be the answer. Most hybrid hardware and software for big data provided by vendors depends on proprietary data storage methods, including data compression, massive parallel processing, and coordination with the base database management system (DBMS). Scaling up in this environment requires re-thinking the way that your data is architected and stored, including possible denormalization of data, logical partitioning, more intelligent query re-write, and more attention taken to SQL performance analysis.
Next, plan for the medium-term by budgeting for scaling out. Big data stores are fed from operational systems, and such systems today consist of far more than simple character and numeric data. Some systems contain complex data types such as data in extensible markup language (XML), audio and video data, scanned images, and large objects (LOBs). Your big data application may need to analyze these data types while doing aggregations and other operations.
To implement this, you must budget for staff time. Of primary importance is an enterprise data model that spans hardware architectures, as well as data integration across your enterprise.
Another budget issue is the non-production environment. Typical non-production environments are used for software application development, testing, user acceptance testing, and system load testing. One of these should include a test version of your big data application.
Why? The learning curve for business analysts in a big data environment is a steep one. To query a big data application effectively, most shops acquire a business intelligence (BI) software product. These products display data and relationships in the form of common data architecture diagrams, and use a point, click and drag interface that allows the user to specify which data elements are to be aggregated and which are used as dimensions. The interface is usually non-trivial, and almost always requires that the user be very familiar with the business data and its architecture.
The non-production environment is the best place for such ongoing user training.
Another consideration is disaster recovery planning. While analytical systems are usually deemed non-critical, big data applications have a way of growing in usefulness to the point where many users consider them mission-critical. Plan ahead by re-purposing your test environment with the big data application as a candidate for a disaster recovery environment.
The last big budget item is staff training. Your staff will be responsible for maintaining the big data application environment, adding new data feeds and storage, purging or archiving stale data, supporting query users, and perhaps supporting analytical software. In order to properly assist users your staff will need broad and deep knowledge of most of your major operational systems and their data.
In addition to current employees, you may need to acquire additional staff or consulting services. Typical uses of consultants include assisting users, performance monitoring, and capacity planning.
Plan your budgeting by looking ahead. Review these items and determine how and when they may reveal themselves.
Myth #3: Big Data Applications Require Little or no Performance Tuning.
False. Yes, big data applications are advertised as having extremely fast access times. The promise of the technology is the ability to quickly and easily analyze large amounts of data and derive from that analysis changes to customer-facing systems. Management believes that this analysis and subsequent changes will drive up customer satisfaction, market share, and profits.
The key to big data performance lies in the data itself. IT systems must still acquire data from operational systems, transform it, and load it into your big data application. The more data you need the more work the supporting systems must do to provide up-to-date data.
Data acquisition from operational systems consists of data copies, files, and various database extracts. Some data items may be invalid (e.g., a date of 00-00-0000), some may be missing entirely. Each system has its own data cleanliness issues, as well as specific times when data can conveniently be made available for extract. All of these processes require performance tuning as data volumes increase.
Another issue is bulk loading of data into your application. As the amount of input data acquired daily increases, load times also increase, and data loading is extremely I/O-intensive. You may need to look for specific vendor solutions for high-performance data loading.
Query tuning is also a requirement. While it is true that big data applications are built for fast querying, as your number of users grows so too will the number of queries they execute per day. Queries may access not only the big data store but also your data warehouse. If you load your data warehouse into the big data application, you have yet another bulk load operation.
To accommodate multiple potential methods for accessing data, most DBMSs have an optimizer that measures the cost of a query prior to execution. In a big data environment this DBMS software determines the cost of accessing data in the big data application as well as the cost of accessing the data in the base DBMS. While the cost for execution in the big data application may be lower, directing low-priority queries to the DBMS may be more cost effective. To do this you will need to capture user queries and their estimated costs, then review them with users.
Big data applications do not exist in a vacuum. In order to reach their maximum potential they must be integrated with your data warehouse, supported by trained staff, and monitored for query performance and capacity planning. You will need an enterprise data model and data dictionary, staff training on the BI analytical software, and a budget that can support all of the above.


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