Alex and Ricky catch up with Betty and take a look at some of her quilts. Betty's current fascination is with including tranlucency in her work.
Betty discusses the various types of silk and other materials needed before getting Alex to join in the fun with fabric paint and fabric.
Always the artist, Betty was thinking of what to do with left over landscaper's cloth after a garden project. The result was a tree quilt that spurred on a whole new series of quilt work. She discusses the tools needed for working with the cloth and then teaches Ricky how to paint on the non-woven piece as well as cutting out tiny circles using a soldering tool.
Sometimes you see an antique quilt and love a certain block, but don't know how it is assembled. Cyndi McChesney shows you how to take a traditional block and draft it out based on a grid system.
Wonderful. Thank you for sharing. Completely in love with the fish. How does she give it body (it hangs flat and straight). How does she hang it?
I loved Betty's segment, watching her joy in creating artwork was so contagious made me want to get out my dyes and try and create her techniques.
How does Betty fuse the cutout fabric onto the other fabric? Is it ironed on?
I have a piece of fabric that I bought three yards of and gave two of my quilting friends one yard each. We came up with a challenge event to create a quilt using the fabric. I am going to use some of Betty's methods in my challenge quilt. Thanks for sharing Betty! Your art is nothing but inspiring.
Wonderful! Thank you Betty and The Quilt Show!
Great show but I want to see what she does with ravens. Let's have her back. I bet she is full of tricks.
That was an amazing show of skill and innovation to achieve such beautiful work. I have been a fan of Betty's for a long time and from a long distance here in Western Australia. Her work is inspirational and she was very down to earth with her teaching. Here's hoping you can bring her back again soon. Great show.


String theory has so far failed to live up to its promise as a way to unite gravity and quantum mechanics. At the same time, it has blossomed into one of the most useful sets of tools in science.
String theory strutted onto the scene some 30 years ago as perfection itself, a promise of elegant simplicity that would solve knotty problems in fundamental physics — including the notoriously intractable mismatch between Einstein's smoothly warped space-time and the inherently jittery, quantized bits of stuff that made up everything in it.
It seemed, to paraphrase Michael Faraday, much too wonderful not to be true: Simply replace infinitely small particles with tiny (but finite) vibrating loops of string. The vibrations would sing out quarks, electrons, gluons and photons, as well as their extended families, producing in harmony every ingredient needed to cook up the knowable world. Avoiding the infinitely small meant avoiding a variety of catastrophes. For one, quantum uncertainty couldn't rip space-time to shreds. At last, it seemed, here was a workable theory of quantum gravity.
Even more beautiful than the story told in words was the elegance of the math behind it, which had the power to make some physicists ecstatic.
To be sure, the theory came with unsettling implications. The strings were too small to be probed by experiment and lived in as many as 11 dimensions of space. These dimensions were folded in on themselves — or "compactified" — into complex origami shapes. No one knew just how the dimensions were compactified — the possibilities for doing so appeared to be endless — but surely some configuration would turn out to be just what was needed to produce familiar forces and particles.
Like many a maturing beauty, string theory has gotten rich in relationships, complicated, hard to handle and widely influential. Its tentacles have reached so deeply into so many areas in theoretical physics, it's become almost unrecognizable, even to string theorists. "Things have gotten almost postmodern," said Dijkgraaf, who is a painter as well as mathematical physicist.
The mathematics that have come out of string theory have been put to use in fields such as cosmology and condensed matter physics — the study of materials and their properties. It's so ubiquitous that "even if you shut down all the string theory groups, people in condensed matter, people in cosmology, people in quantum gravity will do it," Dijkgraaf said.
String theory today looks almost fractal. The more closely people explore any one corner, the more structure they find. Some dig deep into particular crevices; others zoom out to try to make sense of grander patterns. The upshot is that string theory today includes much that no longer seems stringy. Those tiny loops of string whose harmonics were thought to breathe form into every particle and force known to nature (including elusive gravity) hardly even appear anymore on chalkboards at conferences. At last year's big annual string theory meeting, the Stanford University string theorist Eva Silverstein was amused to find she was one of the few giving a talk "on string theory proper," she said. A lot of the time she works on questions related to cosmology.
Even as string theory's mathematical tools get adopted across the physical sciences, physicists have been struggling with how to deal with the central tension of string theory: Can it ever live up to its initial promise? Could it ever give researchers insight into how gravity and quantum mechanics might be reconciled — not in a toy universe, but in our own?
One high point for string theory as a theory of everything came in the late 1990s, when Maldacena revealed that a string theory including gravity in five dimensions was equivalent to a quantum field theory in four dimensions. This "AdS/CFT" duality appeared to provide a map for getting a handle on gravity — the most intransigent piece of the puzzle — by relating it to good old well-understood quantum field theory.
This correspondence was never thought to be a perfect real-world model. The five-dimensional space in which it works has an "anti-de Sitter" geometry, a strange M.C. Escher-ish landscape that is not remotely like our universe.
Physicists began to see their way through the thicket of new particles only when they found the more fundamental building blocks making them up, like quarks and gluons. Now many physicists are attempting to do the same with quantum field theory. In their attempts to make sense of the zoo, many learn all they can about certain exotic species.
Like many of his colleagues, Simmons-Duffin says he's a string theorist mostly in the sense that it's become an umbrella term for anyone doing fundamental physics in underdeveloped corners. He's currently focusing on a physical system that's described by a conformal field theory but has nothing to do with strings. In fact, the system is water at its "critical point," where the distinction between gas and liquid disappears. It's interesting because water's behavior at the critical point is a complicated emergent system that arises from something simpler. As such, it could hint at dynamics behind the emergence of quantum field theories.
It's a question he has asked his friends. Why are they investigating detailed quantum field theories? "What's the aspiration?" he asks. Their answers are logical, he says, but steps removed from developing a true description of our universe.
Instead, he's looking for a way to "find gravity inside quantum mechanics." A paper he recently wrote with colleagues claims to take steps toward just that. It does not involve string theory.
Perhaps the field that has gained the most from the flowering of string theory is mathematics itself. Sitting on a bench beside the IAS pond while watching a blue heron saunter in the reeds, Clay Córdova, a researcher there, explained how what seemed like intractable problems in mathematics were solved by imagining how the question might look to a string. For example, how many spheres could fit inside a Calabi-Yau manifold — the complex folded shape expected to describe how spacetime is compactified? Mathematicians had been stuck. But a two-dimensional string can wiggle around in such a complex space. As it wiggled, it could grasp new insights, like a mathematical multidimensional lasso. This was the kind of physical thinking Einstein was famous for: thought experiments about riding along with a light beam revealed E=mc2. Imagining falling off a building led to his biggest eureka moment of all: Gravity is not a force; it's a property of space-time.
Using the physical intuition offered by strings, physicists produced a powerful formula for getting the answer to the embedded sphere question, and much more. "They got at these formulas using tools that mathematicians don't allow," Córdova said. Then, after string theorists found an answer, the mathematicians proved it on their own terms. "This is a kind of experiment," he explained. "It's an internal mathematical experiment." Not only was the stringy solution not wrong, it led to Fields Medal-winning mathematics. "This keeps happening," he said.
String theory has also made essential contributions to cosmology. The role that string theory has played in thinking about mechanisms behind the inflationary expansion of the universe — the moments immediately after the Big Bang, where quantum effects met gravity head on — is "surprisingly strong," said Silverstein, even though no strings are attached.
Inflationary models get tangled in string theory in multiple ways, not least of which is the multiverse — the idea that ours is one of a perhaps infinite number of universes, each created by the same mechanism that begat our own. Between string theory and cosmology, the idea of an infinite landscape of possible universes became not just acceptable, but even taken for granted by a large number of physicists. The selection effect, Silverstein said, would be one quite natural explanation for why our world is the way it is: In a very different universe, we wouldn't be here to tell the story.
Silverstein thinks the selection effect is actually a good argument for string theory. The infinite landscape of possible universes can be directly linked to "the rich structure that we find in string theory," she said — the innumerable ways that string theory's multidimensional space-time can be folded in upon itself.
At the very least, the mature version of string theory — with its mathematical tools that let researchers view problems in new ways — has provided powerful new methods for seeing how seemingly incompatible descriptions of nature can both be true. The discovery of dual descriptions of the same phenomenon pretty much sums up the history of physics. A century and a half ago, James Clerk Maxwell saw that electricity and magnetism were two sides of a coin. Quantum theory revealed the connection between particles and waves. Now physicists have strings.
"Once the elementary things we're probing spaces with are strings instead of particles," said Beem, the strings "see things differently." If it's too hard to get from A to B using quantum field theory, reimagine the problem in string theory, and "there's a path," Beem said.
"Maybe it's not even possible to capture the universe in one easily defined, self-contained form, like a globe," Dijkgraaf said, sitting in Robert Oppenheimer's many windowed office from when he was Einstein's boss, looking over the vast lawn at the IAS, the pond and the woods in the distance. Einstein, too, tried and failed to find a theory of everything, and it takes nothing away from his genius.


Research has shown that regular exercise can be helpful in managing chronic kidney disease (CKD), and can limit its harmful effects on the body. During National Kidney Month this March, Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA), the nation's leading network of dialysis facilities, is urging the growing population of people on dialysis to exercise frequently, which can improve their day-to-day energy and quality of life.
CKD is a progressive, usually permanent loss of kidney function. When CKD leads to kidney failure, or end stage renal disease (ESRD), the only treatments are a kidney transplant or dialysis.
Exercise can benefit people with CKD and ESRD by: keeping their heart and other muscles strong; increasing flexibility in joints; improving circulation, digestion, and sleep; and controlling blood pressure and body weight.
You don't have to run a marathon to get fit. Fitness can start with simple changes in your daily routine.
- Make it Fun: Choose an activity that you enjoy doing, such as walking, biking, swimming, and you are more likely to stick with it.
- Start Slow: Take a 15 minute walk each day, and gradually work up to longer walks.
- Take the Stairs: Take the stairs instead of the elevator, and find opportunities in your daily routine to walk instead of drive.
- Stay Loose: Try yoga or other stretching/flexibility exercises, which help improve joint movement and reduce muscle stiffness.
- Sleep and Restore: An important part of an exercise routine is getting enough rest to recharge your body. Shoot for at least 8 hours every night.
FMCNA offers a series of "Simply Fit" demonstration videos that provide suggestions on how to work simple exercises into a daily routine.
"For people with kidney disease, exercise should be part of their daily life, especially because it can give them more energy and a greater sense of control over their lives," said Carolyn Latham, VP Clinical Quality and UltraCare at FMCNA. "Exercise benefits patients, but can also become an activity they share with their loved ones and family."
One dialysis patient who understands the power that exercise has on maintaining good health is Shad Ireland. A spokesperson for FMCNA, Ireland is a 38-year-old patient advocate whose condition has never stopped him from pursuing demanding athletic feats. Ireland has been on dialysis for the majority of his life, but in 2004 he became the first dialysis patient to complete an Ironman triathlon - after running, swimming and biking for more than 16 hours - and he has completed many more triathlons since. Ireland is passionate about promoting CKD education and awareness, and regularly visits patients and staff at FMCNA facilities across the U.S. He aims to inspire and empower people to exercise for more energy and to feel better while on dialysis.
"Many fellow dialysis patients who I meet aren't motivated to exercise, or don't realize how much it can improve their overall health and the way they feel every day," said Ireland. "I am working with Fresenius Medical Care to encourage patients to get moving - whether it's walking down the street, getting active with their grandchildren, or even becoming a professional athlete - and to help them realize that anything is possible."
Before starting an exercise program, patients need to check with their doctors to make sure it's safe and appropriate for their condition.
Dialysis is a life-sustaining process that cleans waste products from the blood, removes extra fluids and controls the body's chemistry when a person's kidneys fail. Dialysis patients typically require treatment on an ongoing basis unless they receive a kidney transplant.


Sometimes when you set your table, you want to have some whimsy on the table. Our pewter salt and pepper shakers are just the thing to add some fun to your place settings.
When you order some Chinese food for a nice quick, no-cook dinner, a pair of our Chinese pagodas would really complete the theme. The details on these pagodas are really amazing.
For a holiday table, you might like a few of our pinecones, or maybe some of our reindeer. For a barbeque, a pair of cowboy boots would continue the theme – as long as it's Texas BBQ, and not North Carolina-style. For a big seafood feast, you could use a few pairs of our salt and pepper shakers. These fish would be great.
Or maybe some starfish, or even conch (if you're serving conch stew, a la Key West).
And if you're serving a heap of fresh Maryland corn, what could be more perfect than these?
For a garden party, these topiaries, which come apart as salt in the plant, and pepper in the pot, would be a great touch!
Regardless of what you're serving, we have a set of salt and pepper shakers to fit the menu!
As always, if you're interested in anything shown, please contact Eric at the shop!
Tonight's the Night! Irving & Fine Cocktails & Trunk Show!
We hope that you can join us this evening at Halcyon House Antiques for our Trunk Show for Irving & Fine's great line of jackets, tunics, dresses and more.
Irving & Fine has a collection inspired by a love of travel and a passion for textile and color, Irving & Fine's unexpected mix of pattern, color and intricate embroidery reflects more the spirit of the spice markets and souks than of the runway.
Lisa Fine will be joining Halcyon House Antiques to talk about the collection, show the newest items and chat with guests. We hope to see you from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. and we know you will love this line! See you then!
Irving & Fine Trunk Show @ Halcyon House Antiques!
Regardless of what kind of mother your mother is, Halcyon House Antiques has just the perfect gift for her.
Is she a girly-girl? We have some fun jewelry for her.
Is she an entertaining gal? We have everything she needs to throw a party, including some yummy hors d'oeuvres!
Is she a flower girl? We have great garden items, including a range of terra cotta pots.
Is she an equestrian girl? Our hunt country paintings, and other equestrian items will be perfect.
Is she a bright and colorful girl? We have every color in the rainbow!
Halcyon House Antiques has everything a mother, wife or best friend could possibly want. Stop in and see us, or contact Eric for more information on anything you've seen here!
Ladew Garden Festival: Saturday, May 4th!
Saturday is the annual Ladew Garden Festival, one of the highlights of the spring in our area. If you're anywhere near Baltimore, this is the place to be! And looking at the weather forecast for the weekend, it's going to be ideal – sunny and 70.
Ladew Gardens is one of Maryland's treasures, and last year it was named one of the top five gardens in North America. Its topiary collection is known throughout the gardening world.
This year's guest lecturer is Dr. Allan Armitage, a horticulture professor at the University of Georgia, who, in addition to his gardening knowledge, is known for his Tilley hat. At the University of Georgia, he runs the research gardens where new plant material from most of the flower breeders in the world is evaluated. His courses include Greenhouse Production, Greenhouse Crop Management and Herbaceous Plant Identification and Use. He has visited research and production centers throughout the world and studies annuals, perennials, cut flowers and greenhouse crops in various climates.
There will also be numerous rare plant dealers selling the most amazing plants – ones that you certainly won't find at your local big box store.
Again this year, there will be the "boutique" section of the Festival, featuring Halcyon House Antiques, who will be showing some of our new Angela Caputi jewelry!
The Ladew Garden Festival begins at 10:00 and tickets prices are $15 for Sale Only (available at the door), $35 for Member Sale and Lecture and $45 for Non-Member Sale and Lecture. All prices include admission to the Festival, as well as the Gardens, Manor House with its Billy Baldwin-decorated aubergine bedroom (space is limited for house tours) and Nature Walk. For more information, please click here.


"My cat's slowing down with age." "My cat can't jump onto the counter to get its food the way it used to." "My cat once loved being petted, but now it gets crabby when I rub its back."
Sound familiar? It's possible your senior cat has arthritis. Being the elusive and secretive beings that they are, cats often show very subtle signs of arthritis that may go unnoticed unless the owner is looking for them. The exact prevalence of arthritis in cats is unknown, with estimates ranging widely depending on the study, but most clinicians agree it is an underdiagnosed problem in cats.
The signs of arthritis vary, but most owners first notice them when their cats have difficulty jumping. A cat may take a few extra attempts, slide off the countertop, or just start meowing until someone picks it up. The cat may also simply spend more time lying around on the couch, or have a lower tolerance for touch. Rarely does arthritis in cats manifest as outright limping.
Once a veterinarian confirms the suspicion of arthritis though an exam and radiographs, the owner needs to decide on a course of action. The options are a bit more limited for cats than they are for dogs and humans.
Weight loss is a huge help for overweight cats, reducing stress on diseased joints. Many cats benefit from joint-protective supplements, such as Cosequin. Acupuncture and physical therapy are adjunct treatments that many owners also feel are helpful for their cats.
Medication options are limited in cats, unlike in other species. Medications for dogs and humans must never be given to cats, as they have the potential for severe side effects, including death. Meloxicam is the one NSAID routinely used in arthritic cats, but due to the potential for organ damage, the patients must be carefully monitored by their veterinarians.
The good news is that with a little detective work and a willingness to try a few different approaches, many older cats can get a sufficient level of relief from their achy joints.


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Q: predicting heavily skewed outcome the outcome variable of my data is heavily right skewed with some values being exact zeros and otherwise continuous. I modeled it by a zero-inflated compound poisson (Tweedie) distribution. I also tried a Gamma glm and a Gamma hurdle model, the outcome of both is about the same.
I am not very happy with the predictions, see here the observed/predicted plot:

and here the plot of observed against the absolute error:

prediction in the 2000-5000 area is the best, while it is very bad in the other regions, very high values and very small values are not tracked at all.
Is there a way to improve this?

A: From the plots, zero inflation does not seem to be the problem, so I am not surprised you don't like the results.
It appears that there is a nonlinear relationship between the DV and the IV.  One general solution to such problems is to use smoothers.  There are a wide range of these, but perhaps the most commonly used is restricted cubic splines.
Another possibility is to transform the dependent variable. Since there are 0's, taking logs isn't right (and adding some arbitrary constant is ... well, arbitrary) but one method is fractional polynomials.  I was just at the Southeast SAS Users Group and one presentation was by George Knafl who has written a lot about these.  Of course, he used SAS, but methods are available in R and (I presume) other packages.

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Q: Linux per program firewall similar to windows and mac counterparts
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*Is it possible to create GUI firewall that works as Windows and Mac counterparts? Per program basis. Popup notification window when specific program want to send\recv data from network.

*If no, than why? What Linux kernel lacks to allow existence of such programs?

*If yes, than why there aren't such program?

P.S. This is programming question, not user one.

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*Yes it's possible. You will need to setup firewall rules to route traffic through an userspace daemon, it'll involve quite a bit of work.

*N/A

*Because they're pretty pointless - if the user understands which programs he should block from net access he could just as well use one of multiple existing friendly netfilter/iptables frontends to configure this.

A: It is possible, there are no restrictions and at least one such application exists.
I would like to clarify a couple of points though.
If I understood this article correct, the firewalls mentioned here so far and iptables this question is tagged under are packet filters and accept and drop packets depending more on IP addresses and ports they come from/sent to.
What you describe looks more like mandatory access control to me. There are several utilities for that purpose in Linux - selinux, apparmor, tomoyo.
If I had to implement a graphical utility you describe, I would pick, for example, AppArmor, which supports whitelists, and, to some extent, dynamic profiling, and tried to make a GUI for it.
OpenSUSE's YaST features graphical interface for apparmor setup and 'learning' , but it is specific to the distribution.
So Linux users and administrators have several ways to control network (and files) access on per-application basis.
Why the graphical frontends for MAC are so few is another question. Probably it's because Linux desktop users tend to trust software they install from repositories and have less reasons to control them this way (if an application is freely distributed, it has less reasons to call home and packages are normally reviewed before they get to repositories) while administrators and power users are fine with command line.
As desktop Linux gets more popular and people install more software from AUR or PPA or even from gnome-look.org where packages and scripts are not reviewed that accurately (if at all) a demand for such type of software (user-friendly, simple to configure MAC) might grow.

A: To answer your 3rd point.
There is such a program which provides zenity popups, it is called Leopard Flower:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/leopardflower

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*Yes. Everything is possible

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*There are real antiviruses for linux, so there could be firewalls with GUI also. But as a linux user I can say that such firewall is not needed.

A: I reached that Question as i am currently trying to migrate from a Mac to Linux. There are a lot of applications I run on my Mac and on my Linux PC. Some of them I trust fully. But others I am not fully trusting. If they are installed from a source that checks them or not, do i have to trust them because someone else did? No, I am old enough to choose myself.
In times where privacy is getting more and more complicate to achieve, and Distributions exist that show that we should not trust everyone, I like to be in control of what my applications do. This control might not end at the connection to the network/Internet but it is what this question (and mine is about.
I have used LittleSnitch for MacOSX in the past years and I was surprised how often an application likes to access the internet without me even noticing. To check for updates, to call home, ...
Now where i would like to switch to Linux, I tried to find the same thing as I want to be in control of what leaves my PC.
During my research I found a lot of questions about that topic. This one, in my opinion, best describes what it is about. The question for me is the same. I want to know when an application tries to send or receive information over the network/internet.
Solutions like SELinux and AppAmor might be able to allow or deny such connections. Configuring them means a lot of manual configuration and does not inform when a new application tries to connect somewhere. You have to know which application you want to deny access to the network.
The existence of Douane (How to control internet access for each program? and DouaneApp.com) show that there is a need for an easy solution. There is even a Distribution which seems to have such a feature included. But i am not sure what Subgraph OS (subgraph.com) is using, but they state something like this on there website. It reads exactly like the initial question: "The Subgraph OS application firewall allows a user to control which applications can initiate outgoing connections. When an unknown application attempts to make an outgoing connection, the user will be prompted to allow or deny the connection on a temporary or permanent basis. This helps prevent malicious applications from phoning home."
As it seems to me, there are only two options at the moment. One is to Compiling Douane manually mysqlf or two, switch distribution to Subgraph OS. As one of the answers state, everything is possible - So i am surprised there is no other solution. Or is there?


Food-oriented pub on the outskirts of Sheffield.
First time we tried The Moorlands today. It was by far the best carvery I've had in a long time. Definitely beats all the other places we have tried.
Good food, certainly good value, nice staff. Think we will go again tonight and try and get 2 Yorkshire puddings again!
I have been to the Moorlands on a number of occasions and find the food to be excellent and the staff very friendly and helpful. Would recommend to anyone.
I visited the Moorlands on a Monday evening with family and relatives that were visiting from abroad.
For a pub that seems to be virtually in the middle of nowhere it was certainly busy. The carvery had come recommended but for £3.59 we weren't sure what to expect. We needn't have been worried.
All in all a great pub. It's just a shame it's not nearer!
What a great place to eat, the carvery was fantastic value for money (only £3.50). The place was packed but we got a table and got our meal within half an hour. We would recommend to anyone young or old.
Very disappointing. On arrival it took nearly 10 minutes to get a drink then when we ordered we where told it there would be a 40 minute delay. No problem, but after an hour there was still no food and when we enquired we were told that it would be another 5 minutes.
I can accept a delay but it is the fact that no one has the decency to advise you or apologise. Have they not heard of customer service?
Stonehouse Pizza & Carvery are delivering an exciting new look and dining experience for all who visit its Sheffield restaurant; The Moorlands.
Located on Baslow Road, the remodelled Moorlands, formerly Crown Carvery, opened to guests on Friday 17th November after a two-week closure period. Following a significant investment in the restaurant, six new jobs have been created for the local area, with employees ready to serve guests their favourite breakfast right through to dinner.
The Moorlands will now offer guests something for all the family from 100% fresh dough pizzas, juicy burgers and comforting slow roasted carvery meats with all the trimmings. The new restaurant will also offer pub classics, such as hand battered fish and steak and ale pie.
"We're excited about the new changes and are looking forward to welcoming the people of Sheffield to come and see what Stonehouse Pizza & Carvery is all about!
The restaurant has been given a fantastic new look and a menu that has something for everyone. When you eat with us you can put on the plate exactly what you want, creating your meal, your choice, your way.
"We're a real part of the local community and are looking to support local charities, projects and host a variety of events and activities that everyone can enjoy. When you next pop in to savour a good meal, or spend quality time with family and friends, be sure to ask us about what's coming up!"
For information about The Moorlands or Stonehouse Pizza & carvery please visit www.stonehouserestaurants.co.uk/nationalsearch/yorkshire-and-the-humber/themoorlandssheffield or call 0114 2620189.
We have updated the name of the pub previously listed as Brewers Fayre at Owler Bar. The pub is now correctly listed as Moorlands.


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Huawei Enjoy 50 Pro gets January 2023 HarmonyOS 3 beta update
Huawei is rolling out a new January 2023 HarmonyOS 3 beta update for the Enjoy 50 Pro smartphone in China, which comes with a new build version 3.0.0.189 upgrading from 3.0.0.186.
Huawei enrolled Enjoy 50 Pro phone last month to recruit closed beta testers, the phone has already received the HarmonyOS 3 features with the first release and it's yet to begin the public beta.
The January 2023 HarmonyOS 3 beta update rollout for Huawei Enjoy 50 Pro includes optimizations for the stability of some system apps and improving the user experience. On the other hand, the build will install a new January 2023 security patch.
Huawei is sending this new firmware for Enjoy 50 Pro smartphone with model number CTR-AL00. Below you can check the complete changelog of this release.
Application: Optimization
Optimize the stability of some applications and improve the user experience.
Safety: Security patch
Integrates the January 2023 security patch to enhance system security.
Below you can check the upgrade notes:
The version restrictions required you to upgrade first with HarmonyOS 3.0.0.186, otherwise, you will not receive the version push.
During the internal beta test, you can enable the user experience improvement agreement to help developers to improve the HarmonyOS 3 for the stable release.
This rollout won't delete your phone's data but we suggest you make a backup of your smartphone's important files and confirm that the backup content is complete and valid, otherwise there may be a risk of data loss.
Some third-party apps may not be compatible with HarmonyOS and we suggest you upgrade them right away from Huawei AppGallery to match the compatibility.
After the upgrade procedure, your phone may show signs of heat, lag, and slow charging. However, it may settle within a few days of the HarmonyOS 3 software upgrade.
The latest software update requires you to leave free space to store the OTA downloaded package.
Related Topics:HarmonyOSHarmonyOS 3HuaweiHuawei Enjoy 50 Pro
Huawei Share will get new functionality with software update
The anticipation is rising and HarmonyOS 4 could bring us some new user experience that we're waiting for. Inputs coming from Weibo reveal that Huawei is working on HarmonyOS 4 and it could be the major launch version for Huawei devices.
According to the information, HarmonyOS 4 will come with major design changes and new features that will improve the user experience. Meanwhile, we're also seeing inputs about HarmonyOS 3.1, which could debut along with the Huawei P60 series. Also, it could be taken as a major improvement version over HarmonyOS 3.0.
Therefore, HarmonyOS 4 deserves to be a major upgrade to complete the cycle.
Skipped at Last year:
At Huawei Developer Conference 2021, Huawei launched HarmonyOS 3 and began testing the developer preview. On the other hand, the tech maker launched it in public in July 2022 for smartphones. At HDC 2022, Huawei didn't launch HarmonyOS 4, yet it unveiled various services and HarmonyOS 3.1.
The stationed launch of a second HarmonyOS version suits the motive here, because, Huawei has decided to put two operating system versions among consumers.
One will be a substantial upgrade and the second one will be major. Therefore, HarmonyOS 3.1 could be seen in the Huawei P60 series and HarmonyOS 4 in Huawei Mate 60 series, which is slated to launch in the second half of this year.
As for now, Huawei has not revealed the official details about HarmonyOS 3.1 or HarmonyOS 4's features and user interface.
HarmonyOS:
Unveiled at HDC 2019, Huawei first introduced HarmonyOS in smart screens, and then the company opened it for various platforms. By harnessing the power of shared APIs and cross-device support, HarmonyOS could provide an all-around user experience.
For example, you can connect and control all of your smart home and IoT devices right from your smartphone. Various industry partners are using HarmonyOS to build new devices and helping to grow the HarmonyOS ecosystem.
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It is time to return to the dual launch flaghip launch in the same year, and Huawei will begin this carnival with the Huawei P60 series in the first quarter featuring HarmonyOS 3.1, reveals an internal code.
According to the information coming from Weibo, HarmonyOS 3.1 has been leaked in an internal code of a device. An image shared by a tipster suggests that the internal code of HarmonyOS 3.1 belongs to a new Huawei device.
Despite having no confirmation, we could assume that this could be the upcoming Huawei P60 series. Also, we are not expecting big features upgrade with this software.
However, we could see this release as a bug fix and optimizations, while adding flagship-oriented additions to the Huawei P60 lineup.
HarmonyOS 3.1:
Announced at Huawei Developer Conference 2022, HarmonyOS 3.1 comes as an early version of the HarmonyoS operating system. On the other hand, it is slated to launch in the first quarter of this year.
HarmonyOS 3.1 developer preview marks HarmonyOS design, it brings a light skeuomorphic aesthetic style and brings users a new interactive experience with the texture of real life. The cross-device super terminal can be connected with one drag, and the universal card can be swiped to obtain the required information, bringing a new experience of smart life in all scenarios.
It also gets you a new ArkTS development language developed by Huawei. Based on TypeScript (TS for short), it matches the ArkUI framework and expands correspondingly.
ArkUI is a declarative UI development framework for building distributed application interfaces. Furthermore, there's ArkCompiler is Huawei's self-developed unified programming platform, which includes key components such as compilers, tool chains, and runtimes.
Aside from the developer preview, Huawei is yet to reveal the HarmonyOS 3.1 user interface on smartphones.
HarmonyOS is currently ruling as the China-exclusive (majorly) operating system and Huawei is looking to install HarmonyOS in 2 billion devices by 2023.
Yes, the aim is quite big but if we look into the progress that this software has made over the past three years, the company has already achieved many milestones that we can't ignore.
Let's dive into the past installations, Huawei achieved over 200 million installations by the end of 2021 but it was only for Huawei devices. Meanwhile, HarmonyOS Connect, an operating system for third-party company products, launched 100+ million fresh devices with HarmonyOS pre-installed.
Moving to 2022, Huawei posted a heavy 320 million HarmonyOS installation mark in its own devices, and then HarmonyOS Connect launched with 250+ million third-party products.
Stepping further, OpenHarmony, an open-source version of HarmonyOS has also come so far to show its worth in the tech industry and made rapid growth in the last two years after its submission to OpenAtom open-source foundation.
The combined weight of HarmonyOS for Huawei devices and HarmonyOS Connect stands above
570 million devices, which is the biggest single-year growth made by any operating system. However, the actual number may have been around 700 million.
This year, Huawei may expand HarmonyOS in the global market and launch new products. On the other hand, HarmonyOS Connect could surpass the biggest figure, which seems more exciting.
According to inputs, OpenHarmony could post new records, as it's used by various major Chinese tech players to use for different purposes. With all of these combined, HarmonyOS could successfully aim at 2 billion devices by the end of 2023.
Launched in 2019, HarmonyOS is a multi-kernel operating system, designed and developed by Huawei and later donated to the OpenAtom foundation.
In 2020, Huawei announced HarmonyOS for smartphones and expand it widely next year. HarmonyOS is known for its easy-to-use user interface and multi-device connection features.
It's known as an IoT operating system, which could run across the lowest possible specifications such as 128kb of RAM. That's how it is being used in all sorts of products in the Chinese market and it's expected to grow further this year.

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Dr Stuart Taylor
School of Accounting - BCom (Hons), University of Tasmania | MCom (Hons), University of Melbourne | Grad Dip IWC, RMIT University | PhD, Australian National University
About Stuart
Stuart Taylor joined the School of Accounting at UNSW at the beginning of 2004. He completed his Ph.D., entitled The Role of the Audit Partner in Audit Fee Determination, at the Australian National University in 2005.
Before joining UNSW, Stuart lectured in the Department of Finance, at the University of Melbourne, for nine years. He holds the degrees of Bachelor of Commerce, from the University of Tasmania, Master of Commerce, from the University of Melbourne, a Graduate Diploma in Internet and Web Computing, from RMIT University and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, from the Australian National University.
Stuart's main research interest is in the area of audit fee determination and its link to audit quality outcomes.
Current Courses Taught
ACCT3708 Auditing and Assurance Services
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UNSW Business School profile: https://www.business.unsw.edu.au/our-people/stuarttaylor
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Green W; Taylor S; Wu J, 2017, 'Determinants of greenhouse gas assurance provider choice', Meditari Accountancy Research, vol. 25, pp. 114 - 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/MEDAR-08-2016-0072
Green W; Taylor S, 2013, 'Factors that influence perceptions of greenhouse gas assurance provider quality', International Journal of Auditing, vol. 17, pp. 288 - 307, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ijau.12004
Taylor SD, 2011, 'Does Audit Fee Homogeneity Exist? Premiums and Discounts Attributable to Individual Partners', Accounting and Finance, vol. 30, pp. 249 - 272, http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/ajpt-10113
Green WJ; Taylor SD, 2012, 'Factors that influence perceptions of greenhouse gas assurance provider quality,', in Programme & Proceedings Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Conference, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ), Australia, presented at Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Conference, Melbourne, 01 July 2012 - 03 July 2012, http://www.afaanz.org/openconf/2012/modules/request.php?module=oc_proceedings&action=view.php&a=Concurrent&id=49
Green WJ; Taylor SD; Wu J, 2011, 'Determinants of greenhouse gas assurance provider choice: Evidence from organisations purchasing GHG assurance in Australia', in International Symposium on Audit Research (ISAR) 2011 Program & Proceedings, International Symposium on Audit Research, Quebec, Canada, presented at International Symposium on Audit Research (ISAR), Quebec, Canada


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The Twa, Tutsi, and Hutu peoples have occupied Burundi since the country's formation five centuries ago. Burundi was ruled as a kingdom by the Tutsi for over two hundred years. However, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Germany and Belgium occupied the region, and Burundi and Rwanda became a European colony known as Ruanda-Urundi. Political unrest occurred throughout the region because of social differences between the Tutsi and Hutu, provoking civil war in Burundi throughout the middle twentieth century. Presently, Burundi is governed as a presidential representative democratic republic. Sixty-two percent of Burundians are Roman Catholic, eight to ten percent are Muslims and the rest follow indigenous beliefs and other Christian denominations.
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Home / Unlabelled / San Antonio Zoo losing $500,000 a week due to closure during COVID-19 pandemic
San Antonio Zoo losing $500,000 a week due to closure during COVID-19 pandemic
Zoo says it is 100% dependent on sales, donations, grants
SAN ANTONIO – It hasn't even been a month since the coronavirus pandemic has kept animal enthusiasts (and their money) away from the San Antonio Zoo, but the nonprofit is already reeling from the sudden financial blow.
The zoo closed its doors to the public in late March, ushering in a predicament it has never seen before: the complete loss of ticket sales and guest spending for a prolonged period of time.
Jennifer Pue, director of public relations and integrated marketing, told KSAT.com that the zoo is dependent on revenue from visitors, donations and grants.
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With the zoo closed, she said, it is losing about $500,000 in revenue per week.
Pue said the zoo generates about $2 million a month when it is open, and it needs about the same amount of money to operate.
"It takes an average of about $75,000 a day to operate the zoo," she said. "Without operating income from visitors buying tickets and spending money at the zoo, we have now become 100% dependent on donations/grants, and any governmental assistance we are able to acquire to ensure we are still here for San Antonio when this pandemic is over."
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As a result of the loss of funds, the zoo announced on March 20 that a majority of staff members would be furloughed.
CEO Tim Morrow on Tuesday asked the community to donate to the emergency fund, which funds essential operations and animal care.
"Now, more than ever in our 100-year history, we need help," he said in a news release.
The San Antonio Zoo is registered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It has about 750 species among the 50-plus acres. For information about how to donate,
COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new virus, stands for coronavirus disease 2019. The disease first appeared in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, but spread around the world in early 2020, causing the World Health Organization to declare a pandemic in March.
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This year THECUBE will be launching a new set of classes. They follow the success of our neuroscience academy which was launched last year. This time we will be focusing on branding, specifically how it relates to the 21 century. Technology is having interesting and significant impact on our attention system, which in turn is having an affect on how and what we pay attention to. Therefore we need to consider how this affects the perception and role of branding.
Therefore, these classes are not just about the usual "how to" process of branding, but a deeper understanding of what you need to adapt to new branding demands.
The first class will be on Curiosity in branding. The classes will be led by Alex Simonini (The North Face, Supreme, Fiat) Jonny Weston (Crisis, Action Aide, Shanghai Design Festival) Gavin Auty (John Lewis, Ted, Viva).
To greater or lesser extents we're all curious. But what role does curiosity play in understanding the world around us and our place within it? As brands and people; how can we better understand, harness and practice being curious? What benefits can it bring? How does it connect us to our path and new opportunities? And How can it support a long-term plan for commercial prosperity?
It's said that curiosity is the secret of great creative people. We'll be providing the context and framework in which curiosity can be harnessed to help you find and define your brand for quicker, more sustainable success.
We'll help you understand how your brand can thrive by finding and embracing your true talents. We'll discuss how it can unlock doors and find new opportunities — crucial to maximising your brand impact; culturally & commercially.
The only constant is change. Without ideas, nothing changes. But where do ideas come from and how do we work collaboratively to find and nurture our ideas? In this session we'll be uncovering the secret power of ideas, where they come from, how to spot them and nurture them. And importantly how to manage a culture of creativity and ideas whilst maintaining a business focus. Ideas are the very essence of creativity, when we use design to ensure our ideas are solving real business problems, ideas don't simply become the tool of the creative or marketeer, they help us identify market opportunities, find new customers, cut costs, drive innovation or become more ethical. Ideas can be a brands most powerful asset; culturally and commercially.
Ideas come from all people, not just the few. We'll be discussing how business operations can be user-centric, use autonomous, flexible hierarchies will enable the brand to thrive and prosper and create a positive culture.
Why does your brand exist? What does it stand for? Why does it make you get out bed in the morning? In an ever changing world; change is getting faster. As we become more digitally connected and socially empowered, generations of consumers are demanding more honest, transparent and human-like brands. Brands who don't simply run to make money, who put purpose before profit. We're in the middle of this shift in mindset and many brands either don't recognise this or haven't been able to pivot their operations to align with this new way of thinking and are getting left behind. More interestingly, whole industries are getting turned upside down newcomers who haven't been around more than 5 minutes, but who stand for something or believe in something or who can simply connect with the changing consumer mindset. These brands are then using Purpose to drive curiosity and ideas to continually improve push that industry/market forward.
Key takeaway: purpose is the new mission. We'll look at how a simple core idea can hold together entire brands, organisations or communities. and how a well defined and inclusive purpose gives brands the focus to harness the power of people; their curiosity and their ideas.


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Home » Politics » Ohanaeze has no influence over Igbo youths, Atiku endorsement of no value- Moghalu
Ohanaeze has no influence over Igbo youths, Atiku endorsement of no value- Moghalu
The presidential candidate of the Young People's Party (YPP), Kingsley Moghalu, says Ohanaeze Nd'Igbo's endorsement of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar, is of no value as the group does not hold sway over the youths in the South-East. .
Moghalu disclosed this in an interview on Wednesday in Awka.
He said youths in South East are wise enough to know who to vote for and it is not for Ohanaeze to compel them on what to do.
Read also: Our support for Atiku is non-negotiable – Ohanaeze
"We in the South East now know that our elders in Ohanaeze have been economical with the truth. They tell us what they want us to believe for reasons best known to them.
"This time around, the youth in the region have decided to vote for candidates that appeal to them in terms of development plans for the country," he said.
Moghalu said he had done much for Nigerians to deserve their votes in February 23, poll.
"I did so much for the country while serving as the deputy governor of Central Bank of Nigeria.
"I introduced POS services; the ATM card was also my initiative, as well as Bank Verification Number for identification of accounts.
"I did all these to make the economy vibrant. It is also my contribution towards making ease of doing business possible.
"If given the chance, I will do more for the country to enable it join the league of developed countries where youths will be proud to stay and earn their living," he said.
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All good in terms of speed but it won't be great in terms of coverage.
I'm not that familiar with the placement of the 7D AF points but even if it goes all the way to the edge of frame on APS-C, it's no where near the edge on FF.
That's one of the few complaints I have about a D700. Too narrow an AF point coverage.
Why not just stick the 1-series AF in the 5D3.


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Oceola woman escapes terrorist attack in France
Oceola Township's Amanda Galbavi was among those caught up in last Thursday's attack in Nice, France,
Oceola woman escapes terrorist attack in France Oceola Township's Amanda Galbavi was among those caught up in last Thursday's attack in Nice, France, Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.freep.com/2a8BCuU
Livingston Daily Published 3:18 p.m. ET July 19, 2016
Amanda Galbavi of Oceola Township poses in Nice, France before the July 14 terror attack.(Photo: Photo courtesy Amanda Galbavi)
Like millions of people, Amanda Galbavi is struggling to make sense of the terrorist attacks happening throughout the world.
Especially the one she survived.
The Oceola Township woman was among those caught up in last Thursday's attack in Nice, France, which claimed 84 lives and injured 303.
Though safe throughout the ordeal, she, her husband, Kevin, and another couple spent a worrisome night peering at the attack's aftermath through the gates of a locked-down restaurant, then racing through gunman-lined backstreets to their lodging
Back home since Saturday, she's still coping with her feelings about that day and the issues surrounding it.
► Related:How'd he get through? Security in question after Nice attack
"I don't know if you can even make sense of something like that," she said.
It all started so peacefully.
Both couples spent the day in the seaside town, winding down a two-week overseas trip to watch the Tour de France bicycle race. That evening, thousands of people had gathered near them for the annual Bastille Day fireworks show.
They were relaxing at a sidewalk cafe when they first sensed something wasn't right.
"It was windy, and when I first saw people running, my initial thought was that maybe a beach umbrella had blown over," Galbavi said. "We couldn't really see what was going on too clearly" because the building blocked their view.
Within seconds, the sound of explosions and a storm of hurried, frightened people revealed the truth. An explosive-laden 19-wheel truck, driven by a Tunisian national possibly linked to ISIS, had detonated in the middle of the holiday crowd.
Galbavi's party and all other patrons were immediately hustled inside the restaurant, which was promptly locked down for the night.
Adding to the tension, at least for the Americans, was that no one on the restaurant's staff was fluent in English and internet access was largely unavailable.
One waiter did speak some English — and through him, and by peering through slats in the restaurant's gates, everyone was able to find out what was going on.
What they saw shocked them, Galbavi said.
"It was people running everywhere — everywhere but south" toward the attack site, she said.
Several tense hours later, the patrons were allowed to leave.
"A SWAT team came through the area, and we were told it was safe to go," Galbavi said.
The couples headed back to their walkup Airbnb home-sharing rental, but not without further tension.
"My husband decided it was best if we took backstreets, avoiding the crowds," she said.
Even there, they saw gunmen perched on every street corner.
"It was only when we realized they were police and soldiers that we felt safe," Galbavi said. "We realized they were the good guys."
Since then, at least 24 other attacks considered acts of terrorism have occurred. The most recent involved Monday's knife attack that injured four train passengers in Wurzburg, Germany.
Those attacks give Galbavi pause when it comes to thinking about another trip overseas.
"I wouldn't say no," she said. "But it is a concern."
"Mostly, we're all thankful we're back here."
Contact Livingston Daily reporter Wayne Peal at 517-548-7081 or wpeal@gannet.com. Follow him on Twitter @wpeal.
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The wedding cake is a major part of the event, so choosing the right one requires planning, careful consideration, communication and the best part, taste testing. It's important to allow enough time for making the right decision. If you're feeling overwhelmed, there are several tips that can help make the process of choosing the best wedding cake as easy as possible.
Doing research on the bakery can help for choosing one that is reputable and qualified.
– Check for reviews online from previous customers.
– Ask family and friends for recommendations.
– Look up the bakery through the Better Business Bureau to see if they've had any complaints filed against them.
Being as detailed as possible about preferences makes the process easier for everyone involved.
– Know how many guests are attending.
– Clearly explain the theme.
– Bring in samples of your wedding colors so the baker can match them.
– Choose the preferred shape of wedding cake.
– Write down all your preferences so the baker has your exact notes on hand.
– Be clear that it's necessary to stick within the range.
– Decide on a range rather than a single dollar amount.
– Have an idea about how much you're willing to spend per slice.
Little wedding cake details can add up, so knowing the budget gives the baker an amount to work with.
It's your wedding, you also want most of the guests happy with the cake choice.
– Choose a flavor many guests will like.
– The opinions of you and your fiancee are more important than anyone else's.
– Know that it's fine that not every guest is going to be happy with the choice.
Choosing a wedding cake is not a process that should be rushed.
– Allow at least a few hours at the bakery just to be safe.
– Take your time looking through pictures of options.
– Prepare for an in-depth conversation with the baker.
– Taste test as many options of wedding cake as possible.
– Listen to suggestions about what combinations of frosting, cake, and filling work best.
– Be flexible with the overall design to coincide with the baker's recommendations.
– Consider suggestions from the baker about the size, the design, delivery time, and the average temperature it's going to be outside.
You know what you want, the baker knows more about what works for making the best wedding cake.
Having everything in writing ensures there's no miscommunication between yourself and the bakery.
– Carefully read over all the details in the contract before signing.
– Have the baker write down any additional notes directly on the contract.
– Have all the details fully explained, including cost, delivery time and date, set-up process, and refund policy.


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2011 Artist Profiles | 2011 Deep Roots Music Festival
Kinnie Starr
Sponsored by Just Us! Coffee Roasters Coop (Festival Patron)
Kinnie Starr - Photo by Nadya Kwandibens
Kinnie Starr is a Juno Award winning producer (2010 – Digging Roots, "We Are") and Juno Nominated artist (2004 – "Sun Again"). She has worked with industry heavy hitters Wendy and Lisa (Prince), David Campbell (Beck's father), Carmen Rizzo (Alanis Morisette), Chris Bruce and Earl Harvin (Seal, The The), Tegan and Sara, and Nelly Furtado. Furtado acknowledges Starr as one of her key influences.
Kinnie has performed in Canada's National Aboriginal Achievement Awards twice – she is of mixed European and Mohawk descent, true Canadian to the core. In 2008, the Royal British Museum, Victoria, Canada, recognized Starr as one of BC's cultural icons.
Her fifth album, A Different Day, produced by Chin Injeti, is a focused collection of optimistic head-nodding songs looking at human relationships and love. Often pegged for her fierce intelligence and ability as a rapper, "A Different Day" turns the page onto Starr's chanteuse-like, melodic grace, and unique guitar style.
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Danny Michel
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Twilight Hotel
Sponsored by Acadia University (Community Partner) Twilight Hotel, a duo comprised of singer/songwriters David Quanbury and Brandy Zdan, offers us with songs that akin to an old saddle; soft, sun-baked and just a little bit dark around the edges. The prairie landscapes of their Winnipeg homeland resonate in the roots of their songs. Their third…
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Ariana Gillis
Sponsored by MacDonald Chisholm Trask Insurance (Festival Contributor) At the age of 21, Ariana is a lyricist who demonstrates wisdom and insight well beyond her years. Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, singer/songwriter Ariana Gillis has been touring extensively for the last 3 years playing at major festivals, clubs, and coffee houses and sharing the…
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The Hupman Brothers
Sponsored by the following Friends of the Festival: Country Stoves & Sunrooms Ltd., Vision Care Optometry Centre, The Odd Book, Muddy's Convenience Store, Acton's Grill & Cafe, Herbin Jewellers, The Box of Delights Bookshop, & Valley Stationers Ltd. A mainstay of the local music scene in the Annapolis Valley, The Hupman Brothers deliver infectious, virtuosic…
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Lovestorm
Sponsored by Subway (Festival Contributor) Tim Isaac and Nina Khosla joined musical forces in 2009 to form a duo that is energetic, powerful, and celebratory. Their debut CD Great Ocean garnered nominations from both the East Coast Music Awards and Music New Brunswick for Pop Recording of the Year in 2010. Khosla's warm, expressive vocals…
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2011 Deep Roots Music Festival
Pre-Festival Events are Double the Fun!
On Thursday Sept. 22, 2011, our Deep Roots Music Festival pre-festival events are double the fun this year! The amazing Danny Michel will be performing at Evergreen Theatre – and this show is FREE for Deep Roots pass-holders. AND Ron Hynes will be with us at the Al Whittle Theatre in Wolfville to share with…
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Sponsored by Kingstec (Friend of the Festival) Ryan's versatility and passion for excellence allowed him to make a very successful living writing, performing, and producing music in Eastern Canada. His songs have been recorded in the styles of bluegrass, country, jazz, and R&B. He has composed instrumental scores for film, as well as jingles for…
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Q: Error Resolving User Permissions + Zsh Command Not Found This is the list of user permissions after logging them to the terminal:
➜  ~  ls -ld / /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/manpath
drwxr-xr-x    33 root  wheel   1190 Nov 14 08:49 /
drwxr-xr-x@   11 root  wheel    374 Nov  7 09:12 /usr
drwxr-xr-x  1055 root  wheel  35870 Nov 12 11:34 /usr/bin
lrwxr-xr-x     1 root  wheel      3 Nov  5 18:13 /usr/bin/manpath -> man

And this is the error I receive when trying to update the permissions:
➜  ~  chmod 755 / /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/*
chmod: Unable to change file mode on /usr/bin/apropos: Operation not permitted
chmod: Unable to change file mode on /usr/bin/at: Operation not permitted

This all began as an effort to debug the following zsh error:
zsh: command not found

I have tried resetting my $PATH variable to no avail. I've uninstalled and reinstalled zsh, run brew doctor, reinstalled node, etc. and am unsure where to proceed from here. The problems I am trying to fix are two-fold:

*

*fix the PATH so that I can use commands (e.g.: ionic) from the
terminal

*fix the permissions so I don't encounter any further
errors as I troubleshoot going forward

Can anyone offer guidance? Been trying to debug this for hours.
This my current PATH:
➜  ~  echo $PATH
echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin


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Reappointment Roundup
By Woody Holton
Vol. 4, No. 1, 1981, pp. 17-22
The Southern state capitals have been filled in the last few months with computer tapes, over-sized maps, and print-outs of census data as legislators decide the boundaries of state legislative and Congressional districts according to 1980 population. For the first time since the start of the century all Southern legislatures will pass some kind of re-districting plan, a feat that may be blemished by continuing historical efforts to dilute black voting strength.
The job of reapportionment is not always easy. The Virginia legislature's first efforts produced a plan with one district more than the state constitution permitted. In the face of a court challenge, the North Carolina General Assembly had second thoughts about its plan which legislative leaders had boasted was "the best we can do" early in the year. The N.C. legislators returned in October for a second special session.
Everywhere legislative reapportionment must meet the provisions of the state and federal constitutions, and in most Southern states black or Hispanic groups are challenging plans in court alleging constitutional violations. While state provisions may vary, federal courts usualy examine reapportionment plans by two standards: "one person—one vote" and the protection of minority voters.
As a result of pivotal Supreme Court cases in the early 1960s, the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment requires that as much as statistics permit, one legislator represent no fewer or no more residents than other legislators. Litigation surrounding "one person-one vote" emerged because many Southern rural Black Belt legislators had as little as one-half or one-third the population of urban and suburban legislators. Hence, the law now requires that the population of one legislative district with one representative equal as much as possible the ideal district where legislators represent the same number of people.
The courts' protection of minority voters also stems from the Fourteenth Amendment. In the Bolden case in 1980, the Supreme Court held that legislative districts could not be designed with the purpose and effect of diluting black voters' ability to choose responsive candidates. Before Bolden, some lower courts had held that the Fifteenth Amendment of the federal Constitution prohibited legislative districts which had the effect of diluting black voting strength regardless of purpose. The dilution of black voting strength is accomplished by several means, including use of large multi-member districts in which black voters are never able to favorably influence the outcome of elections.
The Voting Rights Act also establishes a standard for reapportionment in eight Southern states excluding Florida, Tennessee, and Arkansas. In the covered states reapportionment plans must be submitted to the U.S. Justice Department under Section five of the Act before they are implemented. Justice is required to disapprove the plan if it determines that minorities' votes will be diluted by the compostion or placement of districts.
While the state legislature passed a Congressional redistricting plan which some political observers say may have at least a "prayer's chance" of holding up before the courts and the U.S. Justice Department, plans for the state house and senate were declared unconstitutional in a unanimous opinion of the Texas Supreme Court in September. The job of reapportionment has fallen to the special legislative re-districting board which Texas law created in the late 1940s. It must present a plan within 60 days. The board's composed of Lt. Gov. William Hobby, State Attorney General Mark White, Comptroller Bob Bullock, Land Commissioner Bob Armstrong, and House Speaker William Clayton. All are Democrats although
each has different political constituencies.
The state Supreme Court's decision held that the legislative plans violated the state constitution because the district lines unnecessarily cut across the boundaries of several counties. Although the state board's new plan need not be approved by the legislature, it must be approved by the U.S. Justice Department and any state and federal courts in which it is challenged.
The lines of the Congressional plan in Texas are also under attack before a federal court in Tyler where a black minister charges that the reapportionment dilutes black and Hispanic voting strength. The Congressional plan was a victory for Republican Gov. William Clements who garnered enough legislative votes to endanger some Democratic Congressional incumbents.
0ne of the few places where reapportionment did not leave blood on the carpet, the Arkansas legislature and special state reapportionment commission established the new district lines before most states held special sessions. Since voters had turned down single-member districts in an election on the changes in the state constitution earlier, political coalitions of blacks and whites could not muster the clout to convince state officials to make any big changes in this decade's reapportionment.
A special session of the Louisiana legislature will convene in November with the expectation that the fight over redistricting will be loud and fierce. The Legislative Black Caucus in Louisiana is preparing its own plans for some districts in the state house and senate as talk of blacks losing one or more legislators under the plan of the legislative leadership continues. The states's Congressional delegation has virtually agreed on a re-districting plan, but it is not at all certain that the legislature will defer to the federal representatives. The chairman of the house re-districting committee, Jock Scott, is apparently supporting a plan that will give Rep. Gillis Long problems. Congresswoman Lindy Boggs' district surrounding New Orleans should become majority black, according to some black political leaders. One state administrator who is working on developing the legislature's plans, however, contends that a majority black Congressional district is difficult or impossible to draw around New Orleans. "Besides," she said, "the legislature wouldn't sit for that."
In special session in September the state legislature turned down the Legislative Black Caucus' proposal to create a 70 percent black district that included parts of the Mississippi Delta and metropolitan Jackson. Instead the legislature left most Congressional boundaries near their present lines.
The Delta is now represented by veteran Democrat David Bowen whose 1970 reapported district was 45 percent black. The legislature's reapportionment plan now provides a black population of nearly 50 percent. Because the number of voting age blacks is considerably less than the total black population in most rural areas, black voters in the Delta will not be able to elect, by their own votes, a responsive candidate in the new plan.
Opponents of the Congressional plan included 26 black state legislators and five white legislators. The Caucus and black groups are preparing to ask Justice to disapprove the plan. A challenge in federal court is also likely.
The Mississippi legislature will return to Jackson to draw districts for the state house and senate. Working with the NAACP, a legal services coalition, and others, the Black Caucus is expected to introduce its own plans. Because of years of extensive litigation in federal court resulting in a new legislative reapportionment plan only in 1979, several Mississippians have been adding and subtracting figures for reapportionment for almost a decade.
The Tennessee legislature has created a new Congressional district because of increased population in the state and potential candidates for the new seat have begun to scramble. The state's incumbent representatives, including Harold Ford of Memphis, one of only two black representatives in the South, will not face any apparent problems due to the new lines. One of the Republican incumbents, Robin Beard, is expected to run against Democratic senator Jim Sasser instead of seeking reelection. Among the candidates for the new Congressional seat is TVA Director Bob Clement.
When the Florida legislature convenes in early 1982, four new Congressional districts will be created because of increased population and, unless a new political coalition develops, the
state house and senate will continue to maintain large multimember districts. The redistricting for the congressional seats is somewhat unpredictable because several key state legislators are interested in becoming a new member of Congress. At the same time, the Democratically controlled legislature is expected to continue opposing single member districts in fear that the state Republicans would join blacks and Hispanics in gaining increased representation.
With hardly a rancorous word, North Carolina legislators redrew the boundaries for congressional seats in each of the state houses in August and quickly moved on to other business. By mid-September, blacks had filed suit in federal district court in Raleigh challenging all three reapportionment plans and contending that the state had failed to get approval of the 1967 state constitutional amendments that require legislative districts to follow county lines. The lawsuit claims that the state constitutional provision and the legislature's lines create multi-member districts that dilute black voting strength.
Before even a hearing on procedural matters in court, state officials moved to backtrack. The state's attorney general admitted that the 1967 amendments had not been submitted by forwarding them to Justice for review. In a special session on the budget, the legislature decided to reconvene in the last week of October to redraw the lines. Apparently, the state attorney general had also informed legislative leaders that the plans' deviation from "one person—one vote" would not pass constitutional muster.
Earlier this year in short order the South Carolina legislature preserved the state senate as an all-white body and may have blocked any further gains of black voters in the lower house when it reapportioned. While the committee that drew up the re-districting plans held no open meetings before the legislature met, the final plans were introduced, debated, and adopted in less than seven days. "We didn't know what hit us," one black legislator commented.
The state legislative plans were submitted in September to the Justice Department with expected opposition from black legislators and groups.
Congressional reapportionment has not been so easy. For almost two months a conference committee tried to come up with a congressional plan which preserved South Carolina's metropolitan areas—Charleston, Columbia, and Greenville—in separate Congressional districts. Both plans will likely stall black voters' power at the ballot booth.
The Georgia General Assembly began a special session on reapportionment on August 24. It adjourned on September 18 amid loud cries from advocacy groups and black legislators that the plan is discriminatory and drawn with the clear intention of diluting minority voting strength and protecting white incumbents.
Before the session began, both House and Senate reapportionment committees had adopted formal guidelines including an agreement that any plan would comply with the Voting Rights Act and "one man—one vote" court cases. Each house had come to an earlier "gentleman's agreement" that the final plan of each body would be approved by the other. Individual district plans also were kept confidential unless released by the legislators developing the plan. Hence the public did not often see a plan until the day it was voted on by a reapportionment committee. The final, complete House and Senate plans were not released to the public nor to all members of the General Assembly until the special session was underway.
At public and private meetings, community groups and black state legislators adamantly called for the creation of plans which would not dilute minority voting strength. The groups identified counties in House and Senate districts in Georgia where the black population was 40 percent or better and urban areas where black populations represent a substantial population.
The House and Senate adopted redistricting plans on August 27. The House plan included 28 single member districts with 50 percent or more black population and 2 countywide districts in Fulton which covers most of Atlanta. However, only 19 districts are proposed as 65 percent or more black, though there are presently 20 black House members. Because of the difference between total black population and voting age black population, the Justice Department considers a 65 percent black population necessary for a black voting majority.
In Fulton, the controversy revolved around the question of county-wide districts. Both the Fulton delegation and the House reapportionment committee approved a 19-member single district plan. However, during floor debate, Reps.
Grace Hamilton and John Greer, both from Atlanta, offered an amendment which created 17 single member districts and two countywide districts. Greer presently represents one of the three countywide Fulton districts.
The plan created eight 65 percent or more black districts and one district with between 50-60 percent black population. The 19-member single district plan included 10 black majority districts including nine with black populations over 65 percent. A similar 17-2 plan had been voted down by both the Fulton delegation and the House Reapportionment Committee.
The Fulton County delegation, with the largest number of black representatives, will have six black incumbents running against each other for three house seats if the proposed plan is implemented.
In DeKalb County in the Atlanta metro area, the committee and delegation struggled all summer over similar questions. Black Rep. Betty Clark offered to the committee a plan with five majority black districts. However, the DeKalb plan sent to the floor included only four majority black districts. Clark also offered unsuccessfully her plan as a floor amendment.
During the House debate, Rep. David Lucas offered a floor amendment to the Macon-Bibb County plan which would have created two predominantly black districts. It too was defeated with all the white delegates from Bibb voting against the amendment.
Rep. Billy Randall, head of the Legislative Black Caucus, offered several floor amendments aimed at lessening the dilution of minority voting strength. One of the Randall amendments would have resulted in three black districts in Chatham County (Savannah). This plan had been offered to the reapportionment committee by another member of the Caucus, Rep. Albert Scott of Savannah.
Randall also proposed several changes aimed at the rural Black Belt areas where no black legislators have been elected. One would have returned a district to its present black percentage. Although Randall pointed out that the committee plan for the Black Belt was intentionally discriminatory, the House approved it. Only the Hamilton/Greer floor amendment approving at-large districts for Fulton County was passed by the House.
The Senate overwhelmingly approved a controversial plan developed by its majority leader, Thomas Allgood of Augusta. The plan includes eight districts with 50 percent or more black population, but three are less than 65 percent black. The Black Caucus members in the House offered their own Senate plan as a substitute to the Aligood plan. That plan included 11 black-majority districts (two in the Black Belt), and six districts with over 65 percent black population.
Perhaps Congressional redistricting drew the most controversy and excitement during the session. On September 17, the Georgia General Assembly approved a Congressional plan with a 57 percent black district in the Fulton County area. Members of the Black Caucus in both the House and the Senate objected loudly.
Julian Bond of Atlanta spoke vehemently against its passage in the Senate. Bond had sponsored in the Senate committee a plan with a 73 percent black Congressional district. The committee passed his plan, but it was amended on the floor of the Senate, becomeing a 69 percent black district. However, the House approved a Congressional plan which included only a 51 percent black Atlanta Congressional district. At present Georgia has ten Congressional districts and a black population of approximately twenty-seven percent. There has been no black member of Congress representing the state since Andrew Young resigned to become U.N. Ambassador. Young had been the first black Congressman in Georgia since Reconstruction.
The other controversial issue of Congressional redistricting involved splitting Gwinnett County. Suburban Gwinnett is the fastest growing county in Georgia and has had an increase in Republican voter turnout in the last few elections. Most efforts to split Gwinnett by the Senate were viewed in the press as an effort to protect Democratic Congressman Ed Jenkins. A conference committee working on the two plans reported back five times
before a compromise was reached late September 16. The Senate finally passed a plan with 57 percent black population after majority leader Ailgood, speaking against the plan and for the larger black population, released those committed to him to vote as they wished.
The House, which had always favored a smaller black population for the district, passed it the next day by a vote of 91 to 69. On the House floor Black Caucus members spoke against the plan, noting that it would dilute the voting strength of a half million blacks living in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
Advocacy groups had held a news conference on the day that the House and Senate plans passed. The groups included representatives of Common Cause, ACLU, NAACP, and the League of Women Voters. They complained of the large number of multi-member districts in the House plan and the dilution of minority voting strength.
On September 18, the Black Caucus held a news conference objecting to all three plans. The head of the Caucus, Billy Randall, said, "The Assembly understood what it was doing and proceeded to intentionally deny to the black voters of this state the opportunity to elect representatives who would clearly reflect their views in Atlanta and in the nation's capitol… We will take these objections to the Justice Department and to the courts. We will not be satisfied until equitable representation for the citizens of Georgia has been carried out…
On September 25, ten members of the Caucus journeyed to Washington to meet with the Justice Department. They took with them letters of objection to the reapportionment plans. Justice is expected to decide if the plans meet the standards of the Voting Rights Act by January.
The Alabama legislature convened on September 29th in special session to consider proposals to redraw the state's House and Senate districts. The Legislature had redrawn the Congressional districts during an August special session. The plan has been forwarded to Justice for review under the Voting Rights Act.
Before the September session, reapportionment committee co-chairmen Sen. Lister Proctor of Sylacauga and Rep. Rick Manley of rural Demopolis steered the early stages of line-drawing, parcelling out regions to be handled by various committee members in private. The only public hearing on the plan was held on the morning of the second day of the session after the plan's introduction. Civil rights and advocacy groups such as the NAACP, ACLU, Common Cause, Alabama Democratic Conference, and the League of Women Voters presented testimony denouncing the plan. Residents from Alabama's Black Belt, black state legislators and other black elected officials also testified against the plan. The opponents protested the lack of public notice and opportunity to adequately study the proposal.
Witnesses observed the careful effort in "cracking" and "stacking" counties with the highest black population percentages to achieve nearly exact 55 percent black–45 percent white populations among the six Black Belt House districts. These districts are still presently represented by white legislators. By balancing the Black Belt districts, the plan assures that black voters in the area have no voice since 55 percent black population seldom constitutes a majority of blacks of voting age.
The plan also diluted black voting strength in Jefferson County where Birmingham sits, according to legislators and citizens who spoke. The plan pits two black legislators in the county against each other and reduces the number of black voters in another district. Predictions were made that in Jefferson County and the Black Belt the plan would eliminate three to five possible districts where blacks could elect responsive candidates.
At no time during the reapportionment process did Rep. Manley or Sen. Proctor make public either a state-wide map, racial composition data, or total population figures on the proposed districts. The committee bill passed both houses by wide margins with only verbal assurance to assembled lawmakers and observers that population totals were not outside the commonly-accepted limit of 10 percent deviation from "one person—one vote." Access to racial information was denied on the grounds that the reapportionment committee members
and staff were completely ignorant of such data and had never taken any notice of the factor of race in designing the new districts.
One state-wide alternative was introduced by Michael Figures, a black state senator from Mobile. The Figures plan, drawn through a computer, differed from the Proctor-Manley plan by yielding fifteen House districts with over 65 percent black population and five such Senate districts. All had a deviation range of only 2 percent from the ideal population for a district. Proctor and Manley proposed only eleven House districts and two Senate seats with 65 percent or more black population. There are now 13 House districts and three Senate districts represented by black legislators, among 105 House and 35 Senate districts.
The Figures plan was rejected in short order although a few members such as Sen. Mac Parsons of Hueytown, mindful of the results of reapportionment efforts in Alabama over the past two decades, urged a closer examination. "With the low variance, it (Figures' plan) will probably be the one the court adopts later on," said Parsons.
In addition to Figures' plan, several other alternatives were offered by members of the Black Caucus. While Proctor and Manley argued that the Jefferson County lines were unavoidable, Rep. Tony Harrison of Birmingham offered five amendments that increased or maintained black voting strength in Jefferson. All options were rejected.
The committee plan was passed by the House on October 8th, the sixth day of the special session. The vote was 75 to 22, with all 13 black House members voting "no." All three black state senate members also voted against the plan.
The Legislature reconvened in October for any technical adjustments in the Proctor-Manley plan. Challenges to the plan before the U.S. Justice Department and the courts are expected
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Purchased in Europe but originally a Japanese import, this Chinese Juniper had all the hallmarks of a badly made bonsai. It was made to look good for sales purposes but was wired and styled in such a fashion as to have no long-term future, with branches being pulled from all over to form an immediate image. Despite this, there was enough hidden character in the tree to warrant purchasing it with the idea of planting it on the piece of Ibigawa rock, which had previously been snapped up at an event in the UK.
In order to plant on the rock, some carving of the rock was required and the insertion of some thin, metal rods to support the tree and roots.
Removing the lowest section of the tree allowed for some shari creation and the compaction of the overall image, immediately making the trunk appear more sinuous and powerful. An overall reduction by half of the tangled branches in the apex allowed the remaining branches to be repositioned in positions more suitable for long-term cultivation. Creating a more compact and powerful tree resulted in a much better balance between rock and tree, making the final composition much more interesting than the sum of its component parts.
Not long after the creation, it was purchased by a dear friend and supporter of Saruyama Bonsai who has expertly continued the evolution of the tree.


Diesel cars may still be the most sensible option for many families who drive long distances, the transport secretary Chris Grayling said yesterday.
Despite a pledge to see the end of petrol and diesel vehicles on UK roads by 2040, Mr Grayling said new diesels were not destined for the scrapheap just yet.
He said: 'If you are doing long distances on the motorway, maybe the new generation of diesel engines are the right option for now.


Your devotion to Islam had always been comforting to me. Even though by seven, I understood enough about Islam to know what I was supposed to do, I never followed through and you never forced me to. Instead, I would watch you pray while thinking and hoping that your prayers would count towards me, too. I thought maybe there was some way to reason with god so I could share some of your good deeds. You had more than enough to cover your path to heaven. When I was nine and learned of the Day of Judgment and the Dajjal (anti-Christ), I was so scared for myself. I thought surely I would be caught. I would be caught and I would be sent straight to hell for my many misdeeds. But then I was told that good Muslims would never fall for the Dajjal's tricks because they would be able to read the word Kaffir on his forehead. And just as suddenly, I was relieved! What did I have to worry about? My father was a good Muslim! As long as I was with you, I knew I would never fall victim to the anti-Christ. You would protect me.
It should come to no surprise, then, that when you asked me to take on the hijab almost a year later – not just on Saturdays for Saturday school anymore, but every day – I didn't disobey. I took it on. I wanted to make you proud.
And as I write this, I want you to know that I still want to make you proud, that everything I do is for you, just like everything you do is for me. I want you to know that my leaving Islam is not because of you or anything you did.
I want to go back so I can record the tired joy on your face when my sister and I raced down the stairs and into your arms. Because those guys they show on the TV now, dad? The ones that are grouchy and have a permanent scowl on their faces? The ones that abuse and marry off their young daughters without their permission? The ones they call "Muslims"? They're nothing like you. They're monsters who hide under Islam's archaic laws and use them to protect themselves. They are not Muslim monsters, they are monsters who are Muslims. They are not you, dad. And I wish I had that recording of you, smiling and hugging us, so I could show it to the world. So I could show them that it wasn't you who made me take the first step towards apostasy, it was me. It was my own hypocrisy.
When I leave Islam, dad, I hope you don't become angry with me or hate me or feel sad. Instead, I hope you remember the little girl I was. I hope you remember the little girl who left cookies for you on your pillowcase and the one who fell asleep that night on the couch, who tried so desperately and failed to stay up with you before you left for overseas. I say this because I want you to know that just as I have changed from that little girl, I was bound to change from the ten year old girl who prayed and informed you of her decision to wear long sleeves without you having to tell her first. I was bound to change from the teenaged girl who searched for Islamic videos online and memorized passages of the Quran. But change isn't a bad thing, is it? You yourself worked hard to take my mother out of your warring homeland and to America. You changed your plan of having your family live in the same neighborhood you did as a kid. You said you did it to give us a better chance at happiness. So I want you to know that I, too, am doing this to give myself a better chance at happiness. No longer will I relegate myself to the status of a second class citizen because of my gender. You taught me that, didn't you, dad?
If you are still reading this, you are probably wondering why I'm leaving this out for you. I am doing it so you know that I didn't leave Islam because of Shaytan (devil). I didn't leave Islam because of "Western Influence". I left Islam because you taught me to be better than what this religion thinks of me. I am doing it because, just like I did as a child when I first wore the hijab, I want to make you proud.
After all, everything I've done in my life was to make you proud.


The big news this month at Redcort Software is our new Virtual TimeClock Pro v5.6 release. Compatibility with Apple's new Leopard OS X 10.5 operating system has been a complete success. A huge thanks to all you early Leopard adopters who provided feedback on the Virtual TimeClock Pro 5.6 beta release. Even though Apple's new operating system made a loud roar in the technology headlines around the world, Virtual TimeClock Pro 5.6 offers much more than just full Leopard compatibility.
Take for instance the all new Paid Break functionality. This is a 'must have' for employers wanting to track how much time employees are spending on mandated paid breaks. Or there's the new Worker Status report, perfect for knowing who's on‐site and who isn't in case of an emergency. Did I happen to mention the new Timecard Report Writer interface?
I had a blast exploring Virtual TimeClock Pro 5.6, and I think you will to. In this month's 'Tips & Tricks' Newsletter, I'm going to help you get started using some of the new features.
Can workers clock out for lunch and breaks while I still pay them?
You bet! Virtual TimeClock 5.6 introduces an easy to use Paid Break option that simplifies the monitoring and reporting of paid employee breaks. Simply select any worker who has already started work and click the 'Paid Break' toolbar button. Once the employee is ready to come back to work, they simply select their name and click the 'Paid Break' toolbar button once again. They have the option to return to work on their prior task or any new task that is available for selection. You can quickly view the total amount of time each worker spent on paid breaks under the task summary section of your timecard report.
If you were already tracking paid break time with a 'Paid Break' task of your own, don't worry. Your previous paid break entries will be flawlessly converted during the upgrade process.
Create a new custom report using the Timecard Report Writer to track daily or weekly time spent on employee paid breaks by worker or department.
Can I get a printout of all workers who are currently in the building?
Absolutely! The new Worker Status report in Virtual TimeClock 5.6 is a great addition to any emergency action plan. This new standard report takes advantage of our 'In & Out Board' interface to make it easy to view and print the status of all active workers currently displayed in the TimeClock main window. The Worker Status report is a snapshot listing of each active worker, each worker's current status, along with the day of the week, date, and time of the last recorded timecard entry for each displayed worker. The Worker Status report sort order can be modified by clicking on the sort field's header title in the TimeClock main window.
By modifying local TimeClock preferences, the TimeClock can optionally display selected workers or departments which can then be printed on the Worker Status report.
As you can see, our new Virtual TimeClock Pro 5.6 release has a lot to sink your teeth into. Next month we'll introduce you to the new and improved Timecard Report Writer.