Life & Times of Billy "THE KID".
I self- published it in 2001.
I have since improved it with more stories and art. It is available at Lulu.com for ebooks and Nook.
My second book- The Amethyst Crystal -is finished, and it is also available for Kindle at Amazon.com. It gave me something to do while the shoulder was healing and I couldn't paint.
BOTH BOOKS ARE NOW AVAILABLE AS PAPERBACKS!!!
Two years ago Pat DeLong of Lehigh Township started writing a book. She was upset about her father's death and sitting down in front of her computer to write helped her through her grief.
She imagined being a 13-year-old boy mourning the death of a friend and the words flowed freely until she nearly completed her book, "The Life and Times of Billy the Kid."
The book is really about her childhood loss of a friend, Randy Frisch," who died when she was 6 years old when he crashed his bike into a truck.
"I didn't write the book, the book wrote itself," she said. "I feel it was a gift from my father." The book is dedicated to her father, W.L. "Bill" DeLong, and her sister, Jill, who helped edit the book, and helped her determine which paragraphs or entire chapters should be deleted.
Then suddenly the inspiration stopped; she had contracted writer's block until the pain from knee surgery brought her back in front of her computer to finish her book. The writer's block had lasted from the spring of 2000 to New Year's Day 2002, when she finally completed the final seven chapters of the book. The book has 31 chapters and was published by 1st Books.
On a lark, her sister who teaches fourth grade at East Penn Elementary School, offered the choice of reading the book to her class. The students absolutely loved it, she a said. When they were given the opportunity to put on a play, they chose DeLong's book as this year's play project.
Author DeLong and teacher DeLong worked with the children to write a script. The children chose their favorite 13 chapters to perform and the play culminated into a recent public performance in front of the entire school and community.
"I'm nervous," said the author. "I don't know if I can watch." But she couldn't tear her eyes away as her words became their words during the performance.
The children had worked long and hard to put on the play. They worked for 2-1/2 months on the project, reading the book, adapting the book into the play script and rehearsing after school and weekends at play practice.
"We put on a performance every year," said teacher DeLong. "This one was even more special because I could share it with my sister."
Almost two years since the death of her father, author Pat DeLong of Lehigh Township has accomplished a lifetime dream of having a book published. Youthful memories that include her best friend's untimely childhood death are recorded as a tribute of remembrance to him for always being there for her.
Her true-life story really begins with the help from a playmate, a guardian angel who helped her conquer speech impairments due to a mild form of epilepsy. He may have only been here for a little while but he had an important impact on her life.
"Randy Frisch was my best friend, my translator, my confidant," Pat says with a lump in her throat. "A simple word such as lollipop became 'olliop'."
When she needed emotional support the most, he was there.
"It took several years of speech therapy until I was able to communicate properly." Six-year-old Randy died from a fractured skull incurred from a bicycle accident.
For almost four decades she ignored her desire to write a book to tell Randy Frisch, "I've never forgotten you." Her inspiration came with the death of her father W.L. "Bill" DeLong dying suddenly of a massive cerebral hemorrhage. This made her realize that the clock was ticking. She needed to fulfill her desire to write the book geared for a child's level of reading, although adults too, enjoy it. The book depicts facts intermixed with fiction creating an imaginative tale of her life.
She portrays real-life friends, relatives and even her pet dogs as characters in her book "The Life and Times of Billy 'The Kid'." "I wrote the characters as non-descriptive as possible...no mention of race or religion," Pat says. There is also no specific time surrounding the story.
Billy visits local places, such as Becky's Drive-In to see a movie, classmates and he visit Carbon County Prison in Jim Thorpe where handprints of a prisoner exist on the walls, and the house on top Marshall's Hill in Palmerton becomes a scene of a haunted mansion.
The local places give the reader an opportunity to identify with the area talked about. One of the tales in the story centers on an old outhouse that becomes an imaginary spaceship.
The story begins as a homework assignment. Billy's teacher has the class write their autobiography. At the time, he is only13 years old and believes his life has been dull and boring. As he begins to focus back on his life, he begins to realize that it was adventurous after all. The book is one that once you start reading, you cannot put it down. The descriptive adventures will encourage your child to read what happens to Billy, a typical young boy who finds himself in one predicament after another. The book also teaches children to take responsibility for their actions. Billy's assignment makes him realize the importance of family and friends in his life.
Pat grew up in North Catasauqua and has lived in the township for more than 20 years. She is an artist by profession and painted the mural on Lorah's barn in Berlinsville. However, she is also known for all her creative artistic abilities in bringing movies to life at Becky's Drive-In Theatre.
She is a member of the U.S.S. Aleutian Star Trek Club, since rescuing a model of the starship Enterprise built by Cub Scout Pack 201 for use in Halloween parades. The model was nearly destroyed, for it was beginning to fall apart. With a lot of help, she rebuilt it using everything from bubble gum to baling twine.
The book was not Pat's first adventure in writing.
"I had written a Star Trek episode that I submitted to Paramount," she explaining, however, that nothing ever became of it.
She acknowledges her sister Jill DeLong, an elementary teacher in the Lehighton School District, for her assistance in helping to encourage and edit the manuscript. With her two best friends, Inky and Scamper at her feet, as she wrote, she says "As long as I left the book write itself, it really flowed." With being a first-time writer, seeking a publisher was quite a challenge, but her inherited gift of her father's perseverance prevailed.
who's not the outlaw, but an ordinary kid with an amazing life!
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THERE'S SEVERAL MISTAKES, BUT EXPOSURE IS A GOOD THING!
ELSA KERSCHNER/TIMES NEWS Pat DeLong and her sister Jill took two of Pat's children's books to the East Penn School to read to students. Pat DeLong recently published her second book, "The Amethyst Crystal." In addition she added to and made improvements in her first one, "Life and Times of Billy 'the Kid,' the Amazing Life of an Ordinary Kid."
In early December she visited the East Penn and Franklin Elementary schools and parts of each book were read to the students. Her sister Jill, a former East Penn teacher, accompanied her to the school and did the reading.
But DeLong was not looking for a career as an author though she did some writing.. In fact, it was art that interested her beginning while she was still attending North Catasauqua Elementary School. At Northampton Community College she earned a degree in commercial art.
She has a SEVERAL series of paintings of race horses, has done murals and the artwork at Becky's Drive In, Berlinsville, where she works NOT REALLY. After living in Lehigh Township for 23 years she now lives in Palmerton with Jill in the house once owned by her grandparents.
In the past 10 years she has spent more of her time writing NO, I'VE BEEN PAINTING THE MOST UNTIL THIS YEAR- WROTE THE 2 BOOKS IN 200,2003 AND 2011 The first children's book she wrote is about a boy, Billy, doing ordinary things.
Jill was a teacher at East Penn Elementary. "I would have my class read chapter books. We took chapters of Billy the Kid and made plays."
The fourth-grade students rehearsed for three months twice a week. It was such a neat project and is what she misses most in retirement.
A chapter tells of the time Billy's class visited the old jail museum in Jim Thorpe. He and some friends 1 FRIEND wandered away from the class. They saw the handprint on the wall made when one of the Molly Maguires, miners accused of killing mine owners, said it would remain to prove his innocence.
Another story was about the mansion on the hill outside Palmerton. Billy heard it was to be torn down so he and some friends visited it.
Other chapters are about cheating, bullying, the death of a friend, a fire at another friend's house, being home alone, spending time with his father, a visit to Becky's Drive In and having a new girl in the neighborhood who wants to play sports with the boys. There are 39 chapters with each one being a story in itself.
The chapter about the boy who died was based on a friend who died at age 6.
"The Amethyst Crystal" was running around DeLong's head for years. In her school days she wrote short science fiction stories. Crystal is an adventure science fiction story. Three teenagers travel through time looking for pieces of the amethyst crystal which had been broken and dispersed throughout the world. This book has a sketch book in the final pages rather than pictures throughout.
She bought a crystal on ebay and was wearing it when she visited the schools. It is also the design for the cover artwork of the book.
"If you like mysteries this is a good book for you," said DeLong. It is suitable for intermediate readers.
Not everyone gets to follow his or her dreams. Reality has a way of putting the kibosh on many artists and writers achieving their goals, but that isn't the case with Pat Delong. The local author and artist's love of writing and drawing began when she was a student at North Catasauqua Elementary school and her passion continued through high school and while she attended Northampton Community College where she earned a degree in Commercial Art.
"My dad took me to Northampton County Community College to see what courses would be like. We walked into the office and we were handed med tech courses. One look at the chemistry and physics and I knew it wasn't for me. I said something about the art courses and the woman replied 'Oh, you don't want to do that! Those people are strange!' I knew that I found my future," Pat recalls.
Pat lived in Lehigh Township for 23 year and now calls Palmerton home where she continues her lifelong love affair with the arts.
"I have spent most of my life painting, doing everything from race horses, family pets and houses to the murals on Lorah's Barn and artwork at Becky's Drive In. It's only in the past 10 years or so that I've returned to my love of writing," Pat says.
Her first book, The Life and Times of Billy "The Kid", was self-published in 2001 and follows that life of a student forced to write an autobiography for a class project and references many familiar places like the old Jim Thorpe Jail, the house on Marshall's Hill in Palmerton and Becky's Drive In.
Her more recent book, The Amethyst Crystal, is an adventure story with plenty of time traveling and mysteries to solve. The teen protagonists travel to many famous locations throughout history.
Pat displays her art on her website: www.patdelong-art.com, check it out and support a local artist who followed her dreams.
My love of writing and drawing began many, many years ago when I was a student at North Catasauqua Elementary School. I wrote some short stories…mostly science fiction and my immense interest in horses led to my love of drawing. I graduated from Catasauqua High School in 1973 and continued my education at Northampton Area Community College, where I graduated with an Associates' Degree in Commercial Art. I lived in Lehigh Township for 23 years and now reside in Palmerton.
I have spent most of my life painting, doing everything from race horses, family pets, and houses to the murals seen on the Lorah's barn and the original artwork at Becky's Drive-in in Walnuport, and in Palmerton; Tony's Pizza and the Palmerton Telephone Company office. It has only been in the past ten years that I have returned to my love of writing.
My first book was The Life and Times of Billy "The Kid." This is not the story of the famous outlaw, but an autobiography of a boy who believes his life would not make an interesting read for his class project. While writing, he discovers that his life was not boring at all. While reading about Billy, you will probably notice that the book contains references to familiar places that he has visited. He tells about his adventures at the old Jim Thorpe Jail, the house on Marshall's Hill in Palmerton, Becky's Drive-in, to mention a few. The stories deal with the life of a regular boy…and in growing up in an average small town. Billy experiences his attempt to run away from home, pressure from other boys to try shoplifting, being on a sports team with a girl, suffering the loss of a friend, bullying, and lots more. The book is geared for any student from third grade through middle school, but is a great read-aloud book for students in the primary grades (and grownups like it as well). It is filled with lots of humor, but touches on the more difficult things that life deals out.
The Amethyst Crystal is an adventure story about time traveling and solving the mystery of the crystal. The teens travel to many famous locations and need to use all their skills to find the answers. This book is geared for intermediate grades and middle school students and is enjoyed by both boys and girls.
All of the artwork on the covers and throughout the book is my own. When my sister, Jill, was an elementary teacher in the Lehighton School District, she had her fourth grade class read "Billy, the Kid" and they enjoyed it so much they chose that book to write a play script and perform it for the entire student body of the East Penn Elementary School (not just once but twice!).


If you knew me well, you would know that neutral colors are in MY wheelhouse, so to speak. With that said, one of the new Stampin' Up! In Colors is going to be one of my all time favorites. Tip Top Taupe. Say it with me...it kind of rolls off the tongue. TIP TOP TAUPE. This is just a little close up of a watercolor technique I did this morning.
After I did a "swoosh" of color with water and ink, I dropped extra course sea salt on to the wet area and let it dry. The salt absorbs some of the ink/water mixture and leaves you with a lovely design.
The leaves are from the Choose Happiness stamp set. The flower is the Pansy Punch. Finished it off with a Neutrals button and some Linen Thread, all Stampin' Up! products.
I hope you enjoyed the project. Please use hostess code TE6ZJN9X when ordering online, unless your order will total $150 before shipping & tax. At that point, you become your own hostess and get all the rewards! Please keep in mind if you choose "no contact" from the demonstrator, I'm unable to even send you a thank you note for your order...That's right, I'm not even able to see your name.
This card was made using several of my favorite Stampin' Up! retiring products.
The center layer was cut using the Labels Collection Framelits Dies and the texture on the Blushing Bride background panel was made using the Beautifully Baroque Textured Impressions embossing folder. These are a whopping 50% off right now and you need to get them quick!
Both of the stamp sets used are retiring also. Blooming with Kindness and the Dictionary background stamp. Both have been staples for all kinds of cards. The Dictionary stamp is a great way to add interest to backgrounds or over central images.
It's almost time to say goodbye to retiring products from the 2014–2015 annual catalog. Before we say goodbye to these amazing products, though, we're giving everyone an opportunity to order retiring products (some of them at discounts prices up to 50 percent off retail) before they're gone for good. Retiring products will only be available until June 2 (or while supplies last), so be sure to get your orders in early! Shop now! Please use hostess code Q4ZZGBGE when ordering.
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I hope you enjoyed the project. Please use hostess code Q4ZZGBGE when ordering online, unless your order will total $150 before shipping & tax. At that point, you become your own hostess and get all the rewards! Please keep in mind if you choose "no contact" from the demonstrator, I'm unable to even send you a thank you note for your order...That's right, I'm not even able to see your name.
Not to get all mushy, but there are so many reasons I love to create art with my stamps & paper crafting supplies from Stampin' Up! So, it was a natural that after over 15 years of being a customer, I finally signed up to be a demonstrator. My one year anniversary of being partnered with the company I love is next month. A little message to Shelli Gardner & Stampin' Up...Fabulous is What You Are!
For this card, I chose to use one of my favorite retiring stamp sets, Million & One. Seriously, look at the wonderful "loopiness" of the font. Either of the sayings would be great on their own, with no other adornment or design. However, I wanted an over the top collage look for this card. All products are Stampin' Up!
See...this stamp set is crazy good. Grab it before it is gone.
Don't let the collage look intimidate you. For this card, I started with a single layer of watercolor paper. I then applied various layers of ink & water using Pacific Point & Tempting Turquoise inks. I just gave the pad a little squeeze while the lid was still closed. After you do that, it gives you a little paint pallet in the lid of each ink pad. Feel free to dry the paper in between adding the colors if you want more definition between colors. After the background had been watercolored, I randomly stamped the flower & leaf images from the Choose Happiness stamp set using the same colors of ink.
I used Staz On black ink to stamp a partial image of the Swallowtail, the words from Million & one and the flower from Choose Happiness on a section of Window Sheet cut to exactly match the size of the watercolored layer, then layered it on top of the background. I only used adhesive under the Jute & the flower embellishment.
There are so many different ways to use the large Swallowtail stamp! It is completely large enough to cover an entire card front.
I added the flower & the White Jute ribbon at the end. The flower is a combination of watercolor paper (for the texture) and Whisper White cardstock punched using the Fun Flower punch. The inside part of the flower was made using watercolor paper and the Stampin' Up! Fringe Scissors. After I fringed a small piece of watercolor paper, I dipped the ends in water & ink. After the piece was dry, I glued it to the center of the flower and added tiny stones from the Rhinestone Basics. I punched the leaves out of scrap of watercolor paper using the Build a Bird punch.
I know there are several stamp sets & punches represented here, but this look can be made using much less inventory. I was just having a hard time deciding which stamp set to use that day, so I used several. Please let me know if you have any questions.


Toshiba has introduced a new ultrabook – the Satellite U840W – with an ultra-wide 14.4-inch display and 21:9 aspect ratio.
If you consider buying an ultrabook you may want to wait until February 9 when the Japanese company Sony will release two new ultrabooks – the T14 and T15. Both of them offer touch screens and not surprisingly they run Windows 8.
In early 2013 US chip giant Intel will introduce two new mobile processors – the Intel Pentium 2030M and the Intel Core i3-3130M.
Intel has quietly started the sales of a new high-end mobile processor – the Core i7-3632QM. Unlike other product launches this one almost went by unnoticed – but even then the chip is here and offers better performance.


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RACE RANT
Vile yob screams 'f***ing dirty Muslim c***' at Tube worker after he's 'caught urinating on platform'
Thomas Burrows
Dec 15 2019, 7:06 ET
Updated: Dec 15 2019, 13:50 ET
A YOB was filmed screaming "you f***ing dirty Muslim c*** at a London Tube worker in a shocking racist rant.
The tube passenger hurled abuse at the member of staff after he was allegedly caught urinating on the platform at Morden station, in South London.
The yob screamed racist abuse at a London Tube worker
The shocking incident is thought to have taken place on December 13 at around 6pm.
The commuter, who witnessed the ugly episode, told the Daily Mirror: "I could hear him talking to staff about how his taxes paid their wages and that there should be toilets available in all tube stations.
"When he got to the gates, staff were trying to guide him out, which is when he started verbally abusing one of them.
"I heard him say, 'Are you a Muslim with that beard?' That's when I got my phone out to start recording."
Do you know the man in the footage? If so please contact thomas.burrows@thesun.co.uk
In the footage, the yob can be heard shouting "you f***ing dirty Muslim c**t," several times at the man before yelling: "I pay my taxes so you can stand there and do this for a living."
Another member of staff then stepped in to try and calm the situation down and repeatedly told him to leave the station.
The person who recorded the incident said: "I am mixed race myself and felt very uncomfortable the entire time.
"The staff had the situation under control and I think they handled it very well but I was shocked at how loud and forceful he seemed.
"I was worried it could have escalated further. I think a lot of other people exiting the station at the same time felt that way too."
He added: "I'm not sure whether the man with the beard was a Muslim or not, but when I went over to see if the staff members wanted my video so they could report the incident, he did seem quite shocked.
"He implied he'd never really experienced abuse like that before, and did seem a little upset and shaken by it all."
A spokesman for British Transport Police told The Sun Online: "We're aware and investigating. The incident was reported to us on 6.34pm on December 13. No arrests at this time."
The commuter shouted abuse at the member of staff in Morden station
The man was repeatedly told to leave the station by members of staff

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Q: Powershell script to activate HDR in Windows 10 I've scoured the net for resources on this, to no avail. I cannot find the syntax to toggle HDR in Windows 10.
As it currently stands, the GUI function for this is buried in a menu, and is a huge pain in the ass to turn on and off per application as needed.
Ideally I'd like to see if there's an ability to specify per monitor, but given how wonky this implementation seems to be on Microsoft's part, just being able to activate it on my primary display would be enough.
Thank in advance for your help.

A: You can do this by editing the registry.
Turn on:
New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0001' -Name 'FeatureTestControl' -PropertyType DWORD -Value '9240' -Force

Turn off:
New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0001' -Name 'FeatureTestControl' -PropertyType DWORD -Value '9250' -Force

After the change you have to restart the system to apply.
Registry entry and values from here: windowscentral: How to disable adaptive contrast on the Surface Pro and Surface Book
Please also note:

Some users have noted that any time there is a significant Windows
  update this setting is reset to default (9240), so you may need to
  redo this edit once or twice a year.

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July 15 is the 196th day of the year (197th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 169 days remaining until the end of the year.
1099 – First Crusade: Christian soldiers take Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after a difficult siege.
1149 - The rebuilt Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
1207 – John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton.
1240 - Swedish-Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes at the Battle of the Neva.
1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England.
1410 – Battle of Grunwald (a.k.a. Tannenberg or Zalgiris): power of the Teutonic Knights broken by a defeat from Poles and Lithuanians.
1482 - Muhammad XII of Granada becomes the 22nd and last Nasrid King of Granada.
1685 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemore on 6 July 1685.
1741 - Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska and sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first European to land in mainland Alaska.
1789 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, by acclamation, named colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.
1799 – Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta, by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard.
1806 – Pike expedition: Near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine to explore the west.
1815 – Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders from aboard HMS Bellerophon.
1834 - The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
1862 – American Civil War: Confederates break naval blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1870 – Post-American-Civil-War Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
1870 – Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established from these vast territories.
1888 – The Bandai volcano in Japan erupts, killing 477 people.
1895 – Archie MacLaren scores County Championship record cricket innings of 424 for Lancashire against Somerset at Taunton.
1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
1918 – World War I: Second Battle of the Marne – The battle begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
1922 - The Japanese Communist Party is created in Japan.
1926 – BEST buses make its début in Mumbai.
1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
1929 – First weekly radio broadcast of Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio show, Music and the Spoken Word.
1931 – Kid Chocolate becomes Cuba's first world boxing champion.
1945 – US President Harry Truman disembarks the heavy cruiser the USS Augusta (CA-31) in Antwerp en route to Potsdam for the Potsdam Conference.
1953 – John Reginald Christie, British serial killer executed.
1954 – First flight of the Boeing 707, the first American jet passenger airliner.
1955 - Eighteen Nobel Prize winners sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by 34 others.
1958 – In Lebanon, 5,000 United States Marines land in the capital Beirut in order to provide military support to the pro-Western government there.
1965 - The Mariner 4 sends the first close-up pictures of a planet other than Earth, when it sends pictures from Mars.
1974 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
1974 – Christine Chubbock, a TV host in Sarasota, Florida commits suicide during the taping of her show live on air.
1975 – Apollo Soyuz Test Project: Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft take off for U.S.-Soviet link-up in space.
1977 – Griffith N.S.W, Anti – Drug campaigner Donald Mackay disappears presumed murdered.
1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his famous "malaise" speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation."
1988 – Die Hard opens in theaters, starring Bruce Willis
1989 – Punk rock band Bad Religion releases their sixth album, No Control.
1992 – A major fire consumes an entire city block in tourist destination Gatlinburg, Tennessee, destroying the Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Museum and several other local businesses in the process. The block was rebuilt and re-opened in 1995.
1994 – Albert Belle of the Cleveland Indians caught with a corked bat.
1995 – Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter becomes the first item sold on Amazon.com
1996 – MSNBC cable-DBS channel launched
1996 – A Royal Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. Thirty-two people die in the flames, two people die of their injuries, and Seven people sustain severe burns.
1997 – In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
1999 – Safeco Field opens in Seattle, Washington.
1999 - The first flights from the United Kingdom to Argentina since the Falklands War occur.
2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and for the possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. Lindh agrees to serve 10 years in prison for each of the charges.
2002 – Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three other suspects convicted of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
2004 – Monorail service begins in Las Vegas.
2004 – The BBC airs the documentary The Secret Agent, exposing racism by members of the British National Party.
2005 – Jack Nicklaus plays his last hole of competitive golf during The Open Championship at Hole 18 at St Andrews, finishing with a birdie.
2005 – Disneyland "re-launches" Space Mountain in Anaheim, California.
2006 - Twitter is launched.
2007 - Shimon Peres becomes President of Israel.
2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes in Northwestern Iran, killing 153 people.
2016 - Sections of the military attempt a coup in Turkey.
2018 - 2018 FIFA World Cup: France defeat first-time finalists Croatia 4-2 in the Final to win their second FIFA World Cup trophy.
2019 - It is announced that Alan Turing will appear on the new 50-pound Bank of England note.
1273 - Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and saint (d. 1352)
1353 - Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410)
1471 - Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1494)
1553 – Archduke Ernest of Austria (d. 1595)
1573 – Inigo Jones, English architect (d. 1652)
1606 – Rembrandt, Dutch artist (d. 1669)
1626 - Christiane Sehested, daughter of Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1671)
1626 - Hedvig Uffeldt, daughter of Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1678)
1631 - Jens Juel, Danish Governor-General of Norway (d. 1700)
1638 - Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1693)
1737 – Princess Louise Marie of France (d. 1787)
1765 - Charles Goldsborough, American politician, Governor of Maryland (d. 1834)
1779 – Clement Clarke Moore, American educator, writer, and poet (d. 1863)
1790 - William Henry Playfair, Scottish architect (d. 1857)
1796 – Thomas Bulfinch, American mythologist (d. 1796)
1799 - Reuben Chapman, American politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (d. 1882)
1804 - Jane Stirling, Scottish pianist (d. 1859)
1808 – Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, English Catholic archbishop (d. 1892)
1812 – James Hope-Scott, English barrister (d. 1873)
1817 - Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English civil engineer (d. 1898)
1827 - William Wallace Thayer, American politician, 6th Governor of Oregon (d. 1899)
1837 – Stephanie von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Queen Consort of Portugal (d. 1859)
1848 – Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (d. 1923)
1850 – Mother Cabrini, Italian-born Roman Catholic saint (d. 1917)
1851 - Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentine author (d. 1889)
1858 - Emmeline Pankhurst, English activist (d. 1928)
1864 - Marie Tempest, English actress and singer (d. 1942)
1865 - Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Irish-English publisher (d. 1922)
1865 - Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (d. 1945)
1867 – Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French scientist (d. 1936)
1870 – Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Russian publisher and politician (d. 1922)
1871 – Kunikida Doppo, Japanese writer (d. 1908)
1884 – Phraya Manopakorn Nititada, 1st Prime Minister of Siam, present-day Thailand (d. 1948)
1892 – Walter Benjamin, German literary critic and writer (d. 1940)
1897 - Sam H. Jones, American politician, Governor of Louisiana (d. 1978)
1899 – Seán F. Lemass, Irish leader and Taoiseach (d. 1971)
1902 – Jean Rey, Belgian politician and President of the European Commission (d. 1983)
1911 – Edward Shackleton, English explorer (d. 1994)
1913 – Hammond Innes, English writer (d. 1998)
1913 - Cowboy Copas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1963)
1913 - Abraham Sutzkever, Russian poet (d. 2010)
1914 - Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (d. 2010)
1917 - Robert Conquest, English-American historian (d. 2015)
1918 - Nuur Muhammad Taraki, President of Afghanistan (d. 1979)
1918 – Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
1918 - Brenda Milner, English-Canadian neuropsychologist and academic
1919 – Iris Murdoch, English writer (d. 1999)
1921 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist (d. 2006)
1922 – Leon M. Lederman, American physicist
1924 - Jeremiah Denton, American admiral and politician (d. 2014)
1925 – Philip Carey, American actor (d. 2009)
1925 - Taylor Hardwick, American architect (d. 2014)
1926 - Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (d. 2015)
1926 – Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
1926 – Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan writer (d. 2007)
1927 – Nan Clow Martin, actress
1927 - Carmen Zapata, American actress (d. 2014)
1928 – Carl Woese, American microbiologist (d. 2012)
1930 – Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004)
1930 – Stephen Smale, American mathematician
1931 – Clive Cussler, American writer
1932 – Ed Litzenberger, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010)
1933 – Julian Bream, English guitarist and lutenist
1933 – Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (d. 2003)
1934 – Harrison Birtwistle, English composer
1934 – Risto Jarva, Finnish movie maker (d. 1977)
1935 – Diahann Carroll, American actress
1936 - George Voinovich, American politician, 65th Governor of Ohio (d. 2016)
1939 - Abdulhussain Abdulredha, Kuwaiti actor and writer (d. 2017)
1939 – Aníbal Cavaco Silva, former President of Portugal
1939 - Patrick Wayne, American actor
1940 – Robert Winston, British scientist, politician and television presenter
1942 – Mil Mascaras, Mexican professional wrestler
1943 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Northern Irish astrophysicist, astronomer and academic
1944 – Millie Jackson, American singer
1945 – Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (d. 2003)
1946 – Linda Ronstadt, American singer
1946 – Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei
1946 – Dieter Herzog, German footballer
1947 - Peter Banks, English guitarist (d. 2013)
1948 - Twinkle, English singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1948 - Artimus Pyle, American drummer and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1949 – Carl Bildt, Swedish politician, former Prime Minister of Sweden
1949 – Trevor Horn, English musician
1950 - Colin Barnett, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Western Australia
1950 – Arianna Huffington, Greek-American journalist (Huffington Post)
1951 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican musician (d. 2010)
1951 – Jesse Ventura, American professional wrestler and former Governor of Minnesota
1952 - David A. Granger, 9th President of Guyana
1952 - Celia Imrie, English actress
1952 - Yuriko Koike, Japanese politician, Governor of Tokyo
1952 – Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, United States Congresswoman from Florida
1953 - Sultanah Haminah Hamidun, Queen of Malaysia
1953 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former President of Haiti
1953 – John Denham, British politician
1954 – Mario Kempes, Argentine footballer
1954 - Tarak Dhiab, Tunisian footballer
1954 - Jeff Jarvis, American journalist and blogger
1956 – Ian Curtis, British musician, singer and lyricist (Joy Division) (d. 1980)
1956 – Barry Melrose, Canadian hockey player, coach, and commentator
1956 – Marky Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)
1958 – Mac Thornberry, American politician
1960 – Willie Aames, American actor
1961 – Forest Whitaker, American actor
1961 - Scott Ritter, American weapons inspector
1961 - Jean-Christophe Grangé, French journalist and screenwriter
1963 - Brigitte Nielsen, Danish-American model, actress and singer
1965 - Alistair Carmichael, Scottish politician
1965 – David Miliband, English politician
1966 - Jason Bonham, English drummer
1966 – Irène Jacob, French-born Swiss actress
1968 – Eddie Griffin, American actor
1968 – Stan Kirsch, American actor
1968 - Shirley Robertson, Scottish sailor
1970 - Angela Constance, Scottish politician
1970 - Gabriel Weston, English surgeon and author
1970 – Chi Cheng, American musician
1971 – John Dolmayan, Lebanese-born drummer (System of a Down)
1971 - Jim Rash, American actor, producer and screenwriter
1972 - Yao Defen, Chinese world's tallest-living woman record holder (d. 2012)
1972 - Scott Foley, American actor
1972 - Beth Ostrosky Stern, American model and actress
1973 – Brian Austin Green, American actor
1976 – Diane Kruger, German actress and model
1976 - Shuba Jay, Malaysian actress (d. 2014)
1976 – Marco Di Vaio, Italian footballer
1977 - Kitana Baker, American model and actress
1977 - Lana Parrilla, American actress
1979 – Alexander Frei, Swiss footballer
1981 – Alou Diarra, French footballer
1981 – Peter Odemwingie, Nigerian footballer
1981 - Taylor Kinney, American actor and model
1983 - Heath Slater, American wrestler
1986 - Tyler Kennedy, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 - Alisa Kleybanova, Russian tennis player
1989 - Anthony Randolph, American basketball player
1989 - Tristan Wilds, American actor and singer
1990 - Olly Alexander, English singer-songwriter and actor (Years and Years)
1990 - Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player
1990 - Tyler Honeycutt, American basketball player (d. 2018)
1990 - Damian Lillard, American basketball player
1991 - Derrick Favors, American basketball player
1991 - Yuki Kashiwagi, Japanese singer and actress
1992 – Koharu Kusume, Japanese singer, former member of Morning Musume
1992 - Tobias Harris, American basketball player
1992 - Wayde van Niekerk, South African sprinter
1992 - Porter Robinson, American DJ and producer
1996 - Vivianne Miedema, Dutch footballer
756 - Yang Guifei, Chinese consort (b. 719)
1085 – Robert Guiscard, Norman adventurer (b. c. 1015)
1274 - Bonaventure, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1221)
1291 – Rudolph I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1218)
1406 - William, Duke of Austria (b. 1370)
1445 - Jean Beaufort, Queen of Scots (b. 1406)
1521 – Juan Ponce de León, Spanish explorer and Conquistador (b. c. 1474)
1571 – Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
1655 - Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)
1685 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II of England (b. 1649)
1750 - Vasily Tatishchev, Russian ethnographer and politician (b. 1686)
1767 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (b. 1746)
1782 – Farinelli, Italian castrato (b. 1705)
1828 – Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
1839 – Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet (b. 1802)
1844 – Claude Charles Fauriel, French historian (b. 1772)
1851 - Juan Felipe Ibarra, Argentine soldier and politician (b. 1787)
1857 – Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
1890 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (b. 1819)
1904 – Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (b. 1860)
1907 - Qiu Jin, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1875)
1916 – Elie Metchnikoff, Russian scientist (b. 1845)
1919 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1929 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (b. 1874)
1930 – Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1845)
1931 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian economist (b. 1868)
1933 – Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (b. 1865)
1933 – Freddie Keppard, American musician (b. 1890)
1940 – Robert Wadlow, American, tallest human on record (b. 1918)
1940 - Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist and physician (b. 1857)
1946 – Razor Smith, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1947 – Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
1948 – John J. Pershing, American general (b. 1860)
1953 – John Reginald Christie, British murderer (b. 1899)
1957 – George Cleveland, Canadian actor (b. 1885)
1957 – James M. Cox, American politician (b. 1870)
1958 - Julia Lennon, mother of John Lennon (b. 1914)
1959 – Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (b. 1880)
1960 – Lawrence Tibbett, American actor (b. 1896)
1961 – John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
1965 – Francis Cherry, American politician (b. 1908)
1979 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, 29th President of Mexico (b. 1911)
1989 - Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956)
1990 - Margaret Lockwood, English actress and singer (b. 1913)
1991 – Bert Convy, American actor (b. 1933)
1992 – Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (b. 1922)
1992 - Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani journalist and author (b. 1960)
1996 – Dana Hill, American actress (b. 1964)
1997 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (b. 1946)
2003 – Adi Preißler, German footballer (b. 1921)
2003 – Roberto Bolaño, Chilean writer (b. 1953)
2008 - Karl Unterkircher, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1970)
2009 – Natalya Estemirova, Russian activist (b. 1958)
2012 - Celeste Holm, American actress and singer (b. 1917)
2014 - James MacGregor Burns, American historian and political scientist (b. 1918)
2014 - Robert A. Roe, American politician (b. 1924)
2015 - Wan Li, Chinese politician (b. 1916)
2015 - Fred Wendorf, American archaeologist (b. 1924)
2016 - Qandeel Baloch, Pakistani model and social media celebrity (b. 1990)
2016 - Janez Bernik, Slovenian painter (b. 1933)
2016 - Duncan M. Gray, Jr., American prelate (b. 1926)
2017 - Anne Buttimer, Irish geographer (b. 1938)
2017 - Martin Landau, American actor (b. 1928)
2017 - Babe Parilli, American football player (b. 1930)
2017 - Bob Wolff, American broadcaster (b. 1920)
2017 - Vjekoslav Vojo Radoicic, Croatian painter, sculptor and stage designer (b. 1930)
2018 - Ray Emery, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
2019 - Mortimer Caplin, American lawyer and educator (b. 1916)
2019 - Ousmane Tanor Dieng, Senegalese politician (b. 1947)
2019 - Craig Fallon, British judoka (b. 1982)
2019 - Werner Müller, German politician and businessman (b. 1946)
Saint Swithin's Day (England), according to legend, supposed to predict weather for the rest of the Summer
Sultan's birthday (Brunei)
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12:30 PM PT1:30 PM MT2:30 PM CT3:30 PM ET8:30 PM GMT4:30 PM 北京时间1:30 PM MST3:30 PM EST, Jan 21, 2019
William H. Detrick Gymnasium, New Britain, Connecticut Attendance: 985
Robert Morris beats CCSU to stay atop Northeast Conference
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) Josh Williams scored 15 points to lead four Colonials in double figures and Robert Morris defeated Central Connecticut 70-59 on Monday to stay atop the Northeast Conference.
The Colonials (10-9, 5-1) have won six of their last seven and concluded a four-game road trip against NEC foes, winning three.
Williams and Matty McConnell, who finished with 12 points, both made three 3-pointers. Charles Bain added 13 points and Malik Petteway 11 with nine rebounds.
Jamir Coleman, a junior college transfer, had his highest-scoring game as a Blue Devil with 27 points on 10-of-19 shooting with nine rebounds. Michael Underwood came off the bench to make four 3-pointers and finished with 16 points.
Robert Morris led most of the game with Williams scoring 11 points and Petteway 10 in the first half for a 36-28 lead. The Colonials went up by 13 in the second half with the Blue Devils (8-11, 2-4) getting within seven, the final time with 2:12 remaining, but no closer.


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import androidx.annotation.NonNull;

import com.smartdevicelink.protocol.enums.FunctionID;
import com.smartdevicelink.proxy.RPCRequest;

import java.util.Hashtable;

public class SetCloudAppProperties extends RPCRequest {

    public static final String KEY_PROPERTIES = "properties";

    public SetCloudAppProperties() {
        super(FunctionID.SET_CLOUD_APP_PROPERTIES.toString());
    }

    public SetCloudAppProperties(Hashtable<String, Object> hash) {
        super(hash);
    }

    public SetCloudAppProperties(@NonNull CloudAppProperties cloudAppProperties) {
        this();
        setParameters(KEY_PROPERTIES, cloudAppProperties);
    }

    public SetCloudAppProperties setProperties(@NonNull CloudAppProperties cloudAppProperties) {
        setParameters(KEY_PROPERTIES, cloudAppProperties);
        return this;
    }

    public CloudAppProperties getProperties() {
        return (CloudAppProperties) getObject(CloudAppProperties.class, KEY_PROPERTIES);
    }

}

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STAMFORD, Conn, April 16, 2020
Gartner Survey Shows Marketing Budget Cuts Due to Coronavirus to Have Significant Impact on Advertising
New Research Analyzes Ad Spend Strategies for Sectors Hit Hardest by COVID-19
Seventy-six percent of marketing leaders expect a decrease in marketing budgets due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Gartner, Inc. survey of 360 marketers on 27 March 2020. An earlier poll in March of 176 marketers reported that budget cuts will hit advertising particularly hard with nearly half (45%) reporting a campaign launch had already been delayed, 34% had altered ad creative and 26% had already cancelled a media buy.
"Cuts to media spend are beginning to hit marketers hard – a reality that will likely worsen throughout 2Q20," said Andrew Frank, distinguished vice president analyst in the Gartner Marketing practice. "Marketers need to take decisive action now to manage media budgets and ad strategies during, and well beyond, the COVID-19 public health crisis."
The uniqueness of the COVID-19 pandemic has rendered predictive models based on historical data useless. The fluidity of conditions undermines test-and-learn approaches that require time and scale to produce reliable results. As a result, marketers must work together to develop strategies that can gain alignment and support with less data than they're accustomed to and learn from their industry peers to develop a collective consensus on the path forward.
"While the effects of the coronavirus outbreak are felt globally, its business impact varies by industry sector," said Eric Schmitt, senior director analyst in the Gartner Marketing practice. "Some sectors, such as travel and hospitality, have largely suspended all commercial operations. Others, like essential consumer goods, are experiencing spikes in demand due to hoarding. For many others, the effects are less clear."
Gartner has broken up these sectors into three categories: dark sectors, shaded sectors and spotlit sectors:
Dark Sectors: Conserve and Centralize
Dark sectors are those where shelter-in place policies have caused many to suspend commercial operations completely – such as nonessential brick-and-mortar retail, sports and live entertainment, and travel and hospitality. Marketers in these dark sector businesses need to conserve media budgets while pandemic conditions persist and focus on providing useful updates directly to loyal customers.
"Centralize control of media spend to avoid regional noncompliance with communication policies and take advantage of programmatic channels that can be rapidly ramped up or down depending on changing local conditions," said Mr. Schmitt. "Marketers should beware of returning to promotional tactics that may have worked well previously, even in the recent past, as consumers are likely to reject a rapid return-to-business-as-usual approach."
Shaded Sectors: Monitor and Remain Agile
Shaded sectors are those that remain operational but have been impacted by plummeting demand or supply chain restrictions. This includes automotive, B2B products and services, energy and utilities, high-tech and telecom, and luxury, among others. These sectors must continue to monitor media and creative strategies, and avoid being absent from markets where competitors are running media campaigns.
"Marketers in these sectors should seek value propositions and narratives that explicitly acknowledge the pervasive condition of social distancing and limited mobility," added Mr. Frank. "Work closely with agencies and other advisors to vet strategies and make real-time adjustments to campaigns as conditions change and consumers respond more directly on social media."
Spotlit Sectors: Focus on Safety and Combat Misinformation
Spotlit sectors are those on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic such as news media, essential consumer goods, over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, healthcare, insurance, grocers, restaurant chains and delivery services. These businesses are repurposing advertising channels to convey vital information to customers who are directly impacted by the health crisis.
"Marketers in these sectors should use local media buys to promote safe, contactless home delivery and service options where available, and help combat misinformation," Mr. Frank said. "Those businesses with vital messages should prioritize reputable media sources, such as national news media, and use extreme care with social media to avoid proximity to misinformation."
Additional information on what marketing leaders should be doing amid COVID-19 is available to Gartner for Marketers clients in the report "How to Advertise in Uncertain Times: Lessons from COVID-19."
Learn more about how to lead organizations through the disruption of coronavirus in the Gartner coronavirus resource center, a collection of complimentary Gartner research and webinars to help organizations respond, manage and prepare for the rapid spread and global impact of COVID-19.
About Gartner for Marketers
Gartner for Marketers provides the objective, expert advice and proven tools that CMOs and other marketing leaders need to seize the right opportunities with clarity and confidence, and to stay ahead of the trends that matter. With in-depth research and analysis, Gartner for Marketers helps you focus on the opportunities with the greatest potential to deliver results. More information on Gartner for Marketers is available online at www.gartner.com/marketing.
About Gartner
Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world's leading research and advisory company and a member of the S&P 500. We equip business leaders with indispensable insights, advice and tools to achieve their mission-critical priorities today and build the successful organizations of tomorrow.
Our unmatched combination of expert-led, practitioner-sourced and data-driven research steers clients toward the right decisions on the issues that matter most. We are a trusted advisor and an objective resource for more than 14,000 enterprises in more than 100 countries — across all major functions, in every industry and enterprise size.
To learn more about how we help decision makers fuel the future of business, visit gartner.com.
Kelly Blum
kelly.blum@gartner.com


The Cape Cod Islanders are pleased to announce that Dan Moore has committed to Post University D2 for the fall of 2016. Moore played in 42 games and scored 10 goals while adding 25 assists and lead the team with a +46 rating. The six foot 185 pound forward/defenseman was a huge part of the Islanders successes both in the regular season and their post season runs. Moore was recruited as a forward but found himself right at home playing defense when the team ran into injury issues mid way through the season. The multi talented player made the move without hesitation. He finished the regular season playing on the back end then was moved to center for the playoffs. Once again, Moore proved his team first mentality. When told he would be moved up front, his response was "anything that helps the team win". Moore went on to lead the Islanders in scoring in the playoffs with 6 games played 3 goals 6 assists 9 points and was again among the team leaders at a +9.
Coach Pete Whitney had this to say about Moore "Post University is excited to have a player of Dan Moore's abilities next season. As a skilled, puck moving defenseman he will be vital in playing the up tempo style we like. Dan's ability to join the rush will add offensive punch to our line up."
Islanders coach Jay Punsky had this to say "We are very pleased to announce Dan's commitment to Post. He is a hard working, coachable player who bought into our team first philosophy from day one. It was because of that mentality and commitment to improve that we were easily able to recommend him to college coaches. As his game progressed he started to receive interest from multiple schools, in the end Post was the best fit for Dan and his family." Punsky continued "There is no doubt that Dan will add to Post's offense but it's his tenacity that will make his new teammates glad he's on their bench. He's the very definition of the guy you hate to play against, but love to have on your team."


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Palmtree Books in partnership with Andalus are organising an Arabic Book Fair, which will also include Storytelling sessions from Arabic literature.
The Book fair will run from 6pm - 9pm on Fri/Sat/Sun 20/21/22 May 2011 and the Storytelling sessions will run on the same days from 7.30pm - 8pm.
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Voyant Tools is a text-mining program that provides many different widgets to help "distant-read" a text. Although it may seem like just an interesting tool to play around with (which it is) it actually helps cut through the distractions to get to what a corpus is really about. In order to show this, I am examining the three books in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay. To do this, I found a copy of each book online and copy-and-pasted it onto a Word document. Then, I uploaded each of those into Voyant Tools. After uploading each book separately and realizing that I could glean more information from Voyant if I could compare all of the books side by side, I decided to upload them all at once so that I could see all three books on one page. I applied the stop words list, but I also had to add words like 'I'm, I've, I'll, just, we're, etc.' because it didn't filter those out. (See Figure 1) At first, I contemplated adding the character's names to the stop words list, but after I found some really interesting trends within that realm, I decided to leave the characters' names in the corpus.
The Hunger Games trilogy is a dystopian young adult novel that is set in future-America that is now split into twelve districts and the Capitol. The 'country,' called Panem, is run by President Snow. It is never stated exactly how he got in 'office,' whether it was by election or succession, but it is revealed in Mockingjay that he did come to power through treacherous means; poison. Finnick reveals that he poisoned his adversaries, even drinking from the same cup in order to avoid suspicion. In order to remind the districts that they lost the war against the Capitol, the Hunger Games are held every year; a televised contest that requires a boy and girl tribute from each district to fight to the death. The last person standing, the 'victor' will achieve glory and riches. In the first installment, Katniss's sister, Prim, is chosen as the tribute during the reaping, but Katniss volunteers to fight in her place. Peeta Mellark is chosen as the boy tribute and it is revealed that he has loved Katniss since they were young kids. Katniss must say goodbye to her mother, sister, and hunting partner, Gale. In the arena, Katniss pairs up with Rue, a young tribute from District 11 who is eventually killed during their plot to take out the Career tributes. During the Games, the Gamemakers announce that two tributes may win as long as they are from the same district, meaning that Peeta and Katniss can both win. Katniss and Peeta convince the audience that they are in love. After outlasting the other tributes, the Gamemakers revoke the change they made earlier and say that either Peeta or Katniss must kill the other because there can only be one victor. In a fit of rebellion, Katniss and Peeta both attempt to commit double suicide by eating poisonous berries, Nightlock. The Gamemakers are quick to stop them and announce that Katniss and Peeta are both victors. At the end of The Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta go back to District 12, but not without a warning from President Snow to watch their step because their stunt with the berries has fueled unrest in the Districts.
In Catching Fire, Katniss and Peeta go on their victory tour through all of the districts, where they see the beginnings of rebellion. When they return, it is revealed that the 75th annual Hunger Games is a Quarter Quell, meaning there is a special 'twist' to the games. This twist is that the tributes will be drawn from the existing pool of victors, meaning Katniss and Peeta will have to go back into the arena, this time to fight other victors. In the arena Katniss meets Beetee, a genius from District 3, Finnick Odair, a much-loved victor from District 4, and Johanna Mason, a very angry victor from District 7. Beetee comes up with a plan to electrocute the other tributes, but the plan is foiled by the Careers. Katniss, in an effort to remember who the real enemies are (the Capitol, not the other victors) fires an arrow at the force field around the arena and brings it down. A hovercraft picks her up as she blacks out and she wakes up inside of it. At the end of the novel, we learn that there was a much bigger plan at work the entire time she was inside the arena. The new Head Gamemaker, Plutarch Heavensbee, is part of the rebellion and has helped orchestrate a plan to get Katniss out and to District 13, the headquarters of the rebellion, which was thought to be destroyed in the first war against the Capitol. They managed to get Finnick and Beetee out as well, but Peeta was recovered by the Capitol before the rebels could get to him. Gale is also on the hovercraft and when Katniss asks to go back to District 12, he tells her that there is no District 12 anymore.
In Mockingjay, we find out that after the arena came down, the Capitol bombed District 12 and Gale led the survivors to the meadow outside the District. Unexpectedly, hovercrafts arrived to take them to District 13, where they were welcomed by President Coin, the leader of the resistance. Everyone from District 12 was put to work as part of the rebellion and Gale becomes an instrumental military strategist. After the Capitol shows a video of an interview with Peeta, Katniss becomes hysterical and demands that they bring Peeta home before she will be their mockingjay, the emblem of the rebellion. Gale is the first to volunteer for the extraction team to bring Peeta back and they are successful; they also recover Johanna Mason and Finnick's fiancée, Annie Cresta, who went crazy after she won the Hunger Games. Peeta has been tortured using a method called "hi-jacking," which is a type of fear conditioning, in this case injecting the subject with tracker jacker venom, which causes hallucinations, and causing the line between nightmare and reality to blur. Because of this, Peeta is now conditioned to think that he hates Katniss and he tries to kill her when they are reunited for the first time. While they work on 'fixing' Peeta, Katniss begins training to go into the field to fight and shoot propos, their term for short propaganda videos to gain support for the rebels' cause. At this point, other districts are rebelling too and the Capitol is having to expend a lot of manpower to keep these districts down. The war between the Capitol and the Districts begin with District 13 leading the way. After suffering great casualties including Finnick and Katniss's sister, Prim, they capture President Snow and plan to execute him, with Katniss acting as the executioner. When she is supposed to shoot Snow, she instead kills President Coin and chaos erupts. She is eventually pardoned as "mentally unstable" and returns to District 12. In the epilogue, Gale goes to District 2 and Katniss's mother goes to start a hospital in District 4. Katniss falls in love with Peeta again and the final thoughts we are left with is Katniss worrying about how to teach her children about this tragedy without scaring them to death and how she and Peeta still must overcome the painful memories of the war that caused so much devastation.
These three books are filled with political and social messages. Mostly, they are anti-war messages and statements like, "something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences." (Mockingjay 217) Throughout all three of these novels, there is a sense of injustice that children are fighting in and paying for a war that is not theirs. It is easy to draw a lot of parallels to the United States and how teenagers are drafted into the army to fight for a war that they did not begin. There is also a big focus on the after-effects of war, like Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, as evidenced by all of the victor's flashbacks, and most extremely by Annie, who actually went crazy from the effects of the war. We also see Katniss lose her sense of purpose after the war, which she didn't know how to deal with, which is present in militants' struggles to return to civilian life after being on the front lines. We are shown the futility of fighting each other when the government is the one controlling them. In addition to the military and ramifications of the war, we see social critiques as well. The Capitol is run by the wealthy, people with so much money that they make themselves sick just so they can stuff their faces some more while people in their own country, over in the outlying districts, are starving. In Panem, and ever increasingly in America as well, at least it seems, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. That is clearly shown in The Hunger Games trilogy with the distinction between the Capitol and the Districts. Most of all, these novels are about politics and corrupt government. Beginning with President Snow's nefarious rise to power and continuing until Coin's death, we are reminded over and over again of the danger of placing so much power in one person's hands. These are all things that we can see when we read the novels, but how accurate is Voyant Tools at 'seeing through our text?' And can it help people familiar with the texts uncover new things they would not necessarily have noticed otherwise? It may just seem like an interesting program to play around with, but the answer is yes, it can do both of those things, you just have to dig a little to find its usefulness.
Looking at the word cloud widget in Voyant Tools, it shows that the most frequent verbs are actually passive; words such as say, know, think, etc., a fact that surprised me very much since the series is so full of action and fighting. (See Figure 2) Presented with this conflict between what I saw and what I was expecting, I did some thinking that should have been obvious given what I've listed above as what's really going on in the books. The Hunger Games trilogy is not really about the action and the war that is happening; it's about the politics behind it and the characters' relationships with each other. Voyant Tools, by putting this front and center so plainly, helps cut through the distractions to get to what the books are really about. This is actually an interesting parallel to the books themselves as the Capitol uses the Hunger Games to distract the Districts from seeing what is really happening behind the scenes; instead of rebelling against the Capitol for oppressing them, they were preoccupied with worrying about the Games that the Capitol kept fresh in their minds all year long.
As I stated in the introduction, I discovered a very interesting trend in the word trend graph when I input the names Peeta, Haymitch, Gale, Cinna, and Effie. (See Figure 3) I left Katniss out of this graph for two reasons; the first, because you can only put five terms at once onto the word trend graph, and the second, because the book is told from her point of view, the data would be skewed and we can't attribute every use of the word 'I' to her, so it was more practical to simply leave her off of this graph. This graph was interesting to me because Peeta, Haymitch, Cinna, and Effie all follow the same general trend, they all peak in Catching Fire and then in Mockingjay, return almost back to where they began in The Hunger Games, but Gale doesn't follow this pattern. Instead, he reaches his peak in Mockingjay, something I found surprising because when I was reading the book, it didn't seem like he was playing a bigger role, but upon further investigation, I realized that it is not the size of his role that gets his name mentioned much more frequently, but the type of his role. In the last installment of the series, Gale becomes the protector of Katniss's family; he's always looking out for her mother and sister before he thinks of his own safety, as evidenced when he saves them first from the bombing of District 12 and when he goes to save Prim when the Capitol is attacking District 13. The fact that Gale takes on a role that is so important to Katniss further solidifies the idea that these books are about the relationships between the characters more than the action that is distracting from the real issues. This is something that I would not have noticed without Voyant Tools pointing it out.
Another interesting word trend graph was one that included the words life, death, live, and die. (See Figure 4) When we look at these as pairs, life and death, and live and die, live and life both win out in the end, another trend I was surprised by since there was so much death in the war. While those deaths were necessary, this trend shows that they're not reflecting on the deaths that occurred during the war, they're focusing on getting on with life and learning how to live again. We can see this through the end of Katniss's story; how she gets married and has children. Although she does reflect on the dead through the memory book that Peeta and Haymitch help her create, she is still moving forward with her life instead of being dead inside how she was immediately after the war. I wouldn't have realized this just by reading the books because I was so distracted by all the death to realize that the focus was actually on life after the tragedy.
Although Voyant Tools is extremely useful, as I have demonstrated, it does have its limitations. When you put in words that the books are really about, words like war, politics, trauma, etc. you're not going to get an accurate result because Voyant can't summarize what you're reading or tell you the connotations of words to tell if there are more positive than negative words. One thing that is really present from the first to the third book is the sense that Panem, and the characters, have come full-circle. The Hunger Games begins with the reaping of the tributes and Mockingjay ends with the "reaping of the dead." (Mockingjay 221) Although the war takes Katniss all over Panem, her journey begins and ends in District 12. The trilogy begins with the Games and ends with the phrase, "But there are much worse games to play." (Mockingjay 224) Parallels like this and the deeper meanings of these books are things that you can't see through Voyant Tools and you won't know what trends to look for without first reading the novels. That being said, Voyant Tools can show you things that you would not necessarily see without it. It is a brilliant program that lets you cut through the distractions and get to the base level of the text, which can be very helpful when you're analyzing literature; Voyant Tools is not just a 'cool' program to play around with as I thought before, it actually has literary value and can take distant reading to the next level.


Coaches are familiar with famous slogans. We put them on T-shirts and in pictures or paint them on walls to try to motivate our athletes. One famous slogan is, "TEAM, me." "Team" is capitalized because that's where everyone's focus should be. "Me" is in lower case to show that individual goals are secondary to the team goals.
A great slogan for the Christian life could be, "God, me." It's easy to understand the concept of a big God because we all know that He is bigger than we are. The hard part is allowing Him to reign over all we do. Because most coaches are competitors and problem solvers, we feel the need to do everything we can for our programs. We put so much pressure on ourselves to have a great program that we sometimes lose perspective and the ability to have fun.
Christians can also feel this way. We put pressure on ourselves to live a perfect life and do all these Christian "things" because we think that's what it's about. We get so busy and tired that we lose the joy of knowing Jesus. But God wants our relationship with Him to be a joy, not a burden. Acts 17:25 says that He will give us everything we really need (not necessarily what we want!). In fact, He already has in the person and sacrifice of Jesus Christ! Why, then, do many of us feel like we have to perform all these spiritual deeds when all God wants for us is to believe and trust Him each day? If we'll focus more on knowing Him and less on doing, we'll experience the presence of God walking beside us in all we do! Our hearts will be redirected to our real source of joy, and our lives—not a slogan—will reflect that to others!
1. What are things you feel you "need" to do for Christ?
2. How can the joy of Jesus affect your coaching?
3. What prevents you from relaxing in God's presence?
Lord, quiet my heart and mind from the busyness of life so that I hear Your voice today and sense Your presence. Amen.
His Glory- "It's Not About Me!"
Is There a Test Today?


Jesus wants us to be wise in how we tell others about Him.
Twenty One Pilots just made another headline this week as their third song this year rose to number one on the Billboard hot rock songs chart. Most of the buzz around this achievement comes from the fact that they replaced themselves on the chart and pushed their song "Ride" into second place. If you include their other number one song this year, "Stressed Out," they have occupied spot one (as of this week) for 33 weeks this year marking a new record in the category. They are clearly one of the most popular rock acts in the US right now.
While the song has numerous references to themes in the film, it also can be interpreted on several different levels. Like many other Twenty One Pilots songs, the internet has been abuzz with theories as to the multiple meanings of the song. The lyrics have obvious spiritual implications and Tyler has stated in many interviews that he is in fact a Christian. But in typical fashion, the band remains very cryptic about the meaning of their lyrics, allowing their fans to do their own interpretive work.
According to the Oxford Dictionary, the word "heathen" means "a person who does not belong to a widely held religion (especially one who is not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim) as regarded by those who do." It is generally a derogatory term that can also mean unenlightened, or someone who lacks culture or moral principles. So when the chorus begins with "all my friends are heathens," they are clearly talking about how outsiders are often perceived or treated poorly. But when the words come from someone who claims to be a Christian, it is hard not to see the spiritual implications. Consequently, one pretty obvious interpretation of the song is about how Christians should relate to those who don't know Jesus.
AROUND THE CIRCLE: Have you ever had to spend a significant amount of time with someone who sees the world very differently than you do? How do you talk to them? Do you avoid talking about your religious beliefs, or do you jump right in?
ASK A FEW: Have you (or someone you know) ever scared your friends or family with over-aggressive evangelism? What do you think that the song means by "take it slow"?
ASK A FEW: What do you think the song means by "Wait for them to ask you who you know"? Could they be referring to Jesus?
ASK A FEW: When he says " Please don't make any sudden moves, you don't know the half of the abuse" who do you think is abused? Who do you think might have caused the abuse? Could he be implying that some Christians might be to blame? Would you treat someone differently if you knew that they were abused?
ASK A FEW: In your experience, does the pain and abuse that people experience in the world affect whether they believe in God? How?
ASK A FEW: While the line about never knowing the "psychopath" or "murderer" sitting next to you may be about the movie, could it be also true to a certain degree in your life? Could there be people around you who have done terrible things? How do you treat them?
ASK A FEW: When the song says "they can smell your intentions" what do you think he means? How do your friends react to people who have an agenda or ulterior motives in a relationship? Can confrontational evangelism be an ulterior motive that gets in the way of building sincere relationships?
ASK A FEW: The last line in the song is "it looks like you might be one of us." What does that mean? Is it possible that you may be as broken as many of those around you?
ASK A FEW: Jesus is using the analogy of light to emphasize our role in shining for Him so others can see what a relationship with God looks like. When He says "let your light shine before others," what is he talking about? How can we let our light shine in the world?
ASK A FEW: How do people put their light under a bowl? What do you think Jesus thinks about isolating ourselves from people who don't believe in Him?
ASK A FEW: Is letting people "see your good deeds" a form of evangelism? Does evangelism always involve talking?
AROUND THE CIRCLE: Do you think loving your neighbor is a way that we glorify God and shine a light to the world? Why?
It is very common for communities to grow around people with similar beliefs and values. Let's face it – it's way more comfortable than hanging out with people who see life from a different view. As Christians, even we often find it easier to surround ourselves with people who see the world in the same way we do. Many times that means that we never have relationships with people who aren't Christians. And then, when we do talk to them, we just preach at them instead of actually loving them and spending time getting to know them and building a real friendship. But in reality, Christians are called to something much more difficult and rewarding. When Jesus came into the world, He changed things up. He asked us to be lights shining for Him.
To many people outside of the Christian faith, we are seen as people who always have an agenda. They are very aware that we will only treat them better when they start to think the way that we do.
Jesus didn't do things that way. He loved all sorts of broken people and was constantly criticized by the religious snobs of the day for hanging out with them. But Jesus would usually turn the criticism around on the religious people and point out that they were often even worse than the ones that they despised so much (because they should have known better).
When we isolate ourselves from people who don't know Jesus, we are in turn, hiding our light under a basket. Jesus wants us to shine our light as if we are a city on a hill. This means that we actually need to connect with our neighbors, even if they may view the world much differently than we do.
Does this mean you should make your inner most circle of friends people who don't know Jesus and actually draw you away from your faith? Not at all. Again, look to Jesus' example. He surrounded himself with other believers who shared the same faith, conviction and mission to reach others. It was with this core group of believers that he went out and reached the lost.
Jesus didn't just hang out in the tabernacle all day and hang out with religious people. Jesus and his disciples built relationships with all kinds of sinners.
Planning on using this next week to spark discussion.
This is my Sunday School lesson for Middle and High school students. Very good lesson. Thanks!
Great food for thought for our Youth Ministry summer series on "Songs of our generation" Thanks and God bless your faithfulness.


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Province OKs rent-to-own program that helps 'avoid' foreign buyers' tax
The B.C. finance ministry has reviewed a developer's rent-to-own scheme that promises to help homebuyers "avoid paying the 15-per-cent foreign buyers' tax" and found it doesn't violate any law.
Developer's program gives newcomers 5 years to secure permanent residency or work permit
Bethany Lindsay · CBC News · Posted: Oct 04, 2017 5:20 PM PT | Last Updated: October 5, 2017
Foreign buyers pay an additional 15-per-cent property transfer tax in the Vancouver region. (Steven Senne/Associated Press)
The B.C. finance ministry has reviewed a developer's rent-to-own scheme that promises to help homebuyers "avoid paying the 15-per-cent foreign buyers' tax" and found it doesn't violate any law.
The Vancouver Rent to Own program from Apex Western Homes offers potential buyers a lease agreement on a home, with the option to buy within five years. That gives foreign buyers time to secure permanent residency or a work permit in Canada.
A video on the program's website explains a bit further: "Did you know that you can buy a house in North Vancouver, one of the most desirable cities in the world, with only five per cent down? And if you're a foreign buyer, you can avoid paying the 15 per cent foreign buyers' tax?"
In an emailed statement Wednesday, the finance ministry said: "We have reviewed the structure of the rent-to-own model offered by this company." A ministry spokesperson confirmed the government found no issues with the program.
However, the ministry reached out to CBC News after this story was published to clarify that rent-to-own models in general cannot be used to avoid paying taxes, and stressed the government would crack down on schemes of this nature.
The ministry's evaluation left Vancouver real estate lawyer Richard Bell scratching his head.
"The word 'avoid' sounds like tax avoidance to me," Bell told CBC News, referring to the wording used by Apex.
"If the purpose of that structure is to avoid the tax, why would that not fall within the definition of tax avoidance?"
'It's actually a delay'
But Apex CEO Ray Vesely insists he isn't trying to help foreign buyers dodge the tax.
"I'm starting to suspect the word 'avoid' is a bad word," Vesely said.
Instead, he said he's trying to help newcomers get a foothold in the real estate market before prices shoot up even further.
"It's actually a delay. It gives an opportunity for somebody to come here, live in the house that they're purchasing, then in five years they get their permanent residency and when they close...they don't have to pay the 15 per cent," he said.
The price of the home is locked in at the beginning of the agreement, and a portion of the monthly rent goes toward the principal. If, after five years, the buyer still hasn't obtained the necessary status in Canada, the foreign buyers' tax will still apply.
According to the Vancouver Rent to Own website, the foreign buyers' tax will still apply if the buyer hasn't secured the proper status in Canada after five years. (Vancouver Rent to Own)
'The housing market crashed on us'
Vesely first started thinking about the idea last year, when the B.C. government announced the additional 15-per-cent property transfer tax, initially levelled on buyers who weren't permanent residents or citizens.
"The housing market crashed on us, and we had about six houses for sale," Vesely said.
Rent-to-own programs are popular in parts of the U.S., and Vesely said he spoke with a California man who was interested in setting up something similar if he moved to Vancouver for a new job.
Vesely said he consulted a lawyer and the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver before offering the program.
The provincial government was first alerted to the program by a report from the independent news site ThinkPol.ca, which charged that Apex was advertising online in China.
Vesely said he was unaware of any China-specific ads, but acknowledged it was possible the program was being promoted on Chinese websites.
"It would have been one of my staff members. I don't know," he said. "All I know is we put it on the internet."
No takers yet
He hopes the program will be attractive to anyone struggling to find the cash for a down payment in a real estate market where home prices are rises faster than most people can save.
But according to Vesely, the company has yet to sign a rent-to-own agreement with anyone — local or foreign.
He said he came close with a Londoner whose company was transferring him to the Lower Mainland, but in the midst of making the deal, the province decided to exempt people with work permits from the tax. The client opted to simply buy instead.
The provincial government recommends that anyone buying real estate in B.C. should get an advance tax ruling to make sure they're clear on the tax implications of the deal.
In a`statement, the finance ministry also noted the province's Property Transfer Act includes a broad anti-avoidance rule that prevents someone from structuring a transaction to avoid paying the additional property transfer tax.
Bethany Lindsay
Bethany Lindsay has more than a decade of experience in B.C. journalism, with a focus on the courts, health and social justice issues. She has also reported on human rights and crimes against humanity in Cambodia. Questions or news tips? Get in touch at bethany.lindsay@cbc.ca or on Twitter through @bethanylindsay.
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We all love to go the MAC counter and get lots of fun new make-up, but what if you need a pick me up, or you want to try a new trend and you don't want to spend very much money?? Hello, drugstore!! (Target being my favorite) I am going to stick to mascara, nail polish, eye shadow, and lip gloss for these amazing drugstore finds. I am also going to let you in on what make-up trends will be hot this Fall and stuff your man will love.
Mascara (need I say more) what would we all do without it? Cover Girl Lashblast Mascara is amazing and I am hooked. I won't even look at another mascara and for $6.54 at your nearest Target or Walmart you can have the most amazing voluptuous lashes. Try them with my smokey eye look, found right here.
NYC nail polish lets me try every new trend from black to neon yellow all for $1. Hot trends this Fall are Greige (grey and beige), don't you love the Fashion lingo? Also matte purple and matte green are definitely in!! Shine is out, ladies.
Eye shadow is always so fun when you are trying new trends and Maybelline has a great one for $2.94.
Big colors this fall are gold, bronze, and burgundy metallics. Getting your metallic on is a great way to make your eyes pop. I say go gold for brown eyes, burgundy for green (love this), and bronze if you are a blue eyed babe.
Last, but not least, Lip Gloss! e.l.f. makes products for $1. We are talking everything you want for a dollar! They also make some amazing lip glosses that come in a kit of five for $5.00. So you can have all the lip smackin' gloss you need. One of the colors is burgundy (They have three different shades of it. They call it by different names.) which is also really big for lips this Fall. I know we all shy away from darker colors but when its comes in a gloss it goes on so sheer that you really just get a fun pop of trendy color. I am going to go all out with this color this Fall. One rule though, if you use it on your eyes don't use it on your lips. We don't want to be a full blown vampire, we just want to be Bella so our man will want a BITE!
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I love the beauty on a budget post. I have the CoverGirl LashBlast mascara and it is one of my favorites. I have never tried the NYC nail polish but a $1 each…why not give it a shot. I love the blog also.
Wow, sounds like I need to give the LashBlast a try. I'm with Chanel, I'm definitely going to try out that nail polish. $1, really? Fantastic! That'll fit in my budget (what's left of it after I hit that MAC counter anyway, lol). Great post Bridget!
I'm excited to learn about ELF and I can't wait to try out some of there stuff! great post!
Thanks for sharing these great tips! Beauty on a budget…love it!
I LOVE Elf products. The best part is if you try it and don't like it you don't feel guilty tossing it. For a buck you can try it all.
Be careful with ELF! I went ELF crazy and ended up with thousands of calls hourly. They sell your information and it is horrible to unsubscribe!
I went to COSTCO today and they have a three pack of the Covergirl mascara for $14!
Just went and got the Covergirl Lash Blast after reading this blog!!! I LOVE it. I don't think that I have ever seen my eyelashes look this long! Thanks!
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@candice, Lashbalst is the best! I am so glad you love it too! @ Mrs. Phillips, $30 in free products that is awesome!


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James Rodriguez speaks out after Everton announce transfer is complete
The signing was announced on Monday night as the Toffees secured a big name addition to their ranks ahead of the new season
James Rodriguez has vowed to rediscover his best form and bring entertaining football to Everton after finally completing his move to Merseyside.
The Toffees confirmed the capture of the Colombian ace from Real Madrid in a deal believed to be worth just under £20m.
Rodriguez, 29, has penned a two-year deal with the option for a further year. The third year will be automatically triggered if Rodriguez plays a set number of games.
And after failing to fulfil his promise in Spain, the midfielder believes he can improve at Goodison Park after being reunited with boss Carlo Ancelotti.
He said: "I've come here to try to improve, to get better.
"I've also come here to help the team to win, to play good football – entertaining football.
"I am really, really happy to be at this great club, a club with so much history, and here with a manager who knows me really well," James told evertonfc.com.
"I'm looking forward to achieving great things here – and winning things, which is what everyone's aim is.
"I'm convinced, with Carlo and his technical staff, we can achieve big things and one of the big reasons [I signed] was the presence of Carlo Ancelotti.
"I'm a winner, I'm a real winner.
"I think the seriousness and determination to win trophies can lead to silverware."
Rodriguez was signed by Ancelotti at Real Madrid in 2014 in a £63m deal from Monaco after he starred at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
The pair briefly worked together again at Bayern Munich but Ancelotti was sacked early into Rodriguez's two-year loan spell.
He has won league titles with Porto, Real and Bayern as well as two Champions League winners' medals during his time in Spain.
Everton not only believe they have secured a player who can take them to another level on the pitch, but they also believe his star quality will be a huge asset to their brand worldwide.
The Toffees believe it will accelerate their international growth plans by having a player who has such worldwide appeal.
And they plan to capitalise on his global stardom in the coming months.
Ancelotti is just happy to have another midfielder in as he transforms an area which was an obvious concern for him.
Everton announced the £22m signing of Allan over the weekend while Abdoulaye Doucoure is set to join from Watford in a deal worth around £20m.
The Toffees boss said: "James, as everyone knows, is a fantastic player with a lot of quality and a lot of ability to make assists for the strikers.
"He's really excited about the project of the club and the fact we want to improve.
"Players like James and Allan can help us to be better and we can help them to be better.
"This kind of connection can be helpful to improve the results, the team and results of this club."
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MOZ'Lib is a set of pedagogical tools designed to explore, at the same time: musical writing, creation and computer programming. It is currently developed by two composers based in Paris, Julien Vincenot and Dionysios Papanicolaou, with the support of the Ariane# project (funded by Franche-Comté regionm in East France).
largely based on the bach library by Andrea Agostini and Daniele Ghisi.
to interact through various intuitive interfaces. At all time, it is possible to visualize the result of this idea, under score notation, to listen to this result, and export it to an engraving software such as Finale or Sibelius.
introduction to the vast domain of computer music and computer-aided composition.
The modular aspect of this library also bears a creative and pedagogical spirit.
which is fundamental in computer programming, but also in artistic creation.
N.B.: This first version of MOZ'Lib currently focuses on two musical parameters: melodic pitches and rhythm. Other aspects regarding polyphony (harmony, counterpoint, and orchestration) will be developed in future updates.


Aha. So why is it even insecure on a chat that doesn't have any users at all on it? I am myself using https avatar + https pcback. So I don't count. duh. https://prnt.sc/g3zswv https://prnt.sc/g3zt39 Edit: Sorry. Nevermind. Was my bad, the issue was on my side and I found it.
What does your Desktop Background look like?
Oh damn right, I need to learn reading lmao Edit: Yo, could you guys please check out the BOOT power? It doesn't seem to work anymore aswell. I cannot boot people successfully anymore. Power used 100% correctly.
The issue with the xat embedable radio players is known already. It will be fixed soon I guess.
Well, not in my opinion. I can recognize the apples wonderfully on there. Let the admin take a closer look and think then decide about that neutrally with their own opinions. We just suggest. What should be fixed is the xavi app with this white, though. The HTML5 chat box is a big technical step forward and we should think of new design concepts, since the chat box has been having the current design concept for many years now. Mentioning, I am talking about xat currently having a design that reminds strong of the Windows Vista/7 generation. As a company and social network, I think it would be good to test around with current design fashion consisting of flat, minimalistic design and different shades of transparency. Xat has always been good for it's design in my eyes. I am sure you can be innovative and creative, Tom2 and Bignum.
Not my way I would be taking. I rather prefer the introduction of keyboard shortcuts/button combinations with the upcoming release of the HTML5 chat box for that. For PM, but also other things on xat. What I have in mind for how this would work for PM? Once the assigned shortcut was performed, a little, long window in the chat box pops up with a lock symbol on the very left and a typing box that fills the rest of the window, for you to enter the user ID you wish to PM.
Yo, when I add "//i.imgur.com/0RJnrTv.png" link for example in top CSS or to the below iframe, the PHP filter still converts it into "http://i.imgur.com/0RJnrTv.png" instead of leaving it untouched. Could you fix this please?
Considering our time, this morning at aproximate 11am I edited my group and added it.