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Bauer, Maud, 60 results 60
Niagara Falls (Ont.), 6 results 6
New York City (N.Y.), 5 results 5
Montreal (Quebec), 4 results 4
Toronto (Ont.), 3 results 3
Philadelphia (Pa.), 3 results 3
Glasgow (Scotland), 3 results 3
Field (B.C.), 2 results 2
Atlantic City (N.J.), 2 results 2
Edinburgh (Scotland), 2 results 2
Hull (England), 2 results 2
Bauer, Maud
[Group portrait]
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[Between 1898-1903]
A photo of men, women, and children posing in front of a house. The names are listed but are sometimes difficult to decipher. Family names include: Humphrys, Cross, Peters, Hartley, and Malsby (?).
Field Hotel Mt. Stephen
A view of the hotel with people on the steps and the mountain looming in the background.
[Portrait of three people on a beach]
Caption reads: "M.A., C.H., [Illegible]., Buccaneer Bay".
Mexican Bay
A view of a path through trees towards a body of water.
Agnes Lake
A view of a lake in the shadow of mountains. Caption reads: "Laggan CPR", a previous name for the hamlet of Lake Louise, as well as "mother" with an aarow to a figure in the image's foreground.
People and horses standing in a field with buildings in the background.
[1903-07?]
A view of a body of water with grain elevators on the banks. Caption reads: "Largest grain elevators in the world".
The Party to Niagara
Caption reads: "Mother, Mrs. McInnis, Miss Loftin (?), Mr. Hosteller".
Canadian Falls
A view of Niagara Falls from the Canadian side.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Caption reads: "pop. 560'892" and "Trinity church" and "Copley square".
Cornelius Vanderbilt's Residence "The Breakers"
Caption reads: "Mother in carriage" and "New Port pop 22'034".
Caption reads: "Shearny (?) Sea a beautiful place one of many".
Horticultural Building Philadelphia
A woman (captioned as "Mother") stands among the plants.
American Niagara from Tower
A bird's eye view of the city and the water; with the elder Mrs. Bauer in the foreground. A caption reads: "Shredded wheat factory".
Bridge of Rapids
A bridge with a passing train. Caption reads: "below the falls where Webb the swimmer was drowned" and "very rough".
Crematorium Montreal
A view the front of a large building, with people milling about.
Inside the Crematorium
Caption reads: "All marble & very beautiful".
Conservatory Inside the Crematorium
Caption reads: "Cold storage for coffins in winter".
Interior of St. Anne, Crowded at the Time
[1903-07-29?]
Caption reads: "Notice the priest in pulpit".
Caption reads: "pop 208'040" and "taken from parliament building".
A bird's eye view of the city.
N.Y. Post Office
Caption reads: "Park Row Bldg in rear, 32 stories" and "St Paul Bldg 25 stories" and "St. Paul all ofices" and "32 stories park row bldg" and "hope you like the color".
Flat Iron Building
Presidents Yacht
Liptons Steam Yacht
Exhibition in Museum Philadelphia
A woman sits on the steps of a large building. Caption points out "Mother".
Ready to go Underneath the Falls
Four people dressed in waterproof jackets. One person is labelled "guide" and another "mother". A caption in pen believed to be from a later date reads: "these pictures taken by Nelly (?) Bauer's sister Maud when en-route to Europe 1903".
Niagara from Tower Just Above the Falls
A view of the bridge over the water and the forest. Caption reads: "Bridge across the Canadian falls".
Parliament Buildings Toronto
With people standing out front. Caption reads: "Mother, Mrs. McInnis, & Loftas (?)" and "Toronto ought to have come before Niagara, forgot so leave space".
Park in New York
With people and a large fountain.
New York from Steamer
Caption reads: "pop 3'437'202" and "this is how they developed my good plates" (a reference to some marks on the photo).
Looking at the beach and the city. Caption reads: "from [illegible] pier" and "summer pop. 500.000 pop 50'000 winter".
A bird's eye view of the city, presumably from Mount Royal. Caption reads: "Pop. 267.730
St. Anne de Beaupres Pilgrim Church, Quebec
Caption reads: "pop 68'840".
Old Orchid Beach
A woman walks on the beach. Caption reads: "Portland Maine, pop 50'145".
Treasury Wall St. NY
A view of the street including people and horse-drawn carriages. Caption reads: "New York 3'437'202 pop." and "taken from stock exchange window. Observe the Sieny (?) New York automobile holds 30 people. We went in it".
Philadelphia Pen
A view of the street and large buildings. Caption reads: "pop 293'697" and "masonic temple" and "city hall".
Glasgow University
Caption reads: "These prints ran with the heat in drying them some of the troubles of photography travelling".
Edingburgh from Edinburgh Castle
Caption reads: "Will send a better one later" and "soldiers drilling".
Mother, Mr. Mills, Mrs. Mills
The aforementioned stand on the steps of a house.
[View of mountains]
A badly washed-out image of mountains with some structures and people on the right-hand side. Location unknown, but likely in the Canadian Rockies near Banff.
Steel Pier Atlantic City
A view of the beach and the pier.
Monument Square Glasgow
Capitol Washington
The Capitol Building. Caption reads: "Band concert notice crowds on steps this is where I met Eva Shrapnell".
Cathedral Glasgow
Caption reads: "This has the most beautiful crypts I have seen anywhere".
York Minster from the Old Roman Wall
Caption reads: "A lovely old place".
[Three People and a Dog]
Caption reads: "Rev W. Pearson, Mother, Daisy Pearson, Tammy" and later in pen "Mrs Bauer about 1903 when visiting Eng -Bills Mother".
[Pearson Family Tombs]
There are many captions which read: "This is the Pearson family tombs" and "& Thorne (?) Church where mother's parents were married & she went to church here as a girl" and "I spoilt this developing without conviences" and one more illegible caption. Plus in pen at a later date: "This is church Mrs. Bauer [illegible] went to church and where his grandparents were married".
Rev. Alfred Pearson's Residence & Family
A portrait of men, women, children, and a dog on the steps of a house. Caption reads: "Enid Pearson, Chris Pearson, Leonard Pearson, Ken Pearson, Dorothy Pearson, Freda Pearson, Mother, Mrs. Alfred Pearson, Rev Alfred Pearson, Miss Lilly Pearson". Also: "Sheffield pop. 400'000". Added later in pen is: "England" and "1/2 brother to Mrs. Bauer" (after the title, presumably referring to Alfred Pearson).

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By Rob Lovitt
Healthcare for the Ages, Part II: Why It Still Makes Sense to Market to Baby Boomers
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As noted in last week's post, one key to long-term success for aesthetic practices is to engage Millennials, those 18–35 year olds who have not only become the largest demographic group in the U.S. but who are embracing cosmetic procedures like never before.
Then again, perhaps the only thing worse than ignoring Millennials is focusing on them to the exclusion of other age groups. Baby Boomers, for example, may have lost their standing as the nation's dominant demographic but they still constitute a large and enthusiastic pool of potential patients for aesthetic practices. Here are four reasons why:
They accept getting older; they just don't want to look it
As with every other life stage they've passed through, Boomers are putting their own stamp on their "golden years." Raised in a period of great social change, they believe that challenging conventional wisdom is a good thing and that self-improvement is a worthy goal, whether it entails taking classes or getting a facelift. Seventy may not be the new 50 but for a generation that's not built to grow old quietly, elective aesthetic procedures represent an acceptable tool in their efforts to look as young as they feel.
They know what they want
According to RealSelf research, 41% of women in the U.S. ages 55–64 would consider aesthetic options beyond the retail counter and almost one-half (19%) would consider seeing a plastic surgeon to accomplish their health and beauty goals. And millions of them follow through every year. In 2014, patients ages 51–64, accounted for more than 50% of all brow lifts, neck lifts and facelifts and one-third of all non-surgical procedures in the U.S., according to ASAPS. Older women are also opting for breast reductions and explants, notes the RealSelf Trends blog, often in response to bodily changes after menopause.
They have the wherewithal to pursue it
Having had their careers and emptied their nests, Boomers hold the purse strings to 70% of the nation's disposable income and use it to spend $4.6 trillion a year on consumer goods and services. They also tend to be unburdened by student loans and car payments and, therefore, have the funds to pay for procedures their health insurance won't cover.
They understand the evolutionary nature of healthcare
Once upon a time, there was no WebMD. People had primary care physicians who more or less dictated their healthcare interactions and, by extension, referred them to specialists for specific needs and conditions. For many Boomers, that's still the case as they're far more likely to have a PCP than their younger counterparts. Such referrals are indisputable votes of confidence, underscoring the importance that aesthetic specialists make the effort to facilitate them.
They're more digitally connected than you might think
While it's true that younger consumers are heavier users of technology, it's a mistake to think of older ones as being tied to landlines and cable TV. In fact, 81% of American adults aged 50–64 now use the Internet, according to Pew Internet, and for many, it's the top source for gathering information on topics of interest, outpacing TV and print media by substantial margins. As with other demographic groups, it's impossible to overstate the importance of being present on the platforms where they congregate.
Doctor Takeaway
For aesthetic practices, Baby Boomers can provide a big boost to the bottom line
While marketers are all abuzz over Millennials (and rightfully so given their impact on the world at large), Baby Boomers still represent an important demographic for aesthetic practices. From their desire to look young to their ample disposable incomes, they're not only willing to pursue cosmetic surgery, they have the funds to do so. At the same time, they're smart shoppers; they know what they want, and they're far more likely to patronize practices that understand them and treat them with the respect they've come to expect.
RealSelf Trends
Rob Lovitt
Rob Lovitt is a longtime writer and editor who believes every good business has a great story to tell. He has written for dozens of magazines and websites, including NBCnews.com, Expedia.com and the inflight magazines of Alaska, Horizon and Frontier airlines.
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Ongoing series of color mini-series.
In this near-future science fiction series, corporate power, organized crime, corrupt politicians, and immoral technology have mutated democracy into a fascist monster. The government censors books, newscasts, even music, to limit the threat of free speech. In contrast, self-indulgence is eagerly endorsed, including prostitution and recreational drugs. After all, a populace preoccupied with instant gratification is less likely to foment rebellion. The Orwellian styled government deceives the public with a false video deity, the Golden Man. Large underground movements vie for diverse results (anarchy, Marxism, the return of true democracy, etc.) amid increased political terrorism and computer crimes.
Society itself is a mishmash of pop culture from past generations. This immediate future has no identity of its own, so it must rely on the past. Hence, architecture utilizes styles ranging from ultra-modern to 50's futuristic. Even the hovering cars are of various makes and styles (both weirdly modern and historically influenced). There is an enormous free market of entrepreneurs, entertainers, engineers, scientists, mercenaries, even law enforcement agencies (which have taken over police functions), all signing up with big corporations or, in some cases, enslaved via neurological implants.
Unknown to the general public, the last of a dying race of aliens is living in the United States. In exchange for highly lucrative patents to life-changing alien technology, a secret cadre of corrupt politicians and corporate executives hides the aliens from society and brings them kidnapped women for breeding. For now, the aliens allow themselves to be at the mercy of humans because of their low number. But their long-range plans are for much more than that.
One man knows the secret, and he's taking matters into his own hands. He was given a scientifically enhanced super-body, he stole powerful alien weapons, and he's beginning to master the aliens' cybermysticism. As Masque, he will go to war in an effort to dispense justice and rehabilitate America. Only a new identity—a mysterious being exaggerated by the imagination—will have the power to spur the sleepwalking public into action. Only Masque can expose the truth behind the future of democracy, and incite the Second American Revolution.


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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay: Book Three of the Neapolitan Novels (Europa editions, 2014) 418 pages
***SPOILER ALERT***
The third book in the Neapolitan Novels series opens with the revelation that Gigliola, Michele Solara's wife and a former friend of our protagonists Lila and Lenu, is dead. The once beautiful Gigliola is now a broken, physical wreck - her beauty and body ruined, her dead body abandoned on a roadside. For the reader, it appears a terrifying harbinger of the future troubles of our two protagonists that we have come to love.
It is now 2010. Lenu has not seen Lila in five years and recounts a night spent with Lila in which Lila details the difficult time she has had since she abandoned her husband, the successful grocer Stefano, and her comfortable life style as a stylish Napolitana matron married to one of the richest men in the neighborhood forty years before. Things have not gone well for Lila it seems.
At the end of The Story of a New Name, Book Two in the series (please see here for a review), Lenu has published her first book of fiction and is poised to be married to Pietro, a mild mannered if dull academic from an important family. Italy is in the throes of political chaos in the 1960s. Lenu's book is promoted (and scorned) as a prototype of an exciting, new type of modern woman in Italian society provoking mixed reviews for its risqué material some of which is based on her real life experiences as a young woman such as her unpleasant deflowering at the hands of Nino's lecherous father Donato on the beaches of Ischia. With despair, she notes that the only thing that her Naples neighbors want to speak of regarding her book is the "dirty bits".
Lenu is thrilled (and mortified) to re-encounter Nino, her long-time object of love and now also an academic, at a public reading at which he defends Lenu's book before the old guard - a cantankerous professor who dismisses her book. When Lenu's future mother-in-law invites Nino to a post-launch celebration she is both terrified and aroused at the possibility of a final tryst with Nino before her impending marriage. With the arrival of her fiancée Pietro, these hopes are dashed. But that is not the last we see of Nino.
With a lingering regret, Lenu proceeds with her engagement to Pietro. The sting of class disparity wounds her - it's not just the clothes and material possessions of her in-laws, it is the manner in which they speak, their political and cultural interests, their confidence that fills her with insecurity and despair. She feels that the stigma of her humble origins clings to her like a bad smell.
Invited to speak at a university campus about her book, Lenu gets swept into a student demonstration and re-encounters her old university flame Franco with whom her future sister-law Mariarosa is sleeping. She also meets Silvia, a young radical with a newborn baby, which triggers an almost nostalgic desire to be with Lila as well as new maternal feelings in the soon-to-be bride. Lenu learns that Nino is the father of the newborn, whom he has abandoned (as he did Lila's child Gennaro). The ugliness of this revelation is like a punch in the face for the reader; we have pinned our hopes on the virtuous Nino as an exemplar of a new type of manhood which shines against the background of the young women's brutal upbringing and dealings with men.
This encounter cements Lenu's desire to reunite with Lila and try and help her and her child Gennaro.
Lenu returns to her family home in Naples before the wedding, drowning in her mother's hostility and resistance to her modest, areligous wedding plans. Pietro must (and does) charm the Carraci family - the hostile mother, the under-confident father, the boorish siblings. (Later we learn from Lenu's biting perspective that Pietro is only natural when dealing with his "inferiors.")
Soon Lenu is summoned to Lila's bedside; Lila is ill and appears to be dangerously hallucinating. Lila speaks of her experience in the sausage factory where she works: the harsh working conditions, the sexual harassment of female employees, the interminable hours, the brutality of Bruno the owner and one time friend of Nino's. Meek, gentle Bruno has become the ruthless, abusive employer who invites female employees into a private room to sexually harass them and suppresses union activity.
As Lila becomes more politically active, she also immerses herself in the violence surrounding the labour conditions in the factory. Anti-union fascists clash with left wing activists - Lila notes with surprise old friends and neighbors on both sides of the political conflict – on the factory grounds. Lila is blamed as she had provided information about conditions at the factory. After being summoned to Bruno's office, Lila encounters her old nemesis Michele Solara who, it appears, has been paying Bruno to keep her employed. After suffering through his insults, Lila quits in a rage - an act of rebellion she can ill afford.
Lenu takes charge of Lila and her child using all of her power and in-laws' contacts to protect her friend - obtaining her final wages, seeing to her medical needs, caring for Gennaro. We see the advantage of class and connections that Lenu's pending marriage to Pietro affords - access to the best doctors, lawyers and political contacts. But an encounter with her old professor and her daughter Nadia, who has taken up with Pasquale, a construction worker from the old neighborhood, present a different slant on Lenu's involvement in the affairs of the factory. Conditions have worsened they say bitterly - those brave ones who agitated for reform were punished, those were remained silent rewarded. Worse, for Lenu, her professor appears to have more respect for Lila's efforts than Lenu's writing and barely speaks of Lila's book. Ah, the ego of a writer. Lenu leaves mortified and angry.
Her brief sojourn in Naples reveals a group of unhappy and dissatisfied friends and family. What use are all the fine things that Lenu has purchased for her own family if she cannot bear to be with them? Despite her marriage to Michele, Gigiola bitterly complains that Michele is still in love Lila and treats his wife like a whore. Alfonso confesses he is gay and marries Marisa only to escape detection of his true desires.
Once married and living in Florence, Lenu immediately becomes pregnant regardless of her desire to put off bearing a child for a while. Lila meanly predicts difficulties ahead for Lenu and has somehow "jinxed" Lenu's pregnancy. The child has trouble latching, likely has colic and Lenu is worn down caring for both child and household. We finally see what Pietro is made of - apparently not much. He resents Lenu's complaints of being overwhelmed, does little to help her and even complains when his mother comes to assist them. There is some sort of bitterness between mother and son – does he resent his mother's professional accomplishments? Would he prefer that Lenu remain a devoted housewife and mother whose career is secondary to his? It is a terrible realization for Lenu - no matter what your class or status - in this society, at this time, your needs are always secondary to your male partner's.
When Lenu learns that Bruno, the factory owner, has been savagely murdered in his office she first suspects that it is Lenu who was responsible – but the truth is more shocking than that. The leftist violence seems to engender a desire in her to leave and join the orgy of violence and percolating revolutionary strife rather than remain a wife and mother.
Reluctantly, Lenu bears a second baby. She appears to withdraw into a more domestic role, her confidence shattered. But unlike Lenu, Lila appears to be excelling - obtaining a career in the computer industry with Enzo, now her partner, and forging a relationship with Solaras' businesses much to Lenu's horror. Lenu cannot escape the old neighborhood when her sister begins to live with Marcello Solara, when the Solara matriarch is murdered, when she learns that Bruno was likely murdered by Nadia and Pasquale. Violence in the old neighborhood continues - old friends die or are beaten for their political beliefs. The subtext is ominous – she will never escape from these people, from the violence and treachery, from the sense of degradation and self-hate.
Lenu attempts a second novel. Pietro is uninterested in her progress. Her mother-in-law dislikes it and even Lila appears repulsed by its explicit content. Marriage appears a kind of nightmare which "stripped coitus of all humanity". Pietro disappoints, motherhood disappoints; she feels that her education has been for naught.
And then re-enter Nino, our presumptive Prince Valiant of the Naples slums who approves of her creative efforts and urges her to finish her second book (is there a more potent aphrodisiac for a progressive woman – a man who thinks you are smart and a talented writer?). Now married with a rich if vulgar wife and a son, Nino befriends Pietro only to betray him.
Shockingly (am I the only reader to think so?) Nino and Lenu start an affair. She demands that he leave his wife, he demands she leave Pietro. Both do and in the final scene they are aboard a plane to France. Is it possible that Lenu will finally be happy? On to Book Four …
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Home Security ISP Wiretapping May Be Legal, But Risky
ISP Wiretapping May Be Legal, But Risky
By Sean Michael Kerner | February 19, 2010
When law enforcement officials need help with an investigation, they'll often lean on Internet service providers to collect information from network transmissions. As a result, ISPs commonly use technology known as lawful intercept to gather data that could further the cause.
But not all lawful intercept technologies are created equally, as an IBM researcher demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference. eSecurity Planet takes a look at the potential vulnerability in the system.
Various jurisdictions around the world have legal requirements to ensure that voice and data traffic can be wiretapped in the interest of public safety and national security. According to an IBM researcher, that same requirement for wiretapping, or lawful intercept of data, could potentially be abused by an attacker.
IBM Internet Security Systems researcher Tom Cross today detailed during a live Black Hat Webcast event some of the specific issues he uncovered looking into a lawful-intercept implementation developed by Cisco. Cisco's architecture for lawful intercept is now used by more than 15 vendors.
In the U.S., lawful intercept capabilities on Internet infrastructure are a legal requirement under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). Cross noted that many ISPs meet their CALEA compliance obligations by implementing Cisco's lawful intercept technology. The Cisco architecture is published as Internet RFC 3924, and provides a mechanism for a network to send data to law enforcement, but is not a blanket 'sniffing' of all traffic, according to Cross.
"There are other architectures for lawful intercept and some of them involve putting a fiber optic splitter in the network and taking all the content and moving it over to law enforcement," Cross said in a response to a question from InternetNews.com. "The difference between that approach and the Cisco one is that there is no involvement from the ISP in the process of determining whether or not the law-enforcement agency had the permission to access the content they are accessing."
Wiretapping the Internet: Legal and Dangerous?


Anyone who knows me in person knows I have talked about earning my way to being a licensed professional counselor. Those of us who are autistic can use someone that has walked in similar shoes to understand better what we're going through. That is going to be a tall order though…yet I still plan to do it.
In the mean time, I want to help by providing education to the non-autistic population that we simply cannot just provide with individual efforts. So, I have started the process of creating a non-profit organization dedicated to telling the stories of people who are autistic. It's not going to be built overnight, but it is an effort I believe in. It's an effort that other autistic people have shown support for as well. There is a desire to have a collective voice not just for the autistic population, but by the autistic population as well.
I will post more about this effort as things are accomplished.
I'm borrowing this premise from a prominent and outspoken advocate for the autistic community online. She does good work because she is also autistic, like I am.
Really. Are you normal? What is normal? Can anything be declared normal in this world? Unfortunately, that answer can only be yes in social connotations. You think you like labels? Many autistic people like labels that much more because it helps give order to our corner of the universe. This is order that many of us crave and need. But we are also hyper-aware that labels can be hazardous to perception of someones abilities.
Before you cast judgement, please be aware what that judgement means to them.
I'm sure there could be others I am missing. If I am missing one you celebrate, please feel free to let me know. I just didn't do extraneous research before writing this blog.
No, this blog isn't about holiday tradition in the winter. That is, except for one tradition that seems to transcend all of these celebrations: the giving of gifts. We all see the craziness to get the last of the hot holiday gift left in stock. (That craziness is even immortalized in Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Jingle All The Way.") We see the craziness of delivery drivers working overtime because people have made order after order on Amazon.
While gift giving often straps the financial resources, let me be the first to offer my temporal resources.
I would be happy to spend my time with and for anyone who is autistic. Do you need some help with something? Do you need an ear? Do you need strategy to help with someone else understanding what it means for you to be autistic?
However you celebrate, celebrate well.
Every autistic person has at least one sense that can get overstimulated. They don't all realize it, but that is one of the major hallmarks of the neuro type.
When I say overstimulated, I'm talking about too much information. Remember Johnny 5 from the movie Short Circuit?
Whenever an autistic person gets overstimulated, we need the opposite. We need less input. Frankly, the copious amounts of input we are getting are causing our own brain to short circuit. The reactions you see from us are the response of not being able to process the input. We just want it to stop.
These meltdowns can show up easier at times whenever we are already stressed about something. If there is no way to control the input, there is no way to control the meltdown.
It took awhile for me to understand where my overstimulation can happen, but now I do. It's from noise. Not just any noise. Not just any loud noise.
Sometimes it is from a noise that is overly loud compared to everything else. When a noise like this happens not just once, but multiple times, it causes physical stress. A perfect example is a college football game I attended earlier this year. The PA system was turned up so loud that it was likely too loud for the far end of the stadium.
What sends me in the direction of shutdown or meltdown though is multiple sounds, all at the same volume level. I had this happen to me most recently at a restaurant in Denver. The noise of everyone in the restaurant talking was the same volume as the music was at the same volume as another source. What saved me from losing it that evening was focusing on the TV up ahead of me that had closed caption running. Forcing my attention on that closed caption kept me from a poor reaction that night (though I did still end up overly stressed at the end of the night).
For a few years, I seriously thought about entering the military. The structure and routine of being in the military was something attractive. I knew that would be an environment I would flourish in.
Why did I never go?
I will tell you the simple reason first. I couldn't run the mile in fifth grade during the President's Physical Fitness Challenge any faster than 14 minutes. Everyone else ran it in 8:30-9:30. I knew I hadn't gotten any better at it by the time I hit high school. That didn't give a lot of hope to get past boot camp. I had read that, even in the Air Force (which had a six week training period at the time), you would wash out if you failed the physical portion three times in a row.
What's my other reason? I had no confidence I could finish boot camp. I just knew I would react poorly to the environment. I could never conjure more explanation then that. Now I can.
Boot camp, now known as Basic Military Instruction (or BMI), is a sensory overload experience.
I always thought I would flourish if I could just get past boot camp. But for now, it's just nostalgic reminiscing.
The best piece of advice we received in pre-marital counseling was that we'd each have a view on things based on the way we were raised. So, while we may have had some disagreements, misunderstandings, or minor conflicts, we've never had what could truly be defined as a fight. We both credit this to that one piece of advice.
We all hate when they aren't met.
But what happens when you can do nothing about them?
My wife and I had a conversation about this the other night. I really had no idea how much she was struggling with the whole concept of expectations versus reality with our son, who is also autistic.
My wife absolutely loves our son. She has also been able to tell from the beginning that he was not what others might refer to as "normal". But as he's gotten older, he has progressed. He's an awesome kid, but has missed what most people consider important benchmarks.
Several days ago, she mad a wide public acknowledgement on Facebook that our son is autistic, What she didn't say is how lost she was feeling about the whole situation. She's having trouble leaving behind expectations for new ones.
After her Facebook post, several people exclaimed how she will be a great advocate.
In the mean time, whether it's thoughts, prayers, or good energy…send some for her and in her direction. Everyone needs to be propped up by others from time to time.
Another entry today. Another chance to help educate about autism. Another chance to explain a weird eccentricity about myself even though it is totally normal to me.
Many autistic people are hyper-aware about certain details. There is a focus. They are drawn to the little tidbits. And now, I feel like I am completing an assignment in a language arts class, because I feel I described this in the very first sentence.
Many autistic people are hyper-aware about things. They will often be things that a neurotypical person might not ever think twice about.
Yes, yes, I did. It was the least cringe-worthy of them I could find. It was better than some hokey graphic that said "HYPER AWARE"!
Now, let me tell you WHY I have such a problem with them.
I identify people by their face. I don't even remember names that much unless it is someone I am super familiar with. But I never forget a face. My wife can confirm that. I am always saying "oh I know that person" when we watch a TV show. But it's not A-list stars. It's the people that have one-off appearances in TV shows, or supporting parts in movies.
I was giving my wife a lesson in what goes on in my head when we were looking at a bunch of old family pictures the other evening. I was pointing out how one person looks like another person because of one specific part of the face or another.
The one thing I told her is that I always start with the eyes. Always.
This whole thing is why I hate these filters. They screw with the eyes first. It's not that the filters make the eyes different. They make them UNNATURAL! It offends sensibilities I didn't know I had!


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Q: Positioning a background image within an  element This fiddle shows a close icon positioned next to some text in an  element (this is used to close a Bootstrap tab). The HTML looks like this:

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So there's a span immediately after the text, with a class of closeIcon, and the css sets a background image for the icon.
This works great for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera, but fails miserably for IE11 - the icon appears on the next line down. I haven't tried it for IE <11, but it presumably doesn't work there either.
Any idea how can I can fix this for IE? The CSS is:
.closeIcon {
  width:16px;
  height:16px;
  float:right;
  margin:2px -10px 0 4px;
  background:url('http://s21.postimg.org/jam8gpcr7/themes_windows_global_icons_close.png') 0 0;
}

Thanks.

A: Use the background shorthand to position the element and change the display to inline-block as opposed to than floating it.
Example Here
.closeIcon {
    width:16px;
    height:16px;
    margin:2px -10px 0 4px;
    display:inline-block;
    background: url('http://s21.postimg.org/jam8gpcr7/themes_windows_global_icons_close.png') -1px 4px / 64px 16px no-repeat;
}

The floating element was the culprit.

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Posted by John M. Greco in Elaboration on a Quote
"We are not enemies, but friends.
We must not be enemies.
Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection.
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
— President Abrahan Lincoln, first inaugural address, 1861.
For those of us in the U.S., we have just seen our democratic process play out once again in electing our President.
Once again, true to recent trends, the country is divided and polarized. The issues divide us, and there are many. Though the issues are quite complex, our discourse is often oversimplified, providing only the stark contrast and not the murky middle.
And we all too easily slip into demonizing the family, friends, and neighbors that hold the differing views.
Politicians and special interests have fed our frenzy with their onslaught of political ads that were unflinchingly, aggressively negative.
It has been like we are at war. With each other. A verbal civil war. Though far from civil.
It's useful to recall that Lincoln's words above were delivered on the eve of the American Civil War…
Today, while we are not at war with each other, the incivilities cannot be counted insignificant.
Perhaps you, like me, have experienced the polarization up close and personal.
People that I've called friends for many years are now estranged. We can't seem to sustain a political conversation any more, in person or electronic. The views on both sides of the divide have hardened. What pushes us apart has overwhelmed what over the years had sustained our togetherness.
Can we — you, and me, and our political leaders —stop the demonizing?
Though our passionate opinions have strained our bonds and overshadowed our commonalities, we all have better angels, no?
Time we summon them up …
15 thoughts on "Better Angels"
Amanda said:
I know that Spielberg said the opening date of his new Lincoln biopic was deliberately set for after the election (so as not to be viewed as another Hollywood ploy to sway voters). But I'm still looking forward to it because I hope it will offer words of healing and unity for all of us. I recall, too well, the 'blue state blues' I experienced after the 2004 election. I'm happy with the outcome of the election but I'm sad about what my friends and family members, with differing views, are feeling. I hope we can all rise above it all.
Suzanna said:
Great blog John….especially the reference to the murky middle. That is where I live and no candidates fit that bill.
Suzanna, I am hopeful that the middle is murky only because we have been pushed so far to the sides … so perhaps with some movement back there is a middle ground for all of us to stand on?
Mary said:
If only all of our Congressmen and Senators were linked to your blog.
Now there's an interesting thought! Ha!
Paul Hynds said:
Well said John!
Kevin O'Brien said:
John – sadly, there is no value placed on civility, or compromise, or making decisions that will benefit the most. That said, reading this and the comments suggests it is right for us to maintain hope, to believe that the better angels of our nature can still rule the day.
Know hope.
donordreams said:
John . . . the big reason for all of this is because it is necessary and it is how our system is set-up. This all feels way too personal because it is and it has to be. Elections are about our collective, shared values. And as an OD guy, you know how powerful and emotional a values discussion can be in the workplace during a planning process. Now take that to a 350 million people level and it gets magnified.
I for one won't apologize for making these election periods emotional and personal. My family, friends, and neighbors engage in very personal discussions about who I am and the decisions that I've made as a gay man who has decided to "live in the light" and stop lurking in the dark corners of our society.
"Policy discussions" about DOMA, ENDA, DADT, etc aren't "policy discussions," they are values discussions, which are personal and upsetting. There is implied judgement in those discussions and in the end there are people who are saying "in not so many words" that I am going to "hell". It doesn't get more personal than that.
Stop the demonizing? Sure. Our better angels? OK. I will try harder, but that is certainly a two way street. Please ask your straight friends if they will agree to this truce because I never wanted this fight in the first place.
Aren't you glad you asked? 😉
Happy post-election day, John. See you at the polls in a few months (is there ever a time when we don't have an election?)
Erik, great points, truly, and I track with you on all of them save one.
Stopping the demonizing and summoning our better angels is not a two-way street. You are implying that you are making your behavior conditional on others, and when you do that, you become powerless.
You and I, independently, unilaterally, can choose another approach. Your choice, and mine, will undoubtedly influence each other, and that dynamic is up for grabs, but the choice is not dependent on other choices.
Choose to be powerful. Choose to act consistent with your values, and not in response to others' behaviors…
Pete Brush said:
If you promise to stop using your Facebook account as a Jehovah's Witness-type of Democratic propaganda & recruiting outpost, I think that those of us on the 48% side would be more than amenable to a Beer Summit in the very near future!
PS: I still like Pat Benetar no matter how much my wife makes fun of me
Hey Pete.
Interesting proposition. Unfortunately, as proposed, I have to decline. That's not a promise I can keep… With no conditions, though, the beer summit comes into play!
paul said:
Beer Summit……huh? What ever happened to an old fashion beer quality team? Let the fishboneing begin!
Mike A. said:
Sorry I am late to add a response to this one! Personally I view the Political wrangling that takes place as a distraction that keeps the masses divided so the greedy politicians can take care of their own. If we are waiting for either party to solve our problems, then I have some swamp land to sell you. America was not built as a Democracy where majority rules, put a Republic; where every individual's rights are protected. The more we delegate our responsibilities to our political leaders the weaker we become as a nation. This country seems to care more about what freebies they could get from the government, then looking inward asking how they could make a difference. Government use to be a very small part of GDP and the strength of this country was our communities along with a strong family units. Unfortunately 40% of children being born these days are to a single parent and government has more control over our society then every before. It's time to stop complaining about getting hurt feelings and step up and make a difference.
Criminy, Mike; the wrangling is a conspiracy and all the politicians left and right and in between are in on it? Surely you are just blowing off steam …
The not a democracy but a republic comment is interesting; I'll have to chew on that a bit.
What responsibilities are we delegating to our leaders?
And then you go off the rails. You want to live in yesterday's world, with simpler problems and a whole lot less complex society. Good luck with that! Everything evolves, everything changes, including the role of government.
And who's complaining about hurt feelings? Really? I'm just looking for productive conversation, reasonable compromise, and decision making…
Can you say more about how to step up and make a difference?


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The tuff villages: a piece of history in stone
|In Maremma, Tourism
|By CASCATE DEL MULINO
ph. credits: Alice Pruccoli
In Maremma you can walk along the ancient streets dug entirely in the tuff by the Etruscans. They are called the Vie Cave, roads used since the seventh century BC. that connected the necropolis and the most inhabited villages of the Etruscan civilization in Maremma. Three of them were Pitigliano, Sorano and Sovana – also known as the villages of Tuff – to which we will devote this article.
Pitigliano is a typical example of medieval town built on a spur of tuff that was excavated in Etruscan times. One of Pitigliano's peculiarities are its underground cellars, a consequence of the malleability of the volcanic rock on which it was built, which allowed the construction of a special room under every house to store food, oil and wine. Olive trees and vines cultivated in the countryside surrounding Pitigliano give life to the characteristic Maremman oil and the famous "Bianco di Pitigliano".
It is also known as the "little Jerusalem" for its central role in the life of some Jewish families since the sixteenth century. The Ghetto and the Synagogue are two of the most important places full of history that should not be missed.
Sovana
Sovana is considered one of the most beautiful villages in Italy, for the way it has preserved its medieval atmosphere. It is located at 7 km from Pitigliano and in its territory there are several Etruscan necropolis and a part of the Vie Cave. In the past it was an important Etruscan village, then medieval and renaissance, therefore avoiding any restructuring of the Baroque period.
The Rocca Aldobrandesca, situated at the entrance of the village and built in the XI century, was used as a defensive center. Other points of interest are the Piazza del Pretorio, the Duomo and the church of Santa Maria Maggiore.
To complete the journey through the Tuff villages, a visit to Sorano is the ideal conclusion: tuff houses, narrow alleys and historic buildings of various architectures. Sorano, like Sovana and Pitigliano, is an Etruscan village with a peculiarity: its strategic position. As in Pitigliano, the little Jerusalem, Jewish communities have lived here for several centuries, so Sorano also has a Ghetto and a Synagogue, which can still be visited today.
Don't miss the Mure Cittadine and the two access gates, known as Porta di Sopra and Porta di Sotto – ancient stone buildings that will take you back in time – the Orsini Fortress, the Collegiate Church and the Masso Leopoldino.
The tuff indicates the volcanic nature of the soil and consequently the richness of the thermal waters of a territory. The Terme di Sorano are accessible to the public while the famous Terme di Saturnia are 30 km away.
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Larger, lighter, airier – the new Röwer & Rüb loose boxes are really something else. The improvements make the popular all-rounder even more attractive for small and large stables, as the variable modular system adapts to your individual requirements - for two or 200 horses, with or without a paddock, in a row, across a corner or in a U-shape.
Larger: The loose boxes are now available in different sizes. With up to 16 square metres the row stalls offer large horses bags of space, and the head and corner stalls with a footprint of up to 30 square metres are also suitable for mares with foals, as a foaling stall or as a saddle and fodder store.
More friendly: The stalls are as bright as day thanks to the new, even wider light ridge made of twin-wall sheets.
Airier: Fresh air is always provided, even if when you are away. A sensor automatically opens and closes the one metre wide ventilation flaps in the roof ridge. Air is also supplied through the flaps in the stall door - which ensures good circulation without draughts.
With the large roof overhang and the option to attach paddocks, the Röwer & Rüb loose boxes meet all the requirements of modern and individual horse management, providing ideal conditions for your horses. See for yourself!
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First look at Obama's tax cut deal
No hike for the wealthy is traded for 13 months of jobless benefits, and a few other goodies
By Andrew Leonard
President Barack Obama is seen walking the hallways during his tour the Bio-technology program at Forsyth Tech Community College in Winston-Salem, N.C., Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)
The Daily Caller is reporting that Obama's negotiators have reached a deal on tax cuts with Republicans.
In exchange for extending tax cuts for everyone for two years, congressional Republicans have agreed to extend unemployment benefits for 13 months.
Other details include a temporary two percent reduction in payroll taxes to replace Obama's "Making Work Pay" tax credit from the 2009 stimulus bill, and a compromise on the estate tax, which will be set for two years at 35 percent, with a $5 million exemption amount.
According to the Daily Caller, the White House presented the details of the deal to congressional Democratic leaders on Monday afternoon. Earlier in the day, Bloomberg reported that the afternoon meeting was to "discuss negotiations."
There's a big difference between "discussing" negotiations and "presenting" a proposal, and it's hard to know just how much to credit the conservative-leaning Daily Caller as a source, but it seems pretty clear that momentum toward a deal is accelerating. And it might also be worth noting that there is some, albeit limited, good news for progressives here. As far as tax cuts go, reducing the payroll tax is generally applauded by left-leaning economists as relatively stimulative. A partial reinstatement of the estate tax is also an improvement on the status quo.
UPDATE: Firedoglake's David Dayen provides a distressing reality check on the estate tax "compromise."
The $5 million, 35% estate tax is a crime. That's LOWER than the lowest rate under the Bush estate tax, outside of 2010, when the estate tax disappeared. So Republicans get that restored at the lowest rate in history. Even in this weekend's aborted tax bill in the Senate, Max Baucus included what has become the default Democratic policy, a return to 2009 rates, with a $3.5 million dollar exemption and a 45% rate. (Personally, I favor just returning to Clinton levels.)
There's no way on the planet to describe that policy as stimulative. You're just giving more money to the heirs of the ultra-rich. And the cost is $91 billion more than the Baucus/Democratic plan over 10 years, and hundreds of billions over current law. By linking this extension to the rest of the Bush tax cuts, it ensures they'll move together practically forever.
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Of course, to be fair, my to-do list looked like "clean out all five of your junk drawers-because no one needs that many junk drawers" …but still….time is flying by!
The CD player turned out to be Ransom's new favorite thing and he will literally listen to books ALL DAY if I let him.
But the other thing that he has on absolute repeat are these gems that you all need to stop and purchase RIGHT NOW.
They are actually right out of my own cassette tape filled childhood and a few years ago I remembered them, did a little research and was happy to find that they'd been converted to CD and could be easily purchased online.
These wonderful stories are each based on a different composer and tell a fun little kid friendly story that tells you facts about that composers life, all the while playing a wide selection of his music in the back ground. Turns out this was how, to this day, I can "name that composer" about 90 percent of the time on my classical music station- and also smugly tell Brett that it was Beethoven's 7th Symphony that made that scene in the last X-men so powerful. All that said-these CDs are WONDERFUL even if you DON'T want to be a classical music snob. They're really entertaining and a great way to fritter away an hour on your next road trip. Or if you're my kid, you'll just listen to them over and over again for a week straight.
So, here's the link to my three favorite. There are others. But you NEED to start with these three!


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The Revivalists & Neal Francis at Red Rocks Amphitheatre
The Revivalists & Neal Francis Tickets
What happens when you raise rock a band in New Orleans? Well, you end up with an Alt-rock jam band with blazing saxophones and trumpets! You end up with The Revivalists! Playing at Red Rocks Amphitheater on Friday, June 11th 2021 is The Revivalists and Neal Francis! Grab your tickets to one of the most unique jam bands out there and get yourself to Red Rocks and get ready to revel in an amped up, heavy jam band style show, it's going to be a fantastic night of moving and shaking with The Revivalists on tour with their unique sound and distinctly New Orleans vibe.
The Revivalists are an eight-piece band consists of Ed Williams on pedal steel guitar, David Shaw with the soulful lead vocalist, Zack Feinberg on guitar, Rob Ingraham swinging the saxophone, George Gekas on bass guitar, Andrew Campanelli beating the drums, Michael Girardot pushing the keys and playing the trumpet, and Paulet "PJ" Howard also beating some drums. They are an American rock band formed in New Orleans, Louisiana, they have set themselves apart from the alt-rock pack with their unique blend of twangy pedal steel guitar, blazing saxophone, and the soulful croon of frontman David Shaw. In 2015, they were named by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of "10 Bands You Need to Know" and in 2016, their song "Wish I Knew You" reached No. 1 on the Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart and No. 1 on the Alternative Songs chart in 2017. They have four studio albums, Vital signs, City of Sound, Men Amongst Mountains, Take Good Care and two EPs The Revivalists, and Made In Muscle Shoals.


Hypnosis Forum | HypnosisOnline.com - Help me locate back ground music.
I am in need of soothing back ground music ( you know the music I mean- nondescript). I need this music for the tapes I make for my clients. It is much better than just my voice, although I have an excellent voice.
Please, just serious responses. I feel I'm sticking my neck out by announcing my email.
We have added the items to our bookstore in the music section. There are some WAV samples from it there as well. The price includes the royalty fee for unlimited use in the background of any tape or CD you make.
I have just ordered (but not rec'd yet) tapes for my sessions, they are royalty-free. About $35.00 each 30 min. tape. But royalty free. They are hard to find, eh?
I have not had much luck so far and looked diligently for months. I would like to know if you find other. I am looking too.
carry their minds so far away that music would only interfere.
I don't think you need any "hypnosis" per say music to induce trance. First off there really isn't any, and secondly it's a matter of personal preference. I like music by Enya, environmental sounds, soft jazz, Enigma is cool, especially Enigma I, Windham piano, tubular bells, harp music and most any music for meditation. Hopes this helps.
I use the sound of running water for this. A small ornamental fountain that you plug in (Franks Nursery and Crafts). Using this to focus the conscious mind on works especially well in using a sensory "overload" type of induction. About two to three minutes in I instruct the client to pick out the melody of the water and then the rythym etc.
Reporting back ... I did receive the tape I ordered from HypnosisToday. I ordered the one called Crowning Glory. It is wonderful but too short. You may want to do what I did and double up on a longer tape for sessions over 30 minutes.
The music is really wonderful and very non-obtrusive. It is my opinion that music designed specifically for the hypnosis experience by someone knowledgable of the waves we are striving to create, is an enhancement to the whole experience.
Yes, there are as many tastes in music as people. The objective here is to make the music nondescript and not very melodic, so that it is not a style that the client notices or has an opinion of. Melodic music is and will be a distraction. As music is a background compliment to your wonderful hypnotic voice only, and they are not actively listening as they are drifting, they SENSE the music, and are therefore not analyzing it.
I personally use what I want in live sessions. I always use music. Never have I had an objection or a concern from a client. But since you can't send them home (well, legally) with a reinforcement tape with copyrighted music, this music is a great option. I'm glad there are those out there creating it for those of us with a need for it.
You need a computer with a soundcard. There are some really relaxing settings.
I like it. Although time consuming, I am going to record ocean surf (only 3 hrs away). A tax deductable trip?
I have a mixer and am mixing these sounds with the musical sound. You can bearly hear the music but not subliminal. Thank's for the response.


Today is GCSE results day and I can't believe that it has been 2 years since I received mine. I remember how sick I felt that morning. I was worried I hadn't achieved BB in science and therefore I wouldn't be able to go to the college of my choice. However, I did get the grades I wanted and I have just finished my two years at college.
Now I'm off to university and I can't help but think how insignificant GCSE results feel. They seem pointless. They were useful for getting into college but now they mean nothing. Well, English and Maths will always be useful considering universities want you to have at least a B grade in both subjects (I got an A in both. Don't ask how!). In all honesty, since I got my place at uni, A Levels now seem insignificant too. It's strange really.
Two weeks on Saturday I'm moving out and I haven't done any packing. My room is still exactly the same as it always is and nothing is in boxes. I have never moved house before in my life so I don't know how to go about packing. It just seems difficult to decide what to take as I can leave a lot of stuff at home. My room at home is a lot bigger than the one at uni will be so I only need to take the necessary things.
I say 'necessary' but I will be taking pointless things like my record collection. Or maybe I'll just take a few records. I don't have a record player so I can't listen to them, but they do make lovely decorations for my room.
I'm going to keep myself busy for the next few weeks, just to keep my mind off things. I'm still feeling really nervous, but after talking to other people I know I am not alone.
Tests in general used to give me stress, didn't matter how important the results have been.
Packing, never fun. The first time I moved I didn't have a clue how to pack and it ended up taking forever. For this trip out to phoenix, its only temporary and were staying in a furnished apartment and are going back to alb when all this is over. I didn't have a clue what to bring.
It's so annoying how we work so hard and it all seems like nothing once its over. Gladly we are progressively moving up that education chain and into the real world. Slightly scary though huh?
Packing was the hardest thing for me too, I literally did everything 2 days before because putting it off was easier than actually packing.
1. What's your most cherish memory?
2. Favourite TV show and why?
I hope moving goes well! When I first moved, I left a lot of things at my parents' house and just grabbed them as I needed them since they weren't far away. The longer I lived away from home, the more I accumulated from just buying things on my own.
1. How did you choose your major?
2. Where would you really like to visit one day?
My stuff is in boxes but i'm not prepared but I still have 6 weeks until I move to uni 😐 Annoying.
1. How did you find/do you think you'll find balancing blogging and studying?


These dessert bars are exactly as described… A DREAM.
The best part: they're healthy and totally easy to make too. This isn't a special recipe I created at all, it's literally just the recipe on the back of the Trader Joes Organic Maca Powder bag… I just renamed it because I thought it's name needed to match it's taste. Try them out for yourself!
Add all ingredients except water to a for processor and blend until the mixture is finely chopped and sticky enough to roll into a soft dough.
Press blended contents into a lined (I just used wax paper) 8×8 pan and freeze for 45 minutes (the recipe on the bag calls for a half hour at least but to be safe go with at least 45 minutes).
They're completely vegan and gluten free.
These are seriously such a great little snack for when you're running around or to lazy to make an actual meal. Totally healthy so I'm not mad that my husband is obsessed with them.


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Symphonic Rock Legends Renaissance Announce 50th Anniversary Fall Tour 2019
ASHES ARE BURNING with Symphonic Rock Legends Renaissance Featuring Annie Haslam
In celebration of their 50th Anniversary, Symphonic Rock Legends Renaissance featuring Annie Haslam are embarking on a 10 concert date tour of the US. Including five special dates with The Renaissance Chamber Orchestra!
Annie Haslam says, "I joined the band New Years day 1971, now 48 years later we are still performing and bringing our unique style of music to more and more fans all over the world. This very special Anniversary tour will be a retrospective celebration of Renaissance Classics including a special guest appearance from Jim McCarty, Renaissance and Yardbirds co-founder. He will be joining us at The Keswick Glenside show on October 12th which will be filmed for our first high definition Blue Ray DVD."
Renaissance will be performing songs with the orchestra that have never been orchestrated before including their most notably "Ashes Are Burning"!
photo: Richard Barnes
Renaissance are: Annie Haslam - lead vocals, Rave Tesar - keyboards, Mark Lambert - guitars/vocals, Geoffrey Langley - keyboards/vocals, Leo Traversa - bass guitar/vocals, Frank Pagano - drums/percussion/vocals
Renaissance Tour Dates:
10/10 - Annapolis, MD @ Ram's Head On Stage
Link: https://www.ramsheadonstage.com/event/1858778/
10/11/19 - New York, NY @ Town Hall (orchestra)
Link: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/030056B1AA971B4F
10/12 - Glenside, PA @ Keswick Theatre (orchestra)
Link: https://www.axs.com/events/374102/renaissance-tickets
10/13 - Harrisburg, PA @ Whitaker Center (orchestra)
Link: https://www1.ticketmaster.com/event/02005691C9A58C93
10/15 - Red Bank, NJ @ Count Basie Theatre (orchestra)
Link: https://thebasie.org/events/renaissance-ashes-are-burning/
10/16 - Ridgefield, CT @ The Ridgefield Playhouse (orchestra)
Link: http://tickets.ridgefieldplayhouse.org/ordertickets.asp?p=2938
10/17 - Derry, NH @ Tupelo Music Hall
Link: http://tickets.tupelohall.com/Renaissance
10/18 - Boston, MA @ City Winery
Link: https://citywinery.com/boston/ashesareburningrenaissance50thanniversarytour201910182019.html
10/19 - Albany, NY @ Hart Theatre (orchestra)
Link: http://www.theegg.org/event/ashes-are-burning-renaissance
10/20 - Wilmington, DE @ The Grand Opera House
Link: https://tickets.thegrandwilmington.org/single/SYOS.aspx?p=6454
Renaissance is a band with a rich history unique unto themselves as progressive rock pioneers who rose from the ashes of the seminal UK rock band, The Yardbirds. Acclaimed for their unique blending of progressive rock with classical and symphonic influences, the band's career has spanned forty plus years spearheaded by the 5 octave voice of Annie Haslam and the masterful songwriting skills of Michael Dunford. They are widely considered to be the band that most successfully and routinely utilized the sound of a full orchestra in their recordings.
The band has toured throughout the world and has performed at Carnegie Hall with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and additionally at the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Chorale Society. Renaissance had a top ten hit in the UK with their song "Northern Lights" that still demands airplay to this day.
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In a previous article on DJTT, we introduced blockchain and why we believe it may disrupt the music business. Experts and futurists like Mat Dryhurst believe that the technology could dramatically change the game for DJs, producers, and musicians worldwide. Several innovative blockchain startups have surfaced with great promises to help DJs, music publishing houses, and fans to connect, and even to generate alternative forms of revenues.
The blockchain technology – famous for being the building blocks of cryptocurrency Bitcoin – will touch most areas of the USD 17 billion music industry, from streaming to performances to royalty management to live performances. For example, royalties management has been for long an issue in the industry. Some blockchain projects offer solutions to send the right payouts to musicians and technical production staff – and even to compensate listeners.
So which blockchain solutions can help DJs and producers tomorrow?
Before we deep dig into this topic, remember: blockchain projects are still in their infancy, but have a huge potential of disruption. To understand the level of disruption, imagine what it was like when Facebook first arrived, over a decade ago. It's perhaps more appropriate to call the music projects in this article "blockchain ecosystems", as they develop innovative solutions to the music industry's current pitfalls.
Born in California, Inmusik is a streaming platform that has the ambition to provide fans, record producers, and publishing houses with an alternative to the major streaming services. Based on a pioneering blockchain platform, Inmusik provides DJs and producers the possibility to generate extra revenue coming from "Token Votes". This is a system that invites fans to "vote" on songs they love, enabling producers to earn additional payouts beyond the traditional streaming revenues they earn from services like Spotify. "Token Votes" come from the "Community Pool" which incentivizes music lovers to buy a stake in tracks, similar to a traditional investment.
The idea behind the Inmusik model is this: Fans inject money directly into the artists they believe would rank high with no intermediary (unlike Spotify or any other streaming platform that controls revenue distribution). Payouts are directly sent out to musicians, thanks to smart contracts. Inmusik breaks the old paradigms and distribution channels that clutter the music business. It's the first time a new blockchain-based solution has provided such a model in the music business whose sole purpose is to inject cash out into the hands of content creators (i.e. music producers) and music lovers.
"Can I join Inmusik now and get my streams paid out to me if I'm a producer?" 18,000 artists are already signed up to Inmusik, and producers can freely join.
Musicoin is a popular blockchain-based streaming solution that recently launched Musicoin DJ, that features blockchain-centered DJ mixes. Currently, record producers don't receive much of the compensation they are owed when their music is played out at venues, clubs, or festivals. It's excellent for promotion, but in terms of copyrights, we are doing things wrong there. Musicoin DJ traces every track played out and can send out the right payout to producers whose tracks are played.
To understand how this works, take the first example mix – called "Rock The Blockchain"- which was released by DJ Deadly Buda last August. It's a mix that has 15 tracks in it, all of which are paid instantly when the mix is played – thanks to smart contracts that all are integrated and attached to the mix. Read more about the mix's release here.
"But is the Musicoin platform popular enough support my visibility as a DJ?" Like many blockchain projects still in infancy but already reached popularity, Musicoin DJ has developed a platform to launch DJ mixes on blockchain. A Reddit thread further mentions Musicoin has 35,000 verified users earlier this year. That said, we do wonder if this tech would be better integrated within a larger ecosystem that's already actively negotiating contracts with hundreds of thousands of prominent artists – like how Proton is tackling mix uploading onto Spotify and Apple Music.
Another forward-thinking blockchain initiative is Utopia, which aims at decluttering the admin that can be troublesome or boring for most artists. Most of the time, these unknown admin tasks are necessary to keep track of royalties payments, which are managed through smart contracts on Utopia. With Utopia, artists, publishing houses, and record labels can save huge amount of time and record all data recorded through the smart contracts, including all active contributors to a song. The smart contracts then enable companies to send back money to the right copyholders, ensuring everyone gets the fair amount they deserve.
Unlike Inmusik, which is community-focused and rewards active participation, Utopia is dedicated to music data, and aims to soon launch some more features that will help artists manage their bookings logistics – such as flights and hotels.
Rave culture is also moving to blockchain, and Wired recently coined the term "Crypto Raves" in reference to the phenomenon.
So what the heck is a "crypto rave?" Back in the early days, word of mouth was used to attend illicit raves around the world. Today, with the emergence of blockchain, raves are back the way they used to be! With blockchain, ravers receive a "code" that is anonymous which let them find the venue.
"Where can I find a blockchain rave?" It's a hard question! Crypto raves are reportedly happening from Moscow to Berlin. Read this post on Vice for more info.
"And as any entrepreneur, Blau would make his defining pitch of the night during his own set. "Oh, here we go," said one audience member, as if expecting that it had to come sooner or later.
[..] OMF was, according to its official website, the first festival of its kind to run on blockchain technology and introduce its own form of cryptocurrency — the OMF token, powered by Stellar Lumens. What exactly that means will remain elusive to a large part of the audience and the rest of the world.
If you love this blockchain post, hold on as we will discuss AI and music in the next topic.


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Q: How to generate statistics of a table and columns of a table in snowflake? Is there any function available like Generate Statistics in Netezza to generate the column metadata (duplicates, unique values, min value, max value etc) in snowflake.

A: No, not really.
You have the TABLES View which contains size(storage) and number of rows,
but the rest of the information (including the COLUMNS View) is related to schema metadata and not data metadata.
On the other hand the table structure itself (aka micro-partitions) contains table metadata that makes eg MIN() and MAX() functions very efficient.  Some of the table statistics may be cached globally (ie in the Cloud Services part of the Snowflake architecture)

A: Thank you for the question on stats gathering in Snowflake.  Some information:

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*During data loading (all DMLs like COPY, INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE),
these stats are already automatically gathered by Snowflake on
micro-partition level.

*During query processing, these stats are automatically leveraged
by our optimizer for query performance.

*Automatic background
service like automatic clustering service (if enabled for a given
table) will also continuously and incrementally work on fine-tuning
the clustering quality of a table with those stats.

All these auto-magic features happen without user manual intervention (hence why Snowflake is known as a self-tuning, simple to use, data warehousing platform).


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O C T O P T I C O M is an open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices. Use lasers, mirrors, filters and other components to read, transform and write sequences of colored squares. Solve a variety of light puzzles and find clever ways to make your solutions more compact.
Playing with the demo I find this brilliant.
- make it more colorblind friendly. I don't know how exactly, I admit this must be a challenge. But there must be a way.
- there should be a visual clue of the desired ouputs. For example by overing of the output squares ?
- selected component should remain selected until unloaded, for quick multiple pasting.
- need for French translation ?
- Colorblind mode is on my todo list. I'm currently working on a bigger update and it's very likely that some kind of "colorblind mode" will be included. What kind of colorblindness do you have?
- I'll see what I can do about this.
- On some of the harder levels where the desired output isn't very obvious there is a button(next to the output) showing the goal. A lot of people have complained about this and I will probably just add it to all levels.
- For some levels it's hard to come up with an aesthetically pleasing output while keeping the input at least partially random and I also kind of ran out of ideas.
- If it's free I might be interested, otherwise I just don't sell enough to justify paying for translations.
I think I have encountered a bug with switches passing through "black" instead of blocking a beam. I have a screen shot. Where/how do you want possible bugs reported?
Send your screenshot to contact @ updevgames.com .
Can you please put a super short sale on the game? I really want it, but i'm 53 cents short!
Unfortunately, Steam does not allow any discounts for at least 30 days after launch.
Will this game be available on Steam?
Yes, in about 7 days.


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package com.phone1000.studentlibrary.cache;

import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.util.Log;

import com.phone1000.studentlibrary.utils.SDCardUtil;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * 从磁盘中存.
 */
public class DiskCache {

    private static final String TAG = DiskCache.class.getSimpleName();

    public static void put(String url, Bitmap bitmap) {
        File urlToPath = SDCardUtil.urlToPath(url);
        FileOutputStream stream = null;
        try {
            stream = new FileOutputStream(urlToPath);
            bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, stream);
            Log.e(TAG, "put: 磁盘缓存成功" );
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            Log.e(TAG, "put: 磁盘缓存异常" );
        }finally {
            if(stream!=null){
                try {
                    stream.close();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        }
    }
     /* @param url
     * @return
     */
    public static Bitmap get(String url){
        File urlToPath = SDCardUtil.urlToPath(url);
        if(!urlToPath.exists()){
            return null;
        }
        return BitmapFactory.decodeFile(urlToPath.getAbsolutePath());
    }
}

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Q: Isomorphism of enveloping algebra homomorphisms to $k$-homomorphisms? Given commutative ring $k$, associative $k$-algebra $A$, and $A$-bimodule $M$, we can define the enveloping algebra $A^e:=A\otimes A^{op}$, where $A^{op}$ is the algebra $A$ but with multiplication reversed, i.e. $a\odot_{op}b:=ba$. Then any $A$-bimodule can be viewed as a left $A^e$-module, with operation $(a\otimes b)m:=amb$.
In the source below, we have isomorphism $\text{Hom}_{A^e}(A^{\otimes n},M)\cong\text{Hom}_k(A^{\otimes n-2},M),$ by sending $f\mapsto\tilde{f}$, where $\tilde{f}(x):=f(1\otimes x\otimes1).$ Given $\lambda\in k,$ $$\tilde{f}(\lambda x)=f(1\otimes\lambda x\otimes1)\neq\lambda f(1\otimes x\otimes 1)=\lambda\tilde{f}(x),$$ so in what sense is $\tilde{f}$ a $k$-homomorphism? And given $g\in\text{Hom}_k(A^{\otimes n-2},M),$ how do we define the isomorphism in reverse?
Source: Hochschild cohomology: some methods for computations, María Julia Redondo.


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Q: Drop Down List doesn't locked I have a div with drop down list.
I tried to disable all div. I succeeded but I can't disable the dropdown list.
This div is consist of select tag called cb3.  I working with Knock Out.(All the data binding you see).
the condition value: hete.selectedvalue,enable:format.selectedvalue()!='xxx' destroy the disable I would like to make.

<select id="cb3" onchange="onSelectChange(this.id, this.options[this.selectedIndex].innerHTML)" dir="rtl" class="SelectStyle3" data-bind="options: hete.defaultValue,value: hete.selectedvalue,enable:format.selectedvalue()!='xxx' "><option value="x1">x1</option><option value="x2">x2</option><option value="x3">x3</option><option value="x4">x4</option></select>
            x4

        :hete

in other js file:
ko.bindingHandlers.disableByRole = {
    update: function(element, valueAccessor, allBindingsAccessor) {
        var value = valueAccessor();
        var allBindings = allBindingsAccessor();
        var valueUnwrapped = ko.utils.unwrapObservable(value);
        var isDisabled = valueUnwrapped == 'true'
        if (isDisabled)
        $(element).find('*').attr('disabled', 'disabled')
                            .prop('onclick', false)
                            .css('opacity',0.7);
    }
};

Only the select tag isn't disabled... why?

A: I believe you need to add this .change() after .
 $(element).find('*').attr('disabled', 'disabled').prop('onclick', false).css('opacity',0.7).change();


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eXtremeDB Version 6.0 Released
McObject announced it has released eXtremeDB Financial Edition version 6.0, a major upgrade of its database system for capital markets applications such as algorithmic trading and risk management. Improvements include access to eXtremeDB Financial Edition's most powerful capabilities from the widely-used SQL and Python languages, unleashing productivity by simplifying development and, as a result, reducing costs and slashing time-to-deployment. Version 6.0 also tackles the challenge of Big Data in financial systems with new features including distributed query processing and specialized market data compression, to streamline handling of real-time and historical databases that today grow beyond one trillion records.
"In STAC-M3 benchmarks and other tests, eXtremeDB Financial Edition has shown it can deliver the lowest latency in processing market data. Version 6.0 builds on this core strength, with some improvements accelerating performance, others increasing cost-effectiveness, and several new features doing both. Major companies in capital markets are already leveraging the improvements in eXtremeDB Financial Edition 6.0. McObject looks forward to helping additional customers tackle their toughest financial computing challenges as the upgrade goes into general release," said Steve Graves, McObject co-founder and CEO.
A defining feature of eXtremeDB Financial Edition is its library of vector-based statistical functions, which are pipelined in CPU cache to minimize latency when analyzing market data. In version 6.0, the product introduces the ability to use its vector-based functions from within SQL, a database language that is nearly universal in enterprise computing. This vastly increases the pool of developers whose existing skills permit quick adoption of McObject's database system.
SQL can be used in applications written in languages including C/C++, Python, Java and C# (.NET) and also on its own, via a command-line interface. Its high level of productivity for creating code that interacts with database systems enables faster development in a field where timing can be a key competitive advantage. McObject's video gives a practical example of using vector-based functions from within SQL.
eXtremeDB Financial Edition 6.0 also adds support for Python, a high-level language favored in capital markets because of its fast time-to-deployment, particularly for tasks such as rapid prototyping. Using Python alongside eXtremeDB Financial Edition's dynamic database definition language (DDL) capability, developers can implement their ideas quickly, and optimize rapidly by testing changes to code, database tables and indexes.


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'Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly'
Books for Christmas: Dads
4th Estate • Dec 11, 2018 •
"My Dad is impossible to buy for" is something we all say every single Christmas. But not with these books!
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE
Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet home.
Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed.
The search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday life. As it must.
An extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, Reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a stranger's tragedy refuse to subside.
Reservoir Tapes by Jon McGregor
But the aftershocks of Becky Shaw's disappearance have origins long before then, and those in the village have losses, and secrets, and stories of their own…
A woman remembers a son's inexperience – and a father's rage; a young wife pushes against the boundaries of her marriage, whilst an older one finds ways to ensure the survival of hers. A hunt for a birthday present takes an alarming turn, and a teenage game grows serious.
Fresh hurts open old wounds, salvation comes from unexpected quarters and chance encounters release long-buried memories.
First broadcast as a series of specially commissioned stories on BBC Radio 4, The Reservoir Tapes returns to the territory of the Booker-longlisted Reservoir 13, revealing the web of connections that bind us, and the many layers on which we all build our truths.
Made At Home by Giorgio Locatelli
From Tuscan tomato and bread soup to monkfish stew, simple spaghettis or lemon and pistachio polenta cake, Made at Home is a colourful collection of the food that Giorgio Locatelli loves to prepare for family and friends.
With recipes that reflect the places he calls home, from Northern Italy to North London or the holiday house he and his wife Plaxy have found in Puglia, Made at Home is a celebration of favourite vegetables combined in vibrant salads or fresh seasonal stews, along with generous fish and meat dishes and cakes to share. Early every evening, Giorgio's 'other family', the chefs and front of house staff at his restaurant, Locanda Locatelli, sit down together to eat, and Giorgio reveals the recipes for their best-loved meals, the Tuesday Pizza and the Saturday 'Italian' Burger.
Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response.
Here are fifteen invaluable suggestions–compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive–for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality; debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can "allow" women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.
The Twelve-Mile Straight by Eleanor Henderson
Genus Jackson was killed in Cotton County, Georgia, on a summer midnight in 1930, when the newborn twins were fast asleep.
They lay head to toe in a cradle meant for one, Winnafred on one side and Wilson on the other. Only if you looked closely – and people did – could you see that the girl was pink as a piglet, and the boy was brown.
At once an intimate family drama and an expansive, mesmerising epic The Twelve-Mile Straight explores the blood, guilt and violence that lies at the heart of the American experience.
'Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent' Ann Patchett
'A superb novel whose roots can be traced to Harper Lee and Carson McCullers' Oprah Magazine
Where Shall We Run To? by Alan Garner
From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England.
In Where Shall We Run To?, Alan Garner remembers his early childhood in the Cheshire village of Alderley Edge: life at the village school as 'a sissy and a mardy-arse'; pushing his friend Harold into a clump of nettles to test the truth of dock leaves; his father joining the army to guard the family against Hitler; the coming of the Yanks, with their comics and sweets and chewing gum. From one of our greatest living writers, it is a remarkable and evocative memoir of a vanished England.
The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll
Transform your life using the Bullet Journal Method, the revolutionary organisational system and worldwide phenomenon.
The Bullet Journal Method will undoubtedly transform your life, in more ways than you can imagine' Hal Elrod, author of The Miracle Morning
In his long-awaited first book, Ryder Carroll, the creator of the enormously popular Bullet Journal organisational system, explains how to use his method to:
• TRACK YOUR PAST: using nothing more than a pen and paper, create a clear, comprehensive, and organised record of your thoughts and goals.
• ORDER YOUR PRESENT: find daily calm by prioritising and minimising your workload and tackling your to-do list in a more mindful and productive way.
• PLAN YOUR FUTURE: establish and appraise your short-term and long-term goals, plan more complex projects simply and effectively, and live your life with meaning and purpose.
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Increasingly, local, state, and federal projects and private projects have significant minority participation goals to create business opportunities for disadvantaged enterprises. But opportunity is more than just the job. Project owners expect more sustainable minority enterprises to emerge from their projects, ready to succeed even more on their next assignment. That's why mentor/protégé programs are such an effective tool to deliver more enduring value in projects with minority goals.
Emblematic of the reliance on mentor/protégé programs was the award-winning Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge in Downtown St. Louis. Completed in 2014, the project earned the 2013 American Association of State Highways and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Value Engineering Award and was also spotlighted in American DBE Magazine in an article entitled "Mississippi River's New Gateway to Inclusion." The Missouri Department of Transportation (MODOT) made developing sustainable minority contractors a priority and selected PayneCrest to mentor BRK Electric on the project.
BRK has a well-respected proficiency in electrical contracting, but had never encountered a project with the complexities of the Musial Bridge. It required orchestrating work with two states, two power companies, different bridge and approach construction management and five railroad companies, not to mention managing the inherent hazards of bridge work.
Designing and installing the first-ever application of a cable tray system on a Missouri bridge, saving the project more than a $1 million. Cable tray was safer to install, made maintenance easier and safer while accommodating the contraction and expansion of the bridge.
Completing all electrical work without a loss time injury in 20,000 manhours worked.
Overcoming limited access due to levees, flood walls, and the fluctuating river by carefully coordinating work and material staging.
Utilizing a mobile hydra platform for cable pulling beneath the bridge.
Effectively managing fluctuating manpower of two IBEW unions in two states while complying with portability rules.
Meticulous bookkeeping for a two-state taxpayer funded project.
Minority participation goals are more than just a number. It should also deliver the enduring value possible with an effective mentor protégé program that helps disadvantage firms develop untapped skills to increase their capabilities and improve performance on their next project.