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Ever Is A Long Time
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Title: Ever Is A Long Time
Time Period: October, 134 A.E.
Characters Appearing:
Cas Blackburn
Goneril Ross
Summary: And can seem insulting in certain situations.
The early autumn afternoons in the streets of Dornie still feature carts and stands of people trading their wares in places like this. Even as the days grow cooler, there's people who offer their goods for other goods. There's a soft buzz of noise in the busiest areas, with negotiations and bartering for items.
Many people are local, but some are from the ships that still sail. And then there's a young man in a worn brown leather coat that stands in front of a stand with jewelry.
Cas Blackburn is new enough that most people don't know him on sight. Hair mused from recent washing, a sweet scent of soaps lingers near him. One would never imagine he works with horses most the time. When he isn't having one of his days off. A holiday, one might almost call it. At least when he's dressed up like this, he looks like he can afford the things he's looking at.
Whether he can or not. Once paying starts, they'll probably change their mind about him. Gently picking up a silver bracelet, he turns it over and frowns at it, before putting it back down and repeating the same actions with the next five. The trader running the booth watches him out of the corner of his eye, but he's preoccupied with someone he knows better. For the moment.
Goneril Ross, as it happens, is also shopping for jewelry. Not for herself, but for her daughter. Though she won't be the one surprising the girl with something bright and shiny, her husband will, and she's comfortable with not getting the credit.
There's grime in the beds of her nails as she inspects a small ruby hanging from a delicate silver chain. By all accounts, she looks like she's the one who'll have trouble paying, dressed as she is in her work clothes which smell faintly of the oil she works with, and smudged with grease here and there. But Goneril's face is one known by people who make it their business to know who's influential in Dornie. And even by the majority of people who don't. She need not be dressed well to be recognised. Her gaze lifts to regard Cas briefly while the proprietor turns from her to see if he has something else she might like in his wares.
Putting down yet another piece of jewelry, Cas frowns visibly down at the whole cart worth of items and out of the corner of his eyes notices a woman in work clothes. The clothes don't really gain much more than a look, one that doesn't recognize her as anything other than exactly what he's looking for.
A woman. With an opinion.
"Excuse me, my lady," he says in an overly polite way with his oddly toned accent from the north of England. "Can I ask an opinion on something— as a woman." He looks up at the trader who he'll have to negotiate with later, but he had dismissed asking him for advice. "Which one of these says… 'thanks, you're wonderful' but not… saying something like… that could be taken as… you know…" He waves his hands about in an expressive style before finally offering. "'I'm only giving you this cause I want to shag you.'"
Not entirely unused to being addressed as my lady, Goneril lifts her head and her brows when Cas begins to solicit her opinion. By the time he finishes his query, she's more than amused. She's received several of those sorts of gifts. The sort that say I want to shag you, but she's never accepted them. And they've never been from her husband. "Well… Are you only giving it to her because you want to shag her? Or did she do something nice for you, but you don't want to shag her, ever?"
"Ever— like ever ever?" Cas asks with a slightly elevated brow. Despite the fact this conversation should be quite embarassing, he's handling it well enough. Or at least only his ears are turning pinkish. "I don't know about ever, ever. I mean she's— quite attractive and all. And I fancy women, but I'm not after that sort of thing right now— She really did do nice by me. I feel like… I don't know. I should do something for her, too. Women like gifts, right?"
Asking if he considered simply owing the girl a favour in front of the trader would be bad form. "That changes the sort of message you want to send, then." Goneril lifts a heavy silver bracelet from the table in front of her. It's simple, with circular shapes pounded into the metal for adornment, rather than encrusted with jewels. "This should do it. It's something she can wear with almost anything, and she'll think of you when she sees it." One corner of her mouth tugs upward, "And when you do decide you'd like to shag her, she'll remember how sweet you were."
Hands suddenly go up in a kind of innocent gesture, the paisley design of his sleeves dropping a little before getting caught on the cuff of the rough leather coat he wears. If she looks closely, Cas happens to have callouses of work, but even the well off have to work for it, as she knows. "I don't know if I ever will, I'm just saying ever is a long time. I think it'd almost be insulting for the lady if I said I wouldn't ever want to shag her. I mean she'd have to have like… boils or something."
For a moment his mouth stays open, as if he's surprised he said that much, but then he reaches out to take the choice. Simple, yet nice. And potentially meaningful.
"Well, she could be your sister's best friend. Or your brother's wife." Goneril shrugs. This doesn't stop everyone, but it does some. "That's the one you want," she affirms, nodding to the bracelet. "I'm sure she'll love it, Mister… ah…?"
"Well, yeah, there is that," the young man responds with a thoughtful nod, though for a moment it seems he might have thought of counter arguments to that. At least he doesn't follow through with them. From the way his eyes wander away, he's thinking of them, though. "Oh— yes. Sorry. Cas Blackburn, my lady," he responds, shifting the bracelet into one hand and holding out his other. For a change he doesn't have to make sure it's clean. He still smells mostly of the soaps of his good smelling bath this morning.
Goneril, on the other hand, takes the moment to check her palm and make sure it's clean, then wipes it on her jeans for good measure before she takes his hand. "Goneril Ross," she offers in return. She shakes hands like someone whose first impressions rely on a good handshake, suggesting she isn't just a laborer. Of course, if he recognises her surname, he should know she isn't just a laborer. "Anyway, she'll be pleased, Mister Blackburn. I'm sure of it."
It's very likely Ross perks something in the back of his mind, but Cas doesn't change his expression beyond a 'that sounds familiar'. His grip is strong and a lopsided smile appears, flashing teeth that are more white than not— and the front teeth also stick out a bit, too. "Goneril— don't think I've ever heard that name before. It's unique, I like it!" His accent only helps scream how not from here he happens to be.
When he extracts his hand, he moves to dig around in an interior pocket sewn into his jacket to pull out…
Stamped leather strips, given in exchange for labour. The Rowntree name and signs of stable are visible on them. Two of them are held toward the merchant. "Is this enough to cover it, aye?"
The leather catches Goneril's attention. "You work for Edmund," she observes. "Small world." She lifts up another necklace, with golden leaves hanging from a leather cord. "I'll have this one. Should make us even for the repairs last month?" Turning to Cas, she grins. "It's for my daughter. I'm not looking to shag anybody today either."
"Just started a month ago," Cas explains with a grin, handing over the payment. That seems to cover it, and he puts the bracelet away into the same interior pocket that he got the payment out of. "Daughter, huh… I'm sure your daughter will love it," is what he offers after a moment. "It's very— uh…" he makes hand gestures as he tries to find the words. "Nature— ee." His eyes shift to the side. No that's not the right word.
"Thank you for the help, Lady Ross." The gratitude is genuine. For a moment he looks as if he considers saying something else, but shakes his head. "Maybe I'll see you around, if you know my boss."
Goneril refrains from any mischief in this case. She also refrains from being entirely forthcoming, like explaining why it is she feels comfortable using his boss' given name. "You are most welcome, Mister Blackburn. Good luck to you. I hope your friend enjoys her gift. If she doesn't, I'm sure she'll be suitably embarrassed if you tell her I thought she would." She thinks a little much of herself at times, it's true. "Hopefully our paths will cross again soon. Until then."
"Probably. Since I intend to keep my job as long as possible," Cas says while gesturing with both arms. The man seems to be as expressive with his body as he is with his face and his peculiar accent. As he starts to move away, he seems to have a second thought and turns to face her again. "For the record, since I was talking about insulting and everything. You're not entirely unshaggable. Not that I will be trying to do anything like that, just— you know." He gestures again, up and down. "No boils."
On that he turns and continues to walk away, a hand going up to his head. It very much looks like he's pressing his palm against his forehead.
A breath of incredulously laughter escapes Goneril's lips and a hand rises to her mouth to contain the rest. Oh, she is so telling her husband this story at the dinner table tonight.
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Strange Candidates
Strange Candidate #6: Lar "America First" Daly
From the 1930s to the 1970s Lar "America First" Daly ran for just about every elective office, including Senator, President, Governor, and Mayor. He never won. This may have had something to do with his campaign slogan: "America First -- or Death."
He campaigned wearing an Uncle Sam suit. He would promote his candidacy by driving around Chicago in a sound truck. (Is this where the Blues Brothers got the idea?) When not campaigning, he earned a living by operating a chair and stool company out of the garage behind his house.
Some of the issues he supported:
• Any witness who invokes the 5th amendment to the constitution should be sent to prison.
• Known dope peddlers should be shot on sight (after first receiving a seven day warning to get out of town).
He described himself as "known throughout America as Sen. Douglas MacArthur's greatest supporter." He filed MacArthur's name for President in every election from 1936 onwards.
In the 1950s he boasted that he was the only candidate "100 per cent behind" Sen. McCarthy's investigations into domestic Communist activities.
He told President Truman that he wanted to accompany the crew of the first American plane to fly over Moscow so that he could release the atomic bomb over the Kremlin.
But his real claim to fame came from his constant demands to be given equal time whenever a mainstream candidate appeared on air, citing Section 315 of the Communications Act, the so-called "equal time" provision. Because of him, Congress amended the law so that broadcasters didn't always have to give equal time.
Once he was effectively barred from free air time, he began buying ads in newspapers. An example of one is reproduced below. He died in 1978.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 22, 2008 - Comments (3)
Category: Strange Candidates
Strange Candidate #5: Henry Krajewski
Henry Krajewski, New Jersey pig farmer, was the self-proclaimed candidate of the Poor Man's Party. He ran three times for president, in 1952, 1956 and 1960. Plus, he ran for Governor and Senator. His most successful campaign was his 1954 run for Senator, in which he got 23,000 votes. He didn't win, but he was credited with being a spoiler, his votes enabling Republican candidate Clifford Case to win a close election over Democrat Charles Howell.
Krajewski campaigned with a pig under his arm. The pig, he said, "squeals like the people for a fair deal." His slogan was "No piggy deals in Washington." He also promised "more beer parties for the poor man" as well as "free milk for all school children with the cost paid by the Government."
He chose the pig as his symbol because he felt it symbolized peace and prosperity. The reasoning behind this was a) it was a gentle animal; and b) there was no waste on it (all the parts are eaten).
He raised funds for his campaign through the sale of a polka record: "Hey, Krajewski!"
He favored a two-president system because "if you had a Democrat and a Republican in the White House at the same time, they'd be so busy watching each other that there would be no danger of a dictatorship." He was also a supporter of Joseph McCarthy and his campaign to root out suspected communists.
He died in 1966 of a heart attack.
Strange Candidate #4: Jonathan Maxwell
Strange Candidate #3: George Francis Train
Strange Candidate #2: Homer Tomlinson
Strange Candidate #1: Live-Forever Jones
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 21, 2008 - Comments (7)
85-year-old Jonathan Maxwell ran for president in 1948 as the candidate of the American Vegetarian Party. He was the owner of a vegetarian restaurant in Chicago and claimed not to have tasted any meat in 45 years. He also said that he loved every vegetable, "except okra."
As the leader of the Vegetarian Party, Maxwell demanded the abolition of slaughterhouses and cattle cultivation. He advocated the use of pasture lands for growing foodstuffs, saying this would solve the world's food problems. He also proposed building "garden cities" in underdeveloped areas. Finally, he wanted to ban liquor, tobacco, and medicine.
Maxwell estimated there were at least 3,000,000 vegetarians in the U.S. and hoped to get all their votes. Just one problem. He was born in England and was therefore ineligible to be President. His running mate, Symon Gould, conceded "Of course, we don't expect to be elected."
During the election, he suddenly realized the impossibility of being elected and decided he "wanted to accomplish something during the campaign" (according to the statement of his running mate). Therefore, he married a woman forty-years younger than himself.
He didn't run for president again. In fact, he fell on hard times during the 1950s and had to work as a door-to-door salesman (in his 90s!). Nevertheless, the vegetarian lifestyle and young bride must have been good for his health, because he lived to be 101 years old, spending his final days on a utopian commune with members of the American Vegan Society in southern California.
Strange Candidates #3: George Francis Train
Strange Candidates #2: Homer Tomlinson
Strange Candidates #1: Live-Forever Jones
Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 18, 2008 - Comments (0)
Continuing the exploration of strange presidential candidates from American history:
George Francis Train (1829-1904)
Train was a fascinating character. Some facts about his life:
He made a fortune in the railway business.
He traveled around the world in sixty-seven days, which was a record for the nineteenth-century, and which made him the inspiration for Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days.
He ran for President in 1872, as an independent candidate. The issues he stood for included temperance, and women's rights.
In later years he campaigned to become Dictator of the United States.
Campaigning was a bit difficult because he refused to shake hands with anyone, due to his belief that touching another person's flesh would cause a loss of "psychic force." Whenever he met someone he would "gravely shake hands with himself."
He believed that extreme longevity could be achieved by eating no "dead animals" and wearing no underwear.
As an old man he took up boxing and fought in a match at the Bowery Theatre. (He believed the boxing gloves served as insulators against the loss of psychic force.)
According to Wikipedia, "He spent his final days on park benches in New York City's Madison Square Park, handing out dimes and refusing to speak to anyone but children and animals."
When he died, the Thirteen Club (a club of rationalist skeptics -- its name was intended to mock the superstition of 13 at a table being unlucky) passed a resolution declaring Train to be one of the few sane men in "a mad, mad world."
Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 29, 2008 - Comments (0)
Category: Politics, Strange Candidates
Expanding on the theme of strange candidates, here are some of the candidates that are (or were) seeking your vote in the current presidential election.
Gene Amondson, Prohibition Party
Amondson is running on a single issue: bringing back prohibition. He describes prohibition as "America's Best Years."
Donald K. Allen, Independent
One of the few candidates to have a position on puppy mills: "As President, I would appoint a secretary of agriculture that would effectively shut down puppy mills through true enforcement of existing law and national educational exposure of this despicable business. Instead of working from the bottom up, I would effectively mandate the dismantling of commercial interstate puppy trade from the top. This would be a no- or low-priority issue for any other candidate."
Bruce Bongardt, The Proudican Party
Bongardt describes himself as "a 42 year old middleclass creative problem-solving Mechanical Design Engineer." He describes the Proudican Party as "a new, self-started party focused on sustaining US Democracy principles through an independent platform of boldly aggressive technology-based prolutions (progressive solutions)." Some of his "prolutions" include expanding the standard week to 9 days and transitioning the currency to e-money.
James Harlin Carter, The Real Food Party
"The Real Food Party seeks to revise existing regulations to allow the sale of non-pasteurized milk and other 'food that is helpful.'" Carter has conceded that he's not going to win the 2008 election. Therefore, he's not going to participate in any debates and has no plans to raise any money.
Terry Lee "Tee" Barkdull, Unaffiliated
Barkdull's platform: "IT'S TIME WE ALL TAKE A STAND AGAINST THIS DICTATORSHIP GOVERNMENT THAT IS OUT OF CONTROL!! THESE SILVER SPOON BASTARDS AND BITCHES, CAN NOT CONTINUE TO RUN AMERICA ANYMORE." (Unfortunately, Barkdull has withdrawn his candidacy for the 2008 election.)
Matthew Borman, The American Party
Borman writes: "I am Matthew Borman. I am a 36 year old, who since the age of 14, had to work in order to survive. From the age that I was old enough to recognize government; the excitement about the politician, the writing of new law or the formation of government social program has eluded me. I am a simple working man. The people who seem so int rested in Governing my life have caused more hurt than help with their years of law making."
Borman has many positions, but apparently improving spelling and grammar is not one of them.
Jeff Boss, The Independent Party
Boss is going for the conspiracy theorist vote: "My Goal is to Save America, and make it a democracy again. I witnessed a person high up in the NSA planning the 9/11 attack. They were talking about helping Ramsi Yousef (responsible for the 93 bombing at the World Trade Center) call his uncle Kolid Sheik Mohammed (considered the mastermind of the 911 attack) from the NSA secret prison in Alexandria, VA, and they were talking about flying planes into buildings."
John Taylor Bowles, National Socialist Order of America
Going for the Nazi vote. From Wikipedia: "Bowles runs his campaign out of the "Redneck Shop" in Laurens, South Carolina, which features Nazi, Confederate States of America and KKK paraphernalia. As of March 2008, Bowles is the only listed individual contributor to his campaign." (Bowles suffered a heart attack in July, so he's off the ticket.)
Posted By: Alex - Tue Sep 23, 2008 - Comments (6)
Continuing the exploration of strange presidential candidates:
"Mighty Man of God" Homer Tomlinson (1892-1969)
Tomlinson was the founder of the Church of God (World Headquarters). His plan was to bring about the kingdom of God on earth by getting the members of his church elected to public office. Therefore, he ran for President in 1952, 1960, 1964, and 1968 as the candidate for the "Theocratic Party" (which he also founded).
His campaign promises included: substituting tithing for taxes, creating cabinet posts for "Secretary of Righteousness" and "Secretary of the Holy Bible," unifying church and state, and establishing Bible reading and prayer in all schools.
Tomlinson never won an election, though he did receive 24 votes in 1964. But that didn't matter, because in 1965 he declared himself "King of the World." He ruled the world from a hotel room in Jerusalem, wearing a gold-painted crown and sitting on a folding chair. From a 1966 New Yorker profile of him:
He founded the Theocratic Party and has been its candidate for U.S. President since 1952, has written many books and songs, speaks in some 20 or 30 languages. One of many wonders he has effected by being in the right place at the right time was a downpour in the desert, during a 1000 mile walk from Iran to Bethlehem in 1955.
More info at Ron's Parlour Tricks. Also, Legacy America is selling a leaflet from his 1964 campaign.
With the Presidential election now less than two months away, I thought it would be appropriate to devote some posts to the stranger candidates who have run for President over the years. First up we have "Live Forever" Jones.
Leonard "Live-Forever" Jones
Born: July 3, 1797. A resident of Louisville, Kentucky.
Jones was something of a perennial candidate, declaring himself a candidate for President in every election between the late 1840s and 1860s. But his ambitions were not limited to the Presidency. He declared himself to be a candidate for every high office, both State and Federal. When, in 1867, he failed to be elected Governor of Kentucky (he received no votes), he declared himself to be the rightful Governor. He considered himself vindicated when the elected governor, John Larue Helm, died five days into his second term. Similarly, he considered Lincoln's assassination to be divine punishment for the nation's failure to elect himself.
Affiliation: Live-Forever Jones was a member of the "High Moral" party. In fact, he was its only member. The central doctrine he promoted was the belief that immortality could be achieved through a regimen of prayer and fasting. Naturally, he considered himself to be immortal. Thus, his name. He had an unusual manner of speechifying on behalf of his views. He would jump up and down while banging a hickory cane on a table to emphasize his points. Often he would bang so loudly that he would drown out his own voice.
Sadly but predictably, Jones failed to live up to his name. He caught pneumonia, refusing any medical aid because he insisted his sickness was moral, not physical. He died on August 30, 1868.
Despite his odd behavior, he was one of Louisville's favorite eccentrics. Politicians humored him by actually filing the ballots he presented to them, and when he spoke he drew huge crowds who applauded wildly at all his schemes and assertions.
Source: Keven McQueen, Offbeat Kentuckians.
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Campuhan Ridge Walk, Mason Elephant Park, Tegalalang Rice Terrace, Monkey Forest and Ubud Market Tour is a tour package that offers the other side of the beauty of Ubud.
Campuhan Hill is located at Jalan Bangkiang Sidem, Ubud, Gianyar Regency, Bali. This hill lies in an area with pura Gunung lebah. This place has open air, with views of the green landscape of Ubud. Therefore, this hill cvan be visited to see the sunrise or sunset. Many tourists are jogging since the dawn to sunrise. Meanwhile, tourists who want to enjoy the beautiful atmosphere of Campuhan hill with the sky colored orange blush came this place ahead of dusk.
Elephant Park at Taro Village, here you can ride elephant while viewing natural scenery which is still natural from elephant back. Other activities you can do in the park such as feeding elephants and also taking pictures with elephants. This Elephant shows are also available at Taro Elephant Safari Park Ubud.
Tegallalang Rice Terraces in Ubud is famous for its beautiful scenes of rice paddies involving the subak (traditional Balinese cooperative irrigation system).
This place offers a scenic outlook that spreads down before you and away to the rice paddies on the slopes across the valley. The high roadside location is cool and breezy and it is a well-known spot for tourists to stop and take photos.
Ubud Monkey Forest is a nature reserve and Hindu temple complex in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. Its official name is the Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary (Balinese Mandala Suci Wenara Wana). A destination is a popular tourist attraction and is often visited by over 10,000 tourists a month.
Monkey Forest lies within the village of Padangtegal. The village's residents view the Monkey Forest as an important spiritual, economic, educational, and also conservation center for the village.
The location of the Ubud Art Market which is centred among the art producing villages, and being just opposite the royal palace which is a centre point to Ubud itself, make it a strategic shopping place for Balinese handicrafts and souvenirs. The art crafting are sold in this ubud art market consisted of various crafting, from traditional until contemporary crafting which its price is relatively cheap. You can do the transaction directly to the merchant which generally can be bargained. All the crafting sold in this place you can bring home as souvenir like slipper, wood idol, bag, clothes, matting, painting and a lot of more.
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JC Fulton Alliance – Challenges for China's post-Covid economy
July 30, 2021 at 14:29 PM EDT
JC Fulton Alliance analysts say China's future economy may bear the repercussions of bad loans and weak consumption.
(PRUnderground) July 30th, 2021
Apprehension over China's economic activity has grown as expansion has slowed during the pandemic. Analysts at JC Fulton Alliance were correct in estimating GDP growth in the region of 8% for the second quarter.
While this GDP expansion rate is significantly lower than that of the first quarter, which saw a whopping 18.3% growth, it matches expectations when contextualized in an unsteady Covid-struck global economy. In fact, China's 8% growth, and probable full-year 8% expansion, proves favourable when compared to the GDP growth in major Western economies.
The United States, one of China's main economic competitors, currently shows a GDP expansion rate of 6.4%.
However, analysts at JC Fulton Alliance are suggesting that the arrival of issues such as unsustainable, weak consumption and the slowing down of exports could hinder China's economic growth. China's relationship with the United States is another uncertainty that analysts have noted. Perhaps most threatening is an influx of bad loans. At the end of June, outstanding loans in banks increased by 108.3billion yuan (or 9.1%) from the start of 2021 to 301trillion yuan.
Analysts at JC Fulton Alliance, see a continuation of fiscal policies as the way forward in grappling with this conundrum and aiding in post-Covid development. Policymakers plan to generate profit with fiscal spending, focusing on rapidity in infrastructure investment, which government financing vehicles will propel. In the first half of the year, a mere 1.01trillion yuan was used by local governments to support infrastructure projects, meaning an annual decrease of 72.2% in funding. In addition, property loan growth declined to 10.3%. New policies are expected to be announced by the end of July after the Politburo's second quarter economic meeting.
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Epic isn't saying if free games promotion will continue in 2020
The Escapists is this week's free Epic Games store title
The Escapists is now free to download from the Epic Games store.
Developed by Mouldy Toof Studios, the PC version of the prison escape game has a Metascore of 71 based on 24 reviews.
Normally priced at £12.99, it will be free to download until December 19 at 10.59am ET / 7.59am PT / 3.59pm UK.
Epic's website says The Escapists will be replaced by "more free games next week" but a spokesman wouldn't say if the promotion will be extended to 2020.
Update: Epic has launched its holiday sale including a free game every day for 12 days. It's also offering a $10/£10 coupon with every single purchase of $14.99/£14.99 during the sale.
Original story continues: The company originally launched a bi-monthly free game offer alongside its PC storefront in December 2018 but said in mid-May that it was increasing the frequency of the offer to one free game per week until the end of 2019.
An Epic spokesperson told VGC this week they didn't have any plans they could share when asked if the free games promotion will be extended beyond 2019.
Titles offered for free have included Alan Wake, For Honor, Limbo, This War of Mine, Overcooked, World of Goo, Transistor, The Witness, Hyper Light Drifter, Fez, Inside, Celeste, Metro 2033 Redux, Minit and Observer.
Epic said on May 1 there had been more than 25 million free game installs. It didn't have an updated figure to share when contacted by VGC.
Horace is now free on the Epic Games Store, with The Bridge next
Epic Games Store to offer free game weekly throughout 2020
Sundered is now free on the Epic Games Store, with Horace next
Sundered: Eldritch Edition is the next free Epic Games Store title


About the Author: Stephanie L. Harper lives with her husband, two teen children, and dwindling geriatric menagerie in Hillsboro, OR. Once upon a time, she earned her M.A. in German literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and she has never attended an M.F.A. program. Stephanie is the author of the forthcoming chapbook, This Being Done (Finishing Line Press), and her poems have appeared in Slippery Elm, Rattle, Figroot, and others. Website: https://slharperpoetry.com.


Core Synchronism was founded by Robert Stevens. Core works with every system in the body to synchronize subtle rhythms of the bones, brain, organs, nervous system, and the body's electrical system with the movement of the cerebrospinal fluid.
There are 7 levels of certification for Core practitioners. Although Core Synchronism is currently taught in seven levels, the practice of this system of hand medicine is practiced as one level.
I am a level 3 Core practitioner.
Robert Stevens' says that "It is a mechanical system designed to restore harmony to the organism. Establishing balance results in activating an individual's self-healing ability." When the systems in the body are synchronized to their original blueprint ( the blueprint created upon the creation of the body and all it's systems), this brings health and vitality to the person.
Sessions are 90 minutes long. The client remains fully clothed and reclined on a massage table. I will check-in with you to see what is up emotionally and physically and then begin palpating the area on the head where the core current is most easily felt.
Core treatments can be deeply relaxing and you may fall asleep, this in no way reduces the benefits of the treatment. You are encouraged to feel as relaxed as possible. We may speak during the session and there may be times when I will concentrate to listen deeply to your core current and to your body.
What Conditions Does Core Treat?
Core is not pathology specific. It is a mechanical system designed to restore harmony to the organism. Establishing balance results in activating an individual's self-healing ability.Core Synchronism is deeply relaxing, safe, and gentle, hence there are no contraindications for treatment.
How Does a Practitioner of Core View Healing?
What is The Practitioner Responsible For?
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I really can't believe my Mutianyu Great Wall hiking tour experienced so perfect. I fully read the Chinese ancient buildings within one day together with my father. This tour is the most fabulous tour I have never explored in the past years. Tour guide is young but informative in the background and history. Most important is that this tour operator is really different with others. There is really no shopping stops.
I clearly remembered, we got up earlier and enjoyed delicious breakfast. After that, we came to the gate of the hotel. Oh, the bus is stopped there. Tour guide greeted to us with mild appearance. We got on the bus to see few tourists. We opened our telephone and checked the bags we forgot. A few minutes later, this bus is full of tourists. We all threw the polite appearance to each other, very harmonious atmosphere.
On the who journey, we chatted with the tourists sitting right side of us, taking about the feeling staying in Beijing, weather and the exciting feeling of hiking Mutianyu Great Wall. The traffic is not crowded as we expected. About 1.5 hours, we came to the foot of this marvelous section. Oh, my god, so many luxuriant trees surrounded this Great Wall building offering a big umbrella for the tourists coming here. No far away, we saw many vendors ranking along selling all kinds of souvenirs and goods. We approached them, very delicate pandas and Qing Dynasty clothes, etc. Perhaps, because of the luxuriant trees, we could not see the Great Wall clearly. After some preparations, we stepped on this marvelous building.
The beginning steps are very simple with some wooden materials. Tourists coming here are fewer than we expected. We just leisurely enjoyed this Great Wall building with our own pace appreciating the traditional atmosphere. The ground is well paved by the stones with best preserved appearance. Every certain distance, there will be the watch tower situated. I finally saw the watchtower building. It presented more grave and delicate than the book said. There are many tourists coming here taking pictures. My father took a lot of pictures from different views with me. After entering into, I saw the dim inner environment. Through the windows, I can see the flourishing sceneries far distance full of vigorous life. We saw the elegant mountains, the layout of the magnificent dragon-style building and the local residence houses far distance. They harmoniously combined with each other.
I liked this tour very much. Now, I scanned the pictures taken in the Great Wall, all my minds flew to China, impressive experience, terrific tour!


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Brazil's National Medicine Control System Is Coming in 2022. Will You Be Ready?
Vinicius Bagnarolli, Director of Operations in Latin America for rfxcel, says the time to start preparing is now.
Sweeping changes are coming to Brazil's pharmaceutical supply chain. Since 2009, the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA) has been honing the National Medicine Control System (SNCM), a traceability system designed to establish mechanisms and procedures for tracking and tracing drugs. After several amendments and resolutions and a one-year pilot phase, SNCM will go into full effect in May 2022.
rfxcel, the leader in track and trace solutions for the pharmaceutical industry, has prioritized helping Brazilian companies prepare for SNCM. Though the system will not "go live" for 34 months, Vinicius Bagnarolli, rfxcel's Director of Operations in Latin America, says pharmaceutical companies should start preparing now.
"Three years may seem like a long time, but it's not," he says. "SNCM requires pharma companies to do a lot of new things and adopt new behaviors. This includes implementing unit-level serialization, tracking and tracing products, and monitoring environmental conditions as they move through the supply chain. Companies will also have to submit detailed transaction data to the government. We want companies, distributors, and dispensers to know that we have the technical expertise and experience in Brazil to help them transition to SNCM. We are on the ground in Brazil; we are here to help."
SNCM is essentially a modernization scheme: Every supply chain actor must be able to capture, store, and exchange data electronically. All products must have a GS1 DataMatrix bar code that houses a Global Trade Item Number (GTIN), an ANVISA Medicine Registry Number, a unique serial number, an expiration date, and a lot/batch number. Such internationally accepted measures will enable Brazil to protect its almost 190 million citizens against common problems in the drug supply chain, including counterfeit drugs and cargo theft.
"This is a great step for my country," he says. "Europe and the United States have implemented similar laws successfully. Brazil is the biggest economy in Latin America and is among the biggest in the world; SNCM should be celebrated as a statement of intent that Brazil's drug industry will follow global quality trends.''
Bagnarolli also stresses that companies in Brazil must realize SNCM is here to stay, that ANVISA is not going to "babysit" the pharma industry, and that stakeholders must be proactive now to avoid complications with infrastructure and compliance later. "The industry's business is to sell medicine. rfxcel's business is supply chain technology. We want companies to focus on what they do best and let us do the rest."
rfxcel Vice President of International Business Mark Davison agrees. "Organizations in the medicine supply chain urgently need clarity and support from experienced traceability solution providers," he says. "SNCM is challenging, but rfxcel has built its requirements into existing business workflows, creating opportunities to improve patient safety and supply chain efficiency."
rfxcel's main advantage is experience. In business for 15 years, it has deployed its cutting-edge track and trace software to hundreds of companies in the world's largest markets, including the United States, the EU, India, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. It manages billions of serial numbers, empowering companies with fine-tuned, unit-level, actionable data that optimizes performance and safety while mitigating logistical, environmental, and compliance problems.
Trust, accountability, and transparency are other value-adds rfxcel brings to the table. Every step a customer takes with rfxcel is visible to its team and a dedicated rfxcel team. From onboarding and training to implementation and real-time support, rfxcel works hand-in-hand with its customers to ensure their supply chains are safe, efficient, optimized, and fully compliant.
Bagnarolli wants pharma stakeholders in Brazil to ask themselves several important questions:
How will you develop your ANVISA onboarding framework?
What should you do between now and 2022, before the definitive implementation plan rolls out?
What is the best way to incorporate GS1 DataMatrix codes and serial numbers?
What are your options for partnering and collaborating with your trading partners to ensure you meet all requirements by 2022?
How can you guarantee compliance to avoid fines, supply chain delays, product confiscations, and financial losses?
"These are complex questions," he says. "But rfxcel is ready to provide guidance and analytics on how to best approach the new regulations. Our unique software capabilities have helped companies around the world meet stringent compliance requirements, safeguard their supply chains, and expand their markets."
Bagnarolli concludes by saying that rfxcel's main concern is to make Brazil's pharmaceutical industry safer. Noting that the country's pharma market is valued at roughly $31 billion — the sixth largest in the world — he says, "We are here to build relationships based on trust so companies can be compliant by 2022. We want to talk about and advise on the hard work it will take to meet technical requirements, build new teams, and communicate and integrate with trading partners."
Bagnarolli invites companies to contact him for a consultation. He envisions hosting a webinar or similar training sessions, and welcomes opportunities to visit companies to help them be ready for SNCM.
For more information contact us at latam@rfxcel.com
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requirements, and protect products and brand reputations. For the last 15 years, manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, and dispensers have trusted rfxcel to provide complete compliance and traceability solutions. rfxcel's integrated track and trace software platform delivers better business outcomes and lowers supply chain costs. rfxcel is headquartered in the United States and has offices in the EU, Latin America, India, Russia, the Middle East, Japan, and the Asia-Pacific region.
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Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/642/10415
From The Socialist newspaper, 14 October 2010
The general strike: Important tool of the working class
All across Europe workers and young people face the austerity axe. And all across Europe there is a fight to defend jobs and services against governments who are determined to do the bidding of big business and the banks. HANNAH SELL, Socialist Party deputy general secretary, looks at the role of the general strike in these battles.
100,000 demonstrate in Brussels against European governments' savage cuts, photo Paul Mattsson (Click to enlarge)
"We are angry." This was how nine out of ten Greeks described their mood. In the same poll 93% of Greeks called for corrupt politicians to be jailed. The rage of the Greeks is not surprising - the whole working class is having its living standards trampled into the dirt. And Greece is not alone, from Britain to Spain to Ireland, the governments of Europe are taking the Con-Dem road - and trying to smash public services and workers' living standards.
They have been met with ferocious resistance. Greece was shut down six times in the first seven months of 2010 - as a result of powerful 24-hour general strikes. As yet these general strikes have not defeated the government's austerity packages, but the government could be forced to retreat if the determination of the Greek working class is channelled into more decisive action in the coming months.
Workers in other countries are taking the 'Greek road'. In Spain a 24-hour public sector strike in June has been followed by a magnificent 24-hour general strike of the whole workforce on 29 September, with an incredible ten million workers taking part in the demonstrations.
In Italy one million took to the streets on 25 June in the strongest general strike for many years. In France two and a half million took to the streets as part of a public sector strike against pension cuts on 7 June.
Beyond Europe the general strike is also increasingly back on the agenda - with the recent tremendous 13-day long public sector strike in South Africa and in India around 100 million people took part in the biggest general strike for many years.
General strike in Britain?
Photo Paul Mattsson (Click to enlarge)
In Britain the question of general strike action is also beginning to be posed. The massive cuts that the government is going to announce on 20 October will dramatically lower the living standards of every working class person, and many middle class people as well. Unless you are part of the tiny minority who can afford to pay for you and your family's healthcare, education and social services privately, these cuts will adversely affect you.
This year's Trades Union Congress agreed to coordinate action against cuts. Brendan Barber, general secretary of the TUC, pledged that they would "support and coordinate campaigning and joint union industrial action, nationally and locally, in opposition to attacks on jobs, pensions, pay or public services". Barber was anxious to make clear this did not mean a general strike. However, despite his best efforts, for workers watching the TUC at home, the idea of a general strike was unconsciously raised by the TUC's pledges.
The majority of trade union leaders refuse to even talk about a general strike because of the fear of what it would mean in Britain. However, they also take refuge in the fact that in Britain, unlike other countries in Europe, the anti-trade union laws mean that generalised strike action is virtually illegal. There are huge obstacles to even achieving a public sector general strike within the straitjacket of the anti-trade union laws. These laws, the most repressive in the advanced capitalist countries, were introduced by previous Tory governments and left intact by New Labour. We do not lightly support breaking the anti-union laws and thereby risking trade union funds, but this struggle - to defend the public sector from decimation - is too important to allow individual trade unions to fight alone. Coordinated action is vital, even if it means confronting the anti-union laws.
United strike action is inherent in the situation. As Bob Crow, general secretary of the RMT transport workers' union, put it: "If, for example, RMT members are balloting for strike action and so are the firefighters it is logical to coordinate the ballots."
Given that every public sector worker's pay and conditions will be directly affected by the cuts it could be possible to legally organise a public sector general strike in this way, if the national trade union leaders were prepared to do so. Particularly on the issue of pensions, coordinated action across the public sector in response to the Hutton Report is likely to be posed.
Action of this nature was threatened in 2005, forcing the New Labour government to retreat from its attack on public sector pensions. In 2008, some public sector unions - the civil servants' PCS, the teachers' NUT and the lecturers' UCU - organised coordinated strike action on pay.
Of course, as we have seen with the British Airways cabin crew strike and others, even when unions follow every dot and comma of the byzantine anti-trade union laws, the courts can still ban strikes. When this happens the trade union movement must be prepared to come to the aid of the union/s under threat by taking strike action in their defence.
We cannot allow these undemocratic laws to prevent workers taking effective action. In reality, if all public sector unions defied the anti-trade union laws and took simultaneous strike action, the government would be powerless to stop them and, in the process, the anti-trade union laws would be broken asunder.
Even without the anti-trade union laws, however, the leadership of the TUC would prefer no-one to as much as whisper the words 'general strike'. General strikes obviously have varying characteristics but all general strikes - where the working class shows its strength by bringing society to a halt - are a very serious weapon in the armoury of the working class. General strikes, particularly when they are indefinite, pose the question of who runs society: the working class, which can bring the country to a standstill, or those currently in power, the capitalist class?
In Britain, general strikes have been far rarer than most countries of Europe, and there has been no experience of a complete one-day general strike such as has taken place in Greece and Spain this year. It has come close on many occasions, for example in 1972 following the jailing of the Pentonville Dockers, when a general strike began to develop from below and the TUC was forced to call one; but only after they were certain they would not have to act on the threat, because the Dockers were already being freed from prison!
In the coming months the demand for a one-day general strike, probably initially a one-day public sector strike, is going to be on the lips of workers throughout Britain. Despite their reluctance, the enormous pressure that will develop from below can force even the most right-wing trade union leaders to act. And given the specific history of Britain, even a one-day public sector strike would strike terror into the government and the capitalist class and would enormously raise the confidence and combativity of the working class for the struggles to come.
Revolutionary general strikes
Ten million took part in a general strike in Spain 29 September 2010 that shook Spanish capitalism , photo Sarah Wrack (Click to enlarge)
Such a 'warning strike' would inevitably be centred on stopping the government's onslaught. However, there have been many general strikes in history which have gone beyond defensive demands and starkly raised the possibility of the working class taking power into its own hands. Although not posed immediately, at least in Britain, we will see similar revolutionary general strikes in the future.
1968 was a year of mass movements across the globe. In May of that year ten million workers in France occupied the factories in a month-long general strike in what was, at least until now, the greatest general strike in history. As they occupied the factories the French working class hoisted the red flag and discussed how they could run society. The French president, Charles de Gaulle, fled the country. The London Evening Standard declared: "The situation today can be summed up in a few words: it is a revolutionary situation of an almost text-book kind."
In essence, the only reason that the working class of France did not take power in the general strike of May 1968 was because the leadership of the working class, above all the Stalinist Communist Party, betrayed them and was as frightened by the movement as the capitalists. In Britain, as well, the leadership of the trade union movement has a history of quailing in the face of a determined mass movement of the working class, which has then allowed the capitalist class to defeat the movement.
In his book, 1926 General Strike - Workers Taste Power, Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, explains what happened during the last British general strike. In 1919, in the run up to the heroic nine-day general strike of 1926, the then British prime minister declared to the trade union leaders: "If you carry out your threat and strike you will defeat us, but if you do so have you weighed up the consequences? A strike will be in defiance of the government of this country, and by its very success, will precipitate a constitutional crisis of the first importance. For if a force arises in the state, which is stronger than the state itself, they must be ready to take on the functions of the state or withdraw and accept the authority of the state. Gentlemen, have you considered, and if you have, are you ready?" The reaction of the right-wing miners' leader Robert Smillie was: "From that moment on we were beaten and we knew we were."
When the general strike took place seven years later, the trade union leaders betrayed the strike because they were not prepared to mobilise the working class to take power. In the aftermath of the strike the capitalist class, terrified by the power the working class had demonstrated, showed all its cold cruelty as it took its revenge. The miners were left to starve for a year; railway workers and many others saw their pay cut; tens of thousands were blacklisted. Britain in 1926 was not unique - when general strikes have been defeated, from Sweden in 1909 to Sri Lanka in 1980, the capitalist class has sought ruthless retribution.
For these reasons socialists do not lightly raise the demand for a general strike. As Leon Trotsky, the famous Russian revolutionary, put it: "improvisation is impermissible precisely on the question of a general strike", adding that: "a general strike, particularly in the old capitalist countries, requires a painstaking Marxist accounting of all the concrete circumstances."
Today most of the trade union leaders are even less prepared to lead a serious struggle than they were in 1926. In the last 20 years there has been an increased tendency in the leadership of the trade union movement towards accepting the 'logic of the market', that is the logic of cutting workers' pay and conditions! Many trade union leaders have become used to administering defeat rather than leading a struggle to defend their members' interests.
In addition, the outlook and understanding of the working class has also been shaped by the experience of the last 20 years. Current consciousness, and the absence of mass workers' parties which workers see as fighting for their interests, mean that today, while a general strike still objectively poses the question of power, this is not yet clearly understood by the mass of the working class.
In the general strikes in Greece the working class has shown enormous determination to stop the avalanche of cuts raining down on them. Nonetheless, the possibility of taking power themselves, and beginning to build a new socialist society, was not posed in the minds of the majority of even the most combative sections of the working class, at least at the beginning of the struggle.
This is starting to change on the basis of workers' own experience. Already, according to opinion polls, 48% of the Greek population supports nationalisation of the banks and a third supports a call to 'cancel the debt'; a demand that Xekinima, the Socialist Party's sister party in Greece, was the first to put forward. Intrinsically linked to the development of socialist consciousness will be the building of mass parties with a socialist programme. Without its own political organisation the working class is fighting with one hand tied behind its back.
Workers' committees
Another crucial aspect of the general strike is the development of workers' committees. In France 1968 action committees sprang up around the country in workplaces, universities and neighbourhoods. The committees began to link up, initially to organise the strike, but inevitably also to begin to organise society. The same process began to develop in parts of Britain in 1926 - with motor vehicles requiring signs 'by the authority of the TUC' before they were allowed on the roads. Such organisations of struggle reached their highest level in history in Russia 1917 when the Soviets (workers' councils) went from being the means of organising the revolution to the basis for building a new socialist society.
While in Greece there is enormous distrust of the official trade union leaders (the general secretary of the TUC no longer dares to speak at the general strike rallies after being physically hauled off the stage on one occasion and, on another, pelted with yoghurt!) there is not yet the widespread development of workers' committees to direct the struggle. Socialists have an important role to play in raising the need for such committees.
Each country is different, but for these reasons it is - at this stage of the struggle across Europe - generally correct to call for warning general strikes - of 24 or 48 or even 72 hours - sometimes combined with other sectional strikes, depending on the stage of the struggle, rather than all-out general strikes. Such warning strikes can play a vital role in increasing the confidence and cohesion of the working class and preparing the ground for decisive action to defeat the capitalists in the future.
However, general strikes do not, in themselves, guarantee victory. To be fully effective they need to be built for, and part of a programme of action, not just an outlet for the working class to 'let off steam'.
Britain's struggle begins
Here in Britain the struggle is at a particularly early stage. To some extent we are still in the 'phoney war' where the cuts have not yet all been announced, and even those that have been announced remain abstract in the minds of many workers. However, in the coming months, as millions face very concrete threats to their jobs, pensions, wages and public services, Greece will start to come to Britain.
We have demanded that the first step in Britain should be a massive trade union-led national demonstration, mobilising hundreds of thousands or more against the cuts. This would immediately raise the confidence of everyone who participated, preparing the ground for a 24 hour public sector general strike. As a result of the pressure from left unions the TUC has now said it will call a national demonstration. This is to be welcomed but the proposal for a demonstration in March 2011, six months after the comprehensive spending review, is far too late.
The London regions of the RMT, PCS and the firefighters' FBU unions and of the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN - see www.shopstewards.net) have taken the initiative to call a regional demonstration in London on Saturday 23 October, immediately after the comprehensive spending review. Up and down the country other local demonstrations will also take place on that day. These should be a springboard for a national demonstration before Christmas.
There are many other forms of struggle that will need to be employed in the war against the 'austerians' who want to wipe out rights and better conditions that have been won by the working class. 2010 will go down as the year that general strikes came back on the agenda. Used correctly, the general strike is a potentially enormously powerful weapon. As a result of the working class's experience of struggle, we will increasingly see, not only the 'defensive' general strikes of today as the working class tries to hold back the offensive against them, but also general strikes where the working class sees the potential to take the power and begin to build a new democratic socialist society.
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La Serra de les Ferreres és una serra situada al municipi d'Alcanó a la comarca del Segrià, amb una elevació màxima de 275,7 metres.

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Serres del Segrià
Geografia d'Alcanó

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List of music videos with RETRO MUSIC from the 80's or earlier
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Opposites Attract Paula Abdul
Another hit from the 80's.
Wicked Game Lyrics Chris Isaak
One of the most romantic and sad songs ever. Watch a live performance here.
Hey Jude (Lyrics) The Beatles - Glee cover
A cover of one of The Beatles' most famous songs in Glee's version. Listen to it with lyrics and then watch the original Beatles' version here.
September Earth, Wind and Fire
A very popular song from the 1970s.
Angie The Rolling Stones
"Angie" is a song by the rock band The Rolling Stones, featured on their 1973 album Goats Head Soup. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards…
Let It Be -singalong- The Beatles
Sing along to this classic released in 1970, written and sung by Paul McCartney.
Psycho Killer - acoustic Talking Heads
British-American post-punk from 1975. The lyrics were inspired by the character Norman Bates in the movie Psycho (by Alfred Hitchcock, see trailer). It was Talking Heads'…
Stay -lyrics video Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs
"Stay" is a doo-wop song recorded by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs. In 1960, the song was put on a demo by Williams and his band,…
So cold the night The Communards
A Tintin-like singer dancing like a freak with the highest falsetto voice in the story of pop and a good boy who ended up as an…
Every Beat Of The Heart The Railway Children
The Railway Children are a British alternative rock band, formed in Wigan in 1984. "Every Beat of the Heart" became a Top 40 hit in the…
Ride on Time Black Box
"Ride on Time" is a 1989 song recorded by band Black Box. It was later released on their debut LP Dreamland. The song achieved a great…
Somebody's Watching Me - lyrics video Rockwell
This is the debut single by R&B artist Rockwell, released on the Motown label in 1984. It featured former Motown artists Michael Jackson on the chorus…
Dancing at Jack Rabbit Slim's - Pulp Fiction Chuck Berry
The dancing scene of Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction. The song is You Never Can Tell, sung by Chuck Berry. It`s a song from the sixties, after…
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction The Rolling Stones
A very catchy title, a very catchy guitar riff, a great guitar sound. . . . And it captures a spirit of the times . .…
This Charming Man The Smiths
"This Charming Man" is a song by the English alternative rock band The Smiths, written by guitarist Johnny Marr and singer/lyricist Morrissey. It was released as…
Yesterday (Live) The Beatles
It's recognized as the most recorded song in the history of pop music with over 3000 recorded cover versions. The in-depth story behind the song... it's…
Here comes the sun -karaoke The Beatles
A karaoke with one of the mythical songs from the Beatles. You can also watch the original song here: HERE COMES THE SUN (by The Beatles)
Heaven Bryan Adams
"Heaven" is a powerful ballad by Canadian rock singer Bryan Adams originally recorded in 1983, co-written by Adams and Jim Vallance.
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) Eurythmics
"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" (or simply "Sweet Dreams") is a song written and performed by the British new wave music duo Eurythmics (Annie Lennox…
Love Me Tender Elvis Presley
Tender Elvis...
Jailhouse Rock Elvis Presley
A rock&roll hit by Elvis Presley. The song was released on September 24, 1957, to coincide with the release of Presley's motion picture, 'Jailhouse Rock'.
Last night a DJ saved my life Gina M
Another golden hit from the disco music that boomed in the 80s (yea man, I feel so retro!). The original TV performance video was so "Honestly,…
Rock Around The Clock Bill Haley & His Comets
It's a rock and roll song in the 12-bar blues format written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers (the latter under the pseudonym "Jimmy…
Der Kommissar After the Fire
A song first recorded by Falco in German in 1981, covered a year later by After The Fire and reworked in 1983 by Laura Branigan. Originally…
The Winner Takes It All Abba
One of the best break-up songs ever.


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Arizona has a reputation for being one of the hottest states in the U.S. This doesn't mean that it never gets cold though. The next time you are installing a new air conditioner or your whole HVAC system breaks down, remember that your furnace is just as important as your air conditioning for total overall comfort.
Getting a new air conditioner means you will have an updated, far more efficient piece of technology. Every year, air conditioners are becoming better and using less energy, but these units will be severely hindered if they are installed in concert with an antiquated furnace and air system. Heating and cooling systems work together with the air handler to keep your home comfortable and circulated. Replacing everything at once will guarantee the most compatible system and will actually lower your energy bill and overall cost of maintenance and longevity.
Furnaces are crucial for the overall performance of your home's heating and air conditioning. They also keep you warm though, something easily forgotten, yet necessary, in the Arizona climate. It is a misconception that keeping your furnace off until you actually need it will save you money. Instead, it is much better to maintain a consistent range of temperature for comfort and for the best energy bill. Alternatively, it might seem plausible to use a space heater on those chilly Arizona nights, but don't think that this will save you any headaches. Procrastination is tempting, but don't wait around and suffer when having a new furnace is attainable and alleviates so much stress.
Staying up to date with your furnace will guarantee that your air conditioning is first class and also that you will remain comfortable when the temperatures quickly drop from their seemingly endless scorch.


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Gang Enhancement Charges Added In Shooting Death
Posted: Dec. 1, 2020 12:37 AM PST
Another appearance, in a Nevada County courtroom, for the six men accused in the vehicle-to-vehicle shooting death of a Grass Valley woman last month. And Assistant District Attorney Chris Walsh says they've now added gang enhancement charges…
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Five of the six suspects are from Dallas, Texas, with the other from Shreveport, Louisiana. Walsh says that means a major increase in the potential criminal penalties for the five suspects who did not fire any shots…
But Walsh says the suspected triggerman, 22-year-old Trey Richard, of Dallas, was already facing a possible maximum sentence of life in prison without parole and was the only one charged with murder. 36-year-old Shanta Olsen was shot inside a vehicle near West Main and Alta Streets on November seventh. Authorities say the incident stemmed from a dispute over a marijuana transaction. The driver of the vehicle she was in was pursuing the suspects, after it became clear that the men were using fake money.
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Q: How to make a Start Screen icon for Notepad that will always open a new Notepad when clicked in Windows 8? Just installed Windows 8, pinned Notepad to the start screen. When I press the Windows key and use the Notepad tile to run Notepad, it will focus on the currently open Notepad window. I'd like it to start a new instance of Notepad. Is this possible?

A: It actually is possible with a reg key to do this.  it only works for desktop apps (not full screen win8 apps) though i imagine this is exactly what everyone is looking to do.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\Launcher]
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Source here.

A: Another rather tedious way to go about it is to right click on the tile & select "Open in New Window"

A: Use the Shift key to start a new instance of any application. Either Shift+Enter or Shift-Click, or else middle click.
Source: http://codeyarns.com/2012/10/22/start-multiple-instances-of-an-application-in-windows-8/
Other taskbar modifiers include:
Shift+Click         Open a new instance of the program
Ctrl+Click          Cycle between windows in a group
Middle Click        Open a new instance of the program
Ctrl+Shift+Click    Open a new instance of the program as Administrator
Shift+Right-Click   Show window menu

A: To make it always open a new window with a normal left click, change the shortcut target of the tile:

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*Right click on the tile

*Open file location. A File Explorer window should open, with a Notepad shortcut in it

*Right click on the Notepad shortcut

*Click properties

*Change the target to %windir%\system32\cmd.exe /c start %windir%\system32\notepad.exe

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Meredith King December 18, 2014
After four years with the Peace Corps, Matt McLaughlin became program manager of Stomping Out Malaria, a Peace Corps program that aims to eradicate the mosquito-born disease in Africa. He recently began the Master of Public Health (MPH) Program at the University of Vermont. Because the program is offered online, he's able to keep his job, working out of his home in Burlington and also fitting in travel. We recently asked him about his work in Africa and how an MPH might further his goals.
What was your Peace Corps experience like?
When I joined the Peace Corps, my recruiter keyed in on my business experience, and they sent me to Senegal to work in small enterprise development in the eco-tourism sector. After being in the country for a little more than a year, I came to the conclusion that my business skills would be more useful in the public health arena addressing malaria. Like many other public health challenges, the main issues are not clinical, but logistical. The test for malaria needs little to no clinical skill — an illiterate person can ably administer a malaria test. But stockouts are rampant. And managing supply is a key business process that I had experience with when working in a variety of businesses (mostly law offices) in New York City.
After serving in the Peace Corps, UVM Master of Public Health student Matt McLaughlin is working to eradicate malaria.
My major contribution was in the area of bed net distribution. In 2007, when I began working with nets, there was an understanding that mass distribution could create a "community effect" (similar to "herd immunity" in vaccines).
If you achieve a sufficient level of coverage, even those who aren't actually sleeping under a bed net receive some degree of protection. But the open question at the time was: How do you effectively distribute that many nets?
And the common thinking was that a thorough census would be too difficult; that local community health workers would not have the skills necessary to accurately conduct a census. Looking back, it sounds ridiculous that that sort of nonsense was a common belief, but it was.
A small group of volunteers and I worked with a small NGO called NetLife and the local health system to pilot a census-taking and net-distribution methodology with about 5,000 nets. The following year, we distributed 20,000. That was when the government of Senegal decided to adopt our methodology nationwide. To date, millions of bed nets have been distributed in Senegal using an approach that we piloted.
How did you get involved with Stomping Out Malaria?
When I finished my service, my then director, Chris Hedrick, who is currently the CEO of Kepler University, suggested that Peace Corps could learn from what we had done in Senegal and launch a focused initiative Africa-wide. At the same time, Dick Day, director of the Peace Corps' Africa Region, was looking for a way to be more proactive in the fight against malaria; malaria prevention was an issue he cared very deeply about. It was a happy confluence of people all wanting to push Peace Corps to take a more active role in malaria prevention.
I developed a proposal for how the initiative should be structured, and I have been working with Stomp ever since. We're active in every Peace Corps country in sub-Saharan Africa that has a significant malaria burden.
Can you tell us about malaria and why it's such a problem?
Malaria kills almost half a million children under 5 years old in sub-Saharan Africa every year. It is a disease that disproportionately affects the most vulnerable population on the planet. It is a disease that manages to cause that much death despite the fact that truly excellent treatment drugs exist and can be purchased for less than a dollar. The way I think of malaria is as a failure of systems thinking in the health system. Malaria can be easily defeated, but it requires people to think outside of the box. It won't be defeated by doctors at clinics. It requires trusted community health workers in every village with a coordinated, almost militaristic precision to reach every symptomatic individual. And they can do it. I'm desperately tired of people underestimating what community health workers are capable of.
What is your organization doing to eradicate malaria?
As a grassroots development agency, the Peace Corps has been working in malaria prevention for 50 years, strengthening the capacity of our host countries to build their health systems. Traditionally, that capacity-building has been very isolated — each volunteer would work with an individual counterpart, and any lessons learned would tend to be lost or, at most, travel to the next town over.
The Internet is fundamentally changing that equation. What Stomping Out Malaria in Africa is attempting to do is to cultivate knowledge-sharing from volunteer to volunteer across the continent. That means regular town hall-style meetings, use of video conferencing and online forums, and purposeful documentation.
One of the most important things I do is to help identify and evangelize flagship projects. The current most important project is called PECADOM+. It's a French acronym for home-based care, and the "plus" is a unique addition that Peace Corps and our partners have identified.
For most home-based care, the patient — even if they are to receive care in their home — has to seek out the community health worker. The patient needs to initiate care while the health worker passively waits for patients. But in many places where trust in the system is imperfect, people don't seek care when they have a fever. The "plus" in PECADOM+ is having the community health worker do a weekly active sweep of the community inquiring at each household for individuals with fever. This simple expedient radically increases the number of malaria cases identified and treated. In a controlled trial in 30 villages, this approach led to a 16-time drop in malaria rates over the course of the 2013 rainy season.
Since that time I've been evangelizing the approach across all our countries. I've personally met with the ministries of health of Benin and Togo, and volunteers in Cameroon, Madagascar and Zambia are working toward their own pilots of the approach.
What does your work involve from day to day?
I have three pillars of my work: training, mentorship, and partnership development. I run two week-long training events per year in Senegal where I bring together volunteers and Peace Corps staff from across the continent for an intensive malaria prevention training. These volunteers and staff are the focal points for malaria prevention in their countries. Much of my time is spent preparing for and running these trainings. Then I follow up by providing ongoing mentorship. That means that when volunteers are engaged in project design, they'll send me an email or we'll Skype and I'll help them think through the planning process.
Finally, to be successful in the modern age, you need partners. A substantial part of my day is spent liaising with partner organizations, looking for opportunities for collaboration, managing the relationship, and evangelizing the partnership to volunteers who can work with that partner in the field.
My days involve a lot of email, a fair amount of Google Docs, some Skype, and a heap of critical thinking.
Where do you work? Do you travel a lot? Do you use a mosquito net?
I work from home in the new North End of Burlington. No mosquito net, though I do wear repellent in the spring. Especially down by the water, they're merciless.
I do travel quite a bit. I'm generally in Africa four to five times per year and on domestic work travel (mainly to Washington, D.C.) another five to six times per year. When in Africa, I sleep under my bed net, wear repellent, and take my chemoprophylaxis religiously.
Why are you pursuing a graduate degree in public health?
There are two reasons: knowledge and credibility.
I consider myself pretty good at self-study. I'm extremely knowledgeable about malaria despite never once having taken a formal class to study it. I keep up with the scientific literature and can hold my own with my peers in the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) and USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development).
But self-study won't get you the credibility that a graduate degree confers. And there are some areas where I find unfocused self-study extremely difficult. I'm looking forward to really solidifying my knowledge of epidemiology and biostatistics.
How is the MPH program meshing with your job?
My professors have been extremely accommodating in allowing me to focus papers and projects on malaria-related themes. Particularly, the technical writing we've been doing in my environmental health class has provided a springboard to let me explore environmental issues around malaria prevention that I had been struggling with in my work.
Do your colleagues have MPHs, and what do they do?
Most of my CDC and USAID colleagues have MPH degrees. I'm the odd man out. Their jobs range from backstopping very specific areas like malaria in pregnancy or indoor residual spraying, to more general capacity-building of national malaria control programs.
How will the degree fit with your goals?
My long-term goal is to be part (an ever so small and humble part) of the team that eradicates malaria worldwide. To operate on that plane, I will need the credibility that a degree confers and the knowledge and ability to engage with scientific literature. The world needs more people who can bridge the gap between scientific insight and concrete operational interventions based on those insights.
Right now, there's just too much lag time and every day that passes more children die. I see that translational aspect as one of my strengths and hope that a degree will unlock opportunities in that arena.
What's something illuminating you've learned about Africa?
There have been so many illuminating experiences that have happened to me in Africa that it's hard to tell where to begin. I think the most important thing I've learned is to stop thinking of people as part of a monolithic exotic culture. There's everything under the sun in Africa. Venality and selflessness, incompetence and excellence, acceptance and prejudice, knowledge and superstition. If that sounds like America, it should.
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Le spinthariscope est un appareil permettant d'observer les désintégrations nucléaires individuelles provoquées par l'interaction de radiations ionisantes et du phosphore (voir phosphorescence et scintillation).

Invention

William Crookes inventa le spinthariscope en 1903. En observant la fluorescence apparemment uniforme d'un écran de sulfure de zinc créée par les émissions radioactives (rayonnement alpha) d'un échantillon de radium, il renversa une partie de l'échantillon. À cause de la rareté et du prix élevé du radium, il essaya de le récupérer. En inspectant l'écran au microscope, il remarqua des éclairs créés par les collisions des particules alpha avec l'écran. Crookes exploita cette découverte pour inventer un appareil conçu spécifiquement pour observer ces scintillations. Il se compose d'un petit écran enduit du sulfure de zinc apposé à l'extrémité d'un tube. Une quantité minuscule de sel de radium est suspendue à proximité de l'écran, un objectif fixé à l'autre extrémité du tube permet d'observer l'écran. Crookes baptisa son appareil d'après le mot grec «  » signifiant « étincelle ».

Utilisation

Il est dit que le spinthariscope devint rapidement un cadeau très populaire parmi les aristocrates et les gens de la haute société qui l'utilisaient au cours de démonstrations mondaines pour paraître au courant des dernières avancées scientifiques. Le spinthariscope fut rapidement remplacé pour les scientifiques par des dispositifs plus précis et plus quantitatifs permettant de mesurer le rayonnement produit au cours de leurs expériences. Il connut un regain d'intérêt au milieu du  comme jouet éducatif pour enfants.

Les spinthariscopes se vendent encore de nos jours en tant que matériel pédagogique économique ; ils contiennent toutefois  de l'américium.

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   par Robert Andrews Millikan, Edwin Sherwood Bishop,

Détecteur de rayonnement ionisant