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Eight Lessons We Can Learn From Brexit
Organizations are muddled. On the off chance that the establishments are not strong, you are setting out the way to extreme fall. So what lessons would we be able to gain from late occasions and how might we maintain a strategic distance from our own particular Brexit association emergencies?
8 Lessons we can gain from Brexit
1 Stay focussed on the ultumate objective
At the point when the establishing fathers, Monnet and Schumann, longed for a unified Europe, their fantasy was where no nation would have the capacity to wage war against another. The memory of the bloodletting of war was crude and sufficiently solid for six European countries to meet up to frame the European Coal and Steel Community which advanced into the European Economic Community.
Quick forward 40 years and under Jacques Delors, the 12 European part countries advanced into the Single Market, including the free development of products, administrations, capital and work to the Vision. This would develop into a mutual administrations course of action like no other, spreading after some time to 28 nations altogether.
An awesome Vision on a fundamental level however hard to accomplish practically speaking, especially as the four opportunities would exist best in a domain where dialect, sway and personality were auxiliary to the perfect of a one level Europe without the risk of war.
A dream represents a definitive objective and will set aside opportunity to accomplish. Accomplices to the vision will think of a progression of vital plans, each with interval objectives, all focussing on a definitive vision. This is the place the fantasies of the authors start to vary from desires that develop after some time. The techniques will include surrendering a level of control. This must be earned through confide in; not visually impaired trust, but rather put stock in earned and conveyed again and again. Absence of correspondence, infighting and terrible exposure can without much of a stretch harm the entire procedure.
For a few, the EU was out there and separated from normally negative exposure in the daily papers (to build deals), Europe wasn't seen as completing a considerable measure with the exception of permitting the conduits open for more remote nationals to come and take their employments. Ahead of the pack up to the 23 June submission, defenders of the leave vote could profit by the absence of lucidity of what the EU does by encouraging on dread of not being responsible for the national intrigue.
Accomplices convey to the Vision their own particular desires and belief systems. A business organization may have a Vision in light of the pooled assets of at least two organizations who are hoping to fortify their piece of the overall industry. A people group organization may have a dream that enhances the lives of people and groups. In all cases, each accomplice will get together with their own particular desires. How would they accomplish the vision?
2 Agendas can change
Each accomplice gets together with a motivation. The unmistakable things are put on the table, however some stay covered up. Plans likewise change when conditions change for accomplices. These can incorporate money related, administration and social. The UK has a notoriety of being in advance with its motivation notwithstanding when inconsistent with the other European forces. In 1984 Margaret Thatcher effectively battled for a superior money related course of action and in the 1990's John Major was fruitful in barring the UK from the social Chapter of the Maastricht Treaty. These embody the connection between the UK and our European accomplices and clarify the remarks around the not as much as upbeat marriage and expected rough separation.


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Music therapist's writings range from philosophical to practical
LAWRENCE – Bill Matney believes music therapists must sing and play a variety of instruments to have a complete toolkit to help their clients.
And as his scholarly publications show, the assistant professor at the University of Kansas School of Music takes a similarly wide-ranging interest in the field, from probing its deepest philosophical underpinnings to offering very specific instructions in his specialty, the use of percussion and the drum set.
In a 2019 issue of The Journal of Music Therapy, the field's most prestigious, Matney published the article "A Knowledge Framework for the Philosophical Underpinnings of Research: Implications for Music Therapy." Almost apart from the question of how music can be used to help clients — who often have a disability — move, learn and express themselves better, Matney writes about epistemology, or the philosophical study of knowledge, in relation to the different types of evidence and meaning music therapists generate through diverse research processes.
Matney writes of "the three primary epistemological positions that exist on a more nuanced continuum: objectivism, constructionism and subjectivism" outlined by Michael Crotty in his influential 1998 book "The Foundations of Social Research: Meaning and Perspective in the Research Process." Matney offers, if not a critique, a re-envisioning of Crotty's four-tiered "knowledge framework" that "emphasize(s) a two-way, dynamic relationship between" such fundamental questions as epistemology "and the research question(s). I also add surrounding factors in research process: the researcher, the context and the participant."
Perhaps this questioning of long-held assumptions is to be expected at KU, which offered the world's first graduate degrees in music therapy starting in the 1950s and also constitutes the field's longest-standing complete program at the undergraduate level.
Matney himself became interested in music therapy after a youthful stint drumming in a touring rock band that, as he put it, drew respectable club crowds across the country but wasn't a long-term career plan. His formal study of music eventually led him to music therapy.
Yet even now, long after he earned a doctorate and published a book on the use of drums and percussion in music therapy, Matney continues to draw on the experience of his first love behind the kit. His next article has been accepted for publication by the journal Music Therapy Perspectives and is titled "Drum Set Training in Music Therapy: A Resource for Students, Clinicians and Educators."
Playing percussion instruments — including the drum set (consisting of snare, bass, cymbals and tom-toms) — in addition to guitar, piano and vocals is essential, Matney believes, for a music therapist's toolkit.
"Through the use of body percussion, vocalizing/singing and other processes, the author proposes a way to promote a stronger understanding of how to use the drum set for accompaniment, re-creating, composing and improvising," he wrote.
Matney outlines a method that allows students to practice by vocalizing and "percussing" various body parts (e.g., right hand taps left shoulder in place of the stick against the high-hat cymbal) so that, once they get in front of a drum set, muscle memory can take over.
Matney believes his methods seek to focus on instrumentation, musical development and clinical engagement relevant to music therapy practice, which is an improvement over a typical "percussion methods class where they're teaching you timpani and marimba and intermediate rudiments on a snare drum. There's very little of that that's going to transfer into your clinical work."
"So I've spent a lot of time over the last two decades looking at what percussion instruments music therapists use and how to teach those things in a way that they can transfer to their clinical practice. ... How do I use a drum set to facilitate certain kinds of grasps or range of motion for a client? How do I use a hand drum or a set of hand drums to promote social cohesion with a group of teenagers? These are the things I'm thinking about."
Whether he is focusing on the specific or the general, Matney holds one fundamental view.
"First and foremost," he said, "I am of the belief that all people have the capacity to be musical."
Photo: Bill Matney at the drum set. Credit: Courtesy of Bill Matney

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More often than not, people feel uneasy when they hear the term 'root canal treatment' as they directly associate the procedure to pain. The perception of root canal treatment being painful began years ago however with modern technologies and anesthetics; root canal treatment today is no more uncomfortable than having a dental filling placed. A recent survey in fact showed that patients who have experienced root canal treatment are six times more likely to describe it as 'painless' than patients who have not had root canal treatment.
Most people who are suffering from gum disease are not really aware of it because the progression of the disease is slow and painless. It all starts with the bacteria forming a yellowish coating called dental plaque on your teeth. If this plaque is not removed properly during brushing, over time it ends up solidifying and forming what is called as calculus or tartar.
Can improving oral health prevent heart related problems?
The notion that problems in the mouth cause disease elsewhere in the body makes sense but has been difficult to prove.
"About 75 percent of bad breath or halitosis is caused by the mouth itself. Other causes include gastric problems, sinus infections or severe gum disease," says Mark Wolff, DDS, Ph.D., director of operative dentistry at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Many experts agree it's actually best to wait a little while after a meal to brush your teeth, rather than trying to clean them right away. This is especially valid in cases where you have had something acidic like oranges or lemons. Its good to leave at least a window of around 30 minutes after you eat. This is because the acidic food and sugars temporarily softens the teeth enamel and brushing right away can actually cause damage to the teeth enamel.
A dental check-up and cleaning twice a year may seem like a lot for someone with good oral hygiene and home care. However when you take in to consideration the amount of sugar laden foods we eat on a daily basis, the accumulation of buildup can be significant in a six month period.
Dr. Naeem Moideen is our Specialist Orthodontist and is also Invisalign® and Inman aligner certified.


Objectives: To study the effect of pre-operative intra-vitreal Avastin (bevacizumab) in diabetic patients undergoing phacoemulcification on central macular thickness and best corrected visual acuity.
Methods: A randomized controlled trial was conducted which included 42 patients (N=42). Group A and B had 21 patients each. Group A patients received injection Avastin (Bevacizumab) one week before phacoemulcification and Group B patient underwent phacoemulcification alone. Pre-operative best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and central macular thickness (CMT) was recorded before giving intravitreal bevacizumab. Post-operative BCVA and CMT was noted 4 weeks after the surgery.
in CMT from pre-operative value was not significant in study population (p=0.364), but was statistically significant in both groups individually (p=0.029, 0.001 respectively).
statistical significant effect on final BCVA.


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R&S Records is een onafhankelijk platenlabel. Het dancelabel werd in 1984 opgericht in België en gaf enkele baanbrekende platen uit, waaronder Energy Flash van Joey Beltram en Selected Ambient Works 85-92 van Aphex Twin.

Geschiedenis

R&S Records werd in 1984 opgericht in Gent door Renaat Vandepapeliere en Sabine Maes. Het label bracht dance uit in verschillende genres. Genres kregen hun eigen sublabel; Apollo (ambient), Global Cuts (house), Diatomyc (acid), Satori Records en Generations. Producer en uitvinder Herman Gillis ontwikkelde in 1995 de Sherman Filterbank, een synthesizer, toen hij werkzaam was voor R&S.

In 2001 werd het label tot nieuw leven gewekt, maar was nu gevestigd in Londen. Het label nam Britse progressieve, elektronische muzikanten onder contract. In februari 2021 werd R&S door een talentenscout beschuldigd van discriminatie en onrechtmatig ontslag. De zaak werd in mei 2022 afgewezen op grond van het feit dat de scout, Raj Chaudhuri, geen ex-werknemer was maar een freelancer.

Externe links
  Officiële website

Belgisch platenlabel
Techno-platenlabel
Ambient-platenlabel
Bedrijf met zetel in Vlaanderen
Economie in Gent

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The ATP and WTA professionals are currently competing for a title at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. Meanwhile, some of the best teams in the US college tennis scene are preparing for a very special event, which will also take place at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden over the final weekend of the BNP Paribas Open. The annually held BNP Paribas Open Collegiate Tennis Challenge showcases some of the top men's and women's collegiate tennis programs in the country, who will compete on the same courts as the pros! This year's participating teams are Arizona State University, Baylor University, Brigham Young University, Loyola Marymount University, Pepperdine University, Purdue University, Southern Methodist University, University of California – Berkeley, University of South Florida, University of Southern California and University of Tulsa. The list of participants promises high quality college tennis in 14 matches, as the event features twelve of the top Division I men's and women's teams.
The BNP Paribas Open Collegiate Tennis Challenge, presented by Oracle, will take place March 16 to 18 during the final weekend of the 2018 BNP Paribas Open. Matches will begin at 8:00 a.m. local time on all three days of competition. As the official live scoring partner for the USTA National Campus and many collegiate tennis events in the USA, the team of Tennis-Ticker is very proud to support the BNP Paribas Open Collegiate Tennis Challenge 2018 with our point-by-point live scoring system and live match statistics for every match and court! Don't miss the action and keep an eye out for the most promising talents in US college tennis by clicking the buttons below!
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The minister without a portfolio in charge of innovation and technological development, Nenad Popovic, said on Tuesday, February 27, 2018, that all foreign and local companies opening their development centers in Serbia, using the knowledge of Serbian experts, stood to be supported by the state.
As the website of the Government of Serbia reports, Popovic, who visited the development center of the Swedish company Verisec together with Ambassador of Sweden to Serbia Jan Lundin, pointed out that the company was a good example, as it delivers the product Freja eID+, made by young Serbian IT experts, from Belgrade to the world market.
The company, as he explained, develops modern, innovative digital solutions for data safety in banks and all other state institutions worldwide.
According to him, Freja eID+ is a security digital app, the first and so far the only official national mobile app of Sweden which citizens can use to identify themselves in using public and private services.
The Minister pointed out that Verisec had ten daughter-companies in the world and that all the development activities took place in the capital of Serbia, where 41 young graduates from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, design engineers and other Serbian experts worked.
This company is also a good example of promoting female entrepreneurship, as the majority of the young inventors here are women.
Lundin pointed out that there was a strong desire on the part of Serbia to cooperate with Sweden in the field of innovation and said that Verisec was a good example of that cooperation in the IT sector.
He announced that Popovic should soon visit Sweden, where he would have talks about a further enhancement of the cooperation between the two countries in the field of technological development, it is said.


Who is Anand Ahuja? Get to know Sonam Kapoor's husband-to-be!
Families of Bollywood actor Sonam Kapoor and her beau, Anand Ahuja confirmed rumours of the couple's wedding which is to take place on May 8, this year, reported India Today.
But who really is Anand Ahuja? Sonam's husband-to-be is the founder of Bhane, a popular clothing brand in India that the actor has often been spotted wearing.
Apart from own a clothing brand, the Delhi-based businessman also started India's first multi-brand sneaker boutique called VegNonVeg. Anand is the grandson of Harish Ahuja, who runs India's largest export house. He also manages Shahi Exports which reportedly has a turnover of over Rs30 billion.
Anand studied at American Embassy School in Delhi and completed his post-graduation from Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. He worked as an intern at Amazon.com and moved back to India to join his family business. The groom-to-be is also a basketball lover.
The businessman is rumoured to have met Sonam in 2014, when he was introducer to her by the latter's stylist Pernia Qureshi. It is also said that Anand proposed Sonam within a month of their first meeting.
With barely a week left to the wedding festivities, the Kapoor's Bandra residence in Mumbai is all decked up. Even Bollywood celebrities are gearing up for the big, fat celebrations.
It's reported that Sonam and Anand will be having two receptions, one in Mumbai and the other in Delhi. After the two tie the knot, Sonam and Anand will be travelling to the Cannes Film Festival where the former will be walking the red carpet this year. Upon returning from the French Riveria, Sonam will get back to promotions of her upcoming film, Veere Di Wedding.


I learned last year that I am too busy (and lazy, probably lazy, as well) for monthly update posts, even when I do want to share what I've read/listened to. I can get quarterly update put the way. There's always a solution to a problem. Four update posts a year shouldn't be a huge hurdle for me to overcome. The only challenge that will be missing from this list is my audiobooks update since I'll do a quarterly update with Mogsy and Wendy, but the books are on the list.
There is plenty of overlap here as I expcted there would be since I'm trying to consolidate and not overwhelm myself. Also, I've decided to add all books that I read that fit a challenge to that challenge, even if it wasn't on my original list. I've also shuffled my original lists around a bit as I looked through my TBR piles. My psychologist friend dropped me various books to read, as well, so that's mixed in here with the rest of the books. I finally read my first Gillian Flynn novel, and no, it's still not Gone Girl. I'm trying to be the last woman standing who hasn't read that.
I only made a 52 book goal for Goodreads this year, even though I'll likely read more than that. I've decided that I'm probably going to keep that as my goal this year rather than upping it throughout the year as I did last year.
I am trying really hard with Sanderson. I made an ambitious goal to read like 7 of his books this year, which isn't a ton of books given how fast I typically read. However… I'm having a hard time getting into his books. I've started two–Warbreaker and Mistborn. Both books have pretty much went on my "on-hiatus" pile. I said I was going to go back to Warbreaker because I'm more interested in that story than Mistborn's right now, but I'm afraid this is going to become my first DNF challenge of 2016.
This looks like a cool assortment of titles! I'm super intrigued by The Girl From The Well – I watch a lot of horror, but haven't read much, and this looks like a great place to start!
The Girl from the Well was okay. I'm a huge horror fan, so I went into that book with my heart open. It had so much potential to be something I really loved. I'm debating whether I want to go to the second book or not to see if the author hit her stride.
I like that the author specializes in my brand of horror – checked her out on Amazon and her other series starts off with Asylum, which is one of my fave genre settings!
It started out really promising. The prologue was excellent. I was just disappointed that she didn't do more with it. She definitely gets what makes J-Horror work, but it didn't mesh together well. It wasn't a badly written book, and I definitely say try it if you're interested in it. I may just be cynical. LOL.
Wow, thanks for the reviews. Some of these books I have been looking at but haven't decided if I want to commit and read them.
No problem. I'm actually trying to review most of the stuff that I read this year, even the non-speculative books, so I hope they help somebody. LOL.
Good job! I'm hope you try Warbreaker again soon. I really liked it! Lost Stars was okay for me. Too much romance, but it was cool how it tied into the plot of the movies.
I like the concept of Warbreaker. I'm going to restart it soon. I just might not have been in the mood for it at the time, but I did like it more than Mistborn. I'm going to attempt it again soon.
Wow that's a really impressive quarterly review! I'm so bad with all my personal challenges at the moment! I need to pull myself together.
And you've already read more books than you set out to.
Well done and great post.
I've been trying to keep up with my challenges (I am going to complete some of them this year, darn it!), but it's so easy to get distracted.


Mike Benard held the top communications job at Kodak as Director of Communications and Public Affairs and Vice President for more than a dozen years, until his retirement in 2006.
As head of Communications and Public Affairs, he had worldwide responsibility for internal and external communications, government affairs, community relations, corporate contributions, and management communications. Prior to Kodak, Mike was in corporate and business unit communications at PPG Industries.
Mike served as a discussion leader at the American Press Institute's seminars on the transformation of the newspaper industry. In addition, he served as a highly rated speaker for the International Newsmedia Marketing Association; and he has written on the transformation of the news and photo industries driven by the shift to digital and internet technology.
He leads professional development seminars for PR folks, addresses university-level marketing classes, and provides communications coaching for execs.
A graduate of John Carroll University, he holds a BA in English and a M.Ed. from Temple University. His undergraduate studies included one year at Loyola University's Rome Center, Rome, Italy.


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Nintendo Power Getting Shutdown
For 24 years gamer's around the world have been subscribed to a cult classic magazine that offered the latest news on all things related to Nintendo. Kids remember having their Mom's get on them for leaving the magazines piled up around the house and always waiting for the next issue to be in the mailbox.
Today it was announced that Nintendo had chosen not to renew its licensing agreement with Future Publishing for Nintendo Power. It was also noted that Nintendo does not plan to take over the publication of the magazine on it's own either. According to Nintendo they stated that Future Publishing was "difficult to work with" and Nintendo has taken no interest with working with Future to expand and strengthen Nintendo Power.
The magazines staff and editors were told about the magazines shutdown last week and since then have been in the process of transferring to work on other Future properties such as GamesRadar and MacLife magazine. It was also noted that the shutdown will not affect another other properties tied with Future.
Nintendo Power released over 280 magazines to fans around the world and currently has 475,000 monthly readers. It wasn't stated as to what issue number would be the final publication for Nintendo Power. Fans around the world be sure to keep an eye out for the last publication of a classic magazine that paved the way for gaming magazines around the world.
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The ileum is the last location in which most nutrients are absorbed. It is composed of the four layers characteristic of the gastrointestinal tract.
Villi - shorter, wide projections with blunt ends that extend into the lumen.
Absorptive Cells (or Enterocytes) - simple columnar cells with microvilli (or brush border) to expand the absorptive surface.
Crypts - intestinal glands found at the base of villi.
Lamina Propria - loose connective tissue that supports the epithelium and forms the core of villi.
Peyer's Patches - lymphoid tissue found in the intestinal wall (GALT).
Lacteals - prominent within the core of villi in the ileum.
No submucosal glands (only in the duodenum).
Adventitia - loose connective tissue (absent in this specimen).


Got building plans? Come take a look at this great creek side building lot in the east valley. This Creston area lot features paved roads, underground utilities, protective covenants, gorgeous mountain views and backs up to Blaine Creek. Just a quick commute into Kalispell, Bigfork or Columbia Falls from this development.
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Producer/Composer/ Songwriter/ Actress /Vocalist Denise M. Richards is a soulful singer who's voice is unique and captivating. Denise has been singing since she was ten years of age, and made her performing debut on the (TTT) Trinidad and Tobago Television show Twelve and Under hosted by Hazel Ward. She has performed at Queen's Hall, in her native island of Trinidad. In NYC she attended P.S. 190 in Brooklyn,George Gershwin Jr. High, Canarsie High and Hunter College in Manhattan. She was always auditioning for acting parts in Musicals, but singing has always been her forte. Denise has studied performing arts at the New Muse Workshop in Brooklyn NY, under the direction of Muriel Winston and Reggie Workman, and at Hunter College in NYC she studied Drama. In Oakland, California she also studied Improv. under the direction of instructor Lew Levenson, vocal technique with instructor Luci Kitchins at Laney College, and piano with instructor Ed Kelly whom she has also performed with in his jazz band. Denise has (over the years) performed with many artist and bands such as Carlos Santana, Al Green, The Caribbean AllStars, Gregory Bledso and The Source of Light Band and the band Calabash to name a few. She sings in Churches, and has a special love for Praise songs. She believes that "as an artist she is free to express herself in as many genre as her creativity will explore and share with others in music and song" and she clearly demonstrates that by the songs and music she has already produced. Denise is a natural born singer, who's melodic vocal flow is just simply amazing and touches the heart.
In her first album "Music On My Mind" she takes us on a musical journey where she is featured playing the synthesizer. On" It's All or Nothing at All" she is awesome, singing like a true songstress, This song is one of many released on the Album " This Is the Love". The album splashes accross the music scene with the sound that is totally captivating, truly the ultra sound. Denise has released her new album titled "Well Connected" it is a fantastic CD that is composed of many different Genre such as Neo Soul, Conscious Soca (the pulsating Island sound of Trinidad) Love songs, and Inspirational vibes with a message of hope.
All songs on the albums are written/composed and performed by Denise, and all the accompanying music is written/composed and performed by musician Garvey Maynard - Mr.G.Cutty Productions. The sound that has arrived on the music scene from Denise M. Richards and Mr.G.Cutty Productions is all encompassing and fantastic to the ear, it simply leaves you wanting more. Denise is a fully liberated Artist who loves all types of music from Classical to Soca and anything in between.


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This year we are donating the funds from our Change 4 Change Radiothon to Project 375. Founded in 2012 by NFL wide-receiver Brandon Marshall and his wife Michi, Project 375 is a national non-profit dedicated to educating people like your parents and teachers on youth mental health.
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A large-hole engraved four track continuous board in a range of wood species.
This engraved board measures 7" by 23". It features four continuous tracks, with an engraved name or short message below.
This board has 3/16" holes and uses our giant 2" pegs.
It comes with twelve giant metal pegs, eight of which live in a pocket in the back with sliding brass plate for closure, and four for spares. There are three pegs of each color - brass, copper, aluminum and black steel.
The engraving is hand-painted with a deep brown acrylic. The top four edges have a generous chamfer adding to the style of the board. After sanding smooth, this board is brushed with shellac to protect the wood.


Item number 1472/2 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
Woman's rectangular silk georgette wedding veil. A bright green central field, with over-all yellow dot pattern, has five circular red medallions, one in the center and one at each corner. These are embellished with yellow and white tie-dyed dots that form circular motifs. There are wide red borders on all sides, embellished with white, yellow and green patterns formed by tie-dyed dots. The surface of the textile is puckered.
Part of the bride's dowry, which she wears at her wedding and for special occasions thereafter. The veil is worn over the head, like a scarf, to cover the face and upper body, as the bride may only show her face to the immediate family. Worn with a kameez (long shirt with slit sides) and a shalwar (baggy pants).
The colour red symbolizes blood and life. It is associated with weddings and is always included in dowry garments. There are references to tie-dyed cloth as symbolic of fidelity in Sindhi folk poetry.
Ashiya Bai made this veil for her daughter-in-law as a wedding gift; it was part of her dowry. This veil was worn only twice. This piece was Ashiya Bai's last work; she was getting too old to continue her craft. The daughter-in-law sold it to Razia Ahmed.
Bandhani, which means "to tie," is a style of patterning cloth by tying or knotting the patterned areas to protect them from the dye. Before dyeing, the textile is usually printed with the design using a wooden block and a temporary dye that washes out. This printed design serves as a guide for placing the ties. (Because Ashiya Bai, the dyer who made this veil, was very experienced, she formed the design freehand instead of first block-printing it.) The sheer silk georgette was folded into quarters and tie-dyed through all four thicknesses, using a cone-shaped metal ring on the fingertip or a sharpened fingernail to pick up very small sections of the textile for tying. A continuous string, which has been dipped in wax, is used to tie all the pattern elements on the piece. The piece is dipped into a dye bath, and/or dye is painted on with a reed brush. After dyeing and washing, the string is removed. Chemical dyes were used in the manufacture of this veil because it had become difficult to obtain the vegetable dyes that would have been used in the past. Napthol dye was used for the red and procian dye for the green. The dyes were fixed with turmeric and yoghurt.


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Public Release: 4-Oct-2017
Surface helium detonation spells end for white dwarf
National Institutes of Natural Sciences
IMAGE: The nuclear detonation of the surface helium layer triggered an inward shock wave, and now carbon nuclear fusion has begun at the center. view more
Credit: Institute of Astronomy, University of Tokyo
Some stars end their lives with a huge explosion called a supernova. The most famous supernovae are the result of a massive star exploding, but a white dwarf, the remnant of an intermediate mass star like our Sun, can also explode. This can occur if the white dwarf is part of a binary star system. The white dwarf accretes material from the companion star, then at some point, it might explode as a type Ia supernova.
Because of the uniform and extremely high brightness (about 5 billion times brighter than the Sun) of type Ia supernovae, they are often used for distance measurements in astronomy. However, astronomers are still puzzled by how these explosions are ignited. Moreover, these explosions only occur about once every 100 years in any given galaxy, making them difficult to catch.
An international team of researchers led by Ji-an Jiang, a graduate student of the University of Tokyo, and including researchers from the University of Tokyo, the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU), Kyoto University, and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), tried to solve this problem. To maximize the chances of finding a type Ia supernova in the very early stages, the team used Hyper Suprime-Cam mounted on the Subaru Telescope, a combination which can capture an ultra-wide area of the sky at once. Also they developed a system to detect supernovae automatically in the heavy flood of data during the survey, which enabled real-time discoveries and timely follow-up observations.
They discovered over 100 supernova candidates in one night with Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam, including several supernovae that had only exploded a few days earlier. In particular, they captured a peculiar type Ia supernova within a day of it exploding. Its brightness and color variation over time are different from any previously-discovered type Ia supernova. They hypothesized this object could be the result of a white dwarf with a helium layer on its surface. Igniting the helium layer would lead to a violent chain reaction and cause the entire star to explode. This peculiar behavior can be totally explained with numerical simulations calculated using the supercomputer ATERUI. "This is the first evidence that robustly supports a theoretically predicted stellar explosion mechanism!" said Jiang.
This result is a step towards understand the beginning of type Ia supernovae. The team will continue to test their theory against other supernovae, by detecting more and more supernovae just after the explosion. The details of their study were published in Nature on October 5.
Dr. Hitoshi Yamaoka
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Donald Glover says his old record label owes him $700,000 in streaming royalties.
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According to The Blast, they are going to hash it all out in court.
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OWN Breaks Viewership Records
Jo-Carolyn Goode | 4/6/2015, 9:40 a.m.
Welcome to Sweetie Pie's stars Robbie Montgomery, her son Tim, and others who help her Miss Robbie's family-centered eateries tick. Courtesy of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network
Los Angeles – OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network delivered its most-watched quarter in network history in Q1 2015 with 581,000 total primetime viewers, up +44% vs. prior quarter. The network also achieved its highest quarterly rank in prime in network history at #21 in the key W25-54 demo (among ad-supported cable networks).
Additionally, OWN had its most-watched week in network history for the week of March 23, with 798,000 total viewers in prime. The records for both the most-watched quarter and the most-watched week are consistent in both Live+SD and Live+3 data. Moving forward, the network will be reporting Live+3 data, with the exclusion of live and event programming.
The ratings momentum in Q1 2015 was driven by several of the network's original series:
Popular series "The Haves and the Have Nots" and "If Loving You is Wrong," both from Tyler Perry, led to OWN's most-watched night in network history on March 24, with primetime averaging nearly 2.9 million viewers. In L+3, "The Haves and the Have Nots" (9 p.m.) earned a 3.13 rating W25-54 (up +19% vs. LSD) and attracted 4 million viewers (up +14% vs. LSD) and "If Loving You is Wrong" (10 p.m.) earned a 2.71 rating W25-54 (up +22% vs. LSD) and attracted 3.5 million viewers (up +16% vs. LSD).
o Competitive data: For the quarter, "The Haves and the Have Nots" and "If Loving You is Wrong" led OWN to be Tuesday night's #1 cable network among women and #1 network on all of TV among African-American women and total viewers
Comedy series "Love Thy Neighbor" from Tyler Perry was Wednesday night's #2 original cable series for African-American women, driving OWN to be Wednesday night's #2 cable network for African-American women
The much talked about special featuring Iyanla Vanzant's sit down with Chris Brown's ex Karrueche Tran (3/28/15 at 8 p.m.) "Iyanla Exclusive: Karrueche Tran" posted 813,000 total viewers, a 0.76 rating W25-54 and a 3.93 African-American W25-54, marking the network's strongest performance in the time period since February 2013 and ranked #1 in the time period among African-American women
"Welcome to Sweetie Pie's," "Raising Whitley" and "2 Fat 2 Fly" were Saturday night's top 3 original cable series for the quarter among African-American women. "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" most recent episode (3/28/15 at 9 p.m.) posted 1.06 million viewers and a 0.98 rating W25-54 and a 5.06 rating African-American W25-54, tying the show's highest W25-54 rating of the season, becoming Saturday night's #1 cable telecast among African-American women and the #1 non-sports telecast for African-American total viewers. Additionally, Saturday's episode ranked as the #2 episode this season among total viewers and the series achieved its highest African-American W25-54 rating this season
Source: The Nielsen Company, Live+3
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This collection deals with the intricacies of enhancing access to human rights in a world that is to a large extent characterised by legal pluralism, ie the co-existence and interaction of various legal orders in a same field of social relations. The point of departure is that the promotion of human rights is a desirable, yet complex undertaking, and that the insights generated within the scholarly tradition of legal pluralism and the 'universality debate' can help elucidate the issues at stake. Aware of numerous misunderstandings and of the mutual suspicion that exists between human rights scholars and legal anthropologists, the volume includes contributions from experts in both disciplines and intends to build bridges between them. In that endeavour, both legal pluralism and human rights are problematised. Rather than analysing whether legal pluralism is compatible with human rights or whether non-state legal orders either comply with or breach international standards, this book focuses on the question: how does legal pluralism interplay with the promotion of human rights?
The contributors draw on experiences from Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
1. Human Rights and Legal Pluralism: Four Research Agendas
Giselle Corradi
PART ONE: NORMATIVE APPROACHES
2. Legal Pluralism as a Human Right and/or as a Human Rights Violation
Eva Brems
3. Legal Pluralism and International Human Rights Law: A Multifaceted Relationship
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5. Taking the Challenge of Legal Pluralism for Human Rights Seriously
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6. Indigenous Justice and the Right to a Fair Trial
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"Thus Spoke Lem". A continuation and a broadened edition of "Conversations with Lem" by Stanislaw Beres. Additional chapters have been added, resulting from conversations from 2001, after 9/11, when the world politics took a sudden turn. This edition also restores paragraphs removed by communist censorship - the recollections from Lvow from the times of the Soviet occupation and those related to the 1981 Martial Law in Poland.
The Author of "Solaris" presents his views and details of his biography. He talks about his childhood and youth; about literary and film fascinations and disappointments. About history and the hidden meaning of his books; about problems of the preset arising from scientific progress – as always, penetratingly and farsightedly.


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Tinubu commends Oshiomhole, says Direct Primaries will deepen internal democracy
Former Lagos State Governor and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said the decision of the party's National Working Committee approving a direct primary for electing the party's governorship candidate in Osun State will deepen internal democracy in the party.
"When the history of this moment is written, those looking back on this decision will say that it was an inevitable natural consequence of party evolution," he said.
Tinubu was reacting to the decision by the party's NWC to pick the governorship candidate of the party through direct primaries.
The APC Constitution provides for both direct and indirect primaries, but the direct option is more democratic and it is more participatory.
In a statement on Tuesday by his Media Office, signed by Tunde Rahman, Asiwaju Tinubu also commended the party's National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, for leading the party towards greater democracy, which means increased participation of all party members in key decisions that affect them.
The statement, entitled: "Internal Democracy: Improving the Nomination Process," reads:
"From its inception, our party has held to principles of internal democracy and, by the open and fair conduct of our conventions, we have distinguished ourselves from all other political parties. While we have achieved more than others with regard to internal democracy, there is still more to be done in order to perfect our internal procedures and mechanisms.
"This consideration was a key factor in the election of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as party chairman. Core to that mandate is the improvement of democracy within the party so that we may become even better representatives of the people.
"The decision of the National Working Committee approving a direct primary to elect the party's candidate for Osun election is a ground-breaking step toward achieving this fine objective. By this decision, the party affirms its democratic inclinations. When the history of this moment is written, those looking back on this decision will say that it was an inevitable natural consequence of party evolution.
"However, I know differently. This decision took courage and conviction because it bucked the old ways in order to bring about something better and new. Comrade Oshiomhole deserves commendation for leading the party toward greater democracy, which means increased participation of all party members in key decisions that affect them.
"The involvement of all APC members in candidate nomination will ensure that the party chooses the candidate of the people. It will also serve to galvanize the party membership for the general election that lies ahead. Moreover, direct primaries will serve as a future deterrent to those who might have tried to corrupt the delegate system of obtaining nominations. With that system, the temptation to 'buy' delegates was an ever-present weakness. Now, such a venal undertaking will prove much too costly and uncertain to be entertained as feasible strategy.
"I am sure party members in Osun welcome this decision for it shines the rays of democracy more fully upon them. May this decision not be peculiar to Osun but stand as the new way of our party. The nation and the APC will both be better for it."
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All Progressives Congress
Bola Ahmed Tinubu
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1936 - July 15 - Centered around Milton-Freewater. Shallow. Most destructive quake east of the Cascades. Magnitude 5.8 with a modified Mercalli of VII. Windows broke, walls cracked, a few chimneys collapsed, a two-story concrete house near Umapine lost part of the top of its second story. Numerous aftershocks reported through late November 1936.
1939 - November 12 - Centered in south Puget Sound. Deep. Chimney and plaster damage. Magnitude 5.8 with a modified Mercalli of VII.
1949 - April 13 - Centered on Olympia. Deep (30-40 miles). Magnitude 7.1 with a modified Mercalli of VIII. Substantial damage to masonry buildings with inferior mortar. Differential ground movement. Most damage in Seattle was concentrated in areas of filled ground around Pioneer Square area, where many older masonry buildings suffered. Washington schools sustained a disproportionately high level of damage. Thirty schools, normally serving 10,000 students, were damaged. Ten condemned and permanently closed.
1965 - April 29 - Centered just south of Seattle. Deep (30-40 miles). Magnitude 6.5 with a modified Mercalli of VIII. Similar damages to 1949 earthquake. Eight Seattle schools, normally serving 8,000 students were closed until safety inspection could be carried out.
2001 - February 28 Centered at Nisqually delta. Deep (30-40 miles). Magnitude 6.8. Similar damages to 1949 and 1965 earthquake.
For additional information on earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest see this web site.
1877 - October 12 Shallow. Centered in the Cascade Mountains. Magnitude 5.3 with a modified Mercalli of VII. Chimneys damaged in the Portland area.
1892 - February 3 Modified Mercalli of VI. Buildings swayed, and terrified people rushed into the street. The earthquake was felt strongly at Astoria and Salem; the total area affected covered about 10,000 square miles (26,000 square kilometers).
1893 - March 6 Shallow. Magnitude 4.7 with a modified Mercalli of VII. Some damage to buildings at Umatilla. Details on this shock are lacking.
1920 - April 14 Centered in the vicinity of Crater Lake. Modified Mercalli of V. Three shocks were felt at Fort Klamath.
1920s - Earthquakes were felt near Cascadia, February 25, 1921 (V); southern Oregon, January 10, 1923 (V); eastern Baker County, April 8, 1927 (V); was noticed at Halfway and Richland.
1940 - 1968 - Earthquakes were felt in the vicinity of Portland, December 29, 1941 Magnitude 5 (VI); Portland, December 15, 1953, Magnitude 5 (VI); Salem, November 16, 1957 Magnitude 5 (VI); Albany and Lebanon, August 18, 1961, Magnitude 4.5 (VI); Portland, November 6, 1961 Magnitude 4.7 (VI); Oregon-California border, May 26, 1968 (VI).


MT. VERNON — The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office has joined the Southern Illinois Child Death Task Force.
Sheriff Jeff Bullard and Chief Deputy Blaine Uhls were members of the task force when employed by the Mt. Vernon Police Department and Centralia Police Departments, respectively. Now, members of the Sheriff's Office detective division will be added to the task force as well.
The Southern Illinois Child Death Task Force was created in 2010 and is comprised of state and local law enforcement investigators, coroners, prosecutors, Illinois Child Advocacy Center, and the Department of Children and Family Service investigators. The task force covers six districts of Illinois State Police and is coordinated by the Illinois Attorney General's Office. The primary function of the task force is to assist local law enforcement with child death and serious abuse investigations. When a local law enforcement agency has an event involving serious abuse or child death, a DCFS hotline report activates the task force. The task force commander coordinates with local officials to provide resources including manpower and equipment, to assist the investigation.
In addition to sharing resources, the task force provides three continuing education sessions each year for members. The training qualifies them for certifications such as lead homicide investigator which is required for law enforcement death investigations. The training is provided at no cost to the member agency.


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Kyle Busch wins in lead up race to Homestead.
By Dale Money / NASCAR, US Sports / Leave a Comment
Kyle Busch held off Brad Keselowski in the final dozen laps, winning his eighth race of the year, tied with Kevin Harvick for most this season.
Entering the race just needing to finish sixth to guarantee he would qualify for the finale.
On the last restart, Aric Almirola and Kyle Busch lead up to the line, no one would have been surprised, if Busch played it out strategically and allowed Almirola to beat him for the lead, that way attempting to keep a much more dangerous opponent in Kevin Harvick out of the finale.
Busch was honest about the idea.
"I did think about it," Busch said. "But I'm here to win the race. They always want it to play out naturally."
It'll be Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick, Joey Logano, and Martin Truex Jr battling it out for the Title, in what will no doubt be a showdown between Ford and Toyota. Kurt Busch, Chase Elliot, Aric Almirola, and Clint Bowyer were all eliminated.
Harvick started on the pole and led the first 72 laps before his tire went flat, that put Harvick back in 30th and one lap down. And it certainly wasn't easy, having to fight his way back for a good part of the race. When it looked like Kevin Harvick may end up not going to the finale with a chance at a Title, a speeding penalty fell on race leader Chase Elliot.
And then to compound Elliot's problems further, a wreck involving Denny Hamlin and fellow Contender Kurt Busch caught him unawares, ultimately costing him a shot at the title along with Kurt Busch. Busch finished 32nd. Elliott lost three laps under repairs and finished 23d.
Logano had his left rear tire go flat early on in the race, which caused him to spin out. He finished the race in 37th.
"These things are out of your control, so it doesn't really knock your confidence down," Logano said. "There's nothing my team could do different, so there's really nothing to get depressed about."
The season rounds up Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Truex will go into the race looking to defend his title.


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Q: Custom error function for neural network in R I use R-packages (nnet, amore, neuralnet) for designing a neural network. The problem is that I want to use a custom error function. Based on the output from the neural network I have a custom calculation...
It seems not possible to do this is in a package in R? Is there anybody who knows what I can do?
Other possibility is that I use a genetic algorithm to optimize my weights of my neural network, but I don't get the desired optimization here. My network 28 inputs & 9 hidden neurons is too big to use a genetic algorithm to optimize, I get stuck in local optima...
(Maybe the genetic algorithm approach is an option but it would be time consuming to try to achieve a decent solution with it.)

A: With the neuralnet package you can pass custom activation and error functions which are automatically differentiated (assuming the function can be with the internal R functions).  See this question here regarding how to implemented ReLU for the activation function.  The same thing should be possible by passing your custom error function to the err.fct argument.

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Hammond, LA (HMD)
The renovation of the 1912 depot garnered an historic preservation award; the building currently houses the local chamber of commerce, court clerk and an Amtrak waiting room.
404 N.W. Railroad Avenue
Annual Station Ridership (FY 2018): 9,350
Facility Ownership: Hammond Chamber of Commerce
Parking Lot Ownership: Hammond Chamber of Commerce
Platform Ownership: Canadian National Illinois Central Railway
Track Ownership: Canadian National Illinois Central Railway
City of Hammond
Hammond Historical District
The current Amtrak station in Hammond was built by the Illinois Central Railroad in 1912 and designed by the railroad's in-house architects. The depot is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a component of the Hammond Historic district. Built of deep brown-red brick, the station is in the Queen Anne revival style, with a dominant octagonal tower and elaborate molding and archways and boasts the original cove molded ceiling. Using stimulus funds, Amtrak constructed a new ADA-compliant, 550-foot long platform at Hammond in fiscal year 2011.
The station complex is currently owned by the Hammond Chamber of Commerce. It was renovated for the Chamber's use by Holly & Smith Architects in 2008. The main station building houses the chamber, the former restaurant houses a Court Clerk, and the former freight house, extensively remodeled, houses the current Amtrak waiting room and ticketing facilities. Holly & Smith received the 2008 AIA New Orleans Award of Merit for Historic Preservation/ Restoration/Rehabilitation for its work on the station.
Hammond is the largest city in Tangipahoa Parish. The city derives its name from its first inhabitant, Peter Hammond, a Swedish immigrant. He purchased the land 55 miles outside of New Orleans intending to produce masts and pine-resin products for the blossoming New Orleans maritime industry.
In 1854 the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad reached Hammond, establishing "Hammond Crossing", a flag stop a block away from the current depot. The railroad immediately began to bring economic benefits to Hammond, prompting Peter Hammond to sign a contract with the railroad requiring that all trains passing through Hammond call on the station.
The railroad brought to Hammond the economic success he was hoping for. In 1859, Charles Emery Cates moved to Hammond and established a shoe factory. The factory was destroyed during the Civil War after producing 45,000 shoes for the soldiers of the Confederate Army.
Hammond, once an agricultural center, soon grew to a center of manufacturing, thanks to the presence of the railroad (then Illinois Central, now CN) and its location between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. This location has led to its continued growth as a joint suburb to both cities. Hammond is home to Southeastern Louisiana University as well as the Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum and Black Veteran Archives.
The Hammond station is not staffed by an Amtrak customer service representative, but passengers have access to the station waiting area and restrooms for the two daily trains.


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 4/1/21
Evergreen Subaru transport vessel finally free!
Evergreen Subaru's container ship, loaded with parts that the Maine dealership uses to assemble vehicles, is finally afloat after a week of being wedged tight in the Suez Canal, grinding shipping to a halt in that vital transport corridor.
Managing Owner Doug Weisz said, "I feel pretty bad about all the problems our vessel caused, but what really steeps my tea is the paint job. Last year, thinking we could create the world's biggest billboard, I told them to paint "Subaru" next to "Evergreen." Instead, they painted it below. As a result of that mistake, no one can read "Subaru" because the letters are below the waterline when the ship is fully loaded. We're missing so much free publicity...we've been on the front page of every newspaper in the world over the past week but no one knows it's us. It could be any company! Well, I guess it couldn't be Apple, because apple trees are deciduous instead of evergreen, but you get the idea."
Interviewed shortly after the incident, the commander of the stricken vessel, Captain Powers, was asked how such a thing could happen. He provided the following demonstration to illustrate the sequence of events:
Why does a Subaru dealership in Maine have its own container ship, almost a quarter mile long? Chris Dunn, Evergreen's General Manager came up with idea to help supply more vehicles for the juggernaut that is their sales department. "Subaru has become so popular in the last ten years that the company can't build enough cars to keep up with our ability to sell them. So, we decided to vertically integrate the supply chain. We buy parts all over the world and then we build our own Subarus. That's why we're moving into a huge new facility, to accommodate the unrelenting demand."
With summer coming up and Mainers clamoring for island cars, Evergreen's Suez ship is loaded with tens of thousands of parts to build Subaru pick-up trucks. Subaru last made a small pick-up, called the Baja and built on an Outback chassis, in 2006. The absence of a pick-up in Subaru's line model line represented a huge opportunity waiting to be seized, so now Evergreen is building its own pick-up. They call this precious little thing the Bahaha.
Rows upon rows of Evergreen Subaru Bahahas lined up in front of their new facilty, under construction.
Most Bahahas roll out of the Evergreen Subaru factory with a 54 horsepower, four-cylinder engine, but lately people have been asking for more torque. Service Manager Joel Arel had an idea. He noticed how much people liked the 707 horsepower produced by Dodge's Hellcat engine. "We installed a big V8 of our own and wanted to call it the Bahaha Hellcat. Our trademark attorney nixed that. Since Hello Kitty is so popular in Japan, and Subaru is a Japanese company, we decided to call our high-performance version the Bahaha Hell(o)Kitty."
close up of the badging on the Evergreen Subaru Bahaha HellKitty
If you haven't figured it out already, this is an April Fool's gag. Fact check:
The ship does not belong to Evergreen Subaru.
Evergreen does not build Bahahas, but they do actually sell imported Subaru vehicles known as Sambars, and you can see their attractively-priced selection here.
A V8 will not fit in the engine bay of a Sambar, but you could carry one in the back.
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Doug Weisz, Managing Owner
doug.weisz@evergreensubaru.com
About Evergreen Subaru:
Evergreen Subaru is committed to "going the extra mile" every chance we get to create a positive customer experience. We provide a broad range of Subaru models and love to have the opportunity to find customers the perfect new car, truck, van, or SUV.


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Livestock Comments: "Eating Mindfully…" Give Me A Break. – DTN
By John Harrington, DTN Livestock Analyst
Even among history nerds such as myself, the name of Henry David Thoreau rarely comes up over morning coffee. And why should this long-dead poet, naturalist, and borderline anarchist expect to still share the dazzling limelight with the likes of Ted Cruz, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump.
Yet, I'd like to think deep within their font of general knowledge, a majority of Americans could plumb several bits of Thoreau trivia, stuff like "perfected his backstroke on Walden Pond," "did hard time for tax evasion," and "had one mean neck-beard."
My own thoughts on this 19th century oddball run marginally more precise, at least enough to recall one particular musing on the economies and realities of farm life:
"I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men, the former are so much the freer."
Speaking on behalf of multiple Harrington generations who voluntarily enslaved themselves to endless cycles of calf-pulling, hay-making, cattle feeding, watering, branding, vaccinating, doctoring, planting, harvesting, sorting, culling, moving, fencing, breeding, and marketing, Henry David absolutely nailed it.
Growing up, I can't remember a single family vacation where my Dad was present long enough to lose his cowboy boots for sandals. Far from a deadbeat parent, this keeper of herds was simply committed to the demanding art of animal husbandry, a complicated partnership that had evolved over thousands of years, inuring to the benefit of both man and beast.
Indeed, this revolving door of keeper and kept is so taxing that many in agriculture will no longer even consider the business model. More times than not these days, Old McDonald is too busy planning his winter cruise through the Caribbean to bother with an "oink-oink" here or a "moo-moo" there.
But if many modern producers respectively pass on the grueling livestock dance in favor of less stressful lifestyles tending row crops, a disturbing number of urban spectators and critics ignorantly pan this time-honored enterprise with puzzling shouts of immorality and animal cruelty.
Vegan Gene Baur, president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary, a farm animal rescue organization, can often be seen leading this misguided parade. As a self-appointed savior for the abused livestock recklessly spewed by commercial agriculture, Baur essentially sees the long-forged alliance of domestication as unholy, a raw and exploitive deal wrought by greedy man to rob animals of the unquestioned bounty and bliss of nature.
Promoting his new book entitled "Living the Farm Sanctuary Life: The Ultimate Guide to Eating Mindfully, Living Longer, and Feeling Better," Baur appeared on "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart earlier this week. After he explained that the Farm Sanctuary's mission was to allow livestock to live out their "full lives" and "know that they were our friends and not our meals," Stewart felt compelled to admit that it was "tougher to eat meat once you know the animal's name."
Unfortunately, such shallow sentimentality and silly romanticism can be found among throngs of city dwellers who think of livestock as "pets" and farms as "parks." While it won't have much impact on farm GNP, I think the ludicrous effort by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to ban carriage horses from Central Park is symptomatic of how disconnected the nation has become with the realities of nature, the wisdom of evolution, and the economic necessities implied by each.
Needless to say, farmyard cruelty that results in measurable physical pain must never be tolerated. On the other hand, inferred states of animal angst such as boredom, loneliness, alienation, purposelessness, or despondency should be fully recognized for what they truly are: human perceptions projected upon relatively dumb, well-cared-for animals who are probably as "happy" as they're going to get.
But there's a larger point to be made. Those basically kind and gentle champions against cruelty (like Baur) need to be reminded that the very process that domesticated certain animals over the millennia — that demanding relationship between keepers and kept, that complex give-and-take negotiated by forces of evolution — was initially set in motion to curb the inherent cruelty not of man but of nature itself.
Livestock producers, dedicated meat eaters, and committed vegans alike would be well served to study and appreciate the history of domestication. In that regard, I can think of no better book to recommend than Stephen Budiansky's "The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication."
This compelling narrative tells a life-changing story of cooperation between species, how man and animals struck a mutually beneficial pact against the threatening forces of nature (e.g., drought, starvation, extreme cold, predators). While so many do-gooders simplistically build a moralistic wall between man and a false, paradisiacal model of nature, Budiansky puts alternating keepers and kept all in the same arena:
"If life with man was a better evolutionary bargain for domesticated animals than was life in the wild, then it makes no sense to say that nature (really just another work for evolution) ends where man's presence begins. And it raises doubts about larger judgments based on the premise that whatever is wild is pristine, whatever is human is tarnished. We are easily shocked by the horror stories of the laboratory and barn in part because we are ignorant of the greater horrors of the wood and water, horror stories written by nature herself."
Although Henry David Thoreau sought to place nature on a high pedestal, I wonder how much ambiguity he would admit to whenever Massachusetts' harsh winter wind would howl across the frozen surface of Walden. In understanding that freedom sometimes just means survival, he may have sensed the real bond between keeper and herd.
John Harrington can be reached atfeelofthemarket@yahoo.com
Photo by Debra L Ferguson – Southern Images
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Der Grand Prix Pino Cerami (kurz: GP Pino Cerami) ist ein belgisches Straßenradrennen.

Das Eintagesrennen wird in und um der belgischen Stadt Wasmuel ausgetragen, weswegen das Rennen auch manchmal als GP Wasmuel bezeichnet wird. Benannt wurde das Rennen nach dem belgischen Radsportler Pino Cerami, der in Italien geboren wurde. Der Halbklassiker wurde 1964 zum ersten Mal ausgetragen und findet seitdem jährlich Anfang April statt. Seit 2005 ist der GP Pino Cerami Teil der UCI Europe Tour und ist in die Kategorie 1.1 eingestuft. Die Rekordsieger Joop Zoetemelk, Marco Serpellini und Gerrie Knetemann konnten bisher jeweils zwei Siege einfahren. Als einziger Deutscher konnte Jan Bratkowski 2000 gewinnen. Aus der Schweiz siegten bisher Laurent Dufaux, Stephan Joho und Urs Freuler.

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Бла́же Ко́нески (Конеський) (; 19 грудня 1921, Небрегово — 7 грудня 1993, Скоп'є) — творець і один з кодифікаторів сучасної македонської літературної мови і відомий книжковий, культурний і суспільний діяч: поет, письменник, есеїст, літературний історик, філолог і лінгвіст, викладач і професор філософського факультету Університету Святих Кирила і Мефодія, Скоп'є.

Біографія
Початкову школу пройшов в Небрегові і пізніше в Прилеп'ї. З 1934 по 1939 рр. навчався в гімназії в місті Крагуєвац, Сербія, де був одним з редакторів гімназійних журналів «Млади Шумадинац» і «Подмладак», в яких з'явились його перші вірші. В 1939 році під іменем Благоје Коњевић записався на медичний факультет Белградського університету, і, провчившись там рік, перевівся на філософський факультет того ж університету. В 1941—1944 рр. вивчав слов'янську філологію в Софії під іменем Благой Конєв.

Брав участь у комісії зі створення літературної македонської мови. Після закінчення Другої світової війни багато працював над її стандартизацією. Склав правила правопису і був редактором «Словника македонської мови». Заснував вивчення македоністіки в університеті Скоп'є і був ректором цього університету з 1958 по 1960. В 1967 став членом і до 1975 був першим головою Македонської академії наук і мистецтв. Також був членом і першим головою македонського відділення ПЕН-клубу і Співдружності Письменників Македонії.

Працював редактором літературних журналів «Нов ден» і «Македонски јазик».

Блаже Конеський — ключова фігура в розвитку македонської мови, але має заслуги й на міжнародному рівні. Був членом академій наук Загреба, Белграда, Сараєво, Чикаго, Лодзі і почесним доктором наук університетов Чикаго, Кракова і Скоп'є. Його роботи перекладені сербохорватською, словенською, албанською, турецькою, угорською, французькою, російською, італійською, грецькою, польською, румунською, німецькою, англійською мовами.

Книги
 Земјата и љубовта (вірші, 1948)
 Македонски правопис со правописен речник (разом з Крумом Тошевим, 1950)
 Граматика на македонскиот литературен јазик (перша частина, 1952)
 За македонскиот литературен јазик (1952)
 Песни (1953)
 Граматика на македонскиот литературен јазик (друга частина, 1954)
 Везилка (вірші, 1955)
 Лозје (розповіді, 1955)
 Речник на македонскиот јазик (1961)
 Песни (1963)
 Историја на македонскиот јазик (1965)
 Речник на македонскиот јазик (другий том, 1965)
 Речник на македонскиот јазик (третій том, 1966)
 Стерна (вірші, 1966)
 Ракување (поема, 1969)
 Јазикот на македонската народна поезија (1971)
 Беседи и огледи (1972)
 Записи (вірші, 1974)
 Стари и нови песни (1979)
 Места и мигови (вірші, 1981)
 Чешмите (вірші, 1984)
 Македонскиот 19. век, јазични и книжевно-историски прилози (1986)
 Ликови и теми (есеї, 1987)
 Послание (вірші, 1987)
 Тиквешки зборник (монографія, 1987)
 Средба во рајот (вірші, 1988)
 Црква (вірші, 1988)
 Дневник по многу години (проза, 1988)
 Златоврв (вірші, 1989)
 Поезија (Константин Миладинов), казка (1989)
 Сеизмограф (поезија, 1989)
 Македонски места и теми (ессе, 1991),
 Небесна река (вірші і поетичні переклади, 1991),
 Светот на легендата и песната (ессе і нариси, 1993),
 Црн овен (вірші, 1993)

Нагороди
 «11 Жовтня»
 «Брати Міладинови»
 «Ацо Шопов»
 Премія Хердера
 Премія Негоша
 Нагорода Антифашистського руху народного визволення Югославії
 «Золотий вінець» Стружських поетичних вечорів
 «Скендер Куленович»
 Нагорода Союзу письменників СРСР
 Нагорода за літературний опус «Думка»
 Рацинове признання
 «13 Листопада»

Примітки

Македоністи
Югославські партизани
Македонські письменники
Македонські філологи
Випускники Белградського університету
Члени ПЕН-клубу
Перекладачі творів Тараса Шевченка
Академіки Академії наук і мистецтв Боснії і Герцеговини
Македонські мовознавці
Македонські поети
Югославські поети


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Q: Learning resource for configuring Hibernate as JPA 2.0 provider on Tomcat Apache with MySQL I am trying to created a new java project. I have tried various examples available on the web but my project works sometimes and doesn't rest of the time. It seems that there happens some error which is not thrown when hibernate is doing a secondPassCompile() after creating factory.Can someone tell me a good resource to follow or give me some pointers on where I might be going wrong?

A: Is there any particular reason for using Tomcat? If you are trying to learn Eclipse with Hibernate as the JPA implementation, I would suggest you use JBoss as the app server. That way you can learn EJBs along the way if you prefer. If you want to learn just Eclipse and JPA there is no need to use any server - JPA can be practised just in JavaSE.
EDIT: Recently I had to create a simple JPA project. This is what I did: Create a new Java Project in eclipse. Download Hibernate 3.6.1 from http://www.hibernate.org/downloads. From the download directory take the Hibernate.jar and from the jpa directory take the one jar there. Take all the jars from lib\required. Add the above to your buildpath. Add logback jars - classic and core jars. For the database I used HSQLDB. Just one jar hsqldb.jar. Thats it! Enjoy JPA from here onwards.

A: I have found the slides at http://www.coreservlets.com/ very useful when trying to get up to date with EJB3/Hibernate and JSF. Complete and yet simple enough that you do not get ovewelmed by pages and pages of sample code. I wish they had something like that for MFC.
They have materials about Hibernate, I would definitely look at them.
About the JBoss issue, it is interesting if you plan to go into EJB3 later. It is not difficult to have a basic configuration working and, on top of that, it is based in Tomcat.
That said, if you are new to Hibernate, I would definitely test it first in JavaSE and then later go with it in a server (Tomcat or whatever).


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As predicted in Sunday's post, suddenly DEKALB'S FIRST RESPONDERS ARE #1 PRIORITY AND OMG WE MUST BUILD THE POLICE STATION RIGHT NOW, according to our city council.
It offends me deeply, because the The NUMBER ONE PRIORITY statement is a BIG LIE. The people who really have made public safety the priority are the folks who have protested new SUVs, serial land acquisitions, and ReNew DeKalb's insatiable appetite for baubles ever since the first of the budget troubles appeared three-plus years ago.
If first responders were really the NUMBER ONE PRIORITY, Council would have insisted one or two of them be hired instead of a central purchasing person and an economic development person/company.
If public safety were really the NUMBER ONE PRIORITY, Council would have found a way to squeeze a couple more cops out of the $400,000 freed up from the debt restructuring.
They should knock it off already. The real story is probably some combination of a) the City being shamed by recent events, and b) the banker overlords requiring a new infusion of tax dollars now that the downtown project is winding down.
So what should we do about our woefully substandard city facilities?
Short term — if we are to agree that this needs to be done yesterday — there is probably no alternative to raising taxes and fees once more. And then praying that it doesn't drive more folks out of town. And then demanding resignations of the Council members who let this happen, and driving them out of town.
BUT: We should not agree to anything until the budget picture for FY 2012 becomes clear.
For our longer term financial health, the first thing we must do is stop acting like things are going to get better next week. This administration has refused to adapt to the realities, instead has more or less simply waited for the storm to pass and for revenues to rebound. The result: a big financial hole despite a massive reduction in force. We do not know when it's going to improve. Therefore, we need no-frills survival budgets until it does.
— Stop treating management like it's a collective bargaining unit. We do not have to negotiate with management like we do. Management "agreed to" a pay freeze last year? Come on! Start crunching to see what this or that percentage in compensation cuts and health care premium increases will do for the budget picture. Also: make no more management hires, and combine functions where possible.
— Negotiate contracts that reflect our circumstances. If revenues remain flat, we cannot afford raises. As contracts come up — they're working on AFSCME now, right? — eliminate raises and bonuses as well as benefits that instead could be taken as work-related tax deductions, such as uniform allowances and professional dues. Keep the terms of the contracts short for flexibility.
— Hire a new city manager. We are in a rut and need some fresh ideas for operations, perhaps generated by somebody who actually has been trained as a city manager. We also need someone who has different ideas about nepotism and other ethical considerations, and whose contract has an expiration date and allows for negotiating in good faith.


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Горелки — микрорайон города Тула, упразднённый в 2005 году  посёлок городского типа Тульской области России.

География

История
7 марта 1944 года, в 5 километрах северо-западнее Тулы, у деревни Горелки состоялась торжественная передача войскам СССР танковой колонны «Димитрий Донской», созданной по инициативе Московской патриархии на пожертвования верующих.

Горелки получили статус посёлка городского типа в 1948 году.

16 июля 1958 года вошли в черту города Тулы, но 30 сентября того же года вновь стали отдельным населённым пунктом.

В 2005 году вновь вошли в черту города Тулы.

Население

Инфраструктура
Богородице-Рождественский женский монастырь.

Основа экономики в советский период — предприятия автомобильного транспорта.

Транспорт
Проходит Московское шоссе.

Примечания

Населённые пункты по алфавиту
Микрорайоны Тулы
Бывшие посёлки городского типа Тульской области
населённые пункты, упразднённые в 2005 году
населённые пункты, вошедшие в состав Тулы


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Home›Travel›Lesley Carter Wants Her Son to Break a World Travel Record
Lesley Carter Wants Her Son to Break a World Travel Record
One of the top travel Influencers in the world, Lesley Carter, wants to break a world travel record. She's the owner of Bucket List Publications, and she has visited every continent, more than 150 countries, all of the provinces in Canada, all of the states in the US, and all of the countries in the Caribbean. Now, she's turned her focus to her two-year-old son, Maxwell. She wants to make him the youngest child to visit every continent in the world. The current Guinness Book of Records holder is seven years old, but Lesley would like Max to visit every continent before he reaches 5 years of age. The plans are in motion. Here's how she is going to make it happen.
North America was immediately covered because it's Max birth continent. In North America, Max has visited USA, Canada, Mexico, Bahamas, Haiti, and Dominican Republic. Max has been to 11 states in the US so we asked Lesley which state seems to be his favorite so far. Lesley said, "I'd say his favorite state is Florida. We were able to play in the sand, touch a shark, snorkel with tons of fish off of the Florida Keys, feed giant tarpon from our hands, visit a drive-thru zoo, and explore a number of museums. Max also loved Colorado where he played in snow for the first time and learned to ski."
The second continent Max visited was Asia with a recent trip to Dubai. With such a long trip, we asked Lesley what was the most difficult part of traveling to Dubai with a toddler. She said, "I thought the 16-hour flight would be difficult but it was a direct flight with Emirates from Dallas to Dubai. Max slept most of the flight and was comfy in his own seat. Emirates does an excellent job catering to children. Max had a snuggly blanket and delicious food. It really made the flight easy. The time difference was difficult though. There were nights where Max wanted to put on his shoes at 3am and go out to play. Obviously, that couldn't happen but try explaining that to a two-year-old. They still had an amazing experience with stays at Atlantis, The Palm and Four Seasons Resort Dubai at Jumeirah Beach.
The third continent on their list is Oceania. They plan to visit Fiji in June. Lesley's previous trip to Fiji was one of the best adventures of her life. She is looking forward to seeing it again through the eyes of her child. "I think Fiji with a toddler will be a completely different experience. The last time I visited, I participated in extreme adventures like skydiving and whitewater rafting. While I won't be doing things like that this time, I love the culture, the beaches, and the people of Fiji. I'm certain it will be a dream trip once again."
Europe will mark the fourth continent in July. Lesley is currently considering Austria, but with the possibility of a cruise, they could visit a number of European countries in one trip.
Africa will mark continent number five in September. They are booked for a trip to Uganda with Uganda Gorilla Tour. Lesley visited Uganda several years ago to experience gorilla and chimpanzee trekking in the country, but she fell in love with the other wildlife sightings and the amazing staff at the tour company, Uganda Gorilla Tour. She's excited to share those experiences with Max.
That just leaves South America and Antarctica. There are tons of direct flights to South America from Dallas on a daily basis so that should be pretty easy to cross off in the next few months. Antarctica will be the most difficult continent to reach, but Lesley is confident that she can make it a reality once all other continents have been completed.
This will be a remarkable feat if it's complete in the next couple of years. The current world record holder is 7 years old. If Maxwell visits all seven continents in the next two years, he will still only be 4 years old completing this remarkable journey. Follow along and see if they can make it a reality.
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You are invited to attend Peaceful Demonstration hosted by The Australian Association of Pakistani Christians Inc., on the steps of the Parliament of Victoria On Thursday, 30 May 2013 from 12:00 PM to 2:30 PM.
This meeting is show our support for victims of continuing terror in Pakistan and to ask the Pakistani Government to bring the perpetrators and their facilitators to justice. In addition, they'll will ask the Australian Government to use all legal and socially acceptable means to make the protection of human rights the number one issue for the Government of Pakistan.


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two's company – the intimacy of the duo ensemble
L-R cellist Emma-Jane Murphy and pianist Kathy Selby
An ensemble of two performers is about as intimate as it gets in chamber music. Professional musicians are accustomed to "making it work" with whomever they are required to perform. But when the musicians have chosen to work together over many years and relish the experience, there is extra frisson in the performance.
Pianist Kathy Selby and cellist Emma Jane Murphy present "Two's Company" for Selby and Friends in September, featuring the music of Beethoven, Sculthorpe, Schubert, Rachmaninov and Brahms.
Watching a recent performance of Mendelssohn's E flat major octet, by a group of emerging musicians, it was a hard task to decide whether the musicians in the octet or those in a duo need to be the better musical communicators. The octet is larger and perhaps less exposed – but there are more parts to be attuned to. In a duo, there is only one other musician to heed – but the connection has to be sturdy and the performers are so much more exposed. The stronger the link between the musicians, therefore, the more likely the performance will be greater than the sum of its many intangible parts.
Selby and Murphy's work together has forged an understanding that operates at professional, musical and personal levels. They are both mothers, combining the life of a touring musician with motherhood, a role that they both take very seriously. Their shared sense of humour and appreciation of each other's company strengthens their performances together and allows for softness in the time they are thrown together whilst on tour.
Chopin and Beethoven were both taken with the music of Mozart. Chopin composed piano variations on the theme of "La ci darem la mano" from Don Giovanni, and Beethoven wrote the "Seven Variations in E flat on a Theme from The Magic Flute" – which is one of the works that Selby and Murphy will perform – the theme being "Bei mannern, welche Liebe fuhlen". With Theme and Variations, Beethoven writes in a form which he relished – replicated in previous tributes to Handel and to Mozart – two sets of twelve variations also for cello and piano.
The acronym denoting the catalogue number of the Seven Variations (WoO) stands for the German phrase "Werk ohne Opuszahl" meaning "work without opus number", given to some of Beethoven's works that were published in this category.
Sculthorpe's "Djilile" for cello and piano opens with a plaintive cascade form the cello. It was composed in 1986, and is in part based on an Aboriginal melody from Arnhem Land depicting a 'whistling-duck on a billabong'. Coincidentally, Sculthorpe dedicated the work to Ken Tribe whose support of Australian composers has been commemorated by Musica Viva this month. (See our post on this initiative).
Arpeggione
The "arpeggione" was a 6 stringed instrument with a fretted fingerboard, tuned like a guitar and played with a bow. Today, it is rarely if ever seen in performance and the literature for it is all but obsolete. Schubert's posthumously published Sonata in A minor for cello and piano D 821, originally featured the arpeggione, but has been transcribed for cello. The arpeggione was created in Vienna in 1823 and Schubert composed this sonata in 1824. The instrument was short-lived. By the time the music was published, the arpeggione was out of vogue.
Rachmaninov didn't write a great deal of music for the cello. The 2 pieces in his Opus 2 Prelude and Danse Orientale are a rare opportunity to hear these early compositions.
Selby and Murphy complete the post 19th century programme with the Sonata for Cello & Piano No. 2 in F major, Op. 99 by Brahms, whose passion for and expertise in writing for the lower registers is well known and much adored.
This is an appealing programme requiring much stamina, musicianship, technical skill and the suppleness of give and take between two performers who never fail to deliver.
Children under 12 admitted free of charge. Book through 9969 7069
Ludwig v. Beethoven Seven Variations in E flat on a Theme from the Magic Flute, WoO46
Peter Sculthorpe Djilile
Franz Schubert Sonata for cello & piano in A minor, D. 821 "Arpeggione Sonata"
Sergei Rachmaninov Two Pieces: Prelude and Danse Orientale, Op.2
Johannes Brahms Sonata for cello & piano No. 2 in F major, Op. 99
"Two's Company" tours to Bowral, Sydney, Canberra and Turramurra. Also to Adelaide and Melbourne.
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Festival Of Summer Voices A Capella Academy In Concert
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We help businesses realise their potential on line. We discuss every aspect of your business, your target market, your industry and your goals. We consider everything, from your budget to your brand identity, to the demographics of your best customers. We take your ideas and objectives, then use our cross-industry insight and online expertise to turn them into a full, actionable strategy which will help you to flourish on the web. Whether you have a high level of technical skill in house or require ongoing support from Reality, we will work with you to develop a solution which fits your company and achieves your digital ambitions.
Reality Design has a wealth of experience in the print world. We design for maximum impact and viewer attention. We also believe that the piece should "feel" as good as it looks, please review our print section on our website. Reality has won awards for design creativity on behalf of our clients. Our print is always on time and always within budget.
Reality were excellent to work with on the Ashford Castle restoration project. Having originally been involved with Ashford they were familiar with the "atmosphere of the castle" and the standards required to maintain our position as one of the best 5 star properties in the world. The range of materials were varied and Reality produced creative solutions on each occasion, on time and on budget.