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NH Jury Awards Record-Breaking Verdict in Defamation Lawsuit
A New Hampshire jury has awarded three businessmen what is apparently the largest monetary verdict in state history and what might be one of the largest in the country this year.
After three days of trial a Merrimack County jury awarded a $275 million verdict to three Manchester area men who were relentlessly defamed for almost 3 years by Mortgage Specialist Inc.and its owner Mike Gill.
The trial was limited to damages as the Court had earlier determined that as a matter of law, Gill and Mortgage Specialists Inc. had defamed AutoFair owner Andy Crews, Manchester developer Dick Anagnost and Primary Bank founder William Greiner.
"Michael Gill engaged in a three-year campaign of personal destruction. He sought to destroy the reputations of three wonderful men by his false statements on electronic billboards and on the internet. These men are community leaders who have given greatly to their community" said Steven M. Gordon, lead attorney for the plaintiffs of Shaheen & Gordon. "Gill's statements were evil. In our system of justice, facts are determined in court rooms and not on the internet. We are grateful and humbled by the jury's verdict. The size of the verdict will forever be the answer to Gill's false statements. The enormity of the verdict will begin the process of restoration and healing for the Anagnost, Crews and Greiner families."
Gordon presented closing arguments on Thursday to decide monetary damages. He had asked the jury to award a total of $114 million to the three men.
The jury issued their verdict Friday morning after hearing from multiple witnesses and reviewing hundreds of exhibits demonstrating how Gill had used electronic billboards, social media and a radio show to defame the three men, who were repeatedly accused of drug dealing, money laundering and extortion. Witnesses from law enforcement also testified that despite Gill's claims on the internet he had not provided them with any evidence of wrong doing. Other witnesses testified as to the corrosive nature of Gill's claims on the plaintiffs reputations. None of the plaintiffs had any business dealings with Gill.
After deliberate review the jury awarded Andy Crews damages of $97 million representing $35 million in compensatory damages, $12 million in special damages and $50 million in liberal compensatory damages. Bill Greiner was awarded $85 million, representing $35 million in compensatory damages and $50 million in liberal compensatory damages. The jury awarded Dick Anagnost$92.5 in damages, representing $35 million in compensatory damages, $7.5 million in special damages and $50 million in liberal compensatory damages.
"We and our clients are grateful for the jury's verdict," Shaheen & Gordon Attorney Timothy McLaughlin said. "For them, the legal process was not their choice. They sought to avoid a lawsuit and simply wanted Mr. Gill to stop his false statements, but he did not. Today, Mr. Gill paid the penalty for his malicious conduct. The jury saw first-hand the personal harm and pain his false statements caused and today in the Merrimack County Superior Court justice was done. I am deeply moved to be part of this process of redemption."
Gordon and McLaughlin were assisted on the case by Attorneys Alex Campbell and Anthony Carr and paralegal Jillian Keller.
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Q: Making different image patterns appear in a silhouette shirt Basically im looking for suggestions on how to approach the idea of making a "shirt designer":
Imagine having a silhouette of a shirt.
Now imagine that I have 200+ fabric patterns for that shirt.
Clicking $fabric_x would fill the silhouette with that specific pattern.
Basically just like how its done here: (click fabrics to the left)
http://www.savvytailor.com/build-a-shirt.php?osCsid=c55610679180fcaa69abcae9b22dc0c5
My idea
... Which is the hard road to go, would be to:

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*Save out a silhouette for each pattern filled from photoshop (loads of work)

*Administrate all the different fabric patterns in an XML list

*With Jquery -> load the XML > generate the list on frontend

*With Jquery -> create a function to replace/show the specificly clicked $fabric_x
Im thinking there would perhaps be some easier way to handle showing the $fabrics in the silhouette - besides having to save out an image for each silhouette-$fabric option.
Any ideas, comments or suggestions?

A: I might be thinking to easy,
but couldn't you just lay a negativ form of a t-shirt(the shirt is transparent the rest white) image over a image of the pattern?

Take a look here:
http://jsfiddle.net/Vloxxity/m4APD/

A: Your buddies over at http://www.savvytailor.com did exactly that: create a dozen of images per fabric type (cuffs, back, front, sleeves etc), then load necessary images based on user choice of fabric type. These files are distributed over a number of folders, one folder for each piece of shirt. File names corresponds to fabric types. So outside collar image for fabric coded PC04CP09-05 is located at http://www.savvytailor.com/3D_Shirt_Files/low-res-images/front-view/opened-collar/outside-collar/CL02/PC04CP09-05.png
If you use a smart folder structure, you don't need a separate XML to describe where is what, your PHP script will find it anyway.
You can obviously automate the file and folder generation process - using scripting functionality in Photoshop, or most popular 3d authoring tools.
Alternatively, you can load your shirt as 3d model using WebGL and just change textures.

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Op 19 januari 2004 begonnen koningin Beatrix en kroonprins Willem Alexander aan een staatsbezoek van vier dagen aan Thailand.

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Het staatsbezoek werd afgelegd in verband met het 400-jarig bestaan van relaties tussen Thailand en Nederland. Op de achtergrond van het staatsbezoek werkten de Thaise en Nederlandse ministeries van buitenlandse zaken aan een akkoord om gevangenuitwisselling mogelijk te maken. Vooral over het lot van de Nederlander Machiel Kuijt is in de weken voor het staatsbezoek veel in de pers verschenen. Overal waar koningin Beatrix en prins Willem Alexander naartoe gaan wordt het gebied afgezet en worden ze rondgereden in een Rolls Royce en ontvangen door knielende en buigende soldaten. De koningin verklaart later al dit eerbetoon een beetje overdreven te vinden. Tijdens het bezoek worden twee Nederlanders die voor drugssmokkel in Thailand gevangen zaten vervroegd vrijgelaten.

Aankomst
Op de Luchthaven Don Muang, onderdeel van de luchtmacht, werden koningin Beatrix en kroonprins Willem Alexander ontvangen door de Thaise koning Bhumibol en koningin Sirikit. Vanaf de luchthaven gingen beiden naar Bangkok waar ze ontvangen werden de gouverneur van Bangkok Samak Sundaravej waar ze de sleutel van de stad Bangkok gepresenteerd kregen. Een sleutel van goud van 90 gram.

20 januari
De koningin ontving op 20 januari drie Thaise kinderen die meegedaan hadden aan een schilderscontest georganiseerd door Philips Thailand en de Nederlandse ambassade in Bangkok met als thema 400 jaar relaties tussen Nederland en Thailand. De schilderijen waren uitgekozen door de koningin om toegevoegd te worden aan haar persoonlijke collectie.

Tijdens haar bezoek aan Thailand laat de koningin aan meereizende journalisten weten dat ze geen problemen heeft met de satire omtrent het koninklijk hof in programma's als kopspijkers en egoland. Ze grapte meer last te hebben van meereizende journalisten dan van satire op de televisie.

21 januari
Op 21 januari bezochten koningin Beatrix en kroonprins Willem Alexander de restanten van de oude VOC handelspost bij de stad Ayutthaya.

22 januari
Op 22 januari legde de koningin een krans bij de erevelden bij Kanchanaburi waar meer dan 2000 Nederlanders begraven liggen die aan de Birma spoorweg werkten.

23 januari
Op 23 januari brachten de koningin en de kroonprins een bezoek aan een koffiebranderij in het Doi Tung project. Ook bezochten ze het opiummuseum in het hart van de Gouden Driehoek in de noordelijke provincie Chiang Rai. Op de terugweg naar Bangkok maakten de koningin en de kroonprins nog een tussenstop in de stad Sukhothai, een van de oude hoofdsteden van de verschillende Thaise koninkrijken 700 jaar geleden. Ze bezochten daar enkele tempelcomplexen en hadden er ook een diner met de gouverneur. Hierna vloog het Nederlandse regeringsvliegtuig KBX beiden terug naar Bangkok waar ze met een lijnvlucht terugvlogen naar Schiphol.

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By Will Parker on August 20, 2009 in News
Plastic waste in the ocean isn't just unsightly and a danger to marine animals. Scientists have now found that certain plastics breakdown rapidly in the ocean, releasing a heady cocktail of toxic chemicals such as bisphenol A (BPA) which is known to interfere with mammalian reproductive systems.
In the first study to look at how plastic waste breaks-down in seawater, scientists from Nihon University in Japan report that many plastics decompose in the ocean with surprising speed. They delivered their findings to the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), where they called the discovery "surprising."
"Plastics in daily use are generally assumed to be quite stable," said lead researcher Katsuhiko Saido. "We found that plastic in the ocean actually decomposes as it is exposed to the rain and sun and other environmental conditions, giving rise to yet another source of global contamination that will continue into the future."
Saido said his team found that when plastic decomposes it releases potentially toxic BPA and PS oligomer into the water. Plastics usually do not break down in an animal's body after being eaten. However, the substances released from decomposing plastic are absorbed and could have adverse effects. BPA and PS oligomer are sources of concern because they can disrupt the functioning of hormones in animals and can seriously affect reproductive systems.
Saido also described a new method to simulate the breakdown of plastic products in the ocean. The process involves modeling plastic decomposition at room temperature, removing heat from the plastic and then using a liquid to extract the BPA and PS oligomer. When the plastic broke-down, it released three new compounds not found in nature. They were styrene monomer, styrene dimer and styrene trimer. Styrene monomer is a known carcinogen and the others are suspected in causing cancer.
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Nothing adds more drama to living spaces than natural light from above. Adding a skylight to a room allows the unique quality of natural light to reach all corners, visually opening it up and making it feel larger, more inviting and friendly.
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This isn't a 'Ten Retail Trends For 2019' piece - that comes later, however, 'remain relevant' might just be the single most important trend to pay attention to for any retail business as we rapidly approach the New Year.
"Closely connected or appropriate to what is being done or considered"
Staying closely connected with your customers is not optional. The choice they have, often at just the touch of a button or a swipe right, is not only extensive but accessible like never before.
As consumers, we are promiscuous and unpredictable creatures, like the electorate we can be prone to wild swings as the mood takes us. And often for no apparent reason.
We expect, no, demand, brands to constantly be 'in the moment', constantly updating and changing to reflect current tastes.
Staying close to your customers outweighs price and product.
And in the digital age in which we live, this is by no means an easy task; social media means that we are forever updating ourselves in real time: who's hot and who's not.
One which most definitely falls into the latter is Topshop.
For years, the go-to brand for teenagers and twenty-somethings, it's sales have been tanking for years. The combination of a lack of investment in its online business (owner Sir Philip Green famously still uses an old Nokia phone and shuns email) and trendier new brands such as Boohoo and PrettyLittleThing, have firmly relegated Topshop to the second division.
So what did they do? In April 2014, in a desperate bid to win back customers, Topshop announced that ' the icon is back' - Kate Moss, the first supermodel turned designer, who left years earlier, was back.
There was only one flaw in the plan: whilst Kate Moss is undoubtedly a very successful supermodel and global icon, to many of Topshop's younger customers she is old enough to be their mother.
But not only that, amongst their target demographic, social media is having a greater and greater influence on who they choose to spend their hard-earned cash with, compared to others, hers is a somewhat muted voice.
A quick look on Instagram is revealing: whilst Kate Moss has over nine hundred thousand followers, top fashion influencer Alexa Chung has over three times as many.
In other words, to a large proportion of Topshop's customers, Kate Moss is no longer relevant.
Topshop, however, is not alone, there are many other brands, especially in fashion, who are having to show a certain stoical sangfroid in the face of determined and unrelenting pressure on sales and margin.
Even that darling of keyboard commerce, Asos, is showing signs that not all is well with the share price crashing nearly 40 percent after a recent profit warning. And this, even though they are not saddled with the cost of running a store estate.
Ahead of Christmas, in the final dash to the line, most if not all, are resorting to ever more daring discounting in an attempt to shift stock.
The problem is, whilst this may provide a short-term hit and keep the tills ringing, it is unlikely to have any lasting impact.
Because in an Instagrammable, selfie strewn world, relevance trumps discounting every time.


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/// Fabrice Theuillon, Stan Augris and Clément Petit's musical roots lie principally in jazz, soul, house and hip-hop, as well as the worlds of experimental and improvised music. Their influences include Aloe Blacc, Lee Fields, Roseaux, Blick Bassy, Surnatural Orchestra, Beat Assaillant, The Wolphonics,, T. de Pourquery, Ala.ni, Ben l'Oncle Soul, and many others.
The group's creative process always begins with a jam session, during which they take an electro-acoustic approach to playing each instrument, improvising real-time "beats" together.
Their aim is for each musician to take ownership of the process of sonic creation and orchestration in order to produce beats with textures that are both original and organic. However, in contrast to the programming-based work of a typical "beat-maker", Off the Grid avoid looping or superimposing sounds, endeavouring to remain as close as possible to the experience of a live performance and to obtain a minimalistic result founded on strong, complementary textures.
The "electro" elements of their instrumental method include their particular performance techniques, their preparation of their instruments using a diverse range of tools, and their treatment of the sound using "simple" electronic processes (such as effects pedals). This work is enriched, during the recording process, by the emphasis they place on conveying the acoustic dimension of their instruments, creating unexpected sonic fabrics.
Off the Grid do not insist on a particular stylistic direction in terms of composition or harmony: rather, their emphasis is on rhythm, on the necessity of making rhythmic ideas, instrumental roles and textural organisation complement each other. While aesthetically, their music undoubtedly takes much of its inspiration from diverse forms of hip-hop and minimalistic electronica – sometimes bordering on rock in its pure energy – the trio are inveterate rule-benders, seeking above all to leave their own stamp on each composition.
Whether on stage or in the studio, Off the Grid aim to incorporate versatile rappers and singers who are willing to share their stylistic approach and to move beyond the borders of musical genres to provide a final flourish to their rhythmic endeavours. And while their recordings generally adhere more closely to a song-based format, their live performances explore freer, more improvised, more progressive musical forms.
Their goal: "to create something synthetic using organic methods, and to invent a different way of generating beats".
Tout commence au cours d'une session où chacun engage la démarche electro-acoustique qu'il mène sur son instrument afin d'improviser ensemble des « beats » en temps réel.
La volonté du trio est de faire en sorte que le musicien s'approprie le travail de création et d'orchestration de sons pour produire des beats avec des textures originales et organiques. Mais, à l'inverse du travail de programmation d'un beatmaker, Off the Grid cherche à éviter la superposition de sons, afin de rester au plus près du live et d'obtenir un rendu minimaliste aux textures fortes et complémentaires.
Le traitement des instruments se fait soit en préparant l'instrument lui-même avec l'utilisation de divers objets, soit en le traitant avec de l'électronique « simple » (type pédale d'effet). Ce travail est associé à un parti pris lors de l'enregistrement qui tend à travestir encore un peu plus la dimension acoustique des instruments, au profit de textures sonores improbables.
Chez OTG, il n'y a pas de direction stylistique particulière dans la composition, ni de travail sur l'harmonie, mais plutôt sur le rythme, et dans la nécessité de trouver une complémentarité entre les idées rythmiques, le rôle des instruments et l'agencement des textures. Si leur esthétique se nourrit des diverses formes du hip‑hop, des musiques électroniques minimales, et va parfois confiner à une énergie « rock », le trio se joue des règles et cherche avant tout à imprimer sa signature sonore.
Que ce soit en live ou dans ses productions, la finalité d'Off the Grid est d'intégrer des rappeurs et chanteurs versatiles qui voudront bien se prêter au jeu et dépasser les frontières des genres pour parachever cette démarche. Pour autant, si les productions du trio se rapprochent clairement d'un format « chanson », le live, lui, explore des formes musicales plus improvisées, plus libres et plus progressives.
Clément Petit is a cellist with a big and eclectic musical appetite. Always hungry for new sounds and encounters, he likes to defy expectations and keep multiplying his collaborations with other artists (including Blick Bassy, Roseaux, Aloe Blacc, Ala.ni, Coax, Nicolas Jules, Ben l'Oncle Soul, Xavier Phillips, Pierrejean Gaucher...). Growing up in a culturally diverse Parisian suburb, he spent his early life surrounded by Afro-American, Caribbean and electronic sounds, before immersing himself in improvised and contemporary music. Today, he draws on all of these influences to create distinctly personal playing and compositional styles, as well as a broader musical vision in which the boundaries between genres dissolve to make way for greater interaction.
Having grown up as much on 1960s free jazz as on contemporary urban music, Fabrice Theuillon's playing style sits at the crossroads of several different musical currents. From Ellington to Stravinsky, Coltrane to Public Enemy, Mingus to Rage Against the Machine, he has built himself a unique world from which he draws inspiration both as a composer and as a saxophonist. An old hand when it comes to collective musical adventures and long-haul projects, he plays with a number of groups including Surnatural Orchestra, Magma, The Wolphonics and Rigolus. He also regularly performs alongside such artists as Thomas de Pourquery, Lee Fields and Denis Colin.
Stanislas Augris has had a passion for Afro-American culture since he was a child, and it is always with a view to assimilating and participating in its evolution that he seeks to develop his own abilities as a drummer. From jazz to soul, funk to hip-hop, and disco to house, he works with a wide range of artists and is a key creative force in all of the projects in which he participates, including: Beat Assaillant, Aloe Blacc, Rachel Claudio, Mani, Michelle Weeks and Janice in the Noise.


Realestatevietnam sends you the latest payment schedule and policy for the New City project in Thu Thiem. This policy applies to open shopping carts from May 15, 2018.
Customers purchasing apartments at the New City project Thu Thiem will enjoy a 5% discount on the pre-tax price when paying according to the payment schedule of the investor.
– Applied specifically for the Babylon Tower under the project New City Thu Thiem.
– Applied to three towers (Bali – Hawaii – Venice) under the project New City Thu Thiem.
Customers register to buy apartments in New City Thu Thiem project is Vietnamese.
Apply only one payment policy according to the standard payment schedule of the investor and the customer receive a discount of 5% on the pre-tax value (discount is deducted from the total value of the apartment when the customer signs the contract).
Applies to open shopping cart from May 15, 2018.
Previous information on the project of New City Thu Thiem (District 2, Ho Chi Minh City) has not changed the target from social housing to commercial housing but sold to customers, on May 14 last, Ltd. Thu Thinh Viet, owner of the New City project Thu Thiem, said the project has now been converted to commercial purpose.
Specifically, on the basis of the Prime Minister's approval in Document No. 24 dated March 7, HCM City People's Committee has issued a decision to hand over the ground for the implementation of the New City project (1,330 apartments project) for the investor to continue to develop according to the plan with commercial purpose.
At the same time, Thuan Viet Company will temporarily pay land use fees for the land. Therefore, on March 30, Management Board of investment – construction Thu Thiem new urban area and Thuan Viet Company has liquidated the contract to buy 1,330 apartments were previously signed. After that, the investor has completed the obligation to temporarily pay land use fees for the project in accordance with the certification No. 2267 of the Department of Finance of Ho Chi Minh City on 16.4.
The investor confirmed that the new project, Thu Thiem New City, was completed and completed the tests on fire prevention and control and completion of the works to be put into use.
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The global glass packaging industry growth is likely to recover and reach an estimated $45.9 billion by 2018. Glass used for the packaging of beverages is expected to retain major market share in future. Increasing usage of glass as a packaging material in perfume bottles and the use of glass bottles for storage of medicines due to its sterility and reusability will drive the glass packaging industry. Glass packaging is influenced by such economic factors as rising disposable income, per capita income, urbanization, and population.
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KMA644 Eddie Vedder – Water On The Road
The Canyon starts us off with a montage of Eddie long board paddling the Potomac River, then becomes the theater where he will play this gig, and the crowd filling their seats etc etc. It's a bunch of him yelling inarticulately while an organ chords and voices sort of grunt. Strange. Then there's disembodies music as he takes the stage and, in his typically unassuming manner, waves at the crowd and gets setted with a white Strat. He's even got a wooden block to stomp on, a la John Lee Hooker. He rips off a version of Sometimes that's pretty sweet, even when he forgets the words and tries to tell the crowd he hasn't forgotten, then gets them to sing along with the next part. Of course, they know the words.
With no acknowledgement of the applause, he dives right into Cat Stevens' Trouble, which is a sweet little bluesy thing with lots of tricky little chord changes. It's neat to see just Eddie on the stage, in a little setting of his own choosing. It's at this point I think this kind of thing could only happen properly in this setting. If he were on the couch at home, he'd sound like a bit of a lunatic, all the ups and downs. Anyway. It is true that he has a definite grasp of dynamics.
Up next is another PJ chesnut, Around The Bend, which he pulls off with a certain aplomb. Very well done. Then we're back into another montage of Eddie on the bus, trying so hard to pick out his setlists, (oh he's so tortured)… all to his version of Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan's Girl From The North Country from the incomparable Nashville Skyline album. Eventually it ends up with him on stage (at sound check), so that's alright. A cool version, and a lovely Martin guitar. Next up is Guaranteed, which gets a huge audience response. Still on the Martin, he picks his way through this one skill and passion.
We head into Setting Forth after Eddie talks a while about a guy with whom he worked (and his opinion that what most people think is normal is actually insane), and at the beginning he's tuning up and plunking away on a little ukelele shaped like a black Telecaster. But, even though he's wearing the same shirt and it seems to be the same stage set-up, by the time he gets to the song he's back on the Martin acoustic. So there's a weird cut there, bad edit. Still, great song.
Then Eddie starts talking about his experience long board paddling the Potomac, commenting on patriotism, cultural greed, stupid boat names, and winding up unmolested on a naval base when at airports they scan little babies for weapons. Then he fairly blasts into Setting Forth, a powerful acoustic track. So cool. At this point, the audience (already fans), is fully in his hands like putty, ready to be formed. No hesitation, straight into No Ceiling. Another great track, though very short.
Then he's onto the mandolin for Rise, a song about a kid hitchhiking. Well done. Then we go back to the dressing room with Eddie and some lady (the packaging doesn't say who) singing Golden State. She's very good. Man, Eddie in that outfit… his knees and legs look so small. Weird. Then we're back to the stage and Eddie brings out Liam Finn (Split Enz and Crowded House) for Society. Fantastic. A super song that gets a sweet treatment here. Then he's back to the Strat for Forever Young (the Bob Dylan version, not the Rod Stewart version). With minimal lighting and Eddie just doing what he does, this is a highlight of the film.
We then go into this weird thing where Eddie is meeting the crowd, while in the background plays his Ed Piano (Instrumental). I have to assume this is an encore break. Very strange editing indeed. Because, then we're back on stage and he's playing I'm Open with a whispery voice and picking delicately away on what really looks (to my uneducated eye) like a half-sized, smaller model of that same Martin. It's such a short track, and it quickly become Man Of The Hour, for which the crowd is very grateful indeed. His vocals really take off, at points, here. A good version. There must be some editing, because he doesn't do a whole lot of thanking the crowd in this video, until the end. If he didn't, he should have.
Drifting bops along nicely, and even shows Eddie has learned to play a bit of harmonica. Nice. Then straight into another song called No More, which he dedicates to a friend. As you well know, it's a strummy protest song, and the crowd is definitely into, singing along when he gets to the chorus. The occasional shot shows the audience, and everyone is on their feet! Imagine. One dude with a guitar. Doesn't happen in your local coffeehouse, I'll betcha.
Then out comes the black Tele ukulele again, and he talks for a bit how, after realizing how happy the instrument sounded, it was his mission to make it sound sad and evil, but only after he wrote the next song, You're True. Suddenly, as that song ends, we're looking out an airplane window, then we're in some house in what looks like Hawaii (but could be anywhere like that) as Ukulele Instrumental plays. Then he walks up a hill with an acoustic, and plays Unthought Unknown sitting in the middle of nowhere. Should have given more thought to camera angle, so those branches wouldn't be in his face through the whole thing. The it's into Arc, the vocal-exercise-turned-song, complete with Eddie singing along with loops of himself. The he's in what looks like a lab coat, walking along the front of the stage, slapping hands with the crowd down front with the curtain down.
The curtain comes back up and Liam Finn is back, on the drums, and that girl who sang earlier too, both also in lab coats. He pushes play on a reel to reel deck, and out come the chords for Indio's Hard Sun. Eddie sings and plays the Strat over top of it. Couldn't get somebody to strum an acoustic? Weird. Betcha that roadie could have done it. He's probably got a band too, you know. Anyway. They break out the dry ice and Eddie stomps around and goes into a funny hand-clapping dance and they do their level best to turn this song inton arena-rawk monster. I don't know, I think it kind of misses the point of the song, but whatever.
Cut to Eddie walking out the door with his suitcases, then meeting more fans as it fades back into The Canyon (Reprise). People are weird, it must be a very odd experience, doing that. Three seconds with each person, like a wedding receiving line, they all are trying to express everything they felt about the show and his work and career in those three seconds… wonder if it phases him at all. Close out with Eddie on the bus, falling asleep with the headphones on, then waves on a beach.
Whew. Well, after all that description, what are my thoughts about this? It was very cool, for the most part. There was some bad editing, and a lot of close-ups on his face that we didn't really need. But it's not about that, is it? It's about the music. Eddie still seems to be searching for the truth, for peace and beauty. He has been for a long time. He seems able to appreciate it where he finds it, and all the people clapping and cheering him on are both there (he wants to reach them) and also not there (it must all blur together for him). There's a surfer dude in Eddie Vedder still, an authentic friend, and this rush must seem crazy for him. He seems like he's just trying to hang on, enjoy the ride, and put out some messages that need to be heard. Good on him.
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KMA590 Eddie Vedder – Ukulele Songs
As you're already aware, there's a precedent for this kind of thing… Eddie has thrown tracks like this onto Pearl Jam records, of course. But a whole record of them? Would it fly?
The tracks contained here are thoughtful ruminations, heart-felt appeals for love and understanding. Yes, they are plinky-plunky little ditties that would sound ridiculous if anybody else had attempted this – in truth, Eddie's got some stones for throwing this solo record out into this savagely critical world. After all, this may be a disorienting departure for him because most people don't really think of Eddie as a player, but as a vocalist first. Sure, he's been seen with guitars (and ukuleles) more often as time has gone on (can't keep up his youthful flailing around forever), but he's still the "singer" to most people. Well, to those who were thinking of giving this a miss as a frippery, know that the musicality and instrumentation here are very tight, and yes, the vocals are pure Eddie. This is a great record you need to hear. Also, Pearl Jam fans – who really don't give a shit what the world thinks of their devotion to their favourite band, and there are a lot of these people out there – will eat this up, so maybe he's not so crazy for doing this after all…
These are mostly short songs, with only one track cracking the three minute mark, and the whole record blasts to a close in under 35 minutes. I see the wisdom in this – too much of a good thing is still too much of something, and these ideas are complete without repetition. No sense dragging things out. Very punk in its thinking, that.
There are a few oldie tracks here: More Than You Know (1929), Sleepless Nights (1960), Once In A While (1937), the single, Tonight You Belong To Me (1926), and album closer Dream A Little Dream Of Me (1930). All of which fit perfectly, that old feel translating well to modern ears. And the original songs fit right in – the album is seamless. The cell phone thing at the end of Satellite, whether it was staged or not (do you really believe that's Eddie's ring tone?), is funny. The cello by Chris Worswick on Longing To Belong is lovely. Cat Power sings some harmonies on Tonight You Belong To Me in her unique voice, and Glen Hansard (Frames, Swell Season… and he was Outspan in The Commitments) lends perfectly complimentary vocals to Sleepless Nights.
The only thing that makes me wonder about this whole enterprise is the cover of PJ's Can't Keep as an album opener. Sure, he gives it hell, but was he hoping that a (potentially) familiar song would ease the listener into the rest of the record a little? Personally, I think he should have started the record with the eight second-long Hey Fahkah, and buried the PJ track in the second half. Try it out in your head – it works! Peripherally, I'm also not sure what Waving Palms is doing here, seems an afterthought, but so be it.
Kudos to Eddie for this (overall) excellent record. I wasn't certain I needed to hear an entire album of Soon Forget, but this is not like that at all. That song's anger is not present here. This is much, much more, a very thoughtful and well-executed effort. Two thumbs up.
KMA235 Eddie Vedder – Into The Wild
All apologies to Mr. Penn, but I haven't been to see his movie yet. In fact, I will not get to see it until it's on DVD because I'm not allowed to go to movie theaters anymore. But that's another story for another day which has nothing to do with Mr. Penn and his (quite likely) excellent film.
Anyway. Given the agenda of this site, I'm here to talk about Mr. Vedder's record of music for the film.
From some reading online, I gather that this is a true story, a modern-day Walden of sorts, some guy just walking off into the wilderness and leaving the shackles of society behind. Sounds like a project Mr. Vedder could totally love, at least ideologically.
The songs on this collection carry messages, very important messages, in pretty packages. It's acoustic, it's folky, it's thoughtful, it's anarchic and it's insistent. It has always been some of my favourite music, indeed, that forces you think, to engage your brain and try, dammit, try! Better yet, this record makes great driving music, cruising an open highway, letting your thoughts follow along as the highway disappears underneath your wheels. Yummy.
I think we can all, on some level, identify with the intention here, though I'd be willing to bet that next to none of us would have the balls to follow through on our fancy words, like this guy did. Or would you?
It's nice to hear Eddie playing ukelele again (on Rise – haven't heard that since Soon Forget, if I'm not mistaken), and there's a treasure trove of great stuff all over this record. In a way, these could be simplified and embryonic Pearl Jam songs – not because of Mr. Vedder's voice, but I can totally hear the band's versions of these songs in my head. Not to take away from all of the work that into this record, oh no. Not at all. I'm just saying, is all.
Tuolumne is a pretty instrumental, and we are all well aware by now that corporate radio has been playing the bejeezus out of Hard Sun. I wonder if they are aware of the irony. Probably not. Nice reference to the 'Better Man,' though. Interesting.
It all comes to a blunt head, though, on Society and Guaranteed. Throw in the weird, short screamo track The Wolf and you get a cool mix of tracks that will keep you listening with rapt attention. There isn't a stinker anywhere on here.
Guaranteed is, by the way, like a concise one-track history of Mr. Vedder's lyrical output to date, with his messages of freedom, loving each other, peace, and understanding. Goodness, I just had a thought! Folks, we'd better arrange to get that man some body guards! After all, anytime anyone in a position well-enough known that they can influence peoples' thoughts in America has a message like that, they tend to get shot.
Did I just say that? Yes I did, folks. Yes, I did.
In sum, I can see myself listening to this record many times, late at night when the big questions start crowding in (as they always do) and seem bigger than they do during the distractions of the day. We would all do well to listen to these tracks with more than a superficial, surface understanding.
I don't know whether I'll agree with the movie or not, until I see it, but the songs contained herein are wonderful and, being a music geek, that's more than enough for me.
01 Setting Forth
02 No Ceiling
03 Far Behind
04 Rise
05 Long Nights
06 Tuolumne
07 Hard Sun
08 Society
09 The Wolf
10 End Of The Road
11 Guaranteed


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DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PDF TO AUDIO SYSTEM
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Text-to-speech and related read audio programs are frequently used to help pupils improve their reading comprehension skills. A PDF to audio system is a screen reader application that is intended and built for audio communication. PDFs were created to reliably present and exchange documents. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) maintains PDF as an open standard document format (ISO). One of the most convenient methods for electronic communication and information transmission is the document format. As a result, it is necessary to make information more accessible to readers on screen via audio. Links and buttons, form fields, audio or sounds, video, and business logic are all included in PDF documents. The PDF to audio technology will read aloud (say) material on screens in a variety of languages. The researcher proposes to design and construct a PDF to audio system using HTML, CSS, and PHP in this study.
Dr. John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe, launched the paper-to-advanced digital revolution in 1991 with The Camelot Project. The goal was to give the expanding number of digital users the capacity to capture documents from any program, transfer electronic versions of these documents everywhere, and read and print them on any device. Camelot had evolved into PDF by 1992.
It is now a document format that is trusted by businesses and organizations all around the world. PDF, or Portable Document Format, was the first file format of its sort to be able to store and distribute content and images while maintaining the original document's formatting. It doesn't matter what kind of software, hardware, or platform it's being viewed on. Warnock's Team Camelot grew to include engineers with a varied spectrum of coding talents to design the platform-agnostic file format, which was inspired by the concept of digitizing the materials of the Library of Congress. Not only did they require a file format that was compatible with the most popular platforms, but they also needed developers who had worked with printer drivers before. This extra feature eventually served to raise PDF's popularity around the world, as users could choose to 'Save as PDF' rather than print the document. The team spent over a year developing the first version of the format, but it wouldn't be released to the public until June 1993, coinciding with the release of Adobe Acrobat Version 1.0. Acrobat was published to great acclaim. Warnock's Team Camelot grew to include engineers with a varied spectrum of coding talents to design the platform-agnostic file format, which was inspired by the concept of digitizing the materials of the Library of Congress. Not only did they require a file format that was compatible with the most popular platforms, but they also needed developers who had worked with printer drivers before. This extra feature eventually served to raise PDF's popularity around the world, as users could choose to 'Save as PDF' rather than print the document.
With PDF being the most widely used document format on the planet, there is a demand for text in PDF formats to be converted into audio signals. These can be used for a variety of things, including educational purposes, car navigation, railway station announcements, telecommunications response services, and e-mail reading. Furthermore, those with vision difficulties are unable to view or read PDF files, which is a significant disadvantage. This study looks into the issues in converting PDF text to speech. One is how to make synthetic voice in PDF-based text sound more natural in an audio system.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The goal of this study is to design and implement a PDF to Audio system that will aid accessibility and quick text-to-voice conversion of PDF documents.
Create a system that converts PDF text to audio for ease document comprehension.
A system for quickly detecting and converting PDF files to audio.
To provide a method that enables persons with reading difficulties to transform PDF text into audio files with ease.
To create and implement a system to help students improve their reading comprehension skills.
MOTIVATION OF THE STUDY
Presenting reading material orally rather than in a traditional paper presentation format increases users' inability to decode reading material, potentially preventing students with reading disabilities from better comprehending written texts. Oral materials can be presented using a variety of technologies (e.g., text-to-speech, reading pens, audiobooks). Text was already available verbally through books-on-tape and human readers. It is necessary to create and execute a text-to-speech technology that will be widely used in educational settings ranging from elementary school to colleges. The benefits of text-to-speech and related technologies for oral presentation of material on reading comprehension for children with reading difficulties will be improved with the introduction of the PDF to Audio system.
The goal of the study is to construct a PDF to Audio system in order to increase the use of PDF documents and provide a more flexible audio speech system.
The following constraints were discovered during the research study's development:
There is a scarcity of research materials at the school library and on the internet.
The expense of setting up the system is considerable because it necessitates the use of a complex programming language.
Taking care of schoolwork and conducting research at the same time.
Portable Document Format (PDF) is a type of document that can be read on a computer.
Sound is most usually referred to as audio because it is sent as a signal.
Speech is the ability or expression of thoughts and feelings through articulate sounds.
Oral – referring to the oral rather than written transfer of information or literature.
Reading Disabilities are a condition in which a person has trouble reading.
A file is a collection of data that a computer treats as a single item.
A written, drawn, presented, or documented representation of ideas is referred to as a document.


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Museveni acts more and more like Obote II: A Bush-War Wasted!
With the recent by-elections in Rukungiri, Bugiri and now in Arua. There been so much election violence and even killings in all three. There been enough of the army and mambas in the street, to intimidate the public. While the army and police are busy arresting opposition leaders and also activists. Therefore, the levels of arrests are over dozens, scores and in such levels that it has to hit about 20 and above to be right. This is what happens under President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. He is acting like President Milton Obote did in the 1980s. The second term of Obote was filled with arbitrary arrests, violence, torture and killings by the authorities. Now in the 2018, the Museveni regime is acting like them.
"The President allows a legal opposition party (the Democratic Party), and Obote seems to be trying to make parliamentary government work. However, opposition MPs for a time were arrested and detained. In a new-year amnesty, Obote allowed four MP detainees to be released; some 1,000 other detainees were released recently as well. The MPs, who had been accused of ''connection with acts of violence," were received personally by Obote" (John Worrall – 'Uganda registers modest gains under Obote' 04.01.1982 link: https://www.csmonitor.com/1982/0104/010442.html).
"Obote, moreover, has denied that any civilian detainees are being kept in military barracks. Yet he has not allowed officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross to inspect the suspected military barracks. "There are no detainees in military barracks," Obote said in an interview. "There are no detainees who are tortured or murdered or killed in any way in government custody." A 1982 report by the human rights group Amnesty International and a U.S. State Deparment report released earlier this year support allegations of civilian detentions, widespread abuses of human rights and killings carried out by soldiers in the military barracks. Well-informed western diplomats, one Ugandan government official who declined to be identified and political opposition leader Ssemogerere said abuses directed at civilian detainees is continuing in the Army's barracks" (Leon Dash – 'Brutality Marks Army's Conduct in Uganda' 29.11.1983, link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/11/29/brutality-marks-armys-conduct-in-uganda/342af52f-fbdc-4491-a399-208124c677db/?utm_term=.a95022d4262a).
Later 1983:
"Soon after Obote's inauguration speech, civil war erupted when two groups of his political competitors, both of whom charged Obote with fraudulently winning the December 1980 election, retired to the countryside surrounding this capital of Kampala and began waging a guerrilla war. The Army has recently managed to put the insurgents on the run, but political assassinations and the detention without trial of nonviolent politicial critics of the government have escalated as the war has died down. On Oct. 25 unknown gunmen abducted Mary Luswata, the chairman of Obote's Uganda People's Congress party in a district 80 miles from here, plus three members of the party's youth wing and three party supporters. They were found shot to death two days later nearby" (Leon Dash – 'Violence Poisons Political Process Within Uganda' 01.12.1983, link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/12/01/violence-poisons-political-process-within-uganda/1d4a504d-d186-4100-ba19-971dbaa4c577/?utm_term=.321bf5362f86).
Militarism under both rulers:
"Although a small incident, (and indeed much larger incidents might have been cited), it has all the ingredients of militarism. "We fought for you" singles oult the "military" contribution to liberation to the denigration of all other kinds of contribution (including political) which people made towards the downfall of Obote's dictatorship. It also becomes a "license" in the hands of the men in uniform to treat "you civilians" with derision and contempt. Although NRA's record, compared to the that of Obote's UNLA, has been generally impressive, this was so as long as they were in the bush, and did not enjoy "state power". Now that they enjoy state power, their "militarism" is coming to the surface. Earlier in the same week that the above incident happened at Walukuba, soldiers burst into the house of the editor of the Weekly Topic (a paper that is critically sympathetic to Museveni), and searched his house, as also the office of his brother, a former Member of Parliament. Later they arrested a few people in the area who previously had UPC connections. All this was done without informing the Resistance Councils of the area, thus undermining their authority and relevance in matters of "high security". When criticized, the NRA is consistently defended by Museveni on the same grounds that "they fought for you". It is clear that Museveni derives his legitimacy and authority more from his army than from the political efforts of "the civilians". The RCs with all their weaknesses analysed earlier, are nonetheless never likely, under Museveni, to acquire political control over the army, and hence militarism is likely to remain, as under Obote, the hallmark of Museveni's regime" (Yash Tandon – 'Elements of Continuity and Change Between Obote and Museveni: Some Lessons from Obote's Rule for Musevents Government' 01.01.1987, link: https://escholarship.org/content/qt667686n5/qt667686n5.pdf).
We can see now, that the ones that President Museveni overthrow for the betterment of the republic, he has become alike. He might not have arrested 1000 opposition leaders at the same time, but over the years he has detained, arrested and charged more than I can count. He has done the same during the recent days and even within this year. The NRM are acting as the previous leadership did. They are torturing opposition MPs, they are arresting them and also showing violence towards the public.
Right now, there are more and more similarities between Obote II and Museveni of now. The 1980s Uganda and current Uganda isn't that much different. Only, that the public have smart-phones and the reports are spread without the central government control like in the 1980s. That is why we will know quicker and the reports will make sense. This is information sharing the authorities cannot control. That is why we knew of the violence in Rukungiri, Bugiri and in Arua.
Museveni's ways of control is looking more like Obote… therefore, the bush-war is more and more pointless. As he is acting like the ones he overthrow. Not only overstaying and being an arrogant prick, but also being reckless, relentless and destroying people's lives to stay in power. Using state sponsored violence to control the public.
The Ugandan people deserves better, all the lives lost are now just pawns in the eyes of the ones who had hope in the 1980s for something better for their kids. They fought and celebrated the fall of Obote II, but instead they got someone who was as brutal as him. Using the same force and same methods to stay in power.
It isn't beautiful, not planned to be. It is just a cynics way of staying in power. Peace.
Author nilspeacePosted on August 15, 2018 August 15, 2018 Categories Africa, Army, Development, Election, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, Politics, TransparencyTags Bazilio Olara-Okello, Democratic Party, DP, Dr. Milton Obote, Dr. Paul Ssemogerere, Government of Uganda, Mary Luswata, Milton Obote, National Resistance Army, National Resistance Movement, NRA, NRM, Obote, Obote II, Obote II Government, Paolo Muwanga, Paul Ssemogerere, President Milton Obote, President Museveni, Tito Okello, Uganda, Uganda National Liberation Front, Uganda Peoples Congress, UNLA, UPC, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Yoweri Museveni
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Brown, Droscha, Waltz win seats on Mason city council
Will Kangas
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MASON – Two incumbents and one former council member took three available seats on the Mason City Council Tuesday, according to results from the Ingham County Clerk's office.
Incumbents Marlon Brown and Jon Droscha retained their seats, while former city council member Mike Waltz won the third seat, replacing Mayor Pro-Tem Robin Naeyaert, who won a seat on the Ingham County Commission.
Challengers Rita Vogel, Angela Madden and Jeffrey Wiggins took fourth, fifth and sixth respectively.
Droscha garnered the most votes of all the candidates.
"It is truly humbling and I am thrilled to be able to serve the citizens of Mason," he said. "I look forward to building the Mason of the future."


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The team based in Malatya are enjoying their league season this year. No one expected this kind of a performance from a team who were 10th last season in the top flight of Turkish football.
At present they are 3rd in the table; in the Europa League qualification spot after winning 8 of their 17 matches so far. They are on a 7 game unbeaten run that includes 5 wins across all venues. Also, 5 of those 7 games had a score with less than 2.5 goals in total.
The team managed by Erol Bulut have not lost a competitive game at home since August 2018. They are currently unbeaten in 9 matches of which 7 were wins. In 3 of their previous 5 games in front of the home crowd, the full-time score had less than 2.5 goals.
Goz Goz is going through a tough time at present unable to get some wins. They are 10th in the table conceding more than what they scored. The team from Izmir are unbeaten in 4 of their previous games in all competitions. Over 2.5 goals were scored in 3 of their recent 5 matches also.
In their latest 5 matches on the road, 2 wins and 2 defeats were produced. From 3 of those 5 matches over 2.5 goals were produced, and they scored 3 in all those games as well.
Malatyaspor is almost unbeatable at home so the visitors need to up their game to get at least a point from this match.
Both the teams have 2 wins each in their last 5 h2h matches across all venues.
Less than 2.5 goals came in 3 of those 5 games in all competitions.
Goztepe has won 3 and lost 2 in the latest 5 games against these opponents away from home.
More than 2.5 goals were scored in 3 of their last 5 meetings at this venue.
The hosts have never failed to score a goal in the last 4 games between these two teams at their home.
The home team was able to keep it tidy at the back in most of their matches in front of the home fans. In terms of goal concede in home matches they are second best with only 6 goals given away. So it is hard to score against them at this ground. They manage to keep a clean sheet in 6 of their previous 9 home matches. So we can bet on them to do so again with 2.40 odds.
Erol's team are unbeaten for 9 games at their home and they have won the majority of those games as well. Although the visitors have won 2 of their recent away matches, those were against teams worse than them and they also lost 2 games against teams better than them in terms of points. So we can bet on the hosts to win based on home form with 1.65 odds.
Home team to win @ 1.65 (7/11).
Clean sheet for the hosts @ 2.40 (7/5).


1) What do you see as the role of a KPUD commissioner?
2) What approach would you take to support the growing business areas (e.g. broadband internet, wastewater, and perhaps public electric service or other utilities) of the PUD while recognizing it is a not-for-profit public utility that must be managed in a way that is in the best interest of the tax payers and rate payers?
3) The PUD collects tax money from the entire county. It's not a lot of money per homeowner, so many of us may not give the PUD much thought. KPUD uses those tax dollars for a variety of programs (free public wireless service in certain County population centers, classroom education in Kitsap schools, stream gauging, well monitoring, precipitation level tracking, and other co-jurisdictional activities in the County such as the Kitsap Water Festival, stream tours). What ideas do you have to further publicize these programs as well as ensure they continue for generations to come?
4) What steps would you (have you) take (n) to ensure and enhance continued collaboration among the County and various Kitsap cities with the KPUD?
5) What are your thoughts on collaborating – or even creating an intertie - with other water districts on the Island to improve efficiency and conserve water resources and streamline water supply infrastructure and distribution?


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My keyboard, my keyboard, and me — HVER PRO RGB Keyboard Review
For many years, I've been using an old, mechanical Dell keyboard from my mom's old desktop. It hasn't exactly aged gracefully – it's perpetually covered in dust and many of the keys have that weird shininess from wearing down with use. I have bought two keyboards since I started using that one around 2010, a chiclet keyboard themed after Slimes from Dragon Quest and a Midi keyboard for playing music. While the Slime keyboard is cute, I don't really like typing or gaming on chiclet keyboards so I mostly use it on consoles, and the Midi keyboard… well, that's not for typing. So when Kaliber Gaming and IOGEAR offered to send us three of their products for review, I jumped at the chance to bring my PC gaming and typing into the 21st century.
This is the HVER PRO RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard with brown switches. It has a sleek aluminum casing with ABS, swappable keycaps. Now I haven't used that many keyboards, let alone high end ones, but this device has a very premium feel to it. The base won't move much unless you deliberately push it, the keycaps feel sturdy, and the switches have just enough give so you won't accidentally press any keys without taking too much effort overall. It also has a nice click to it that's a bit louder than my Dell but much more satisfying. The keycaps are individually removable using a tool included in the keyboard's underside if you want to replace them.
As with many gaming specific keyboards, the HVER PRO lights up! You can download software to program the lights from the store page and choose from multiple presets, such as a moving rainbow effect to a light explosion when pressing a key, or customize your own layout. There are three profiles you can switch between with keyboard shortcuts, so you can change settings on the fly in theory. In practice, it doesn't switch between profiles but rather your three custom setups. If you want to return to one of the presets you'll have to open the software back up and swap to it manually. There's also a setting for programmable Macros which, I'll be frank, I don't understand how to use or what they even do. I also feel like you should be able to combine the custom programs with the preset effects in some way, like having WASD lit up red while still retaining the rainbow explosions. It's not a big deal, since I consider the lights a bonus to a very solid keyboard, but it may bother users looking to have full control over their rig's aesthetic.
The HVER PRO also has a few other useful features, like being able to lock the Windows key so you don't accidentally press it or having several notches in the case for organizing wires. While the device itself is excellent, the font used to label the keys can be a bit confusing; for example the 0 key looks like two parentheses (). It's a device that could certainly use a few improvements on the software side of things, but it's still a great upgrade from an old 90's keyboard.
HVER PRO RGB Keyboard
The HVER PRO RGB is a high quality keyboard that feels great to type and game with, but has a few issues such as a strange font and lackluster software customization options.
Switches have the perfect amount of give and click
Multiple customization options…
...but it's not as easy to swap between profiles as it should be
Strange font choice
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Legislation removing the secretary of state's power over the State Board of Elections was signed into law on Tuesday by Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin — on the same day the board met.
But Grimes, one of the state's most prominent Democrats, indicated later that she might have plenty more to say — perhaps in court — about the new law enacted by the state's Republican-dominated legislature and signed by the GOP governor.
"We need to send a message to the voters that one partisan political figure cannot have ... unfettered access to our voter database," Thayer said during the Senate debate on the measure.
Thayer successfully added the language to an existing House bill when his own measure to limit Grimes' authority had stalled. Several House members harshly criticized the process that brought the bill to the House floor for a vote last week.


A semi-annual MONTAG event since 1985, Jackie Montag leads an energetic morning program – often to a capacity-crowd.
FFW seminars are typically kicked off with remarks from an area non-profit (This seminar's guest was Mike Vinciquerra of TREES ATLANTA). Haley Schwartz, Esq. of Abrams, Davis, Mason and Long LLC presented on Mental Health and the notion of Ethical Wills. Tony Montag entertained those in attendance with his presentation of New Yorker Magazine-style comics. Brothers and co-leaders of our firm, Ned and John Montag, made a presentation titled "The Fiduciary Assignment – A Tale of Heroes and Villains". As always, a light lunch was provided to conclude our FFW event.
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"After acquiring Din's Pearl and regaining control of Link, there are a few goodies for us to collect here on Dragon Roost Island. The first is nearby at the Wind Shrine. From where the King of Red Lions is located, turn around and pass through a narrow tunnel. Jump into the water and swim to the small piece of land.
Sort 25-pieces of mail within 30 seconds and Baito will be so excited that he will feel the need to tell his Mom. Since he cannot leave his job, he asks Link to put a letter to his mom in the postbox.
Head back outside towards the King of Red Lions and along the way, Link will find a red postbox. Drop off the 'Note to Mom' by selecting it while standing in front of the postbox and pay the 5 rupees of postage.
We'll continue with this side quest in a little bit, but for now, there is nothing left for us to accomplish here on Dragon Roost Island. Return to the King of Red Lions and play the Wind's Requiem, blowing the wind to the south. The King of Red Lions will tell you some back story and mentions that you need to go south to get the next pearl.
Climb on the boat and turn to the south. Pull out the sail to begin our journey to our next destination. When you reach the edge of Dragon Roost's border, a Fishman will stop you. One of these little guys can be found in every square region of the Great Sea map. He will mark your map and give you a hint about whichever square region you are in. For other square regions, if Link sees a Fishman jumping out of the water, he can ride over to that area and drop some All-Purpose Bait, causing the Fishman to speak with him and mark his map.
From Dragon Roost Cavern, continue sailing southward towards the destination on your map. Along the way, you can find the various Fishmen and mark your map. The first two square regions that Link travels through are Fire Mountain and Eastern Triangle Island. Unfortunately, there isn't anything significant that we can do at this point at either location.
The next square region, which is one square north of our destination, is Bomb Island. There isn't much we can do on the actual island itself, but just south of it, Link will find a submarine, along with a small raft with a Pink Bokoblin on it. Whenever you see Bokoblins, you can use your grappling hook on them to get a spoil, which in the case of Bokoblins, is always a Joy Pendant. We will be needing a handful of these later on in the quest.
Once you get near the Forest Haven, the King of Red Lions will tell you that inside this sacred place lies the spirit of the earth, the Great Deku Tree, and that he will give you Farore's Pearl.


Apparently every recent model cellphone sold in the USA has a built-in tracking device that can be activated remotely and set to keep the microphone powered on, even when the phone itself is switched off.
The FBI used the technology in collecting evidence for the recent Genovese crime family trial.
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Before the Renaissance
When I was involved between 1975 and 1982 in the campaign to end commercial whaling, our favourite sound-bite was "The harpoon guns should end up in museums!" So I was thrilled last month when I found in the aquarium of La Coruña, Spain the harpoon gun of IBSA III, one of the whaling vessels we'd stopped killing endangered fin whales in 1980 when I was the campaign coordinator on board the Rainbow Warrior.
1980: This is me on the deck of the Rainbow Warrior.
The whaling vessel in the background is IBSA III
Thirty-two years separate last month's photo (above) in the aquarium museum from the black & white photo (left) of me on the deck of the Rainbow Warrior in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. IBSA III, the whaling vessel on the black & white photo was one of five whale catchers owned and operated by a company whose business was to kill large whales on their migration path approximately 170 miles off the coasts of Portugal and Spain. After harpooning them, the catchers used to tow the dead whales (generally three at a time) to two land stations on the North West coast of Spain where the meat was sliced, packaged and frozen under the supervision of Japanese operators; at regular intervals a Japanese freezer vessel called in Vigo harbour and the whale meat was shipped to Japan. We'd picked up the Spanish fleet because it was on the list of pirate whalers -- they were catching as many whales as they could, as fast as they could, and ignored completely the regulations set by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) -- and also because soon after the end of General Franco's dictatorship Spain was hoping to accede to the European Community. So we'd figured out that if we shamed them Spain could be the first domino to fall from a series of a dozen countries making at the time big bucks (big yens) from killing big whales. That's indeed what happened two years later: in 1982 Spain's vote tipped the balance at the crucial IWC meeting where the moratorium on commercial whaling was adopted. Spain's whaling industry was phased out, and now IBSA III's harpoon gun is displayed in the aquarium museum in La Coruña as the witness of a very remote era.
When it was chased by the Rainbow Warrior,
IBSA III's harpoon gun wasn't resting in
a museum (1980)
I'm posting this story today, because the United Nations have designated the 22nd of May the International Day for Biodiversity which is dedicated this year to Life in the Sea. Of course this year is also the 30th anniversary of the adoption in 1982 of the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling. The campaign to end commercial whaling is a very old story that is still remembered as a milestone of the environmental movement. Essentially, it was a battle between very committed activists with a strong will against a large international group of old school businessmen unwilling to see that the times were changing.
The campaign for the moratorium on whaling finds its origin in Recommendation 33 of the first UN Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm in June 1972. As we're preparing for the Rio+20 Conference next month (Stockholm+40, in fact), should we ask ourselves what we must send to museums this time? Oil drilling gears and refineries? Destructive trawl fishing gears? Unsustainable biofuel schemes affecting food security and the environment? Aging nuclear reactors on earthquake fault lines and elsewhere? Vessels flying flags of convenience to evade financial, social and environmental regulations? …Don't count on governments to agree a list in Rio. But if only they put their words into action now and stop supporting with public subsidies environmentally harmful industries, for our children it could make the difference between living in a world of environmental horror or contemplating instead the museum of past environmental horrors. Let the Renaissance begin!
Special thanks to Miriam Montero and Marta Cavallé of the Lonxanet Foundation for Artisanal Sustainable Fishing for arranging my visit at the La Coruña Aquarium, to Francisco Franco del Amo, Technical Director of the aquarium for his warm welcome, and to Greenpeace photographer Pierre Gleizes who kindly sent me the two photos from 1980 included in this piece. In his recently published entertaining book "Rainbow Warrior mon Amour" (in French), Pierre describes the first trip we did together in Spain as "a Tintin adventure"; Yep!
This blogpiece is also available in español, HERE (AQUÍ) on the website of the Spanish news agency EFE, and en français HERE (ICI) chez WikiOcean
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Tags: Biodiversity, Environmental policy and economics, Whales


July 31, 2012 – Hardworking volunteers, setting up the tents for the 2012 Heritage Festival.
Of all the magnificent summer festivals in our festival city, my hands-down favourite is Heritage Days.
For me, our annual celebration of multicultural food and dance and music and art is the quintessential Edmonton party, the embodiment of our city's founding, foundational mythology.
Is Edmonton a perfect, racism-free utopia? Nope. But at least, we consciously aim to achieve that goal. And for all the failures and fumbles along the way, the Heritage Festival is symbolic of the love and joy with which we try to live up to our goals.
This year, family responsibilities mean that I cannot be at my favourite festival – which means that I won't be taking up my accustomed role as the MC of the festival main stage.
So for this once – and once only, I hope – you'll have to enjoy the Heritage Festival without me.
If you're new to Edmonton or if you've never been, I hope you'll accept my enthusiastic invitation and recommendation to head down to Hawrelak Park this weekend for the cuisine, the entertainment, and the atmosphere.
In the meantime, I leave behind this essay, written in the midst of last year's festival, when I was full of bolani and love for this flawed yet magnificent city of ours.
While other festivals look desperately for "themes" and "brands", the Heritage Festival knows exactly what it is, and what it celebrates – the miracle that our community, at its best, can represent for the entire world.
It's about more than meat on a stick. It's about a model of inclusion and cross-pollination that can see us through the 21st century and beyond.
You know what I mean. Days this winter when it was so cold, so dark, so icy, so snowy, you had to wonder why anyone would have decided that life at this latitude was even possible. Days this summer when it was so cold, so wet, so mosquito-infested, you had to wonder if the weather gods had punished us for our collective sins by taking our summer away.
I was born and raised in Edmonton. I've lived, traveled, studied and worked in many other places – but I've always come back here. This seemed the right place to raise my family, build my career, lay down my roots.
But there were several times recently when I had to look myself in the mirror and wonder why I hadn't stayed in Toronto or San Francisco, why I hadn't gambled on life in New York or London or Paris or Berlin.
Saturday night, though, in Hawrelak Park, I fell in love all over again. In love with my city. In love with my life here, in Edmonton.
Granted, it was the perfect evening. My family and I were sitting on a picnic bench in front of the Afghan pavilion at the Heritage Festival.
It was 8: 30 p.m. The park had never looked better, the grass, watered by weeks of rain, green and lush and thick, instead of brown and trampled. The mosquitoes which have plagued our summer were utterly absent, blown away, perhaps, by the slight breeze.
Even though it was evening, it was still warm enough for T-shirts and shorts, but not so hot as to be uncomfortable – a perfect Edmonton "white night" – sunny, under a cobalt blue sky.
But it wasn't just the weather. It was the festival atmosphere. The park was full of happy, happy people – couples and families and groups of chatty teens, babies in strollers, elders with walking sticks.
Young Polish folk dancers, performing at the 2011 Heritage Festival, against the perfect blue Edmonton sky.
Some were in traditional "ethnic" costumes – most in comfortable summer clothes. Together, they formed a tableau of a 21st-Century multicultural model city. It looked like a Hollywood/Star Trek vision of a utopian "future" – except it was happening in the here and the now.
I was hungry. I'd spent the last two-and-a-half hours standing on the Heritage Amphitheatre stage, hosting a remarkable evening of song and dance from right round the world.
We'd started with Edmonton folksinger John Spearn singing an ode to Haida Gwaii – and continued with the dance of Polynesia, Guatemala, Ukraine, India, Italy, Taiwan and Peru. I'd managed to pronounce, or mangle, tidbits of Spanish, Hindi, Ukrainian, Tamil, Italian and Cantonese. No wonder I'd worked up an appetite.
So I sat, under that northern blue sky, surrounded by the people I love best – my husband, my daughter, my mom and dad – as we ate crisp, hot Afghan bolani, fresh off the grill. A bolani – if you've never been lucky enough to have one – is like a cross between a Chinese green onion cake, a Yiddish latke and a French crepe – a thin pancake stuffed with potato and green onion, a little bit salty, a little bit spicy, perfectly complemented by a yogurt dip, delicately graced with a hint of mint.
Seated across the table from us was a handsome young couple, chatting away in Russian. My dad couldn't resist trying out his rudimentary, vestigial Russian on them. They sweetly told him that they'd been living in Canada for just a year.
Past us, came a young family eating juicy mangoes on a stick from the Bangladeshi pavilion. They told us that their mangoes had been rolled in salt and hot pepper, to mix the savoury with the sweet, as perfect a metaphor as you could want for this glorious night. To our left, a group of Korean musicians were parading through the park, banging drums and cymbals – which sounds obnoxious, but somehow suited the carnival mood.
I don't think I've ever had a more perfect Edmonton moment. My city. Our city. At its very, very best.
Dancers performing at the Ecuador pavilion during the 2011 Heritage Festival.
In that moment, I felt so lucky to have been raised by parents who taught me to be curious about other people from other places, who gave me the chance to travel, who encouraged me to learn other languages, to try other cuisines, to be passionate about music and art.
If I embrace the spirit of multiculturalism, it is in large part because they gave me the courage to do so – by embracing it themselves.
In that moment, I felt even luckier that my husband and I have been able to raise our daughter in such a diverse, cosmopolitan city, exposing her to so many cultural influences, opening her eyes to the diversity of the world and the human experience. What a wonderful place to be able to raise a tolerant, intellectually curious and open-minded child, a young teen equipped to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing 21st-century world.
I'm returning to Hawrelak Park for the rest of the festival – but epiphanies like the one I had Saturday night don't come around often. I'll be savouring that moment, long after the last bolani is fried and the last tent comes down.