The four powers by Nicholas Graham is a smart little primer on ceremonial magic. It is concise, neatly packaged and without all the fluff and incidental trivia that plagues current Wiccan and pagan books.
In just four short chapters Graham puts into context everything a beginning practitioner needs to learn in order to make magic a lifetime practice. This book isn't for dabblers or hobbyists. This is a book, no matter how small and condensed, for the serious magical practitioner.
I like to think of it as the Elements of Style for the Ceremonial Magician. The chapters are broken down into To Know, To Dare, To Will and to Be silent. Further, these chapters demark the elements of Air, Fire, Water and Earth. Strangely, spirit isn't included in the elements. But Graham himself states that this book isn't written with a Wiccan slant.
The first chapter is entitled to Know. It neatly outlines the meaning of ceremonial magic, discusses the definition of magic and how that definition has evolved over the centuries. He further goes into topics of magical models, or paradigms that describe how different practitioners approach magic and how they work with it.
The Second Chapter is entitled To Will. In this chapter we find Graham giving us a brief study of various magical practices, termed "the five operations." These are simply classifications of types of magic and magical practice. In this chapter he discusses topics such as divination, evocation and invocation as well as illumination and various studies on sigil practice.
The third Chapter is called To Dare which works with mysticism and illumination. He tells the reader what illumination is, goes into greater depth about the practice of mysticism and gives a brief discussion into the topic of enlightenment. This, as in all chapters are experiments the student can do as well as go through the reading lists in the back of each chapter.
The fourth and final chapter is called, To Keep Silent. In this chapter, Graham doesn't just explain why it is a good practice to keep magical working secret, but explains in detail why it is so important. Further but goes into depth as to how to incorporate magic into a person's daily life.
The Four Powers is an easy read. Everyone who picks up this book will be able to understand the contents. It is a bare bones approach to magic. It is practical, insightful and somewhat dry but I found it a fascinating read, and quite thought provoking. And even though I found the price a bit steep for such a small book, the information contained is well worth picking up. I highly recommend it.


Steve Earle is playing the Fraser Auditorium on July 16 at 7:30 p.m.Steve Earle is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, author and actor.
April 2BLOOD DONATION: The Sudbury Blood Donor Centre, 944 Barrydowne Rd., has new hours of operation that went into effect April 1.
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Kevin Breit, a truly creative artist, will take the stage at The Motley Kitchen on April 4 as the next offering in their dinner-and-a-show series.


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Maple Grove, MN (73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N)
73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N
About Maple Grove, MN (73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N)
73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N median real estate price is $320,131, which is more expensive than 67.4% of the neighborhoods in Minnesota and 60.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in 73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N is currently $1,950, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 81.9% of the neighborhoods in Minnesota.
73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Maple Grove, Minnesota.
73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the 73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.
Real estate vacancies in 73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N are 4.8%, which is lower than one will find in 74.7% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in 73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N is above average for the U.S., and may signal some demand for either price increases or new construction of residential product for this neighborhood.
Many people dream of living along a street lined with row houses or other attached homes. Such places do often have an abundance of charm. If you are one of these people, the 73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N neighborhood could be your paradise. With 29.6% of the homes and real estate here classified as rowhouses or other attached homes, this neighborhood brims with opportunity to find the right place for you. Only 3.3% of U.S. neighborhoods have more row houses than this neighborhood, making it one of the most interesting things about this special neighborhood.
In addition, most neighborhoods are composed of a mixture of ages of homes, but the 73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N stands out as rather unique in having nearly all of its residential real estate built in one time period, namely between 1970 and 1999, generally considered to be established, but not old housing. What you'll sense when you look around or drive the streets of this neighborhood is that many of the residences look the same because of this similarity of age. In fact, 84.6% of the residential real estate here was built in this one time period.
Did you know that the 73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N neighborhood has more Finnish and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 8.7% have Swedish ancestry.
The neighbors in the 73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N neighborhood in Maple Grove are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 73.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.4% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 74.0% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the 73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N neighborhood, 42.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.2%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the 73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.3%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the 73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N neighborhood in Maple Grove, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.7%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (16.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (8.7%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (7.0%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in 73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (6.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
AGE OF Maple Grove, MN (73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N) HOMES
TYPE OF Maple Grove, MN (73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N) HOMES
SIZE OF Maple Grove, MN (73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N) HOMES
Employment Industries in 73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N
in 73rd Ave N / Kirkwood Ln N
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Maple Grove VIOLENT CRIMES
Maple Grove Property CRIMES
Quality Rating Compared to MN*
Paragon Academy School
12915 63 Rd Ave.
Cedar Island Elementary School
6777 Hemlock Ln
Osseo Senior High School
317 2 Nd Ave Nw
Osseo, MN 55369
Maple Grove Middle School
Oak View Elementary School
6710 E Fish Lake Rd
This neighborhood is served by 1 district:
OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
District Quality Compared to Minnesota
Better than of MN school districts.
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Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metro Area regional investment potential
Housing Affordability Trends: Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metro Area
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NDIA Independent Assessment Pilot This year the EarlyStart team supported the NDIA Independent Assessment Pilot for children aged 0-7 years. This was a valuable opportunity for BUSHkids to be involved in trialling such a significant proposed reform to NDIS access and planning processes. Being part of the pilot helped to ensure that the voices of children and families living with a developmental delay or disability in rural and remote regions were heard. Over a three-month period, BUSHkids completed 72 independent assessments (174 appointments) and provided comprehensive feedback to the NDIA. Friends of BUSHkids (FoBk) Our journey in numbers The EarlyStart team rolled out in January 2021 with 118 families ready and waiting for service across our BUSHkids NDIS ECEI regions. Referrals to our team have remained steady with around 50 families identified each month who would benefit from STEI support. Overall, from January to June 2021, the EarlyStart team completed 984 STEI appointments, supporting a total of 242 families. Working in a best-practice model, we have seen an increase in services being delivered in natural settings. Prior to the EarlyStart team roll out, 18% of short term early intervention supports were delivered in natural settings such as homes, early childhood education centres and schools. This has now increased to 33% with the EarlyStart team. Where to next? The EarlyStart team will continue working hard to support children and families within our BUSHkids NDIS ECEI service regions. We look forward to expanding both our team and the supports we provide in 2022. We hope to begin offering targeted ECEI programs, parent education, and increase our opportunities for team members to engage with their local communities. FoBk groups in Warwick, Emerald and Bundaberg continue to play a vital link between the organisation's clinical delivery and the communities in which we live. An important part of that is networking with business members and community groups that hold the same ethos of better communities and quality services to support families. Raising funds to do this and complementing the operational needs is one way that we can play a part, whether that be in extra services, extra equipment or better play spaces for our young children to learn and grow when they visit our centres. Whilst BUSHkids Service Centres are located across the State, the needs of families and the trust they have in BUSHkids is the same. During the year many events have been enjoyed by families and the wider community as we promote BUSHkids and the wonderful dedicated teams which provide these services, so it is important that—whether it is a Bushdance, 'Brekky with the Bushies' or Golf Days and all other events—we very much appreciate the way our communities have supported and embraced all that BUSHkids and FoBk do, because this is our way of adding that extra layer of wellness, smiles, and laughter to our communities. FoBk Chair Judy Peters C E O c o n t i n u e d 37% 33% 30% Remote Support / teleHealth In person / natural setting In person / clinical setting A n n u a l R e p o r t 2 0 2 0–2 0 2 1 18


MamaBlogger365 is thrilled to feature a virtual tour of The Feminist Boudoir, a M.O.M. Exhibit by Joy Rose and paintings by Jo Jayson. It was part of the M.O.M. Conference at Marymount Manhattan College, Mamapalooza Festival and MAMAExpo, May 23-25 2011.
The Feminist Boudoir features feminist mother-art pieces like The Feminist Icon's Closet, Sarah Palin's Sweater, Carol Evans' Crown, Hillary's Hotpants, and a work-in-progress featuring Phyllis Chesler.
Film by Stephanie Schleicher; narrated by Kelly Hansen.
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Over 11 crore vaccine doses were given in Maharashtra
More than 100 foreign passengers near Mumbai untraceable amid Omicron panic
As Threat over Omicron, coronavirus' new and potentially more threatening variant, hold the country, authority in Maharashtra said 109 out of 295 current foreign returned in Thane district were undetectable currently.
KDMC (Kalyan-Dombivali Municipal Corporation) chief Vijay Suryavanshi told news agency PTI that the mobile phones of some of these people were switched off. At the same time, many of the last given addresses were found to be locked.
On the eighth day, seven-day home quarantine and a test to detect the Covid-19 infection have been made mandatory for returned to KDMC limits from all 'at-risk nations (identified by Centre), Suryavanshi told the news agency.
He added.
"Even if it is found negative, they will have to go for another 7-day home quarantine and it would be a duty of housing society member to make sure the norm is not violated. gatherings, Marriages etc are being watched to curb violations,"
Meanwhile, two people were infected with the Omicron variant of Coronavirus in Mumbai, bringing such a case in Maharashtra to 10 to 23 across the country. According to authorities, the two infected people with the Omicron variant in Mumbai are asymptomatic.
Read More: No Covid Infected Patient With 'Omicron' Variant In Mumbai: Mumbai Mayor
Authorities said
A 37-year-old man arrived in Mumbai from South Africa, and his 36-year-old friend who landed in the US tested positive for variant in Mumbai.
Cases of Omicron variant have been reported from places in Rajasthan, Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, and Maharashtra. Two instances of the variant were reported from Karnataka last week.
The Omicron variant was first found in southern Africa's Botswana last month. Since then, the variant has been seen in many countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has categorized Omicron' variant of concern' and warned people to remain aware.
Experts are yet to determine if cases of the variant progress to the severe stage or if vaccines would need to be modified to combat it. Kalyan-Dombivali Municipal Corporation (KDMC) chief Vijay Suryavanshi told news agency PTI that the mobile phones of some of these people were switched off. At the same time, many of the last given addresses were found to be locked.


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import encoding
import os, glob
import binascii
import hashlib
"""naix stands for never ascii iso extended
module for determing probablity of text or something like that...
"""
textchars = {7,8,9,10,12,13,27} | set(range(0x20, 0x100)) - {0x7f}
text = list(textchars)
print(text)

def main():
    import argparse

    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument('-s', '--source', type=str, default='',
                        help='source directory (default: current folder)')
    parser.add_argument('-d', '--dest', type=str, default='naix',
                        help='destination directory (default: naix)')

    args = parser.parse_args()
    targpath = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), args.source)

    for filename in glob.iglob("%s\**" % targpath, recursive=True):

        relpath = filename[len(targpath):]

        fsize = os.path.getsize(filename)
        if os.path.isfile(filename):
            crc32 = binascii.crc32(b'')
            hashes = ['MD5', 'SHA1', 'SHA256', 'SHA512', 'SHA384']
            hasobj = {}
            for hash in hashes:
                hasobj[hash] = hashlib.new(hash)

            f = open(filename, 'rb')

            s = ''
            # peakwidth = 1
            # rising_edge = False
            # startpos = 0
            # i = 0
            for chunk in f:
                for c in chunk:
                    if c in text:
                        s += chr(c)
                    # if c in text: # char is text
                    #     rising_edge = True
                    #     startpos = i
                    # else:
                    #     if rising_edge: # this is falling edge
                    #         rising_edge = False
                    #         if startpos < i - peakwidth: # signal is wider than peak limit
                    #             out += [startpos, i - peakwidth] # append to list
                # if rising_edge and startpos <= i -peakwidth:
                #     out += [startpos, i]
                # i += 1

                for item in hasobj:
                    hasobj[item].update(chunk)
                crc32 = binascii.crc32(chunk, crc32) & 0xffffffff

            print('{:<32}'.format(relpath), '{:<16}'.format(fsize), '{:>8x}'.format(crc32), hasobj['MD5'].hexdigest(), hasobj['SHA1'].hexdigest())
            # print('{:<32}'.format(relpath), '{:<16}'.format(fsize))
            # out=None
            # print(s, file=out)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

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Between 1976 and 1981, hundreds of amateur archaeologists helped out at the Coppergate Dig and more than a million people came to see the dig for themselves. The memories of some of the leading figures in the dig have been recorded ahead of the reopening. Together, with old photographs and video footage, they will be used to bring the excitement of the dig itself to life.
The Community team at JORVIK Viking Centre wants to hear from the amateur archaeologists who helped out on the dig as well as the memories of the people who came to see it. The memories and photographs submitted will be collected together on the website to provide a permanent record of the 1970s origins of the Viking Centre.
If you have great memories, stories to tell of the dig or any of your own photographs, get in touch by email at memories@yorkat.co.uk.
See the results so far of this unique project here.


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Home » News » Cutting oil use by 50 percent difficult but doable, experts say
Cutting oil use by 50 percent difficult but doable, experts say
Source: By David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronic;le • Posted: Thursday, January 8, 2015
Photo: Brant Ward / The Chronicle. State-of-the-art solar panels pick up the afternoon sun on the rooftop of DPR Construction in San Francisco, which has moved into the first "zero net energy" office building in the city. The building was renovated to produce as much energy as it uses over the course of a year.
Gov. Jerry Brown's goal of cutting California's oil use in half may sound like an impossible task in a state famous for freeways and sprawl.
But by one measure, we may be halfway there.
Similarly, Brown's call for California to get half of its electricity from the sun, the wind and other renewable sources by the year 2030 seems daunting, except that we're already at 25 percent. The state is widely expected to hit 33 percent by 2020, if not sooner.
Many experts consider the ambitious climate and energy goals spelled out by Brown in his inauguration speech Monday to be difficult but doable. Those goals would accelerate changes already under way in California's economy, hastening the state's move away from fossil fuels and toward lower-carbon sources of energy.
"It's eminently achievable," said Simon Mui, director of California vehicles and fuel research at the Natural Resources Defense Council. "We're already doing a lot of it, we know how to do it, and we basically need to be doing more of the same."
As with any big economic shift, some industries will benefit, while others lose out.
Brown's renewable energy target could trigger another boom in the construction of large solar power plants and wind farms within the state. Slashing oil use would boost biofuel producers nationwide — who already count California as one of their prime markets — as well as makers of electric cars and fuel cell vehicles.
The oil industry may view Brown's goals differently.
California is the nation's third-largest oil-producing state, and the industry still enjoys considerable clout in Sacramento. But oil companies and their allies spent much of 2014 trying to roll back or modify some of the state's existing rules to cut oil use and fight climate change, arguing that those rules would send gasoline prices skyrocketing. Instead of listening to them, Brown doubled down, calling for even tougher climate rules.
Oil industry cautious
The oil industry's main lobbying group in Sacramento, the Western States Petroleum Association, reacted with caution to Brown's speech, saying it would work with the governor to develop "solutions that will sustain today's energy and economic realities while protecting both our environment and future energy needs." And industry experts note that even if gasoline demand tumbles within California, the state's refineries can compensate by ramping up exports to Mexico, South America and Asia.
"The refining industry is starting to make its bread and butter on exports, so it's not just how much product they can sell in California," said Amy Myers Jaffe, executive director of energy and sustainability at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management.
Brown used his speech to sketch out a far-reaching vision of how California would generate, deliver and use energy in the future.
He called for solar panels on more rooftops, and the development of electrical "microgrids" that can keep energy flowing for specific towns, facilities or buildings even when the larger grid fails. He envisioned greater use of big batteries and other large-scale energy-storage systems. He called for a smarter and more flexible power grid capable of handling the highly variable output from solar plants and wind farms.
Perhaps no industry had greater reason to cheer his speech than the companies that build large solar power plants.
Their business within California has been driven by government mandates. Current state law forces California utilities to get one third of their electricity from renewable sources by the end of 2020. That requirement triggered a wave of solar plant construction in the Southern California desert, which peaked in the last two years.
But once it became clear that enough plants were under development to meet the 33 percent standard, interest in building more plunged. No one wanted to sink money into another round of billion-dollar plants until they knew whether California would raise the standard and, if so, by how much.
As a result, many of those companies started looking elsewhere for business. Oakland's BrightSource Energy, whose massive Ivanpah solar plant opened last year in the Mojave Desert, has been pursuing projects in China and Israel, said Joseph Desmond, the company's senior vice president for marketing and government affairs. Now that may change.
"A lot of our focus has shifted internationally," he said. "This certainly opens the door for us to explore more of these opportunities here."
Could drive cost down
By prompting more construction, Brown's new goal could help drive down the cost of large-scale solar power. Tom Werner, CEO of SunPower Corp. in San Jose, said utility-size solar installations can already compete directly with fossil fuel generation in California, although solar plants still need a federal tax credit to do so. Take away the credit, he said, and they would reach price parity in two or three years.
"A 50 percent renewable target — it's huge," said Werner, who praised Brown's goals. "It's a very bold, very comprehensive vision."
So far, the drive to increase California's renewable power usage hasn't had a big impact on consumers. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. estimates that the requirement to use more renewable power is raising electricity costs 1 percent to 2 percent each year.
While California has made significant strides in boosting renewable power use, it has put only a dent in gasoline dependence.
Gasoline sales peaked in the state in 2005, and then started a slow slide that ended last year when the surging economy finally pushed sales higher again. Still, they remain about 8 percent below the peak, according to the California State Board of Equalization, which tracks fuel sales through tax receipts.
The state has pushed hard to encourage sales of electric cars, offering drivers a $2,500 rebate. As a result, more than 100,000 electric vehicles drive California's roads, more than in any other state or country. But that's still a small fraction of all vehicles in a state of 38 million people.
And yet, if California implements all of its existing policies regarding vehicles and fuels — not counting any of Brown's proposed targets — the state's oil use should fall more than 20 percent by 2030, according to the California Air Resources Board. Mui, at the Natural Resources Defense Council, estimates the drop at 25 percent.
Some of the cuts will come from a policy called the "low carbon fuel standard," which forces oil companies to cut the "carbon intensity" of the fuels they sell in the state, in part by blending in advanced biofuels. The steadily improving mileage of modern cars also will play a big part, Mui said.
"It's a wonderful thing because automakers have always argued that you're going to reduce people's choices" with tight mileage requirements, he said. "But instead what we're seeing is tremendous innovation in the auto industry."


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Jones, Hank (actually, Henry)
Jones, Hank (actually, Henry), jazz pianist; brother of Thad Jones and Elvin Jones; b. Vicksburg, Miss., July 31, 1918. His sparkling, lyrical gift is evident in his earliest recordings. He was taken in early childhood to Pontiac, Mich, where he studied piano with Pauline Frisbee (later known as the actress Carlotta Franzell). He played gigs while in high school, prior to working in bands in Mich, and Ohio. In 1944 he went to N.Y., where he worked with Hot Lips Page, Andy Kirk, and John Kirby (1945). In 1947, he began long series of tours with "Jazz at the Philharmonic" (including European trips in the 1950s).
From 1948-53, he was Ella Fitzgerald's accompanist; at the same time, he recorded with various artists, including Charlie Parker in 1950. During the late 1950s, he worked on-and-off with Benny Goodman, including a tour of the Orient (1956–57). From 1959-76 he was a staff musician for CBS; during this period also did countless freelance recordings, and also worked in Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Big Band (1966) and did some touring. In 1976-77, he toured and recorded as part of the Great Jazz Trio. He was a pianist and conductor for the Broadway musical Ain't Misbehaviri', based on the music of Fats Waller. He has led his own trio and continues to do prolific freelance work. Through the 1990s, he has made innumerable recordings in countless settings (solo, trio, combo backup for vocalists, etc.). He won the Three Key Award from Int. Jazz Festival of Bern, Switzerland, in 1997.
Hank Jones Piano (1950); Trio (1955); Hank Jones Quartet/Quintet (1955); Bluebird (1955); Trio with Guests (1956); Relaxin' at Camarillo (1956); Have You Met Hank Jones? (1956); Hank Jones Quartet (1956); Talented Touch (1958); Hank Jones Swings "Gigi" (1958); Porgy and Bess (1959); Arrival Time (1962); Here's Love (1963); This Is Ragtime Now (1964); Happenings (1966); Hanky Panky (1975); Solo Piano (1976); Satin Doll (1976); Hank (1976); Arigato (1976); Tiptoe Tapdance (1977); Just for Fun (1977); I Remember You (1977); Great Jazz Trio at the Village (1977); Bop Redux (1977); At the Village Vanguard (1977); Groovin' High (1978); Bluesette (1978); Ain't Misbehavin' (1978); In Japan (1979); Have You Met This Jones? (1979); Great Jazz Trio at the Village (1980); Hello, Hank Jones / Clifford Jordan (1980); Jones-Brown-Smith (1983); Duo (1987); Oracle (1989); Lazy Afternoon (1989); Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, V (1991); Hank Jones Trio (1991); Rockin' in Rhythm (1992); Handful of Keys: The Music of Hank Jones (1993); Upon Reflection—the Music of Thad Jones (1994).
—John Chilton, Who's Who of Jazz/Lewis Porter/Nicolas Slonimsky
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
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Apple boss 'had liver transplant'
Filed under: Latest, Technology News — Tags: Apple, jobs, liver, newspaper, transplant, US, Wall Street Journal — expressyoureself @ 2:53 pm
Steve Jobs had taken medical leave until the end of June
Apple boss Steve Jobs received a liver transplant about two months ago and is expected to return to work later this month, a US newspaper has reported.
The Wall Street Journal said the Apple chief executive would be returning to his job on schedule, but may initially work part-time.
Neither Mr Jobs nor a company spokeswoman confirmed the report, the newspaper said.
Mr Jobs ceased his normal management role more than five months ago.
In January, he announced that he was being treated for a "hormone imbalance", and had been losing weight throughout 2008.
Mr Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976. He left in 1985, before returning in 1997 and becoming full-time chief executive in 2000.
He is seen to have played a crucial role in Apple's growth.
The company's share price has recently risen and fallen in step with rumours or news about his health.
He has already survived a pancreatic cancer that was diagnosed in 2004.
Investors cautious amid turmoil
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Asian share prices have continued to fall as confidence remains low
European stocks rise in cautious trade as Lloyds TSB's takeover of UK lender HBOS dispelled some of the gloom hanging over financial markets.
Asian shares had earlier fallen sharply on fears that more companies could fall victim to the global financial crisis.
London's FTSE 100 index was up 0.8% at 4,951 points shortly after the open and France's main stock index rose 0.6%.
In Asia, Tokyo's Nikkei share index dropped by 2% while Hong Kong's main stock index slid by 7%.
Share indexes in Shanghai, Taiwan and India fell by between 3 and 5%.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index dropped below the 17,000 mark and Australian shares closed 4% lower.
On Wednesday, the Dow Jones index of leading US stocks fell by more than 4%.
Flight to safety
Brokers in Japan say the markets are in freefall because investors fear the US government's efforts to stop the turmoil in the financial system are not working.
As a result, investors are looking for safer places to put their money than stocks and shares.
Traders saw plummeting shares on Wall Street on Wednesday
Many Japanese institutions have assets insured by AIG, the insurance company that was rescued by the US government on Tuesday.
And in Singapore, for the second day running, hundreds of AIG policyholders queued up outside its offices trying to surrender or cancel policies they fear could turn out to be worthless.
Feverish speculation
The US Federal Reserve's AIG rescue package followed the collapse earlier this week of 150-year-old US investment bank Lehman Brothers, which sent shockwaves through the world's financial community and sparked a global share price plummet.
Another investment bank, Merrill Lynch, has since been sold off to Bank of America. And in the UK, HBOS is being taken over by Lloyds TSB in a £12.2bn deal.
There has also been feverish speculation about the future of two other leading US banks – Morgan Stanley and Washington Mutual.
The New York Times quoted unnamed sources as saying an auction for Washington Mutual was under way. The Wall Street Journal reported that both banking giant Citigroup and Wells Fargo had expressed an interest in a takeover.
Meanwhile the Reuters news agency reported that Morgan Stanley, the second largest US investment bank in the US which on Wednesday saw a quarter of its value wiped off its share price, had held preliminary takeover talks with Wachovia.
None of the companies involved has made any comment on the speculation and no negotiations can be confirmed.
Banks take action
The Bank of Japan has injected another 1.5 trillion yen ($14.4bn; £7.9bn) into money markets to help stabilise them. Australia took similar steps.
The Japanese central bank's injection was the third consecutive day it had tried to shore up cash markets as the Nikkei trades at a three-year low.
Across Asia, central banks have already pumped $33bn into money markets this week in an attempt to allay investors' concerns and ensure the supply of funds does not dry up.
Lehman reports third quarter loss
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Lehman has suffered heavy losses from the credit crunch
Troubled US bank Lehman Brothers has reported a third quarter net loss of $3.9bn as it unveils radical restructuring plans.
The losses were at the top end of analysts' expectations.
The bank's shares on Tuesday plunged 45% on fears about the state of its financial health.
Korea Development Bank (KDB) has said talks with Lehman Brothers have ended for now with regard to possible investment in the US bank.
KDB said in a statement: "We are announcing that we ended talks at this point in time because of a disagreement over conditions of a transaction and considering domestic and foreign financial market conditions."
State-run KDB said the decision came because of disagreement over terms and current financial market conditions.
Lehman, the fourth-largest US investment bank, had hoped to secure a deal with the Korean fund before announcing its third-quarter earnings.
A Wall Street Journal report said Lehman might be considering selling UK property assets to BlackRock.
US lenders 'face state takeover'
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US mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are set to be put under government control in an attempt to rescue the firms, media reports say.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will outline government plans at a news conference at 1100 (1600 BST).
The move to shore up the shareholder-owned firms, which hold or guarantee half the US mortgage debt, would be the US's largest ever financial bail-out.
In July, Congress approved a plan aimed
at offering them more liquidity.
This followed huge losses by the two firms as result of a big increase in defaults and repossessions in the US housing market.
'Management told'
On Saturday, a senior politician, Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson had told him the government would use its powers to ensure the continued and stable functioning of the companies.
The Washington Post, quoting senior administration sources, said the firms would be put under a legal status known as "conservatorship" which would greatly reduce the value of the two companies' common stock.
This is an event of profound significance for the global economy
BBC Business Editor Robert Peston
Other securities – including company debt and preferred shares – would be guaranteed by the government, the paper added.
The New York Times reported that senior executives at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were informed about the plan on Friday.
The Wall Street Journal said it would include changes in the top management.
There would also be quarterly infusions of cash to keep both firms afloat, the papers say. The total cost to taxpayers is not known but could amount to billions of dollars, they add.
The government was being forced to step in because it was dangerous for the US economy for doubts to persist about the two firms' viability.
Struggling homeowners
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The two contenders for the US presidency, Barack Obama and John McCain, have been briefed on the takeover by Mr Paulson.
"We've got to keep people in their homes," said the Republican candidate, John McCain.
"There's got to be restructuring, there's got to be reorganisation, and there's got to be some confidence that we've stopped this downward spiral," he added, saying that the takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must not benefit executives at the two companies.
The Democratic Party candidate, Barack Obama, said any action should be focused "on whether it will strengthen our economy and help struggling homeowners".
"We must not allow government intervention to protect investors and speculators who relied on the government to reap massive profits," he said, adding "we must protect taxpayers, not bail out the shareholders and management of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac".
On Friday, America's Mortgage Bankers Association reported that at the end of June, about four million homeowners with a mortgage – representing a record 9% – either were behind in their payments or faced repossession.
In the past year, the financial crisis has taken a heavy toll on both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The country's two largest buyers and backers of mortgages lost a combined $3.1bn between April and June.
Both companies say they have the resources to weather the losses, but their shares have fallen sharply on fears that they could go bankrupt as borrowers default.
The rescue plan passed by Congress in July gave the US government the authority to buy shares and offer liquidity to companies to keep them afloat.
Many analysts believe their collapse would be a major shock to the already fragile global financial system.
Together, the two firms own or guarantee about $5.3 trillion worth of home loans – about half the outstanding mortgages in the US.
That is about 25 times as big as the obligations of Northern Rock – which was nationalised by the UK government earlier this year, and twice the size of the UK economy.


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Q: Web Service Architecture: Redis (as cache) & PostgreSQL for persistence I'm developing a Java REST API that uses client data from a postgreSQL database.
The numbers:
. About 600 clients at the beginning
. Some of them doing requests every few seconds
Because clients pay per request, we need to control if their number of successful requests reach their limit, and as querying postgresql data (update the value of 'hitsCounter' field) after every request is bad in terms of performance, we are thinking about implementing a cache system with redis.
The idea:
After a client does his first request, we retrieve his data from postgresql and store it into redis cache. Then work with this cache-data, for example incrementing the 'hitsCounter' key value, till the client stops doing requests.
In parallel, every few minutes a background process persist data from redis cache to db tables, so at the end we have the updated data back to postgresql, and we can deal with them in the future.
I think it obviously increase performance, but I'm not sure about this "background process". An option is to check the TTL of the cache elements and if it's minor than some value (it means client has finished doing requests), persist the data.
I would love to hear some opinions about this. Is this a good idea? Do you know some better alternatives?

A: Perfectly reasonable idea, but you've not mentioned any measurements you've made. What is the bottleneck in your target hardware with your target transaction levels? Without knowing that, you can't say.
You could use an unlogged table perhaps. Just insert a row with every query, then summarise every 5 minutes, clearing out old data. Then again, with HOT updates, and say 75% fill-factor maybe updates are more efficient. I don't know (and nor do you) we haven't measured it.
Not enough? Stick it on its own tablespace on ssd.
Not enough? Stick it on its own vm/machine.
Not enough? Just write the damn stuff to flat files on each front-end box and batch the data once a minute into the database.
Also - how much are they paying per query? Do you care if power fails and you lose five seconds of query logs? Do you need to be able to reproduce receipts for each query with originating details and a timestamp?

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Reading request: more than a friendship?
I'm currently feeling trapped in a relationship with a friend.
When we met about 2 years ago, we hit it off pretty good and more than feelings of friendship started to develop even though she was in a relationship already (and still is). When things started to get out of hand we tried to talk things over and start a very close friendship. The problem is that we never really did talk about our feeling, just skim the surface a bit.
From that point on we did start a friendship, but it seems like we grow apart a little more each day.
We do have some good times together, but I always get the feeling we're not making the most of it (as if emotion/feelings are left out of the interaction).
I've been trying to get her to open up on this subject so things can finally be put behind us, but I always seem to hit a wall when I try.
I'm a gemini man born on 06/20/1984 in Holland and she's a leo female born on 08/17/1980 (also NL).
Any inside is greatly appreciated.
He is a virgo born september 2nd 1992!
Hello mimi, thank you for your offer.
If you could do that for me that would be great, might give me some new insight.
they are 09:27pm for me and 10:28am for her (not sure if it's needed :D).
k mordana. i will do the 7 card spread for you. the first card is your concern, the second is the immediate past,the third immediate future,forth your state of mind,fifth obstacle,sixth is help,and seventh is the outcome.
as this is an extremely positive card,the reversed position only indicates delays or glitches. what you planned for on the mental plane may not come into manifestation on the physical plane as quickly as you had hoped,and this may be causing frustration and tension.
this card suggests you may be in for a surprise,perhaps a nasty one. nonetheless,youre affirming your new self-concept whether youve told others about it or not.
youve got the upper hand over a tricky situation,but you still need to exercise caution in handling affairs. discretion and discrimination are required,as are diplomacy and evasive tactics. you may not like this approach,but youll be more likely to achieve success this way.
youre struggling to gain your own in a situation thats difficult and that may be harmful to your ultimate good. as a result,youre experiencing an upsurge fron your inner,instinctive nature thats calling upon you to pay attention to your needs instead of following the orders of others. its a time of travail,but youll eventually overcome the difficulties and come out on top. others may think youre behaving in a way that seems to be illogical or contrary to what is normal or generally accepted. regardless,your basic instincts of survival say this is a time for a change and expressing your individuality.
youre experiencing success and plenty,and a time of merriment and celebration is at hand. your feelings,which may have been murky before,are clearer now,and you understand your emotional patterns in a positive way. youre on your way now to great things.
this 5 is a warning that money may soon be very tight,that losses may ensue from ill-adviced investments,or that support you had counted on wont be forthcoming,such as a grant,legacy or job. in some cases,it advises you to ask for help-from other people or the universe.
I can definitely understand to the whole impatience thing. That has always been one of my issues.
It's like I skip to the end of most situation and/or phases in my life really fast (mentally) and then start waiting for the rest to catch up ... thus not enjoying the time to get there.
This also applies to the obstacle, which is one of the things I'm desperately trying to break free of ever since this whole ordeal started. I've been in several situations during my life where I ended up putting others before myself. That's where I stop being myself, which leads to cutting myself of emotionally ... at least to most of the outside world.
Captain, do you have any comments on this?
Mordana, there is a karmic tie here that was previously very close and it still draws you two together. But you both remember on a subconscious level that you were former siblings and this makes the present association uncomfortable and awkward on a deeper level of consciousness. Your sexual feelings for each other can seem wrong and engender guilt yet the strong tie here makes you also want to be together.
So there is a strong push away-pull together kind of connection. But the reason you were so drawn together was to reconcile the differences you had in the past life when things became very combative and destructive between you. There may still be evidence of that here today. However, this lifetime you must allow for the fact that, though you are so alike in many ways, you do have different atittudes and motivations. You must create a workable relationship this time around and resolve all conflict.
Basically you two are here to make peace with each other and then go your separate ways, having completed a cycle of evolution begun in the past lifetime. Don't leave any enmity between you when you part or the cycle will continue past its 'used-by' date.
This makes a lot of sense as I've always felt I knew her all my life from the moment I met her.
I've been trying to work this out as it was just too strong of a feeling to just let go, you know.
You're so right on the push & pull connection, that's exactly what's been happening between us.
At times (when my mind was still too clouded to see what was going on outside my head) this could really put me down and even STARTED to hate her (and even more so myself) for not being as open to a good deep conversation so we could put these things that happened behind us. I would come out of this state until I hit that same wall again a while after.
I'm not a hateful person (but an impatient one tho :P) but I could get really angry with myself for not even trying to talk to her on a deeper level. I always figured she had to come forward since I felt as an intruder whenever I did try to talk to her, cause whenever I did it seemed she already had her mind made up about what was going to be said (my feelings for her) compared to just trying to find a workable solution to our situation. After a couple of tries I just started to give up a bit and started waiting for her to be ready to talk, which of course never happened. She repeatedly says I would go in to deep even though I tried really hard not to. In the end I've always beat around the bush instead of just saying what I wanted to say (I've always had trouble with this from early childhood).
Recently I've become less restless about the situation and this long overdue talk might be just around the corner.
Mimi can you please help me before I lose my sanity and turn to something drastic?! I have a friend who I have been close to for the last 4 years. She and I are both Capricorns. Her bday is the 5th, mine is the 12th. She is 4 years older than I am. We have so very much in common and she truly has been the only friend I have had in the last several years. Long story short w/out going into so many details, she has done an about face on me and refuses to talk to me or have anything to do w/me. I have confronted her for explanations to no avail. I am absoultely miserable, lonely and would do anything to have her back. I fear the friendship is over but refuse to believe it. Can you tell me please, if its over how in the hell do I stop hurting so badly. Or is it that she just needs time to resolve whatever it is she is going through before she starts talking to me again. I am lost, confused and wish at times I would just die to stop hurting. Please help me! Im begging you. I have nobody, absolutely nobody to talk to about this and anyone that knows her refuses to speak to me about her and why she is behaving this way towards me. I am losing control.


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Q: Склеить, объединить фото (jpeg карта) Есть много файлов одной карты COLUMN_LINE.jpeg все файлы одинакового размера - 256х256 px.
Как их можно склеить в один файл jpeg?
P.S.:
Если входные файлы 001_001.jpeg 001_002.jpeg 002_001.jpeg 002_001.jpeg, то полученный map.jpeg будет 512х512 px.

Простите, пожалуйста. Может я не достаточно явно описал проблему.
Уточняю: входных файлов может быть очень МНОГО (например 100х100=10 000 изображений). И надо запусть это на 4 ГБ RAM (ну учитывая, что и система должна как-то работать).

На 10 000 не тестил. Просто загрузить такое количество картинок напряжно. Но поделюсь кодом с помощью которого произвел склейку.
И еще я напутал - у меня .png,а не .jpeg. Но принцип тот же. Разница есть, но кому надо разберетесь.
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Drawing;

class IMGhelper
{
    public int NeedCOLUMN; // я знаю сколько должно быть колонок
    public int NeedLINE; // я знаю сколько должно быть строк
    // потому что я сначала задал программе скачать это кол-во колонок и строк

    private string[,] m_filesExist; // тут будут хранится пути ко всем картинкам

    private void getFiles() // будьте осторожны! Этот метод работает в МОИХ условиях
    // У вас тут может выпасть ИСКЛЮЧЕНИЕ!
    {
        m_filesExist = new string[NeedCOLUMN, NeedLINE];
        string[] dirs = Directory.GetFiles(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "Map\\", "*.png"); // маленькие картинки в папке Map
        foreach (string dir in dirs)
        {
            // мои файлы называются ххх_ххх.png (например 017_010.png)
            string[] tmp = Path.GetFileName(dir).Split('.')[0].Split('_');

            int col = int.Parse(tmp[0]); // тут 017
            int row = int.Parse(tmp[1]); // тут 010
            m_filesExist[col, row] = dir;
        }
    }

    public void ImgCombine()
    {
        readFiles();
        // Создаем новый image нужного размера (это будет объединенный image)
        Image img = new Bitmap(256 * NeedCOLUMN, 256 * NeedLINE);// у меня каждое изображение 256x256 px

        // Делаем этот image нашим контекстом, куда будем рисовать
        Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(img);

        // рисуем существующие маленькие image в созданный нами большой image
        for (int c = 0; c < NeedCOLUMN; c++)
        {
            for (int r = 0;r < NeedLINE; r++)
            {
                g.DrawImage(Image.FromFile(m_filesExist[c,r]), new Point(256*c, 256*r));
            }
        }

        // Записываем обобщенный image в файл рядом с исполняемым файлом

        img.Save("output.png", System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png);
    }
}

И вызов
static void Main(string[] args)
{
    IMGhelper IH = new IMGhelper();
    //у меня 600 изображений из них должно получится 20 колонок и 30 строк
    IH.NeedCOLUMN = 20;
    IH.NeedLINE = 30;

    IH.ImgCombine();
}

A: Примерно так:

*

*Создаёшь Bitmap нужного размера

*Graphics.FromBitmap

*По нужным координатам рисуешь куски через Graphics.DrawImageUnscaled

*Сохраняешь Bitmap в файл


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.htaccess not in the right directory. Got it there. We're good.
And I still need help importing my previous database.
Also, how do I get the forum homepage to be "politicalwrinkles.com" and not "politicalwrinkles.com/index.php"?
I just tried to upgrade to 3.8.7...Everything LOOKED like it went...No errors.
I remembered NOT to actually upload the "upload" directory...Just upload everything IN IT to the default directory. I fixed that.
In order to clean it up, my host had to clean off the server and upgrade its software, so it's like I'm installing the forum on a clean slate.


Shallots are similar to onions, slightly sweeter and milder. They're great in stir-fries and creamy pasta sauces. If you're roasting a joint of meat, pop some shallots in the pan too and they'll go soft, fantastic with red meat and roast potatoes.
Our shallots come from Sjaak Twisk and his family farm in Biddinghuizen. They've been organic for more than 25 years, providing a haven for all the wildlife in the area. In the summer Sjaak's cows graze in the lush nature reserve surrounding the farm and in the winter they are housed in the stables which have recently been rebuilt with solar cells on the roof. These solar cells provide a sizeable chunk of the energy used on the farm. Green all round.
Shallots have a delicate flavour, less intense than most onions and they also dissolve easily into liquids, which is why they are favoured for sauces. Skin shallots in the same way as onions, i.e. top and tail them and then peel off the outer skin. Pull apart the bulbs. Slice them carefully and thinly using a sharp knife - shallots are so small, it is easy to slip and cut yourself. When cooking them whole, fry over a very gentle heat without browning too much. Suitable for home freezing.


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