Mipso performs 'When I'm Gone' Mipso - "Take Your Records Home (D.C. Sessions)" Mipso - Carolina Calling Mipso - "People Change (D.C. Sessions)" Mipso - "Edges Run (D.C. Sessions)"
Since then, Mipso has performed over 300 shows and welcomed frequent collaborator Libby Rodenbough's voice and fiddle to the fold – and has continued to grow as musicians and songwriters, while drawing continual inspiration from their rich North Carolina roots. Their new album, Old Time Reverie – produced by Man dolin Orange's Andrew Marlin – is a reflection of that musical and personal growth: a gripping, mature sophomore release that finds the quartet expanding their sonic resources while doubling down on their experimentation with string band tradition.
While the instrumentation on the acclaimed Dark Holler Pop embraced North Carolina's bluegrass heritage head-on, Old Time Reverie finds Mipso shifting their focus away from bluegrass, introducing new instruments and textures to create a distinctly different sound. Clawhammer banjo out of 1920s early country music meets atmospheric electric organ (played by Josh Oliver of The Everybodyfields) more native to 1970s pop. Add imaginative songwriting and a group cohesion gained from two years of near-constant touring, and the resulting sound is powerfully rhythmic, lyrically sharp, and woven with beautiful four-part harmonies.
Before forming Mipso, Jacob Sharp (mandolin), Joseph Terrell (guitar), Wood Robinson (bass), and Libby Rodenbough (fiddle) were just classmates at UNC-Chapel Hill, where the experience of singing together in harmony drew them together. The sound of their blended voices remains one of the band's hallmarks. Since those college jam sessions, the four have entered a new phase of life, one where the work of making music – and the work of living – has become a more complicated affair. Many of the songs on Old Time Reverie grapple with the moral ambiguity that comes with keeping hope in a difficult world and making sense of its contradictions.
These songs, after all, were born in the South and reflect its modern day complexity. "Our progressive college town shares a county with lots of old tobacco barns and farms and churches from the eighteenth century," guitarist Joseph Terrell said. "We've chosen to stick around in this place where we're rooted, to reckon with and learn from its contradictions."
At times, the task seems doomed: "Everyone Knows" grapples with a world that is essentially "cold and dark," "Mama" explores the enduring scars of loss; "Marianne" follows an interracial couple's struggle to love one another against their community's disapproval. But if Old Time Reverie conjures a dark vision of the world, it also meditates on points of radiance. Even the wary narrator in "Father's House" can see "a light on the porch." The album closer "Four Train," too, is a crinkled smile at the end of a weary day, describing love as "like a stain that won't come out" or "like a flame that won't burn out" – or perhaps as both.
In both theme and temperament, the album finds an interplay between the sunrise and the twilight – a tug-of-war that's itself an old-time tradition. From "Eliza," a lively waltz-time romp, to "Bad Penny," a surrealist dream sequence with an Abe Lincoln cameo, the album revels in the seesaw spectrum of experience and memory, where technicolor carnival hues blend with grown-up sadness and the whispers of ghosts. Mipso's color palette, like its soundscape, is radically inclusive.
"We come from a place where traditional music is a living, changing thing," fiddle player Libby Rodenbough said. "So we feel like having an ear for all kinds of stuff is not only true to ourselves, it's a nod to the tradition." Call it what you will – to listen is to understand: it's either unlike anything you've heard before or effortlessly familiar. By digging deeper and expanding further, Mipso have created their own dark daydream of Southern Americana: Their Old Time Reverie.
Americana artist Jason Scott was raised in the land of boots, bolo ties, and burial grounds; bred on the Bible and shielded from most secular entertainment. His seemingly distant memory of that Oklahoma City childhood is a mosaic of tattered song books, equal parts fire and brimstone, and sneaking off to his uncle's '79 Ford Bronco to listen to Conway Twitty tapes. Back then, an outside observer might have predicted Scott would grow up to be a preacher. But, Scott himself knew better: he was meant to make music, and a lot of it.
Scott, now 33, has an enviable knack for earworm melodies that wrap warmly around his life-pondering lyrics. He's a skilled multi-instrumentalist quickly becoming known for his unrelenting, sweat-soaked performances. Scott is a producer, an engineer, and an in-demand session musician who in 2018 produced albums for Americana artists Carter Sampson, Ken Pomeroy, and Nellie Clay. In 2017 he co-produced his own 5-song debut EP Living Rooms with fellow Americana Okie Travis Linville. Scott is currently on tour with his fiery four-piece band delivering songs from Living Rooms and showcasing new material that will be on his long awaited first full-length album to be released in 2019. Scott self-released Living Rooms on his personal ON studios label and does most of his recording at ON studios, the home workspace he built. It's pronounced "Owen" studios, named after the eldest of Scott's two sons.
He is a member of the Americana Music Association and a BMI-licensed writer.
Scott recently earned a global tip of the hat from NPR Music when they spotlighted his song "She Good To Me" on World Cafe's Heavy Rotation: 10 Songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing alongside cuts by MGMT, Moby, and Jade Bird. The breezy mandolin-and-brushes gem is a tribute to Scott's wife of nine years and is part of the Living Rooms EP.
Scott's brag-worthy band features legendary Oklahoma percussionist Michael Byars, Kangwa Mundende on stand-up and bass guitar, and guitarist Gabriel Mor.
Living Rooms is available now on vinyl and CD at JasonScottMedia.com, Apple, Amazon, and Spotify. Please visit JasonScottMedia.com and follow him on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.


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D.E.W.I.E.N.E.R.S., auch DeWieners, gegründet im Jahr 2000, ist eine Wiener Hip-Hop-Formation. Bekannt wurden DeWieners durch ihre generationen- und stilübergreifenden Auftritte mit der Jazz-Combo um Saxophonisten Hans Salomon und Gitarristen Rens Newland. Den drei MCs von DeWieners, ScOOp, StePh und Sweat-On geht es um eine Fusion der in Hip-Hop-Rhythmik geformten deutschsprachigen Lyrik mit Jazz-Elementen (Jazz-Rap). "DeWieners verbinden Hip-Hop, Funk und Jazz" heißt es daher auch in den Lyrics zu ihrem Track D.e.W.i.e.n.e.r.s. auf ihrem Album Fastbreak.

Auftritte
Crossover-Experimente von Rappern mit Live-Bands sind in der Hip-Hop-Szene umstritten. Der Platzbedarf und der technische Aufwand sind speziell bei Auftritten mit Jazz-Formationen mit ihren verschiedenen Musik- und Percussioninstrumenten hoch. Trotzdem spielten DeWieners immer wieder in kleinen und kleinsten Clubs.

Veröffentlichungen
Im Jahr 2004 brachten DeWieners ihren ersten Tonträger auf Vinyl heraus, ein knapp 40-minütiges Album, auf dem nicht nur private Erfahrungen, sondern auch politische Eindrücke und Meinungen textlich verarbeitet wurden. "Die Wortketten handeln nicht nur von Sportwetten, sondern nehmen auch Politikerschmähs und die Gesellschaft an sich ins reimende Visier", schrieb dazu der Musikkritiker Manfred Horak: "Die Band hat Charme (no na, sind ja auch Wiener), die Kombination aus Rap & Jazz ist, wenn auch nix Neues, eine erfreuliche Synthese."

Diskografie
 2003: Fastbreak (Album, CD/LP, Jive Music, Eigenvertrieb)
 2007: Splash (Album, CD, Jive Music, Hoanzl)

Weblinks
 DeWieners im FM4-Soundpark

Hip-Hop-Gruppe
Österreichische Band
Band (Wien)

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Every Saturday she wakes up in a terrible mood. She is rude to her mum, nasty to her brother and snaps at anything they say to her.
All day, when her mum asks her what's wrong she tells her she doesn't want to go to her Dads house, she hates her Dads house, she hates going for walks and she hates her dog. She hates cooking and she has to cook, she hates doing chores that her Dad makes her do. She doesn't want to have to talk to her brother and she hates her mum for making her go every week. She is the worst mum ever.
Her mum spent the whole day yesterday trying to remind her daughter that she likes her Dad, that she loves her dog and that cooking is her favourite activity so her Dad is probably being nice telling her to cook. She was knocked back at every sentence.
Her mum knows however that she doesn't hate those things. She doesn't dislike going to her Dads house. She just gets overwhelmingly anxious at the thought of all those demands and the fact she is out of control and has no choice about going or what she does when she gets there.
All day she worries about having to go and having to do things and having to mask when she gets there, and this comes out in grumpiness, meanness and shouting. It also means that her mum struggles to do anything at all with her kids on a Saturday.
She tried to avoid the demand of going yesterday by spending the day saying, quite strongly, that she wasn't going. She shouted, kicked, slammed doors and cried about how much she hates it and doesn't want to go. She tried hating her mum because she was making her go. She tried making her brother the reason she couldn't go. She tried this all day.
Then at five O'clock her mum had a breakthrough. She came up with a very risky tactic and she gave her the choice. She said "you can stay here if you like" She told her that on Sunday she would just be food shopping and she was more than welcome to come.
She then immediately calmed down. She went from trying to hit everything in sight to lying in her mums lap with tears streaming down her face. She started to say that maybe she could stay at home for the night and go to her Dads in the morning instead. Her mum knew for sure at this point that she wanted to go and that she had calmed down because her mum took away the demand of going by telling her she could stay. She then tried to take control of the situation by changing the plan.
Her mum explained to her then, that her Dad really wanted to see her as he hadn't seen her for two weeks and that he was making her some dinner so it might make him a bit sad if she decided not to go for the night. She still offered her the choice but told her she wouldn't be having much for her dinner and her Dads might be better. She still had the choice so the demand was lessened but she also knew she should choose to go so there was more demand. She had accepted she should go and dealt with this new demand by changing her avoidance tactics.
By this time her Dad was waiting outside in the car, her brother had already gone and she was demand avoiding to the extreme. She needed to find socks, she needed to de-fluff the socks before she took ten minutes to put them on. She needed to brush her teeth, pack another bag, find a moisturiser, put on her shoes and get her mum to check the size of her shoes. It wasn't until her brother distracted her by texting to tell her that her Dad had a new car and did she want to go and see it, that she actually managed to leave.
Again, he had put the control back in her hands and taken away the demand. It changed from having to go to her Dads, to she could go and see her Dad's new car if she wanted to. She read the text and happily declared that she was going now and that she loved her mum.
Her mum text her an hour later to check she was alright and she replied that she was fine. Her mum knows for a fact she will come home today, as she normally does, saying she had a good time.
This is PDA and this is their Saturday every week!
What a difficult situation to face each week. It's a good thing Mum (and Dad, and brother) are patient and understanding.
It can be very hard!
I feel that in your writing.
Parenting can be bloody hard at times, can't it?
You are so right! It really can!


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Jacques Pierre Soyez, baron de Beauchesne (Beauchêne), né le  à Lisieux (Calvados), mort le  à Verdun-sur-Meuse (Meuse), est un militaire français de la Révolution et de l'Empire.

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Il entre en service le , comme fusilier au régiment de Poitou, il passe le , dans une compagnie de grenadiers et il obtient son congé pour entrer comme capitaine dans la garde nationale active le .

Le , il commande le  bataillon des Fédérés Nationaux, et il fait les campagnes de 1792 à l'an IX aux armées du Nord, de l'Ouest, de Sambre-et-Meuse, d'Allemagne, d'Helvétie, du Danube et du Rhin.

Le , il est chargé par le général Ney, avec le  bataillon de la  demi-brigade de ligne, d'arrêter la marche de l'ennemi qui s'avance rapidement sur Winterthour. Il soutient longtemps avec succès les efforts Autrichiens, mais pressé par le nombre et menacé d'être bientôt enveloppé, il parvient par une manœuvre habilement combinée, non seulement à se tirer de cette position difficile, mais encore à prendre 2 pièces de canon dont l'ennemi s'était emparé, à lui faire 500 prisonniers et à le mettre complètement en déroute, ce qui assure les arrières de la division. Le 16 du même mois, le général en chef Masséna lui confie la défense, avec son bataillon, de l'entrée de la ville de Zurich, lui ordonnant de tenir dans ce poste jusqu'à la dernière extrémité. Vigoureusement attaqué à plusieurs reprises par des forces infiniment supérieures, il repousse constamment les Autrichiens qui, après avoir éprouvé des pertes considérables, sont obligés de se retirer en désordre. Le commandant Soyez perd dans cette affaire plus de la moitié de son bataillon.

Le , le général Ney lui prescrit d'occuper, avec son unité, un plateau au-dessus de Haag en Bavière, afin de soutenir la retraite de la division. Soyez, malgré le feu meurtrier de l'ennemi, ne quitte sa position que pour opérer lui-même sa retraite dans le plus grand ordre, à travers les rangs autrichiens. Il reçoit pendant l'action un coup de feu à la cuisse gauche.

En l'an X et en l'an XI, il est employé sur les côtes de la Méditerranée, et il est nommé major du  régiment d'infanterie de ligne le . Il est fait chevalier de la Légion d'honneur le , et il sert au camp de Brest pendant les ans XII et XIII.

Il est promu colonel au  régiment d'infanterie de ligne le , et il participe à la campagne de Pologne à la tête de son régiment. En 1808, il est affecté au corps d'observation d'Allemagne, et il obtient la croix d'officier de la Légion d'honneur le .

Rattaché aux armées d'Espagne et de Portugal de 1809 à 1811, il est créé baron de l'Empire le . Le , il est appelé au commandement du camp de prisonniers de Verdun, et il meurt dans l'exercice de ses fonctions le .

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On This Day … 08 June
218 – Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus.
793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.
1042 – Edward the Confessor becomes King of England – the country's penultimate Anglo-Saxon king.
1191 – Richard I arrives in Acre, beginning his crusade.
1663 – Portuguese victory at the Battle of Ameixial ensures Portugal's independence from Spain.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: American attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.
1794 – Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
1856 – A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys: Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
1918 – A solar eclipse is observed at Baker City, Oregon by scientists and an artist hired by the United States Navy.
1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
1940 – World War II: The completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign.
1941 – World War II: The Allies commence the Syria-Lebanon Campaign against the possessions of Vichy France in the Levant.
1942 – World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
1959 – USS Barbero and the United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
1966 – An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no.2, destroying both aircraft during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA test pilot, and Carl Cross, a US Air Force test pilot, are both killed.
1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
1972 – Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.
1982 – Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: Fifty-six British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
1987 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
1995 – Downed US Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by US Marines in Bosnia.
2014 – At least 28 people are killed in an attack at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, Pakistan.
Earliest day on which Queen's Birthday can fall, while June 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in June. (Australia, except Western Australia and Queensland).
Bounty Day (Norfolk Island).
People (Births)
1831 – Thomas J. Higgins, Canadian-American sergeant, Medal of Honour recipient (d. 1917).
1903 – Ralph Yarborough, American colonel and politician (d. 1996).
1918 – Robert Preston, American captain, actor, and singer (d. 1987).
1918 – John H. Ross, American captain and pilot (d. 2013).
1919 – John R. Deane, Jr., American general (d. 2013).
1921 – LeRoy Neiman, American soldier and painter (d. 2012).
1921 – Suharto, Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (d. 2008).
1943 – William Calley, American military officer.
1943 – Willie Davenport, American hurdler (d. 2002).
1949 – Hildegard Falck, German runner.
1955 – Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
1964 – Butch Reynolds, American runner and coach.
People (Deaths)
1651 – Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shōgun (b. 1604).
1845 – Andrew Jackson, American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767).
1924 – George Mallory, English lieutenant and mountaineer (b. 1886).
1945 – Karl Hanke, Polish-German soldier and politician (b. 1903).
1951 – Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1874).
1951 – Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892).
1998 – Sani Abacha, Nigerian general and politician, 10th President of Nigeria (b. 1943).
2009 – Omar Bongo, Gabonese captain and politician, President of Gabon (b. 1935).
2013 – Paul Cellucci, American soldier and politician, 69th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1948).
2015 – Chea Sim, Cambodian commander and politician (b. 1932).
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Already in the 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs, 28 defencemen have scored at least one goal. It's a fair question to wonder if the Vancouver Canucks were part of the post-season picture would that total be any different? Logic would suggest that if the Canucks were in the playoffs, they'd be a much better team and likely would have addressed one of their most-glaring weaknesses: offensive contributions from their defence.
Head coach Travis Green made it abundantly clear at his year end media availability two weeks ago that increased offence from the blue-line is one of his priorities for the Canucks next season. However, saying it is one thing. Making it happen is something altogether different. Last season, the Canucks defence scored 21 goals and added 101 assists. The goal total was down by one from the previous season, but the overall point production was up by 11.
Alex Edler led all Canucks defencemen with 34 points while he and Michael Del Zotto shared the goal-scoring lead with a modest six goals apiece. As a group, the Canucks blue-line managed just eight road goals all season, or one every 10 games. It's not enough and it hasn't been for some time now.
When you examine the defencemen on the roster and try to figure out who has more to give offensively, one name stands out above the others: Ben Hutton. Coming off a highly disappointing no goal, six assist campaign, Hutton's point totals have dropped from 25 as a rookie to 19 a year ago to six this past season. But in order to produce, Hutton has to be in the line-up and his struggles in that regard and his battle to earn the trust of the head coach are well documented.
Based on a healthy line-up, Hutton likely projects as the seventh defenceman to start next season with Edler, Del Zotto and Derrick Pouliot ahead of him on the left side and Chris Tanev, Erik Gudbranson and Troy Stecher on the right side.
But coming back with the same players and simply hoping for a notable uptick in offensive production seems like a bad gamble. The right side of the defence as constructed offers next to no offence and very little hope of any kind of spike in production.
Obviously, the Canucks would address many of their needs if they win the Rasmus Dahlin sweepstakes on Saturday. But based on past lotteries, they should probably have a solid Plan B in place. And unless they are picking second or third overall, it seems almost certain that the Canucks will come out of this year's draft with one of the many available top tier defensive prospects. However, it's unlikely any of that next group of defencemen taken after Dahlin will step into an NHL line-up in the fall.
That's where the idea of chasing Washington's John Carlson as an unrestricted free agent makes perfect sense for the Canucks. A 28-year-old right-hander who led all NHL defencemen in scoring with 15 goals and 68 points this season, including four power play goals and 32 power-play points, would seemingly fit the bill on many levels. However, there is no guarantee Carlson makes it to the open market, nor is there any indication that he would have interest in the Canucks. Carlson is going to get paid regardless where he goes so it's not as simple as throwing a ridiculous sum of money at him. The Canucks will have to pitch him on the city, the role he'd play here and the opportunity he'd have to run a power play with the likes of Brock Boeser and Elias Petterson. And there's still a strong chance none of that would get the deal done.
So that's where the Canucks need to get creative this off-season and look at transforming their defence via the trade route. While the organization may have missed the window for maximizing the return on a Chris Tanev deal, they still have to explore that idea. There is still significant value in the oft-injured blue-liner and these playoffs have shown there are teams that could certainly use his services. But it can't stop at just moving Tanev.
Taking one piece, that only played half the games last season, out of the equation won't solve the Canucks issues on defence. While they'd be selling low on Hutton, they should explore that avenue, too, if the coach won't play him. And perhaps the team should even look to move on from Erik Gudbranson although that seems unlikely after Jim Benning traded for the big blue-liner two summers ago and then reaffirmed that commitment to him with a new three-year/$12 million dollar extension in February.
What the Canucks have assembled as a defensive group isn't working for them. As a team, the Canucks finished 26th in the league defensively averaging 3.16 goals against per game while yielding 32.2 shots against per game. And as a group the offensive issues are clear for all to see.
Returning the same collection of defencemen next season simply cannot be an option for a team claiming it wants to see a marked improvement in that area. More of the same will simply lead to more of the same, and it's hard to imagine anyone has an appetite for that.


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Can Stray Dogs Understand Human Gestures? – Know Everything About It
Byjayesh3825
Stray Dogs & Human Gestures – Know Everything About It
If you are a dog owner you can find that your dog can understand a wide range of commands and gestures. What do you think is this ability are learned exclusively through training?
To find the answer to this question a new Psychology investigating team in Frontiers has started studying the behavior of stray dogs.
They found that around 80% of the stray dogs despite of any training are able to understand the human commands and pointing gestures. This shows that a dog can understand the human gestures without receiving any prior training. This could give suggestions towards more friendly nature between stray dogs and human being.
Dogs were tamed 10,000-15,000 years prior, likely creating them the most trained creatures on earth. It was not satisfactory whether dogs recognize us through training alone, or whether this was inborn.
Can dogs understand a sign? thats a big question for research here sign means a motion, without any clear training. Stray dogs can respond to human signals?
Lets see it!!
Stray dogs are the common features in most of the developing cities around the globe. Stray Dogs occasionally interact with people and they have never been trained & are behaviorally wild in nature. Conflicts between stray dogs and people are an issue and understanding how people shape stray dogs conduct may help alleviate this.
To examine further, Dr. Anindita Bhadra of the IISER Kolkata, India and fellow mates surveyed the stray dogs in few Indian urban areas. The researchers approached the stray dogs and placed two bowls (covered) on the ground near to them. An analyst among them at that point highlighted one of the two bowls, either immediately or over and over, and recorded whether the dogs moved toward the demonstrated bowl. emotional state of the dogs during the experiment was also recorded by the researchers and analyst.
Almost half of the dogs didn't approach any of the bowl kept on the ground. Further the scientists saw that these dogs were on edge and may have had awful encounters with people previously. It was noted that the dogs who approached the bowls were friendlier and less anxious and around 80% of them correctly followed the pointing signals to one of the bowls, regardless of whether the pointing was momentary or repeated. This actually suggested that the dogs could in fact understand complex signals.
Dr Bhadra stated – They thought it was very stunning that the dogs could follow a motion as dynamic as quick pointing. This means that they closely observe the human, whom they are meeting for the first time, and they use their understanding of humans to make a decision. This shows their intelligence and adaptability.
The outcomes propose that dogs may have an inborn capacity to comprehend certain human motions which rises above training. In may cases it was noticed that the shyer and more on edge creatures tended not to take an interest in any gestures or signs, so future investigations are expected to decide all the more accurately how an individual dog's character influences their capacity to understand human signs.
Dr concluded at last that – Overall, dogs might be more keen than we understand. We have to realize that dogs are smartest creatures that can coexist with us. They are very fit for understanding our non-verbal communication and we have to give them their space. A little sympathy and regard for another species can decrease a great deal of dispute.
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Engaging Thoughts – a Column by Laura Kolaczkowski
There's an App (Maybe Too Many) for That!
by Laura Kolaczkowski | September 14, 2017
How many hours do the pharmaceutical companies think we have in our day? I ask because almost all of them have come up with very slick tools to use, particularly mobile apps, to help us improve our daily lives with MS. Not coincidentally, these apps also provide their companies with important data to improve multiple sclerosis research knowledge.
It seems that every pharmaceutical company has some version of an app that they have either developed under their brand name or have funded through another name. Either way, there are multiple choices out there. I won't say one is better than the other. However, I will say they all have the same irritating problem: They are closed systems, and I'm fairly confident that the data collected in one app will never be seen by anyone other than that app's sponsor.
A sampling of MS apps
I'm prompted to write this because Novartis is the latest MS pharmaceutical company to enter the market of MS apps, with their announcement of elevateMS. If this were the only app in the entire world, then it might be greeted with enthusiasm. But as I see it, this market is already flooded.
Following are a few examples of these apps so you can see that I'm not making this up. All of these are screenshots from the Apple app store and information that is available to the public.
This is elevateMS from Novartis, although the name in the Apple store says Sage Bionetworks.
Biogen says this about its app: "At Biogen, we are devoted to helping people who are living a life with multiple sclerosis (MS). That's the driving force behind all we do, and it's why we've developed MySidekick, to be by your side whenever you need it. MySidekick for MS allows you (or the person you care for) to record mood, energy level, activities, sensations, and memory as often as you like. You can use this tool to help keep track of how you're doing over time."
Advocacy organizations also have entered the app act. The Multiple Sclerosis Association of America has My MS Manager, created by @Point of Care, which also has an MS app. The National MS Society has an information app, and others might have their own apps under development.
Drug trackers and symptom management apps for MS also are available. Teva's Copaxone iTracker is fairly straightforward and a way people can track their injections to stay current with their disease-modifying therapy.
Acorda, the maker of Ampyra, has MS Self, a mash-up of all sorts of data collection and information-sharing.
Or, how about Life and MS from Almirall, a company in Spain that is developing spasticity drugs for MS?
You get the idea of how prolific these apps have become. It was the announcement of the most recent app that made me want to stop and write to these companies and ask them to stop trying to get us to engage with them and their apps. Instead, I want these companies and all the others in the MS app world to engage with each other and come up with one user-friendly app.
Sustainability of MS apps
You are all collecting data from the patient community — sometimes people using these apps don't even know that because reading the fine print is a challenge, and they are innocently filling your files with their personal data. An even bigger question that bothers me is what happens when your company either stops making a drug, a new executive comes in who doesn't like your app, or your drug goes off-patent and becomes available in a generic form? Will your company still support this app? The information you gather has great value, not just to you, but also to the MS research community. What a shame it would be if these apps disappear along with support for keeping the patient supplied mobile health data.
One-size MS app for all
All of these companies need to form a federation among themselves and join forces to make one mega-super-duper app for MS. Select a neutral nonprofit organization, such as the Accelerated Cure Project, to be the neutral site for maintaining the data. ACP is a logical choice because it already has demonstrated the ability to manage a repository of biological samples and patient data. And they understand and practice open-science sharing with researchers.
Without question, the MS market is highly competitive. But there also is a need for pharmaceutical companies to model genuine goodwill to the MS community. Working together could be a huge step in that direction by sharing your resources with each other and with us.
Do you really want to help us with MS and still have our information? Then the path to this is quite simple: Stop the competition and get together with each other and truly support the MS community in an open and sharing way by having one app for this one chronic condition.
Note: Multiple Sclerosis News Today is strictly a news and information website about the disease. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this website. The opinions expressed in this column are not those of Multiple Sclerosis News Today or its parent company, BioNews Services, and are intended to spark discussion about issues pertaining to multiple sclerosis.
Laura Kolaczkowski Laura Kolaczkowski comes from Beavercreek, Ohio, and worked at the University of Dayton for over 25 years until MS challenged her enough to go onto full-time disability. She is active in the MS community on multiple levels, and writes for her own personal blog, InsideMyStory and as a patient expert for MultipleSclerosis.net. Laura is the Lead Patient Representative and co-principal investigator for iConquerMS™, a patient powered MS research network. Laura freely admits her Liberal Arts background fuels her interest in patient engagement and empowerment and she struggles with the science of MS.
Accelerated Cure Project, Acorda, Almirall, Ampyra, apps, Biogen, Copaxone, elevateMS, MS apps, MSAA, NMSS, Novartis, Teva
Great insight into the whole specialty drug app thing! Thank you. I really appreciate your spot-on observation about commercially-driven fragmentation of app data and the potential for it to become lost.


Texas hold em is the most popular poker game in the world. Although little is known about the invention of Texas hold em, the Texas State Legislature officially recognizes Robstown, Texas as the game's birthplace, dating the game to the early 1900s. Despite the existence of more than a 100 years, Texas hold em made an explosion in the first decade of the 21st century. Many observers attribute this growth to the synergy of five factors: the invention of online poker, the game's appearance in film and on television, the 2004–05 NHL lockout, the appearance of television commercials advertising online cardrooms, and the 2003 World Series of Poker championship victory by online qualifier Chris Moneymaker.
During all this time, game have produced many players who chose it as a profession. This is the story about one of them and his challenge.
Chris Ferguson is born on April 11, 1963 as a child of parents who have doctoral degrees in mathematics, while his father, Thomas Ferguson, teaches game theory and theoretical probability at UCLA. Ferguson attended UCLA where he earned a Ph.D. in computer science (focusing on virtual network algorithms). He was playing poker before age 10. In college he honed his skill on IRC playing poker for play money in chat rooms. In 1994, he began playing in tournaments in California and in 1995, he entered his first World Series of Poker. Ferguson beat T.J. Cloutier at the main event of the 2000 WSOP to win the $1.5 million prize. After two finals, 2005. and 2006., In 2008 he made the finals for the third time, this time defeating Andy Bloch and winning the title. He has the most wins in the four-year period of the tournament, with an overall match record of 16-3.
Ferguson's nickname is "Jesus" because of his trademark long brown hair and beard. He is a relatively quiet player who often adopts a characteristic motionless pose in situations where he could be "read".
In 2006. he started an usual challenge to make $10.000 from $0. After 16 months, Chris finally achieved his goal and donated his winnings to the Save the Children Foundation.
So, how the hell he did it?!
He says: "For me, this experiment isn't about the money. It's about showing how, with proper bankroll management, you can start from nothing and move up to the point where you're playing in some pretty big games. I know it's possible because I did it once before, turning $1 into $20,000.
1) I'll never buy into a cash game or a Sit & Go with more than 5 percent of my total bankroll (there is an exception for the lowest limits: I'm allowed to buy into any game with a buy-in of $2.50 or less).
2) I won't buy into a multi-table tournament for more than 2 percent of my total bankroll and I'm allowed to buy into any multi-table tournament that costs $1.
Starting with nothing but a Full Tilt Poker account (he helped launching the site in 2004.), Chris played in Freerolls until he earned enough to graduate to games with real-money buy-ins.
Getting started wasn't easy. In fact, it took more than seven months of steady play until he got his bankroll to stabilize at about $6.50. Undaunted, Chris maintained his discipline and dedication and continued with his challenge. Then, on November 26th, 2006, Chris made a major breakthrough. He turned a $1 tournament buy-in into $104 in prize money when he finished second in a 683-player tournament. Even with that huge bankroll boost, it still took Chris nine more months of hard work to reach $10K. But because he strictly adhered to the bankroll management strategy that he'd set for himself, Chris achieved his goal the following September.


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Chicago Blackhawks 1962-63
The outer mat is a rich textured black acid-free mat with a decorative inset white v-groove, while the inner mat is a complimentary colored acid-free mat reflecting one of the team's primary colors. The website image of this framed piece shows the mat color that we suggest (Red), but since each piece is custom framed, we are happy to use whatever color mat you wish (depending on availability) – our standard mat colors are:
This original, one-of-a-kind watercolor painting of the 1962-63 Chicago Blackhawks jersey is the original artwork that was used in the creation of this Chicago Blackhawks uniform evolution print and tens of thousands of other Chicago Blackhawks products that have been sold across North America. This original piece of art was painted by artist Tino Paolini for Maple Leaf Productions Ltd.
After winning their first Stanley cup in 23 years in 1960-61 the Blackhawks continued to hold their place in the NHL's upper echelon. They finished second, 1 point behind the Maple Leafs who had 82 points. Only 5 points separated the four playoff teams that year; the Habs were in third with 79 and the Red Wings claimed fourth with 77.All-star goalie Glenn Hall's record 502 consecutive games in goal streak comes to end because he his forced to miss an early season game with a pinched nerve. However, the injury proved to nothing more than a minor setback. Hall went on to appear in 66 games and win the Vezina Trophy.Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita again were the offensive stars on the team. Both players finished in the top ten in scoring, with Makita 3rd with 76 points and Hull in 9th with 62 points. If Hull and Makita provided the skill then of Eric Nesterenko, Al MacNeil and Reg Fleming provided the brawn. Between the three of them they served 303 penalty minutes, good enough to land all three in the leagues top ten in PIMs. That said none of them were even close to Detroit's Howie Young who had 273 PIMs.In the playoffs the defending Stanley Cup Champions met the Detroit Red Wings in the first round. The Hawks opened the series with two quick wins on home ice; but the Red Wings fought back and swept the next four games to knock the defending champs out of the playoffs.The home jersey showcased here is similar in design to future road jerseys well into the future (in 1970-71 the NHL would rule that home teams wear light or white jerseys!). Notice the facelift Chief Blackhawk has undergone since the 1957-58 jersey!
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Category: Racial reconciliation
5 Reasons why reparations talk makes white people crazy
April 23, 2019 · 3 Comments ·
"A man with the Bible in one hand and a whip in the other will use the Bible to justify the whip."
Mississippi church issues apology for racism
October 5, 2013 · 2 Comments ·
Two Mississippi pastors, Eric Hankins (left) and Andrew Robinson, have fostered healing between their churches in Oxford, a city that faced racial tumult during the civil rights era. Hankins is pastor of First Baptist Church; Robinson is pastor of Second Baptist Church. Photo by Kevin Bain.
It is easy to be critical of this Baptist Press story. It reflects a rather superficial understanding of racism, and is written from a distinctly white perspective (there is little interest, for instance, in learning how Black Baptists experienced the racist past of Oxford, Mississippi).
On the other hand, the apology issued by First Baptist Church is commendable and remarkably rare. Although the congregation voted to exclude non-white worshipers in 1968, pastor Hankins correctly observes that most Oxford congregations wouldn't have felt the need to put the matter to a vote. This is a small step in the direction of racial reconciliation, but it is a beginning, and for that we should all be thankful.
Mississippi church seeks racial reconciliation
OXFORD, Miss. (BP) — When First Baptist Church in Oxford, Miss., passed a resolution apologizing for its 1968 decision to exclude African Americans from worship services, it opened the door for racial reconciliation in its city.
"I had never seen a church or any organization move that seriously toward repentance and then apologize without any excuse," said Andrew Robinson, pastor of Oxford's historically black Second Baptist Church, a National Baptist congregation that accepted the apology and granted forgiveness. (more…)
The Lion and the Hyena
February 2, 2013 February 2, 2013 · 2 Comments ·
I received this graphic from a Facebook friend. I clicked on "like". My friend probably wondered why. I'm not sure. Something about the image appeals to me. The "conservative" is literally lionized, an invisible force for good. The "liberal" is a scavenger, an impostor, a hyena attempting, in this case unsuccessfully, to feast on the carcass when he didn't make the kill.
I have often felt like the hyena in the picture, a hapless liberal do-gooder confronting the conservative juggernaut. Nonetheless, I feel compelled to mouth off several sentences too many.
Some conservatives would reverse the image. They see themselves as a lion surrounded by a pack of liberal hyenas.
These savanna fantasies obscure more than they illuminate. "Liberal" and "conservative", two grand words with a goodly heritage, are now debased currency. When liberalism is associated with superficiality, debauchery, and profligate sentimentality, who wants to be a liberal? When conservatism becomes a code word for racial bigotry, intolerance and privilege, who wants to be a conservative? (more…)
American slavery persisted until the Second World War
You need to read Douglas A. Blackmon's article on 20th Century slavery in the American South. The evidence, contained in thousands of letters preserved by the National Archive and the NAACP, is irrefutable. But Blackmon says that's just the beginning.
Dwarfing everything at those repositories are the still largely unexamined collections of local records in courthouses across the South. In dank basements, abandoned buildings, and local archives, seemingly endless numbers of files contain hundreds of thousands of handwritten entries documenting in monotonous granularity the details of an immense, metastasizing horror that stretched well into the twentieth century.
We will never know how many African Americans were forced into lifetimes of unpaid servitude under appalling conditions, but Blackmon, who has researched and written a book on the subject, says the numbers are staggering. (more…)
Texas Baptist publication connects Christian faith and racial justice
April 27, 2012 · 1 Comment ·
The Rev. Michael Bell
Ken Camp with The Baptist Standard has an excellent discussion of the relationship between race and faith featuring faith leaders in the Dallas Fort Worth area and beyond. My blogging on the subject is part of the mix, and some strong words from Fort Worth pastor Michael Bell figure in the discussion. It is good to see the intersection of racial justice and Christian faith receive a thorough airing in the Baptist press. Pictures from the civil rights movement of the 1960s demonstrate how far we have come; the typical response of white America to the Travon Martin story shows us how far we have to go. Alan Bean
Race & Faith
By Ken Camp, Managing Editor
A neighborhood watchman in Florida shoots and kills a hoodie-wearing African-American teenager. Two white suspects in Tulsa, Okla., confess to the Easter weekend shooting of five people in a predominantly black neighborhood.
Trayvon Martin Million Hoodie March in New York City was one of many such protest marches conducted in reaction to the shooting of the teen by a neighborhood watchman in Florida. (Photo/Frank Daum)
Periodically, racial tensions that have simmered beneath the surface bubble up, some Christian leaders note, illustrating just how far-removed modern America is from the "beloved community" envisioned by Martin Luther King Jr.
"We can legislate fairness, but we cannot legislate love. That is up to us," said Mark Croston, pastor of East End Baptist Church in Suffolk, Va., and president of the Baptist General Association of Virginia.
Christians must lead by example to improve race relations, he said.
"I believe that all truly Christian churches must be open to racial inclusion and human compassion. We sing, 'Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world. …" This is true, so we must, too," said Croston, an African-American.
Croston points to the vision in the New Testament book of Revelation of people representing every nation, tribe and language worshipping Christ. If Christians are serious when they pray, "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven," he said, they must "with intentionality work toward this reality."
But the heavenly vision seems remote for many, and racial divisions remain a clear and present problem, some observers noted sadly.
Predictable pattern
When stories about racially inspired violence capture public attention, events follow a predictable pattern, said Alan Bean, executive director of Friends of Justice.
Inspired by preachers like Martin Luther King Jr., African-Americans in the early 1960s marched to secure civil rights. But some social observers note King's dream of the "beloved community" still is far from reality, as evidenced by the recent rhetoric surrounding the Trayvon Martin shooting.
"When the status quo is threatened by systemic racial bias, the propaganda machine goes into overdrive. This normally involves the assertion that a liberal media is making excuses for thuggish behavior. If the folks on the receiving end of unjust treatment can be redefined as one of 'those' people, the horrific details no longer matter," Bean, an American Baptist minister in Arlington, wrote in a recent column for Associated Baptist Press.
As the stories gain media attention, he continued, "America quickly divides into protestors claiming that the narrative du jour is a prime example of systemic racism, and debunkers insisting it is nothing of the kind."
The church's role
Historically, African-American churches have played a central role in providing a voice for people who have felt victimized and for exposing racism. In many cities, a particular church or a few churches continue to play a key role as ombudsman in the African-American community, said Michael Bell, pastor of Greater St. Stephen First Baptist Church in Fort Worth.
"It's where people go for direction when they are seeking resolution of difficulties and solutions to their problems," said Bell, a past-president of both the Baptist General Convention of Texas and the Texas African-American Fellowship.
More specifically, African-Americans know which churches are able to do something substantive about their problems, he noted.
"They go to a church where the pastor has a reputation as being a prophetic voice," Bell said. "My church expects me to speak up. I have never received a negative email, text or letter from a church member complaining that I was too involved in community issues outside the church."
Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, is pursued by a mob outside Little Rock's Central High School. (UPI Photo/Library of Congress)
However, in many—perhaps most—predominantly white churches, pastors do not feel that same degree of freedom, he added.
The African-American church has become even more relevant and gained increasing influence as racial tensions have heightened in recent years, Bell insists.
"Distrust and suspicions that had been under the surface have bubbled up. Racism has become more overt and evident in in the last few years," he said, comparing racists to "roaches so bold they don't run from the light anymore."
A cloud of suspicion
Relations between white and blacks, even among Christians, suffer from a failure to address deep-seated issues such as the way African-Americans often are viewed with suspicion—a matter brought to the forefront recently when George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., he observed.
"It's like putting cold cream on cancer. Unattended, the malady will intensify, because it hasn't been addressed. We try to move on without really dealing with it," Bell said.
"We (African-Americans) have a historical memory informed by a hermeneutic of suspicion. Periodically that will come to the surface, and the obvious issues will be addressed. The symptoms will be addressed without dealing with the disease. We won't go beneath the surface. …We fear it will take too much out of us."
Some African-American ministers note the fear young men in their communities feel about being stopped by police for "DWB—driving while black."
White citizens rally at the Arkansas state capitol, protesting the integration of Central High School in Little Rock. (U.S. News & World Report Photo/Library of Congress)
In a video on the American Baptist Home Mission Societies website, Executive Director Aidsand Wright-Riggins appeared in a hoodie to tell stories from his own experience about the cloud of suspicion under which African-American young men live.
Wright-Riggins recalled how he was stopped by police officers—once while knocking on the door of a white church member and once while approaching his own home. He also told how his son was pulled over twice driving between his parents' home and his university dormitory.
"I appeal to all of us, as we look at the millions of persons around us, and particularly those of color—particularly black boys—that we don't make an automatic assessment because they might be dressed differently or look different or somehow feel that they are out of place in our society," he said, "that we relegate them to the margins or, even worse, that we assign them to the morgue."
A troubling divide
The Trayvon Martin case illustrates "a troubling divide in public perception," Bean wrote in a recent blog on the Friends of Justice website.
"On one side of the fault line, people identify with George Zimmerman's suspicion of young black males wearing hoodies. On the other side, folks identify with a victim of racial profiling and vigilante justice," he wrote.
The 1963 March on Washington for civil rights featured blacks marching alongside Christians and Jews. But some social observers note the dream of the "beloved community" still is far from reality, as evidenced by the recent rhetoric surrounding the Trayvon Martin shooting. (RNS FILE PHOTO)
In his opinion column written for Associated Baptist Press, Bean noted: "Real-life narratives are messy because life is messy. Victims of injustice get caught up in the mess. They don't play their roles with the disciplined panache of a Rosa Parks. They talk back; they fight back; they come out swinging. And that's when bad things happen. That's when the tragedy quotient gets high enough to catch the media's attention."
"Why did George Zimmerman feel called to defend his neighborhood from intruders?" Bean continued. "Why did he see Trayvon Martin as out of place, an anomaly. Because he was wearing a hoodie? Because he was walking with a particular gait? Because he appeared overly interested in his surroundings?
"Eliminate Martin's blackness from the equation, and it is impossible to imagine Zimmerman reacting as he did. Zimmerman defined criminality in racial terms. Who, or what, taught him to think this way? … Our national conversation will continue to revolve around messy narratives."
How many Black parents must straighten up?
April 23, 2012 April 23, 2012 · 2 Comments ·
Richard Land, the voice of the Southern Baptist Convention, is in hot water over a recent rant against the Black pastors in connection with the Trayvon Martin story. Land's comments have angered Baptists like Arlington's William Dwight McKissic as much for what they implied as for what was clearly stated.
The following quote from Gerald Schumacher appears in the comments section of Pastor McKissic's website. I have corrected the spelling, but otherwise this verbatim:
I am not a great fan of Richard Land, but If Mr. McKissic thinks what Richard Land said was racist then this is going to knock his socks off.
Richard Land spoke the truth originally although he has back peddled because of pressure. For that I do fault him. The truth is that if the black community would start training their children to live a productive moral godly lives instead of what a large percentage become and stop living in the past using the race cards this nation could heal a lot faster. Blacks make up about 13.6 percent of the population but about 40.2 percent of those in prison are black. The problem is with the black community not racism and it is way past time for the black pastors to start dealing with it in their congregation as well as communities instead of pointing fingers.
How many Black parents would have to quit their lowdown ways before Black pastors get the right to address racial injustice? If, say, the teen birth rate dropped by 15 percentage points, would that do it? Or are Black pastors relegated to the social sidelines until Black and White incarceration rates are the same?
This argument is of ancient origin. Slaves shouldn't be freed because most of them can't read and write and lack experience handling money. Jim Crow laws should remain in force because crime rates in the Ghetto are higher than the national average.
Now the mass incarceration of young Black males precludes Black Southern Baptists from questioning their White betters.
This was the kind of logic that put Tulia, Texas on the map. It didn't really matter whether undercover agent Tom Coleman was telling the truth, if his targets had kids outside of marriage they forfeited their civil rights.
Tragically, this Alice in Wonderland logic drives the criminal justice system. It is also one of the big reasons why the Black incarceration numbers are so skewed and why so many of the men and women exonerated by DNA evidence are African-American.
Anthony Graves
This morning I had coffee with Anthony Graves, a Texan who spent 18 years in prison, twelve on death row, for a crime he didn't commit. The indignities didn't end when Graves stepped back into the free world. The following is from a Houston Chronicle article published a year ago:
After he was freed in October, the Texas comptroller's office refused the compensation provided by law for those who are unjustly convicted.
Then the Texas Attorney General's Office began garnisheeing his wages for child support that a judge decided Graves owed even though he was on death row at the time. But when they blocked payment of the $250 fee he earned for a presentation to students at Prairie View A&M University, it was too much.
Graves' attorney accused Texas AG Greg Abbott of being a vindictive monster. Maybe so. But Abbott had little reason to fear a public backlash. Most influential Texans think a lot like Gerald Schumacher, the guy who thinks Dwight McKissic should go mute on racial justice until every Black parent has his or her act together.
Fortunately, the Schumacher doctrine doesn't always win out. Anthony Graves finally received restitution money for his near-death experience, the Tulia drug bust was overturned, and, massive White support notwithstanding, Richard Land still has some 'splainin' to do.
Richard Land's Trayvon problem deepens
Update: Richard Land has issued an apology for the remarks referenced in this post.
Southern Baptist leader Richard Land says he is the victim of a media mugging. First the Nashville Tennessean characterized Land's incendiary comments on his own radio show as a "rant". Now a Baylor-based blogger claims that the Baptist ethicist's rant was plagiarized.
Many of the words that he uttered during his radio show were taken VERBATIM – yes, WORD-FOR-WORD – from a Washington Times column penned by conservative commentator Jeffrey Kuhner. Kuhner's column titled "Obama foments racial division" was published on March 29.
Land has apologized for failing to give proper attribution, but continues to lash out at the liberal media. This brief excerpt from an article in the Nashville Tennessean will tell you what the Southern Baptist spokesman is so upset about.
Some consider statements made Saturday by the convention's top policy representative on his national radio show a setback. On Richard Land Live!,Land accused black religious leaders — whom he called "race hustlers" — and President Barack Obama of using the shooting death of an African-American teen in Florida for election-year gains.
"This will be vetted in court, not in a mob mentality that's been juiced up by Al Sharpton, who is a provocateur and a racial ambulance chaser of the first order, and aided and abetted by Jesse Jackson," Land said on the show.
And, on Obama's statement that, if he had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old victim, Land said: "The president's aides claim he was showing compassion for the victim's family. In reality, he poured gasoline on the racialist fires."
The Rev. Maxie Miller, a Florida Baptist Convention expert in African-American church planting, was incredulous when he heard about the comments.
"At no time have I been embarrassed of being a Southern Baptist or a black Southern Baptist," Miller said. "But I'm embarrassed because of the words that man has stated."
Richard Land claims he should be immune from charges of racial insensitivity because he had a large hand in drafting the SBC's official apology for slavery and Jim Crow. According to the Associated Baptist Press, the 1995 statement read in part: (more…)
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SHOW casts a focus on the elements of live performance in a bid to make them plastic and palpable. At the core of its exploration is the attempt to be present in a moment of expression, while existing in an awareness caught by a set of definitive frames. The relationship between performers and audience and their mutually assigned spaces, movement and roles, are implicated in the work as they share the changing sequence of what unfolds.
SHOW premiered at The Kitchen in November 2011. Funded by Dance programs at The Kitchen, The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, the Jerome Foundation, and The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital. SHOW was made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. SHOW was developed in part through a residency at Impulstanz Vienna, Austria and Mount Tremper Arts, NY.


When I started as an application designer in 2001, I worked really hard for my clients, whipping their applications into shape. I would conduct usability reviews and hands-on design sessions to overhaul the app, I'd agonize over each screen layout, review, test, revise, then buckle down with development until we pushed out the release. It was hard work and I was proud that I was a good designer.
But I had tunnel vision. Now I can see that the product interface is only one part of the customer's end-to-end experience. I suppose that's why we have moved away from just user interface design and into user experience design. UX means more than just the product interface; it encompasses the whole experience a person will have with a brand and their overall satisfaction with a product.
Over the past ten years of in this field, I've evolved a solid UX design process that starts with discovery and ends with development integration, relying heavily on stories and prototypes in between. Many agencies and designers have evolved similar processes and share them on blogs and at conferences. Lists of UX deliverables such as wireframes, flow maps, and diagrams are frequently the topic of articles and talks, as well. But what I haven't seen is a discreet checklist for what an end-to-end experience should include.
This checklist can help product managers see the big picture for staffing, scheduling, and budgeting a project appropriately. UX designers should review this list with cross-team leaders to determine which dimensions they will need to provide design for, e.g., will the marketing department create the ads or will the design team?
Let's look at how some successful products handle these important customer touchpoints.
What's the first experience a prospective customer will have with your product? An online ad, a link in a long list of search results, your public facing website, or your blog are the most likely touchpoints. Each of these offers a unique opportunity to set expectations about the value and quality of your product.
A little press can go along way, but don't wait for it to come to you. In 2007, Mint encouraged users to vote for them in the Crunchies and on Motley Fool, then they won PCWorld's Top 25, and the rest is history. Balsamiq gave away thousands of free copies of Mockups to bloggers, and netted over $100,000 in profits in their first 6 months.
Joshua Porter has a great talk on Designing for Sign-Up in which he explains the problem of signup is not to get people to fill out a form, but to change people's mind about your software.
If your advertising and promotion are effective, people will be motivated to try your product, which brings us to onboarding.
The UX agency Punchcut coined the term distributed experiences to describe the approach to designing multi-dimensional experiences for the new ecosystem we find ourselves in. They point out that "users are no longer fixed to high-computing desktops—they are surrounded by digital ecosystems and information networks wherever they go." A web interface may satisfy many of your customers needs, but there is likely a growing demand for a mobile solution as well.
With the arrival of rich Internet applications (RIAs) in 2004-05, people's expectations for the web changed. Instead of websites, there are now hundreds of thousands of web apps with highly interactive features like drag-and-drop, live preview, live save, and live scroll, to name a few. Balsamiq and Picnik are two of the 50 Most Usable RIAs; they are functional and beautiful, easy to learn, and easy to grow with.
A mobile version of your product can be a significant factor in customer satisfaction. Basecamp and Tom's Planner both provide mobile-optimized web solutions, so customers with most types of smartphones can access their accounts.
An alternative to a mobile version of your web application is a mobile app, available to your customers for download and installation. Harvest and A Story Before Bed offer a subset of their functionality on the iPhone. Groupon provides the same functionally as their web product. Yelp actually provides more functionality than their web product with an augmented reality feature.
Now it is time to close the deal. Market research can help determine the best pricing plans to offer customers. But conversion isn't the only metric to design for; retention is possibly even more important.
The perceived value of the product will be measured against the cost each month (or other payment interval), so it is important to continue to communicate with your customers and provide a channel for their feedback.
Wufoo offers a monthly subscription model, like many SaaS products. The pricing is based on usage. Conversion to a paying plan after the trial period is encouraged. Basecamp uses the same approach, but they periodically offer discount codes for existing users to either upgrade at a reduced rate or try out other apps in their product suite, such as Highrise or Campfire.
LinkedIn relies on people's ever-changing connections in their professional networks to attract new users and retain existing customers. Other products such as YardSellr rely on existing social networks such as Facebook to gain exposure.
There is a specific window for (re)engaging customers. Mint will tell you "your money misses you" if it has been more than two weeks since you logged in. A Story Before Bed keeps their product in the forefront of customers' minds with special offers and new feature updates.
Take a moment and see how your product scores. Does it rate a perfect 12 or are there some gaps in the end-to-end experience?
The web design and development blog list is marvelous. Its a nice collection and can prove very useful. Would like to explore them more and see what they offer.
The term end-to-end is very fashionable right around in countries like Turkey which has a potential in the mobile innovation wave. But the term is being used in a highly wrong meaning. That is, if you have a mobile app or tablet version of your web-site, you have an end-to-end designed service, even the specs or features are not translated into different devices based on the real needs of the user.
I think, the explanations and the supporting sample cases are highly illuminating the case and helps us define the high-level topics of the issue.
I think this is just an additional way we can look at creating the experience for our customers when creating a SaaS app. Or maybe just use this as a CYA checklist before launching.
The end-to-end description refers to a customer's end-to-end experience with the product as opposed to the UX designers comprehensive checklist of deliverables or marketing teams 360 plan.
I guess this list will work for a larger scope of a project. Because assets are more related to the marketability of the product rather than the internal functioning.
So my question is, how to equip a team in order to see the project form this scope. Our UX designers are analyzing the service in a very different perspective and our 'checklist' is far more different than above. Is it a task for the SDL? or must be seen in the interaction design process?
Thank you for the wonderful link- you seem to have thoroughly covered all the possible UX/ED deliverables.
Very good article, with very good examples.
Hmmm. Only a percentage of all interactions to be designed are customer facing (e.g. starting with an ad). Your model is not generic enough for the label you've assigned to it.
I do however appreciate the need to reach beyond what is typically experienced: The Total Experience.
2 - Explain the technical reasons or limitations behind perceived lack of functionality or bugs. This is a big one especially for a SaaS offering to a technical community, transparency is a big plus in my opinion.
3- Frequent and personal communication around improvements. I was especially impressed recently when Harvest sent out specific emails to myself and others who had commented on a feature request thread when they rolled out a related feature to make sure we were the first to know they had heard us.
4 - Ongoing dialog. Again, their team members take the time to comment (knowledgeably even) on the comment threads on their blog, letting their users feel like they are part of a discussion.
Maybe this checklist can help designers and entrepreneurs who may not have the benefit of marketing experience or a marketing department. It certainly helps me in contract discussions with potential clients.
Nice post, and Im sure someone will find it very useful.


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Favre Becomes Winningest QB Ever
Sep 17, 2007 at 2:33 AM Sep 17, 2007 at 7:42 AM
Brett Favre picked a near-perfect way to become the winningest quarterback in NFL history. Favre completed his first 14 passes of the second half and threw three touchdown passes to rally the Green Bay Packers to a 35-13 victory over Eli Manning and the New York Giants on Sunday. The victory was the 149th of Favre's 17-year career and gave him one more than Hall of Famer John Elway. It also gave the Packers their first 2-0 start since they won their first three in 2001.
Brett Favre picked a near-perfect way to become the winningest quarterback in NFL history.
Favre completed his first 14 passes of the second half and threw three touchdown passes to rally the Green Bay Packers to a 35-13 victory over Eli Manning and the New York Giants on Sunday.
The victory was the 149th of Favre's 17-year career and gave him one more than Hall of Famer John Elway.
It also gave the Packers their first 2-0 start since they won their first three in 2001.
The loss was the second straight for the undisciplined and error-prone Giants, something that hasn't happened at the start of a season since 1996 - the year Dan Reeves got fired.
Cards 23, Seahawks 20
GLENDALE, Ariz. | Maybe that Cardinals curse is history.
After blowing a 17-0 lead in what looked like another classic Arizona collapse, Darnell Dockett recovered a fumble by Seattle's Matt Hasselbeck. Then Neil Rackers kicked a 41-yard field goal with 1 second to go Sunday, giving the Cardinals the win.
Rackers' 52-yarder tied it at 20 with 4:44 to play.
The Seahawks took the subsequent kickoff and drove toward what could have been the winning score. But on first-and-5 from the Arizona 36, linebacker Gerald Hayes disrupted an already botched handoff from Hasselbeck to Shaun Alexander.
The ball popped free, and Dockett recovered at the Seattle 45 with 1:48 to go.Edgerrin James carried four times before Arizona called time out to take the winning kick.
49ers 17, Rams 16
ST. LOUIS | It was the kind of simple catch Dante Hall has made many times, camped under a punt, waiting to make the catch.
This time, late in the fourth quarter Sunday, he dropped it. Marcus Hudson recovered for San Francisco, setting up the winning field goal.
The Rams' Jeff Wilkins missed a 56-yard field goal try with 59 seconds to play, the ball falling about a yard short of the goal post.
The 49ers (2-0) won despite struggling offensively most of the game. St. Louis had 392 total yards to 186 for San Francisco. Alex Smith was 11-for-17 for 126 yards. Frank Gore scored two touchdowns and gained 81 yards on 20 carries, most of those coming on a play that helped turn the game around late in the third quarter.
The Rams were up, 13-7, and on the verge of another score when Torry Holt caught a pass at the San Francisco 10 and was stripped from behind by Nate Clemens. The ball skipped into the end zone, then out of bounds, giving San Francisco the ball at the 20.
Lions 20, Vikings 17 (OT)
DETROIT | The Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions took turns blowing chances to win the game.
In the end, Jason Hanson's 37-yard field goal in overtime lifted Detroit and ended a 10-game losing streak in the series.
The Lions and Vikings combined for nine turnovers in regulation - and two missed field goals in the final 35 seconds.
The 10th turnover - Brooks Bollinger's fumbled snap - gave Detroit the ball at the 50. Jon Kitna, who missed about two quarters after being shaken up, ran the ball twice to pick up a key first down, and Brian Calhoun's 17-yard run set up Hanson's kick.
Detroit (2-0) has won its first two games for the first time in three years, when the Lions finished 6-10 - their best record since Matt Millen was given control of the franchise in 2001.
The Vikings (1-1) had plenty of chances to start 2-0 for the second straight year, but lost many of the opportunities as Tarvaris Jackson tied a team record with four interceptions.


Amazon has announced Echo, a voice-activated digital assistant device. Echo offers always-on listening capability to answer questions with a pleasant robotic voice or search the Internet for information. It can also set alarms or play music as a Bluetooth speaker.
There is a companion smartphone app that will be available for Amazon's Fire OS and Android that allows users to take advantage of Echo's capabilities from their phone, as well as an in-browser version.
Amazon is currently offering invite-only sales of Echo at the price of $199. Amazon Prime users can buy one for $99, but will also have to request an invitation.
Interested parties can request an invitation to buy Echo through Amazon's announcement page.


I have bought AC Dimmer Module which has Inbuilt Zero Crossing Detector and Outputs on PIN. Now how can i write program in EASYESP firmware to suppy PWM for few us during the Zero Crossing.
Does anyone tried to do so with Easy ESP Module ?
I want to control AC Fan 220V 60W (0.5AMP).
Re: How to Write Program for AC Dimmer Zero Crossing Detector ?
Actually i want to write program for AC Phase Control to control my AC Fan. Is it possible to use the same ESP8266 loaded with EasyESP Firmware or i need dedicated ESP8266 to do so ? Please guide me. I am trying to Control 4 Lights and 1 Fan using NodeMCU 12E using EasyESP Firmware 2.0.
Hello, any news about zero crossing and esp easy ?


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La Copa de la Lliga nord irlandesa de futbol, anomenada oficialment Irish League Cup, és la tercera competició futbolística d'Irlanda del Nord. Actualment és patrocinada per l'empresa CIS Co-operative Insurance. Anteriorment ho fou per Wilkinson Sword, Coca-Cola, Budweiser i Roadferry. El vencedor de la Copa de la Lliga es classifica per la següent edició de la Setanta Cup.

Historial

Enllaços externs
 Web de la federació
 Web de la Premier
 Irish Football Club Project
 Irish League Forums

Competicions futbolístiques a Irlanda del Nord


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Q: Datasets cached by different Vowpal Wabbit releases Due to certain reasons, I'm using 2 different VW releases: the latest development version (8.1.1) for my experiments, and the "latest stable" 7.10 release for production. So, the question is: what happens if I simply specify -c flag for the production model, while training on the same dataset that was used by 8.1.1 Vowpal Wabbit?

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*Will it rebuild the cache from scratch?

*Will it just reuse the previously saved cache? If this is the case, are the binary formats compatible for different VW releases?

I bumped into the following sentence in the docs:

If the cache exists and is newer than the data-set, it will be used, if it doesn't exist, it'll be created the first time -c is used.

Does it hold for different releases as well?

A: Current VW stores version info in cache file. While reading it checks that cache version matches its version and recreates cache file if they are not equal. So cache files made in one version of VW can't be used in another.

A: According to the source code, the cache is rebuilt if the version stored in the cache file is different than the current VW version.
I think the cache format does not change so often, so maybe you can risk it and disable the check. I am not sure about 8.1.1 and 7.10 cache compatibility.
A different question is the compatibility of trained models. Here are some attempts to keep backward compatibility (newer VW can read older models) and I think even forward compatibility unless specific features are used. See vw_versions.h. At least VW should detect if the model (and cache) file is too old (two years ago it just crashed without any hint what's the reason).

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Update 23/11/10: BC breathalysers are being recalibrated to o.o6. The law about 0.05 is unchanged so blow 0.06+ and you will be subject to new penalties. What happens between 0.05 and 0.06 is unclear but very much depends on the discretion of the police officer. I have checked with local RCMP and even they have no clear guidelines on this situation.
Now the new drinking driving 0.05 rules are here, it is even more important to know about alcohol consumption and blood alcohol count (BAC). Exceeding the new lower level has serious consequences if you are caught and here on Bowen our local RCMP detachment seems to have become extra zealous.
First, this link will open the Official BC BAC chart. With this you, in theory, can calculate whether your consumption will take you over the 0.05 limit and how long before you'll be back under it. However, there is a HIDDEN TRAP if you rely on this solely.
Note that the chart is based on standard drinks. For the record a standard drink is reckoned as either a) 12oz beer or b) 1.5oz of spirits or c) 5 oz of wine (roughly equivalent to one fifth of a standard 750ml bottle). However, for the purposes of setting standard drink sizes the servings make an assumption about alcohol levels in each serving. For beer that is 5%, spirits 40% and wine 12%.
The hidden problem is that your actual drink at standard serving size may contain considerably more or less alcohol than given in these charts. In some cases this may mean you are consuming more alcohol than you think.
Most spirits and beer servings contain exactly the alcohol prescribed in the standard servings. Some beers especially IPAs and specialty imports can have more alcohol though. For instance Quebec's Fin du Monde has 9% so one glass of that is nearly the equivalent of 2 beers.
Wine, however is a different matter altogether. Looking around our store I'd estimate the average bottle of wine runs to about 13%, no big deal – but variations can be significant. Those big Australian Shiraz can often come in at 15% or above, so one glass is the equivalent of 1.25 standard servings in alcohol content. If you are a 125lb female just one glass of this wine will push you to 0.05%. A 175lb male drinking two of these would be well advised to not drive for 2 hours from the time of the first drink.
1. Ask the server what the ABV (alcohol by volume) on the bottle is and factor that in to your calculations. The ABV is displayed on every bottle. If you are a bar or restaurant you should be considering adding ABV information to your drinks lists.
2. Try wines that have less alcohol. For instance the very popular Dr. Loosen Riesling has only 8.5% ABV (most Rieslings run between 8 and 11%). That's just about 1/3 less than the standard measure so not only is it reasonably safe to have one glass – at any weight – and drive straight away, for most it will allow you to have a couple and not run the risk of blowing over o.o5 (but check your weight against the BAC chart first). Another suggestion is one of our best selling white wines, the Gazela Vinho Verde that has only 9% ABV.
Nowadays you really have to be very scrupulous about not only how much you drink but what you drink. There is precious little margin of error at 0.05 and the Holiday Season roadchecks are coming up fast so there'll be even more chances to lose your car and license. Your best choice at any time is simply not to drink and drive. Take Transit, a cab or nominate a DD from your party.
If you are in our store please ask us to recommend good lower alcohol wines for your party or event.
Domaine Marcilhac Cuvée Prestige – super French red from Cahors the spiritual home of Malbec. Tasted this last month and thought it ideal for Malbec fans interested in expanding their horizons. 100% Cot noir (malbec). Produced and bottled en domaine.
Ironstone Reserve Rous Vineyard Old Vine Zinfandel – Tasted this at the Zinfandel Advocates and Producers (ZAP) tasting and was simply the best of the eight super wines presented in my opinion. This is a single vineyard product produced from vines planted in 1909. Perfect Christmas present for the Zin Fan – not widely available either.
Bleasdale Langhorne Crossing Generations Shiraz – A rich, cellarable Aussie red. Will be opening a bottle for tasting Christmas week.


Everyone loves a good apple crisp, but the BEST Apple Crisp is when everyone is drooling for some more! You won't even have to worry about putting it away!
So I've always wondered what the differences are between fruit crisp, crumble and cobbler – all I knew (before some research of course) is that all of them described baked fruit with a type of topping. So what defines crisp, crumble and cobbler?
Leaving out any regional differences, crisp and crumble are more similar to each other than a cobbler. Cobbler is baked fruit with a biscuit-like topping whereas both crisp and crumbles have streusel-like toppings. To separate crisp and crumbles? The lines have been very blurred and thus today they may be used to describe the same thing. However, traditionally a crumble is a topping mixture made of flour, sugar, spices and butter; it is more dough-like and not as crisp as a crisp (lol!). To make a crumble a crisp? The addition of oats and/or nuts!
So with all this crisp, crumble and cobbler talk, time for my favorite apple crisp recipe!
I've made the original recipe so many times (it's another one of those home economics recipes) and adjusted it so many times that it has now become a Beader Chef Original! I personally like a lot of crisp, therefore, you may find an imbalance between fruit and topping. However, you can always scale down the crisp topping by half; I've tried this and it covers the apples as well, let me know what you think!
Preheat the oven to 375F and grease a 9"x9" baking dish.
Place apples in the dish and sprinkle with lemon juice.
In a bowl, combine the flour, oats, brown sugar, salt and cinnamon.
Mix in the melted butter and stir until crumbly.
Sprinkle crumble mixture over the apples.
Bake for 30 minutes or until the apples are tender. Let cool for 10 minutes and serve warm (or if you're like me, eat it cold out of the fridge!).