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Die Fliege (lateinisch Musca) ist ein Sternbild des Südhimmels.

Beschreibung

Die Fliege ist ein kleines, aber gut erkennbares Sternbild direkt südlich des Kreuzes des Südens. Sie enthält einen auffälligen Stern 2. Größe und ein kompaktes Trapez aus nur wenig schwächeren Sternen.

Durch das Sternbild zieht sich das Band der Milchstraße. Auffällig ist eine ausgedehnte Dunkelwolke, der Kohlensack, dessen südlicher Teil in die Fliege hineinragt. Im Prismenfernglas bietet die Himmelsregion um die Fliege einen prächtigen Anblick.

Geschichte
Die Fliege gehört zu den zwölf neuen Sternbildern, die Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts von den niederländischen Seefahrern Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser und Frederick de Houtman eingeführt wurden. Johann Bayer übernahm sie als Biene (Apis) in seinen 1603 erschienenen Himmelsatlas Uranometria.

1752 benannte sie Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in La Mouche um (Planisphère des Étoiles Australes, datiert 1752, veröffentlicht 1756), latinisiert Musca auf dem Coelum Australe Stelliferum (postum 1763 veröffentlicht). Später heißt sie auch Musca Australis in Abgrenzung zur Musca Borealis im Widder nach Johannes Hevelius (die auf Plancius' Biene zurückgeht).

Nach Johann Elert Bodes Atlanten 1782 hört die Verwendung der nördlichen Fliege aber auf, und heute heißt sie daher wieder kurz und bündig Musca.

Auf alten Sternkarten schnellt die Zunge des benachbarten Chamäleons in Richtung Fliege.

Himmelsobjekte

Sterne

α Muscae ist ein blauer Überriese in etwa 320 Lichtjahren Entfernung mit der 5.000-fachen Leuchtkraft unserer Sonne. In einem Abstand von 2600 AU befindet sich ein lichtschwacher Begleitstern, der ihn in 45.000 Jahren umkreist.

Delta Muscae ist ein 91 Lichtjahre entfernter Stern der Spektralklasse K2 III.

Bei Theta Muscae handelt es sich um den zweithellsten bekannten Wolf-Rayet-Stern.

Doppelsterne

Beta Muscae ist ein Doppelsternsystem in 311 Lichtjahren Entfernung. Die beiden Komponenten gehören den Spektralklassen B2 und B3 an. Um das System in Einzelsterne aufzulösen, benötigt man ein mittleres Teleskop.

Veränderliche Sterne

Der Hauptstern des Systems, Alpha Muscae pulsiert leicht, wobei sich seine Helligkeit über einen Zeitraum von 2,2 Stunden um etwa 1 % verändert. Er gehört zu den veränderlichen Sternen vom Typ der Beta-Cephei-Sterne.

Epsilon Muscae ist ein 302 Lichtjahre entfernter halbregelmäßig veränderlicher Stern, dessen Helligkeit über einen Zeitraum von etwa 40 Tagen schwankt. Es handelt sich um einen roten Riesen der Spektralklasse M5 III.

Neblige Objekte

Der Kohlensack ist eine ausgedehnte Dunkelwolke in 600 Lichtjahren Entfernung.

NGC 4833 ist ein Kugelsternhaufen in 18.000 Lichtjahren Entfernung. In einem mittleren Teleskop kann der Randbereich in Einzelsterne aufgelöst werden.

Der Planetarische Nebel NGC 5189 ist die abgestoßene Gashülle eines Sterns in einer Entfernung von 2600 Lichtjahren. Der Nebel besitzt eine ungewöhnliche längliche Form, die bereits in einem kleinen Teleskop erkennbar ist.

IC 4191 ist ein planetarischer Nebel der im Jahr 1907 von der Astronomin Williamina Fleming entdeckt wurde

Siehe auch
 Liste der Sternbilder
 TYC 8998-760-1

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

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Vintage McCalls sewing pattern, McCalls 2206 from 1969. Vintage partially cut pattern for misses size 14, bust 36. Misses dress in three versions. Dress, with or without Lon or short set in sleeves, has center back zipper. Dress has curved seaming in front, vertical darts in back and bias roll collar sewn to neck edge. Also sleeveless dress. Pieces and instructions in worn and torn but intact envelope.


Does an Artist Need a Brand?
You would like to continue being an artist.
You want to sell your work.
Now, in order to continue being an artist, you might just want to cover the cost of materials and you'd be happy with that. Maybe you'd like to make a little more, pay for a vacation, something extra. Or, you could want to quit your day job altogether. In any case, you need to sell something, so now you have a business. And, as is the case for any sort of business, you don't just need to get the word out about what you do, you need to differentiate yourself from the competition.
How does an artist define competition?
That's easy: the same way any other business does. Competition is anything that can replace what you have to sell. Read that last sentence again. In the case of art, which is mostly a completely optional purchase, just about anything can replace it. People don't have to buy art: they do have to buy food and transportation and housing and health care and a ton of other things. Your competition isn't just other artists.
How does a potential art buyer find you?
But, isn't branding just for consumer goods?
To artists, art is sacred, our life's work. When a buyer says "That matches my sofa. I'll take it," we die inside just a little. But we swipe the card and live to create another day. Art isn't a box of cereal, or a pair of sneakers, but companies who make those things have figured out that branding works. They know how to differentiate themselves from the other choices out there.
Branding doesn't have to be slick.
It just has to promise something. Know the artist Banksy? His (or her) brand is mystery. The art appears, and people want to know who did it. Thomas Kincaide's brand is a sort of pretty idealism. What does your art do for your potential buyer? What does it promise, and how is that different from the artist next to you in the gallery or at the show? Online, how do you stand out in a Google search, if your website is found at all?
Your name alone isn't enough.
Unless your name is Picasso, or you already have a large following (in which case, you stopped reading already), your name alone probably doesn't send enough of a message to potential buyers. And a brand isn't just a logo, it's everything to do with the business. Here are some ways you can differentiate your brand from that of other artists.
1. Your art is truly unique and stands on its own. Myles Maillie developed a style unto itself and has been known for it for decades. If you also create art that is like no other, that's your brand. If you paint beach scenes or make pottery, it may take something a bit more to craft a brand.
2. Your artistic persona is intriguing. Artist Cory Basil could easily fall into the category above, but at least as interesting as his art is his personal style. Dark, brooding, sort of The-American-West-meets-steampunk? Hard to categorize, which is exactly the point.
3. Your art business (or studio) has a cool name. Kristina Young named her art business The Art of Peace. Her brand is all about personal growth and enlightenment and will appeal to people with the same interests.
Once you know what your brand should be, the next move is to nail down a domain name immediately. Even if you aren't quite ready to put up a website, get the name you want before someone else does.
More about marketing your art online in a future post. Keep creating, and be thinking about your brand.
Kim Phillips is an artist, marketer, writer, graphic designer and gardener living in Cowan, Tennessee. She works from her studio, Tiny Creative House.
This is one of the weirder useful tools we just discovered: answerthepublic.com Have you noticed that, when you search for something in Google, like "how to build a beehouse" or some such, you now get helpful snippets that answer that question, right up top? Wouldn't you love it if your website got that much traction? Well, it can.
It's something that a public relations consultancy came up with to generate questions on just about anything. It features an impatient-looking old coot who is waiting for you to put a keyword in the box. Go ahead, do it, and come right back. We'll tell you why it matters.
Pretty fancy, no? The graphic made up of questions is hard to look at, so there's a button to download the questions to a CSV file. How does it work? Looks like someone wrote a pretty cool program to scrape questions out of Google. But why?
For You -- Generating engaging content is, to say the least, a job. So is ranking high in a Google search. We'll take all the help we can get. Answering questions is a good way to affect both.
For Them -- The folks at coveragebook.com wanted eyeballs on their product, and traffic to their website, so they gave us a brillliant example of content marketing. Not just "Ha! Made you look! marketing but truly useful content, presented in an engaging way.
So, the next time you ask yourself, "How can I rank in Google snippets?" you may start by answering questions on your website, questions generated by answerthepublic.com.
Kim Phillips is an artist, marketer, writer, graphic designer and gardener living in Cowan, Tennessee. She works from her studio, Tiny Creative House.
We've all seen it, advertised several times a day: the big corporation telling us how great they are. Or, the mom-and-pop shop with the tagline like "Excellence For Over 20 Years." Or, the full page of photos of realtors who sold over $1 million last year. Who cares?
Branding -- and all the communications that come from the brand -- is a promise. You, the seller, will give me, the buyer, something that matters to me. What matters to me? Something that makes my life just a teeny bit better, makes me feel good about myself, makes me faster, taller, stronger, sexier, richer. Something that brings a tear to my eye or makes me laugh out loud. Something that shows me that you get me.
Look at the brands below. What feeling does each one give? Happy? Serious? Industrial? Playful? Which one(s) could you imagine doing business with? The answer to that, of course, depends on who you are. Each of these companies has a different audience, with different wants and needs.
Chill bumps: this ad for Audi delivers them. Watching it, you think it's going to be just a sweet story about how girls can drive as well as guys. Give it a look.
If ever a company wanted to let ladies know that "we get you," Audi did it right.
Right now, you may be thinking, "Oh, sure, with a marketing budget like Audi's, I can send a great message, too." Guess what? You're already sending a message; the question is, which one?
Look at your logo, your website, your social media. Does it look like it all came from the same place? What does it promise the person you want to reach? What is your relationship to that person? Is it current? More importantly, is it relevant?
What happens when you email someone a file that is huge, like 20MB? Sometimes, nothing bad happens, it just takes a while, depending on your (and the recipient's) connection speed. Other times, the recipient's email system may simply say "nope" and the email won't go through. There's an easy way to avoid this issue altogether.
Say hello to WeTransfer. It is a website where you can upload your large file and send it as a link rather than clogging someone's email pipeline. If you want to send several files at once, just put them in a folder, zip that folder, and WeTransfer will see that as one file.
WeTransfer offers both a free transfer type ~ always plenty for us so far ~ and you don't even need an account for that... just go to the website and send. They also offer WeTransfer Plus, for even bigger file transfers and customization. And, they give Plus away free to art students!
Make a little file transfer magic. Want some other great tools? Click here.
That's all, unless you want to add bling, as I did here. I had some old beads with a larger hole and secured them with Weldbond glue (it dries clear).
Make a hole in the cork. Use a nail or a screw, and try to get it in the center.
Insert the wire. Some of the wire stems are very long; I cut them in half and am not particular about the length of each piece of wire.
Paint the corks. If you want them to stand out, paint them different colors. It may take two coats for the paint to be solid. Let them dry completely.
Add any bling. I just slid beads up the wire and put a little Weldbond glue around the wire to hold them in place. Let dry for a few hours.
Write plant names on the corks. I used a paint marker. The Marvy DecoColor was more solid than the Sharpie paint marker.
Tiny Tip: A block of styrofoam makes a great place to park the markers while they dry.
*Thanks to Monteagle Inn for furnishing a huge bag of cork. Their wine lounge, Tallulah's, is a great place to create more.


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Николай Иванович Кузьмин (19 октября 1911, Москва — 28 августа 1988, Киев) — советский украинский музыковед и музыкальный педагог (фортепиано). Долгое время жил и работал в Киеве, исследовал историю музыкальной культуры города.

Биография
Родился в семье московского инженера. С 1925 года жил и учился в Киеве. В 1927—1933 годах — ученик музыкальной школы Н. А. Тутковского. В 1933 году поступил в Музыкально-драматический институт им. Н. В. Лысенко, реорганизованный в 1934 году в консерваторию; окончил её в 1938 году по классу фортепиано. Был учеником профессора А. М. Луфера и К. Н. Михайлова. После окончания консерватории был назначен художественным руководителем Винницкой филармонии, также преподавал в местной музыкальной школе, выступал в концертах городского музыкального лектория.

С 1940 года находился на военной службе, участник боевых действий против немецких и японских агрессоров; награждён за воинскую доблесть орденами и медалями, был ранен. После демобилизации в 1946 году вернулся в Киев и стал преподавателем Киевского музыкального училища, связав с ним всю свою дальнейшую жизнь. Подготовил по классу фортепиано более 80 воспитанников, значительная часть которых затем получила высшее музыкальное образование. Среди учеников — И. Иващенко, Л. Цвирко, Л. Ященко. Преподавал также в народной консерватории; был консультантом городского Дома художественной самодеятельности профсоюзов. Сотрудничал с музыкальной редакцией Украинского радио, для которой создал более 50 музыкально-образовательных передач. Имел композиторский и поэтический талант; автор ряда романсов, фортепианных пьес, «Украинская рапсодии» для оркестра.

Скончался на 77-м году жизни 28 августа 1988 года в Киеве. Похоронен на Лукьяновском кладбище (24-й участок).

Исследование музыкальной истории Киева
Наиболее весомым общественным и музыковедческим делом Николая Кузьмина стало подробное изучение истории музыкальной культуры Киева, в том числе — становление Киевского музыкального училища. Эти исследования велись много лет; были проработаны, систематизированы и обобщены тысячи публикаций и архивных документов, опрошено большое количество педагогов и выпускников музыкального училища. Результатом исследовательской работы стали книжные издания и ряд статей в периодике. Публикации Н. Кузьмина способствовали возвращению из забвения сотен имён. Наиболее концентрированный отбор информации содержала его книга «Украинская школа музыкального мастерства», изданная в полукустарный способ тиражом 300 экземпляров. Она быстро стала библиографической редкостью, и в 2007 году Международный благотворительный фонд конкурса Владимира Горовица совершил её посмертное переиздание, приуроченное к 140-летию Киевского государственного высшего музыкального училища им. Р. М. Глиэра.

Н. Кузьмин был одним из авторов энциклопедии «Искусство Украины», энциклопедического справочника «Киев». Создал в Киевском музыкальном училище им. Р. М. Глиэра экспозицию класса-музея Н. В. Лысенко.

Публикации

Отдельные издания
 Украинская школа музыкального мастерства / Сост. Кузьмин Н. И. — К., 1968.
 Кузьмін М. Забуті сторінки музичного життя Києва. — К.: Музична Україна, 1972.
 Кузьмин Н. Украинская школа музыкального мастерства. — Издание второе. — К.: Международный благотворителный фонд конкурса Владимира Горовица, 2007.

Статьи
 Кузьмин Н. Глиэр в Киеве // Советская музыка. — 1975. — № 9.
 Кузьмін М. «Музичні» будинки // Культура і життя. — 1980. — 18 вересня.
 Кузьмін М. Червоний бант Глієра // Культура і життя. — 1982. — 25 квітня.
 Кузьмін М. Музично-драматична школа М. В. Лисенка // Українське музикознавство. — Випуск 19. — К., 1984.

Примечания

Литература
 Мистецтво України: Біографічний довідник / За ред. А. В. Кудрицького. — К., 1997. — С.342.

Выпускники Киевской консерватории
Похороненные на Лукьяновском кладбище


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Joseph Jack waxes ecstatic when he thinks about the emotions, the spiritual experiences, the community crises and resolutions fostered in this old forsaken structure for a century.
He feels that God has drawn him personally to this abandoned sanctuary. Three years ago, when he first became aware of Mt. Calvary, he placed an old Bible on the pulpit. He left it open to the 23rd Psalm.
That Bible still lies open to the psalm, like some kind person's hands held out and together, palms up, offering sustenance, the recent rains dripping from the roof around it, so that even now, though Joseph Jack walk through the valley of the shadow of death, he will fear no evil.
Mt. Calvary Baptist Church held its first services in 1896, with a number of former United States Colored Troops, who fought against the Confederacy in the Civil War, among its members. Just after the Civil War, a Confederate veteran named Miles Price sold some of the first lots of a new neighborhood called Brooklyn, former plantation land, to former slaves and black Union soldiers. By the birth of Mt. Calvary at Spruce and Dora Streets, more than 1,000 people lived in Brooklyn in more than 250 houses.
Where less imaginative and less attuned observers might see only the corpse of a church whose soul, its congregation, has departed, Joseph feels in his heart and his fists and his jaw and his temples all the glory that shook these walls in 1910 and 1930 and 1970 when Mt. Calvary's congregants worshipped their hardest and most full of love and life.
Steep steps rise up the brick façade. The grand open worship space waits, still lined by the old pews that face the pulpit, anticipating some new utterance of great truth. It's as though the congregation stood, all at once, and walked away from its home forever.
The periwinkle blue of the walls fades slowly across time like the blue of distance, for it's distance that makes blue of green lands beyond arrival.
The old stained glass frosted blue and green and turquoise in the arched windows louvers open, out over Brooklyn, a hull of its former self, where 6,000 people lived and ate and worked and worshiped and laughed and fought and dapped and danced decades ago.


I'm debating where to mount my two amps. Please post pics showing where you mounted yours so that I can get some ideas.
I plan on picking up my boat this aft..
2nd amp is on the left side in the console where there is a raised wall where I think the air vents come through..
I'll try to get photos this eve.
I'm having my amp and sub installed in our 06 LSV by a local shop this weekend. They carpeted a piece of marine plywood and mounted it just above the batteries which is the wall that the cushions in the bow back up to. They had to put the board in because the wall itself is curved and the amp was too big to mount to it so they needed a larger and flatter surface. The amp is the JL M6450.
I should get it back on Monday so I will try to post some pics then.
That's where I put mine. One above the batteries and one on the left wall "vent chase". Also had to mount a board to the backside of the front seat backrest to accomidate the amp.
Thanks guys, for the ideas. The back side of the front seat looks like a good place but it's so difficult to work in there to drill holes to mount the amp. Or do you take the cushion off and drill the holes from the front?
Thought I would share where I ended up mounting my amp. Seems like a lot of folks here mounted their amps either on the back side of the front port seat or on the vent "chase" in the storage area under the glove box. I use that area to transport my surfboard on the way to the lake/river so I did not want to mount the amp on the chase. And the back of the front port seat is a pain to get to. I wanted to mount it up out of the way where it's not taking up any usable storage space.
I ended up mounting it aft of the chase, up high. I found that there is a backing strip running the length of the boat that the rubrail is screwed to. It's about 1" wide and about 3/8" thick and is made of plastic composite material. I cut away about a 1" strip of the carpet the width of the amp and mounted the amp to the backing strip with three screws (you can see part of the black backing strip in the pics below). I then very carefull drilled one hole for the lower mounting screw (didn't want to accidentally drill thru the hull :lol: ). I literally drilled about 1/8" then stopped. The lower screw is just enough to keep the bottom part of the amp secure (the amp's weight is being supported by the three screws on top).
I haven't completed the wiring yet but wanted to post the pics in case others were contemplating amp mounting location as I was.
I still have to find a place to mount the 2nd amp (for the sub) but I have a couple of ideas.
Nice work. I plan on gluing resined MDF to the hull and mounting the amps. I'll post pics when I get done.


Sunsets in the Lofoten Islands were out of this world and we were lucky to experience colourful skies most evenings during our stay in Svolvær.
I love how fleeting these small patches of light were. Sometimes they were gone within twenty minutes so we only saw them if we were in the right place at the right time.
Our favourite spot was a small jut of land dotted with commercial buildings like car garages — which is where the next photos were taken. This may not sound like a very glamorous place to stand but it provided an uninterrupted view over the water. The bakery behind us made this the ultimate location because we could stand and watch the sky changing colour with the smell of cinnamon wafting through the air!
Thank you, I'm very pleased with these ones.


Today, I'm here to share a little about Melt Cosmetic's new lipstick collection! The Prime Rose Collection - Soft rose hues that will never wilt or fade.
The packaging the collection came in was their typical shipping box that was beautifully decorated with different rose images on a textured background.
The collection includes 5 new, matte shades. On-The-Go, Mum, Stepford, Old Fashioned, and Old Rose. They will be $19 apiece. If you purchase the collection at $65, each lipstick is $13.
These lipsticks are 4.05g/0.14oz. Oh, and they are VEGAN!
These colours are pretty different from Melt's usual bold style, but I'm ok with that. Sometime's its nice to have a somewhat neutral colour, especially when these neutrals aren't your average tone.
Swatches below! I tried to get these as accurate as possible. I normally shoot in natural or white light, but that wasn't available when I show these, so I had to tweak the colour tone in camera to match what was on my arm.
I fell in love with Melt's bullet lipsticks the first time I tried one. The formula was a littler harder than your average lipstick, but they go on heavily pigmented and stay on ALL day. I've only worn Stepford so far, but it wears as beautifully as the other Melt lipsticks I own. I put on Stepford at 08:00 and it is currently 21:27. Over 12 hours of wear and I have not retouched it or had me lips get all flaky and dry. Amazing.
These floral beauties launch Friday, 25 November, at midnight! Hoorah Black Friday sales and launches! And, if Melt's "pre" Black Friday sale was any show of what they have in store for us, it's going to be a great sale. So get out your Christmas list and wallet and refresh your browser until midnight!
***To maintain transparency, I want to let you know that this blog post is not sponsored. My opinions are my own and are truthful. However, these lipsticks were graciously gifted to me by Melt Cosmetics.


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Q: How to set a rails variable equal to a Javascript variable? I want to do something similar to How to pass a Javascript variable to Rails Controller? but I can't seem to get it working for my purposes. I'm using drag and drop jQuery to transfer "items" to "pods". Here's my code:
function onReceive(id,pod_id){
var id = id;
var pod_id = pod_id;
confirm("Add " +id + " to " + pod_id + "?");
}

What I want to do is really something like this:
function onReceive(id,pod_id){
<% @pod_id = pod_id %>
<% @id = id %>
}

But I know that the solution isn't quite that easy. How can I pass id and pod_id to my controller? Ideally, I'd like to pass it to the update action. P.S.: I don't know AJAX at all, so if that's the only way please provide details...

A: The only way to pass data from the browser client side to a rails app, is via HTTP. And to do HTTP in JavaScript, you use XHR (also called AJAX). You can't do it in the templates as you're suggesting in your code sample, since the template is rendered by Rails on the server, and evaulated as HTML and JavaScript on the client. There's no inline communication between the client/browser and the server.
Assuming jQuery:
function onReceive(id,pod_id){
    $.ajax({
        url: "/some/url",
        data: {pod_id: pod_id, id: id}
    });
}

Then you need to set up a controller to respond to /some/url, and do whatever you need to do with params[:pod_id] and params[:id].

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I have a serious girl-crush on her. For real.
I'm Gonna Ferociously Hold On To This One Thing.
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The acoustic repair of Indonesian Instruments
Visiting Fellow Dr Gea O.F. Parikesit, Gadjah Mada University, Faculty of Engineering
4-22 June 2018
The Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation hosted Dr Gea Parikesit in June 2018 to study moving objects like the Wayang Kulit and musical instruments like the rebab and gourd pipes, to consider how these objects are played and their implications for cultural materials conservation treatment. Together with the Masters students from the Grimwade Centre, we undertook conservation repairs and acoustic measurements before and after treatments to consider how these attributes are incorporated into conservation decision making.
Dr Gea gave a public lecture on 'From 3D Shadows in Wayang Kulit to Vibrato Effects in Bundengan: Traditional Art meets Modern Technologies'
The lecture addressed the idea that humans have used acoustical, optical, mechanical and electrical phenomena to embody art objects and expressions in the form of music, sculptures, paintings, poems and performances. By understanding the physics phenomena, we can gain fresh insights on how to better design, analyse and conserve these objects and expressions.
The first case that was discussed in this lecture is the design and analysis of shadow images in Wayang Kulit. The second case was the improvement of the musical playability (and how it affects the conservation) of the bundengan, an endangered musical instrument. Dr Gea examined how the dynamic movements of both the shadow puppets and the musical instruments strongly determine their artistic quality. These two cases from Indonesia demonstrate how the dynamics of art objects and expressions provide a more complete insight compared to its static counterpart.
Dr Gea was in Australia for the Making Connections Project in February and is committed to the preservation of the musical elements of rare Indonesian instruments. He has been working on the physics of strings and the Bundengan and the dynamic visualisation of Wayang Kulit.
Dr Gea Parikesit, Lia Sumichan, Leon, Rong Wei Sim and Ashley Hayes
Background to the project
The Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation has been collaborating with the Music Archive at Monash University (MAMU) and their collection of Asian instruments and performative objects since 1999 with the support of Professor Margaret Kartomi and Dr Bronia Kornhauser. Dr Gea was supported by a Faculty of Arts Indonesia Initiative.

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package org.kurento.test.base;

import static org.kurento.test.config.Protocol.FILE;
import static org.kurento.test.config.Protocol.HTTP;
import static org.kurento.test.config.Protocol.S3;

import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
import java.util.List;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.kurento.repository.Repository;
import org.kurento.repository.RepositoryApiConfiguration;
import org.kurento.repository.RepositoryApiConfiguration.RepoType;
import org.kurento.repository.RepositoryHttpPlayer;
import org.kurento.repository.RepositoryItem;
import org.kurento.repository.internal.http.RepositoryHttpServlet;
import org.kurento.test.browser.WebRtcTestPage;
import org.kurento.test.config.Protocol;
import org.kurento.test.services.WebServerService;
import org.kurento.test.services.WebServerService.WebServer;
import org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.ServletRegistrationBean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;

/**
 * Base for repository tests using Mongo.
 *
 * @author Raul Benitez (rbenitez@gsyc.es)
 * @since 6.3.1
 */
public class RepositoryMongoTest extends KurentoClientBrowserTest<WebRtcTestPage> {

  // Repository
  @ComponentScan(basePackageClasses = { org.kurento.repository.RepositoryItem.class })
  public static class RepositoryWebServer extends WebServer {

    @Bean
    public RepositoryHttpServlet repositoryHttpServlet() {
      return new RepositoryHttpServlet();
    }

    @Bean
    public ServletRegistrationBean repositoryServletRegistrationBean(
        RepositoryHttpServlet repositoryHttpServlet) {
      ServletRegistrationBean servletRegistrationBean =
          new ServletRegistrationBean(repositoryHttpServlet, "/repository_servlet/*");
      servletRegistrationBean.setLoadOnStartup(1);
      return servletRegistrationBean;
    }

    @Bean
    public RepositoryApiConfiguration repositoryApiConfiguration() throws UnknownHostException {
      log.debug("Repository for playing test");
      RepositoryApiConfiguration config = new RepositoryApiConfiguration();

      config.setWebappPublicUrl("http://" + InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostAddress() + ":"
          + WebServerService.getAppHttpPort() + "/");
      config.setMongoDatabaseName("testfiles");
      config.setMongoUrlConnection(Protocol.MONGODB + "://" + getTestFilesMongoPath());
      config.setRepositoryType(RepoType.MONGODB);
      return config;
    }
  }

  public Repository repository;

  @Before
  public void setupRepository() {
    webServer.setWebServerClass(RepositoryWebServer.class);
    repository = (Repository) webServer.getContext().getBean("repository");
  }

  public String getMediaUrl(Protocol protocol, String nameMedia) {
    String mediaUrl = "";
    switch (protocol) {
      case HTTP:
        mediaUrl = HTTP + "://" + getTestFilesHttpPath();
        break;
      case FILE:
        mediaUrl = FILE + "://" + getTestFilesDiskPath();
        break;
      case S3:
        mediaUrl = S3 + "://" + getTestFilesS3Path();
        break;
      case MONGODB:
        List<RepositoryItem> repositoryItem =
            repository.findRepositoryItemsByAttRegex("file", nameMedia);
        RepositoryHttpPlayer repositoryPlayer = repositoryItem.get(0).createRepositoryHttpPlayer();
        mediaUrl = repositoryPlayer.getURL();
        return mediaUrl;
      default:
        throw new RuntimeException(protocol + "is not supported in this test.");
    }
    return mediaUrl + nameMedia;
  }
}

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Agrobacterium tumefaciens - A soil bacterium that are natural plant parasites. To find suitable environments for themselves they insert genes into plant hosts, which causes them to form a proliferation of cells, or tumors, near the soil level. This natural ability of the bacteria to transfer genetic information is used in genetic engineering as a vector to transport other desired foreign traits. In a sense they are infecting the plant with the desired information. To do this, the bacterial T-DNA (transfer DNA) is cut out of the bacterial plasmid and replaced with the desired foreign gene. It then transfers transgenic DNA to a random site in the plant genome.
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) - a soil bacterium used for biological pest control. Particular strains are chosen for particular insects and transferred into the genome of the plant so that it is expressed in each cell. In a process that has been compared to leaky gut and intestinal bowel disease in humans, it causes the gut wall of the insect to break down and allow toxin spores and normal gut bacteria to enter the body, eventually the spores and bacteria proliferate and the insect dies. The naturally occurring toxin has been in use for many years, in organic farming as well, and on this basis the genetically modified version has been hailed to be safe for humans.
Biolistic gun, Particle gun, 'Gene Gun' - a procedure used in genetic modification where the genetic information is directly "shot" into plant cells. DNA is bound to tiny particles of gold or tungsten and then "shot" into plant tissue or single plant cells under high pressure. The accelerated particles penetrate both the cell wall and membranes, slowing down as they do so. The DNA separates from the metal and can be integrated into the genetic material inside the nucleus. Used mostly with monocrops like wheat or corn, for which bacterial vectors are less successful. One disadvantage is damage done to cellular tissue.
DiCamba - An herbicide that has been in use since the 1960s, works by mimicking a naturally occurring plant hormone that triggers uncontrolled growth, and subsequent death of the weed. It is being propelled into greater use for the next generation of herbicide-tolerant crops, both as an external spray as well as a genetically engineered resistance trait.
DNA - The term used to describe the chemical make-up of genetic information. Deoxyribonucleic acid. The building blocks of DNA are called "nucleotides", each made up of a sugar, a phosphate, and a base. These building blocks combine to form a giant molecule comprising two strands of necleotides, the famous "double helix" that is thought to create the 'blueprint' as it contains the instructions or information (genes) needed to construct cellular components like RNA and proteins. As the sequencing of the Human Genome project was completed, we have learned that it takes about 22,000 genes to create an estimated 100,000 proteins, which has outdated the model upon which genetic engineering is based, which is built upon a more linear one gene one protein paradigm. In fact, it seems protein-coding genes account for only 1-2% of DNA. The other 95% is yet to be understood.
EPA - Environmental Protection Agency, a US federal agency that is tasked with protecting human and environmental health. They oversee some genetically modified crops, due to the fact that they have pesticides engineered into their make up, such as those incorporating Bt toxin. As well as of course glyphosate containing herbicides, such as Roundup, which is a big part of the GMO system.
FDA - Food and Drug Administration, the US federal agency responsible for responsible for regulating food, tobacco, dietary supplements, pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, vaccines, electromagnetic radiation emitting devices, cosmetics and veterinary products.
Gene - a basic physical unit of heredity, made up of a sequence of nucelotides along a piece of DNA that encodes RNA, which when translated into proteins, leads to the expression of a hereditary character.
Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) - an organism whose genetic material has been transformed by the introduction of genetic material from a foreign organism, outside of the sexual reproduction process, either through viral or bacterial vector, or biolistic gun.
Glyphosate - the active ingredient in many herbicides in use today, including the most widely used Roundup(TM), manufactured by Monsanto.
Herbicide - a chemical used to kill weeds, wild and competing.
Horizontal Gene Transfer - the passing of genes from one organism to another, sometimes across species, outside of the sexual reproduction process.
Marker Gene - a gene that is used in the genetic modification process to allow scientists to see more easily which plants have taken up the desired trait. These are thus transferred along with the desired target gene. Marker genes that are frequently used are antibiotic resistance genes.
Monocrops - Crops that are grown continuously on the same land year after year for high yield. This type of farming actually reduces the productivity of the soil, as it depletes it of nutrients, and biodiversity, and requires large amounts of water, fertilizer and pesticides. One early example of the instability brought on by monocropping was the Irish Famine of the 1840s which came about when a certain strain of mold wiped out the entire 'lumper' variety of potato that the Irish were depending on for their staple diet.
Pesticide - a chemical designed to kill insects.
Plasmid - small circular DNA molecules occurring and replicating in bacteria independent of its chromosomal information, is used as the vector to transport foreign genes into target organisms.
Proteins - molecules composed of amino acids that are responsible for all metabolic processes, such as building muscle, bones, and transporting blood, regulating hormones. We all have a hundred thousand different proteins all formed from just 20 amino acids, whose sequence is defined in the genetic code or DNA. Our genetic code is read and transmitted to the "protein factories" (ribosomes) in the cells, where proteins are then created.
Recombination - the technique of rearranging, cutting out or splicing together of genes to create artificially constructed DNA molecules, or 'recombinant DNA'.
RNA - Ribonucleic acid, an essential substance for translating genetic information. RNA exists in the form of a single strand, rather than a double helix, and its function is to transport and translate the information stored in the DNA, and also influences gene activity itself.
Roundup(TM) - The No. 1 selling herbicide on the market today, manufactured by Monsanto. Many geneticallly engineered crops are Roundup Ready crops, engineered to be resistant to the spraying of the herbicide Roundup, by having a gene inserted that helps to metabolize the poison. In this way the chemical can be sprayed much more freely over entire fields to deal with unwanted weeds, without killing the crops outright. A growing body of science is accumulating on the dangers of this chemical and its persistence in the environment.
Substantial Equivalence - a concept, first described in an Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) publication in 1993, which stresses than an assessment of a novel food, in particular one that is genetically modified, should demonstrate that the food is as safe as its traditional counterpart. This concept has been used as a cornerstone by the FDA, and regulatory bodies around the world, to allow GMO crops to be commercialized without any pre-market testing. Equivalence is said to be based on chemical and nutritional profiles, cursory tests to detect the presence of known toxins, with no exploration of the possibility of new and unknown ones, and is evaluated by industry itself.
Transgene - a gene that has been introduced into the genome of an organism by means of genetic engineering.
USDA - United States Department of Agriculture, the federal department that administers programs to provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation, and efforts to stabilize the farming economy). They have oversight over experimental field trials of GMO crops.


Jonas visits a fortune teller first. She sends him to a Voodoo Doctor to help him eliminate his chronically ill wife. The means is delivered with precise instructions that were not followed and a triumphant demon does what he loves the best. Now: if you live at 114 Mimosa, move! You won't like what happens if you stay.
Jonas Stricky sat in a dimly lighted room breathing in the heavy, thick smell of often used incense. Across a round table, draped with a dingy grey cloth, sat Sister Grace, a fortune teller of renowned fame. He waited nervously, palms' sweating, for her to reply to his inquiries concerning his future and his marriage. Sister Grace watched the crystal ball on the table between them. More intently, she watched the reaction of her client from the corner of her eye. She exercised caution, for she had met many strange persons during her career. Jonas was more unsettling than most, and she found herself wary. Since he had spoken the first time, his demeanor had kept her on guard. She vowed she would not let it down, until she discovered what he really wanted. "I see much trouble in your future, Jonas," she said after a few motions of her hand over the ball. "I knew it!" stuttered Jonas "It's the wife, right? There's been nothing but trouble for me since I married her." Ah, Sister Grace thought. Now we make progress. "I see grief, plenty of grief, and death. It looks as if your wife will die." "When?" whispered Jonas anxiously. "Not soon, I'm afraid. I see long years of suffering for her. Much time will pass before release of life comes. The grief is for you and your thoughts, Jonas," replied Sister Grace. Jonas sat silent and thoughtful for a spell. "I don't want her to suffer more than she has. It isn't right for people to lay and suffer. Can you hasten her death?" His voice carried a pleading quality that sickened Sister Grace. She sat up straight, staring icily at him. "Sir, I cannot do things such as that, nor would I if I could. I see only the future as it will be. I don't try to change it." He was pensive for a few moments as the fingers on his right hand drummed top. "Well, if you can't, do you know someone who can? Surely you must." Sister Grace sighed. "People like you disgust me. You give honest fortune tellers a bad name. Why not live with her and let it pass?" Jonas scowled. "I can't live with her." "You could divorce her." "Money. She has lots of money." "Then just never mind, but stop talking for now." She left the table and disappeared through a set of hanging beads in the doorway. She returned shortly with a scrap of paper with a name and address on it. "Here," she said, as discourteous as possible. She handed the paper to him. "The man's name is David Bascombe. He has no phone, doesn't believe in them. He can help you if he wishes, and he probably will. Furthermore, mark my words, you will live to regret it. Now, remove yourself from my place. For as long as we both live, I wish never to see your face again."


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Reviving Roman Religion
Sacred Trees in the Roman World
Part of Cambridge Classical Studies
Author: Ailsa Hunt, Newnham College, Cambridge
Sacred trees are easy to dismiss as a simplistic, weird phenomenon, but this book argues that in fact they prompted sophisticated theological thinking in the Roman world. Challenging major aspects of current scholarly constructions of Roman religion, Ailsa Hunt rethinks what sacrality means in Roman culture, proposing an organic model which defies the current legalistic approach. She approaches Roman religion as a 'thinking' religion (in contrast to the ingrained idea of Roman religion as orthopraxy) and warns against writing the environment out of our understanding of Roman religion, as has happened to date. In addition, the individual trees showcased in this book have much to tell us which enriches and thickens our portraits of Roman religion, be it about the subtleties of engaging in imperial cult, the meaning of numen, the interpretation of portents, or the way statues of the Divine communicate.
A new and attention-catching contribution to a well-established field
Challenges many current scholarly assumptions about Roman religion
Employs a variety of sources, and introduces readers to various rich texts which are almost always overlooked and may be hard to access
contains: 17 b/w illus. 2 tables
1. Rooting in: why give time to sacred trees?
2. A brief history of tree-thinking: the enduring power of animism
3. How arboreal matter matters: rethinking sacrality through trees
4. Arboriculture and arboreal deaths: rethinking sacrality again
5. Confronting arboreal agency: reading the Divine in arboreal behaviour
6. Imagining the gods: how trees flesh out the identity of the Divine
7. Branching out: what sacred trees mean for Roman religion.
Ailsa Hunt, Newnham College, Cambridge
Ailsa Hunt is Isaac Newton Research Fellow in Classics at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
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Popular Morality in the Early Roman Empire
Stories of Daily Life from the Roman World
Extracts from the Ancient Colloquia
Religious Networks in the Roman Empire
The Spread of New Ideas
Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World
A Social and Cultural History
Friendship in the Classical World
Empire and Ideology in the Graeco-Roman World
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Osun 2022: Beware of membership slips' buyers, Oyetola tells APC members
The Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, has urged All Progressives Congress loyalists to be wary of those that are buying membership slips ahead of Saturday's governorship primary.
This is as the governor also expressed confidence in the strengths of the party members to elect him at the primary and ensure his emergence at the governorship election.
These were contained in a statement titled, 'You're a game-changer, you deserve a second term, Owa Obokun of Ijesaland tells Oyetola', and signed by Oyetola's spokesman, Ismail Omipidan, on Wednesday.
The governor spoke in Ijesa-South Federal Constituency while addressing supporters and members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party in Iperindo, Atakumosa East Local Government Area, that defected to APC.
Oyetola implored the party loyalists to keep their membership slips jealously and come out in large numbers to vote for him as the direct mode has been chosen by the National Secretariat of the party.
Speaking on behalf of the defectors, Mr. Femi Adanlawo, lauded Oyetola for his commitment to the welfare of the people, saying his performance had motivated them to decamp from their former party.
Adanlawo, who described APC as the only party that cares for the welfare of the masses, said their defection would contribute meaningfully to the growth and development of the party.
He called on the co-defectors to see the party as theirs, noting that the rousing welcome given to them was a sign that the party meant well for all regardless of background or status.
The new members promised to work hand-in-hand with the leadership and members of the party to ensure victory for Oyetola in the primary and governorship election.
Earlier, the Owa Obokun Adimula of Ijesaland, Oba Gabriel Adekunle Aromolaran, and Alamo of Ayegbaju-Ijesa, Oba Adeyemi Abideen, lauded Oyetola for running a people-oriented government that has brought drastic change to all sectors.
They disclosed that the entire Ijesa people are resolute to return Oyetola for second term in reciprocation of his modest achievements in the last three years.
"I pledge on behalf of the Ijesa traditional rulers, sons, and daughters that we are resolute to support you and continue to give your adminstration topmost cooperation and vote for you massively in order to make sure that you are returned elected.
"You will be returned. Whoever doesn't want can go and hit his head on the floor. We don't care. We believe strongly that you will win across the State. I am in full control of Ijesaland and whatever I say is binding on every Ijesa son and daughter as the paramount ruler.
"Please put your mind at rest. We are for you. I know you are for us too, you are our own and nothing can change it. We are very glad that you know our requests", Aromolaran said.


I have been looking around and can't find the difference between the two. I know the PADI can be started online but can NAUI be started online?
I'm looking at either starting the PADI online then just finishing it in FL. for my vacation or taking a class locally then finishing the dives in FL.
Any ideas or thought would be great!
I tried to go to the NAUI web site but it locks me out. Personally, they are both about the same as far as skills and training. I'm sorry to say I don't know about and NAUI on online courses.
In all honesty for beginning divers they are very close to the same. I just got certified through PADI this year and nephew is in the process of getting his NAUI cert through college. In comparing the courses there is very little difference. My husband has several certs from different agencies, the only one that is a major difference is HSA which certifies divers with handicaps and you have totest up to each successive level before certification.
thats kind of what I was thinking.....they are about the same.
I know this is an older thread, but figured I add something I've noticed. PADI seems to be very focused on providing a lot of information and is regimented. NAUI publishes less information in its books and gives the instructors a lot more freedom in how they conduct their training. I did PADI Open Water and NAUI Advanced Diver. I also have the PADI AOW book, called Adventures in Diving. I found the PADI book to be much more informative and it is about 5 times as thick as the NAUI one. The PADI basic book is also thicker than the NAUI version.
The quality of the instructor matters a lot more than the agency.
NAUI allows a little more freeform deviation from the "rules" than PADI does... with a good instructor, this is a very thing, with a mediocre instructor, this doesn't help you. PADI has much better materials (IMO) and is more recognized worldwide. So there are tradeoffs to both.
I went PADI (many moons ago) and don't regret it, although if I was starting from scratch today I'd go with NAUI only because I know a few phenominal NAUI instructors who won't teach under PADI.
After i finish the NAUI OW can I take the PADI AOW ?
Yes. Both companies recognize each other's training, at least, at the recreational level. It gets more complicated at the professional level.
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Alex formally joined the family business in 1992 and succeeded his father, Lester, as CEO in 2004. Prior to joining Kaye-Smith Enterprises, Alex worked in radio, film production and advertising in Seattle and New York City. He is active in Bellevue Rotary, contributes his time to several community service efforts and is on the trustee boards of The Seattle Chamber of Commerce, The Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research and The Tateuchi Center (formally known as Performing Arts Center Eastside). Alex holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington. Alex lives in Issaquah with his wife and two children.
Randy Gifford
Vice President & General Manager
Randy joined Kaye-Smith in 1994 as an accountant and soon held the position of Controller. After several years as Assistant General Manager, Randy was promoted to the position of Vice President and General Manger of Kaye-Smith. He is a graduate of Central Washington University where he earned a BA in Accounting.
Randy loves all sports, particularly baseball, basketball and football. Randy and his wife of 25 years have two children – a son in college and a daughter in high school. The Gifford family enjoys frequent road trips to their various sporting events held throughout the region.
Joan St. Marie
Joan first worked for Kaye-Smith as an intern from 1984 to 1986. After her experience working as a public accountant for Ernst & Whinney, Kaye-Smith hired her back as a Controller in 1988. She was promoted to CFO in 1996. Joan is a graduate of the University of Washington and is a Certified Public Accountant. Joan and her husband, Scott, live in Bellevue with their two children.
Dick Ehrig
After spending a decade in account management at two of Seattle's largest advertising agencies, Dick joined Kaye-Smith in 1993 as a sales executive. Two years later he accepted the assignment of managing the sales operations at Kaye-Smith's Portland, Oregon, facility. In 2000 he returned to the main Renton facility to assume his current position as Sales Manager.
Dick received his BA in Business Marketing/Communications from the University of Puget Sound in 1981. Married 28 years, he has a UW graduate daughter and a senior son at Gonzaga. He enjoys watching sports on TV (Pac-12 college football, in particular), cooking, golf, skiing, reading the newspaper (Seattle Times) and boating on Puget Sound.
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Sales Manager of Branded Merchandise
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A graduate of the University of Washington, Mike currently lives on a 12-acre hobby farm in Gig Harbor with his wife and two children. In his free time, he enjoys fishing and hunting with his son and watching his daughter play volleyball.


NSTableView - How can the background color of the row views be changed dynamically?
View based NSTableView - OS X 10.10 and later.
I want to change the background color of the displayed rows in a table view. Basically, I have a button in the window and when I click this button I want to change the background color of some rows.
Well, this does not work.
This does not work as these methods are not invoked when calling reloadData or reloadDataForRowIndexes:columnIndexes: .The change is only applied when a new row is added.
And trying to lie with noteNumberOfRowsChanged does not help.
This does not work, the background color set in this method was never taken into account when I tried this.
Am I missing something an obvious solution?
Re: NSTableView - How can the background color of the row views be changed dynamically?
Have you tried simply obtaining a reference to the row view(s) using -rowViewAtRow:makeIfNecessary: and then setting its(their) backgroundColor property?
Yes, I tried this in the tableView:viewForTableColumn:row: method (as the color of the row can change and row views can be reused).
There are no backgroundColor properties on NSTableCellView. There is one for layers. But I don't enable layers.
Also this does not fill the entire row (width or height).
reloadData was actually not called because Foundation is both quite clever and completely dumb when it comes to empty NSSet or NSArray instances.
2 calls to [NSSet setWithArray:@]; will return the same "pointer".
So if you try to compare the 2 instances in a setter method, they will be equal even from an address point of view.
The tableView:didAddRowView:forRow: and tableView:didRemoveRowView:forRow: works when the problem above is addressed.


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There are only so many hours in a day and as entrepreneurs, we are very good at filling them. And that is the problem.
Are you trapped by the dollars for hours model or just so busy trying to keep all the plates spinning that all you really do is work IN your business? You can't scale your business if you have no time to work ON your business.
In our business accelerator program, we help entrepreneurs leverage their time so they can buy back what they need to create online products and services. One of the popular ways to do that is with a membership model product.
So many entrepreneurs have grown their business through providing direct, one-on-one services and are maxed out in time and resources. There is no room for them to scale. Many are already at the top of their fee range, so what's an entrepreneur to do when they reach that point?
To scale your business as a service provider, you must create more leverage with your time.
If you are tired of feeling like a hamster on a wheel in your own business, a membership program might be the solution you are looking for.
There are a few caveats though. A membership program does require a lot of work, an investment in development and most often will require money for advertising to create awareness and convert leads to purchasing clients. To grow your business online, it almost always requires paid traffic.
It is not a build it and they will come scenario.
This can be a very lucrative road to travel, but it will not happen without some planning, time investment and money.
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Membership programs create a recurring revenue model that can help you leverage your time and resources. A typical membership program will provide ongoing access to helpful resources, training, community involvement or products that your target offer wants. Membership programs are also called subscription-based programs.
Membership programs are not for the faint of heart. This is definitely a model that you want to take the time to create a strategic plan before you just dive right in. A membership program lives or dies on engagement and new content. If you don't have the time to create content now, you won't have time to create it for a membership program, so planning is key.
You are probably a member of multiple programs yourself. Think about it: do you have a Netflix membership? Are any of your business tools billed on a monthly basis for access?
Do you belong to Amazon Prime? Do you participate in any online memberships that provide training or marketing resources?
In 2014, American Express Open Forum produced a study citing that 41% of revenue from consumer purchases comes from repeat, recurring purchases.
Having a membership model or subscription model for your business can be very profitable if you do the work necessary to give value and make your member's lives better.
You are ready to create a membership program if you are willing to commit to your membership for at least 1-year and you have a defined content and engagement strategy.
Membership programs are everywhere. I have no doubts that you are a member of at least one membership program in your personal life or business. Membership programs can be a GREAT product for you if you are a coach, consultant, service provider, creative entrepreneur or small business owner. To be successful with your membership program, start by creating a solid strategy and follow through on all of the steps needed to create and market your membership.
If you believe a membership product is right for your business but you are not sure where to start, email me and I'll help you find your fastest path to cash with a membership program during a free discovery call. I will help you identify your next steps + outline your initial strategy to attract members.
This group was created for business owners, entrepreneurs, authors, influencers, small business owners, speakers, online marketers, strategists, coaches, experts who are looking to expand the reach of their businesses, connect with other amazing entrepreneurs to mastermind and build relationships.


I recently purchased a set of 4 lipbalms from a company called Crazy Rumors. What immediately caught my attention was, of course, the funny name and the flavors of the lipbalms (ranging from Candyfloss to Bubblegum) It's the kind of flavors that you expect to taste like chemicals, but don't be fooled… everything is natural!
So who's Crazy Rumors? On their website , we learn that it was created by a couple, Edie and Brian Himmel. With the motto "Naturally Fun products", Crazy Rumors sells clean products in a quirky and lighthearted way. So it's basically a fun, ethical family business.
Sherbet" and "Mint chocolate", while my sister kept "Banana Split" and "Orange Creamsicle". Since I've used up my beloved Hurraw balm, I'm glad I found this brand.
Texture wise, they are less creamy than the Hurraw balms, but they are really moisturizing.
It's a nice balm to carry in your everyday bag.
Now, I'd love to try "Pistachio", "Peppermint Lemongrass", "Berrygum", "Gingerale" and "Limeade".
What about you, have you tried any of them? Or do you know another nice brand of lipbalms?
Lesson learned : when you buy makeup online, check some swatches first.


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MEP Profiles: Conservative
by Benjamin Mulvihill	21.May 2014
Conservative MEPs are bracing themselves for a cull. The rise of the Eurosceptic UKIP has come at the cost of much needed votes for Conservatives at mid-(or late, rather)-term elections.
PHILIP BRADBOURN MEP
Philip Bradbourn has been member of the European Parliament since 1999.
Until his election he was adviser to the Conservative Group Leader on Wolverhampton City Council. He held various local authority posts mainly based around planning. He was also the Chairman of the West Midlands Region Conservatives.
In the 1992 General Election he stood as Conservative Candidate in the Wolverhampton South-East Parliamentary Constituency and in the 1994 European Elections was Conservative Candidate for the County Durham European Constituency. He was Chief Whip for the Conservatives in the European Parliament from April 2004 to January 2007, and was appointed Chief Whip again in November 2009. He is currently Conservative Spokesman for Regional Policy and Local Government.
He was awarded the OBE for public and political service in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 1994. It looks likely that Mr Bradbourne will be the region's only Conservative MEP.
ANTHEA MCINTYRE MEP
Former consultant and farmer Anthea McIntyre was appointed to the European Parliament in December 2011 under treaty changes from the Lisbon Treaty which saw the creation of an extra seat in the region.
McIntyre stood unsuccessfully for parliament in Redditch in the general election of 1997. She was also unsuccessful as a candidate in the 2009 European election.
Due to population growth, Brussels decided to allocate a new seat in the West Midlands region in 2011. The results of the 2009 European elections were used to decide who would have won the additional seat if it had existed then. The result was that it was awarded to McIntyre, though there was some criticism about the 'undemocratic' nature of her appointment.
McIntyre has taken particular interest in employment, agriculture and civil liberties during her time at the European Parliament, but will face a stiff challenge to keep her seat as second on the list. We're currently predicting the Conservatives will only win a single seat, but if the Liberal Democrat vote falls significantly below 10% in the region, due to the unusual voting system, she may stand a chance.
DAN DALTON
Daniel Dalton is a senior policy adviser to the ECR group in the European Parliament in the areas of agriculture, culture, education and sport.
Prior to entering politics, Dan was a professional cricketer and cricket coach who played on many occasions for Warwickshire CCC second X1, Warwickshire Cricket Board as well as for Knowle and Dorridge, Moseley and Leamington in the Birmingham League.
Dan was selected as a candidate for the Conservative West Midlands list for the 2009 European Elections, but failed to win election. Unfortunately, it seems likely that Dalton will suffer the same fate. As third on the list, current polling suggests he won't be heading to Brussels and Strasbourg on Monday.
The other candidates include:
MICHAEL BURNETT
SIBBY BUCKLE
DAN SAMES
ALEX AVERN


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The Who Concert Guide
Gigographie
John Entwistle
Concert Gallery
Songs & Records
Antwerp, Lotto Arena
The Who, Friday, 08. June 2007
Real Good Looking Boy
A Man In A Purple Dress
Cry If You Want
See Me Feel Me
Tea And Theatre
Roger Daltrey: Harmonica, Vocals, Guitar
Pete Townshend: Vocals, Guitar
John Bundrick: Keyboards, Piano
Pino Palladino: Bass
Zak Starkey: Drums
Simon Townshend: Backing Vocal, Guitar
Venue change from Sports Palais to Lotto Arena (5700 places).
Fanreports
Mark Reilly
In stark contrast to earlier in the week when the juggernaut that is The Rolling Stones launched their latest European Tour in a large field in Flanders to a fanfare of tailbacks on the motorways, The Who treated the 5400 crowd to a sparkling cross-section of their 43 year back catalogue in perhaps the most intimate setting that they will encounter on this summer's tour. Arriving on stage with a minimum of fanfare, Roger Daltrey belied his 63 years with a youthful physique clad entirely in black. Across the stage, dressed in white shirt and with grey stubble prominent on his face, Pete Townshend resembled a grizzled academic as he led the band into a high octane opening salvo of "I Can't Explain", "The Seeker" and "Substitute", each one a hit single from an era when the music rather than the image was the medium for communicating with the audience. This set the tone for a 2-hour set rich with Townshend's articulate musical essays ranging from the anger of youth ("My Generation") to the more recent Dylanesque expression of disillusionment with the hypocrisy of organised religions ("A Man in a Purple Dress"). Townshend was in surprisingly good humour throughout, jokily threatening to invoke EEC sanctions on one rowdy reveller near the front of the stage, before definitively reclaiming "Behind Blue Eyes" from the limp cover version perpetrated on the world a few years ago with a series of windmills during the song's energetic mid-section. Backed by long time side-men Pino Palladino (bass), Simon Townshend (guitar), John 'Rabbit' Bundrick (keyboards) and the excellent, underrated Zak Starkey (drums), his guitar work, both electric and acoustic, was dazzling throughout. The stunning interplay between Townshend and Starkey on the "Amazing Journey/Sparks" section of the Tommy encore was the highpoint of the show. Doubts have been expressed regarding the ability of Daltrey's voice to sustain the rigours of a long tour, given his age and the nature of the material he performs. He was in fine voice throughout, expressing his thanks to Elvis for inspiring him to the life he has had, rather than the one he might have had ("Real Good Looking Boy"), before delivering his finest vocal performances of the evening on those signature Who anthems "Baba O'Riley" and "Won't Get Fooled Again". A refreshing performance was brought to a thoughtful, almost spiritual end with the tender, reflective "Tea and Theatre" the last song on the Who's latest album "Endless Wire". It is a song that brings them full circle. Townshend and Daltrey alone on stage. Talking about their generation.
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Therapy can be short term or long term, this is decided between you and me.
Sessions can be weekly, twice weekly or fortnightly and are usually at a set time each week - however I can be flexible.
They are 50 minutes in length and cost £45.


Does Google simply exist to make your life harder? It's certainly possible, and you probably feel more that way than ever thanks to their encryption of all keyword searches this fall. If you're still left wondering what it means for your site and online marketing, we can assure you that it's certainly nothing good.
Google has mentioned that they decided to move to keyword data encryption to offer a measure of protection for their searchers. It's also possible that they wanted to block federal agencies from spying on them. More than that, though, there's probably a solid financial motive from Google on this. They encrypted everything but the ad clicks, so they're likely trying to drive people to use AdWords instead of other methods. Rest assured that there's a financial picture behind every move Google makes.
Luckily, there are a few things you can do. One of the biggest is something you should probably be doing anyway, raising your organic traffic numbers. That means focusing on the results of your business instead of the keywords. You can also track the performance of your URLs, which may make a lot more sense given the volatility of keyword rankings anyway. One final strategy? Use other search engines like Bing and Yahoo to make up the utter data deficit provided by Google's move.
Google is going to shift and change again and again, so building your entire SEO strategy around them is never a good idea, but in some cases, those changes they make will certainly affect you. Focus on good content, though, and you can never lose.


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'Hunger Games' feasts on competition with $75.8M
Moviegoing audiences satiated their "Hunger" pangs this Thanksgiving.
'Hunger Games' feasts on competition with $75.8M Moviegoing audiences satiated their "Hunger" pangs this Thanksgiving. Check out this story on thespectrum.com: http://www.thespectrum.com/story/life/2015/11/29/hunger-games-feasts-competition/76545490/
USA Today Published 7:29 p.m. MT Nov. 29, 2015
Liam Hemsworth, left, and Jennifer Lawrence, right, star in "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2," the box-office champ for the second week in a row.(Photo: Murray Close, Lionsgate/AP)
Franchise closer "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2" gobbled up the competition for the five-day holiday and topped the box office for the second straight weekend with $75.8 million, according to studio estimates from Rentrak.
Many in Hollywood thought its $101 million opening — the lowest debut of the four movies since 2012 starring Jennifer Lawrence — was disappointing, according to Rentrak media analyst Paul Dergarabedian. However, so far the action adventure has racked up $440.7 million worldwide and is inching closer to $3 billion total for the series.
"It's one of the crown jewels of all-time franchises, in a very short amount of time," Dergarabedian said. "For a franchise that has been in the marketplace not for that long, it's certainly made its mark and in impressive fashion."
"Mockingjay" also managed to hold off two strong newcomers. Pixar's animated "The Good Dinosaur," a family-friendly film about a dino and a caveboy, was second with $55.6 million. The prehistoric cartoon met with good reviews (77 percent approval rating at aggregate site RottenTomatoes.com), and audiences gave it an A at CinemaScore. To have two Pixar movies in one calendar is unusual, and while it didn't match "Inside Out's" $90.4 million first weekend, "Good Dinosaur" still had a "very strong" opening, Dergarabedian said.
"For families, that was just the perfect option (for Thanksgiving weekend)," he said. "That was a smart move and a great release date for that movie."
Boxing drama "Creed," which featured a returning Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) training Apollo Creed's son (Michael B. Jordan), made its debut in third with $42.6 million. It also received an A at CinemaScore and was met with critical acclaim (93 percent at Rotten Tomatoes).
Word of mouth has been outstanding, and Dergarabedian said he has heard anecdotes about crowds cheering during screenings.
It's "a real crowd-pleaser," he said. "This is a movie that is really going to get a lot of attention. It's not just a 'Rocky' movie — it's much more than that."
The James Bond film "Spectre" continued its strong run, finishing fourth with $18.2 million, and Charlie Brown and "The Peanuts Movie" rounded out the top five with $13.6 million.
The only other wide debut, "Victor Frankenstein" with James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe, was a disaster. Its $3.4 million total finished a tough week for the movie after getting roughed up by critics (just 23 percent liked it at Rotten Tomatoes) and garnering a horrific C at CinemaScore.
Dergarabedian said Thanksgiving was "an unusual time" to release it, though seeing a horror film come out during the holiday season isn't odd — "The Exorcist" arrived in theaters a day after Christmas in 1973, and this Friday brings the scare-fest "Krampus." The Frankenstein reimagining's biggest problem, though, was going up against A-list brands such as "Hunger Games," Pixar, "Rocky," 007 and "Peanuts."
"That's another example of a film being so overwhelmed by the options in the marketplace," Dergarabedian said. Awards-ready drama "The Danish Girl," starring Eddie Redmayne as transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, earned $185,000 in four theaters — averaging more than $46,000 per screen. And journalism drama "Spotlight" continued its nationwide expansion, nabbing $5.7 million for five days and pushing its total box office to $12.3 million. It wasn't a historic Thanksgiving box-office weekend but still a solid one, according to Dergarabedian. It is usually an important frame when it comes to the overall yearly box office, and thus far 2015 is running 4 percent ahead of last year and is neck-and-neck with the record-breaking year of 2013.
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This project has been deferred indefinitely. It was to include a new moveable rail bridge to add track capacity to and from Terminal Island, as well as the seismic retrofitting of the existing Badger Rail Bridge. A preliminary seismic analysis was completed for the existing bridge.


Fixed Charge Receiverships are partner led by Jim Stafford and Tom Murray. We have developed a strong reputation for taking charge of bank assets and meeting the bank's wishes as to whether the property should be placed on the market immediately, or leased to tenants until the market improves.
The primary function of an asset receiver is to realise the asset, collect rent and assuming that the mortgage deed incorporates the power of sale, to ultimately sell the mortgaged property. The clear advantage to a charge holder in appointing an asset receiver is that the receiver and not the charge holder assumes the onerous responsibilities of landlord etc.
Generally a mortgage deed will incorporate a specific power to appoint a receiver, however in the absence of such a power there is provision under the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 which affords a mortgagee the statutory power to appoint a receiver over the income of a mortgaged property.
A receiver appointed under statutory power is an agent for the borrower. However, his primary function is to realise the assets charged for the benefit of the mortgagee. A receiver appointed under statutory power can demand and recover any rent due on the property over which he is appointed receiver. In certain cases where a borrower has granted a lease, the charge holder is not bound to the terms of lease even though rent may have been paid to the receiver and the charge holder may terminate the lease at any time.
In most cases of receivership over personal assets, the charge does not extend to cover chattels and in certain instances rent receivable may have to be apportioned between the property and chattels.
With all asset receiverships there are common problems encountered which can significantly impact on the net realisable values obtainable by the mortgagee. Typically lack of cooperation from the borrower can make it difficult to build a profile of the property including its VAT history, potential charges to CGT, rental roll, lease terms and documentation, financial contributions, local authority rates outstanding, certification costs, and duress payments necessary to bring the property to a saleable condition. Add to the above listing the lack of a functioning management company in an apartment development and with potential buyers and their advisors required to meet ever more stringent conditions when drawing finance for any property, the task of an asset receiver becomes more difficult. Despite the difficulties which can be encountered the appointment of a receiver by a mortgagee is often the optimum remedy to take control of a secured asset.


Many Americans don't need to wonder if they need flood insurance — it's required as a condition of their home loan. But unlike car insurance, flood insurance isn't required simply because you own property. In these cases, flood insurance raises the same question as other insurance policies do: When does the premium outweigh the actual risk? Even a $650 annual premium, the amount the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) cites as average, seems like a lot if you never use the coverage.
Flood damage isn't covered under most homeowners' policies, and some can responsibly do without benefits. Here's what to do if you choose that route—and how to save if you want protection after all.
If flood insurance isn't required as a condition of your mortgage, you're not obligated to carry it. However, even a minimal amount of flooding can have disastrous financial consequences. According to the NFIP, one foot of water could cause $27,150 of damage to a 1,000-square-foot home, and the average claim is more than $38,000. You can use the program's tool to generate a personalized estimate. Moderate-to-low-risk areas still receive one-third of federal disaster assistance for floods.
That said, if you live in a low-risk zone, you might want to weigh the cost of coverage against the likelihood of having to file a claim. If your area has never sustained serious damage, and you're thinking of dropping your plan (or not getting one in the first place), you should still set aside money for repairs.
Consider having the amount you'd pay in premiums automatically deposited each month into a high-yield checking or money market account. This will get you better returns than simply saving your cash and with little risk. Some states, such as South Carolina, also allow customers to place their emergency funds in Catastrophe Savings Accounts that are exempt from state income tax. Federal taxes still apply, and disbursements would be taxed as normal if withdrawn for purposes other than flood repairs.
Unless you're certain you could financially weather a major flood, do not take the decision about coverage lightly. Get estimates for potential damage and consult with a financial planner or representative from your bank to see if the costs are feasible.


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Have been through many threads from past 1 week, nothing seems to work for me.
I have tried formatting my Mac as well, still the same problem persists.
React native version - 0.65
If anyone has any leads, please let me know.
Any help will be highly appreciated, thanks!