Music goes with me wherever I walk. Sometimes that is literal, as when I walk to work attached to my iPod. But failing that it is in the form of what I call "head tunes". These may be the musical equivalent of mad voices and of possible interest to a psychologist. And who hasn't had one of those annoying tunes that follows them around unbidden and unwanted? The Germans have coined a very apt word for it: ohrwurm – literally "ear worm".
Usually my head tunes are of the welcome variety: music that I've heard recently that somehow fits with what I'm doing and pops back into my head. It becomes a kind of soundtrack for my life. Just occasionally, usually while doing a hard walk, I will even make up tunes. I don't set out to do this, but something about the ambulatory rhythm, and perhaps the pleasure/pain of what's involved in walking, resolves itself into musical form.
There is however one extremely unwelcome form of ear worm. That's the tune that gets planted there by one of your companions. Here's an example I include in my (unfinished) walking book. To set the scene, it happens immediately after the sublime experience of reaching the summit of Tasmania's Federation Peak.
We stumble back to the campsite in heavy rain. Surrounded by mud, exhausted, windblown and wet to the skin, we should be miserable. We're far from it, at least until Bill shares a worse-than-useless bit of news with us. He tells us he's been accompanied all the way down by a tune that sprang into his head while we were on top. Unfortunately it's the Carpenters' song "Top of the World". And not only does he share this with us, he actually sings a verse out loud.
There's a pleasin' sense of happiness for me."
Inexplicably we find ourselves joining him for the chorus, Jim and I going so far as to hold an imaginary microphones up to our mouths.
Your love's put me at the top of the world."
Our choral complicity implies for one brief moment that we think the song somewhat apt. But when Bill tries another verse we quickly come to our senses, and threaten to throw him over the nearest cliff if he dares to sing or mention the song again.
He pretends to be offended, but gives the game away by grinning cunningly. He knows that the damage is done, that we will each internally hum that infernal tune right through our (very wet) dinner preparations. He stays silent as we eat, but his look is that of a farmer who's just finished sowing his crop as the rain begins.
Is there any hope when such a despicable thing has been done to you? Is there any hero who can slay that monstrous ear worm? One sovereign remedy I have read about and tried is the "Womble Cure".
The theory is that if you have one of those diabolical tunes stuck in your head, you simply start singing the theme from the Wombles of Wimbledon. This may sound like a "hair-of-the-dog" kind of cure, but I think it is soundly based. Most of us, it seems, know the first verse of Mike Batt's tune (Underground overground wombling free, the Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we …etc) and can fearlessly sing that much of it. But from there on we struggle: I've met very few who can proceed to the second verse.
And that, I believe, is the secret to the cure. Like walking into a mire, or driving a racing car into track-side gravel, your forward momentum is stopped. You simply cease singing, and the ear worm shrivels and dies.
The walking mates with whom I've shared this cure haven't quite come to swear by it yet. Indeed there's been a certain amount of graceless swearing AT me for it. But I think they will come around in the end.
I spent a few days using the womble cure to get rid of an ear worm (I won't mention it - or it might stick). It worked, despite Jim's protests!
I then read this article and tried to remember the song that I used the womble cure to rid it......AND guess what....the tune came back to me..AHHHHH! so its back to the womble cure again.
lesson? once you're cured, don't go back!!!
Sorry to be a bit of a Thomas on this one, Dad, but it doesn't work for me.
I had to have a bit of a chuckle this morning. Eldest daughter's school plays music over the PA to let the kids know that it's time to return to their classrooms. This morning was an instrumental (big-band!) version of "It's Been a Hard Day's Night". So apt for me...Middle child just stared incredulously as I joined in and sang the words, buckling the baby into the car.


text:
Quincy Media and much of the television industry plan for channel changes as a result of FCC Spectrum Auction
June 29, 2018 7:11 am Jon Okerstrom Culture
Starting in 2018, nearly 1,000 television stations nationwide, and nearly a dozen Quincy Media-related stations, will need to change their transmitting systems to new channels. These changes are required as a result of the Federal Communications Commission's auction of 70 MHz of broadcast spectrum to wireless telephone companies.
About the need for the auction, the FCC says, "today, there are more connected mobile devices than there are people living in the U.S., and about 70 percent of Americans use data -hungry smartphones. This increasing demand for wireless airwaves poses a major challenge to ensuring that America's networks have the capacity to support the critical economic, public safety, health care and other activities that rely on them. In order to meet this challenge, the FCC designed the broadcast incentive auction through close bipartisan collaboration with Congress as well as the broadcast and wireless industries."
The National Association of Broadcasters says, "NAB congratulates the FCC on completing the incentive auction. We are now eager to work with the Commission to ensure a smooth repacking transition that protects consumer access to local news, weather, community service and lifeline emergency programming. We look forward to working on a bipartisan basis with policymakers on a seamless transition for our tens of millions of TV viewers and radio listeners."
While QMI did not participate in the auction, 11 Quincy Media properties or stations we support will be changing channels starting in 2018 as part of this initiative. Our goal is to minimize any disruption to our viewers and to maximize the opportunity to serve our communities.
Stations affected include:
KTIV, Sioux City, IA
KXLT-TV, Rochester, MN
WAOE, Peoria, IL
WBNG, Binghamton, NY
WHOI, Peoria, IL
WISE-TV, Fort Wayne, IN
WMOW, Crandon, WI
WQOW, Eau Claire, WI
WSJV, Elkhart, IN
WVVA, Bluefield, WV
WXOW, La Crosse, WI
As the transition nears in each market, you can expect your local television station to provide plenty of information to viewers on how to make sure your televisions receive our stations on the new channels without interruption.
This video gives a brief look at the difficulty, costly and disruptive nature of this transition.[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l03Hff97hqE[/embedyt]
KBJR, WKOW, WXOW, KTIV, KTTC honored by Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association
WGEM News awarded for journalistic excellence
From Quintern to News Director: an example for future journalists of what's possible

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


There is no set uniform for this class. Please make sure both parent and child are wearing something comfortable to move in and bare feet (no socks as the floor can be slippery and no hard shoes).
Girls- Pink or black short sleeved leotard, pink wrap-around style ballet skirt, pink ballet tights or pink ballet (ankle) socks, pink ballet shoes with elastics.
Optional: pink wrap around ballet cardigan, pink lycra headband.
Boys- White short sleeved leotard, black lycra shorts, white ankle socks, black ballet shoes with elastics.
Optional: black wrap around ballet cardigan.
Girls- Black short sleeved leotard, pink wrap-around style ballet skirt, pink ballet tights or pink ballet (ankle) socks, pink ballet shoes with elastics.
Boys- White short sleeved leotard, black lycra shorts or leggings, white ankle socks, black ballet shoes with elastics.
Girls- Black short sleeved leotard, pink ballet skirt, pink ballet tights or pink (ankle) socks, pink ballet shoes with elastics.
Boys- White short sleeved leotard, black leggings, white ankle socks, black ballet shoes with elastics.
Girls- Black short sleeved or sleeveless leotard, pink ballet skirt, pink ballet tights or pink (ankle) socks, pink ballet shoes with elastics.
Girls- Black sleeveless leotard, pink ballet tights, pink satin ballet shoes with ribbons.
It is essential that your child has the correct uniform for their class. Please see the class lists below for further details.
For the first couple of classes, if you do not already have the uniform please bring your child in comfortable clothes that are easy to move in (such as leggings and t-shirt) and bare feet. A skirt over leggings would be beneficial for the girls but not essential for the trial.


text:
Press Contact Newsletter
Laureate concerts
Competition & MasterClasses
Birth of an International Festival
Accommodation & Catering in Béarn des Gaves
Concerts locations
Anabel Montesinos
Anabel Montesinos, the youngest winner (at the age of 17 years old) of the Francisco Tárrega International Guitar Competition in Spain, is a leader figure on the classical guitar worldwide. As Winner of more than 10 first prizes in major guitar contests like the Michele Pittaluga, Citá di Alessandria, in Italy, the Julián Arcas, in Spain, the Raifeisenwettbewerb in Salzburg, Austria, among others, Anabel Montesinos has performed concerts all around the world, made her Debut at the Carnegie Hall in the year 2011, she has played Concierto de Aranjuez by J. Rodrigo in Postdam "open air concerts", Berlin, for more than 4000 people, and performed with orchestras like the Philharmonic of Turin-Italy, Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela, Philharmonic of Oulu-Finland, Havana Philharmonic -Cuba, Philharmonic of Moscow-Russia, etc. She is also a Honor Citizen of the city of Solero, in Italy. Anabel Montesinos has recorded for the label Naxos, and her first CD was chosen as a part of the music program for intercontinental flights by the British Airways. Her albums have been praised by the international press highlighting the beauty, freshness and virtuosity of her interpretations. She has shared a concert poster with Paco de Lucía, presenting "the other side of Spanish music" with a resounding success. Her tour in 2019 finished with the performance of "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen for orchestra, choir and guitar, a selection of songs from the rock band which was praised with outstanding ovation. She plays on a Steve Connor guitar and is a Savarez Artist.
-First Prize at the Michelle Pittaluga Int. Guitar Competition, in Italy.
-First Prize, Audience Prize and Prize for the best interpretation of a work by F. Tárrega, at the Tárrega International Guitar Contest in Spain.
-First Prize at the International Contest of Krynica, Poland.
-First Prize at the Raifeisenkasse Int. Concert Competition, in Salzburg, Austria.
-First Prize at the "Juventudes Musicales" Competition in Girona, Spain.
-First Prize at the "America Martinez" competition in Sevilla, Spain.
-First Prize at the International Contest "Julian Arcas" in Almería, Spain.
-First Prize at the International Guitar Festival, Villa d' Anthony, in France.
-First Prize at the "Vila de Salou" competition in Spain.
-First Prize at the International Competition El Condado in Jaén, Spain.
-First Prize at the Instrumental Competition Sant Anastasi in Lérida, Spain.
-Prize Golden Guitar, at the International guitar Convenio in Alessandria, 2011, for the promising young talent and acknowledge of her artistic activities.
International Guitar
Festival in Bearn
July 1 to 5, 2020
Facebook Legal Notice / GDPR Sales Conditions Contact Newsletter
Design and code by RURAWEB


3.62 Acres with custom built home in the gated community of Hawk Creek Ranch. Enjoy the multi-million lodge with in ground olympic size swimming pool, tennis and basketball courts for all members to use. Built in 2015, 2BDR, 3BTH, 2247 Sq Ft. Sweeping views from this home will take your breath away! Easy access to the majestic Lake Roosevelt with several boat launches just minutes away. Detached 3 car garage, indoor/outdoor dog kennel, house water filtration system, security system & generator for backup.


I'm a dietitian, wife, foodie, body love advocate, and I'm obsessed with all things pineapple!
I'm devoted to sharing with you how to nourish your life in all aspects, from the food that you eat to how you think about your body.
But, first – let's back up a bit. I wasn't always living a nourished life. I remember being a small child and worrying about my waist line. I admired my neighbor's athleticism but most of all how thin she was. I was always preoccupied with thoughts on how I should do better and be better. My mom even jokes how I wouldn't stray from the blanket at the beach or in the yard because I didn't like getting my hands dirty.
Fast forward to my teenage years – my struggle with poor body image and perfectionism really began to rear its ugly head. Puberty was hard! I wasn't able to live up to my own expectations and I quickly turned to calorie restriction as a method of coping. I spent hours scouring the internet and fitness magazines looking for tips on how to lose weight. It took years of healing but I learned to appreciate food for the nourishment it provides, whether physically or emotionally. The health journey I have been on is not over yet and never will be. That's the beauty of it. We are all learning how to live a more healthy and balanced life, and I'm here to share this journey with you!
Now that I spend less time thinking about how to make myself smaller, I have more time to do the things I LOVE! Like, long walks with my hubby, Michael. Or, playing the piano. Or, kayaking. Or, looking at puppy videos. Or, creating new recipes in the kitchen…and then eating them! And, sharing with all of you how to live a larger life. A life that is more fulfilling and happy – which dieting will never accomplish.
So, good lookin' – want to learn how to make delicious meals that are both nutritious AND satisfying? Hoping to heal your relationship with your body and embrace the AMAZING person that you are? Then join me and let's do this together!


text:
'Insane' encounter with great white shark caught on camera in Hawaii
by: Bryce Moore, Nexstar Media Wire
Posted: Nov 27, 2021 / 03:04 PM EST
Updated: Nov 27, 2021 / 03:04 PM EST
HONOLULU (KHON2) – Underwater photographer Deron Verbeck was diving off the coast of Hawaii's Big Island on Friday, Nov. 26, when he thought he saw a school of ulua fish.
But something was off, because the size and shape reminded him more of a tiger shark at first.
"I kept looking at the head, I'm like, 'That is not a tiger shark.' And it got closer and closer," Verbeck said. "It just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger and I was like, 'That is for sure 100% a great white.'"
WATCH: Bald eagle swoops in, snatches shark from fisherman's line
The beast — which Verbeck estimated to be over 15 feet — was not behaving in a threatening way, so he stuck around to capture some footage.
"And I just shot as much as I could as she went by, and she just disappeared back off the drop, then I was just shaking like, 'Woah! That was insane!'"
Dr. Carl Meyer with the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology said great whites are likely in the area because of humpback whales, which breed in Hawaiian waters from November through April. According to Dr. Meyer, the behavior Verbeck saw is fairly normal for great whites.
"Typical behavior of these big sharks is one of wariness around people," Meyer said. "So even though they might be curious, they're also wary. And so the only time that you see aggressive behavior is typically when they're actively foraging."
(Deron Verbeck photo)
WATCH: Lighting of the Knoxville Christmas tree
Verbeck said he was unnerved and overwhelmed by the experience, but never felt in danger.
"If she wanted to take me, she would have taken me," Verbeck said," and her demeanor was just curiosity. She just came up to look to see what I was doing."
Top Stories / 1 hour ago
Crime and Courts / 9 hours ago
Smoky Mountains / 1 hour ago
What to expect for the 2022 tax season
Investigations / 1 day ago
FAA sets rules for some Boeing 787 landings near …
Two face weapons, narcotics charges after Claiborne …


I think it started when I got into reading. That was when I was 18. But once I like to read I started to want to write. To see if I could do it, I suppose.
Where do you get the ideas for your books from?
From real football crimes. Every day the newspapers have new stories about dodgy dealings in football. I start my ideas there, then exaggerate.
How do you go about writing your stories, and how long do they take?
A Foul Play book takes four to six months to write. The Football Academy books take a month each. I start by going to the places the book is set, make a plan, then I write a first draft. I spend a lot of time making changes to improve it. That's the most important bit for me.
Do you base your characters like Danny Harte in the Foul Play books on anyone in real life?
Sort of. Danny is what I wish I'd been like when I was 14, but wasn't. And my villains are based on real people, but if i said who they were some would sue me. Others might have me killed. Honestly!
Stories. Books about travelling to foreign countries. Crime fiction. Books about football abroad. Anything.
Can you recommend any good books for anyone who has enjoyed your Foul Play series?
Yes. Keeper by Mal Peet, Young Samurai by Chris Bradford, Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz, Young Bond by Charlie Higson and The Fix by Sophie McKenzie.
Read books by lots of different authors. Write about what you love or hate. And never give up, whatever other people say.
Spend time with my wife and daughter. Watch football. Read. And I've taken up running 10km races.
Which football team do you support, and why?
Leeds. Because I was born there and I love them.
Who do you think will win the World Cup this summer?


Life insurance is a vital part of financial planning and is especially important to anyone who has dependents. We also understand though that it is one of those subjects that no one likes to discuss. That's why many people don't think to review their life insurance when their circumstances change.
Whether you are getting married, purchasing a property or expecting a baby, you should put time aside to assess your current life insurance policy. When your circumstances change it might just be that the amount of life insurance cover you have no longer extends to your family's current needs.
Let's use the example that you took out life insurance when your first started contracting. You may have been newly married and living in rented accommodation. If the worst did happen at this point in your life the amount of life insurance cover you took out would have likely have just needed to provide for your partner's general living costs. Fast forward five years, you have established yourself in your field and increased your day rate, have two children and a mortgage. Your current policy in this case will likely not be fit for purpose. The cover would now need to fund raising two children, paying off the remainder of the mortgage, and the lifestyle your family have become accustomed to. Choosing not to review your life insurance when your circumstances change like this could leave your family in a troubling financial state – in an already difficult time.
A 2017 report by 'Child Poverty Action Group' estimated that the minimum cost of bringing up a child from birth to their 18th birthday (excluding rent and housing costs) rose from £72,600 to £75,400 for a couple and from £99,000 to £102,600 for a single parent. Considering the example above, this could mean your life insurance policy will need to pay out an additional £205,200 as well as the remaining amount on your mortgage just to keep your family on track.
Not only does it make sense to review your life insurance policy to check that it falls in line with your family's costs but also to check the different additional services that your insurer could now be providing. In a fast moving industry, it could be that your provider now offers an added benefit that it could be helpful to be aware of. From bereavement counselling to medical treatment from world-renowned doctors – understanding the full benefits of the premium you pay for is not a bad thing.
All of these factors point to the value of reviewing your life insurance with your adviser at regular intervals and when your circumstances change. An adviser will take the time to listen to you and your family's needs and understand exactly what level of cover is needed.
To request advice and review your life insurance, get in touch with our trusted life insurance partners.
Contractor insurance for less than 12 months?
What level of indemnity do I need?


I had almost a month break o_o Anyone even noticed it?
It was due to my trip to the UK and exams that I had a week ago.
Fortunately, exams are already over and I can go back to posting a feature of the week systematically.
Mauribolso has started a donation pool!
Desde hace ya unas semanas en Graphix hemos inaugurado nuevamente la sección de teams, esperamos que esta vez tenga más éxito que antes.
Actualmente ya existen 2 teams, de los cuales yo soy líder de uno: NIGGAS PALACE.
Si te gusta o interesa esta nueva modalidad en el foro no dudes en visitarnos y registrarte, con mucho gusto te daremos la bienvenida!
Since a few weeks ago in Graphix we open again the teams, we hope that this time will be more successful than before.
Nowadays we have 2 teams, which in one of them im the leader: NIGGAS PALACE.
If you like this idea dont doubt and visit us, we are going to be very happy with your participation.
Hi Mauricio, many thanks for the watch!


DaysOut.NL - Raalte attractions, travel guide Raalte, hotel Raalte and reviews..
De Boerschop group accommodation is situated in aa green and fertile landscape. Three group accomodation buildings are available.
The American Motorcycle Museum gives an overview of American motorcycles from the early 1900s to the 1980s. It opened in Raalte in 2004.


text:
class DevEvent < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessible :message
end

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


This is a super nice 20.5 Gram natural Australian Gold Nugget from the Bendigo Gold Fields of Australia. It has wonderful color and texture and has some spectacular eroded gold crystals. Along the top edge you can see some well formed elongated crystals also. It was found over 10 years ago by a gold prospector using a metal detector. It is 1" (24 mm) long x 7/8" (21 mm) wide. Investors, jewelers and collectors love jewelry/investment grade Australian Gold Nuggets because of their high purity (typically 94% to 98% pure) and beautiful color. This fantastic raw gold specimen has great texture and character. It is a very high quality hand selected jewelry/investment grade gold nugget, the highest grade of natural gold nugget that you can buy.
Note that we offer a 2.5% discount for payment by Direct Deposit, Cashiers Check, Money Order, or Bank Wire Transfer. That way we save on Credit Card fees and we pass the savings on to you.


text:
John Tracy Estes is an American politician from the state of Alabama. He currently represents Alabama's 17th District in the Alabama House of Representatives as a member of the Republican Party.

Education
Estes graduated from the University of Alabama with a bachelor's degree in news editorial journalism in 1989.

Career
After graduating from the University of Alabama in 1989, Estes began working as an employee as the Tuscaloosa News. After a year of working at the Tuscaloosa News, he took a new job with the Montgomery Advertiser Sports Department. In 1991, he quit to take a news editor position at the Journal Record Newspaper, Marion County. He worked as an editor for 27 years before retiring to run for office. During his time as an editor, Estes became a member of the Marion County Republican Party. Estes was also a member of the Alabama Association of School Boards Board of Directors and Winfield Chamber of Commerce. During his time as a legislator, Estes won the Legislative Award from the Alabama Association of School Boards Board of Directors. Estes narrowly defeated his 2018 Republican primary opponent, Phil Segraves, by 139 votes after being endorsed by the Conservation Alabama Action Fund. Estes then won the 2018 General Election with 98.8% of the vote.

Committee Positions
Estes is a member of the Education Policy, Public Safety and Homeland Security, and Children and Senior Advocacy Committees

Elections

Alabama House of Representatives District 17

2018 Republican Primary

2018 Republican Runoff

2018 General Election

References

Republican Party members of the Alabama House of Representatives
University of Alabama alumni
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Marion County, Alabama
Living people
21st-century American politicians
1967 births

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


This entry was posted on Sonntag, November 4th, 2018 at 23:03 and is filed under Ank.	You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.


text:
Mass. nearing lofty cancer-screening goal
Mar 27, 2017 at 1:58 PM Mar 27, 2017 at 2:22 PM
Massachusetts is poised to become the first state in the nation to meet an ambitious new cancer-screening goal, but medical experts say there is still work to do.
When caught early, colorectal cancer is highly treatable and preventable, but too few people are getting the recommended screenings. The most common screening procedure is a colonoscopy, a procedure in which doctors examine a patient's rectum and large intestine with a small camera mounted on a flexible tube. During the exam, doctors can use the scope to take biopsies and remove precancerous polyps.
"Colorectal cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death of both men and women in the United States," said Neil Maniar, the American Cancer Society's vice president of health systems for New England. "What makes it a little different from other types of cancer is we have the ability to prevent it if we detect it early. It's a cancer we can detect early, yet it remains one of the leading causes of cancer death in the country."
The American Cancer Society, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable launched their "80 percent by 2018" program in 2014. The group hopes to see 80 percent of adults age 50 and older get the recommended colorectal cancer screenings by 2018.
Nationally, the screening rate is approximately 63 percent, up from 59 percent in 2013. In Massachusetts, approximately 76 percent of adults age 50 and older have had the recommended screening, the highest rate in the country.
If those screening rates hit 80 percent by 2018, the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable estimates 203,000 deaths will be prevented nationally by 2030, including 2,827 in Massachusetts.
"In Massachusetts, we're best positioned to reach the 80 percent target," Maniar said. "That last 4 percent reflects disparities between population groups and people who are not getting screened because they're feeling good."
Nationally, minority groups and low-income populations have lower screening rates.
Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center, with locations in Framingham, Milford and Worcester, has seen its patients' colorectal cancer screening rates increase from 39 percent to 59 percent since joining the initiative in 2015.
"Some of our patients had a lot of barriers," said Susan Melucci, director of quality improvement. "We have a culturally and linguistically diverse population."
Some patients, she said, did not fully understand how to prepare for a colonoscopy. The health center's instructions for the FIT test, an alternative to the colonoscopy in which patients send in their own stool samples from home, were previously only available in English.
Additionally, Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center has worked with UMass Memorial Hospital to streamline its referral process for cancer screenings, improving show rates.
"As a community health center, our mission is that we help people live healthier lives," Melucci said. "One of the many things I learned participating in this is colorectal cancer is one of the few almost preventable cancers. You have a colonoscopy, they detect and remove a precancerous growth, and then you don't have cancer there."
Colonoscopies, which are recommended every 10 years for adults 50 and older, remain the most reliable form of screening, Maniar said. Before a colonoscopy, patients are typically restricted to a clear-liquid diet the day before the exam, and may not be able to eat or drink anything the morning of the exam. Depending on the patient, a doctor may also give instructions to take a laxative the night before the procedure.
Since patients are sedated during a colonoscopy, doctors recommend that they not drive or work for the rest of the day. The sedatives partially wear off after an hour, but it may take the rest of the day for the patient to fully recover from the effects. That presents major challenges for some patients, Maniar said.
For some patients, alternate screening methods may be an option. The FIT test, for example, requires less preparation than a colonoscopy and does not involve the use of a sedative. The patient takes multiple stool samples at home. The FIT test, however, is not as reliable at detecting pre-cancerous polyps and should be performed annually to be effective.
Doctors may also perform virtual colonoscopies, non-invasive imaging procedures that are slightly less complex than a colonoscopy. Like a colonoscopy, they still require a patient to prepare by doing a bowel-cleansing. If polyps are detected, they will require a second procedure to remove them and perform biopsies.
Raising public awareness and working with community health organizations to create actionable strategies for breaking down barriers to screening could have a profound effect, Maniar predicts.
"This is one of those public health campaigns where we know we can save thousands of lives," he said.


text:
contactid=""
username=""
password=""
taxonomyexpert=""
databaseid=""

#########################
# The command line help #
#########################
display_help() {
    echo "Usage: $0 [option...]" >&2
    echo
    echo "   -c contactid           New steward's contact ID"
    echo "   -u username            New steward's username"
    echo "   -p password            New steward's password"
    echo "   -t taxonomyexpert      Is the steward a taxonomy expert? [true|false]"
    echo "   -d database            Which database is the steward associate with?"
    echo
    echo " The script assumes that you have a ~/.pgpass file that contains your password"
    echo " information.  The file is described in detail on the Postgres documentation:"
    echo " https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-pgpass.html"
    echo
    # echo some stuff here for the -a or --add-options
    exit 1
}

run_command() {
    psql -h ${PGHOST} -p ${PGPORT} -d ${PGDB} -U ${PGUSER} -c \
      "SELECT * FROM ts.insertsteward(_contactid:=$contactid, _username:=$username, _password:=$password, _taxonomyexpert:=$taxonomyexpert, _databaseid:=$databaseid );"
}

while getopts "hw:c:u:p:t:d:" optionName; do
  case "$optionName" in
    h)
      display_help
      exit 0
      ;;
    c)
      contactid="$OPTARG";;
    u)
      username="'$OPTARG'";;
    p)
      password="'$OPTARG'";;
    t)
      taxonomyexpert="$OPTARG";;
    d)
      databaseid="$OPTARG";;
    [?])
      display_help
      exit 0
      ;;
  esac
done
run_command


text:
/**
 * a barebones HTTP server in JS
 * to serve three.js easily
 *
 * @author zz85 https://github.com/zz85
 *
 * Usage: node simplehttpserver.js <port number>
 *
 * do not use in production servers
 * and try
 *     npm install http-server -g
 * instead.
 */

var port = 8000,
	http = require('http'),
	urlParser = require('url'),
	fs = require('fs'),
	path = require('path'),
	currentDir = process.cwd();

port = process.argv[2] ? parseInt(process.argv[2], 0) : port;

function handleRequest(request, response) {

	var urlObject = urlParser.parse(request.url, true);
	var pathname = decodeURIComponent(urlObject.pathname);

	console.log('[' + (new Date()).toUTCString() + '] ' + '"' + request.method + ' ' + pathname + '"');

	var filePath = path.join(currentDir, pathname);

	fs.stat(filePath, function(err, stats) {

		if (err) {
			response.writeHead(404, {});
			response.end('File not found!');
			return;
		}

		if (stats.isFile()) {

			fs.readFile(filePath, function(err, data) {

				if (err) {
					response.writeHead(404, {});
					response.end('Opps. Resource not found');
					return;
				}

				response.writeHead(200, {});
				response.write(data);
				response.end();
			});

		} else if (stats.isDirectory()) {

			fs.readdir(filePath, function(error, files) {

				if (error) {
					response.writeHead(500, {});
					response.end();
					return;
				}

				var l = pathname.length;
				if (pathname.substring(l-1)!='/') pathname += '/';

				response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
				response.write('<!DOCTYPE html>\n<meta charset="UTF-8"><title>' + filePath + '</title>');
				response.write('
' + filePath + '
');
				response.write('
');
				files.unshift('.', '..');
				files.forEach(function(item) {

					var urlpath = pathname + item,
						itemStats = fs.statSync(currentDir + urlpath);

					if (itemStats.isDirectory()) {
						urlpath += '/';
						item += '/';
					}

					response.write('
' + item + '
');
				});

				response.end('
');
			});
		}
	});
}

http.createServer(handleRequest).listen(port);

require('dns').lookup(require('os').hostname(), function (err, addr, fam) {
 	console.log('Running at http://' + addr  + ((port === 80) ? '' : ':') + port + '/');
})

console.log('Three.js server has started...');
console.log('Base directory at ' + currentDir);


text:
Updated on March 4, 2016 9:32am EST
HP Offers Touchpad on Discount Month After Launch
Hewlett-Packard Co is offering a hefty discount on its TouchPad tablet a month after it launched the WebOS-based mobile device in a booming market dominated by Apple Inc's iPad.
The company is offering an instant rebate of $100 on its website for both its 16 GB and 32 GB tablet versions, bringing their price down to $400 and $500, respectively.
This makes the TouchPad $100 cheaper than Apple's entry-level iPad.
HP has not revealed any sales figures on the tablet that launched in July along with a celebrity-studded marketing campaign. But the 9.7-inch tablet got off to a tepid start after critics assailed the TouchPad for poor battery life, slow processing speed and paucity of apps.
A HP spokesperson said the discount, which runs from August 5-7, was part of the company's regular seasonal promotions.
``We're excited to offer the promotion and deepen our commitment to deliver competitive products at competitive prices,'' she said in a statement.
The entry-level TouchPad is also being offered on Woot.com, a daily-deal site, at a further discount of $20.
Much of a mobile device's success is based on a robust ecosystem of apps, and HP is far behind Apple or Google's Android platform in the number of apps available.
The tablet was launched following HP's $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm and its WebOS platform last year with the hope the operating software will be incorporated into all the company's mobile devices and applications.
Shares of HP ended up 9 cents at $32.63 in a wildly volatile day on the New York Stock Exchange and other markets.


text:
Intel says Qualcomm's business practices drove it out of the modem chip market – TechCrunch
by Solutionist | Nov 30, 2019 | Technology | 0 comments
It's not like this wasn't among the reasons everywhere suspected when Apple suddenly announced it was buying Intel's modem business, but now the chipmaker has filed a brief in support of the FTC in an ongoing appeal by Qualcomm of a decision made in May. That decision found in favor of the FTC's allegations that Qualcomm's licensing arrangements for its IP around CDMA and LTE technologies have choked out other potential competitors.
Intel, in the filing and a new blog post accompanying and explaining the filing from Intel EVP and General Counsel Steven R. Rodgers, says that "Intel suffered the brunt of Qualcomm's anticompetitive behaviour, was denied opportunities in the modem market, was prevented from making sales to customers and was forced to sell at prices artificially skewed by Qualcomm." It also specifically notes that it counts itself among the list of "competitors [Qualcomm] forced out of the modem chip market."
Earlier this year, Apple and Qualcomm agreed to drop ongoing lawsuits the two sometime-partners had filed agains one another, settling a feud in the courts that had started back in 2017 when Apple accused Qualcomm of overcharging it for use of Qualcomm's patents. The settlement included Apple paying Qualcomm sone-time sum, and the establishment of a six-year licensing agreement, as well as a supply agreement for Qualcomm chipsets to be used in Apple products.
At the same time, Intel announced it was exiting the modem business – an announcement that seemed timely, given that Apple has sought to use Intel modems in recent iPhones to bypass Qualcomm, which is an industry leader when it comes to the supply of wireless communication chips used in smartphones. Then in July, Apple announced that it was acquiring the majority of Intel's smartphone business, which led many to speculate that eventually Apple will seek to develop its own wireless communication chips in-house in a longer-term play to reduce its reliance on Qualcomm.
Intel clearly isn't content to just let the situation lie, and since its blog post notes that it has invested "billions" in the modem business it built and then sold to Apple, you get a clear idea of why – definitely sounds like it didn't recoup all of its sunk costs in the Apple deal, which was worth around $1 billion all told.


text:
Press Release -- October 21st, 2016
Source: Sprint Nextel
Sprint Shares #1 Ranking for Network Reliability, Call and Text in Little Rock
Roni Singleton, Sprint
Eronia.singleton@sprint.com
New RootMetrics® Report highlights Sprint's strong local network improvement
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Oct. 21, 2016 – Less than a year after Sprint (NYSE:S, news, filings) made Little Rock its South Central Regional Headquarters, the Independent mobile analytics firm RootMetrics® released its Little Rock RootScore® Report for 2H 2016 showing Sprint shared the #1 ranking in network reliability, call and text performance.
"We're proud to call Little Rock our home here in Sprint's South Central Region," said Jon Blitz, Sprint president for the South Central Region. "That's why we're extremely excited our network in Little Rock now shares first place in overall network reliability, call and text. Sprint is making a comeback in this market and across the country. More importantly, our customers have noticed the substantial improvement in the Sprint network. Our goal is to keep working to build an even better and faster network for wireless consumers across Arkansas."
Sprint's more than $62 million investment throughout Arkansas over the last four years has helped to add new cell sites, increase coverage and capacity, and systematically optimize each cell site to maximize performance. During testing, RootMetrics was also able to experience Sprint's carrier aggregation technology on the 2.5GHz spectrum band. This feature of Sprint's super-fast LTE Plus Networkcreates a wider lane that allows more network traffic to travel at higher rates, enabling Sprint to provide customers in Little Rock with even faster data speeds.
Network improvements in Little Rock and across Arkansas include:
Expansion of LTE service to provide better coverage
Deployment of 2.5 GHz helping to increase overall capacity
Roll-out of two-channel carrier aggregation making a significant improvement in data speeds.
Additional network enhancements will continue in Little Rock and throughout Arkansas as customers' demand for faster experiences and increased wireless capacity continues.
Rankings based on RootMetrics Little Rock (September 2016) RootScore Report for mobile performance as tested on best available plans and devices on 4 mobile networks across all available network types. The RootMetrics award is not an endorsement of Sprint. Your results may vary. See www.rootmetrics.com for details.
About Sprint:
Sprint (NYSE: S) is a communications services company that creates more and better ways to connect its customers to the things they care about most. Sprint served more than 59.4 million connections as of June 30, 2016 and is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including the first wireless 4G service from a national carrier in the United States; leading no-contract brands including Virgin Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless; instant national and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone. Sprint has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America for the past five years. You can learn more and visit Sprint atwww.sprint.com or www.facebook.com/sprint and www.twitter.com/sprint.
Previous: Pre-order Opens Today for LG v20 from Sprint; Available Oct. 28
Next: Sprint Shares #1 Ranking for Overall Network Performance in Corpus Christi for Third Consecutive Testing Period
Sprint Shares #1 Ranking for Reliability, Call and Text Performance in Jacksonville, Florida
Sprint's St. Louis Network Jointly Awarded #1 Ranking for Reliability, Call and Text Performance
Sprint Shares #1 Ranking for Reliability and Call Performance in Pittsburgh
Sprint's Atlanta Network Receives Shared #1 Ranking for Reliability, Call and Text
Sprint Network Shares #1 Ranking in Reliability and Call in Washington D.C.


text:
Image: I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport. Credit: ST
I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport was ranked number one airport in Asia Pacific at the Airport Service Quality Awards 2017. The General Manager of Ngurah Rai Airport, Yanus Suprayogi, was quoted by nusabali.com on Wednesday, saying that the airport was voted the best airport in Asia Pacific in the 15-25 million passengers per year category. The awards are presented by Airport Council International (ACI).
The airport was ranked third in the same class in 2015 and 2016.
The awards are based on opinions on 34 performance indicators, such as airport access, check-ins, security screening, shopping and restaurant facilities, and restrooms. The survey questions and mechanisms are performed equally in every airport, to create an industry database that allows the comparison between airports. Using scientific methods, tight quality control procedures, and neutral commitment on every ASQ survey evaluation has made it a global standard to measure the customer satisfaction of the airports.
"We feel proud and blessed. This is a birthday gift that we dedicate to Angkasa Pura I. The challenges that will be faced by I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport will be tougher, because the amount of the passengers will increase and there are many demands and characteristics of the passengers. But, with the good synergy between all of the airport community, we are optimistic that we will get better in the future. That's why I say thank you to all of the partners for all of their participation and active support in offering the best services to I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport users," Yanus said.
The pros and cons of Bali without Internet on NyepiNews
Internet off at Nyepi means problems in KarangasemNews


Wondering how much to ship a car from Virginia to Montana?
Is there a vehicle you need to move to Montana sitting in Virginia? If so, it's important to find a reputable and reliable company that offers auto transport services that fit your needs and will ultimately meet your expectations.
Montana is a U.S. State in the Western region of the United States. Montana is known as the, "Treasure" state. As of 2014, Montana had an estimated population of 1,023,579, this makes it one of the least populous states. Major cities include Helena, Billings, Missoula, and Great Falls. A major highway in Montana is Highway I-94. The department of transportation is called Montana Department of Transportation. (MDT) Montana is most famous for the world's first National Park, Yellowstone National Park, it encompasses over 3 states. The park features 3,472 square miles of wilderness that include 290 waterfalls and more than 300 geysers, including the famous Old Faithful, which erupts roughly once per hour. The park features more than 950 miles of hiking trails and 60-plus species of wildlife. Yellowstone is open year-round and offers different experience during summer and winter seasons.
There are a few things to keep in mind when looking for auto transport services in Virginia or Montana. First is Cost; shipping a vehicle across country or state to state can fluctuate greatly in price when choosing an auto transporter in Montana or Virginia. So it's imperative to get an estimate based on your move and the distance of travel, along with your vehicle specifications. Another important factor to look for when pricing auto transportation from Virginia to Montana is if they offer any insurance or recovery plans. You should never put your vehicle in the hands of an auto shipping company that is not properly licensed, insured and current on their bond. By making sure of these factors, you will enjoy peace of mind knowing if something were to happen to your vehicle during transport you are covered.
Why Direct Connect Virginia to Montana Auto Shipping?
Do you need to ship a vehicle to or from Virginia to Montana? When moving to a far place, Virginia to Montana auto transport companies are the easiest and most convenient way to relocate your vehicle. When choosing auto transport companies in Virginia or Montana it's important to compare pricing and quality of the service they provide. Pricing can vary and it's important to get an estimate from the best auto transport company based on your vehicle specification before committing to one. As a potential customer, you are able to ask for documentation such as permits and licenses from the Virginia to Montana auto transport companies to ensure the auto carrier company is operating legally. One last recommendation for when you have finally chosen your auto transportation service is to always be on time when dropping your car off and document the condition of your vehicle before its loading on the truck.
Popular Auto Transport Routes to Montana?
How can I schedule my Virginia to Montana auto shipping order?
When will the carrier truck deliver my vehicle to Montana?
Can I track the progress of my Virginia to Montana transport online?
Is my vehicle insured during the transportation to Montana?
How do I get a quote for shipping my vehicle from Virginia to Montana?
You can either click on the Get Quote link for a free instant online quote, or call us to receive a quote from a professional shipping coordinator. You will need to specify where in Virginia the vehicle would be picked up and where in Montana you need the vehicle delivered. You must provide the zipcodes for each so that our auto shipping calculator can provide you with our most competitive instant auto transport rates.


The LME has adopted a series of binding policies for all LMEselect participants. It is important that all online traders on the LME are familiar with these policies and also aware that these policies can change. Full Details are available from the LME Helpdesk Trading Desk.
These policies may be subject to change. For a full list of up to date LME policies please visit the LME website.
The LMEselect Order to Trade Ratio Policy was originally implemented as a control mechanism for LMEselect to protect it from high volumes of orders. With effect from 28 April 2014 the Order to Trade Ratio Policy for trading full size contracts on LMEselect has applied to each individual market participant (member user or member client); The LME's order to trade ratio calculation will include the following order actions: Enter, Modify, Inactivate, Reactivate and Cancel.
Good Till Cancelled (GTC) orders will only be included within the ratio on the day of order entry; all subsequent GTC order reloads by the LMEselect application will not be included within the Order to Trade Ratio Policy. However, any modifications to GTC orders during the trading day will be included in the order to trade ratio figure. Any market participant who submits 50,000 or more order actions on a trading day between 00:45 and 19:00 will be subect to the following ratio trigger.
A fee of £10,000 will be charged to the relevant member in respect of any LMEselect FIX client or GUI user that exceeds a ratio order to lots generated of 50:1 as an average via a single FIX key or aggregated across two or more FIX keys during a trading day (00:45 – 19:00). The exchange will waive the fee for the first event each month.
Where a client accesses the LMEselect platform through multiple FIX keys the client's unique identifier will be used to aggregate that client's activity for the purpose of calculating the order to trade ratio figures.
Berkeley can assist traders to manage and apply the Order to Trade Ratio Policy.
This limits the maximum number of order entry/updates that can be executed in any single second for each individual connection to 40 per second. Order entry/updates that exceed the limit are queued by the system and smoothed over subsequent seconds.
The LME policy on throttling gives an example of a burst of 80 order entry/updates in one second where only the first 40 instructions would be accepted in the one second with the remaining instructions being smoothed in the next second.
The LME will not accept responsibility for missed opportunities from order smoothing implementing this policy.
The LME has an error trade policy on LMEselect where a party or an observer to a mistake can request the LME Helpdesk to review the possible erroneous trades. The LME does have the right to adjust any trade on LMEselect if it deems it necessary. Such requests must come from LMEselect Participant compliance officers or a dealer.
The LME has the power to suspend trading at its sole discretion. LMEselect Participants are notified through a Market Message, via email and their website. If trading is suspended, all unmatched active orders in LMEselect are automatically withdrawn and no new orders are accepted. This policy also applies to GTC orders.
On re-opening of LMEselect there is a 15-minute pre-opening session to enable the management of orders before commencement of trading.
Any market participant who submits 50,000 or more order actions on a trading day needs to be aware of the Order to Trade Ratio. Order actions include entering, modifying, reactivation, inactivating and cancelling.
Trading hours for the LMEselect are 01:00 – 19:00 Monday to Friday (UK time).
All LME select client orders are subject to appropriate pre-trade risk controls. These are Compulsory Controls required by the Exchange.
LMEselect can only be provided by LME membership categories 1, 2, 3 & 4. Berkeley Futures is a category 4 member and can offer LMEselect via a third party applications such as Patsystems, Trading Technologies (TT), CQG and FFastfill.
Get assistance in maintaining your trade ratio and avoiding breach of rules.


text:
"NOT THE WAY YOU REMEMBERED" at the Queens Museum of Art
Installation view of "NOT THE WAY YOU REMEMBERED," curated by Jamillah James, at the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York. Photos: 16 Miles [more]
When you next visit the Queens Museum of Art, head straight to the second floor. If you have some time to spare, take the ramp that steadily rises up and around the Panorama of the City of New York, as I did on Sunday afternoon, arriving to find a reception filled with artists and their supporters enjoying a majestic aerial view of "NOT THE WAY YOU REMEMBERED," a 16-artist exhibition curated by QMA fellow Jamillah James on the first floor. Even without that crowd, it is a thrilling place to begin. You can spot one of Brendan Fowler's multi-frame works from up there, all fluorescent pink flowers and lush green leaves, and a shelf of Jean Shin's altered trophies. There are more mysterious works, too: an empty display case, a pedestal bearing a dirt–covered shirt, and a collage assembled with just a handful of clippings, all things you will immediately want to see up close.
Left to right: Jean Shin, Altered Trophies (Everyday Monuments), 2009. Altered trophies, painted and cast resin. Dave Murray, 85% of the Art I Made Turned into a Diamond. 0.29-carat diamond. Brendan Fowler, Fall 2009 (2 Screen Flower Print, Flowers on Walk With Andrea/Terry/Cindy 1, Flowers on Walk With Andrea/Terry/Cindy 2, Flowers in Terry/Cindy's Garden 1), 2009. Digital C-prints, silkscreen ink and enamel on paper, frames, and Plexiglas.
Brendan Fowler, Fall 2009 (2 Screen Flower Print, Flowers on Walk With Andrea/Terry/Cindy 1, Flowers on Walk With Andrea/Terry/Cindy 2, Flowers in Terry/Cindy's Garden 1), 2009. Digital C-prints, silkscreen ink and enamel on paper, frames, and Plexiglas.
A wall of photographs greets you down below, an installation of Jason Lazarus's Too Hard to Keep Archive (2010–), which consists of images that fit the work's title, donated by people in the process of purging. (This is an increasingly rare privilege, as whole lives are archived online, digital photos never quite going away.) There are photos of a woman with a black eye, people kissing, and landscapes. A whole wedding album sits high on a shelf. If, in Bas Jan Ader's I'm Too Sad to Tell You (1971), we watch the effects of private grief, we here see its myriad sources, though we're equally cut off from the details. Viewing these mute objects triggers our own associations, perhaps even our own pains, a process that recurs throughout the exhibition, which is filled with works that offer various glimpses of personal lives, though never complete confessions.
Installation view of Faten Kanaan, The Reader, 2011. Mixed media.
Detail view of Faten Kanaan, The Reader, 2011. Mixed media.
Zak Kitnick, The People Behind Our Products (Silver), 2009. Die-cut tin sheet, LDF, and other media.
That admixture of display and reticence is also present in Zak Kitnick's The People Behind Our Products (Silver), a row of three wall-hung white boxes, each fit with an aluminum radiator cover, which shields and obscures different types of product packaging, castoff material that takes on a sinister, eerie presence when blocked by the die-cut metal. Lauren Luloff's Striped also looks similarly uncomfortable and vaguely elegaic in this context. A red, white, and blue striped sheet wrapped messily around a green board, it is propped against a wall like an abject, abandoned record of a domestic dispute, some unknowable trauma. Luloff also has a piece on view at the Bronx River Art Center right now, a frame strung with wild bands of colored fabric: it is a raucous party, and this is the brutal morning after. Such fanciful readings aside, it is also a visual treat, a Buren come unhinged and folded in on itself. When I first read the checklist, I thought its title was Stripped. That would fit too.
Lauren Luloff, Striped, 2010. Bed sheet, acrylic, rabbit skin glue, and wood.
Bryan Zanisnik, video stills from Preserve, 2009. Two-channel video, 5 min., 15 sec.
Taylor Baldwin, Martyr Me a Little, 2008. Extinct heart pine1, white high-density polyethylene2, yellow HDPE3, black HDPE4, drywall screws5, fluorescent green acrylic6, fluorescent pink acrylic7, epoxy resin8, black resin dye9, aluminum10, brass screws11, paint mixing stick12, sticky wax13, graphite and colored pencil14 on newsprint15.
Wall label and footnotes for Taylor Baldwin, Martyr Me a Little, 2008.
Taylor Baldwin opts for extreme disclosure, or at least the appearance of it, in the wall placard that accompanies his intricate and finely polished assemblage Martyr Me a Little (2008). It lists, in a lengthy series of footnotes, the provenance for each of the materials he used to build the work. The black resin dye? "Bought from Woodcraft for too much money and felt guilty over." Those brass screws? " "Salvaged from the VDOT warehouse liquidation." The accumulated series becomes a kind of contemporary update of Richard Serra's Verb List Compilation (1967–68), with acquisition methods — given, retrieved, donated, traded, bought, found, bartered, swiped, salvaged, made from, stolen, borrowed — replacing actions. Of course, that surplus of information says nothing about the content of the skull–adorned monument. We are once again only given a sliver of a reveal.
Agathe Snow, Paper General, 2007. Mixed media assemblage.
The empty box you spotted from up above turns out to actually contain one tiny object when you inspect it more closely: a minute diamond forged from the cremated remains of Dave Murray's art. Its title is 85% of the Art I Made Turned into a Diamond, and it has the unique glory of twisting John Baldessari's famous cremation episode into something new, witty (it weighs in at a modest 0.29 carats), absurd (why only 85% of his work?), and laced with ambiguity (why do this at all?). Agathe Snow takes a more impersonal route, scavenging castoff materials from downtown Manhattan for her sculpture Paper General (2007), a slick black collared shirt and white paint mask caked with thick mud. Divorced from their original owners and combined in this new context, these objects become non-sites for Snow's neighborhood and free-floating signifiers for our own thoughts, our own memories.
Installation view of "NOT THE WAY YOU REMEMBERED"
On first reading, the title "NOT THE WAY YOU REMEMBERED" suggested to me the surprise one feels upon returning to a once-familiar place or being confronted by a once-familiar object: "That is not the way I remembered it being." But it could also denote a shift in the process of remembering, a rewiring of the way we process or access memory, a Barthesian prick, or even a loss of control: "I didn't want to remember that, I don't like to think about those things." There is that strange, spare collage still to see — a work by Amanda Ross-Ho, it turns out. She's affixed to a rectangle of Sheetrock a snapshot from Woody Allen's Stardust Memories, a photo of a wildly colored pillow, and a section of a page sliced from a party-supply catalogue. There is also a lone earring. What will you make of this?
Posted by Andrew Russeth at Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Labels: Agathe Snow, Baldwin, Fowler, Jamillah James, Kanaan, Kitnick, Luloff, Murray, Queens, Queens Museum of Art, Shin, Zanisnik
16 Miles of String covers contemporary art and art history, usually in or around New York City, and is published by Andrew Russeth.
Lost Art of New York
A Year in New York, 2017–18
Flickr Archive, 2008–14
Vimeo Archive
Thank you to the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program for supporting 16 Miles of String.
Art Blogs
AH HOLE AH HOLE
ART BLOG ART BLOG
Art Clogged
Art Observed
Blake Gopnik
C-Monster
Center for the Aesthetic Revolution
Escaping Artist
Greg.org
J. T. D. Neil
James Wagner
LACM on Fire
Newsgrist
ROLU, rosenlof/lucas, ro/lu
Scene and Herd
Strange Messenger
The Art Law Blog
The Silo
Theory Now
This Is Tomorrow


text:
V Is Back! All Hail The Visitors!
Filed to:V
Welcome back, my 80s-permed alien friends. ABC is bringing back the lizard-alien mini-series V, hooray! The 4400 creator and producer Scott Peters revealed to the trades that the aliens are back and that there may be a video game on the way too. But more importantly, will they bring back the jumpsuits and fantastic 80s sunglasses?Even though Peters was hesitant to do another scifi project, he couldn't resist remaking V when Warner Brother's approached him, and who could blame him this show is too ridiculous not to redo. As opposed to following the Nazi Germany metaphor in the original V, Peters explained that this V will show what happens when the masses have blind faith in their leaders:
In this case, the new V will center on Erica Evans, a Homeland Security agent with an aimless son who's got problems. When the aliens arrive, her son gloms on to them — causing tension within the family. As in the original V, several storylines will unfold simultaneously.
Jace Hall, former head of the WB, "will help expand V into other platforms, including gaming." Just, please, no MMO. Peters also promises tons of spaceships and other soon-to-be made toys. Throw in another alien birth, and you've got me hook, line and sinker. [Variety]


text:
Raw Material »
Trade Investigations
Chinese Dumpings
India promoting its steel industry with trade protectionism
"It seems India is seeking to boost its domestic steel industry with some help from trade protectionism, making China a primary victim of Indian trade investigations," an article in the state-run Global Times said.PTI | July 08, 2016, 12:53 IST
BEIJING: India is promoting its steel industry with trade protectionism and making China a "primary victim" of trade investigations, China's official media alleged today and asked New Delhi to adopt "open-mindedness" towards the world's largest steel producer.
"It seems India is seeking to boost its domestic steel industry with some help from trade protectionism, making China a primary victim of Indian trade investigations," an article in the state-run Global Times said.
"It is true that protecting Indian steel firms from intense international competition can buy some time for the industry's domestic expansion. But such moves will reduce India's competitiveness in the long run," the article said.
While steel firms in many parts of the world are experiencing a painful process to cut overcapacity, India is looking to significantly expand its domestic steel sector, it said quoting reports that India wants to almost triple the size of its steel industry over the next decade to reduce its reliance on imports.
"However, there are major questions over whether India can really realise its dream of becoming a global steel-producing colossus," it said.
"Though the Prime Minister Narendra Modi administration called for the significant expansion of the steel industry, the government itself may be the major cause of a possible failure in the strategy's implementation," it said.
"The Modi administration's clear ambition to turn India into the world's factory makes the promotion of India's domestic steel industry development absolutely necessary, but it is doubtful whether the Indian government is strong enough to promote this grand strategy," it said.
Historically, governments in countries like South Korea, Japan and China played an important role in promoting steel industry in the initial stages of their industrialisation.
The South Korean government owned 75 per cent of steel giant POSCO when it was set up in 1968, and Baosteel, China's largest listed steel maker - is state-owned, it said.
"The development of the steel sector requires a large amount of investment... However, India's democratic system may leave the government with limited power to raise sufficient capital for investment in profitable industries," it said.
It said in this regard China's experience of opening-up to the outside world might provide "insight, proving that New Delhi's promotion of Indian manufacturing will not inevitably lead to confrontation between China and India."
"China and the US witnessed unprecedented economic interaction in China's early stage of industrialisation as Beijing actively boosted bilateral trade and attracted investment from the US. Why can't New Delhi consider adopting similar open-mindedness toward China," it said.
China is reeling under overcapacity in its steel industry, fuelling global concern. Last month, US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew asked China to reduce its excess capacity, saying it was distorting global markets.
Tags : Raw Material, Trade Investigations, steel, POSCO, Narendra Modi, Chinese Dumpings


While the Aussie sports world was ablaze with Grand Final fever, I had my own grand final cooking weekend. Our double-header was all about flavour, flavour, flavour.
The delicate and fruity tamarind sourness of the sambar combined beautifully with the heady earthiness of cumin, ginger and cassia in the Moghul Cumin Rice.
Fragrant and nutty roasted sesame shone through in the puffed, crispy Poories -all the better to scoop up morsels of caramelised fenugreek, lime and coriander enriched Pumpkin Curry. And we shouldn't forget the chili, mustard and toasted urad dal laced comfort foodiness of our spongy Rawa Idli (above), finally topped off with the intoxicating top notes of rose and star-anise soaked Gulab Jamuns.
It's Saturday and I'm up early, sorting out my life. The kitchen is half set-up for a cookery class entitled "A Passage to India". The last 12 classes have given me and my home kitchen a good workout, but I am looking forward to sharing some of my favourite recipes, having saved the best till last.
The seven ladies that are booked to attend today will arrive in a few hours. The class will be repeated tomorrow with a new batch of students, then it's all over for 2007. Well, the classes at my home anyway.
servant is not greater than his master…" (John 14.16).
I remember an advertising campaign run by what is now the Australian Meat and Livestock Association many years ago. It's war-cry was FEED THE MAN MEAT! Or I guess if you were to try to say it with an Australian accent, it would be FOOOEED THE MAN MOOOEAT. Well, you get my drift.
Ever since I started teaching, I have made it my mission in life, as recommended by my Spiritual Master Srila Prabhupada, to popularise panir as a viable meat-substitute.
With that in mind I try to demonstrate the glories of homemade panir cheese at practically every class I teach.
I am always glad to discover that my message is getting out there….
I'm overstocked with these fabulous Quick Vegetarian Recipe Cards. They are superbly crafted and laminated, and packed in a truly beautiful and sturdy box, shrink wrapped for protection. Here's a never-to-be repeated offer: $25 + postage/handling anywhere in Australia ($15 maximum).
They will make a wonderful Christmas present. Hurry, while stocks last.
I've got so much going on there's hardly enough time to do it all, what to speak of write about it.
Today I'm busily compiling shopping lists for all the cookery venues during my October Australia-wide Teaching Tour that commences next week. I've even been finalising dates and places for my May 2008 tour.
Tomorrow I have two interviews – for a big Western Australian food magazine, and a phone-hook up with a Canadian movie producer.
I have a double-class this weekend, so there's all the shopping and house cleaning for that, plus loads of washing etc etc. I'm losing you aren't I? Didn't think you really were interested in all those details, so I'll stop here lest I am accused of being self-indulgent.
If it's 'no rest for the wicked', I must have been a bad, bad boy.
waiter there's a little blue man sitting on my spoon!
"I am looking for a recipe for banana halva that I used to make years ago.
Hello Zoe, thanks for your request.
I actually don't have a published banana halava recipe, but I do have other halava recipes that can be adapted. I made some banana halava the other day in fact, after one of my blog-readers asked me the very same question. The recollection of banana halava grew in my mind (as it does) and not too long after that contemplation, I was actually cooking a batch.
This is a version of semolina halava with bananas inside. You can also make a dish of bananas, butter, and sugar which are cooked a long way down to a very thick pudding-like consistency. Perhaps this what you are referring to. I don't have a recipe for that.
Anyway, here is a recipe that I have formulated especially for you, and I have even added the optional rosewater. Once you know the basic formula for semolina halava, it is easy to vary the flavourings. Happy cooking! Kurma.
Combine the water and sugar in a 2-litre saucepan. Place over moderate heat, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat to very low and cover with a tight-fitting lid.
Return the pan to the stove and stir steadily over low heat until the grains fully absorb the liquid, start to form into a pudding-like consistency, and pull away from the sides of the pan. Place a tight-fitting lid on the saucepan and cook over the lowest possible heat for 2 more minutes. Turn off the heat, splash in the rosewater, fold in the banana, and allow the halava to firm up, covered and off the heat, for an additional 5 minutes. Serve hot in dessert bowls as it is, or with the toppings suggested above.
My second-last weekend of Perth cookery classes is upon me. Soon I'll be on the road. I've kept my favourite classes till the end.
The theme of today's class is "The Wheat-free Vegetarian". I've got a whole lot of delicious dishes from Thailand, Peru, Italy, Maharashtra, and one of my favourites from Japan, Inari-zushi.
My reply: Though I mainly cook with sourdough these days, here's a recipe from my first cookbook (now in its 18th year) for a yeast-based pizza 'wid da woiks'. You asked for 'quick and easy' – well, this is easy, though you do have to wait for the dough to rise. All good things come to those that wait!


text:
Tag Archives: Federation of Chinese Associations (Vic) Inc.
February 15, 2010 by blazenkabrysha
Springvale Chinese New Year Festival, Sunday, 7 February, 2010
The best way to welcome a New Year is with a Dragon Dance. If you want to go all the way, include a Lion Dance. That's the way the Chinese do it and when it comes to pageantry, colour and symbolism, they can't be beaten. The dances not only add fun to the festivities but make double sure that the coming year will be a good one, filled with health, happiness and prosperity. Touching the dragon is considered particularly lucky, which must mean that taking part in a Dragon Dance is a fortunate opportunity, indeed.
As luck would have it, that's exactly what happened to us when our martial arts teacher, Sifu Dana Wong, sent out a distress call for help with the dragon of the Federation of Chinese Associations (Vic) Inc., when regular members of the dragon dance team were unable to come and person power was needed for a gig at the Springvale Chinese New Year Festival last Sunday night. Big Bruce, as this dragon is affectionately known, was a gift to the Federation from the Chinese consulate and is intended for use both as a dynamic manifestation of living tradition and as a cultural artefact reaching out to the community at large.
Working Big Bruce, last Sunday, was a workout and a half as we stomped and lunged, twirled and plunged our serpentine way through streets and shops in Springvale. Big Bruce dived and rose through a sea of happy faces, delighting the crowds with energetic serpentine antics, propelled by the power of a big, beating drum, a banging gong and the crash of cymbals. This powerful dragon took his work of scaring away monsters and paving the way for good luck very seriously, indeed. Big Bruce may be made of cloth and hoops and sticks but it was us humans who were the props.
Big Bruce waiting for showtime.
Dragons come in many lengths. This three-stick dragon has impressive mobility.
The two-stick dragon shows that a little dragon is lots of fun.
Both Dragon Dance and Lion Dance belong to the realm of Chinese martial arts. Sifu Wong, who heads Qian Li Dao Academy, explains, "Dragon dancing is a multi-faceted gem that reveals an integral part of Chinese culture through physical expression. Twirled within its weave of movements are ancient traditions combined with fitness training and martial arts. The expression of age-old beliefs and customs is preserved through the generations via the dance, while also providing an opportunity for fitness and the development of martial skills. The dragon dance symbolises longevity, prosperity and the search for eternal knowledge. Through participation in dragon dancing, anyone can contribute to the community, get healthy and learn a bit of culture along the way, but FUN is the icing on the cake!"
While there's a lot to understand and know, fun is the integral component that our rough and ready troupe had down pat. Unlike the western dragon, which is presented as a monster to be slain, the Chinese dragon is a sacred creature of great power and benevolence. Its appearance is as complex as the cultural depth that informs it. With its serpent body, fish scales, eagle claws, tiger paws, camel head, bovine ears, stag antlers, clam belly, monstrous goggle eyes and human whiskers, it is a composite of all creatures and can move through water and air, as easily as on land. This dragon is your most-valued friend. We got that message across, no worries.
Just as the dragon has nine different creature components – the whiskers are not counted, except in my personal observation – so Big Bruce needs nine handlers. However, many parade dragons are much much, longer – the Melbourne Millennium Dragon being the longest in the world – and some are quite short. At Springvale, Big Bruce performed with several other two and three-stick dragons. In one glorious sequence, all dragons came together, rising majestically in support of the Lion Dance victor, as it reached high to snatch the victor's prize of lettuce and money dangling from the veranda roof of Walrus Seafood Restaurant. In a kung fu miracle, my wing chun skills enabled me to take a snap of this magnificent moment although I, too, was ramming a stick into the stratosphere.
Lion Dance is performed as a competition between two lions, each one worked by a team of two very acrobatic performers. The lions appearing with us were the Melbourne Quan Anh Lion Dance. The dancers received some last minute coaching from the dazzlingly athletic David Tang, who cross trains in various martial arts including Choy Li Fut and Hung Gar. He lead both lions and dragons, working the dragon's pearl – the spherical, flame-edged object of the dragon's pursuit, symbolising wisdom, prosperity and universal energy as expressed by the concept of chi (Qi). It was a merry, exuberant dance as David leapt, spun and dashed about, wielding a sceptre topped with the enticing pearl. Sometimes he would throw himself down onto one knee and make the dragons jump over the pearl.
David Tang demonstrates a move.
David Tang (left) and La Wren Wong watch as the lion dancers practice removing the prize of cash strapped to lettuce.
David Tang in action with the pearl.
Red Lion dancers at the end of their gig.
As with all dance performances, the big no-nos are tripping up and not staying in step. The first we managed; the second proved much more difficult. Keeping the serpentine undulations of the dragon's body synchronised in canon sequence requires great skill and much practice. Our effort was more of a jolly wobble and a reckless sway. At one point, when we swooped to round a corner, I nearly decapitated a performer from another troupe. Then there was the thrillingly perilous stampede through restaurants, in which we had to duck through doorways and dodge overhead fans.
In the case of our dragon, as with most things, the middle bit is not nearly as important as the beginning and the end. Working the head and tail of a dragon require considerable expertise. Big Bruce's head weighs at least 15 kg. Hoisting it about in a dance that requires aerodynamic manoeuvres is an enormous physical and aesthetic challenge. Fortunately, Steve Colebrook, a professional musician, long-time martial artist and practised dragon dancer, was able to draw on the appropriate range of skills to do Big Bruce justice. The tail, which needs to move horizontally and vertically at the same time, was handled by La Wren Wong, another senior martial artist of long-standing experience in a range of movement arts. Handling Bruce's head or tail is so abrasive to the hands that it requires the wearing of protective gloves.
La Wren Wong (left), who worked the tail, adjusts her protective glove. Steve Colebrook holds steady the 15kg dragon head.
The Springvale Chinese New Year 2010 Festival closed in the dark of night with a spectacular performance from all the dragons in front of the community stage in one of the large carparks. Fired up by the banging accompaniment, the dragons charged into the bright light, weaving in and out, over and under each other, creating patterns of brilliant colour and an atmosphere of exploding energy. The new year would be a good one.
Happy Year of the Tiger.
Dragons going home.
Big Bruce's next gig will be at the Glen Waverly Chinese New Year Parade on Febryary 28, then at Werribee annual festival's Weerama Harmony Day parade, on March 14.
All the photos
Tagged Chinese New Year, David Tang, Dragon Dance, Federation of Chinese Associations (Vic) Inc., La Wren Wong, Lion Dance, Melbourne Quan Anh Lion Dance, Sifu Dana Wong, Springvale Chinese New Year Festival, Steve Colebrook


text:
Home Browse by Country World Regions Top Products Site Map Help
Join Free Login Forgot Password? Link to Us Use our Content
TradeBoss.com - Companies - Hungary - Browse by Region
Companies - Hungary - Browse by Region
Companies from Bacs-Kiskun
Companies from Baranya
Companies from Bekes
Companies from Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen
Companies from Budapest
Companies from Csongrad
Companies from Fejer
Companies from Gyor-Moson-Sopron
Companies from Hajdu-Bihar
Companies from Heves
Companies from Jasz-Nagykun-Szolnok
Companies from Komarom-Esztergom
Companies from Nograd
Companies from Pest
Companies from Somogy
Companies from Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg
Companies from Tolna
Companies from Vas
Companies from Veszprem
Companies from Zala
More Countries - Browse by Region
Ashmore and Cartier I.
French S. and Ant. L.
Heard Island
Home - TOS - Help - Company Directory - Trade Leads - Products - B2B Marketplaces - Link to Us - About Us - Contact Us - Top Searches - Quick Guide
Copyright © 2002 - 2019 - TradeBoss.com - All Rights Reserved.
Top Products A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
There are currently 758 users online browsing our B2B network. 16:19 GMT, Wednesday, July 17, 2019
All Trade Leads / Offers / Products / Company Profiles / Images and other user-posted contents are posted by the user and TradeBoss.com and TradeHolding.com B2B Network shall not be held liable for any such content. However, TradeHolding.com B2B Network respects the intellectual property, copyright, trademark, trade secret or any other personal or proprietary third party rights and expects the same from others. For concerns, please contact us.