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I just received the French BeBoy Magazine (#9) and they publish the third chapter of Tanbishugi (Aestheticism) by Motoni Modoru. It's the third of the three chapters that were the only ones available in scanlation on line. And they advertise the issue of the whole volume, under the title In the Name of Beauty for March 17th. I'm happy!!! Though I don't get why they used an English title instead of a French one or the original? They announce it as a "one shot", probably because it's a collection of one-shots.
I can't judge of the translations, the pages are frequently cut a little at the margins, the paper and size are the usual "quality" for manga books.
No worries! And I hope they'll do a great job with the book and that there will be no delays :) and it would be amazing if you'd translate it! I'd love to read it! I have a copy of the manga is japanese but it's always easier in either french or english. Well let's wait till march first!


SAN FERNANDO, CA -- The Pima County Jail in Tucson, Arizona announced that it will use Smart Band® RFID Wristbands from Precision Dynamics Corporation (PDC) for prisoner identification and officer access as part of a comprehensive security upgrade planned with the addition of 147,000 square-feet of new building space at the facility. Up to 1,600 prisoners will be identified and monitored daily using Smart Bands embedded with RFID smart labels from Texas Instruments (TI). More than 300 prison officers will use the system to gain access to restricted areas in the facility.
Upon entering Pima County Jail, inmates will be fastened with PDC Smart Bands. The inmate's name, identification number and security level will be stored on the RFID smart label inside the band. As they are moved throughout the facility, inmates will present their wristbands to TI-RFid wall plate readers, which will automatically identify each prisoner and capture the date and time the person entered or exited a particular area of the facility. One hundred twenty-four vicinity readers will be implemented at all doorway entrances to the jail as well as at various entry points inside, including the medical unit, visitation and programs areas.
The systems integrator on the project, TrenTech, a division of Norment Security Group of Montgomery, Ala., is installing a host of security systems including RFID, CCTV, audio, duress, locking devices and locking controls. This new security will integrate with the office access control portion of the upgrade.
Officers will carry TI-RFid access control cards, imprinted with a photo and containing security clearance information, to enter restricted areas of the facility such as the parking lots and medical area. Using TI-RFid cards integrated with Security Suite software and a field hardware system provided by Monitor Dynamics Inc., (MDI) of Ranchero Cucamunga, Calif., TrenTech has developed a solution allowing automatic access for prison personnel, verifying their identity and releasing the necessary locks without interrupting the command center staff. To enter a restricted area using the old system, the officer contacted the jail's command center by radio to request entry and was verified via cameras by personnel at the command center.
The MDI system will also be integrated with the county's inmate records database for a seamless flow of information that can be viewed and updated by jail staff and police officers with access privileges. When an inmate presents a valid wristband to an RFID reader, the MDI system will log information and forward it to the county's inmate software for inmate monitoring.
To replace Pima County's paper-based system of prisoner identification and process, the architecture firm on the project, DMJM of Colorado Springs, Colo., evaluated several access control solutions, including magnetic stripe cards, bar codes, biometrics, as well as other RFID solutions. The company recommended a 13.56 MHz RFID solution because its speed of processing, read range, the contactless nature of the technology, and its ability to read without the line-of-sight so the prisoner requires less handling by staff. By implementing an officer access control system using the same technology, DMJM was able to recommend a fully integrated and cohesive system.
TI's 13.56 MHz smart labels provide a unique, factory-programmed ID, which cannot be duplicated, ensuring that no two people are misidentified. Up to 50 Smart Bands per second can be simultaneously identified by an RFID reader.
"Officers must be able to move inmates quickly and effectively throughout the facility," said David Campbell, security engineer, DMJM. "The solution gives officers the ability to move several inmates through the read field at once without handling them. Inmates wave their wrist near the reader and walk through the door."
The new security technologies help facilitate the jail's contemporary approach to building design and the use of a direct supervision mode of inmate management. Corrections staff controls behavior of the jail population through a proactive concept. Unlike more traditional reactive containment utilizing bars, security glass, and other barriers, officers are assigned to work inside each 8-person pod in physical proximity to the inmates.
"This RFID-based access control solution is the first of its kind for inmate identification and monitoring. It fits in well with our innovative approach to inmate monitoring," said Captain John Alese of the Pima County Jail. "We expect it to be very helpful and efficient in logging inmate activities in moving them through the facility more quickly and easily, while also answering a critical need for more accurate and effortless record-keeping."
With nearly 50 years of experience, PDC is the global leader and pacesetter in the development of automatic identification wristband systems and quality healthcare products. The company introduced the first patient bar code ID wristband in 1984 and radio frequency identification (RFID) wristbands in 2000. PDC also provides premium healthcare products for labor & delivery, urology, and other applications. PDC's quality system meets the requirements of the International Standards Organization ISO-9001 certification, representing the finest in product service, design, and manufacturing. For more information, visit www.pdcorp.com.


The 2nd most popular snowboarding destination in British Columbia.
West of Invermere in the Purcells, the Panorama ski area has 82 runs over 2,850 acres open to snowboarding. The summit is 4,000 feet above the village at 7,800, but you ve got to earn it -- it takes 4 lifts over 30 minutes to get there and the last two are T-bar rope tows. The name Panorama is well deserved with awesome views of the Canadian Rockies and the towering Purcells. From the summit, choose wisely since there are plenty of double black runs in the Extreme Dream Zone and Outback at Taynton Bowl. The latter Taynton Bowl is a 750 acre zone that was formerly hike-in only.
A word to the wise -- watch out for the numerous intermediate cat track traverses -- theyre actually flat and require hiking. Also, dont worry, that wasnt a mountain lion you saw in the glades -- just one of the many local lynx! FYI - dont bother coming out here unless theres a 50 base to cover the rocks.
Once you've exhausted the in-bounds terrain, there is also a heli-ski operation right at the base area, RK Heliski.
For lunch on the mountain, check out Elkhorn Hut for fondue. And, for apres ski, try Jack Pine Pub.
Overall, Panorama Mountain Village is the 2nd most popular snowboard & freeride destination of all 27 snowboarding resorts in British Columbia.


Getting rid of cable was one of the best financial decisions my husband and I have made. We don't even miss it, and to tell you the truth, neither do our kids. With all the alternative options available, there's no need to pay for expensive cable. Here are some affordable alternatives to cable.
Digital Antenna: Let's start off with an antenna. You will be able to get your local stations with an antenna, so if you have a sports fan in your family, this will come in handy. They vary in price, most are under $100 and absolutely worth the investment.
Netflix: Netflix was one of the first services we started using and it's still a great deal for both movies and TV shows that you can stream on your TV, laptop, phone or tablet. They have three price points—basic, standard and premium that range from $7.99 to $11.99 a month.
Amazon Prime: With an Amazon Prime subscription (which cost $99/yr or a monthly subscription, you get access to movies and TV shows at no additional cost.
Hulu: Hulu lets you stream TV shows and movies from major networks like NBC, ABC, and Fox. There are two separate price points: one with commercials and the other which is commercial-free.
Roku: Roku allows you to stream TV shows and movies to your TV from services like Netflix, Hulu Plus and Amazon Video On Demand. You can also stream sporting events and music from Pandora, iTunes and MOG.


This post is about documentation and specifically photography. We use photographic documentation for both the children's portfolios and for teacher-reflection. That said, what changes does the camera bring to the conversation of play once introduced into the environment? When I was studying for my first degree (Radio, Television, and Film) we thought, talked, and wrote about how the camera's presence subtly and sometimes even profoundly influences the environment it seeks to capture. In documentary films like the Maysels' Salesman, 1968 and The Burks of Georgia, 1974 or Barbara Kopple's Harlan County USA, 1976, the viewer must wonder...how did the presence of the camera change the unfolding of these people's lives? Simply put, the camera changes it.
This question is also considered in still photography. Lucien Aigner, Erich Salomen, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Robert Frank, and Robert Capa all used small format cameras to document their subjects. And these cameras were quite revolutionary for the time. Robert Frank confidently captured moments private and profound on the wide angle offered via his Leica by simply clicking in the direction of his subjects often not even looking through the view finder. These photographers shunned the physically large cameras, big lenses, and tripods available for something that would not be noticed by their subjects.
Consider the forever and always delicious photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt, Children at a Puppet Theater Paris 1963. The children are one with the play, St. George and the Dragon. Their emotions and facial expressions are soaring and flying with the action. Only one is looking directly at the camera. Yet she too, is part of the drama, her sister pulling her close and therefore this little one is able to have the luxury of looking away from the puppet battle.
At nursery school, my subjects are children in their natural element and even though my Canon Powershot ELPH is about the size of a Leica, the children definitely know I have it in my hand because they will sometimes ask me to take a photo of something they have built or organized to "save it" they tell me. They will also retrieve it for me when I set it down. They know it so well. We need these photos to record what they are doing and therefore what they are learning. These photos also reveal patterns of play. We use these for reflection, as teachers. We can see which children are playing together, what kinds of play they most often engage in, what materials they use and how they use these. So most of the photos do not land in the children's portfolios, but are a valuable piece of their story.
All this considered, I am so aware of the presence of the camera and try very hard to remove it from the conversation. My little Powershot ELPH, is digital with automatic focus and has a large view screen, a viewfinder is not even an option nor is it necessary. In fact, I do not need to look at the view screen! I aim, sometimes at hip level, holding the shutter halfway to focus on the middle ground and clicking through. I also use the same camera to collect HD videos in much the same way. I hold the camera to the side and film away. Outside, I find myself standing behind bushes and trees now that they have grown in so well or behind doors and block structures inside.
Some of these photos are collected on our facebook page and our flickr page, both accessible here. The videos are available for viewing on our TPCNS youtube channel. If you watch the videos you can see that the children will often look at the camera because I -- and my camera -- have been standing still too long, or they want to ask me a question. So these videos may be of interest, from a documenting play perspective, they also must be viewed knowing that the camera is very much present in the environment.


by Rick Patton of Location Sound Canada, Ltd.
In several key respects analogue is at it's peak. Microphones are very refined. Preamps are refined. Surface mount designs are quieter. In modern music studio applications some of the most prized and expensive mixing boards are upgraded versions of those built by Rupert Neve in the 1970's.
The big bugs were worked out long ago. Analogue tape recorders went about as far as they could go with signal to noise. Good analogue mixers don't have a problem with noise. The refinements that have appeared in recent years are largely to do with headroom and system noise, both of which continue to improve. Only the serious players remain. The fluff merchants have all gone digital.
With digital boards coming to market at attractive prices, why would anyone spend big money on an analogue mixer? The short answer is because they want something they can use anyplace, anytime, under any conditions, without worrying.
The Cooper 208 is quieter than most digital mixers. While it is an obvious choice to go to a digital recorder, there is no compelling reason to chose a digital mixer for location work. Exactly where the conversion takes place from analogue to digital is a matter of choice. The basic considerations in choosing a location mixer come down to transparency of sound, input and output flexibility, size, weight, power consumption, and reliability under tough conditions. Following these criteria, the Cooper mixers score 6 out 6. In fact, it is safe to say that only Cooper scores six out of six. Cooper mixers are simply the best. If you've been in the business for a while you already know this. The reason everyone in the business doesn't own a Cooper comes down to money. Coopers are expensive. There are competing mixers that do a reasonably good job for $1000's less.
There are productions being filmed in every city in which the quality of sound is ignored by the director, the producer, the production manager, the cameraman, and just about everyone except the sound mixer and the boom operator. There are lots of reasons to say "Who Cares?". These are excuses not to give yourself the best tools. When you show up on set with a Cooper, the crew understands that you take your job seriously.
The anxiety levels in the sound department are as high as they have ever been. Sound carts are more complex. There's new digital gear made out of plastic that no one knows how to fix, radio mics all over the set...It's hard to relax. It's good to have at least one piece of equipment that is familiar and as close to bullet-proof as you can get. A mixer you can take to the desert, or the Arctic without a thought. A mixer that won't get screwed up in the damp or in shipping (assuming you have a Pelican case).
If you are in it for the long haul, it makes good business sense to buy a Cooper. Coopers hold their value better than any other piece of gear on a sound cart. It is usually the case that a 10 year old Cooper in good condition will sell for something close to the original purchase price. That's pretty amazing when you think about it.


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Q: How to add dots to the chapters?
How can I add dots like that in the picture to the chapters in my toc?
This is my document class. I have mostly been reading on here that people solve this problem my using memoir. Is there another (easy) way?
\documentclass[egregdoesnotlikesansseriftitles,headings=optiontoheadandtoc]{scrreprt}

A: Either use option toc=chapterentrywithdots:
\documentclass[egregdoesnotlikesansseriftitles,headings=optiontoheadandtoc,
  toc=chapterentrywithdots% <- added
]{scrreprt}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\addchap{Introduction}
\chapter{Foo}
\end{document}

or \RedeclareSectionCommand with option toclinefill=\TOCLineLeaderFill
\documentclass[egregdoesnotlikesansseriftitles,headings=optiontoheadandtoc]{scrreprt}
\RedeclareSectionCommand[
  toclinefill=\TOCLineLeaderFill
]{chapter}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\addchap{Introduction}
\chapter{Foo}
\end{document}

or \DeclareTOCStyleEntry with option linefill=\TOCLineLeaderFill:
\documentclass[egregdoesnotlikesansseriftitles,headings=optiontoheadandtoc]{scrreprt}
\DeclareTOCStyleEntry[
  linefill=\TOCLineLeaderFill
]{tocline}{chapter}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\addchap{Introduction}
\chapter{Foo}
\end{document}

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Q: "superiors" package breaks symbolic footnote position in Libertine I want to use symbolic footnotes in one or two places of a document typeset in Libertine, the rest can stay arabic as usual.  Therefore, I redefine \thefootnote locally:
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{libertine}
% \usepackage{superiors}

\begin{document}

\begin{center}
  \renewcommand*{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
  bla sldk slkd lskd\footnote{sldfkjlsdkfj sldksl dksld }
\end{center}

sld sldkjsl djfls djs d\footnote{sldfjslk}

\end{document}

Without superiors, everything is good (albeit the 2 is typographically inferior):

But unfortunately, once the one line is uncommented, the asterisk is badly positioned:

The same effect occurs in the actual footnote Most times), and with subsequent symbols (dagger etc.)
I can see that superiors redefines the footnotes in some way, but don't really understand those internals.  How can I fix this error, keeping the superiors effect?  (Ideally, I'd also prefer the asterisk a bit larger than it appears in the first screenshot, but that's luxury).

Post hoc
Given Ulrike's answer, I factored out the functionality into an environment to correctly switch to symbolic footnotes locally, starting from * every time and preserving the original numbering afterwards:
\newcounter{phg@footnotestate}
\newenvironment{symbolicfootnotes}{%
  \setcounter{phg@footnotestate}{\value{footnote}}%
  \setcounter{footnote}{0}%
  \renewcommand*{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}%
  % https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/565263/46356
  \makeatletter\def\f@@tn@te{blub}\makeatother%
}{%
  \setcounter{footnote}{\value{phg@footnotestate}}%
}

A: You can fool superiors by redefining \f@@tn@te:
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{libertine}
\usepackage{superiors}

\begin{document}

\begin{center}
 \renewcommand*{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}%
 \makeatletter\def\f@@tn@te{blub}\makeatother
  bla sldk slkd lskd\footnote{sldfkjlsdkfj sldksl dksld }
\end{center}

sld sldkjsl djfls djs d\footnote{sldfjslk}

\end{document}


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Set on the edge of a village which has local amenities including a primary school. It is . . .
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Really lovely renovated farmhouse in quiet location with lots of outbuildings, central heating, plus 5acres of land (2ha) with building potential.
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PC version of drill designs written with Pyware(TM) 3D Dynamic Drill Design software for our Star Wars Show, arranged by Larry Clark. A Player Version of the software is supplied with the designs so the pre-written drills will animate onscreen. The corresponding marching band arrangements are: Star Wars Themes (MB9781), Cantina Band (a la "Sing, Sing, Sing") (MB9782), Princess Leia's Theme (MB9783) and The Throne Room/Finale (MB9784).


00:00 Sydney Sherman at goalie for Marymount (Va.).
00:40 Shot by SMC Emmey German BLOCKED.
01:30 Shot by SMC Alex Moody, SAVE Sydney Sherman.
04:25 Offside against St. Mary's (Md.).
05:18 Corner kick by SMC Emily Huey [05:18].
05:37 Header Shot by SMC Lauren Hall HIGH.
07:30 Corner kick by SMC Emily Huey [07:30].
Foul on Marymount (Va.) Madison Grehawick.
11:10 Shot by SMC Emmey German HIGH.
11:25 Substitution!MU substitution: Mary Camarca for Mary Treuting.
11:25 Substitution!MU substitution: Kylie Egan for Madison Grehawick.
11:52 Shot by SMC Emily Huey WIDE RIGHT.
13:40 Corner kick by SMC Emily Huey [13:40].
18:46 Offside against Marymount (Va.).
20:00 Substitution!MU substitution: Caroline Phillips for Emma Buck.
21:06 Shot by MU Kylie Egan WIDE LEFT.
21:14 Substitution!SMC substitution: Jenna Pastel for Haley Bullis.
Foul on Marymount (Va.) Makayla Dulac.
26:56 Substitution!SMC substitution: Kat Golladay for Alex Moody.
26:59 Shot by SMC Emmey German WIDE LEFT.
28:25 Shot by MU Kylie Egan WIDE LEFT.
30:26 Substitution!SMC substitution: Megan Mosesman for Ines Garofolo.
30:26 Substitution!MU substitution: Alyssa Baca for Sita Nair.
30:34 Corner kick by SMC Emily Huey [30:34].
32:18 Shot by SMC Jenna Pastel WIDE LEFT.
34:02 Substitution!SMC substitution: Caitlin Moore for Lauren Hall.
34:02 Substitution!SMC substitution: Sommer Law for Emily Huey.
Foul on St. Mary's (Md.) Sommer Law.
43:08 Offside against St. Mary's (Md.).
43:42 Substitution!SMC substitution: Madison Webb for Emmey German.
43:42 Substitution!SMC substitution: Olivia Bescak for Ashley Ensor.
43:42 Substitution!SMC substitution: Haley David for Zoe Smedley.
45:00 For MU: #1 Sydney Sherman, #5 Mary Treuting, #6 Makayla Dulac, #8 Caroline Phillips, #10 Courtney Stephens, #12 Alyssa Baca, #14 Karen Reyes, #16 Gabby Cabrales, #17 Maddie Alexander, #18 Kylie Egan, #26 Mary Camarca.
45:00 For SMC: #0 Sydney Larkin, #3 Emily Huey, #4 Ines Garofolo, #6 Alex Moody, #9 Jenna Pastel, #11 Sam Saunders, #14 Ashley Ensor, #15 Zoe Smedley, #19 Lane Brooks, #20 Lauren Hall, #23 Emmey German.
Foul on St. Mary's (Md.) Lauren Hall.
49:29 Substitution!MU substitution: Sita Nair for Alyssa Baca.
49:32 Corner kick by SMC Emily Huey [49:32].
52:27 Header Shot by SMC Lauren Hall, SAVE Sydney Sherman.
Foul on Marymount (Va.) Sita Nair.
56:34 Shot by SMC Jenna Pastel, SAVE Sydney Sherman.
57:22 Shot by SMC Alex Moody, SAVE Sydney Sherman.
58:31 Shot by SMC Emmey German, SAVE Sydney Sherman.
59:29 Yellow card on MU Makayla Dulac.
60:05 Shot by SMC Lane Brooks WIDE RIGHT.
60:15 Substitution!MU substitution: Madison Grehawick for Kylie Egan.
60:15 Substitution!MU substitution: Emma Buck for Caroline Phillips.
60:24 Shot by SMC Emmey German BLOCKED.
60:48 Shot by SMC Alex Moody, SAVE Sydney Sherman.
Foul on St. Mary's (Md.) Zoe Smedley.
64:11 Shot by SMC Alex Moody HIGH.
64:15 Substitution!SMC substitution: Kat Golladay for Zoe Smedley.
68:00 Substitution!MU substitution: Sarah Peer for Sita Nair.
69:04 Corner kick by SMC Emily Huey [69:04].
70:40 Shot by SMC Lane Brooks, SAVE Sydney Sherman.
73:15 Substitution!SMC substitution: Megan Mosesman for Emily Huey.
73:15 Substitution!MU substitution: Jennifer McKee for Mary Treuting.
73:51 Corner kick by MU Makayla Dulac [73:51].
77:23 Shot by MU Mary Camarca WIDE RIGHT.
78:02 Substitution!SMC substitution: Emily Huey for Megan Mosesman.
79:50 Shot by SMC Lane Brooks BLOCKED.
79:56 Corner kick by SMC Emily Huey [79:56].
82:00 Substitution!SMC substitution: Zoe Smedley for Alex Moody.
82:00 Substitution!MU substitution: Mary Treuting for Mary Camarca.
82:00 Substitution!MU substitution: Caroline Phillips for Emma Buck.
Foul on St. Mary's (Md.) Emily Huey.
84:44 Substitution!MU substitution: Kylie Egan for Madison Grehawick.
87:09 Substitution!MU substitution: Emma Buck for Courtney Stephens.
88:24 Shot by SMC Lane Brooks BLOCKED.
88:30 Shot by SMC Emmey German WIDE LEFT.
90:00 For MU: #1 Sydney Sherman, #5 Mary Treuting, #6 Makayla Dulac, #8 Caroline Phillips, #14 Karen Reyes, #16 Gabby Cabrales, #17 Maddie Alexander, #18 Kylie Egan, #21 Emma Buck, #22 Jennifer McKee, #23 Sarah Peer.
90:00 For SMC: #0 Sydney Larkin, #2 Kat Golladay, #3 Emily Huey, #4 Ines Garofolo, #6 Alex Moody, #11 Sam Saunders, #14 Ashley Ensor, #15 Zoe Smedley, #19 Lane Brooks, #20 Lauren Hall, #23 Emmey German.
91:20 Corner kick by SMC Emily Huey [91:20].
91:52 Shot by SMC Lauren Hall BLOCKED.


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Mexico national team: Carlos Salcedo and his painful gesture in the final against the United States
Mexico He was defeated in the final of the CONCACAF Nations Championship against the United States, the classic area rival for the Aztec team, so despite the low hierarchy of the newly created competition, Aztec fans were left with a bitter taste of mouth of defeat by the Stars and Stripes.
The Aztecs paid dearly for their defensive mistakes, one of which was a questionable penalty kick by a defender. UANL Tigers, Carlos Salcedowho hit the leg Christian Pulisic So that the same forward of Chelsea It will charge perfectly and expire Guillermo Ochoa of eleven steps.
Read also: Mexico vs. the United States: Gerardo Martino and the 'excuse' for losing the League of Nations
El Tri missed a chance to equalise near the end of extra time, as Andres Guardado erroneously imposed the maximum penalty, ruling the final 2-3 in favor of North America.
Mexico's players suffered the defeat on hard ground in someone else's yard and witnessed the awards ceremony, where all players took home the runner-up medal of the tournament, although Carlos Salcedo is the only one of them all. They did not accept that they would put it on their necks, which caught the attention of fans.
Some described it as a "painful loser" gesture by not accepting the runner-up medal, while others saw it as an honor due to the controversial defeat against the rival neighbor.
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"Let's Try Being in Love" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Darren Hayes, released on 27 January 2022 as the lead single from his fifth studio album, Homosexual. It is his first solo single since 2012's "Stupid Mistake".

Background
Since 2013, Hayes stopped his music career and tried to build stand-up comedy career. At the same time, he kept creating short singing videos in his social media accounts for his fans. In 2018 Hayes briefly returned on stage with one-off performance of two songs, including "I Knew I Loved You". In 2019, Hayes featured on Cub Sport's single "I Never Cried So Much in My Whole Life". He did not appear in the official video. In 2020 he recorded a new version of "Truly Madly Deeply" with slightly modified lyrics. The video of his studio performance was released on YouTube on 24 April.

After his hiatus, Hayes released "Let's Try Being in Love", his first single in a decade. Referred to as a "queer anthem" by NME, in promotional interviews, Hayes explained "I've been married to Richard [Cullen] for almost 17 years, [and] I'm in this really comfortable place in my life. But at the same time at mid-life I'm grieving the fact I never got to celebrate who I really was at the period of my life where I was most famous. I look at this world we live in now where someone like Lil Nas X can push forward his true self, full of pride and self-love and have the chance to be loved for who he truly is [...] A lot of the time I was my most famous, I was deeply sad."

On 15 July 2022, the Louis La Roche remix was released.

Music video
A music video for the song was released on 27 January 2022, starring Hayes and featuring actor Scott Evans as his love interest. The video was directed by Andrew Putschoegl. On the video, Hayes commented, "I wanted to show I love the feminine in me, be proud of the gay me. There's a dance scene that is so passionate, everything's alive and thriving and blooming. That's how I feel in general about music. And that's a hugely sharp contrast to how I felt 10 years ago".

Critical reception
Stephen Daw for Billboard praised the single, stating that Hayes "create[s] the perfect atmosphere for a nostalgic, lovesick pop song", adding "If you're looking for that added boost of serotonin, look no further."

Chart performance
In the United Kingdom, "Let's Try Being in Love" debuted and peaked at number 96 on the Official UK Singles Download Chart Top 100 and at number 98 on the Official UK Singles Sales Chart Top 100.

Live performances
Hayes performed "Let's Try Being in Love" live for the first time on 5 March 2022 at the 2022 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade, where Hayes headlined.

Track listing
 Digital single
 "Let's Try Being in Love" – 5:36
 "Let's Try Being in Love" (Edit) – 4:00

 12-inch extended mix digital single
 "Let's Try Being in Love" (12" Extended) – 9:39
 "The Look of Love" – 5:37

 Louis La Roche Remix
 "Let's Try Being in Love" (Louis La Roche Remix) – 4:56

Charts

Release history

References

2022 singles
Songs written by Darren Hayes
2022 songs
LGBT-related songs

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The Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which will unite science, economy and medicine, was presented in Belgrade. It was founded by the Government of the Republic of Serbia and the World Economic Forum, and is the first of its kind in the Balkans and the third in Europe.
The centre will enable patients to receive a diagnosis faster, doctors to access data at a click, and the state more efficient health care.
The centre started working in March 2022 under the auspices of the Office for Information Technology and Electronic Administration of the Serbian Government with the support of the UNDP. Its focus will be on two priority areas – biotechnology and artificial intelligence in healthcare, areas that have already been recognized as central to the future economic development of Serbia.
The founding concept was to help scientific knowledge to be used quickly in industry, and for Serbia to position itself in the world as an exporter of intelligence and innovation. It will connect science and economics and enable fundamental research in the fields of biotechnology, molecular biology and medicine to be used for economic development
As a first step, Jelena Begović, director of the Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, and Dr Mihailo Jovanović, director of the Office for Information Technology and Electronic Administration, signed an agreement on the use of the National Platform for Artificial Intelligence to provide space for storing data of importance for further research.
The institute was given additional IT infrastructure and support in the use of supercomputers, at the National Platform for Artificial Intelligence. This will ensure that the data, which are crucial for drawing conclusions, are processed incomparably faster, saving months of scientific research.
Jelena Bojović, director of the World Economic Forum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Serbia
"We are all seeing that science and technology are advancing fast, and we can use them in everyday life to make it simpler and easier. That is the Centre's role – to connect science, new technologies, knowledge and industry, to help us provide better and more efficient treatments, to have access to new innovative drugs and devices and to live in a healthier society thanks to technological solutions for waste disposal or automatic air pollution meters", said Jelena Bojović, director of the World Economic Forum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Serbia
She added that the role of the Centre is to propose innovative regulations that will facilitate the application of technology while protecting rights, and to create an ecosystem for the development and application of biotechnology and bioinformatics.
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The centre will bring together scientists and researchers, representatives of the state, industry and civil society to create conditions for the development, testing and improvement of new technologies, and will seek to develop cross-sector partnerships to foster innovation for the benefit of society.
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New Zealand forests have been and are shaped by a suite of disturbance types that vary in both their spatial extent and frequency of recurrence. Post-disturbance forest dynamics can be complex, non-linear, and involve multiple potential pathways depending on the nature of a perturbation, site conditions, and history. To capture the full range of spatial and temporal dynamics that shape forest ecosystems in a given area, we need to use and synthesise data sources that collectively capture all the relevant space-time scales. Here we integrate palaeoecological data with contemporary ecological evidence to build conceptual models describing post-disturbance dynamics in New Zealand (NZ) forests, encompassing large temporal and spatial scales. We review NZ forest disturbance regimes, focussing primarily on geological and geomorphic disturbances and weather-related disturbances but also considering the role of anthropogenic disturbance in shaping present-day NZ forests. Combining information from 58 studies of post-disturbance forest succession, we derive conceptual models and describe forest communities and forest change for conifer-angiosperm (including kauri forest), and beech forests (pure and mixed). The methods used in these studies included chronosequences, assessments of stand dynamics, longitudinal studies, palaeoecological reconstructions, and comparisons with historical observations; the temporal range of the studies extended from 15 years to millennia (c. 14 000 years BP). Our models capture the generalities of NZ forest dynamics, and can be used to support modelling and help guide decision-making in areas such as ecosystem restoration. However, this generality limits model resolution, meaning the models do not always portray the specific features of individual sites and successional pathways. There is, therefore, scope for more detailed, site-specific development and refinement of these frameworks. Finally, our models capture successional pathways and native plant communities from the past and present; invasive species, climate change, and exotic plant pathogens are likely to alter future forest dynamics in novel and unpredictable ways. These models, however, provide us with baselines against which to interpret and assess the impacts of such effects on forest composition and processes.


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Upset Cruise Ship Passengers Rally For Refund
What was supposed to be a 14-day dream cruise has become something of a disappointment for passengers aboard the Norwegian Spirit. As one cruiser put it, "all hell broke loose" when frustrated guests gathered in the atrium to voice their anger and demand a refund.
How Things Went So Badly On The Cruise
Guests on board the Norwegian Spirit headed to the atrium to demand a refund after numerous ports were skipped on their 14-day sailing. (Photo courtesy of Matt Rogers)
The Norwegian Cruise Line ship set sail on September 27th out of Southampton, England, but ran into problems almost immediately. In fact, even before passengers boarded, the itinerary had experienced its first change. "The first port was supposed to be Amsterdam," a passenger tells us, "but they cancelled it before we boarded and switched it to Le Havre."
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Thanks to the unpredictable weather and rough seas, however, it was announced that they would not be able to visit Le Havre. "It really was bad," the Norwegian guest told us. "Then, after stops in Bergen and Flam, they announced they were not going to make it to [our next port of call in] Iceland because they felt they might catch Lorenzo on the way back to Ireland."
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Instead, Norwegian added two other stops in Norway and one in Greenock, which is near Glasgow. But this, too, was not to be. "We couldn't get into Greenock because of high winds," said the passenger we spoke with. "I wish I took pictures of the pilot boat leaving. It was bouncing all over!"
"People Got Right In His Face And Started Yelling"
Then came the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. "All hell broke loose in the atrium," we're told. Although the ship was supposed to dock at 8 a.m., an announcement was made at 8:15 a.m. that because another ship was being repaired at the dock, the Spirit's schedule would be pushed back an hour. "They moved it back to 9:30 a.m., and then at about 9:40 a.m. they came on and announced they couldn't dock because of high winds."
Unhappy guests spelled out their grievances on, among other things, copies of the Freestyle Daily spread across the floor. (Photo courtesy of Matt Rogers)
According to local news sources, the Greenock Ocean Terminal confirmed that the ship's captain decided to abandon their approach after winds were recorded at more than 30 knots.
At that point, "everyone went to the atrium," we're told. "An officer tried talking above everyone, and a couple of people got right in his face and started yelling at him. So he left, and that's when the chant for a refund started."
Eventually, things quieted down — perhaps in part because security arrived on the scene — but a petition is currently being circulated on board by those who believe a refund is in order. Passengers report that Norwegian has offered all guests a 25 percent credit toward a future cruise.
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Transpolis: the town testing mobility of the future
A 'ghost town', where there are no inhabitants to be found, but there are traffic lights, roundabouts and bus shelters: welcome to Transpolis, the life-size playground for the inventors of future mobility.
Built in 2018 on 77 hectares of the former Fromentaux military base between Saint-Maurice-de-Rélens and Leyment (Ain department), Transpolis is an uninhabited town. However, it is a real town where self-driving vehicle constructors, road network companies, machine-to-machine communication specialists and bus operators can test their inventions, particularly from a safety perspective. 'Nobody in Europe has this,' says Stéphane Barbier, development director for the operating company, located roughly 50 kilometres from Lyon.
For this unorthodox director, Transpolis is a gamble: 'Tomorrow, vehicles, be they self-driving or not, will communicate with infrastructures,' he explains. A budget of 20 million euros was necessary to implement the project that began ten years ago. Industrialists and public authorities pulled out all the stops: three Euro NCAP crash-test sites inherited from the former Lyon-Saint-Exupéry site, a one-kilometre-long motorway and a network of smaller winding roads just like in the countryside. Above all, an ultra-connected, 30-hectare town with 12 kilometres of 'streets' reclaimed from a former military ammunition storage site.
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Here, everything is flexible and modular: just like in a film studio, we write the scenario then equip the site accordingly. In this way it is possible to make the road wider or narrower, change the road markings, alter crossroads. It is also possible to create rainy or foggy conditions over a certain distance. If necessary, the town can also come to life, using pedestrian or cycling robots or even real-life role players. 'Just like a film,' says Stéphane Barbier with a smile.
Transpolis has been designed for connectivity, particularly for communication between vehicles (V2V), with infrastructures (V2I) and third parties (V2X). Underground, there are 300 km of fibre optics and supply points to which equipment can be connected (traffic lights, signs, street lighting, etc.). Even more incredible is the development director's announcement that the site will serve as a test site for 5G. Thus, Bouygues Telecom and Ericsson telephone suppliers have installed a large antenna to test 5G applications enabling self-driving vehicles and 'intelligent' safety equipment to communicate with each other.
One of the first contracts was concluded as part of the Avenue project, which intends to establish self-driving vehicles in several European towns, including Lyon. The development director confirms that electromobility will have its place. One hundred kilovolt-amperes will supply a network of charging stations deployed in situ. Both light and heavy vehicles will be able to plug into them. An induction track or road electrification equipment might then be added. 'This cannot be tested in "real life"', Stéphane Barbier explains, 'But here, we can imitate critical conditions so that everything will be up to standard in real life.'
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Apocalyptic Games - A different opinion on gaming.
Hello all. It's currently the 28th of December, 2002. Its a little after 5:30 pm EST. Just wanted to set a few things straight. This site is all but dead. Perusing over it now, much of the content makes me laugh. Much of it is so immature it makes me sick... not that i'm any better now. I've since moved on to bigger and more wonderful things (thats a laugh). I'm a freshman in college, majoring in music education. I started this site when I was, what...15? I don't really recall. It's definately been a learning experience... sitting here for the past couple years collecting dust. We'll leave it up for fun. To the few people that still stumble on it through some old search engine link... welcome! Feel free to e-mail me about how stupid of a kid I was. I love criticism. Perhaps I'll do another site in the future...I'm still a gaming geek, but music is my life now. So things might be a bit different, but you'll learn to deal with it. So until then...hasta la vista, I love you all. Oh, and if you want to check up on me, this is what I'm doing now. Later.
Welcome to Apocalyptic Games, the site for a different opinion on games, classic and current. From the NES to the Playstation 2, It's all here.
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Wine decanter watch launched on Kickstarter
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but they don't take my breath away anymore.
but I don't hear Your name anymore.
but I can't see past my own hand.
but all I notice is me.
and take these lenses off of my eyes.
and help me recognize Your glory in it.
These mountains are taller than I can climb.
These hills roll farther than I can see.
These rivers run cleaner than anywhere else.
These water falls outnumber words I can speak.
Lord, why do I live here and only see me?
Our time in Cinque Terre began with less than favorable circumstances. Upon our arrival at our air bnb in Monterosso, we discovered something crucial went missing during the trip. We left Florence with three passports, and made it to Monterosso with just two. Now, I wasn't a math major, but TWO PASSPORTS FOR THREE PEOPLE IS NOT ENOUGH. After lots of tears and lots of Googling "what to do if you lose your passport abroad," we calmed down enough to have a game plan: we would first file a local police report (in case someone found it and turned it in), then start searching for train tickets to Milan (because that's where the U.S. embassy is in Italy).
For those of you wondering who this misfortune fell upon, somehow the one person who was constantly reminding us about pickpockets and being careful with our things managed to undeservingly discover her purse missing from her backpack, including her passport, newly purchased Ray Bans sunglasses, and some cash. Jaclyn had been so careful with her stuff the entire trip, and we spent hours trying to figure out when her purse could have separated from her backpack. We all made sure to watch each other's things constantly, and be very aware of our surroundings, but to no one's fault we were suddenly short one purse and one very important document.
Even though we were all very excited and looking forward to spending the next three days in the sun and the sand in Cinque Terre, Megan and I were more than willing to go to any lengths to get Jaclyn's passport back, or help her in any way so she wouldn't be stuck in Italy, unable to return to Iceland or the U.S. (So scary.) In the 20 minutes of Googling, tears, and phone calls to home, I was honestly warming up to the idea of the spontaneous road trip north to Milan. Jaclyn is our good friend, so we were going to be right by her side until we figured this whole situation out, even though that meant the possibility of cutting our "vacation" short.
Just as we were gathering our things to walk to the local police station to file the report, we heard a "ding" from Jaclyn's phone.
Y'all, what I'm about to tell you is not good luck. It's not coincidence. It's not karma. What I'm about to tell you is a God thing. A lady and her husband rode the same train that we were on to Cinque Terre back to the La Spezia station (20 minutes away). Her husband forgot his shoes on the train (kinda weird), so she went back to look for them and noticed a purse on the luggage rack. Jaclyn has a very unique first and last name combination, so the lady found her on Instagram, messaged her, and told her she turned her purse in (WITH her passport AND Ray Bans still in it) to the police at the La Spezia train station.
Like, what? How incredible is that!!!!! We immediately bought a train ticket to La Spezia, talked to the police there, and rode the train back to Monterosso with Jaclyn's purse, passport, Ray Bans, and three VERY thankful hearts.
We celebrated our crazy day with a delicious dinner by the beach and three bottles of wine (it was a long dinner). That day we bonded as friends like we haven't bonded before. Although I would have rather skipped the whole "losing a passport" thing, I am so thankful and grateful that situation brought us closer as friends, teammates, and girls who genuinely care about each other. It was an eventful first day in Cinque Terre to say the least!
Day two was eventful as well, but in a very different way. One of Megan's high school friends was coincidentally staying in Cinque Terre with two of his college friends in the town just north of Monterosso, Levanto. We met up with them in Monterosso to hike the hour-long scenic trail to the next town south of us, Vernazza! They all three went to Texas A&M, one being an exchange student from Italy. The hike allowed lots of great conversations, including the discovery of a ton of mutual friends between the two Americans and I - which was super cool!
After the hike we took the train to Levanto to watch the Italy v Sweden game in a bar full of Italian men. I have to say, this was probably the most fun atmosphere - to watch an Italian game in Italy surrounded by Italians! Apparently Italian girls aren't overt fans of soccer / don't normally accompany men in bars to watch games. Our presence warranted a few funny looks at first, but ultimately we were accepted as soccer (and Italy) fans for the day, and that was very cool.
That night the guys and us girls went to a nice dinner in Monterosso. We all ordered a huge pot of seafood risotto, and OH MY GOODNESS BEST MEAL I'VE EVER TASTED. Like seriously. It was so stinkin delicious.
Accompanied with our incredible dinner, we drank two bottles of the local white wine. And when I say local, I mean we walked past the vineyard on our way past the train station in Monterosso earlier that day. It was incredible as well! I have yet to taste a glass of red or white wine here in Italy that I haven't absolutely enjoyed.
Our final day in Cinque Terre we spent relaxing, absorbing as much Italian sun into our skin as possible. At one point during the day, while walking on slippery rocks (bad idea), my feet slipped out from under me and I completely ate it in front of a couple who at first looked concerned, then broke into unashamed laughter at my expense. It's okay, I was laughing too. And so was Megan. And so were some other people nearby.
I'm finally back in the city that stole my 17-year-old heart. When I took the trip with National Geographic five years ago we stayed the majority of our time in Italy in Florence. I completely fell in love. I love the streets, food, people, buildings, culture, history, atmosphere, air, e v e r y t h i n g about this city. I promised myself I would find my way back at some point in my life, preferably to live for a short time, but at least to visit. Five years and a few countries later, I've managed to make my way back to the City of Lilies.
All afternoon we walked around town near the Il Duomo, ate gelato (of course), saw some statues, perused around some shops, and even found my favorite scarves I originally found five years ago! I had purchased two of the most beautiful scarves last time I visited Florence, but managed to lose both of them during my time back in the states. I looked around more shops than I can count looking for that specific kind of scarf, and finally managed to stumble upon the ONE shop that sells them! Megan and Jaclyn loved them so much they decided to get some as well.
That first night we walked to a restaurant right next to the Il Duomo (talk about dinner with a view!) and ate incredible pasta while watching the Iceland v Portugal soccer match on a huge projector in the restaurant. Every other patron was overtly pulling for Portugal to beat Iceland, except for us three. Then, when Iceland scored (their first goal in history at the Euros !!!!!) our table cheered so loudly that heads turned in confusion. The craziest part is one other table with a very Icelandic-looking couple cheered just as loudly. After the match I walked over to them and asked if they were from Iceland (they were), and we all had an interesting conversation explaining the reason why three American girls in Italy were cheering for the Icelandic National team. It never ceases to amaze me how small this world actually is.
For our second day in Florence we had scheduled to go to a winery in Tuscany that had a castle tour and wine tasting on the property. I was a 17-year-old on a school trip the first time I went to Tuscany, so wine tasting wasn't really in the cards for us. We spent a day touring an olive oil vineyard at a winery but were only able to taste different olive oils on bread. That was a great experience, but being able to go back and do an actual winery tour and drink wine at the age of 22 was an amazing experience. The winery tour was probably one of the things I was most excited about when booking this trip to Italy, because written down on my bucket list of 100+ things is #57: Go Wine Tasting In Italy. I love when I get to cross something off of my bucket list!!
We went to Castello di Verrazzano in Greve in Chianti, Tuscany, Italy. The winery's castle sat on the top of a very large hill that took us 30 minutes to walk up, exacerbated by the time we reached the top. But the walk was well worth the view!! We passed by the vineyards, and witnessed incredible views of the countryside we wouldn't have enjoyed quite as much passing by in a car. We toured the castle with a small group, learned a lot about how wine is made, why different wines are made in different ways, and all those interesting tidbits you never thought you wanted to know, but are so glad you were listening to as you guzzled your fair share of quality Italian wine.
Accompanied with tasting the wine, we also devoured a meat and cheese plate. And I entirely mean it when I say devoured. Italians make incredible meat and cheese, as well as wine! No wonder people fall in love with this country – you can't go wrong at mealtime! At our table sat a family of Brazilian vegetarians. An older man, an older, but not quite as old woman (his daughter), and her son and daughter who were in their twenties. During small talk the son found out two of us were from Texas, me being from Houston. He then asked us about how we felt about the Rodeo. He told us he was an animal rights activist in Brazil who protested against how they treated the animals in the Brazilian rodeos, and he wanted to know the point of view on rodeos from someone who grew up around them. I told him what I thought about them and also how our culture as a whole views them, which is in a positive light for the most part, them being so popular all across the country. It was an interesting conversation to say the least, and definitely one I did not expect to have with a vegan Brazilian at a wine tasting in Tuscany!
After our stomachs were full from food and our souls were satisfied with wine, we made our way back down the hill and barely caught the next bus back to the city. The next stop on our agenda: my absolute favorite gelato shop where I ate during my first stay in Florence - GROM. GROM is just way too good to miss out on, so I made sure to take Megan and Jaclyn there on our last day (and as an excuse to eat in again myself). GROM is kind of hidden on a small side street close to the Il Duomo, and luckily it wasn't super packed at the time we went. It was just as delicious as I remember!!! And the perfect way to end an already perfect day.
Let me start this off by saying how weird it was for me to title this post "vacation". It feels like I've been on a vacation since I left the states, even though I've technically been "working" playing soccer. I guess I'm treating this trip to Italy as a vacation from my soccer obligations.
I took a trip with National Geographic Student Expeditions to Italy the summer after my junior year in high school. A part of me didn't want to go back to places I've already been (I really want to see the entire world before I die, which doesn't give me much time to go back for seconds, so to speak). But when I was 17 I fell in love with Florence, and promised myself that at some point in my life I want to go back and live there. Although I'm still not living in Florence (bummer), Italy was beautiful and fun the first time I visited while on a school trip, so I knew Italy would be beautiful and fun the second time while on a girl's trip with my friends!
So it was decided. One week spent in Rome, Florence, and Cinque Terre was officially written on our three calendars.
We touched down in Rome after around fifteen hours of traveling. We had a dumb five-hour layover in Germany, so by the time we landed we were excited to finally be in ITALY!
I have to say I am really impressed and proud of ourselves for figuring out public transportation in this country with it being our first time. Sure, it took us walking around a few (or more) blocks to find a place to get cash to get our bus tickets. And okay, so we might have ridden a bus through the entire city like, twice, but we basically got a free tour and ended up where we were supposed to be - so I'd call that a success!
Once we made it to our Air bnb that first afternoon and met our super nice hostess, we freshened up (which means we put on outfits that would look good in pictures, duh) and headed out to see the famous sights! We only planned one night in Rome because I knew we would want more time in Florence and Cinque Terre, so we just hit the main tourist attractions: the Colosseum, Trevi Fountain, and the Spanish Steps. I had seen all of Rome the first time I went five years ago, but it was still fun to see all of them again with new people!
MAN HAVE I MISSED ITALIAN GELATO !!!!!!!
I am taking full advantage of being back in this country and having easy and frequent access to authentic Italian gelato (THE best). And by taking full advantage I mean eating gelato every day, sometimes twice a day. No shame. If you've had it you know what I'm obsessing over.
Since the Euros are going on (and we're soccer players in Europe), we found a cute restaurant to eat dinner, drink some wine and watch the Italy v Belgium soccer match. We were rooting for Italy, of course. After dinner we managed to find our way back to a bus stop and catch a bus that took us close to our apartment.
It is no secret that I love words. Talk to me for 10 minutes and somehow that will come up in our conversation. I am constantly reading, writing, and trying to expand my vernacular. I love finding new and better ways to communicate my thoughts. Words are fun to me.
In high school I took Latin for three years. Latin isn't a spoken language, but from it come all the romance languages, and many others take from Latin as well. I think studying such an ancient language that has managed to stay relevant through its rebirth in other languages inspired my love of words and languages. It's like adding chocolate to an already awesome cake. The cake is going to taste good by itself, but chocolate makes it even better. (Chocolate makes everything better.) Words can just be simple, or they can make sentences and thoughts come to life in a magical way. Words are fun!
After I travelled halfway across the globe to Tanzania as a sophomore in high school, and to Italy and Greece as a junior, I told myself that I wanted to spend some significant time in my life living in another country, not just travelling. As soon as I decided to pursue a professional soccer career overseas, I told myself that I wanted to learn the language of whichever country I ended up in. Half the fun of living in another country is learning their language!
With that being said, and given the title of this blog, I have been learning to speak, read, and write Icelandic over the past two months I've lived here.
That was the first step for me, to learn the Icelandic alphabet and to learn the phonetics. Most of their letters are the same as in the English alphabet or make similar sounds as some English letter combinations. I started teaching myself Icelandic phonetics after I signed my contract before I even moved here. That helped me a lot.
People in Iceland grow up learning and speaking Icelandic, then at some point in school they learn Danish and English (they were a Danish colony for a long time). So every person here knows English to some degree. Most are fluent, with varying degrees of an accent, and the rest know enough to communicate effectively. The younger people who watch a lot of American movies and shows pick up more and have less of an accent, and some of the older generations who haven't had to do business with English-speakers or who haven't travelled a lot know less and have stronger accents. Basically, I don't have to learn Icelandic to get along just fine living here, but it definitely helps.
Since living here, my vernacular is proving to be a product of my environment. I live in a house with two parents and two little girls, ages 4 and 6, and I spend a significant amount of time around my soccer teammates and coaches. Wanna guess the types of words and phrases I know??
On the field I've made it a point to learn common words and soccer phrases that we use in every practice and every game. For example, I know numbers up to 100 (to tell players who to mark), and the words for common commands and instructions for my teammates. It's been cool to notice how many words and phrases I can understand my coach saying during practices or pre-game speeches. I can definitely understand more things and understand them quicker than I can think of then speak them to others.
Living with a host family has made a huge difference in my Icelandic learning, especially living with the young girls. They haven't started learning English in school yet, so if I want to communicate with them I have to use Icelandic. My strategy for learning is by asking, looking up the spelling (seeing the word helps), and then trying to use it as much as I can to practice it. My host parents have been so helpful and patient teaching me useful things.
I can tell my host mom 'thank you for dinner' (I use that one every night), ask what time something is (a game or tv show or practice), and ask where or who or what something is. (Those are the most common subjects of my speaking.) Some words and phrases I find myself wanting to say a lot, so I'll ask specifically how to say something. Other words and phrases I hear other people say a lot, so I'll ask what they mean.
Then with the girls, my go-to phrase is 'what is that?' and 'flott' (cool) when they show me something. I can understand them when they ask me to play, and can ask them what they're doing or where they're going. I don't always know what they answer me (haha) but I can at least ask and see how they respond.
Hvað er þetta? – What is that?
Hvað er klukkan? – What time is it?
Fun activity for all my English readers: If you get bored today, look up the word 'fjall' (mountain) and try to pronounce that double L! It's so hard!!
Puns and personification are my favorite. Baking is my love language. Words are my hobby. Obsessed with dogs, chocolate, and coffee. Proud Christian.


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The Role and Impact of Chief Judges on the United States Courts of Appeals
Virginia A. Hettinger, Stefanie Lindquist, Wendy L. Martinek
We describe the role of the chief judge on the United States Courts of Appeals, provide a profile of past chief judges, and assess their influence on decision making by appellate panels. In particular, we analyze the chief judge's influence on consensus within individual panels and between the appellate panel and the district court below. We model the likelihood of dissenting opinions from panel decisions and the likelihood of lower-court reversal and find little evidence that the chief judge is able to promote consensus in either case, although individual chief judges are less likely to dissent from panel decisions themselves.
Justice System Journal
Hettinger, V. A., Lindquist, S., & Martinek, W. L. (2003). The Role and Impact of Chief Judges on the United States Courts of Appeals. Justice System Journal, 24(1).
The Role and Impact of Chief Judges on the United States Courts of Appeals. / Hettinger, Virginia A.; Lindquist, Stefanie; Martinek, Wendy L.
In: Justice System Journal, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2003.
Hettinger, VA, Lindquist, S & Martinek, WL 2003, 'The Role and Impact of Chief Judges on the United States Courts of Appeals', Justice System Journal, vol. 24, no. 1.
Hettinger VA, Lindquist S, Martinek WL. The Role and Impact of Chief Judges on the United States Courts of Appeals. Justice System Journal. 2003;24(1).
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How long can Apple's iPhone stay above the smartphone fray?
Apple is expected to post strong iPhone sales in its latest quarter despite stiffer competition, a slowing smartphone market in general, and a new iPhone still months away.
Shara Tibken
July 21, 2014 4:00 AM PDT
Analysts expect rosy iPhone sales from Apple in the company's fiscal third quarter. CNET
Apple's iPhone is poised to impress yet again.
On paper, things shouldn't look so rosy. This is an "off" quarter for Apple, still months away from releasing a buzz-generating new iPhone. Several top-tier smartphones have debuted in the last few months, and competition has never been stiffer even as the market is slowing. One of those devices, Samsung's Galaxy S5, has proven to be disappointing, suggesting the iPhone could also be vulnerable.
Yet Apple keeps chugging along.
Analysts, on average, expect Apple to report it sold 35.9 million iPhones when it posts its fiscal third-quarter results after the market close on Tuesday, according to a calculation by Fortune. That represents a 15 percent increase over its results from a year ago.
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The continued strength of the iPhone represents an anomaly at a time when the smartphone business is maturing and there is a noticeable lack of excitement in the area. As demand for pricey devices wanes -- analysts say almost everyone who wants a smartphone in mature markets already has one -- the question arises: Can Apple stay above the fray? Or will it too succumb to the broader pressures of the market?
"Strong iPhone demand at the end of the product cycle speaks to high loyalty rate of the Apple ecosystem," said Katy Huberty, a Morgan Stanley analyst who estimates that Apple sold 39 million iPhone units in the period, above the consensus.
Apple's results and its commentary on Tuesday will shed some light. Regardless, the iPhone will again be the key contributor to the quarterly results for the Cupertino, Calif., company, traditionally representing more than half of its total revenue. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expect Apple to post earnings of $1.23 a share and revenue of $37.9 billion for the period ended in June. In April, Apple projected sales of $36 billion to $38 billion.
Another strong quarter
If Apple meets or tops expectations, it will mark the second consecutive quarter of strong results.
The fiscal second quarter, which ended in March , was a great one for Apple in nearly every respect. The company reported a surprise return to earnings growth -- its highest rate in the past six quarters -- and better revenue and gross margins than analysts and Apple had anticipated. That the iPhone -- Apple's biggest moneymaker -- accounted for much of the growth came as a relief to investors who worried that demand was waning ahead of the bigger-screen iPhone 6 expected after this year. Apple said it sold 43.7 million iPhones, much higher than the 38 million anticipated by analysts.
Apple's fiscal second quarter results didn't seem to be affected by worries that consumers were holding off on buying the current, 4-inch iPhone models in hopes a new version would hit the market soon. We'll know Tuesday if that also was the case in the most recent quarter. The company is believed to be prepping two new iPhone 6 models with display sizes of 4.7 and 5.5 inches for later this year, as well as new iPad models.
The Achilles' heel: iPad sales
The only notable downside in Apple's fiscal second quarter was iPad sales, which were weaker than anticipated. Apple sold 16.4 million iPads -- short of both analyst expectations and year-ago results.
Cook attributed the shortfall to changes in the number of devices held in channel inventory (which means it's either sitting in stores or on trucks) and said Apple met its internal estimates for iPad sales. But even after adjusting for inventory differences, iPad sales still declined by more than 3 percent.
Fiscal third-quarter iPad projections vary nearly as widely as the estimates for iPhones, with expectations ranging from 12.3 million to 16 million, Fortune said. The average estimate of 14.4 million suggests iPad sales were slightly down from the 14.6 million sold a year ago.
Apple at its developer conference in June talked up new features coming to its devices later this year. James Martin/CNET
Apple likely has been hurt by a few factors that could continue to plague iPad sales. It's easy for people to pass older tablets to relatives or friends when they upgrade. People also don't have the two-year upgrade incentive that smartphones get from wireless carriers, and Apple hasn't made big enough changes to the iPad to compel even their most ardent fans to immediately buy the newest model. In addition, most people who crave a tablet likely already have one, and Apple is going up against dozens of new, inexpensive devices that run Google's rival Android mobile operating system.
It's "the most unpredictable of Apple's product lines," according to Jackdaw Research analyst Jan Dawson, who added that sales could be weak until customers start upgrading in bigger numbers.
"iPad growth has slowed significantly, and it has now begun contributing little to overall revenue growth, though it makes a significant contribution to overall revenues," he noted.
Avoiding Samsung's fate
From a market share perspective, Apple -- as well as smartphone leader Samsung -- have been under pressure from the Chinese vendors such as Lenovo, Huawei, and ZTE. Both companies saw their share of the market retreat in the first quarter, the most recent data available, according to research firm Strategy Analytics.
Samsung earlier this month said its second-quarter operating profit fell about 24 percent from the previous year to 7.2 trillion won ($7.12 billion). It also said sales likely totaled 52 trillion won, a 9.4 percent decline. Both figures fell short of analysts' projections for the June period. The results would be Samsung's worst in about two years and the third straight quarterly profit decline.
Samsung blamed its weak results on a slowdown in overall smartphone market growth and a strong Korean won, but said it "cautiously expects a more positive outlook in the third quarter."
Unlike Samsung, which makes a wide variety of devices at different prices, Apple focuses on releasing only a couple of devices for the high end of the market. The company doesn't compete on price but counts on its strong brand to attract more affluent buyers.
"(Apple's) objective has always been to make the best and not the most," as CEO Tim Cook has previously said.
Apple's results on Tuesday will be the latest indicator of whether Cook is still on the right track. Check back in with CNET for full coverage of its fiscal third-quarter earnings.
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Discuss: How long can Apple's iPhone stay above the smartphone fray?


Murray Gell-Mann é um físico estadunidense.
É professor emérito de física teórica do Instituto de Tecnologia da Califórnia e um dos fundadores do Instituto Santa Fé, que se dedica a trabalhos teóricos de assuntos como mecânica quântica, supercordas, sistema imunológico dos mamíferos, evolução das línguas e economia global, vistos como sistemas complexos em evolução.
Pertencente a uma família judaica de imigrantes é filho de Pauline Reichstein e Arthur Isadore Gell-Mann. Desde cedo Murray revelou-se como uma criança prodígio, aprendeu a ler aos três anos, influenciado pelo seu irmão Benedict Gell-Mann, os dois passavam longas tardes em grandes museus pesquisando seções de arqueologia e arte. Também estudaram latim, francês e espanhol o que despertou a Gell-Mann seu interesse por idiomas. Aos 8 anos passou de uma escola pública para uma instituição de crianças super dotadas na Columbia , onde lá fez o secundário, formando-se mediano em 1944 aos 15 anos.
O desejo de Gell-Mann era seguir a área da arqueologia ou linguística, mas seu pai, o influenciava a área da Engenharia. Mediante a situação, Gell-Mann afirmava que preferia "morrer de fome ao se tornar engenheiro" e após algumas conversas, chegaram a um acordo optando por Física. Obteve o seu diploma de bacharel em ciências, em 1948, na Universidade de Yale e após ser recusado em algumas universidades à sua escolha, fez sua pós graduação no Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts onde trabalhou como assistente de Victor Weisskopf até 1951 quando concluiu o doutorado ainda no MIT.
Gell-Mann e Abraham Pais estiveram envolvidos na explicação muitos aspectos enigmáticos da física das partículas. Em 1961, esta situação levou-lhe a introduzir uma classificação de partículas elementares chamada hádrons. Este esquema é agora explicado pelo modelo quark. O nome dado pelo próprio Gell-Mann para o sistema de classificação foi o caminho dos oito preceitos, devido aos octetos de partículas na classificação. O termo é uma referência ao Nobre Caminho Óctuplo do budismo - uma escolha que é reflexo dos seus eclético interesses. Gell-Mann e, de forma independente, George Zweig, prosseguiu, em 1964, para postular a existência de quarks, as partículas a partir da qual os hádrons , até então tidos como indivisíveis, são compostos. O nome foi cunhado por Gell-Mann e é uma referência ao romance Finnegans Wake, de James Joyce .
Context: The principal distortion disseminated... is the implication, or even the explicit claim, that measuring the polarization, circular or plane, of one of the [EPRB] photons somehow affects the other photon. In fact, the measurement does not cause any physical effect to propagate from one photon to the other.... If on one branch of history, the plane polarization of one photon is measured and thereby specified with certainty, then on the same branch of history the circular polarization of the other photon is also specified with certainty. On a different branch of history the circular polarization of one of the photons may be measured, in which case the circular polarization of both photons is specified with certainty. On each branch, the situation is like that of Bertlmann's socks, described by John Bell... Bertlmann... always wears one pink and one green sock. If you see just one... you know immediately the other... Yet no signal is propogated... Likewise no signal passes from one photon to the other in the experiment that confirms quantum mechanics. No action at a distance takes place. Ch. 12 : Quantum Mechanics and Flapdoodle, p. 172.
Context: While many questions about quantum mechanics are still not fully resolved, there is no point in introducing needless mystification where in fact no problem exists. Yet a great deal of recent writing about quantum mechanics has done just that. Ch. 12 : Quantum Mechanics and Flapdoodle, p. 167.
Context: You don't need something more to get something more. That's what emergence means. Life can emerge from physics and chemistry plus a lot of accidents. The human mind can arise from neurobiology and a lot of accidents, the way the chemical bond arises from physics and certain accidents. Doesn't diminish the importance of these subjects to know they follow from more fundamental things plus accidents. TED talk on beauty and truth in physics — video TC 14m48s (March 2007) http://ted.com/index.php/talks/murray_gell_mann_on_beauty_and_truth_in_physics.html.
Context: The false report that measuring one of the photons immediately affects the other leads to all sorts of unfortunate conclusions.... the alleged effect... would violate the requirement of relativity theory that no signal... can travel faster than the speed of light. If it were to do so, it would appear to observers in some states of motion that the signal were traveling backward in time. Ch. 12 : Quantum Mechanics and Flapdoodle, pp. 172-173 see EPR paradox.
Context: Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behaviour of the whole. Murray Gell-Mann in ISSS The Primer Project http://www.newciv.org/ISSS_Primer/seminar.html International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) seminar (12 October - 10 November 1997).
Context: I thought of killing myself but soon decided that I could always try MIT and then kill myself later if it was that bad but that I couldn't commit suicide and then try MIT afterwards. The two operations, suicide and going to MIT, don't commute... "The Making of a Physicist : A Talk with Murray Gell-Mann" at Edge.org (2003) http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/gell-mann03/gell-mann_print.html.
TED talk on beauty and truth in physics —video timecode 14m28s (March 2007) http://ted.com/index.php/talks/murray_gell_mann_on_beauty_and_truth_in_physics.html.
As quoted in "Wilson vs Watson: The blessing of great enemies" by Amanda Gefter in New Scientist (10 September 2009) http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17771-wilson-vs-watson-the-blessing-of-great-enemies.html; this is a play upon the famous statement by Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Attributed to Murray Gell-Mann by Penn Jillette, Penn Radio (14 February 2007) http://penn.freefm.com/episode_download.php?contentType=36&contentId=364451.


Over 300 graduates watched by their proud friends, family, VIPs and members of staff, received their degrees on Saturday 30 November at the Colleges Higher Education Awards & Graduation Ceremony.
His Worshipfulness the Mayor of Barking and Dagenham, Councillor Hardial Singh Rai, gave the opening address before handing over to our Principal and CEO, Cathy Walsh, to lead the celebration of outstanding achievement of our students.
For the first time this year, after announcing the affiliation between Barking & Dagenham College and the world famous Le Studio Rouchon back in July 2013, this prestigious prize went to Daniele Pintore, who will travel to Paris to take up a 2 month internship.
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BDC student and talented singer, Jolaade Lawal, who is studying for a BTEC Level 3 in Music, sang ' When you Believe', which summed up the mood of the day.
Barking & Dagenham College offers a wide range of degree-level qualifications, right through to a post-graduate Master of Business Administration (MBA). To find out more about the higher level courses on offer just use this link.


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Lorielle Mallue is the Director of Conservatory Training & Academic Affairs and a faculty member. Credits include: Self by Alison Carsen (writer/director/actor, Student Emmy, UCLA Directors Spotlight Award), The Wonder Pets! (writer), I Never Saw Another Butterfly… (producer/director), Lovers (VTA Best Actress Award). Current projects: This American Death (producer), What If, Right Now…? based on the short story "Victory Lap" by George Saunders (writer/director). In LA she worked for six years for Jodie Foster and her Paramount Pictures financed company, Egg Pictures (Meg LeFauve, president) on multiple features and as story editor for projects Egg was developing. BFA (NYU-Atlantic), MFA (UCLA), Ed.M. (Harvard), FIND Producing Lab Fellow.