Losing weight after giving birth isn't easy — even for powerhouse fitness experts like Katrina Scott, one half of the duo behind Tone It Up. Just a few months after becoming a mom for the first time, Katrina sat down with POPSUGAR at a Kohl's event to share what it's really like to get back to working out postbaby.
"Everyone was like, 'Oh, you're going to snap back so quick' or 'Oh, you're going to get your body back so quick,' and I'm thinking, I never lost my body. It's still here," Katrina told POPSUGAR.
The pressure to get back to your prepregnancy weight is real — and ridiculous. For one thing, what works for one woman doesn't work for everyone, Katrina said. "I didn't lose weight in the first six weeks just from breastfeeding. That didn't happen for me," she explained. "I need movement. I need exercise. That's just how my body works." She said she didn't notice a difference in her weight until she started reintroducing regular workouts — something she also pointed out to her followers on Instagram.
Then there's the other tricky thing about new motherhood: learning how to reorganize your days now that you have a little one to think about. "Quick workouts during nap time and timing everything perfectly is amazing," Katrina said. "So if you can do a little nap time workout, whether it's like 15, 20 minutes, and if they do wake up, knowing that, 'OK, I'm going to finish this later.' It's not all lost."
Most of all, Katrina said she hopes other moms will be a little kinder to themselves and not let pressure to look a certain way or hit a certain weight get to them.
"It took nine months to build this amazing body that created a human, just be patient that it might take nine months or more [to get back in shape], especially if you're balancing being a new parent," Katrina said.


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China orders mass COVID testing in Wuhan
China has largely curbed COVID-19 at home after the initial outbreak that devastated Wuhan. Since then, authorities have controlled the disease whenever it pops up.
BEIJING, China — China suspended flights and trains, canceled professional basketball league games and announced mass coronavirus testing in Wuhan on Tuesday as widening outbreaks of the delta variant reached the city where the disease was first detected in late 2019.
While the total number of cases is still in the hundreds, they are far more widespread than anything China has dealt with since the initial outbreak that devastated Wuhan in early 2020 and over time spread to the rest of the country and the world.
China has not eliminated but largely curbed COVID-19 at home with quick lockdowns and mass testing to isolate infected people whenever new cases pop up. Most previous outbreaks didn't spread far beyond a city or province. This time, cases have been confirmed in more than 35 cities in 17 of China's 33 provinces and regions.
The cities of Nanjing and Yangzhou have canceled all domestic flights, and Beijing has halted long-distance trains from 23 stations. The Chinese Basketball Association said that matches of its men's professional league would be suspended because of the pandemic.
Wuhan, a provincial capital of 11 million people in central China, is the latest city to undergo city-wide testing. Three cases were confirmed there on Monday, its first non-imported cases in more than a year.
They were among 90 new cases confirmed nationwide the previous day, the National Health Commission said Tuesday. Of those, 61 were locally spread ones and 29 among people who had recently arrived from abroad.
Most of the local cases are still in Jiangsu province, where an outbreak started at the airport in Nanjing, the provincial capital, and has spread to other parts of he province and beyond. Authorities reported 45 new cases, five in Nanjing and 40 in the city of Yangzhou, 105 kilometers (65 miles) away, where a second round of mass testing was underway.
Five other provinces and the cities of Beijing and Shanghai reported new local cases in the single digits. In Shanghai, the nation's largest city, a driver working at one of its two main airports tested positive. Beijing has reported a total of five cases in recent days.
The Nanjing outbreak, which has been traced to the delta variant, is the source of the cases in most other places. Separately, delta variant outbreaks in two other places have been linked to neighboring Myanmar, which has seen a sharp rise in infections.
An outbreak in Zhengzhou, a city hit by flooding that killed about 300 people last month, started with people who arrived from Myanmar by air. A third outbreak, the one that started the earliest, spilled into Yunnan province from its border with Myanmar.
Government-affiliated scientists have said that Chinese vaccines are less effective against the new strains of the coronavirus but still offer some protection. Only Chinese vaccines are currently being given in China, where authorities say more than 1.6 billion doses have been administered.
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The params keyword lets you specify a method parameter that takes a variable number of arguments.
You can send a comma-separated list of arguments of the type specified in the parameter declaration, or an array of arguments of the specified type. You also can send no arguments.
No additional parameters are permitted after the params keyword in a method declaration, and only one params keyword is permitted in a method declaration.
The following example demonstrates various ways in which arguments can be sent to a params parameter.
// A params parameter accepts zero or more arguments.
// The following calling statement displays only a blank line.
// type matches the parameter type of the method being called.
// array cannot be converted into an integer array.
// integer array becomes the first element of the params array.
The use of a foreach iteration variable in a nested lambda expression no longer produces unexpected results. The following example uses the variable word in a lambda expression.
The use of a foreach iteration variable in a LINQ expression no longer produces unexpected results. The following example uses the variable number in a LINQ query.
Side effects from named and positional arguments that are combined in a method call are now produced from left to right in the calling statement's argument list. In the following example, TestMethod is called by using a combination of named and positional arguments in different orders.
When more than one resolution candidate is found, overload resolution prefers the most specific type match for named arguments. Parameters for which arguments aren't required or provided in the call are considered only when the type matches in overload candidates are equally good.
In the following example, string is a better type than object for p2. Therefore, the version of ExampleMethod in which parameter p2 is defined as a string should be chosen, even though it has a third params parameter.
In the following example, the call to CandidateMethod that sends a Func<dynamic> argument has two resolution candidates. The corresponding parameter in one of the candidates is Func<object>, and the corresponding parameter in the other is Func<string>.
The overload candidate that has a Func<object> parameter should be chosen because object and dynamic are considered to be equivalent. Therefore, an identity conversion exists not only between dynamic and object but also between constructed types Func<dynamic> and Func<object>.
// Method that has a Func<object> parameter.
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Love Made in SL 2: Lily and Charles
Posted on February 25, 2019 by Inara Pey
Logo by Marianne McCann, courtesy of Linden Lab
It seems the UK is a popular place when it comes to people in Second Life finding love that brings them together in the physical world as well as the digital! For the second part of the new mini-series Love Made in SL, the camera turns to Lily Swidlehurst from the UK and CharlesDe Beaumont from Germany.
Released on Monday, February 25th (does the mark the series as being fortnightly in releases?), this is another short video which tells – in the participant's own words – how their relationship blossomed on both side of the screen.
It's a story that piqued my curiosity, as Lily and Charles are both Second Life mentors. Together with Aullere Ocello and her SL partner, Notfragile Gausman, they run the Helping Haven Community Gateway, which has been the subject of an article in this blog (see Community Gateways in Second Life: Helping Haven).
This link to mentoring is also reflected in part of the video being sent in Ahern, which also reflects the fact that Lily and Charles actually met at a welcome centre. However, this also perhaps reveals something that tended to be true of Second Life at one time (although I have no idea if it is still the case): that the friendships made during our earliest exposure to Second Life can actually be the most enduring over time.
And in an age where all the emphasis on digital interactions and the "need" to have all the widgets offered by VR – facial expression, etc – in order to make communication and interaction "real", Charles points out that actually, quite a lot can be revealed simply through text.
If you get to know someone over several months just typing … then in the end, the personality is becoming very clear.
– CharlesDe Beaumont
Simply put, while it is so often maligned in this the so-called VR age, and disparagingly dismissed as "getting in the way", the keyboard is actually a magnificent tool for communication, honesty and openness. Perhaps because – like our avatars – it removes us by one step from those with whom we're communicating, offering an opportunity for consideration and the freedom to offer feelings and emotions that might otherwise remain hidden due to things like embarrassment.
Lily and Charles: sharing their experience through Love Made in SL
As with Teal and Wolfie in the first part of this series (see Love Made in SL: a new video mini-series), the relationship between Charles and lily grew to a point where, after 11 months, Charles took the plunge and moved from Germany to the UK. Around six months later, they were setting up home together.
Also like the first segment in the series, the story is simply and beautifully told, making further commentary here somewhat superfluous. So why not watch the video below, and keep an eye out for the next in this series in a couple of weeks time?
Love Made in SL can be found on the Second Life You Tube channel.
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Love Made in SL: a new video mini-series
On Monday, February 11th, the start of 2019's Valentines Week, Linden Lab announced the launch of a new video mini-series filmed by Draxtor Despres.
People within Second Life often flag their profiles with a comment along the lines of "SL is SL, RL is RL" or warnings that they don't like to let their virtual lives overlap with their physical lives. And that's fine; the beauty of Second Life is that no-one has to conform to any specific set of all-encompassing rules (outside of the Terms if Service and Community Standards, of course!).
However, there are many who do allow their physical and virtual lives to overlap and intertwine to varying degrees.
Love Made In SL, the new series, focuses on some of those in this latter category; specifically: those who have found love as a result of meeting in Second Life. Some of these relationships may be confined to Second Life, simply because of circumstance, geography, and so on, but some might more fully cross the boundaries into the physical world, with the love between two people leading to their meeting and even in marrying one another.
This latter point is the case with RaglanShire community members Teal, from the United States and Wolf, from the United Kingdom. They are the subject of the first couple to be featured in the new series – and fittingly so, given that after and 18-month engagement, they are now together in the UK and due to be married.
Teal and Wolf in the UK via Love Made in SL
When Wolfie and I got together, I was very settled. The thought of changing my life that drastically, just didn't occur to me … At age 71, I closed my business, sold my house, packed up everything, and shipped myself across the Atlantic.
– Teal Freenote, Love Made in SL
Their story is beautifully told in this short piece – less than a minute-and-a-half long – and in their own words. It needs no added commentary here, other than the images accompanying Teal's story of travelling to the UK to be with Wolf are wonderfully fitting in the use of Second Life whimsy (where else can you travel an ocean on the back of a whale so you can be with your loved one!).
My only other comment would be to thank Teal and Wolf for sharing their story and to wish them all the best for their upcoming wedding, and for their future together!
As the Lab notes, if you'd like to be considered for a future edition on Love Made in SL, please contact Draxtor Depres in-world.
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Erik Mondrian: master of fine arts in and beyond Second Life
Posted on January 11, 2019 January 11, 2019 by Inara Pey
A still from Empty, the 9th video in Erik Mondrian's [MFA] Thesis video series, filmed in Second Life
Erik Mondrian is a writer, artist, and scholar who makes work about place, belonging, love, longing, and madness. He holds an MA in Mass Communication & Media Studies from San Diego State University, focusing on virtual worlds as new media, and is close to graduating with Interschool Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Voice Arts & Creative Writing and supplemental concentration in Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts.
He is also a Second Life resident, and someone I've come to know, albeit indirectly through social media, and I've been enriched by our acquaintance.
For his thesis work at CalArt, Erik has produced a series of eleven videos to illustrate his writing, and filmed within Second Life. Each of the first ten videos offers and examination of an aspect of life or identity, or of emotions or feelings, personal reflections or desires; each narrated by Erik, words and images combining into a series of stunningly moving and deeply eloquent visual poems (even those presented as prose) which are quite breathtaking in their breadth and meaning.
Making: the first video in Erik's Thesis series
As companions to Erik's words, these are films which are fabulously unique and perfect in reflecting and amplifying his words; each marvellously frames his thoughts and the emotions of each piece without ever intruding or distracting. Through them, Erik displays that not only is he a master of words, but he is also deeply visually creative; the composition, framing and presentation of each video is utterly captivating.
Since my MFA at CalArts is three-pronged, I wanted (with the support & encouragement of my mentor on the Creative Writing side, Jon Wagner) to do a thesis project that blended all three of my areas of study in some way [written word, voice and media] … The project also came about in part because of my years spent in virtual worlds of all kinds [and] the experiences I've had there and the people I've met … I've been "on-line" for close to 25 years, and almost as long in virtual spaces from IRC and MUDs through to worlds like The Palace, Active Worlds, and of course, almost fourteen years in SL.
– Erik in discussing his thesis video series
What I personally find engaging in these films is the rich, allusive timbre evident in Erik's writing. Together with his sheer lyricism, he produces wordscapes that are beautifully attractive. Through a crafted choice of words, he encourages, suggests, points – but never blatantly leads or cajoles. He sets out path of thought, complete with potential branches or turns, where allusion and suggestion lies as much within each word as within every passage. He invites us listen and allow our imagination to take whichever route it may choose through prose and verse. Thus, while there may well be a destination Erik has set for our journey, how we reach it is entirely left in our hands – or rather our thoughts and our mind's eye.
Escape: the second video in Erik's Thesis series (and her favourite)
These are also unmistakably deeply personal pieces. By his own admission, Erik is reserved, quiet, introverted. Yet he has the gift of observation and the power of expression, These combine to resonate within each of us and find fertile ground within our thoughts. Thus, while personal to him, the ideas, feelings, emotions, questions, desires, ideas and images he creates are equally personal to those who listen and watch. And this is something that he is himself aware of, as he appears to note through the eleventh video in the series, which stands as both a conclusion and an artist's statement.
Place without belonging. Longing without love. A special kind of madness that comes from hiding in plain sight, seen but not yet recognised, heard but not yet understood. I move through time and space, observing all, saying far too little. What do you make of this? The lives you live, the memories, the moments—where do they go? Who do you find there? I've tried to make that journey here, tried to reconcile my circuitous wandering, outwardly aimless, with a destination that remains forever a step ahead, an optical illusion that pulls away even as it draws me forward.
– From video 11: Artist Statement
It is through this final piece that Erik is most revealing about himself and by extension, each of us. As such, and while billed as an "artist's statement", it is integral to the whole series and should be watched and absorbed as a part of the whole.
I could wax further on the subject, but really, the best way to appreciate these films is to see and savour them. So instead, I'll close with a quote from my fellow Second Life writer and traveller, Ricco Saenz
These videos are brilliant, powerful and thought-provoking. They create an intriguing atmosphere – and udoubtedly deserve to be called art.
– Ricco Saenz, January 11th, 2019
You can see all of the videos back-to-back in their intended order via Erik's Thesis playlist. And be sure to read the accompanying notes for SLurl to the SL locations featured in each.
Erik Mondrian on You Tube
[TMA] Thesis playlist
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Future Shock: the machinima continues
Posted on January 1, 2019 by Inara Pey
Future Shock: sci-fi machinima
I first wrote about Future Shock, an ambitious Second Life Machinima series produced by Pryda Parx, in September 2016, when the first part in the series was released, and then revisited the project at the start of 2017, once the entire first season was available on You Tube.
In August 2017, a special "Director's Cut" version of the first season was released, bringing all eight parts (plus the initial trailer / introduction) together into a single 32-minute film which included previously unreleased footage, even as Pryda was working on the second season of 9 episodes. The new series was released over a period of several months in 2018, although sadly, the scheduling of things (coupled with other matters) prevented me for covering them at the time.
However, on December 27th, 2018, Pryda released another Director's Cut, which brings all eight parts of this second season together into a single 23.5 minute film, which as with the first series version, includes previously unreleased footage. So this seems a good time to catch-up on the series, with apologies to Pryda for only now getting to it.
In short, Future Shock is a story of a somewhat dystopian / semi-cyberpunkish world where technology infiltrates every part of people's lives, watching over them, seemingly providing both a protective blanket and providing various means personal gratification and escapism through the intertwining of their physical and virtual lives. But all is not as it seems. Rather than guiding / guarding / assisting, technology has come to dominate, defining everyone in terms of their net worth, or IP Credit (draw your own conclusions from the use of "IP"). So long as this remains positive, a person has little to fear – not even death; technology allows them to augment / redefine / rebuild their own bodies to suit their desires. But should a person's net worth zero-out or entire a negative value, then things can become uncomfortable, and survival less-than-certain, with those in debt clinically – if harshly – dealt with; as is also the case for those perceived to be a threat.
Tracy Grayling: protagonist – but innocent, or self-obsessed mole / agent?
Thus, this is a world of questionable moral and ethical values. people's lives are determined by what is effectively a line on a balance sheet, while the people themselves are driven by baser instincts: greed, desire, avarice, envy, determined to raise their credit value, wanting to make themselves better physically than their peers through surgery / augmentation, or to be able to have sufficient value to escape into the virtual realm – a place reached not in the home, but within life support centres, the body fed and cared for while the mind escapes – and the all-important credit balance ticks down minute by minute.
Life in this world is very much factionalised; not everyone may approve of the way technology is all-pervading, or the way in which humanity has come to rely so wholly on it. Others simply seek to exist not caring for anything more than the next opportunity to become immersed in the virtual, while some seek to improve themselves, whilst also seeking a means for self-expression.
What made the first series engaging was both the visual style used throughout: the physical world is a dark, cold monochrome place for the most part, where colours are minimally used – blue to highlight technology, for example; red as a negative. Conversely, the virtual realm is a place vibrantly alive with colour and imagination, warm and inviting and far removed from the physical. Also, the storytelling is richly layered. This opening drops us into the middle of things, roughly 19-20 years hence. We're quickly introduced to a number of the core elements – particularly the idea that humans are regarded as little more than constituent parts of the whole, to be recycled as required, plus the main protagonist for the story, Tracy Grayling, but the overall context can only be understood and the pieces fitted together by watching all the segments in turn – and at times returning to a previous segment in order to gain further insight.
Being in sufficient credit means you can afford exotic changes to your body – such as wings. But there is still the mystery / threat / salvation hidden within the Dark Grid …
This approach is continued through the nine episodes of the second season, which adds a further layering, in that the series records the events of the first, but from the perspective of a another group of characters, the "rebels". Slightly shorter in length overall than the first season segments, the second series also lifts the production values seen within the production. In this, Pryda made no bones about the fact that in filming the first series of Future Shock, she was also going through a learning curve in terms of machinima production – and the second season shows that she has learnt a lot, and has a very definite approach to style, nuance and overall production.
Future Shock is an engaging series, one that tells both a story and raises questions about the future and our increasing reliance on technology and what it may mean for personal freedoms – including the freedom of expression. These questions have perhaps become more salient over the course of the two years in which Pryda has been working on the series; as such it is worth viewing from this perspective as well. For those who wish to see more, Pryda has also produced a series of short pieces providing insight into the principal characters. However, I would recommend only watching these after seeing the entire series; they contain significant spoilers!
Pryda's You Tube channel
Future Shock Season 1 Director's Cut
A world first for Second Life Machinima?
Posted on November 8, 2018 November 8, 2018 by Inara Pey
via the UWA Second Life website
I'm "borrowing" the title of this article from a UWA blog post by Jay Jay Jegathesan (Jayjay Zifanwe in Second Life), who also e-mailed me about the forthcoming Eugene International Film Festival and the special place Second Life machinima has within it.
In short, Metaphor, a film directed by Basile Vignes and produced by Jay Jay, has won the Best Animated Short Film at the festival, in a competition that included the internationally acclaimed animated short iRony, which has already won 120 awards world-wide, and has been short-listed for 5 Academy Award Qualifying festivals.
It is believed that no other Second Life machinima has previously won the top prize in open competition against 'conventional' animated short films from across the spectrum. As the winning Animated Short Film, Meatphor will be shown at the festival, which takes place over the weekend of the 9th through 11th November, 2018, in Eugene, Oregon, USA, along with all the other selected entries.
Commenting on the announcement that his film had won the award, Basile stated:
I am very proud and honoured that Metaphor won this award for best animation. This in competition with a selection of films each of which could have had the first prize. A big thank you to the jury who chose my film and congratulations for your excellent movie Festival.
Metaphor excerpt
The film, which Jay Jay and Basile bill as French-Australian co-production although Basile is currently based in India, is a story about identity – the faces we wear in life, both public and private, with the synopsis stating:
The protagonist in this film, uses the avatar and handle 'Fallen God' when accessing social media and virtual worlds. In his virtual journeys, he comes across the mysterious, beautiful and enchanting 'Encre'. Will this encounter turn into a relationship touched by the spark of the infinite? This animated French-Australian film, based on true events that happened 2017 explores the many masks we wear along with the question of identity and relationships in the modern world in all its shapes and forms.
Also responding to the award, Jay Jay paid tribute to Basile's work, noting:
Over the years as Festival Director for numerous UWA machinima film challenges, Basile proved to be among the finest exponents of this genre, along with his chief animator, Tutsy Navarathna, and when the thought came to me to try to take Second Life machinima across the globe on the international film festival circuit, I could think of no one better to partner with on this endeavour.
This is the very first win for Metaphor, and I do hope that it's not the last. I also look forward to the film's Australian premiere next month at the Perfect Light Film Festival in Broken Hill, New South Wales.
Congratulations to Basile, Jay Jay and all involved in the project on winning this award.
I'd also like to point out that iRony, mentioned above, is in fact an animated short by Jay Jay's son, Radheya Jegatheva (it is also narrated by Jay Jay). Radheya is fast emerging as a talented film-maker, and I've been fortunate to cover some of his work previously in these pages (see here and here for more). This being the case, I'd also like to pass on congratulations to him on also having iRony accepted by the Eugene International Film Festival and featured as one of its selected films, and on his film having already achieved so much internationally.
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Arrivals and Departures in Second Life
Posted on July 23, 2018 September 14, 2018 by Inara Pey
Erstwhile Station: the setting for Arrivals and Departures, a new Second Life machinima
Arrivals and Departures is a new machinima from CEH Productions, a collaboration between Caledonia Skytower from Seanchai Library, Elrik Merlin of Radio Riel and Designing Worlds, and Honey Heart of Elite Equestrian.
The 15-minute film, premiered in-world at a specially constructed theatre setting on Sunday, July 22nd, 2018, takes the audience into a moment of time in the lives of two people who come together for one last, shared moment. It reveals how their individual journeys have become intertwined, and the essential role each has come to play for the other. Though the word is never uttered in the film, it essentially addresses aspects of our attitude towards death.
He has accepted the journey on which he must now embark. His last act is to pass along that which has been most important in his life to someone who is remaining behind – requesting their commitment to carry on the work. She is dropped without warning into loss, grief, and accepting his legacy with no warning or time to become accustomed to its inevitability. She must choose to be present for him in this moment, accept the commitment with which he tasks her, and be prepared to continue on – while at the same time dealing with the shock and weight of it.
– Caledonia Skytower on Arrivals and Departures
Arrivals and Departures: Him and Her (via Caledonia Skytower)
The story was inspired by, and performed in, the superbly imagined Erstwhile Station, a Steampunk-inspired space port created by leading virtual world creators Sharni Azalee and Marcus Inkpen of The looking Glass fame for Fantasy Faire 2018. The build was generously donated to the project by Sharni and Markus, with Technical Director Honey Heart re-erecting it as a film set, using path-scripting techniques within the build required to realise the film's action. For the premiere, Honey also provided a special theatre setting based on the film set, and which remains open for further viewings of the film.
Arrival and Departures is a transatlantic production; Caledonia Skytower, as writer based in Washington State, Honey Heart, who also developed the in-world animations used within the film, is based in Michigan, and Erik Merlin, who edited the film from footage he and Caledonia shot, is based in Scotland. Both Caledonia and Erik voice the principal characters.
The story itself is beautifully told. As noted above, it is a tale of passings and also of beginnings. It also highlights the vital importance of storytelling, harking back to an earlier time when tales were woven into a verbal tradition that was handed down by word of mouth from one generation to the next. Delicately folded within it is a reminder that while those who leave us in this life may physically pass beyond our reach, we can nevertheless continue carry them within us, breathing life into their passions and ideals by inspiring and teaching, loving and caring for those around us.
The Arrivals and Departures theatre setting, while will remain in place for several days after the July 22nd Premiere of the film, and where visitors are invited to watch it in-world
Eloquent and poignant with an elegantly told story, Arrivals and Departures is an outstanding film, and not one to be missed. You can see it on-line via the following links, or if you prefer, in-world through until 16:00 SLT on Tuesday, July 24th, 2018 at the Arrivals and Departures theatre in-world (Silver Sands, rated: Adult):
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In addition, and with the producers' permission, I've embedded the film at the end of this article.
About CEH Productions
Caledonia Skytower is an artist and storyteller with over 30 years of experience as a theatrical designer, production manager, and non-profit administrator. Since 2008 she has worked as a volunteer presenting literature live in virtual worlds, logging in over 1000 hours to benefit a variety of charities, and develop engaging experiences to promote reading and literature, as part of Seanchai Library. She continues designing for the stage, works as project specialist, a small non-profit consultant, and has self-published ten titles of fiction, poetry and reflective essays.
Elrik Merlin has been in Second Life for over a decade. Virtually from the beginning, he has been involved with in-world media, as a DJ, a presenter (and Technical Director) on Radio Riel, and on Designing Worlds, the popular weekly TV show on design and designers in virtual worlds, which he films and edits, and co-hosts. He is also involved in Fantasy Faire Radio and his voice can often be heard on promos and sponsor messages, and on several of the "Tales from the Fairelands" stories that are broadcast on FFR. He has frequently taken part in in-world and radio drama over the years, with groups including the Radio Riel and Fantasy Faire Players.
Honey Heart is the owner of two award-winning in-world companies, Ladies' Pleasure and Elite Equestrian, where she heads a team of highly talented designers and scripters specialising in developing innovative horse avatars and accessories for equestrian enthusiasts. At the same time, she also has a design practice in real life. She originally began designing in SL because she couldn't find tack and accessories for her and her first horse, Dancer, so she started making them herself. Then others wanted to buy what she made, and it grew from there. She finds growing a business with her partners to be the best fun in SL.


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AFTRA preps on course
Lesotho Times May 15, 2019
PREPARATIONS are at an advanced stage for the eighth conference of the Africa Federation of Teaching Regulatory Authorities (AFTRA) which starts on Tuesday and runs until 18 May at the 'Mathabiseng Convention Centre in Maseru.
The conference, which is meant for education stakeholders to exchange best teaching practice in African countries.
The Chief Information Officer in the Ministry of Education and Training Molikuoa 'Mota yesterday told the Lesotho Times that preparations for the conference are at an advanced stage.
Ms 'Mota said they have also secured sponsorship for the conference from local businesses who will sponsor 90 percent of the costs.
"We have managed to get sponsors as 90 percent of the cost are covered by the local business community while the remaining 10 percent is from the AFTRA," Ms 'Mota said.
"Delegates will start arriving from Sunday. The venue for the conference is booked, the caterers have been secured.
"We have seen a positive response from our local people who have submitted their papers for presentation and most delegates have submitted their itineraries."
She said they are expecting at least seven ministers of education from different countries for the conference.
"So far, Nigeria, Cameroon, South Africa, Zambia, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone have confirmed participation. We have also organised excursion trips for the delegates to ensure that we also promote our tourism," Ms 'Mota said.
She said they have also received confirmation of attendance from the Commissioner of the Human Resources, Science and Technology Department (HRST) in the African Union and international speaker, Professor Patel from India.
"Today the AFTRA office in Abuja, Nigeria received confirmation that the Minister of Basic Education of Cameroon will represent the President of Cameroon at the AFTRA anniversary and Award of the AFTRA Presidential Medal of Honour.
"We also received confirmation that the Commissioner of Education, Science and Culture of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will be leading a top level ECOWAS delegation to the AFTRA events," Ms 'Mota said.
She also said they have received written regrets from the Ministers of Tanzania, Ethiopia and Mauritius.
At least 150 foreign delegates are expected to descend on for the conference which is expected to be attended by Prime Minister Thomas Thabane and other government officials.
It is also expected to be attended by information and communication technology (ICT) experts, employers of teachers, teachers unions, international development partners, non-governmental organisations, and the general public.
AFTRA is an intergovernmental organisation comprising the national agencies regulating teaching in the 54 African countries. Inaugurated on October 12, 2010 in Abuja Nigeria by the Ministers of Education of Nigeria and South Africa with an initial 15-member countries, AFTRA has grown into a profound continental federation that leads policy development and implementation for the professionalisation of teaching in Africa.
The conference will also feature a roundtable meeting for AFTRA member organisations only. The Roundtable is AFTRA's annual general meeting (AGM).
Some of the sub themes of the conference will include education and global competiveness; professional teaching standards; continental frameworks; advances in educational technologies; teacher education; continental curricular and quality frameworks; teacher working conditions and motivation; teacher safety; learner abuse and safety among others.
The Teaching Service's Acting Chief Education Officer, Phaee Monaheng Mariti, recently told the Lesotho Times that the conference will provide attendants an opportunity to share best practices on education.
"The conference provides opportunities for exchange of best practices between AFTRA and members of the global community particularly the academia, ICT experts, employers of teachers, teachers unions, international development partners, non-governmental organisations, and the general public," Ms Monaheng Mariti said.
She added that the conference will also provide attendants with an opportunity to reflect on the role that the teaching profession plays in today's society, while also helping to revive the teaching spirit among the teachers.
Ms Monaheng Mariti said the conference, which has been themed "Teaching and Learning in Africa for Global Competitiveness", will feature a series presentations from both local and education experts.
She further said some of the local presenters will come from educational institutions among them lecturers and students from the National University of Lesotho (NUL), lecturers from the Lesotho College of Education and the Ministry of Education among others.
"We are expecting many visitors to come into the country for this conference, which will also boost the country's hospitality industry during their stay. We are expecting about 250 delegates."
Ms Monaheng Mariti said prospective participants are expected to pay a registration fee of US$150 (about M2100) for locals while for international delegates the fee is $300 (about M4200).
While the event is financially supported by the ministry, Ms Monaheng Mariti said they are also seeking support from the private sector for financial and in kind support.
"We have requested for financial support from the business community to stage the event and some have already responded positively to our call. Those who will extend support to us will get a chance to market their products or services during the conference," Ms Monaheng Mariti said.
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With most retailers now open on Thanksgiving night, few stores had long lines Friday morning
Black Friday shoppers on the prowl for deals With most retailers now open on Thanksgiving night, few stores had long lines Friday morning Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/1jnnm02
Maureen Feighan and James David Dickson, Published 7:44 a.m. ET Nov. 27, 2015 | Updated 4:28 p.m. ET Nov. 27, 2015
Jody Lewis, right, and her sister-in-law, Debbie Hurst, both from Windsor, Ontario, are dressed for the holiday season as they shop on Black Friday in the United States. Jose Juarez, Special to The Detroit News
Not all shoppers were miserable or had determined looks on their faces. Jose Juarez, Special to The Detroit News
Eileen Chopp of Troy, Mich., navigates her way through Kohl's in Troy, located on John R. Road, as she looks for Black Friday deals with her daughter. Jose Juarez, Special to The Detroit News
Katie Wood of Royal Oak shops for Black Friday deals. She and her mother, Eileen Chopp, have done this together on Black Friday for years. Jose Juarez, Special to The Detroit News
Shoppers line up in the cashier area to pay for Black Friday goods at Kohl's, located on John R. Jose Juarez, Special to The Detroit News
Jahangin Hasan, left foreground, of Hamtramck, was among the first in line at Best Buy in Madison Heights for Black Friday deals. Jose Juarez, Special to The Detroit News
People wait patiently in the rain for Black Friday deals at Best Buy. Jose Juarez, Special to The Detroit News
Shoppers wait in line to pay for their Black Friday deals at Best Buy in Madison Heights. Jose Juarez, Special to The Detroit News
Shoppers enter Best Buy for Black Friday deals. Jose Juarez, Special to The Detroit News
Dare Ajijo of Royal Oak loads up a 55-inch Vizio flat-screen TV at Best Buy as he and other shoppers look for Black Friday deals. Jose Juarez, Special to The Detroit News
Tasha Bradley of Troy shops for Black Friday deals at Best Buy. Jose Juarez, Special to The Detroit News
Shoppers pay for their Black Friday deals. Jose Juarez, Special to The Detroit News
Shoppers look over the store flier for Black Friday deals at Best Buy. Jose Juarez, Special to The Detroit News
Rylee Thornton, left, and her mom, Shannon Owens, both from Warren, shop for Black Friday DVD deals at Best Buy. Jose Juarez, Special to The Detroit News
Shoppers look for Black Friday deals at Best Buy. Jose Juarez, Special to The Detroit News
Eileen Chopp of Troy navigates her way through the Kohl's in Troy as she looks for Black Friday deals with her daughter.(Photo: Jose Juarez / Special to The Detroit News)Buy Photo
A steady rain didn't detract thousands of bargain-hunting Metro Detroit shoppers from flocking to area retailers on Black Friday as they searched for great deals on everything from flat screen TVs to toys.
Area malls had steady traffic throughout the day, though many shoppers said the crowds weren't nearly as big as previous years. And with so many retailers now open on Thanksgiving evening and rolling out online deals throughout the week leading up to Black Friday, some customers said it wasn't nearly as exciting this year.
"It's usually a two-hour line at Kohl's," said Ceres Jett of Warren, who was at the checkout line at 6 a.m. at Kohl's on John R. in Troy, where she picked up two shopping carts full of pajamas, pillows, a shower curtain and more.
This year, Jett and her family walked right into the store, which was open all night.
According to the National Retail Federation, an estimated 135.8 million shoppers planned to shop Thanksgiving Weekend this year, including Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. And it expects sales overall for November and December to rise 3.7 percent to $630.5 billion compared with the same period last year.
Businesses and shopping centers prepare all year long for this day.
Denise Murray, director of marketing and business development at Briarwood Mall, said that "Black Friday is our Super Bowl."
She said that it brings a "great sense of excitement" to the holiday season, with stores opening early and staying open late. Briarwood does not release figures on how many visitors circulate through the mall, or how a normal day would compare with Black Friday, but Stephen Petrecivic, a manager at Williams-Sonoma, called the day an opportunity to bring in shoppers who may not normally consider the high-end kitchen supply store.
"Black Friday brings in a different type of customer," he said. How those visitors become buyers and those buyers become regulars, he said, comes down to one word: "service."
Many retailers staggered their deals throughout the week, offering deals as early as Monday and then selling special doorbusters on both Thanksgiving night and Black Friday.
The Best Buy on John R. south of 14 Mile in Madison Heights — which opened on Thanksgiving but closed at 1 a.m. Friday before reopening at 8 a.m. — was one of the few stores with a line stretching out into the parking lot at 7:45 a.m. Dozens of shoppers clutched umbrellas and wore raincoats, waiting for the doors open. Some were frustrated that deals that were supposed to be available on Friday were already gone.
"How were they (flat-screen TVs) gone yesterday, and it's supposed to be a Black Friday deal?" asked David Mersier of Detroit, who waited in line for more than hour. "I should get a raincheck or something."
Tasha Bradley of Troy was on the lookout Friday at the Best Buy in Madison Heights for a flat-screen TV and a laptop.
"It's been crazy in the past, madness," said Bradley. "This was more organized."
Michelle Rodriguez, manager of the Best Buy, said the line was longer on Thanksgiving when it stretched all the way to John R. About 450 people were waiting to get in when it opened at 5 p.m.
To keep things orderly, Best Buy allowed customers 25-50 people at a time when its doors opened on Thanksgiving and Black Friday. Customers were handed circulars as they walked in.
"We try to keep it as calm as possible," said Amanda Reeser, another Best Buy manager. "...We need to put safety first."
Some stores beefed up security for Black Friday. Security cars circled both Kohl's in Troy and Best Buy in Madison Heights. In Dearborn, several Dearborn Police Department cars patrolled the Walmart parking lot where activist were protesting the retailer's low wages.
Some retailers, such as outdoor goods chain REI, meanwhile, chose to keep their doors closed not only on Thanksgiving but on Black Friday, encouraging their employees to spend the day outside instead.
"We're not here," its website read Friday in big bold letters. "Today we've closed all 143 of our stores. We're passionate about bringing you great gear and the experience it unlocks. We hope you'll join us outside today."
For many shoppers, Black Friday is a long-held family tradition. Jett of Warren says she and her daughters, Madison and Mackenzie Parise, have been heading out on Black Friday every year for a decade. They started at 3 a.m. Friday and their first stop was Dunham's Sports.
It's a methodical affair. They look at the circulars the night before and plot strategy. Jett opened a notebook with a list of the all the stores they planned to visit and specific items they wanted at each place.
"You have to have a list," she said.
Still, she said she refused to shop on Thanksgiving.
"We won't do Thanksgiving," Jett said. "Three a.m. is as early as we'll go. These people (workers) want to spend time with their families."
For Jody Lewis and Debbie Hurst, sisters-in-law from Windsor, Black Friday is a 17-year tradition. They also said crowds weren't nearly as big as years past — at stores or at the U.S.-Canadian border.
"There's no crowd," said Debbie, wearing a black shirt bedazzled with the words "Deck the Halls" while shopping at the Kohl's in Troy. "In the past, we spent an hour in (the checkout) line."
With the Canadian equivalent of Thanksgiving held in October, many Canadians come to Metro Detroit to shop on Black Friday, they said. At Walmart on Mercury Drive in Dearborn, a huge Canadian luxury passenger bus was parked in the parking lot while shoppers hunted for deals inside.
Lewis said the selection in Metro Detroit's stores is so much more varied.
"The deals, the quantity, the selection is so much better," said Lewis.
Lewis and Hurst said they missed the camaraderie of hanging out with other shoppers and waiting in line to get into stores on Black Friday in the past. Still, they said the day was about being together.
"It's a tradition for us. And it's time spent together. And there's always a story."
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Southlakes Medical Group owner Dr Vinh Dao said federal government rules relating to overseas-trained doctors meant that Dr Zhang could no longer work in Wangi Wangi.
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From being a virtual unknown to standing on the stage at the Oscars less than eight years later, New Orleans-native Anthony Mackie is taking Hollywood by storm. BET.com sat down with the tenacious thespian to discuss his latest film, Night Catches Us, where he re-teams with his She Hate Me co-star Kerry Washington. Never known to bite his tongue, Mackie talks candidly about his latest role, indie vs. big-buget films, and why the '90s was an important decade for Black cinema.
Night Catches Us takes place in Philadelphia after the Black Panthers's era. Do you think you would have joined the Black Panthers had you been around back then?
I think I would have. If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group. They get a bad rap because of the incidents that transpired with the police, but for the most part they had neighborhood protection groups, they fed the hungry and they would feed kids in the morning on their way to school. They were protecting the neighborhood and that is something that I truly believe in. If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.
What attracted you to this film?
The script. When I read the script, I thought Marcus was such a three-dimensional, complex character. There is something that I really admire about people facing their demons, people coming face to face with their past and dealing with it in the present. That is something that I have not had the opportunity to do as an actor. So when I read that, I was gung ho.
Do you prefer indie or big-budget films?
That's hard! Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budget movies, I love craft services! I love going to make a little coffee. I love it! There is something about independent film that is really great. There is something about taking away all of the "fluff" and just coming to work every day and being a blue collar guy making a movie. It is a 60/40 shop. I 60-percent love independent films, but I love craft services! [Laughs] I love string cheese! The movie I'm doing now, we have Blow Pops and I am like, "I love this!"
How was it pairing up again with your She Hate Me co-star Kerry Washington?
It was great! Kerry is my muse. We work really well together and we know each other extremely well. Kerry is the only person I can say that when something isn't right with me, she can look at me and tell. She knows my shortcomings. [Laughs] It is interesting, she knows how to put me in place on a professional level and that is something I have never experienced before. If I go to battle, she has my back! No bullsh**, no pretense. Just show up every day, roll up our sleeves and go at it. I admire her and appreciate her for that. So when this project came up, I was like, "We have to call Kerry!" I think a lot of the success of this film has to do with that chemistry that she brings to the set every day. She is just a sweetheart!
Angelina Jolie has been chosen to portray Cleopatra in an upcoming biopic. Having just spent an evening in a room full of wonderful Black actresses at the For Colored Girls premiere, what are your thoughts on this casting choice?
I think filmmaking is a very interesting process. In order to understand the casting of Angelina Jolie you have to understand the business aspect of getting that movie made. We have a wide variety of dynamic, amazing, talented, outright beautiful Black actresses. Until we create work for those actresses, we cannot look to someone else to create work for us. I feel as if we have a whole decade of movies to draw from. If you look at the movies in the '90s, Morris Chestnut and Vivica Fox were in every movie and we loved all of those movies. "Love Jones," one of the best movies ever made! "Love and Basketball," one of my favorite movies! These were great films and we got to see ourselves in a way that was beautiful, poetic and suave. We invented swagger in the '90s. But all of those people stopped making movies. So when those people stand up, because they have the power and the leverage to make movies, we won't have to depend on Tyler Perry to be our sole solace in Hollywood. We won't have to depend on someone to try and cast us as Cleopatra because we will be casting ourselves. So don't talk about it, be about it!
You are a Julliard-trained actor. I am also an actor. In your opinion, is going to school to study the craft necessary?
I think it is very necessary. If you can do the classics, you can do anything. Everybody you look at in any aspect of creativity, everyone who is a beacon of their genre has mastered the classics. Wynton Marsalis would not be able to do what he is doing in Lincoln Center if he couldn't play Brahms' "Third Symphony." Look at anybody in fashion, if they hadn't mastered the Elizabethan period, they wouldn't know what type of lace went well with a certain type of satin. Acting is the only medium where people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques. You may think that you can do something, but you have to realize when you sit down to watch a movie, that one scene may have taken two days to film. So every time you watch that scene you have to think about doing that over and over for two days. That takes technique! If you go see For Colored Girls, what Kimberly Elise did was not some fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants type work. That's technique! Now you can get that on the job or you can get that through school, but one in the same, both of those are processes that you have to take heed of.
I recently interviewed Kimberly Elise for Colored Girls.
Did you ask her if she wanted to work with me? [Laughs]
No! Everyone wants to work with you Mackie, that's a given! Okay!
Antoine Fuqua is making the 2Pac biopic. You played 2Pac in Notorious. Is there any possibility you will play 2Pac again for the biopic?
I have no idea. I love Fuqua. I love Fuqua's work. I am sure Fuqua has a very precise vision that he has for that film. So, I don't know. I haven't talked to him. I have not seen him. The first I'd heard of it was a few weeks ago. It is still early in the process, I don't even know if they have a script. By the time it comes around I will probably be too old, but Black don't crack!
Night Catches Us opens in select cities Friday, December 3rd.
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Arthur John Ensor  (2 January 1905 – 18 January 1995) was a British-Canadian painter and industrial designer.

Early life
Ensor was born in Llanishen, Wales on 2 January 1905. His parents moved to Canada when he was a child but he returned to Europe to study art, first in Florence at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and then in London at the Polytechnic School of Art before he graduated with a Diploma in Mural Painting and Art History from the Royal College of Art. After graduation, Ensor worked for the Empire Marketing Board before, in 1935, taking a post as an Industrial Designer for the Plastics Division of Imperial Chemical Industries.

World War Two

At the start of World War Two Ensor contacted the War Artists' Advisory Committee, WAAC, and he was eventually offered a short contract to record industrial scenes in the United Kingdom. By this time Ensor had already enlisted in the British Army and arrangements were made for him to produce four paintings in August 1942 before undertaking a drawing commission at the Vickers Armstrong Aircraft Assembly Works, where Vickers Wellington bombers were being built. Ensor submitted these pictures to WAAC in November 1942 and this led to a further commission at the John Summers & Sons steel plant which Ensor completed while on leave from the Army. During the war Ensor also recorded scenes of troop training, of oil drilling and of anti-aircraft and coastal defences.

Later life
Ensor returned to Canada in 1947 where he established the Ensor Industrial Design Association and became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art. In 1967, His painting, Summer Stores, was selected as the design for a 50 Cent Centennial Canada Post postage stamp. In the 1970s, he produced a series of watercolour paintings and coloured pencil sketches of the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. These paintings, which are currently in the Beaverbrook Collection of War Art at the Canadian War Museum include scenes of officer cadets in various activities:
Land Survey Crew
Measuring Flow Resistance To A Solution Of Calcium Carbonate
Calibrating Radar Waves, Electrical Engineering Department
Football
Map Making with Stereo Viewer
as well as architectural paintings of Massey Library, Sawyer building, Officer's mess and Fort Fredrick.
Ensor's watercolour of RMC office cadets at the Halloween Ball, Halloween Ball, Royal Military College, Kingston, is in the collection of Library and Archives Canada.

Arthur John Ensor died in Saanich, British Columbia on 18 January 1995. His work is represented in major museums and public galleries throughout Canada.

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  Works by Ensor in the Imperial War Museum collection

1905 births
1995 deaths
20th-century Canadian painters
Canadian male painters
Alumni of the Royal College of Art
Canadian war artists
Landscape artists
Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
Modern painters
Artists from Cardiff
British emigrants to Canada
World War II artists
20th-century Canadian male artists

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Q: Show that $f$ is the zero function if$f''(x)+f(x)=0$ and $f(0)=f'(0)=0$ Suppose that $f''(x)+f(x)=0$ for all x, and $f(0)=f'(0)=0$.
Note: we know $f^{(n)}$ (i.e. nth derivative of $f$) is continuous for all n.
Note: $f$ can be complex.
Note: I want to use this to prove Euler's formula $e^{ix}=\cos x+i\sin x$.
I started with $P=\frac{df}{dx}$, then $f''(x)=P\frac{dP}{df}$. Get $P\frac{dP}{df}+f=0$ and integrate at both sides, so that $P^2+f^2=0$. And we can get $P=\pm i f \Rightarrow \frac{df}{dx}=\pm if \Rightarrow \frac{1}{f}df=\pm i dx \Rightarrow \ln f=\pm ix+C$, and I stuck here.
Is the steps above are right or there's another way of prove?

A: [addendum based on the comments]
If complex-valued $f : \mathbb R \to \mathbb C$ satisfies $f''+f=0$, then its real and imaginary parts also satisfy that differential equation.  Therefore it suffices to consider real-valued $f$.
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SupposeLet $g(x) = f(x)^2 + f'(x)^2$.  From $f''+f=0$ we get ...
$$
g' = (f^2+f'^2)' = 2f f'+2f' f'' = 2f f' + 2f' (-f) = 0
$$
so $g$ is a constant.  From $f(0)=0, f'(0)=0$ we get $g(0) = 0$.  Conclusion: $g(x) = 0$ for all $x$, that is $f(x)^2+f'(x)^2 = 0$ so $f(x)=0$ and $f'(x)=0$ for all $x$.

To prove: $e^{ix} = \cos x + i\sin x$.  Take $f(x) := e^{ix} - \cos x - i\sin x$.  Prove $f''+f=0$ and $f(0) = f'(0) = 0$.  Done.

A: $$f''+f=0$$
$$\color {red}{2f'}f''+\color{red}{2f'}f=0$$
$$(f'^2)'+(f^2)'=0$$
After integration:
$$f'^2+f^2=C$$
$$C=f'^2(0)+f^2(0)=0$$
$$f'^2+f^2=0$$
$$(f'+if)(f'-if)=0$$
Then we have :
$$f'\pm if=0$$
$$(fe^{\pm ix})'=0$$
Integrate:
$$f(x)=Ce^{\pm ix}$$
Since $f(0)=0  \implies C=0$:
$$\implies f(x)=0 \;\;\forall \; x$$

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Q: Ubuntu 13.04 updates What are the major differences between Ubuntu 12.04 and 13.04 ? That is the major reason to upgrade from 12.04 to 13.04. Is it related only to software or also hardware?

A: If you go to install 13.04 or stay with 12.04 LTS? you may get your answer.
I started with 12.04 but upgraded to 13.04 without noticing when I was just starting out!
How do I find out which version and derivative of Ubuntu is right for my hardware in terms of minimal system requirements? may also help

A: Well, the Ubuntu 13.04 Release Notes page can answer your questions about what's new (see New Features in 13.04) and bugs (see Known Issues).
Generally speaking, you have little reason to stick with an older release, unless either:

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*You have a strong reason not to tolerate the process of performing a distro upgrade every 6 months (Many businesses do), in which case stick to the LTS; or

*The new release has some disruptive new bugs that affect you.

If you ask me, I've upgraded to 13.04 for a while and I have yet to encounter any such bugs, and some of the problems I had with 12.10 have disappeared. (Though to be honest, I performed a fresh install because I wanted to switch to the 64 bit version, and I installed Kubuntu, not the Unity flavor Ubuntu.)


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BC's Fantasy Football Nightmares
Game-Week 18: Blank Game-Week Too Literally Named
Monday, January 11, 2021 Filed in: Fantasy Football Nightmares
A FANTASY FOOTBALL NIGHTMARE — But You Never Wake Up
An advice column for the bottom seven million Fantasy Premier League managers
The long-dreaded blank game-week 18 is upon us and my preparations, if that is not too bold a word, seem to have paid as many dividends as my Topshop shares. With what we must call my judicious use of my transfers, because we don't want to shatter my confidence to smithereens in the first paragraph, over the last five game-weeks, I'd carefully charted the course towards my Fantasy Premier League team, BC FC, fielding almost a full GW18 XI, an X, in fact — but, of course, three of those players came from Villa, whose GW18 match was cancelled at the very last moment, like a Trumpian impulse to decency.
And two, or I suppose I should say, II, of my remaining VIII were Daniel Podence and Dominic Calvert-Lewin, both now more or less indefinitely out of the game entirely; would that we could say the same of Donald "J for Jihadi" Trump.
Having two transfers this week, though, meant I could swap the Villa keeper for the Newcastle one, Karl Darlow being the best chance within my price range of earning six points from between the sticks; though my own difficulties usually come from between my own ears; like, eg, should I have transferred out the unwell Alex McCarthy instead of the merely un-playing Emiliano Martinez? Who can be sure of such things? (Answer: the Fantasy Premier League managers who occupy the top, not the bottom, million.)
Still, there was good news in GW16/17: BC FC rose two spots, from five to three, the only good uprising of the week. Most of the other team managers in my family & friends mini-league will play their free hit chip to cope this week; however, my strategy — again, a bold word in relation to how I approach FPL, but it may yet qualify as such — was to use free transfers to get to this blank game-week and to save the free hit for next week's double game-week; I may regret this decision even before the double game-week starts, though, when I'm struggling with the arithmetic involved; I know which players I want, I just can't figure out, in my head, the permutations required to produce the desired combinations on the field.
Despite the unkindnesses of the Fates and the Premier League fixture setters, I've managed to put together a GW18 VII, three of whom have two matches in GW19; I tell myself this is an advantage in playing my free hit chip next week and I agree, but I'm not really sure. (When I lived in London, I used to drive myself half-crazy twice a year, when the clocks sprang forward and fell back, trying to work out whether I'd gained or lost sleep.)
And it's only just struck me that BC FC's seven players no matches this week will have two next! It may be that I may even be able to save the free hit chip and play the bench boost — but I can't tell; I've already used up this week's calculations quota.
At the time of writing, I've set Harry Kane as my captain, figuring he'll do better against Fulham than Bruno Fernandes, my vice-captain, against Burnley; I may switch back-and-forth between them, like Boris Johnson between policies, but, even if I'm properly screwed this week, I may well make it up next.
As, undoubtedly, Donald Trump must be telling himself.
My next advice column/eulogy/apology for BC FC will appear around the GW19 deadline
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A dear friend gave me a book by Charles Spurgeon, Morning by Morning. I may be a little strange, but I started at the beginning of the book in January, even though it's December. Some habits never die.
So January 10th, Spurgeon states: There is one crown in heaven the angel Gabriel cannot wear. It will fit no one's head but mind. And there is one throne in heaven even the apostle Paul could not fill. It was made for me–and I will have it!
Thanksgiving Day, I decorated three tables for twenty-four family members who came to my house. What a blessing! My granddaughter made name plates for each person, designating where they would sit. Even the babies had a place.
Heaven is like that. At the Great Banquet, I will have a chair, or throne, with my name on it. It may be far down in a distant corner or up in the back row of the balcony. It doesn't matter because it will be prepared specifically for me. No one else can fill my spot.
Jesus is preparing my place and some day, He will usher me in. I sure look forward to it. What a celebration that will be!
Have you reserved your seat today?


In the years that have followed the restoration of peace and stability, Algeria has been blessed in being spared the burden of external debt, which has allowed us to invest heavily in our future. This is most evident in the roll-out of our three massive five-year development programmes, along with additional plans for the wilayas and the Hauts Plateaux.
These efforts have been marked by a number of notable achievements, including the delivery of millions of housing units over the past 16 years; the construction of thousands of schools, colleges and high schools; the extension of the university network to all wilayas; the opening of hundreds of new hospitals, polyclinics and health centres; and the connection of isolated communities with drinking water, electricity and gas. Moreover, public investment and economic recovery have reduced unemployment from almost 30% in 1999 to nearly 10% in 2014.
Public development policies have now been extended to all parts of the country, and social transfers from the state budget have no equal elsewhere in the world. In fact, in spite of the challenges faced by the global economy, our level of national economic development continues to improve year after year, with public programmes helping meet the needs of our fellow citizens in housing, healthcare and education. This can be seen in the mobilisation of both public and private funds, which, when combined with input from foreign partnerships, are addressing the need for employment in all sectors throughout the country, and especially for young people.
Even beyond programmes such as our National Economic and Social Pact for Growth, other sectors are also undergoing substantial development, thanks not only to the sustained efforts of our workers but also to the significant amounts of public investment they have received in recent years.
In the area of agriculture, the implementation of the National Agricultural Development Plan and the National Rural Renewal Plan resulted in a revitalisation and diversification of production, thanks to the expansion of cultivable land, the development of new agricultural areas in the Hauts Plateaux and the south, and the revival of rural regions.
In industry and services, the encouragement of investment has enabled a recovery in the steel industry, mechanical engineering and the agro-industrial sector, and has aided the creation of a significant number of small and medium-sized enterprises in various activities, all while expanding the national industrial base and generating new jobs.
In terms of human development, indicators such as life expectancy, school enrolment, and connectivity to public water networks, electricity and natural gas have witnessed remarkable increases. As a result, our country has managed to successfully meet many of the UN's Millennium Development Goals, and we have achieved this well before the deadline.
We are also working to ensure that the education system is able to anchor the identity of our children, strengthening their knowledge and their potential, and allowing them to benefit from technological advances. Our future generations must never renounce knowledge and science. These are the only ways to secure their future, and this will allow them to participate in the global march of human progress, and will help us to occupy a prominent place within the global fellowship of nations.
The consolidation of the rule of law will also continue, not only through specific reforms in every sector, but also via the revision of the constitution, which is in the process of being finalised. Furthermore, Algeria is fighting hard to eliminate corruption. Certainly, this scourge has unfortunately seeped into our country but it is also being fought with the full resources of the law. I remain convinced that our success in this globalised world requires building a strong economy and having a well-established education system.
This article is from the Country Profile chapter of The Report: Algeria 2015. Explore other chapters from this report.


Nancy is a design-thinking enthusiast and a world-recognized leader in the implementation of school Fabrication Laboratories ("Fab-Labs"). The focus of her work, especially with the Transformative Learning Technology Lab at Stanford University, has been the ways in which digital fabrication impacts learning.
Nancy co-founded FAB!, a non-profit in Mexico, which serves underserved high-schoolers and teachers, and she has researched the efficacy of her programs in collaboration with Stanford. This year Stanford is supporting Fab Lab implementations at 5 public high schools in Guadalajara, and they are looking to implement 50 more next year.
As part of the Beam Center NY and Active Emergence (which she also founded) she has designed Project-Based curriculum, worked with teachers and learners to create environments that are student-centered, and promoted hands-on learning in schools around the world.
In Spain, Nancy led the implementation of the first FabLab@School in Barcelona and supported the creation of a fully integrated curriculum. The research paper about this project, "Barcino, Creation of a Cross-Disciplinary City," which she wrote with Paulo Blikstein (Stanford Professor and Portfolio School advisor), was accepted by the prestigious Interaction Design and Children Conference in 2016.
In Brazil, Nancy led the training of teachers from different parts of the country on how to implement digital fabrication in their schools and transition their schools' design to a student-centered classroom.
In China, Nancy was invited to Shanghai to consult with the top-ranked high schools on the implementation of Fab Labs and Project Based Learning, and to train their teachers how to integrate a Project-Based Learning approach.
Her research in Mexico and Barcelona have been accepted at several international conferences. She holds a MS from Stanford in Learning, Design and Technology, and she was a software engineer in her previous life.


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Hills, Patricia
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The papers of art historian, curator, and educator Patricia Hills measure 23.1 linear feet and date from circa 1900-2015, bulk 1968-2009. Central to this collection are project files documenting professional work that resulted in lectures, publications, exhibitions, art history courses on numerous artists including Alice Neel, Jacob Lawrence, May Stevens, Rudolf Baranik, and John Singer Sargent. These files and files documenting Hills's tenure at the Whitney Museum of American Art include planning documents, research files, correspondence, manuscripts and accompanying publications, as well as other printed materials. The collection also contains correspondence with art historians, artists, curators, and others, notably Lawrence Alloway, Lowery Stokes Sims, Lucy R. Lippard, T.J. Clark, Leon Golub, and Donald Kuspit; professional files documenting grants and residencies awarded and consulting work; artist and subject files; other writings; and printed material. Membership and affiliation records document Hills' service to the profession, including Women's Caucus for Art and the Visual Culture/Art History Caucus of the American Studies Association.
William Russo Music and Personal Papers
Strayhorn, Billy (William Thomas), 1915-1967
Claxton, William
Kenton, Stan
Leonard, Herman, 1923-2010
Papers and audiovisual materials documenting Russo's career in music.
Neda Al-Hilali Papers
Al-Hilali, Neda
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The papers of fiber artist Neda Al-Hilali measure 4.6 linear feet and date from circa 1960 to 1995. Al-Hilali's career is documented through professional files, commission and project files, writings, printed materials, artwork, and photographs. The bulk of the collection consists of Al-Hilali's annual activity files from 1967 to 1992, which contain lists of exhibitions; exhibition announcements, catalogs, invitations, and posters; letters and memoranda; sales records; awards; clippings; photographs; and loan records.
These records document the administrative activities of the Office of Plant Service (OPlantS), Horticulture Services Division. Materials include correspondence and memoranda pertaining to greenhouse construction; Smithsonian grounds maintenance; outgoing loans, grants, and gifts; slide collections; contracts with private companies and ind...
Smithsonian Institution, Assistant Provost for the Arts and Humanities
This accession consists of records which document the official functions of the Office of the Assistant Provost for Arts and Humanities (OAP-A/H) and its predecessors from 1989 through 1995, although the bulk of the records date from 1993 to 1995. They consist mostly of memoranda, correspondence, and reports generated both within and outside ...
Schaeffer Galleries records
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The Schaeffer Galleries records measure 1.6 linear feet and date from circa 1921 to 1982, with the bulk of the material dating from 1935-1950 when the gallery was most active. Owned by Hanns S. and Kate Schaeffer, the gallery first operated in Berlin from 1925 to 1939 and later in New York City from 1936 to circa 2000. Correspondence, subject and exhibition files, purchase records, printed materials, and photographs document the gallery's operations. Primary correspondents include art collector Arthur C. Tate and the gallery's Pacific Coast Director LeRoy Backus.
Lewis M. Rutherfurd Collection
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Physical Sciences, Division of (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution).
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The collection documents Lewis M. Rutherfurd's work related to astronomy.
Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870
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NMAAHC.FB.M1053
The collection is comprised of digital surrogates previously available on the 20 rolls of microfilm described in the NARA publication M1053. These digital surrogates reproduced the records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–70. The records consist of 11 volumes and of unbound documents. The volumes include letters and endorsements sent and registers of letters received and endorsements sent. The unbound records consist primarily of letters received and reports.
Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870
This collection is comprised of digital surrogates previously available on the nine rolls of microfilm described in NARA publication M1000. These digital surrogates reproduced the records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870. The records consist of eight volumes and some unbound documents. The volumes include letters and endorsements sent and registers of letters received. The unbound documents consist primarily of letters and reports received.
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The papers of Miami art critic Helen Kohen date from 1978 through 1996 and contain letters, postcards, exhibition announcements and invitations, and seventy-four untranscribed interviews of artists, dealers, and collectors in the Miami area.


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