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Ramachandra Borcar: "I aim for the perfect union between image and sound"
Story by Sarah Lévesque | Tuesday September 26th, 2017
On Sept. 14, 2017, Ramachandra Borcar's work did not go unnoticed at the Gémeaux's technical and trade awards gala. He won two trophies for his work on the TV series L'imposteur, that airs on Québec's TVA network: Best original Score – Fiction and Best Musical Theme: All Categories. Already nominated eight times in his career as one of SOCAN's #ComposersWhoScore, the man known to some as Ram, the DJ and musician, definitely had a smile in his voice. "Believe me, it's always great to win an award," he says.
The production team of L'imposteur had created the ideal creative context for their screen composer. Because director Yan Lanouette-Turgeon and Borcar have known each other going back to their fruitful collaboration on the feature film Roche, papier, ciseaux – which won a Jutra Award for its soundtrack – music was involved very early on in the development of the series. Before filming even began, Lanouette-Turgeon sent a few scripts to Borcar so that he could get acquainted with the storyline. Then he sent rushes before even one episode was finally edited. That was more than enough to inspire a musical direction.
"For season one, L'imposteur was almost entirely shot behind closed doors with actor Marc-André Grondin," says Borcar. "There are no parallel stories. That made this thriller incredibly intimate. I therefore didn't want the music to be too big; I even wanted to create proximity. That's why I used abstract instrumental sounds with a lot of rhythm played on percussion instruments."
Borcar, who's always looking to surprise, took the musical genre where it usually doesn't venture in a thriller TV series. And that's exactly where Borcar finds his joy: defying rules and innovating. "I didn't want to do a traditional musical theme with harmonies and a 4/4 signature," he says. "Instead, I chose to opt for a musical construct akin to a collage, a mosaic, with abstract sounds and a lot of effects. I dug into electronic, experimental and electro-acoustic music. That was my canvas."
The next step was to dig into the story itself, to refine certain segments of the music. Borcar leaned on the idea that the main character has a secret twin by composing melodies that play around with the feeling of duality. This led to clarinets, electric guitars and trombones playing as a duo or calling and responding to each other discordantly. "In my mind, it's the composer's role to work with the story," says Borcar. "I work in parallel with all the narrative elements, without twisting it, or needlessly distracting from it, yet always making sure the music has its own personality. I aim for the perfect union between image and sound."
To this end, he looks everywhere for sounds that will create a unique link with the story. He'll sometimes use his collection of unique, self-made instruments, which he hunts all over the web, but mostly via inventors he meets at major trade fairs, such as the NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants).
Having already crafted 33 musical themes for films, documentaries, and TV series (Un crabe dans la tête, Famillia, Le prix à payer, L'ange gardien), he decided a year ago, to split his time between Montréal and Los Angeles. That decision was prompted by being signed with the Evolution Music Partner agency, which represents him in the U.S.
"I'm not leaving Montréal behind, I'm just opening myself up for new creative possibilities," he says. That's all that matters to Borcar. This deep-seated need for musical versatility, this desire to work in many musical genres – he himself plays several instruments – is what stimulates him the most. "I don't like things to be easy or repetitive," he says. "My dream as a composer is to constantly re-invent myself, surprise myself, go where I wasn't expecting to go, musically. And to work on projects that leave me no choice but to surpass myself."
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Entrepreneurs: hard creates new revenue stream for SOCAN #ComposersWhoScore
Story by Martin Melhuish | Wednesday September 27th, 2017
The explosion of new media all around the globe – things like Netflix – has brought about a real change and growth in the production music industry over the last half decade."
So proclaims Ross Hardy, a composer, former SOCAN staff member, and music publishing executive, founder and CEO of the production library/label hard, established in June of 2013.
"Ten or 15 years ago, you'd probably have to search through 5,000 tracks of music before you could find one that would have a vocal on it," says Hardy. "Nowadays, production music companies and labels, like ourselves, represent very real and powerful opportunities for artists who are composing, or writing. There are new models out there in the production music industry that service artists almost like an A&R/management team. Production music is essentially becoming the new record-label model.
"In essence, every production music company is a record company and publisher in one, that's what makes them so effective. It streamlines our licensing to film and television and other media, and allows us to control the masters and to control the copyright. The uniquely-themed compilation albums we produce are really no different than any other albums. The main difference is that the main driver of our distribution is solely the media and not the mainstream music business."
CraigMcConnell of/de hard
This is good news for SOCAN's #ComposersWhoScore, as well as for "crossover" writers, artists, and producers looking for another revenue stream, and a way to diversify their creative offerings.
In some ways, the current vitality of the production music business is the silver lining to the storm clouds which had hung menacingly over the careers of many film and TV composers. "Five or six years ago, after doing lots of reality and factual entertainment television, I started to notice cues from production libraries popping up on cue sheets, and I started getting fewer calls from clients," explains hard partner and President Craig McConnell, a veteran, award-winning film and TV composer, record producer and songwriter, and Screen Composers Guild of Canada (SCGC) board member. "This was now something I had to compete with as a composer, and I decided that I needed to start my own production music library. Innocent thought at the time, because I had no idea what was entailed."
That dilemma was solved when a mutual friend at ole – where Hardy was working to build their first production music catalogue, MusicBox – introduced the two of them. When Hardy departed ole – he refers to it as "ole university," given how much he learned about the music publishing business while he was there – he decided to start a label. He'd been a composer for so many labels over the years, had amassed a huge catalogue of music, and gained a wealth of knowledge about the business. One of the first calls he made was to McConnell. Within the first year, hard released 12 production music compilation albums and had distribution in four major territories.
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"Once we started talking to people about it [hard's all-Canadian roster], ears really began to perk up. That's when APM Music came forward and said, 'We control the market share in Canada and we have very little Canadian music!' says Hardy, referencing the fact that APM – a worldwide, Hollywood-based production music library player and custom music house – recently signed a deal to add hard's repertoire to its catalogue. "The fact we're 100 per cent Canadian resonates in the global market," Hardy continues. "As a side story, it was always a contentious thing for Craig and I that the majority of the music from production music libraries used in Canada, even at our major networks, mostly originates with composers from jurisdictions other than Canada."
"Three years later, we're up around 50 albums, and a roster of close to 50 artists and composers with whom we've worked, all of them Canadian," says Hardy.
Though most of the artists are well-established – the company has worked with six JUNO Award winners – hard still leaves the door open for emerging talent. "We're really becoming an artist-driven label which supports new talent," says Hardy. "We're a record company and a publishing company, one and the same. We take pride in the fact that we have an offering here for artists who may not – or will not – see the type of market exposure that we're offering. Their product could benefit from our distribution into more than 80 countries around the world, and placement into media productions to which they could only dream of being exposed. We tell our artists, 'We're not going to pigeonhole you. You give us what you do best! You have a blank canvas.'"
There are some technical parameters that have to be adhered to. To work with a company like hard as an artist, you have to have the ability to record your own works, professionally produced and mixed. "Twenty years ago, it was a tall order finding that kind of situation, but not so much anymore," says McConnell. "You look at a guy like Skrillex. He makes his records on a laptop, from a tour bus. There are a lot of people out there like that, and not just in the EDM world, who have the technical expertise, with their computer set-up, to make world class sounding recordings. Those are the people we want to work with."
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One-off gig leads to permanent, harmony-heavy band
Story by Melody Lau | Monday September 25th, 2017
One show was all it took for the members of Johnson Crook to realize there was something special going on between its four members. Shortly after meeting at Canada's Music Incubator artist entrepreneurship program in 2014, Noel Johnson, Jared Craig and brothers Nathan and Trevor Crook decided to do a one-off gig at Toronto's Cameron House; based on positive feedback from friends and colleagues, they decided to form a band and see where things went.
What followed were sessions that the band describes as "freeing," especially since there weren't any deadlines or musical limitations. It allowed the band to bring an array of influences to the table, from Stevie Ray Vaughan and The Eagles to contemporary artists like Terra Lightfoot and Leon Bridges. As a result, the band slowly began crafting a sound of their own, rooted in country, folk and '70s rock, but with a heavy emphasis on their strongest asset: harmonies.
This was all captured live off the floor on their debut full-length recording, The Album. While the project explores love and heartache, there's also an undeniable Canadian theme that runs throughout its lyrics, which stems from each member's experiences growing up in small towns (though all four members are based in Toronto now). It's something the band is unabashedly proud of, saying they're not concerned with being "too Canadian… When travelling across the country and playing in so many different cities, we're always made to feel at home. While the landscape changes, it seems like we're always playing for our friends and neighbours."
One of those friends now is iconic Canadian rock musician Tom Cochrane who, after hearing their track "Mr. Nobody," offered to record it with them. "Tom was incredibly generous," the band says. "The song already had a lot of vocals going on, and his voice and phrasing fit in seamlessly." Just another harmonious step forward for the band.
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At this time of year, desserts and sweets are everywhere: gingerbread, chocolate, shortbread, Nanaimo bars; they can be difficult to avoid or resist. These traditional desserts are typically high in refined sugar, white flour and bad fats, which aren't good for our health. Fortunately for dessert lovers … ahem … there are ways to make treats healthier. It's all about finding wholesome substitutions.
These alternatives to white sugar have some health benefits.
Coconut Palm Sugar is from the sap of flower buds from the coconut palm tree. It looks like brown sugar and can be used in place of regular white sugar in any recipe.
Bananas are naturally sweet and a great source of fiber and potassium.They serve as a binding agent to keep cookies and muffins together.
Real Maple Syrup is one of my favourite sweeteners because it's a product that's produced locally. It's also a great source of B vitamins, calcium and magnesium.
Honey and Agave Syrup are sources of antioxidants. Honey also contains antifungal and antibacterial properties.
Sweet potato, butternut squash, and beets can be used in desserts for natural sweetness, fiber and nutrients.
Myth: Many people think brown sugar is better for you than white sugar, but brown sugar is actually white sugar with added molasses.
Like white sugar, white flour has been stripped of all its nutrients and behaves the same way in the body; it spikes your blood sugar, causes the release of insulin, and when you eat too much, it turns into fat.
Coconut oil can be used in place of butter, and the coconut flavour works well in dessert recipes.
Avocado is a healthy fat that can be made into a smooth, creamy chocolate pudding when paired with dates, maple syrup and cocoa powder.
Natural nut butters such as peanut butter, almond butter or sunflower butter can be used in cookie and muffin recipes in place of butter or shortening.
Tip: Cinnamon is often used in sweet recipes because it slows the release of sugar into the bloodstream.
If you're planning to do holiday baking this year, try my healthy recipe for Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies. If you're allergic to nuts, you can substitute sunflower butter for the almond butter and if you're celiac make sure to buy gluten-free oats.
In a small glass bowl,mash bananas,and stir in almond butter. Microwave for 30 seconds to melt the mixture, and bring out the banana flavour.Stir in maple syrup.
In a large bowl, combine oats and sea salt. Add banana mixture to oats, and stir to combine. Fold in chocolate chips.
Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper, and spoon out cookie dough (about two tablespoons per cookie). Bake for 10 to 15 minutes. Let cool on the cookie sheet. Serve warm or store in the freezer.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge is an all-time favorite in my house, and it makes for a great holiday gift.The best part is telling people it's good for them!
Melt the coconut oil in a large glass measuring cup. Once it's melted, whisk in honey, cocoa powder, peanut butter, vanilla and sea salt.
Pour the mixture into a parchment lined loaf pan and chill in the fridge for 1-2 hours or until completely set. Cut into squares, and store in the fridge or freezer.


Lying on my side, I watch Nate sleeping. At times I still have trouble believing he's really here. I gently run my hand down the side of his face, onto his chest, and then snuggle into him. He's been my rock, my centre, and my calm, over the last couple of weeks. I feel so lucky, and closing my eyes, smile.
His arm moves and pulls me closer. "Good morning." He brushes a few stray strands of hair off my face, sending shivers down my spine, before lifting my head to kiss me.
Changing his position, so we're face to face, he kisses me again, running his hand through my hair, and down my back. Another shiver slips through me, and my skin erupts with goose bumps at his touch.
Whether that was an invitation or not has become irrelevant as I wrap myself around him. If there's one thing I can't get enough of, it's him, and as his body surrenders to the inevitable, I know from his touch he feels exactly the same.
At first I wondered if I was just chasing the high of that first time. Being able to feel someone else's emotions when you're in the middle of… let's call it an intimate moment, can be intoxicating. Whether something's good or bad for you, if you have a mind blowing experience, you want another.
Before I knew anyone like me, or even knew why my touch enabled my emotions to flow into another person, any hook-up I had was always a one way connection. I gave someone else an experience they'd never forget, but it was just a release for me, a way to take the edge off, and calm my emotions for a while. I'd never known what it was like to have someone else's emotions intensify my own. Not until that first time.
It took a little while for me to realise what Nate was sharing with me was real. He couldn't hide his true emotions from me, any more than I could hide mine from him. All walls are down, and all emotions flow.
When we lay back, still wrapped in each other's arms, he's grinning.
"What's so amusing? And it'd better have nothing to do with what we just did, or your next breath might just be your last." I poke him in the ribs.
It's true, I have to deal with him. The whole disappearing thing when I was little, and leaving me to discover my abilities on my own, the hard way, left me with questions, a lot of questions.


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Saudi Arabia hosting 2.5 million Syrians
(London Post – SPA) : – The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does not intend to speak about its efforts to support Syrian brothers and sisters, during their distress, as it has, since the beginning of the problem, dealt with the situation from a religious and humane perspective, and did not wish to boast about its efforts or attempt to gain media coverage, an official source of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, adding that media reports have contained erroneous and misleading information, and the Kingdom now considers it important to discuss its efforts with appropriate facts and figures.
The official source explained that the following actions have been taken by the Kingdom:
1.The Kingdom has received around 2.5 million Syrians since the beginning of the conflict. In order to ensure their dignity and safety, the Kingdom adopted a policy that does not treat them as refugees or place them in refugee camps. They have been given the freedom to move about the country and those who wish to remain in Saudi Arabia (some hundreds of thousands) have been given legal residency status "like the remaining residents." Their residency comes with the rights to receive free medical care, to join the labor market and to attend schools and universities. This was contained in a royal decree in 2012 that instructed public schools to accept Syrian students. According to government statistics, the public school system has accepted more than 100,000 Syrian students.
2.The Kingdom's efforts were not limited to accepting our Syrian brothers and sisters after their crisis; it also extended its efforts to support and care for millions of Syrian refugees in neighboring countries such as Jordan, Lebanon and others. Efforts included providing them with humanitarian assistance, in coordination with the host governments and with international human aid organizations. Aid was provided, in cash and kind.
3.The aid provided by Saudi Arabia to the Syrian people totals around $700 million, according to the statistics of the Third International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria, which took place in Kuwait on March 31, 2015. Government aid and aid provided by the National Campaign, are included in that number.
4.Humanitarian aid provided to Syrians by the Kingdom consisted of food, medical, academic, residential supplies and included the establishment of Saudi specialized clinics in refugee camps, especially at Zaatari Camp in Jordan. The Kingdom was able to provide medical care in the form of immunization, preventive treatment and medical procedures. In addition, Saudi Arabia sponsored a large number of Syrian families living in Lebanon and Syria (specifically, through paying for their rent and living costs).
The ministry official concluded by stating that: It is apparent from the previous facts, that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will remain a leader among other countries supporting Syrian people and it is impossible to outbid its efforts in this matter, or to question its position in any way or form, the statement concluded.
It is to be noted that some elements were criticizing KSA for not doing enough for the Syrian refugee but they never questioned why Syrians have become refugees and what Iran and others have done?
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BFREPA calls for early review of beak trimming
The British Free Range Egg Producers Association (BFREPA) is calling for the government to bring forward its review of beak trimming and not to impose a ban on the practice.
Currently, Defra is planning to review the evidence in 2015, based on the findings of Bristol University's trials into non-beak trimmed flocks, with a view to banning the practice in 2016.
But two of the three commercial-scale flocks being used as part of the trials have broken down. In the first case, the levels of injurious pecking, cannibalism and mortality were so severe, the surviving birds had to be emergency beak trimmed using the old hot-blade technique.
Robert Gooch, BFREPA's director of policy, said the proposed ban on beak trimming in the UK in 2016 should not be enforced until a workable solution to the problem has been found. And he called on the government to review the results of the on-going trials now, rather than waiting until 2015 as currently planned.
"The results of these trials already give the government enough evidence to decide that banning beak tipping is not appropriate at this time," Gooch said.
"Animal welfare is of paramount importance and, without conclusive evidence that non-tipped birds will not suffer from the change in regulation, the ban must not go ahead."
"The free-range industry has engaged in these trials at every stage and pushed for three commercial-scale flocks to be included to measure the potential impact of the ban."
"Producers are not against the idea of banning beak tipping, as long as there is no detrimental effect on welfare or the management of the birds."
"What we need the government to do now is bring forward its review of the pilot study so that the welfare of the remaining hens in the study is not compromised further. We will continue to work with breeders and scientists on a long-term action plan that places the welfare of the birds first."
Gooch has also called for an early meeting of the pan-industry Beak Trimming Action Group to assess what has gone wrong with the trials and to pave the way an early decision by Defra that the ban should not go ahead.
Source: Philip Clarke, Farmers Weekly
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Bright and early on March 24th, we'll be holding our annual neighborhood Spring Fling Easter Egg Hunt. There will an Easter egg hunt, egg dying and munchies for all.
Kids up to age nine are welcome to participate in the Easter Egg Hunt. We'll have plenty of eggs to go around, and a few golden eggs for select lucky winners!


From zooming around the track in a go-cart to winning tickets for prizes in the arcade, Flags and Wheels Indoor Amusement Park near downtown Rapid City offers an array of family fun for all ages. The locally-owned and family-run business is a hit with locals and visitors alike and offers 47,000 square feet for guests to cut loose and challenge each other at one of their many exciting stations. Adding this Black Hills attraction to your itinerary is a must if you are looking for an outing that will please your entire crew.
If you have a need for speed, Flags and Wheels' extreme race carts are just what you're looking for. Reaching speeds of up to 40 miles per hour, the carts go twice as fast as regular go-carts while they wind around the 27,000 square foot indoor track. Drivers must present a valid U.S. driver's license and sign a liability waiver before they get behind the wheel of these amped up go-carts. For younger drivers that want to feel the thrill of the wind in their hair, Flags and Wheels also provides less extreme models that go up to 20 miles per hour and contain double seats so those under 52 inches can ride with a guardian.
Bumper cars are another popular offering, and the 1,000 square foot bullring allows up to six people at a time the opportunity to chase down and crash into their opponents. To ride alone, participants must be at least 50 inches tall; however, those that don't meet the height requirement can ride with an adult at no additional charge.
During your visit to Flags and Wheels, be sure to check out Rapid City's only laser tag arena! The 2,500 square foot maze accommodates up to 12 at a time, and contains black lights and fog to add to the experience. Each game of tag is scored by a computer and the results are listed at the end of every round, making it an easy way to indulge in a little friendly competition during your visit.
Reball, which is the Flags and Wheels version of paintball, also offers highly competitive entertainment without the mess of traditional paintball. The ammunition is reusable and doesn't include paint, eliminating what could be hours of clean-up. Up to 20 players can take part in a game at a time, making it an ideal activity for large groups.
The batting cages are another way guests can show off their skills. There are four cages available that can accommodate all skill levels and ages, and bats and helmets are provided.
If you need to pass some time while waiting for your group's turn at reball or the bumper cars, head over to the arcade and try your luck at the over 50 new and traditional games available. Those young and old will have a blast winning tickets, which can be redeemed for prizes.
Flags and Wheels is located only 27 minutes from the Powder House Lodge, making it a convenient stop during your vacation. With so many exhilarating activities offered, your biggest dilemma may be where to start!
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As a first troubleshooting step, check the Server Status page to see if your servers are running and connected to the main TeamForge server.
Note: The Server Status page provides only the current status of each server. It is not a diagnostic tool, and you must correct any connection or configuration issues on the server in question.
On the site administration navigation bar, click SYSTEM TOOLS.
On the System Tools menu, click Server Status.
Find the status of the server you are interested in.
OK–The server is running and connected to the main TeamForge server.
Could Not Connect–The server is not running or is not connected to the main TeamForge server.
For solving some kinds of problems, it may be useful to know which software components are installed, the exact build number, and other technical information about your TeamForge site.
On the System Tools menu, click Build Information. The Build Information page consists of the following information: TeamForge version number, build number, operating system name and version number, instance (any packages of customizations that have been applied) and a list of installed RPMs.
Monitor the total number of commits on your site by all users, in all projects, per day. You can track SCM commits to Subversion and CVS repositories, and to Git repositories as well, if you have the TeamForge Git integration set up.
Check how many users log into your site in a given period. For example, to assess the impact of changes you've made to your site's look and feel (see Customize TeamForge), look for trends in the user login numbers for the week following the changes.
Check the artifacts that are created and closed in a given period.
Click REPORTS from the Projects menu and select one of the available reports.
Click a Zoom option to see a week, a month, a quarter, 6 months, or a year of activity. The Max option shows all the data that's ever been collected.
Use the From and To date fields to zero in on the exact period of activity you are interested in.
Roll your cursor over any data point on the graph to see the exact numbers that determine that point's position.
Click Grid View to see the data as a table. You can toggle between chart and grid view as needed.


What wonderful weather we are having and a question.
Cooking sausages on the barbecue; had to put my sunglasses on because of the sun. This good weather is supposed to hold for another few days at least. Haven't got our heating on. Don't even have the a/c on either. I wish it would stay like this year round; cool in the mornings, warming up through the day and then cool overnight.
Had a question for you all, has anyone read the book AND seen the movie called "The Book Thief?" I am usually of the opinion that the book is better than the movie. I am reading the book, and I am thinking I bet the movie would be better, even though I haven't seen the movie.
I always think that a condo is an apartment/flat. In our situation we live in a house but pay a condo fee each month, so they take care of the outside of the house; mainly the landscaping etc. I got an email the other day saying its time for the twice yearly window cleaning. Well as there are probably close to 1,000 dwellings in our two subdivision's and we are on the far side hopefully we'll get ours cleaned by the end of October.
Despite being British and we British are brought up to clean windows on a regular basis, I have not cleaned all the outside of our windows since moving in. The inside ones have all been done. We have been living on a building site, so it has been totally pointless even thinking about cleaning the windows with all the dust and muck.
I am pleased to say though the builders are busy in another area, so it has calmed down by us. They have been putting in another road just down from us. We were rudely awoken the other morning before 7am by a low rumble. They had the big roller out rolling the new base for the road.
There is one thing I have to admit to not being keen of living here, is that things get done outside at their schedule, and not yours. There are still things to do outside and they are getting taken care of but how they do things does make you shake your head and wonder why, I have an email into the builder at the moment with photos about a downspout. Now it isn't a big thing, but it does make you wonder what were they thinking?
Why would they put a downspout straight across the footpath? By the way there is a hive of activity next door (in the house you can see in the photo) as the lady must be getting ready to move in.
Our driveway has been taken up and reinstalled this summer, as the builders went and dug up the curbs as they were too far down and when they put the second coat of asphalt down it would make the roads too high. Shook my head about that as well, but whatever, it's not costing us anything.......well not directly!!
I have started a "craze" up here with dog signs. We are the "Shih-Tzu" capital of the world here. While you all know I love dogs, I don't feel it is necessary to have every dog pee and poop on our lawn.
Due to us being a corner lot we have a LOT of grass. The signs have raised mixed feelings, but they have sprung up like wildfire around here. Are they working.......I think so, but who actually knows.
As far as I know all the plantings that are due to be done by the builder have been done now............but again who knows? So we bought 30 bags of mulch and have mulched all the front and side of the house. We still have the back to do and do need a bag for the other side as there is a tiny garden between the houses.
Mulching also saves me time weeding as the way the boys gardeners weed leave a lot to be desired. The people who are putting in the plants quoted me $400 to mulch all the gardens; both back and front. So far it has cost us $135.60 and will probably cost similar for the back. We have a LOT of gardens compared with everyone else it turns out.
Do I miss cutting the grass..........sometimes, but overall I am not missing all the maintenance on keeping everything looking perfect.
P.S. The dog signs were bought at Canadian Tire for around $4.50 each.
Where did the summer go? Have to say Fall is my favourite season of the year. What is your favourite season?
With Fall comes hopefully cooler temperatures. We had a light frost on the rooftops last week. The a/c hasn't been on in a couple of weeks. I will again pay $100 on our gas bill this month so I am in a credit ready for the bigger bills that will arrive in January and February. It will be interesting to see how our utility bills pan out in this house. Still haven't had a bill yet for the property taxes. Putting money away each week towards it, as when it does come in I am guessing they won't wait forever to be paid!!
We got our water softener put in just before we went on vacation. We got a Clack 1 Water Softener. It was a lot more expensive than the ones you buy in a big box store, but we have a lot of issues with our water and it has done wonders. Our water in the toilet doesn't look brown anymore, and we can now drink the water; so well worth the money. For people with Water Softeners in Ontario; we are finding that TSC is the cheapest for the salt for the softener. We were buying at Lowes, but they have hiked up their prices to around $6.50 a 20kg bag. TSC's is around $5.50 a bag, that's for Windsor Select Plus Salt. If you know of anywhere cheaper I am all ears.
How is your Christmas Shopping coming along? I have made a great start and my Christmas box where I put $20 a week is looking healthy. Have to buy for three grand kids this year as well.
So there you go a bit of everything in this post.
Her mum captioned this photo: "Seriously Mom, not another photo".
Still not walking on her own; probably because she can crawl so fast. She is growing up so fast won't be long before she is a year old.
Samvith (pronounced Sumvit) was born September 12th at 5:13 am.
He was in NICU for a few hours as he swallowed a bit of liquid when he was born. He is gorgeous and we can't wait to see more of him!!
His poor mother had such a hard labour.........she had to push a whole 10 minutes before Samvith popped out!!!
We are seeing him again on Sunday so I'll hopefully get more photos then.
Had a good drive home yesterday. It was an easy 7 hour drive with a couple of short stops. At the border we were first stopped by the US border guys, as they were looking for someone/something. We weren't it, so they waved us through; wonder what they were looking for? We then answered a couple of questions with the Canada border guards and they waved us through. Oh and then we paid our $3.25 CDN to get back into Canada! We crossed over at Fort Erie, haven't been at that border crossing in a few years. Windsor is generally where we cross over.
We had a good time. Probably won't go back there again. As usual ate too much and suffered for it!! Had fried chicken on the last night and I had chronic heartburn all night. I know better.........but I just had to have some of that chicken and I HAD to eat the skin as well!!!
For the first time ever we were very pleased with the hotel. It was lovely and clean, the staff were so friendly and pleasant. The breakfast provided was good and filling. The only negative thing if I had to pick something, was the sofa in the room was uncomfortable. A couple of big squishy chairs would have been better. The hotel was called The Wallhouse Hotel in Walnut Creek, Ohio. It is actually like what the photos show you. It is very modern and totally the opposite of what you would expect in "Amish Country," but I would highly recommend staying there if you decide to visit that area. I slept like a log there, despite there being a relatively busy road opposite the hotel and the bathroom was roomy with a huge walk-in shower, which was perfect for us. It is a big more expensive than a regular hotel in that we paid on average after all the taxes etc., around $150 USD per night.
So now we are back at home and back to normal. Ploughing through the laundry. Catching up with everything that has happened and getting on with things. It was nice while it lasted and it was the break that we wanted and needed. Glad we went; shame the shopping wasn't better, but great on my pocket book I guess!!!
Had a day going here, there and everywhere. Headed out first thing to a place called Millersburg. This is a photo of what I am guessing was/is the town hall.
Honestly as it was Monday a lot of things were closed. We asked a local where to get a good cup of coffee and she suggested Jitter's Coffee House. Good move on my part asking a local and it was the best cup of tea I have had since arriving in the States.
Now that funny thing next to my cup is a Teaze Infuser and it is a neat thing. So good infact for loose leaf tea I went and bought one, you can also brew coffee in it as well.
After that we went to a place called Roscoe Village near Coshocton. Again half the stuff was closed, but I did manage to pick up a new Vera Bradley purse/wallet to match my new handbag, so all was not lost.
Yes we found a Timmies!!! Again all is right with the world. They had Mac and Cheese on the menu, which we don't have in Canada. You'll be pleased to know I won't be pushing for them to have it in Canada either!! It's a boil in a bag product and you can tell.
A word of warning to anyone wanting to come and visit Holmes County, Ohio; I would plan your visit to arrive on a Monday and leave on a Sunday. Nearly everything is closed on a Sunday, we found a Subway in a gas station to have supper on Sunday night.
I have bought myself a new Vera Bradley handbag, so all is well with the world now...LOL Would you believe it is the exact same one (different colour) as the one I am using now.
I also treat myself to a new case for my reading glasses.
We also had a couple of new experiences today. I had a snickerdoodle cookie today for the first time. Which turned out to be a sugar cookie with cinnamon and we had a hot dog with Coney sauce on it, along with cheese, onions and sauerkraut. It was actually pretty tasty and made a change.
I had the snickerdoodle cookie at Der Bake Oven in Berlin, Ohio. We sat and talked to the owner Ruth for a short while; a really nice lady.
Loved all the furnishings in the seating area.
There was a ribfest happening in Berlin also on Saturday. There was also a parade which started at 6 pm. However the weather was iffy (rain showers) and we were tired so only stayed there until mid-afternoon. I took a couple of photos of the rib makers stands. The people at the After Hours Barbeque only started competing last year. They have full time jobs; so they do this as a hobby.
Took this photo as much for the sky as anything, it was overcast, muggy and eventually rainy.
Finally a couple of photos of some chairs in the hotel lobby, very modern and very leather!!!
Once again the States let us in!!
We arrived safely at our hotel and we are super pleased with our room. I will write in more detail about where we are staying etc., later.
It's all very modern, new and clean.
We have a balcony but no chairs to sit on? Will have to mention that tomorrow to the front desk......they will just love me by the time we leave!!
This is our view from the balcony.
We went to Der Dutchman for supper. Came out waddling like ducks. Our eyes were greedier than our stomachs!!
Just too tired tonight to check out this store.......gosh I must be tired!!
I will say I don't know why I bother printing out the instructions from google maps. I think we did and up close and personal tour of all the surrounding countryside before we found the hotel. Talk about going around the block and back again.......otherwise a simple trip down to Ohio and not too long.
Heading to Berlin, Ohio tomorrow for their Fall Harvest Festival. Here's hoping it won't be as hot, in the mid-30's oC today.


"There can be nothing new; there can be nothing creative, in that which has continuance - which is fairly obvious. It is only when continuity ends that there is a possibility of that which is ever new. But it is this ending that we dread and we don't see that only in ending can there be renewal, the creative, the unknown – not in carrying over from day to day our experiences, our memories and misfortunes. It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new," writes philosopher and seer J. Krishamurti in his work 'The First and Last Freedom'.
Wondering about the thought of duality of life and death, and quest 'to know how to bridge the living and the ending', Krishnamuti questions, "Is there a division between life and death? Why do we regard death as something apart from life? Why are we afraid of death? And why have so many books been written about death? Why is there this line of demarcation between life and death? And is that separation real, or merely arbitrary, a thing of the mind?"
According to him, due to our conditioning, living is viewed as 'a process of continuity in memory, conscious as well as unconscious, with its various struggles, quarrels, incidents, experiences and so on'. He adds, "When we talk about life, we mean living as a process of continuity in which there is identification. Me and my house, me and my wife, me and my bank account, me and my past experiences – that is what we mean by life, is it not?"
Krishnamurti holds that it is our conditioned mind that 'inquires if there is any relationship between life and death' and 'how to bridge the living and the ending'. He writes, "Our struggle is to establish a relationship between ourselves, which is the result of the known, and the unknown which we call death. Can there be a relationship between the past and something which the mind cannot conceive, which we call death?"
Due conditioning and belief thinking, humans often do not want to know life and death, but only want to know how to continue without ending. He puts forth, " It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new...The new cannot be where there is continuity – the new being the creative, the unknown, the eternal, God or what you will."
Thus, according to him one 'who seeks to find a relationship between life and death, to bridge the continuous with that which he thinks is beyond, is living in a fictitious, unreal world, which is a projection of himself' which has been created due to various 'inward attachment through memory to psychological security, the memories that one has accumulated, stored up, and in which one seeks security, happiness'.


This book examines reform in American education over the past fifty years and against this backdrop presents a compelling analysis of why contemporary voucher plans and charter schools have yet to fulfill the expectations of their advocates. It is the only book to date to attempt a comprehensive synthesis and analysis of the emerging research base on vouchers and charter schools. Suitable for courses in school policy, school reform, school leadership, or educational issues, it will also be of interest to anyone (parents, teachers, policymakers) directly involved with the charter school movement.
* A Historical Perspective--The early chapters look at American educational reform over the past fifty years and analyze why these efforts have fallen short of their goals.
* Student Achievement--Chapter 3 provides an insightful assessment of American students' school achievement from 1970 to the present and, in the process, counters the widely held myth that, overall, student achievement has deteriorated.
* Voucher Plans and Charter Schools--Chapter 4 looks specifically at choice and vouchers in American education while chapters 5-7 provide a comprehensive and balanced examination of the charter school movement.
* Policy Recommendations--The book concludes with explicit policy suggestions that attempt to balance the educational needs of children and youth against the rights of schools to experiment. Suggestions for developing broader coalitions to support public education, particularly in the inner cities, are also offered.
Thomas L. Good is Professor and Interim Department Head of the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University, and his previous appointments were at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Missouri, Columbia. His policy interests include school choice and youth. His research interests include the communication of performance expectations in classroom settings and the analysis of effective instruction, especially in schools that serve children who reside in poverty. His teaching specialty areas are analysis of instructional behavior, theories of instruction, and the informal curriculum. His work has been supported by numerous agencies, including the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health. He has been a Fulbright Fellow in Australia and has long served as Editor of the Elementary School Journal (published by the University of Chicago Press). He has published numerous books, including Looking in Classrooms, coauthored with Jere Brophy.


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In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement along the fractures as a result of earth movement. Large faults within the Earth's crust result from the action of plate tectonic forces, with the largest forming the boundaries between the plates, such as subduction zones or transform faults. Energy release associated with rapid movement on active faults is the cause of most earthquakes.
A fault line is the surface trace of a fault, the line of intersection between the fault plane and the Earth's surface.[1]
Since faults do not usually consist of a single, clean fracture, geologists use the term fault zone when referring to the zone of complex deformation associated with the fault plane.
The two sides of a non-vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall. By definition, the hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below the fault.[2] This terminology comes from mining: when working a tabular ore body, the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall hanging above him.[3]
Mechanisms of faulting 1
Slip, heave, throw 2
Fault types 3
Strike-slip faults 3.1
Dip-slip faults 3.2
Oblique-slip faults 3.3
Listric fault 3.4
Ring fault 3.5
Synthetic and antithetic faults 3.6
Fault rock 4
Impacts on structures and people 5
Mechanisms of faulting
Large normal fault in Triassic to Lower Jurassic Blue Anchor Formation sediments near Blue Anchor, Somerset, UK, with several smaller normal faults in its hanging wall
Because of friction and the rigidity of the rock, they cannot glide or flow past each other easily and occasionally all movement is stopped. When this happens, stress builds up in rocks and when it reaches a level that exceeds the strain threshold, the accumulated potential energy is dissipated by the release of strain, which is focused into a plane along which relative motion is accommodated—the fault. Strain is both accumulative and instantaneous depending on the rheology of the rock; the ductile lower crust and mantle accumulates deformation gradually via shearing, whereas the brittle upper crust reacts by fracture - instantaneous stress release - to cause motion along the fault. A fault in ductile rocks can also release instantaneously when the strain rate is too great. The energy released by instantaneous strain release causes earthquakes, a common phenomenon along transform boundaries.
Slip, heave, throw
A fault in the Grands Causses as seen from Bédarieux, France. The left side moves down while the right side moves up. The warping of the rock layers on the right is likely due to drag folding.
Slip is defined as the relative movement of geological features present on either side of a fault plane, and is a displacement vector. A fault's sense of slip is defined as the relative motion of the rock on each side of the fault with respect to the other side.[4] In measuring the horizontal or vertical separation, the throw of the fault is the vertical component of the dip separation and the heave of the fault is the horizontal component, as in "throw up and heave out".[5]
Microfault showing a piercing point
The vector of slip can be qualitatively assessed by studying the drag folding of strata on either side of the fault; the direction and magnitude of heave and throw can be measured only by finding common intersection points on either side of the fault (called a piercing point). In practice, it is usually only possible to find the slip direction of faults, and an approximation of the heave and throw vector.
Fault types
Based on direction of slip, faults can be generally categorized as:
strike-slip, where the offset is predominately horizontal, parallel to the fault trace.
dip-slip, offset is predominately vertical and/or perpendicular to the fault trace.
oblique-slip, combining significant strike and dip slip.
Strike-slip faults
The Piqiang Fault, a northwest trending strike-slip fault in the Taklamakan Desert south of the Tien Shan Mountains, China (40.3°N, 77.7°E)
Schematic illustration of the two strike-slip fault types.
The fault surface is usually near vertical and the footwall moves either left or right or laterally with very little vertical motion. Strike-slip faults with left-lateral motion are also known as sinistral faults. Those with right-lateral motion are also known as dextral faults.[6] Each is defined by the direction of movement of the ground on the opposite side of the fault from an observer.
A special class of strike-slip faults is the transform fault, where such faults form a plate boundary. These are found related to offsets in spreading centers, such as mid-ocean ridges, and less commonly within continental lithosphere, such as the San Andreas Fault in California, or the Alpine Fault, New Zealand. Transform faults are also referred to as conservative plate boundaries, as lithosphere is neither created nor destroyed.
Dip-slip faults
The Junction fault, dividing the Allegheny Plateau and the Appalachian Mountains in Pennsylvania, United States
Dip-slip faults can occur either as "reverse" or as "normal" faults. A normal fault occurs when the crust is extended. Alternatively such a fault can be called an extensional fault. The hanging wall moves downward, relative to the footwall. A downthrown block between two normal faults dipping towards each other is called a graben. An upthrown block between two normal faults dipping away from each other is called a horst. Low-angle normal faults with regional tectonic significance may be designated detachment faults.
Cross-sectional illustration of normal and reverse dip-slip faults
A reverse fault is the opposite of a normal fault—the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall. Reverse faults indicate compressive shortening of the crust. The dip of a reverse fault is relatively steep, greater than 45°.
A thrust fault has the same sense of motion as a reverse fault, but with the dip of the fault plane at less than 45°. Thrust faults typically form ramps, flats and fault-bend (hanging wall and foot wall) folds. Thrust faults form nappes and klippen in the large thrust belts. Subduction zones are a special class of thrusts that form the largest faults on Earth and give rise to the largest earthquakes.
The fault plane is the plane that represents the fracture surface of a fault. Flat segments of thrust fault planes are known as flats, and inclined sections of the thrust are known as ramps. Typically, thrust faults move within formations by forming flats, and climb up section with ramps.
Fault-bend folds are formed by movement of the hanging wall over a non-planar fault surface and are found associated with both extensional and thrust faults.
Faults may be reactivated at a later time with the movement in the opposite direction to the original movement (fault inversion). A normal fault may therefore become a reverse fault and vice versa.
Oblique-slip faults
Oblique-slip fault
A fault which has a component of dip-slip and a component of strike-slip is termed an oblique-slip fault. Nearly all faults will have some component of both dip-slip and strike-slip, so defining a fault as oblique requires both dip and strike components to be measurable and significant. Some oblique faults occur within transtensional and transpressional regimes, others occur where the direction of extension or shortening changes during the deformation but the earlier formed faults remain active.
The hade angle is defined as the complement of the dip angle; it is the angle between the fault plane and a vertical plane that strikes parallel to the fault.
Listric fault
Listric fault (red line).
Listric faults are similar to normal faults but the fault plane curves, the dip being steeper near the surface, then shallower with increased depth. The dip may flatten into a sub-horizontal décollement, resulting in horizontal slip on a horizontal plane. The illustration shows slumping of the hanging wall along a listric fault. Where the hanging wall is absent (such as on a cliff) the footwall may slump in a manner that creates multiple listric faults.
Ring fault
Ring faults are faults that occur within collapsed volcanic calderas and the sites of bolide strikes, such as the Chesapeake Bay impact crater. Ring faults may be filled by ring dikes.
Synthetic and antithetic faults
Synthetic and antithetic faults are terms used to describe minor faults associated with a major fault. Synthetic faults dip in the same direction as the major fault while the antithetic faults dip in the opposite direction. Those faults may be accompanied by rollover anticline (e.g. Niger Delta Structural Style).
Fault rock
Salmon-colored fault gouge and associated fault separates two different rock types on the left (dark grey) and right (light grey). From the Gobi of Mongolia.
Inactive fault from Sudbury to Sault Ste. Marie, Northern Ontario, Canada
All faults have a measurable thickness, made up of deformed rock characteristic of the level in the crust where the faulting happened, of the rock types affected by the fault and of the presence and nature of any mineralising fluids. Fault rocks are classified by their textures and the implied mechanism of deformation. A fault that passes through different levels of the lithosphere will have many different types of fault rock developed along its surface. Continued dip-slip displacement tends to juxtapose fault rocks characteristic of different crustal levels, with varying degrees of overprinting. This effect is particularly clear in the case of detachment faults and major thrust faults.
The main types of fault rock include:
Cataclasite - a fault rock which is cohesive with a poorly developed or absent planar fabric, or which is incohesive, characterised by generally angular clasts and rock fragments in a finer-grained matrix of similar composition.
Tectonic or Fault breccia - a medium- to coarse-grained cataclasite containing >30% visible fragments.
Fault gouge - an incohesive, clay-rich fine- to ultrafine-grained cataclasite, which may possess a planar fabric and containing <30% visible fragments. Rock clasts may be present
Clay smear - clay-rich fault gouge formed in sedimentary sequences containing clay-rich layers which are strongly deformed and sheared into the fault gouge.
Mylonite - a fault rock which is cohesive and characterized by a well-developed planar fabric resulting from tectonic reduction of grain size, and commonly containing rounded porphyroclasts and rock fragments of similar composition to minerals in the matrix
Pseudotachylite - ultrafine-grained vitreous-looking material, usually black and flinty in appearance, occurring as thin planar veins, injection veins or as a matrix to pseudoconglomerates or breccias, which infills dilation fractures in the host rock.
Impacts on structures and people
In geotechnical engineering a fault often forms a discontinuity that may have a large influence on the mechanical behavior (strength, deformation, etc.) of soil and rock masses in, for example, tunnel, foundation, or slope construction.
The level of a fault's activity can be critical for (1) locating buildings, tanks, and pipelines and (2) assessing the seismic shaking and paleoseismologists can estimate the sizes of past earthquakes over the past several hundred years, and develop rough projections of future fault activity.
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LANDSAT image of the San Andreas Fault in southern California, from "What is a Fault?" at USGS
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Will Nokia's Qt come to Windows Phone?
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When Nokia acquired Trolltech back in 2008, it made perfect sense as a way of supporting development on Symbian, its smartphone operating system, and nudging the Qt project, which provides a cross-platform framework for native applications, more towards mobile rather than just desktop application support. It also made sense as Nokia worked on Maemo and then Meego, its Linux for mobile project.
Then came February 2011 and CEO Stephen Elop's announcement that Nokia would partner with Microsoft and make Windows Phone its primary smartphone operating system. Windows Phone 7 does not support native code development, other than by operators, manufacturers, and of course Microsoft itself. What future for Qt at Nokia now?
Here at Blackberry Devcon Europe, Nokia's Lars Knoll, Qt Chief Maintainer, has been introducing Qt to Blackberry developers. Qt forms a critical part of RIM's Blackberry 10 (BBX) platform, based on the PlayBook tablet OS and set to come to Blackberry phones later this year. The Cascades UI framework, for hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D rendering on BBX, uses Qt core and an adaption of QML (Qt Modeling Language). You can use Qt with or without Cascades on BBX.
Given that Nokia makes mobile devices which are in competition with RIM's devices, it may seem odd that Nokia is supporting Qt on Blackberry. I asked Knoll about the status of Qt within Nokia following the move to Windows Phone.
There's not too much I can say right now. The only thing I can repeat is that we're still investing in Qt. We're actually hiring more people to work on Qt. Qt is an essential part of the strategy for the next billion. That's all I can say right now, but stay tuned, in time you'll hear more.
He added later that Nokia is in business to make money; in other words, there are strong business reasons for Nokia to continue with Qt. The "next billion" reference refers to Nokia's stated intention to bring apps to the next billion.
One possibility is that Qt will in fact support a future version of Windows Phone. It is already clear that Windows Phone 8 will use the same kernel as Windows 8 and we can expect a unified development platform build on the Windows Runtime (WinRT), which does support native code development.
It is not too much of a stretch then to expect a future Qt framework that will target Windows Phone and Windows 8 tablets. Nokia's Elop has also hinted that it is interested in Windows tablets as well as phones in future.
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After Ellen Degeneres' abrupt departure from "American Idol" today (July 29th), Jennifer Lopez has been named as a judge on the popular Fox show. According to Deadline.com, the show will not return to its three-judge panel roots by eliminating Degeneres in favor of Lopez. The fourth judge, who will replace Simon Cowell, has not yet been determined.
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All twenty thousand members of the Syro-Arab colony living in New York and elsewhere in North America together with me greet Your Grace, our new spiritual Father and Archpastor, on the occasion of your safe arrival. We are so bold as to ask Your Grace for one thing only – that you will continue to give to us, the Orthodox Syro-Arabs living within the boundaries of your diocese, the same maternal love, the same paternal care, the same archpastoral attention, that was given to us by your most gracious predecessor. And we, on our part, remembering the words of the Apostle, "obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls" (Hebrews 13:17), not only promise to the Holy Synod and to Your Grace our full obedience and our filial submission to all your paternal commands and archpastoral directions, but we also fully deliver ourselves over to your archpastoral care and blessings.
ministry for the benefit of the Orthdoox Church and the flowering of the Orthodox Faith in this New World. Amen.


Spouse Visa, Dependent Visa, Family Visa, Child Visa falls in the category of Dependent Visa where People from oversea country can join a visa holder (Sponsor) as the partners, children and/or elderly dependent relatives of people who are already overseas or are going overseas under any of the visa categories. Anyone who is on a work visa or permanent resident visa is allowed to take their family along. Dependent Visa / Spouse Visa application is simple and success is dependent on legitimate intent, accurate documentation and correct forms.


I am using Unreal 4.6. I have noticed somethings that I think are bugs. Can someone confirm if this is a bug and if so is there a patch for it? or maybe a work around.
Once in the Lock Viewport To Actor state I am unable to use Maya hotkeys to maneuver. Well it will maneuver but in very odd and unexpected ways, looks like a bug. So far have had better success by using Left MB and Right MB to maneuver. Its not a intuitive way for me to navigate, but I will have to work this way for now.
What is a BSP object and how does it differ from Geometry?
In Version 4.6 was Geometry replaced with BSP object ?
Geometry and BSPs refer to the same thing. We switched to calling them BSPs for consistency and accuracy. The only difference should be the name.
This is a known issue that was first reported here. This only affects BSP actors, and should work properly when 4.7 is released.
I was able to reproduce the unusual behavior with Maya controls and Lock Viewport to Actor, and entered a bug report for the developers to look over (UE-6767). I will let you know when I see an update on that. For now, the other navigation options appear to work as intended when locked to an actor. Thanks for the report!
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When we decided to tackle the topic of how to make better recordings of church services, we didn't have to look very far. For years now, we've been turning to John Mills, FOH engineer extraordinaire, frequent contributor to Worship Musician magazine and the man behind the mixing board on some of the country's biggest tours.
For this 2012 interview, we tracked him down somewhere between Paradise Island and Tampa at the start of Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw's record-setting Brothers of the Sun Tour.
Before we get to actual recording, let's touch on a subject that's rarely mentioned. Recording rights.
"Any time you press record on an audio or video device, you need to make sure you have the rights to record the music. Recording the Pastor's sermon is perfectly fine because technically he is the copyright owner of his sermon. Music is another story entirely.
If your worship team is singing another worship leader's song, or a classic hymn for that matter, you can pretty much count on the fact that there are restrictions to pressing that big red record button. Even if your church isn't producing CDs to make a profit, the rights aren't as hard to understand as you might think.
Now that we've covered the fact that you really DO need to have the rights to record, let's talk about actually pressing the RECORD button.
"Many churches simply hook up the tape recorder to the left/right output of the soundboard. That, as I'm sure your readers are aware, is going to sound pretty bad from a mix perspective.
Smaller congregations don't have mega-church budgets and rely on part-time staff or volunteers. What advice do you have for them?
Put a mic on anything you're not satisfied with on the tape. I can hear the folks in the front row now … "We don't need microphones on the drums, they're already too loud." Tip two will answer that complaint.
Set up your recording device to take a feed from a pre fader auxiliary send. This will allow the FOH engineer to mix what is needed in the house, while having a completely separate mix for the tape. Yes, this does mean a little more work, but it will give you the ability to mix things differently for the tape. Make sure your aux sends mutes when you engage the mute on the main channel. If not, you'll have stuff going to tape that you really don't want there.
For those folks in the front row concerned with the volume, tell them not to worry; those mics are just for recording. If you put those extra "recording" mics on pre fader aux sends, you don't even have to push up the fader for that channel. So if they're really concerned with the volume, take them to the board and show them that the drum mics aren't even on in the house.
Let's take a flight of fancy and assume that money is no object.
We know that not every house of worship has a professional staff. What's your advice for the church with a semi-pro crew?
What separates good recordings from great ones?
"The biggest key to a good recording is making it sound like you were there.
Start with a good, clean, balanced mix of all the instruments. It's not uncommon in a smaller building to have six or more additional mics on instruments that aren't even going to the house speakers. They're just for the recording setup that I described before.
A mix straight off the board will never sound completely live because it is getting a tight sound directly from the instruments. You need to add back in some ambience with audience and/or ambience mics. Remember, audience mics are a spice: add too much and it sounds unnatural. Get a good mix of the instruments first and then add in just enough audience so that listeners know that they're there. I usually start my recording with the audience mics considerably back in the mix. I wait until the middle or end of the first song to decide how much I need. That gives me a few minutes to make the mix as clean as possible before adding the spice.
Also of note it's best to EQ out as much of the low frequencies as possible in these mics. If I have a variable High Pass filter on my soundboard, I may set it as high as 200Hz. If you only have a button, engage that, and then take your low frequency shelf filter all the way down. This lets the warmth of your dry mix come through without muddying it up with a bunch of low mush that the ambient/audience mics are picking up.


Compiles the application and deploys it to NetSuite. As part of the compilation process, gulp deploy minimizes the application by removing all white space. This command also creates the DeployDistribution directory if it does not exist. See Contents of the DeployDistribution and LocalDistribution Directories for information on the output of this command.
In addition to compiling the application, this command creates the .nsdeploy file if it does not exist.
Compiles and deploys the application, but does not upload a backup of the source files.
Compiles and deploys the application like gulp deploy, but does not compress the source files. This command is useful for debugging because it produces output files that are easier to read.
Enables you to deploy to a different NetSuite account by overriding the settings defined in the .nsdeploy file.
See SCA on a Local Server for more information.
This command outputs files to the LocalDistribution directory. See Contents of the DeployDistribution and LocalDistribution Directories for information on the output of this command.
Removes the DeployDistribution and LocalDistribution directories and the .nsdeploy file.
This command compiles your Sass, parses all KSS blocks declared in the Sass files, and creates a style guide accessible in your localhost (localhost:3000/).
This command requires the Kilimanjaro release of SuiteCommerce Advanced or later. See Style Guide for details.


The Kingston Stockade FC is a men's soccer club in the semi-professional National Premier Soccer League. I decided to go check out a game to see the goings on and all the Kingston-y stuff. It was such a fun atmosphere. I read more about the team, and all of the players on the team are from the Hudson Valley. They seemed to really enjoy playing in front of such a lively crowd.


A friend just announced she's pregnant with her 3rd child. She said, "Tell me all your tricks".
Well, I went from 1 to 3. And here's what I know about the big jump. 3 kids are kinda like 20.
Every time I see someone with 1 child, I shake my head with slight envy. I don't want their kid, I just see the peace. I see the calm with 1 child in tow and not 2, 3 or 4.
My neighbor has 5 children. And she's basically Saint Teresa.
But the thing is, nothing quite prepares you for the tornado of multiple children. One is easy; (Comparatively speaking, when I only had one, I thought it was hard, it's all relative). But to me, anything over that 1 number, all bets are off. It's not that you're outnumbered, but yes you're actually outnumbered. And it's some kind of crazy. And at times chaotic. Ok, a lot of times chaotic. But it's also some kind of wonderful. And it's everything I've ever wanted out of love.
But in case you're wondering how it goes, or how it went, here's a little insight. 5 reasons 3 kids are kinda like 20.
1. When you have 2+ kids, it's loud. It's outrageously stupid loud. Just imagine 3 little people all screaming at the same time, stating or mumbling through their salty tears, that they're hungry at 5 pm. Momma be like, where are my earplugs and where's my martini.
2. Your grocery bill is that of the Von Trapps. I go in for milk, eggs, and bread, and I magically come out with the entire dairy section, all the animal crackers in aisle 7 and a basket of produce bigger than the size of my bathtub. Can you say spendy?
3. You're basically google. You're a question answerer 24 hours a day. Even if your toddlers don't talk, you're still answering. If you had a camera on you all day it would look like you're talking to yourself most of the time and perhaps you are. With multiple children, there's multiple needs. Everyone needs you all the time. And at the end of the day at 8 pm, when it's finally quiet in the house, the word Mom sounds like a ringing bell in your ear that echoes on and on like a marching band in a football game. Wine helps.
4. You have no idea what you're doing. Going from 1 baby to 2 (or 3 in my case) is kind of like a wave taking you down. It rolls you pretty hard and it's sometimes hard to breathe, but you always see the surface and can come up for air. But it takes you down. And you go in so many directions that you're not sure exactly where you're going, but if you keep swimming, you find your feet and are suddenly able to breathe. Every day is a new lesson. And you're just navigating, making sure everyone is alive and well. There's no preparation for jumping from taking care of 1 human being and all their needs, to taking care of everyone's needs. But the miracle of it all, is despite not knowing what you're doing, is that you do. And you do it well. Because you have to. You survive the screaming baby/babies while you're trying to make dinner for your family. You accept that you haven't showered in two days and you let it go. You put the kids in the car despite your fears of an unpleasant trip to the mall, because sanity. You feed the kids french fries when there is no other option. You let them eat off the table at the restaurant because you don't have time to remember buying those sticky place mats. And you cry when it's hard, because, it is, and it's ok.
5. You enjoy the pack of wolves you created. Sure it feels like you might lose someone at Disneyland if you don't keep them all in a stroller, but suddenly when you observe your children witnessing Mickey Mouse for the first time and you see them watching their brother or sister and all of sudden the feeling is real, it's magic. You have the big family you always wanted. You revel in the beauty of God's creation. You spoil the babies because they're your babies. You sneak away for a night out with the husband, so you can remember why they are here in the first place. You smile when you wake up and there's always a kid in your bed, because, well, there's always one in your bed. You lather yourself up with sweet morning kisses from all your babies you made because God gives you only what you can handle and he gives you these babies because you're you. Congrats on becoming a mother again, it's a blessing, and remember that, even when you think it's not.


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Viscount Hereford ist ein erblicher britischer Adelstitel in der Peerage of England. Er ist der älteste noch bestehende und damit ranghöchste Viscount-Titel Englands.

Verleihung, nachgeordnete und weitere Titel
Der Titel wurde am 2. Februar 1550 für Walter Devereux, 10. Baron Ferrers of Chartley geschaffen. Er führte bereits den 1299 in der Peerage of England geschaffenen Titel Baron Ferrers of Chartley. Sein Enkel, der 2. Viscount, wurde 1572 in der Peerage of England zum Earl of Essex erhoben. Er erbte zudem 1571 den 1342 in der Peerage of England geschaffenen Titel Baron Bourchier. Dessen Sohn, der 2. Earl, wurde 1601 wegen Hochverrats hingerichtet und alle seine Titel aberkannt. Sie wurden 1604 für seinen Sohn als 3. Earl wiederhergestellt. Beim Tod des 3. Earls 1646 erlosch das Earldom. Die als Barony by writ in weiblicher Linie erblichen Baronien Ferrers of Chartley und Bourchier fielen in Abeyance. Der Viscountcy ging an Sir Walter Devereux, 2. Baronet als 5. Viscount Hereford, der bereits die 1611 in der Baronetage of England geschaffene Devereux Baronetcy, of Castle Bromwich in the County of Warwick, innehatte. Seine Nachfahren führen die Titel bis heute.

Liste der Viscounts Hereford (1550)
Walter Devereux, 1. Viscount Hereford (1489–1558)
Walter Devereux, 1. Earl of Essex, 2. Viscount Hereford (1539–1576) (1572 zum Earl of Essex erhoben)
Robert Devereux, 2. Earl of Essex, 3. Viscount Hereford (1566–1601) (Titel verwirkt 1601)
Robert Devereux, 3. Earl of Essex, 4. Viscount Hereford (1591–1646) (Titel wiederhergestellt 1604; Titel Earl of Essex 1646 erloschen)
Walter Devereux, 5. Viscount Hereford (1578–1658)
Leicester Devereux, 6. Viscount Hereford (1617–1676)
Leicester Devereux, 7. Viscount Hereford (1674–1683)
Edward Devereux, 8. Viscount Hereford (1675–1700)
Price Devereux, 9. Viscount Hereford (1664–1740)
Price Devereux, 10. Viscount Hereford (1694–1748)
Edward Devereux, 11. Viscount Hereford († 1760)
Edward Devereux, 12. Viscount Hereford (1740–1783)
George Devereux, 13. Viscount Hereford (1744–1804)
Henry Devereux, 14. Viscount Hereford (1777–1843)
Robert Devereux, 15. Viscount Hereford († 1855)
Robert Devereux, 16. Viscount Hereford (1843–1930)
Robert Devereux, 17. Viscount Hereford (1865–1952)
Robert Devereux, 18. Viscount Hereford (1932–2004)
Robin Devereux, 19. Viscount Hereford (* 1975)

Heir apparent ist der älteste Sohn des jetzigen Titelinhabers Henry Devereux (* 2015).

Siehe auch
 Earl of Hereford
 Duke of Hereford

Literatur und Weblinks
 Charles Kidd, David Williamson (Hrsg.): Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. St Martin's Press, New York 1990.
 Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
 Hereford, Viscount (E, 1550) bei Cracroft's Peerage

Hereford

Erstverleihung 1550

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The west pillar of Brooklyn Bridge which connects Manhattan and Brooklyn in front of a colorful evening sky. Manhattan is in New York City in the state of New York on the east coast of the United States. This photo was taken with a 200mm tele lens on a sunny evening in November of 1994.


ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) on Thursday issued a show-cause notice to Geo News channel for airing programmes in sheer contravention to patriotism as well as in disregard to the Code of Conduct, says a press release. Geo News on 12-5-2011 around 7:56 p.m. aired a considerably derogatory song 'Kon Sacha Kon Jhuta maligning and demeaning the govt. as well as the armed forces. It is reiterated that under section 20 of PEMRA Ordinance (Amended as PEMRA Act-2007) read with clause 1(g), (h), (j), (o) and (p) of PEMRA Code of Conduct contained in PEMRA Rules-2009 and licence terms & conditions prohibit airing of any such programme. PEMRA has requested Geo News channel to immediately stop airing any programme/debate or material which is perceived against national security, sovereignty or integrity. Moreover, Geo has been asked to show cause immediately but not later than 3 days failing which legal action shall be taken against the channel for such serious and deliberate violation. Furthermore, on repeated violation, PEMRA shall be constrained to suspend transmission of the channel in exercise of relevant provisions of PEMRA laws.


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Q: Postman Mock with Path Variables So I have successfully setup a postman mock server and can leverage the simple GETs that do not have any path variables in the api url but ALL the GETs that are something like {{url}}/users/:urserId or something like {{url}}/users/:userId/favorits are responding with mockRequestNotFoundError
just trying to figure out the correct way to get this working with the path variables

A: You'll need to specify the value of :userId in the uri:
Let's say you have a value : 10, your uri for mocking would become {{url}}/users/10/favorits

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Watts Bike Club Helps Keep Kids on The Right Track
By Jada Montemarano Watts
PUBLISHED 1:22 PM PT Jan. 02, 2019 PUBLISHED January 2, 2019 @1:22 PM
Bikes are more than just a mode of transportation for the East Side Riders bike club. Bicycles offer a sense of purpose, education, and community.
The club was founded 10 years ago to help the youth of Watts stay off the streets and out of gangs. In the ensuing decade, the club has transformed into a multi-faceted organization.
Nathan Ibnanez is the president of the kids group and says he spends almost every day with the East Side Riders. He says he gets to exericse on the bikes and hang out with his friends.
President of the entire organization, John Jones, uses the club as a means to better connect with the neighborhood through bike education classes, feeding the hungry, and weekly bike rides.
"We feel if we are getting these kids involved in constructive work with their hands, they don't have time to go and be in a gang," says Jones.
According to the National institute of Justice, kids join gangs at a young age, usually between 11 and 15. Communities, not just classrooms, are a valuable resource in reaching out to at risk kids. This is the goal of the East Side Riders Bike Club.
"Some kids don't have a choice and we want them to have a choice and opportunity," says Jones.
To continue their mission, the kids even published a book on why they love bikes. They recently had a book reading and signing to celebrate their hard work over the past few months.
Nathan hopes they will write another book soon because he loved working on this one.
Adults or children interested in the club are welcome to join if they're willing to volunteer for community service with the club and log a specified number of hours riding a bike.
For more information: http://www.esrbc.org/


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Moscow-Kiev talks unlikely now, but may take place by next spring — expert
According to the expert, the main reason for that is that Russia does not see Ukraine as a trustworthy and capable partner
KIEV, December 1. /TASS/. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has shown his wish and readiness for talks with Russia on the Donbass conflict, but an agenda for such a bilateral meeting is extremely difficult to formulate at the moment. The situation may change no earlier than next spring, the director of the Ukrainian Institute of Politics, Ruslan Bortnik, told TASS on Wednesday.
"Today's statement by Vladimir Zelensky [in his message to the Verkhovna Rada] indicates his readiness and wish to hold talks in Moscow regarding the Donbass conflict. They will take place sooner or later, but in the near future such negotiations will be hardly probable," he believes.
In his opinion the main reason is that Russia does not see Ukraine as a trustworthy and capable partner.
"A meeting between the heads of state (Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky - TASS] would be the final phase of backstage talks being conducted by their teams. Before holding any negotiations in public, the heads of state are to be certain that they will be effective, that they will manage to agree on something significant or that the negotiations are needed for discussing some matters of importance in private. At the moment, though, it is very hard to agree an agenda. For this reason, such negotiations are unlikely in the near future," Bortnik believes. He stressed that there was another problem that made an agenda so hard to shape. "It will be very difficult for Zelensky to conduct talks without touching upon the issue of Crimea, for instance, while for Russia Crimea is a taboo. This subject is closed," he said.
Chances of a meeting do exist
At the same time Bortnik speculates that the Russian and Ukrainian presidents would eventually meet at some future date. "The chances of their meeting will grow after Putin's talks with US President Joe Biden at the end of this winter or next spring," he forecasts. For now, Bortnik speculates, Kiev and Moscow might hold a meeting at the head of government level.
"An inter-governmental meeting might focus on economic problems alone and to pave the way for a face-to-face meeting between the presidents," Bortnik believes.
The expert stressed that for the sake of negotiations with Moscow Zelensky had in fact showed his readiness to compromise. For instance, he declared the intention to revoke from parliament a bill on a transitional period for Donbass of which Russia was strongly critical. At the same time, Bortnik remarked that the Donbass problem was already being settled without Ukraine. "In general, Ukraine has lost control of the Donbass conflict, and this issue is being handled on international platforms without Kiev taking part," he recalled.
Zelensky's capabilities
Bortnik believes that although Zelensky has said more than once that he is unable to terminate the Donbass conflict without negotiations with Moscow, in reality he does have a leverage to influence the situation in the east of the country. "For tackling the conflict Zelensky might promote the implementation of the Steinmeier formula (envisaging a special status for Donbass - TASS), because his party has a majority in parliament," Bortnik said.
In his opinion, such a step would provide Ukraine with an argument in favor of a meeting of the Normandy Quartet (Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France). "Or he might have put the implementation of the Minsk Accords to the vote in a referendum in order to obtain society's mandate to use a certain tactic; also, he might take the issue of implementing the peace agreements on Ukraine to the UN Security Council or employ a format similar to the Budapest Memorandum," Bortnik speculated.
On the whole, he believes that while the Normandy Quartet format is fading away, the Donbass talks might be transferred to other platforms, for instance, converted to a trilateral Russia-US-Ukraine format.
Zelensky said earlier on Wednesday that he would be unable to end the armed conflict in Donbass without direct talks with Russia.
Russia's stance
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday pointed out that only intra-Ukrainian talks would be able to put an end to the civil war in Donbass, stressing once again that Russia was not a party the conflict. He recalled that Russia was exerting all conceivable efforts for the sake of helping Ukraine to settle the Donbass conflict and remained committed to the Normandy format and the Minsk Accords.
Last May, Zelensky said that he was prepared for a dialogue with Putin, adding that his office had begun negotiations on the issue of organizing such a meeting. Peskov later confirmed that contacts between the two countries were underway, but the process was "tough-going." The Russian president on April 22 said in reply to Zelensky's proposal for a personal meeting that if the problems of Donbass were to be discussed, the Ukrainian leadership should meet with the leaders of the Lugansk and Donetsk people's republics in the first place. Putin believes this should be the first step to be taken towards a settlement in Donbass, while discussions on these issues with any third parties, including Russia might follow only afterwards. He stressed that he would be prepared to receive Zelensky in Moscow at any convenient moment, if the development of bilateral relations was to be considered.
Pullout of mercenaries should not interfere with Libya's elections — UN adviser
Stephanie Williams also mentioned that "some foreign mercenaries have been withdrawn from Libya this January"