On the February 22 and 23, Confucius Institute successfully held a Chinese cultural experience activity in Evergreen Park School. More than 400 teachers and students from 21 classes participated in the event. The headmaster gave strong support to this activity. Some homeroom teachers also took part in the event dressed in traditional Chinese costumes and said "honored to wear Chinese costume in this activity".
In the process of learning to write Chinese characters, the children imitated and wrote an artistic font by combining Chinese and English in order to avoid the confusion caused by learning to write Chinese characters. This made the children feel as if they were drawing while experiencing the structure of the Chinese character. In the paper-cut area, the children cut the maple leaves and stuck them to the maple tree drawn on the wall. Looking at the colorful maple tree they had "cultivated" with their own hands, the children felt that they had a good harvest.


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Dublin Primary School Trips
Dublin Primary School Trips & Tours
Why not take your primary school group to the Irish Capital? Enjoy the amazing visits that are educational, cultural and fun. With a diverse range of activities, museums and guided tours, a school trip to Dublin exciting destination with excellent access from all over Ireland.
Morning departure from school. Guided tour of Croke Park & the GAA Museum Visit to the Museum of Natural History Quiz
Guided walking tour of Dublin Guided tour of Dublin. Guided tour of Glasnevin Cemetery. Free time at Leisureplex
Visit to Dublin Zoo Return to school
Morning departure from school. Guided tour of Croke Park & the GAA Museum
Visit to the Museum of Natural History
Guided walking tour of Dublin
Guided tour of Dublin. Guided tour of Glasnevin Cemetery.
Free time at Leisureplex
Visit to Dublin Zoo
One of the largest unoccupied gaols in Europe covering some of the most heroic and tragic events in Ireland's emergence as a modern nation from 1780s to the 1920s. Attractions include a major exhibition detailing the political and penal history of the prison and its restoration.
Historical Guided Walking Tours
You can also enjoy a history tour that will take you to the relevant sites of the 1916 Rising to give you an understanding of this historic event. You will explore the main features of the War of Independence, partition and will conclude with the Northern Ireland peace process and Ireland today.
Dáil Eireann/Leinster House
Take a guided tour of the Houses of the Oireachtas where the guides will relay their historical and educational knowledge of both the building itself and the workings of the two houses.
GAA Museum & Croke Park Stadium
Enjoy a stadium guided tour including a short historical tour focusing on the ancient origins of hurling, the birth of the GAA as part of a Gaelic Revival in Ireland, the development of the GAA and early links with revolutionary nationalism.
Glasnevin Cemetery (Guided Tour & Museum)
The tour visits the final resting place of Daniel O'Connell, Michael Collins, Eamon DeValera, Charles Stewart Parnell, Countess Marcievicz and many of the other men and women who have shaped Ireland's history. A new state of the art museum will complement the tour.
Pearse Museum
A former school that was run by Pádraig Pearse on beautiful grounds includes historical exhibitions, a nature study and an audio-visual show - 'This Man Kept a School'.
Dublin Zoo is one of Dublin's most popular attractions. You'll be sure to have a fun-filled day plus learn about wild animals, especially those which are endangered. As one of the world's oldest, yet popular zoos, the 28-hectare park is home to some 400 animals in safe environment where education and conservation combine for an exciting and unforgettable experience!
Tayto Park Theme Park & Zoo
Tayto Park Theme park & Zoo offers over 100 attractions that make it suitable for all ages. Enjoy the adrenaline rides, a 5D cinema and even a sky walk, as well as a zoo which is home to Amur Tigers and Mountain Lions.
National Museum of Ireland - Natural History
Find unique objects and fascinating specimens throughout the museum. The Museum's 10,000 exhibits provide a glimpse of the natural world that has delighted generations of visitors since the doors opened in 1857. The Irish Room on the ground floor is dedicated to animals native to Ireland, featuring a variety of mammals, birds, fish, and insects. Other collections include 'Mammals of the World', 'The Discovery Zone' and 'A Reading Room' which provides an opportunity for visitors to sit and read more about the many animals which are on display and other topics related to Natural History.
Keep your group entertained whatever the weather at Leisureplex. With a range of activities such as bowling, Q-Zar, Zoo Adventure land, pool/snooker & an arcade with the latest video games.
Available from any location in Ireland, our executive coaches are fitted with seatbelts, toilet facilities, air conditioning, DVD and reclining seats.

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Creating sign-up forms, regardless of which platform you use is fairly straight forward. The difficulty comes in convincing people to actually fill them out and hit "subscribe" rather than simply scroll on by!
Most of this comes down to how your forms look, what info they contain (and ask for) and where they are placed on your site.
In this post, I'll be telling you how to create beautiful looking forms and listing 9 places to embed those forms that will increase the number of subscribers you get.
As I mentioned, I've recently switched from MailChimp to Convertkit. For that reason, this post will focus on using Convertkit. If you use MailChimp, you can read this post about creating sign-up forms and then come back here to find out where to place them for the best results.
Once you've signed up for a Convertkit account, you're ready to get started with creating your first sign-up form. From your home screen, below the bar chart, select the "+ Create Form" button.
From here, you will be presented with two options – to create a Landing Page or to create a form. For the purposes of this post, we'll be creating a form. If you want to learn more about creating awesome landing pages, check out this post.
This is where things start to get a little more exciting!
Not excited? No? Just me then!
After selecting "a form", Convertkit will present you with three options: Full, Minimal and Naked. Personally, I always choose between the Full and the Minimal options as they allow me to show my branding through them. There's absolutely nothing wrong with using the Naked one though if that fits in well with your blog.
After you've selected the type of form you want to use, the next screen you are taken to is the place where you can add images and the wording that you want to use.
You can change the colours of your form by clicking on the little wand icon in the top right-hand corner.
All of the forms on Convertkit are fully customisable using a little CSS coding. It's outside the remit of this post, but I have put together a CSS Coding Cheat Sheet, that you can access below. The Cheat Sheet will guide you through the most common alterations you can make to your forms.
What Goes on Behind the Form?
Now that you've decided what your form is going to look like, it's time to decide what your form will do.
What will your subscribers see once they hit subscribe? How will they receive their opt-in freebie? Will they be subscribed to an email sequence?
You control all of this from the "Settings" tab.
The "Main Settings" Tab is where you can name your form. This is pretty important to get right. It might seem insignificant but, at some point, you may want to have more than one form for a single opt-in incentive. For example, I have three different forms to sign up to my newsletter – one that fits in the sidebar, one that pops up in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen and one that fits into blog posts. I, therefore, needed to give them different names so that I can easily identify which one is which when it comes to embedding them on my site. A small point that can save you lots of time in the long-run, especially if you have lots of forms.
The "Main Settings" Tab is also where you can choose what your subscribers see after they have subscribed.
As you can see from the screenshot above, it is automatically set so that your subscribers see the Convertkit success message – "Success! Now check your email to confirm your subscription". Using this option is fine. Or you may want to use this option but change the wording slightly. Personally, I like to use the "Redirect to Another Page" option.
Not only is this a little more personal and friendly than the automatic Convertkit message but it also links my subscribers right back into my blog so they stay there and read more!
Finally, on this screen, you can automatically add your subscribers into an email sequence. I'll be doing another post on email sequences and how to make the best use of them.
This is the next tab on the "Settings" page. Here you can customise the email that gets sent to your subscribers to confirm their subscription.
Again, the Convertkit template does the job well but it's nice to customise it and make it a little more personal.
First off, I change the "Subject" of the email to read "[Name of Opt-in]: Confirm Subscription to Access". This way, the recipient knows straight away what the email is about. If your subscribers are anything like me, they probably sign up to hundreds of newsletters and freebies, so remind them straight away what it is that you're giving them.
Next, I amend the main message slightly. I add in a "Hey there!" at the start to make it a bit more friendly. I also change the "Confirm Your Subscription" box to something along the lines of "Access the Checklist" or "Grab the List" – whatever it is that they are accessing. It sounds much more enticing than confirming a subscription. I always sign off with my name too.
The "Incentive Email" tab is also where you choose how your subscribers will receive their opt-in freebie. You have two choices – to redirect them to a URL or you can add the document to be downloaded automatically when the subscriber confirms. Personally, I tend to go for the "Incentive Download" option because when I subscribe for free workbooks and checklists etc. I like to download them and file them away on my laptop for future reference.
The third tab in the "Settings" menu is "Style". This is where you can choose from "Inline", "Modal" 0r "Slide In" options.
This is also where you can fully customise your form using CSS Coding.
The final tab that you will use in setting up your form is the "Embed" tab which provides the HTML code for your form.
If you use WordPress you can download the Convertkit plugin and simply copy the Convertkit shortcode for form, rather than the full HTML code.
You Have Your Form, So Now What?
Now that you have your beautiful form all ready to embed in your site, you need to think carefully about where to place it so that people will a) notice it, and b) sign up.
Okay, so don't judge me. I've placed this at the top of my list but I don't actually have this on my own site!
The idea here is that, if it's above the fold, it's the first thing that your readers see without having to scroll down the page and before they get distracted by anything else.
The top of your sidebar is the most common location for a sign-up form. So, a lot of people will start by looking there for it.
In addition, you can create a variety of "Ads" and additional sign-up forms to place at various intervals in your sidebar. For example, you can find my newsletter sign-up box at the top of my sidebar but I also have an "Ad" from my From Idea to Launch course further down which is an opt-in incentive.
If your sign-up form is generic, like for your weekly newsletter, place it at the end of the post. If your readers have enjoyed reading that post, and you're offering more content for subscribers, they might just sign up. Ending a helpful post with a special offer or sign-up incentive is a great way to capture new subscribers.
This follows on from my above point about having a sign-up form at the end of a post or page but, by adding it to your footer, you don't have to think about embedding the form each and every time you write a new post.
People are becoming blind to sidebars, so may well scroll right past that sgn-up box. But people still scroll down to your footer to find useful information such as your social media links, contact details or maybe just even what theme you use!
Your About page is one of the most popular pages on your site so why not place a form there?
Need I say more on this? It's common sense to have your sign-up forms on your most popular pages and posts.
Ok, so I know Hello Bar is the name of the plugin used to create those little bars across the top of your site but I don't know what else to call them! I've heard a few people refer to them as feature boxes or feature bars too. But I also know that can refer to a box elsewhere on your site.
Either way, adding a form to the top of your pages and posts in a hard-to-miss box will draw readers in and make them subscribers.
How many times are you trying to read something on a site or blog when one of those stupid-full-screen boxes pops up in front of you, asking you to sign up? It's annoying, right? BUT, there is a way to make this better.
You can set your pop-up box so that it only pops up once your reader has been on your site for a certain amount of time. Give them the chance to look around your site, get a feel for your content and, ultimately, allow them to form an opinion of your content before you ask them to subscribe. I know I wouldn't subscribe to a site before I've been able to see or read anything.
Splash pages are a big deal with bloggers at the moment. I've been seeing them around a lot lately.
Lots of people use splash pages to make their sign-up forms the first thing that readers see on their site. The idea is that the main menu is moved to the bottom of the page and everything else your reader sees is your opt-in incentive.
A great example of this is Femtrepreneur by Mariah Coz. Here you can see that the first page on her site gives you two options – sign up or read the blog.
Not to be confused with a pop-up box. A slide up box is one of those boxes that slides in, usually in the bottom of the screen, when your reader has made it a certain way down your post or page. For example, I have set mine to 70%. So, when my readers have scrolled 70% of the way down a post, my sign-up box appears. It doesn't take over the page so it's not annoying. But, if someone is 70% of the way through a post, they're clearly interested in what I have to say!
Now you're ready to make some beautiful looking forms that your readers will not only notice but subscribe to as well!
thank yo so much for this post. there were things that i didnt even think of.
Your site is lovely! Thanks for writing this because I'm a new blogger and trying to learn so many new things!
Awww thank you, that's so nice of you to say! Glad you found this post useful, please feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions about blogging at all!
My big hangup with these is they all post your address and that freaks me out.
Yea, I hear that a lot and it certainly freaked me out too! I now pay for a PO BOX address that I use for anything business related.
Thank you so much for talking about this! I have all the forms but I've never known where to put them!
So glad you found it useful, good luck with your forms!
Super helpful! I had difficulty with mailchimp for some reason and just found it confusing. This looks doable with this post! Thanks for the tips! Definitely saving this one!
What an informative post, Dani! I am pinning this one as it's such a great resource and look forward to utilizing it in the future when I switch to a self-hosted site. Great job!
Thanks Leann, glad you found it useful and thanks so much for sharing!
This is really helpful! I can't wait to try this on my own site.
Thanks Eleni, good luck with your site – let me know if you have any questions or need a hand!
So I'm bookmarking the heck out of this bc I'm in the process of setting all of this stuff up and it's just what I was wondering.
Thank you so much for this post! I'm new to the blogging world and it's the one thing that always seemed daunting to figure out – thus, I haven't done it yet despite knowing how important it is! Thank you!!
I really need to up my game on my mailing list. My list is growing at less than a crawl these days. I'll be trying some of these tips for sure. Thank you!
I am so at a loss when it comes to this stuff, so this was very helpful! I really love the idea of the splash page and putting your sign up on your "About" page..duh! I am so going to do that right now!
Thanks for the suggestions, some great ideas!
Incredibly helpful and detailed article! Thank you for putting this together.
Love it, so useful! Thank you very much for the detailed explanations and suggestions. My sign-up box is at the bottom at the home page, but I feel like I probably need to draw people's attention to it more.
This is a amazing post dear, I have been wanting to upgrade to convertkit, however my low number of subscribers is making me wait!
I'm glad I found this! My sign up form is super basic…. it's something I know that I really need to work on. I had no idea that you could do a delayed pop-up!! I love that idea! Pop ups can drive so many people away ( it has for me plenty of times ) but I think that delaying it would be a good reminder! Stoked to have found this!
I love the idea of having a welcome mat that offers a free course or a blog before as your own two options upon entering. I think I'm going to go set that up right now for my main page.
I use MailChimp but this post made me motivated to consider ConvertKit. Thanks for the valuable post!
great write up with good detail. I too switched to ConvertKit and yep it helped me grow too just from Getresponse instead of Mailchimp.
Alot of good and helpful information in this post I hope people go thru it properly.
Another step I took was from ConvertKit forms to Thrive Leads and this really helped me go to another level still!
What an amazing post. I've never considered ConvertKit for a day. But after reading this post I'm having a second thought. Thanks for sharing.


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Guntars Krasts (ur. 16 października 1957 w Rydze) – łotewski polityk i ekonomista, premier Łotwy (1997–1998), deputowany do Sejmu i Parlamentu Europejskiego.

Życiorys
Od 1976 pracował jako niewykwalifikowany robotnik. W 1982 ukończył ekonomię na Uniwersytecie Łotwy. Do 1991 był zatrudniony jako ekonomista, następnie do 1995 pracował w prywatnym biznesie.

W latach 1995–1997 pełnił obowiązki ministra gospodarki. Po rezygnacji Andrisa Šķēlego stał na czele rządu Łotwy (1997–1998), następnie przez rok był wicepremierem i ministrem spraw europejskich. W 1998 i 2002 z ramienia partii Dla Ojczyzny i Wolności/Łotewski Narodowy Ruch Niepodległości uzyskiwał mandat posła do Saeimy.

Pełnił funkcję obserwatora w Parlamencie Europejskim, od maja do lipca 2004 sprawował mandat eurodeputowanego V kadencji w ramach delegacji krajowej. W wyniku wyborów w 2004 został wybrany do Parlamentu Europejskiego VI kadencji. Był członkiem grupy Unii na rzecz Europy Narodów oraz wiceprzewodniczącym Komisji Gospodarczej i Monetarnej. W wyborach europejskich z 2009 bez powodzenia ubiegał się o reelekcję z listy Libertas.lv.

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Bibliografia

Łotewscy ministrowie gospodarki
Łotewscy posłowie do Parlamentu Europejskiego
Politycy TB/LNNK
Posłowie do Saeimy
Premierzy Łotwy
Urodzeni w 1957
Ludzie urodzeni w Rydze

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We discussed the purpose in Isaiah's message. Why would God want to harden people to prevent them from repenting? – reminiscent of God's work in Pharaoh prior to the Exodus. This seems a bit opposed to His character. Doesn't He call his people to repentance?
We thought that perhaps this passage should be read as a judgement, not a call to repentance. God tells Isaiah to pronounce judgment on Judah – they will not understand or perceive and therefore will not be healed. This 'dull'ing of their ears and the 'close'ing of their eys is the judgement itself not just a warning of judgment to come.
The answer has to come through understanding God's plan of salvation that's mapped out in Isaiah. God plans to save his people in a surprising way, in a way that doesn't rely on human strength or human wisdom, or even on the physical nation of Israel. A large part of that plan, therefore, will involve the ministry of Isaiah, confirming God's people in their stubborn and rebellious ways, so that they don't see God's wisdom until (in a sense) it's too late, until their own human strength has been toppled, until their nation has been completely humbled and they are ready to see God's answer to their plight. It is a salvation that comes through judgment.
This comes through again and again in Isaiah – the idea that God's salvation doesn't rely on human wisdom. Keep a lookout for this theme as you read through the book of Isaiah.
The answer in vs 11-12 must be the exile of Judah that occurred in 606 BC.
So taken this way Isaiah's message to Jerusalem and Judah is that God will judge them by closing their ears and eyes to Him until their destruction in the exile.
Yes and no! The thing about the book of Isaiah is that it (deliberately) keeps working with multiple fulfilments – it works on a number of different levels, which is its great glory, but also why it can also be a little hard to get a grip on.
In fact, the first time verses 11-12 is fulfilled is earlier than the Babylonian exile – it's in the Assyrian crisis described in chapters 36-38, where the whole land of Judah was devastated except for the capital, Jerusalem, and Hezekiah was forced to rely on God alone. God did preserve the city of Jerusalem at that time, but only after the nation had been almost completely wiped out. This happened in 701 BC (or perhaps 688 BC). It's described in chapter 29, as a time when God makes his people blind and dull (29:9-14). And in Isaiah 35:5, there is the promise that in the future, the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the redeemed of the Lord will return to Jerusalem.
However, the Babylonian exile (which happened in stages from 606-587 BC) is also on view (Isaiah 39:6-7). The Babylonian crisis – where the whole nation is completely devestated – introduces the background to the second half of the book, chapters 40-66, which are written to the returned or soon-to-be-returned exiles. So in chapter 42, God speaks of a servant, who will open the blind eyes and bring the exiles back from Babylon (Isaiah 42:7), even though Israel had been blinded (42:16-18). If you read Isaiah 42:16-25 you'll see this all worked out.
BUT … the Babylonian exile isn't the final fulfilment of this prophecy. For even as the exile finishes, God promises an even greater work for the future. Part of the tension of the Old Testament comes from the fact that, while the physical exile was over, the glory of Israel was never really restored to the way the prophets predicted. People were looking forward to a real end of the exile, a time when God's glory would be properly revealed in Israel. And God, in Isaiah, predicts that this will happen – but again in a way that human wisdom and human power can't comprehend. There will come a servant, a suffering servant. This servant will display God's wisdom, his amazing salvation (52:13). But it won't be understood by the people, because they are still blinded to God's ways (52:14-15). He will be despised and rejected, a man of sorrows (53:3). But his suffering and rejection by God's blinded and dulled people will actually mean salvation, because he will suffer for the sins of the world – he will justify many by his wisdom (53:11).
This is the climactic fulfilment of this prophecy – and as the book of Isaiah ends, it still seems to be something that will happen in the future.
I'm content with this aside from the fact that Jesus tells His disciples that Isaiah's prophecy in vs 9-10 is fulfilled in the confused listeners to His parables (Matt 13:14-16). How can Isaiah's prophecy to a particular group of people at a particular time with a distinct end point continue to apply to Jesus' "listeners" 600+ years later?
Is the proclamation of judgement true for all people beyond Judah and beyond the exile? Perhaps Isaiah's specific judgement/prophecy for Judah is also true for all people in that it is a general consequence/punishment of sin? The "holy seed" that will come (Jesus) is the only way anyone will be able to truly see or hear and then be healed. Through the work of Jesus and the provision of His Spirit people will be given revelation – unattainable by human sight or understanding.
This may be stretching things a little. I'm struggling to make sense of the passage in its Isaiah context given Jesus' words in Matthew.
John 12:37-43 37 Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him, 38 so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: "Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" [Isaiah 53:1] 39 Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said, 40 "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them." [Isaiah 6:10] 41 Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him. 42 Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue; 43 for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.
But it is also God's plan for salvation. That's why John, above, quotes Isaiah 53:1 (which is the suffering servant poem, the bit of Isaiah that speaks about Jesus dying for our sins) – this weakness, not understood by the people, is salvation for the world. With Jesus being rejected as foolish and weak by his own people, there is the opportunity for salvation for the whole world.
Acts 2:22-24 22 "Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know- 23 this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. 24 God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
1 Corinthians 2:7-8 7 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
This is also why Jesus told parables about the kingdom (e.g. Matthew 13) – to both harden in judgment those who were to reject and crucify him, and also to bring salvation to those who do finally understand Jesus' purpose in dying for our sins.
1 Corinthians 1:18-25 18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart." [Isaiah 29:14] 20 Where is the one who is wise [cf. Isaiah 29:14]? Where is the scribe [cf. Isaiah 33:18]? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. 22 For Jews demand signs [cf. Isaiah 7:11] and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews [Isaiah 8:14-15] and folly to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men [cf. Isaiah 52:13-15].
That is, if you see the wisdom of God in Jesus' death on the cross rather than in human power, or your own wisdom, you are saved by God's power. If you refuse to, you are further blinded and salvation doesn't come.
It's a complex answer, isn't it? But part of the glory of Isaiah is the way that it speaks on multiple levels and is able to be used by the New Testament to build up a great picture of God's wisdom and glory, shown supremely in his suffering servant Jesus.


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require 'spec_helper'

describe KOSapiClient::Resource::ParallelsBuilder do

  let(:url_builder) { instance_double(KOSapiClient::URLBuilder, url: 'http://example.com') }
  let(:response) { double(foo: :bar) }
  let(:http_client) { double(send_request: response) }
  subject(:builder) { KOSapiClient::Resource::ParallelsBuilder.new('http://example.com', http_client, url_builder) }

  describe '#related' do

    before { allow(url_builder).to receive(:set_path) }

    it 'throws error when parallel id not set' do
      expect { builder.related }.to raise_error(RuntimeError)
    end

    it 'returns self' do
      builder.find(42)
      expect(builder.related).to eq builder
    end

    it 'adds related to URL' do
      expect(url_builder).to receive(:set_path).with(42, 'related')
      builder.find(42).related
    end

  end

  describe '#students' do

    before { allow(url_builder).to receive(:set_path) }

    it 'throws error when parallel id not set' do
      expect { builder.students }.to raise_error(RuntimeError)
    end

    it 'returns self' do
      builder.find(42)
      expect(builder.students).to eq builder
    end

    it 'adds students to URL' do
      expect(url_builder).to receive(:set_path).with(42, 'students')
      builder.find(42).students
    end

  end
end

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It's always an adventure when I attempt to explain the internet, the computer, well, anything technological to her. She's an intelligent woman but, for some reason, simply can't grasp the ins-and-outs of the worldwide web. As such, I've had to become a bit creative when addressing these subjects so she can understand what I'm talking about. But more on that in a minute.
If you own or operate an online business, you have probably experienced the joys and pains of watching traffic and sales go up and down without any discernible pattern. Traffic is not a direct measure of sales because it can consist of such a wide range of users that you don't know who they are and why they are/aren't buying. It's a bit like trying to guess how many people have visited your home by counting the number of cars that have driven past your house. Or, at least that's how I explained it to my mum!
When you invite someone to your house you always give them a specific address and usually a time and date to be there. For example, if you have a dinner party, the visitors are coming for a particular purpose so you wouldn't just tell them the name of your neighbourhood or tell them you're having dinner, when really you'll be serving breakfast! The same is true for online businesses.
We'll use Pay-Per-Click programs as an example but these rules hold true for all other types of online marketing as well. When a visitor clicks an ad you've posted on an external site, they have done so because they are interested in the exact service or product on the ad. To stick with the above metaphor, they're not just coming to see the holiday lights on your street. Your website didn't attract their attention; your ad did. If you send them directly to a landing page that pertains to that purpose, you'll convert a higher percentage of them to customers and they'll have a better experience on your site. Simply because you're addressing what interests them as a visitor.
To put it shortly, the reason online businesses exist is to make sales. You want to catch traffic that will turn into buyers so you have to provide the means for them to do so. Your home page should be a well-designed guide to your site but, in this instance, you can skip that step because the ad you posted has already filtered the traffic for you. They've already told them what they want to see. If you send them to the home page, you're making them do that all over again.
Let's return to the question of, "What is a landing page?" To make it easier to understand, you may refer to them by their other name: lead capture pages. It is a page that is designed to give the user the information they want, provide them with a call to action and get them to follow the act to the end. With this in mind, each product or service needs its own landing page because they need to be dedicated, simple and straight to the point. If a page has too many products or features, break it into more than one page so the experience is focused and simple.
Landing pages, therefore, are the time, date and address for your online dinner party and they will bring you the gifts of higher conversion rates, increased sales, decreased marketing costs and a better reputation.


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Newman College buildings and facilities are provided primarily for College activities. However, community groups and external providers may hire facilities on a limited basis subject to availability.
The College facilities available for hire include:
Newman Sports Complex and Facilities
Champagnat Chapel (special events only – by application)
Frank Ehlers Swimming Pool
Marist Auditorium
Newman Sports Complex and Playing Fields
The Newman Sports Complex is a multi-purpose facility used by the College and the wider College community. The complex comprises three playing fields that are used for a variety of activities including, football, cricket, soccer, rugby, hockey and other College programs requiring extensive outdoor space; six tennis courts; four netball/basketball courts; a weights training room; and a large indoor stadium/gymnasium featuring sprung wooden flooring that hosts two netball/basketball courts and spectator seating. The space can also accomodate volleyball and badmington. The Clubrooms can hold 250 people and is a perfect venue for a dinner, birthday, cocktail party or corporate seminars/party. The venue comprises a fully serviced bar, toilets, airconditioning, wheel chair access and a weather-proof balcony overlooking the Colleges spectacular playing fields.
Honouring the Founder of the Marist Brothers, Saint Marcellin Champagnat, the College commissioned a purpose built Chapel which was blessed and opened in December 2000 by The Most Reverend Barry Hickey (Archbishop of Perth). The Champagnat Chapel, which is primarily used for College activities.
The College's 50 metre swimming pool comprises eight lanes with a large undercover spectator area. It has recently gone through a major upgrade, which has seen the pool become heated for all year round use. The pool was named in honour of Frank Ehlers who was the mainstay in supervising the building of the pool in 1975. Much of the work was done by voluntary labour by the College community.
The Marist Auditorium is a multi-purpose facility situated at Newman College, Churchlands. Featuring a 563 seat Auditorium (with an optional addition of 120 additional seats), the facility also features a dance studio and multiple other function spaces that cater for many different styles of event. The fully retractable tiered seating caters for cabaret style theatre performances and gala dinners, which can then be transformed to a tiered theatre for musicals and dance concerts.
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A Pitch-Perfect Piano Nobile Flat on Venice's Grand Canal
By Rob Bear Jan 31, 2012, 10:15am EST
Set on the piano nobile of the Palazzo Calbo Crotta, a palatial house on Venice's Grand Canal, this three-bedroom, three-bath fairytale apartment was restored by the current owners, a British couple who are selling to pursue their dream of a farmhouse in Tuscany. When the pair purchased the apartment, it was still undergoing a radical restoration, with conservators working through layers of black grime in the magnificent dining room, with "no electricity or water" and "doors and windows were rotten." Undeterred, the couple signed a contract to purchase the palatial flat, which includes frescos dating from the 1760s that depict the Dido and Aneas allegory, believed to have been painted by Giustino Menescardi. While most of the apartment, including the gorgeous grand salone, were restored to their period grandeur, the kitchen and bathrooms were updated to modern standards, with Phillipe Stark fixtures and sleek modern cabinetry. The price, as one might imagine, is only available on request, but chances are this is one of the most expensive properties currently on the market in Venice.
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Here's What Melisandre From 'Game Of Thrones' Looks Like Out Of Costume
By S. Atkinson
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Within the show's universe, we saw Melisandre out of costume in Season 6 Episode 1, when the Red Woman disrobed, took off her ruby necklace, and transformed into an old crone. But, in this instance, what Melisandre looks like out of costume doesn't refer to her appearance on the show, but the Dutch actor behind the character in her non-Westeros life. It's easy to think, from browsing Carice van Houten's Instagram account, that she must favor wearing clothes extra, extra, extra small and skin-tight. But when you take a more in-depth look through the images, it appears that all the adorable pictures of clothes appear to be for her baby son.
All the same, van Houten still looks radically different from her onscreen persona. For a start, she's a brunette rather than scarlet-haired. And in her recent summer 2017 photos, her make up is much more light and feminine than the dramatic looks Melisandre favors (think pink lipstick and a little mascara in some pictures, or not much more than blush). In some Instagram photos, the actor is almost unrecognizable as her character, wearing glasses and what appears to be a low-key hoodie.
And, rather delightfully, van Houten's a fan of candid Instagram selfies, whether she's just woke up like this, flawless, or is lying in bed with flu in her favorite sick day outfit (a goofy yellow cartoon sweatshirt).
Peculiarly, the 40-year-old actor does bear a strong resemblance to an onscreen femme fatale in one photo — just not the one she plays. Given her preppy checks, good tailoring, and her long brown hair, she looks like a dead ringer for none other than Spencer's elder sister Melissa on Pretty Little Liars.
But she believes her look to be a little quirkier than that. In a May 4 post, she writes "This is what I feel most comfortable in. Pink hat, favorite glasses, red lip stick, favorite coat. If it wasn't for hygiene, I would look like this everyday."
And while the Leiderdorp native looks great whether she's dressed down or experimenting with hats, she's also a sight to behold when she's out and about, whether on the red carpet or appearing on a talk show. As her hat addiction might have already implied, she's not afraid to push the fashion envelope and try out braver looks than many of Hollywood's bold and beautiful. So a feminine flowery dress will be paired with a t-bar heels and socks, as on her Late Night with Seth Meyers appearance. Or look to an earlier Seth Meyers appearance for a masterclass in layering with her wearing a leather top underneath a strapless gown.
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Melisandre's very specific brand of haughty mystery is the most obvious reason why she's so compelling to watch. But the actor who plays her is just as intriguing for the exact opposite reason: she seems so relatable. With her goofy selfies and her bold fashion experiments, she's like any one of your non-famous friends. And what could be more refreshing than that?


To blaze a path on the Great Plains, one would twist some tall prairie grass and the top tufts would point the way. Rather temporary.
In the Rockies? Rocks, maybe. Petroglyphs. Pictograms. Piles of rocks. Trees, also, I suppose, until a forest fire blazed them.
Forrest Fenn's blaze? Wish I knew.
In that case one blaze leads to another and another and ….
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Bonaigarh, also locally known as Bonai, is a subdivision of Sundergarh district of the Indian state of Odisha. It is 162 km east of the district headquarters in Sundargarh. It is a sub-divisional headquarter. The town is surrounded by the River Brahmani and the Khandadhar and Singardei Hills. Notable places of interest include a temple to the Lord Shiva (Baneswar Temple) and a Royal Palace.

The Bonaigarh subdivision is further divided into four tehsils or blocks. These include Bonaigarh, Koida, Lahunipara, and Gurundia.

Demographics
The primary language spoken is Odia. Dialects spoken in the region include Sundargadi.

History and geography
During the British Raj, Bonaigarh was the capital of Bonai State. It was one of the princely states of the Chota Nagpur States belonging to the Eastern States Agency.

Bonaigarh is located at .

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Transport

Bonaigarh is situated besides Bhubaneswar-Rourkela National Highway which goes via Talcher, Pallahara and Barkote. From Barkote it is only 55 km. Though there is no train link to Bonaigarh, frequent buses are plying from Rourkela and Barkote. Once or twice in a day, buses are plying from Kuchinda, Keonjhar, Deogarh, Cuttack, and Bhubaneswar.

There is no railway station in Bonaigarh. However, Rourkela Railway Station is the major railway station at a distance of 65 kms.

Buses are well connected to Bonaigarh from various places. For example, Rourkela is connected by Sainath bus, Raahi Travels, Dildar Travels, Rakesh Travels, Tarini Travels and Sarala Travels. Deogarh, Barkote, Angul, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur and Sundergarh are connected by Sainath bus and Rakesh Coach (Rakesh Travels). Two private night buses namely "Krishna Jee", "A-ONE" and "Babamani" run to capital city Bhubaneswar via Dhenkanal and Cuttack.

Festivals
Bonaigarh is famous for an annual festival known as "Chaitra Mela", which starts during mid-April and continues up to mid-May every year. A goddess known as "Maa Basuli" is worshiped by the local folks for the relevant period along with many small temporary vending markets, circuses, rides, and Operas are found in the "Mela." Rath Yatra, Dussehra, Kantha Puja, Ramnavmi, Janmastami, Raja, Holi are the major festivals celebrated every year. During this time, Dussehra a goddess known as "Kanta Devi," is especially worshiped on the 9th day of the festival. Bonaigarh also has Muslim population who celebrate festivals such as Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha & Muharram together with the people from other religion. A amall Christian population is also found who normally visit Bonaigarh Catholic Church and celebrate festivals like Christmas and Good Friday. Apart from various religious practices, customs and traditions. Secularism is prevailed widely which keeps the people united in Bonai region.

Education
In the education field, it is a growing town. Many doctors, engineers and lawyers, having reputed positions in different organisations of India and abroad are from this place. There are a number of schools and one college which is affiliated to Sambalpur University. But for higher education like Medical, Engineering, Law, Commerce, Business Administration etc. People are going out of town.

Agriculture and economy
There are many crops like rice, corn etc., harvested during the year. Seasonal vegetables are also available throughout the year in a cheaper rate. One villages named Talita  famous for producing cauliflowers and cabbages during the winter. There are two weekly markets held on every Monday and Thursday where many local things including fruits, vegetables, groceries, utensils, pottery and plastics are traded between sellers and consumers.

It is also a good business center for the people here. There are 5 nationalized banks present here.
 STATE BANK OF INDIA, Bonai Branch  (IFSC code - SBIN0001343)
 PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK, Bonai Branch (IFSC code - PUNB0498600)
 PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK, Banki Branch (IFSC code - PUNB0244500)
STATE BANK OF INDIA, Gurundia Branch (IFSC code - SBIN0005900)
 AXIS BANK, Near Church Chowk, Deogaon
 CANARA BANK, Main road, Near post office square
 ICICI BANK LTD., Main road, Near church square
 Sundargarh District Central Cooperative Bank Bonaigarh Branch (IFSC code - YESB0SNGB02)
 HDFC BANK LTD, Bonai branch
(IFSC Code - HDFC0005678)

Medical facilities
There is one government hospital named "Bonaigarh Sub-Divisional Hospital," situated in the jail road. People from all the nearby villages and blocks depend on this hospital. However, some private clinics and dispensaries also exist to treat the people.

Schools and colleges

References

Sundergarh district


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Gig review: THE LEVELLERS – A Curious Life
Posted on January 18, 2015 by david.wilson
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In the coming months The Levellers are taking to the road for a series of live acoustic gigs along with the screening of 'A Curious Life', a documentary covering the band's 27 years of folk rock mayhem.
The film opens with an interview with bass player, Jeremy Cunningham, in his flat which by his own admission is a small step up from the squats he used to inhabit, none of the millionaire rock 'n' roll lifestyles for these guys. Jeremy is your main guide in the documentary and his passion for the band is infectious.
There are also interviews with Jeremy's mother and father who are very proud of their son and what he has achieved with the band, although his mother does reveal that she is a bit disturbed by some of his artwork at times. There are many interviews during the film with all the band and all the main players in the band's history which are both entertaining and enlightening.
The film features lots of rare footage of the band including video of one of their first shows and an appearance on The Big Breakfast with Zig and Zag, the highlight of any band's career I should think.
The band's infamous mainstage appearance at Glastonbury 1992 is also covered including an interview with Michael Eaves. Mark Chadwick reveals during the footage that the sight of the estimated 80,000 strong crowd going wild and singing along with every word during the set was the moment he realised how big the band had become.
The documentary also covers the darker times with Jeremy discussing his heroin battles and talking about the drink and drug habits which had affected the rest of the band at one time or another. As is the nature of The Levellers though, when one has a problem the rest rally round and they come out stronger on the other side.
We are also treated to a look round Levellers HQ, The Medway, which is as chaotic as you would expect, you have to access Jeremy's art studio by crawling through the bottom half of the door which was kicked in after the lock broke! Having their own studio within the complex though has allowed the band to control their own albums and recordings which has given them freedom to do what they want and record what they like without any outside influences.
The fact that The Levellers have had a 27 year career to date is testament to the quality of the music and the loyalty of the dedicated fans, many of whom have supported the band from the early days.
The alternative title of the documentary is 'A potted journey through 25 years subsidised dysfunctionalism' which is very apt. This is a very open and entertaining film from a group who have been through the mill both personally and in the media but have stuck to their beliefs and principals and continue to rock crowds across the country.
'There's only one way of life', for The Levellers – never a truer word has been said.
Review by David Wilson
LEVELLERS – A CURIOUS LIFE TOUR 2015
28th SALISBURY City Hall
29th PONTARDAWE Arts Centre
30th MALVERN Forum Theatre
31st DUBLIN St Patricks Cathedral*
1st CANTERBURY Marlowe Theatre
24th ISLE OF WIGHT Shanklin Theatre
25th BURY ST EDMUNDS The Apex
26th LONDON Union Chapel
27th LEEDS Town Hall
28th BEXHILL De La Warr Pavilion
1st WARWICK Arts Centre
3rd NORTHAMPTON Derngate
4th BASINGSTOKE The Anvil
5th BUXTON Opera House
6th LIVERPOOL Philharmonic Hall
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Overall Asset Manager of the Year: T. Rowe Price
Portfolio > Portfolio Construction
By Bernice Napach
Analysis June 24, 2020 at 04:06 PM Share & Print
Paul Massaro
Title: Head of Global High Yield, Portfolio Manager
Years with present firm: 17 years
Years in financial services: 19 years
Investment/Asset class focus: Floating rate bank loans
Asset Management firm: T. Rowe Price
Firm's headquarters: Baltimore, with offices in 16 countries and 22 cities
Year firm was founded: 1937
Number of employees and/or partners: 7,471 employees
AUM/advisement as of March 31, 2020: $1 trillion
The T. Rowe Price Bank Loan Strategy is the winner of the Asset Manager Award in the fixed-income category thanks to its strong risk-adjusted returns in a sector that has endured large outflows and declines in credit standards and recovery rates. The portfolio team's steller credit selection and focus on risk reduction underpinned its performance in 2019 and in the first quarter of 2020, which is a key reason the strategy also was named Overall Asset Manager of the Year.
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Often in tough times, the best portfolio managers show their worth, as Paul Massaro, lead portfolio manager of the $2 billion T. Rowe Price Bank Loan Strategy and the firm's Institutional Floating Rate Fund, has demonstrated.
Massaro says avoiding credit pitfalls in individual securities and sectors, like energy, was an essential factor in last year's stellar outperformance. The healthcare sector was subject to "regulatory noise and the opioid crisis," he points out, adding that "our analysis kept us out of those names."
The fund's heavy holdings in Asurion, a cell phone insurance provider, and Kronos, a workforce management company, also helped the portfolio's performance and are further proof of the fund's strong team of analysts, according to Massaro.
Fifteen dedicated analysts covering high yield bonds and the bank loan market support T. Rowe's Floating Rate Fund and its bank loan strategy, along with a five-person trading trading team, another portfolio manager and one portfolio specialist. "We have one research team for high yield and loans," Massaro said.
"Collaboration is a big theme," and it goes even beyond the bank loan and high yield teams. "We can tap into the collective insights from our firm's equity franchise," he added.
The team's analysts are focused on protecting capital on the downside and avoiding credit risk. Its members study leverage ratios, free cash flows as a percentage of total debt, loan-to-value ratios and the strategic value of companies and the quality of their management.
This bottom-up approach to the market can provide "great risk-adjusted returns over time" but consists of assets that are "callable at par, which caps their appreciation," Massaro said. Still, the bank loan market can deliver "very attractive returns if you enter at the right point."
The fund emphasizes diversification — favoring higher quality issues like B- and BB-rate. It holds over 200 names, with about 15-20 issues accounting for roughly 30% of the portfolio. Along with adjustable-rate loans, it includes some fixed-rate bonds like Treasuries and investment-grade corporates. Its Sharpe ratio, 2.41, is higher than that of its benchmark index, the S&P/LSTA Performing Loan Index.
The fund's flexible, risk-reduction approach helped it weather outflows in the bank loan market in 2019 and during the pandemic-fueled March 2020. The U.S. economy should recover, and that means rising rates eventually — which would be good news for the bank loan market, though not for most other fixed-income sectors.
"There will certainly be differentiation in the market. Some sector and names [will be] very challenged," Massaro said. Pandemic-impacted sectors like insurance brokerages are under the microscope, along with software firms that have held up well thanks to their recurring revenue from subscriptions, he adds. — Bernice Napach
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Bournemouth are ready to take their spending in the January window to £24million, Football Insider sources understand.
The Premier League club announced on Monday night that they have completed the £8million signing of Lewis Grabban from Norwich on Monday.
His return comes hot on the heels of the arrival of Benik Afobe in a £10million move from Wolves – taking the club's transfer window spending to more than £19million to date.
Roma winger was Bournemouth's first January signing and the Argentine will cost them a loan fee of £1million.
A Bournemouth source has told Football Insider that manager Eddie Howe is also hoping to add a central midfielder, with Leeds midfielder Lewis Cook in his sights.
The Championship club have claimed that they will reject all bids for the England Under-19 international this month but Howe is ready to pay £5million for a player out of contract in 18 months. As revealed by Football Insider, Leeds value Cook at the £8million mark.
Striker Grabban, who left Dean Court for Carrow Road in June 2014, rejoins Bournemouth after he agreed terms on a three-and-a-half year contract.
"I think we'll be getting a better Lewis Grabban, but he'll realise that we've got better as well and he will have to adapt too. But we're in no doubt we're getting a good player back," manager Howe told his club's official website.


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UN Biodiversity Officials Fail Transparency Test – 'Provides no CVs for most members of its influential panel'
By: Admin - Climate DepotMay 15, 2019 3:02 PM
https://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2019/05/13/un-biodiversity-folk-fail-transparency-test/
By Donna Laframboise
IPBES provides no CVs for most members of its influential panel.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is a clone of the IPCC, the UN's climate body. But there are some notable differences.
We're told that a great deal of power resides with the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel (MEP), which currently consists of 28 individuals. These are the people who, for example, decide which international scholars will be assigned to discuss which topics within the pages of official IPBES reports.
To its credit, that entity's website has been designed to provide the CV of everyone who sits on this panel. Rather than taking the UN's word for it that these are world class experts, the public is given the opportunity to examine their credentials firsthand.
But saying you believe in transparency is different from acting like it. If organizations aren't living up to the standards they've set for themselves, that's worth noticing.
Last week was hugely important for the IPBES – it sought and received massive international media coverage. Despite this, it utterly failed its own transparency test. The CVs of most MEP members aren't actually available online.
6 out of 8 are missing for those who represent Latin American and Caribbean states.
3 out of 5 are missing for those who represent African states.
3 out of 5 are missing for those who represent Asia-Pacific states.
3 out of 5 are missing for those who represent 'Western European and other states.'
Only in the case of the experts from Eastern European countries are all 5 CVs provided.
Final score: 13 out of 28 – or 46%. That's what we call a failing grade.
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With over 100+million Soundcloud streams, 26+million Spotify streams and six #1 singles in 2014 topping the Beatport Top 100 as well as the fourth highest selling artist on Beatport of 2014, the heavyweight producer balanced chart-topping original material as well as a collaborative spot on Calvin Harris's Motion album. Remixing everyone from Beyonce, Calvin Harris and John Legend along the way, R3HAB remained a beacon as to where evolving artists could adapt and engage new and exciting territory whilst staying true to the dance floor.
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Blake Rayne. Cabin Of The Accused
22 Oct 2016 — 18 Mar 2017 at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, United States
Untitled, 2014, 11 Framed prints Kool-Aid, acrylic, 7.66 oz of walnut shell powder, and ink on paper + Chromogenic print, 32 1/8 x 22 5/8 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Miguel Abreu Gallery, NY
Cabin of the Accused is the first survey show of New York-based artist Blake Rayne. The exhibition highlights Rayne's career from 2003 to the present, displaying a range of work in various media including painting, sculpture, printmaking, and installation. Over the last 20 years, Rayne's work has been central to questioning, contributing, and putting to test contemporary beliefs regarding painting. Comprised of more than 30 works, Cabin of the Accused neither reconstructs or presents a chronological or thematic selection of Rayne's work, but it rearticulates specific elements, organizational attitudes, and pictorial procedures. In addition, the exhibition premieres new site-specific projects, including the crystallization of a group meeting into a sculptural work.
The pictorial practice of Blake Rayne develops in the mid-1990s, a moment of historical acceleration, in which a new economy of network communication emerged based upon the principles of speed and spectacle transforming the relationship between work and leisure. The conditions of cultural production are modified through the implementation of forms of flexible self-managerial labor, producing new forms of social power based on the capture and control of time and experience. The exhibition title, Cabin of the Accused, combines two words associated with opposite implications, describing a paradoxical architecture that sets into relation recreation and detention.
Rayne's work tests how painting is responding to shifts in perceptual regimes, labor conditions, and temporal paradigms. Painting has no essence outside of its historical models, thus gathering and dispersing itself at every moment. On that premise, Rayne works on and through the technologies and institutions of painting, placing its conditions of possibility into relief. Rayne's practice is an ongoing act of revision that creates a catalog of processes and operations. Through this constantly evolving catalog, he produces a discursive and material strategy that creates a plastic interplay between art and the social.
The presentation of works as a series of episodes within exhibitions evokes the organization of serialized writing in sequential installments. Exhibitions are organized as scenographic arrangements like constellations, enabling us to perceive possible relationships between objects. Rayne examines pictorial strategies and operations to translate, decontextualize, fold, and superimpose "scripts" grafted from sites of cultural production.
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Untitled, 2003, Oil on canvas, 70 x 60 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Miguel Abreu Gallery, NY
Untitled, 2009, Acrylic, gesso, spray paint on linen with lacquered wood frame, 71 x 50 inches, Private Collection, NY. Courtesy of Blaffer Art Museum
Untitled, 2010, Acrylic on canvas, 69 x 53 inches, Private Collection, NY. Courtesy of Blaffer Art Museum
Work Description, 2010, Glass, vodka, wood, cardboard, and plant, 33 1/2 x 45 x 32 1/2 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Miguel Abreu Gallery, NY
Untitled, 2010, Silkscreened acrylic on dye-printed linen with vinyl ribbon, 78 x 51 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Miguel Abreu Gallery
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There's at least one undefeated team in each region, what do you believe is the possibility that your region's champ is undefeated? I'm familiar with SR2 and I would say that three teams (Valdosta State, Lenoir-Rhyne & West Georgia) have an equal chance but the undefeated team (VSU) has the home field advantage so you might give us the slight edge. Of course this is the playoffs and a hot team can come from anywhere so nothing's for sure.
I'd be very watchful of Tarleton St. Big, fast, smart. Todd Whitten is a very savvy coach.
I would be surprised to see SR 3 get out undefeated, but I think that depends on where Ferris ends up. Just don't think this is a great year for SR3. I wouldn't be surprised to see UMD or MSU in championship.
VSU offense looks almost unstoppable, but their D looked vulnerable last night. Of course, they were playing a very good team.
No, You're spot on. In eight of our ten games the opponent either rushed for, or passed for more than their season average.
With reseeding, wouldn't those three wins get you a home semifinal game and it would make you a heck of a lot better.
Ferris is #2 in the region. They will be at home til they lose/play at Ouichita in the regional final.
Edit: I guess I misread that comment. Its possible that GVSU as the SR3 winner gets reseeded to #2, depending on who comes out of SR 2 & 4. If those regions both get undefeated teams out of the region, which I think is likely, SR3 probably gets a road game in the Semis (unless Ouichita gets out of SR3 unbeaten, then its anyones guess how they might re-seed them).
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Nothing would make VSU fans happier than to face off with G.V. in the N.C. game.
With 6 undefeated teams left I had to revive this thred. The next three weeks are going to be fun.


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Free Speech: Where Is It Headed in the Digital Age?
by Joanne Myers. This article originally appeared on PassBlue.
David Kaye, a leading voice on human rights in the digital age, is also a United Nations special rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, a post he has held since August 2014. The author of a recent book, "Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet," he spoke with me as moderator this summer about the state of free speech, an event held at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
David Kaye, the UN special rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, addressing the Human Rights Council, June 17, 2015, Geneva. He has written a new book on the global struggle to wrestle with the power of the Internet. JEAN-MARC FERRE/UN PHOTO
We are at a critical juncture in one of the most consequential free-speech debates in history, a debate that has an impact on politics, economics, national security and civil liberties as governments and activists try to control online discourse. The speed with which the Internet has evolved has led not only to how billions of people interact but also how they see the world.
The Internet has transformed how information is exchanged and business is conducted. But the transformation has not always been for the public good. Corporations, authoritarian governments and criminals have colonized vast tracts of digital space.
Because the Internet is a medium that involves many different actors and moving parts and is not controlled by any one centralized system, organization or governing body, regulating it has given rise to free-speech issues and cybersecurity concerns. While it may make life just a little more pleasurable, it makes democracy a lot more challenging, raising legal, moral and ethical concerns. The challenge is how to curtail hate messages on the Internet while maintaining freedom of speech.
Should governments set the rules, or should companies such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter be permitted to moderate their space as they see fit? Who should decide whether content should be removed from platforms or which users should be asked to leave?
As the UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Kaye has dealt with these issues daily.
DAVID KAYE: I'm going to talk today a little bit, and I do want to emphasize a "little bit" because I think this is a topic which is in many respects remarkable in the way it has captured public attention. When we talk about who controls speech online I think of it as, What's the trauma of the morning?
First, I want to say a few words about how the companies have come to dominate public space in so many places around the world. What is the nature of platform power?
I'll start there, and then I'll talk a bit about how in governments around the world — although interestingly, not the US government, this has been basically in the context of regulatory discussions — a question about European and then beyond Europe authoritarian regimes often jealously looking at the power of companies and trying to figure out how to pull them back, how to reclaim public space for their publics.
In the third part of the discussion I want to give some ideas about how to solve the problems. I use the word "solve" with some caution, because although I don't want to start with cynicism or deep skepticism, I do think that this is a problem that is going to be a generational problem for us to resolve, whether we're talking about disinformation or hate speech or even terrorist content.
We have some extremely serious challenges ahead of us that are challenges about public policy, they're challenges about the nature of expression in a digital age and they're also challenges about the nature of regulation and what we think of the mutual roles of government and the corporate sector in the world in which we live today.
I hope that gives you a little bit of a road map of where I'll be heading in this discussion.
To read the full text of Kaye's speech, click here.
Originally published at https://www.passblue.com on August 13, 2019.
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5000 pieces of underwear, gym gear, found in Melbourne home – 1News
A police raid on a Melbourne home uncovered thousands of pairs of underwear and gym clothes.
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Police are now calling for anyone who may have items stolen in Melbourne's northern suburbs to come forward, after Wednesday's raid in Reservoir.
An estimated 5000 pieces of women's clothing were discovered – mostly underwear – but also activewear, 9News reports.
There were no reports of arrests but investigations are continuing.
Police said earlier in the week they were investigating a number of robberies in the area.
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The wording 'non professionals' in this case, means people who do not deserve whatever license,doctorate,degree etc. that they hold. OR the ability to work with anyone in a medical,clinical,counseling capacity .
So what does one do when they find they were wrong?. If they are a normal person they reverse or try to reverse their wrong. When you depend on federal aid or grants or whatever else this place runs on,you try to pressure and provoke the client..read- patient. Yes,that's the prescribed treatment. Because one simply can't be wrong when you learn e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g. about addiction from a textbook. Not slamming anyone who goes to college but the truth is until you live it you don't understand it. But really? this isn't even about that. It's about pure incompetence. Yes. I said pure INCOMPETENCE.
As in not checking any paper work not sending in the medical release forms that your client fills out. Not liaisoning with the clients doctor(s). No,you just decide you and your super powers of deduction know more than the clients doctor(s),that you know more than the state that issued the I.D. with the name and other info on it. But then comes the day you realize that "if you are wrong about this person you and your facility will look like fools.If you are right you and yours are in big trouble..possibly loose licensing due to medical idiocy in medicating a scammer. So..your final recourse is that you are going to get that client out the door some way or another.
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The Bounty on Hitler
May 2, 2012 Dan Lewis Uncategorized 0
The United States entered World War II in December of 1941, and only after Japanese planes bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. Even though the U.S. was, relative to Western Europe and the Soviet Union, slow to involve itself in World War II, there was certainly anti-Hitler sentiment in America. And no one exhibited that sentiment better than Samuel Harden Church.
Church was the President of the Carnegie Institute, which would later become part of Carnegie Mellon University. But his place in history is so minor a blip that he does not yet have a Wikipedia entry. But on April 30, 1940, Church took a step which, had a soldier of fortune risen to the occasion, could have changed the course of history — and Church's legacy — insurmountably. On that date, he wrote a letter to the New York Times on behalf of a group of well-to-do Pittsburgh residents (reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette the next day). It read, in part:
In order to prevent further bloodshed and outrage in this war of German aggression, I am authorized by competent Americans to offer a reward of the person or person who will deliver Adolph Hitler, alive, unwounded and unhurt, into the custody of the League of Nations for trial before a high court of justice for his crimes against peace and dignity of the world. This proposal will stand good through the month of May, 1940.
The amount of the reward? $1 million — or, about $15 million in today's dollars.
The purpose of the offer was not only to save Hitler's victims, but also to save Hitler's countrymen. Church told the Post-Gazette that his group "had received private advices from Europe that Hitler would strike soon on the Western front [. . .] even at the cost of 500,000 German lives." The Pittsburgh citizens affiliated with Church saw an opportunity to save a lot of lives, German and otherwise, by funding the capture of the German leader — with an emphasis on doing so quickly to avoid more carnage.
No one took Church up on his offer — and, in fact, many wrote in to the Pittsburgh Press to object to his plan. But Church and his group were correct. On May 10, 1940, Germany began the invasion of France; each side had over 3 million troops in strength during the two month struggle. A total of 150,000 Germans and 360,000 French died or were wounded before France agreed to German cease-fire terms in late June of that year.
Bonus fact: While Church wrote his letter to the New York Times, Mohandas Gandhi took a different approach — he wrote directly to Hitler himself. In a letter dated July 23, 1939 (seen here), Gandhi asked Hitler to eschew war: "It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to a savage state."
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Related: Apparently Samuel Harden Church wrote a book. It has two reviews, one of which is a one star review: "I would be embarrassed to give her [the reviewer's sister] this as a Christmas present."


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