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Chicago Blackhawks (40-25-8, 88 pts) at
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 7:00 PM EDT
The Jackets meet the Blackhawks for the final time this season tonight, and it's no hyperbole to say the previous five times have not been--how you say--good. They've held Chicago to under five goals only once, and have given up six twice. Columbus has only scored more than two goals once. It's been brutal.
Viktor Stalberg has been especially potent, with nine points (8G, 1A) in five games. In 11 career games against Columbus, he has 10 goals and an assist. Sheesh. Let's see if we can slow him down tonight, maybe.
The Jackets are without James Wisniewski, who took that blocked shot off his stick and then off his face, and is suffering from a concussion. Curtis Sanford is also out, having apparently torn his left quad in Sunday night's game. Allen York has been recalled to serve as Steve Mason's backup, and David Savard has been recalled to take Wiz's spot. The Hawks will most likely be without Jonathan Toews, also battling a concussion.
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 Shakti est dans l'hindouisme l'énergie féminine divine et la consort de Shiva ;
 Dans le bouddhisme tantrique, la shakti est la parèdre d'un bouddha, souvent représentée avec lui en union du lotus (yab-yum).

Arts
 Shakti, un groupe musical créé par John McLaughlin dans les années 1970, toujours en activité ;
 Shakti, un groupe musical belge des années 1988 à 1990 fondé par Praga Khan ;
 Shakti, un film indien de Ramesh Sippy, sorti en 1982 ;
 Shakti, un film indien de Krishna Wamsi, sorti en 2002, avec dans les rôles principaux Karisma Kapoor et Nana Patekar ;
 Shakti Dei, un festival de psytrance se tenant début juillet en Belgique.

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Charakonda is a mandal (district sub-division) in the Nagarkurnool District in the Indian state of Telangana. The district and its subdivisions were created by the Telangana government in 2016 as part of a reorganization of the state's districts, mandals and revenue divisions; prior to that the region encompassed by the newly formed Charakonda mandal were included in the Mahbubnagar district

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 Borabanda thanda
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 Kamalpur
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 Thurkalapally

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Charakonda is located at 16°44′N 77°30′E (16.73° N, 77.5° E). It has an average elevation of 431 metres (1,414 feet).

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Reply #30 posted 09/17/07 7:39am
wlcm2thdwn
Yeah, it's a hard reality but I've finally had to face it. he's doing everything he can to push people awy from him.
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jonylawson
wlcm2thdwn said:
dude-i work in the emergency dept"a hard reality" is telling somebody their loved one has been killed.....
NOT having your imaginary friend take a huff with you.....
A fuckin "hard reality"
PEOPLE-I ASK YA
ButterscotchPi
i'm not going to "boycott", i'm just not as interested as i was.
i still don't have Planet Earth, and from what i've heard i'm not dying to get it. i'm sure i'll end up listening to it at some point.
as far as concerts are concerned, it would depend on where, ticket price, etc.
i'll reminisce about the old days, listen to the music i have, continue to play his stuff in my dj sets from time to time, but that's about it.
he's just not that interesting to me as he once was.
http://www.facebook.com/p...111?ref=ts
y'all gone keep messin' around wit me and turn me back to the old me......
purplecam
jonylawson said:
eakin news "fams"-PRINCE is not nor never has been nor will ever be.....
he's a musician albeit a popular one.
he owes the people NUTHIN.Please stop makin me cringe with your nonsense.
though in my humble little opinion out of any artist i can think of he has given his fans an immense amount..
for fucks sake we got invited to his bloody soundchecks and his recording studio.multiple radio shows,downloads,box sets etc etc
ive noticed that since P has become popular again the nutty "fams'are making more and more of an appearance.
why do you care if he sues his shoeshiner???
why dont you just concentrate on the music?
i can understand if you lot were 15 but christ most of you are middle aged men!!!
just chill out-stick on parade or a bit of donny hathaway and remeber when there wasnt an internet
I WANT THESE SORT OF THREADS BANNED!!!!!
I WANT THESE NEWBIES LIKE CHRISTOS 7 BANNED!!!! its too early for me to be cringing
"boycott prince" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH OOOOOH HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
Preach!!!!!
[Edited 9/17/07 8:50am]
I'm not a fan of "old Prince". I'm not a fan of "new Prince". I'm just a fan of Prince. Simple as that
Oh and to answer the question of will I boycott Prince, HELL NO. You got me and a whole lot of fans all fucked up if you think that's gonna happen. I know damn well that I'm not going anywhere. Why should I? Anyone who's been a fan for at least 5 years should be used to this stuff by now and soon enough there will be a new album and single and all the haters and boycotters will be all on Prince's jock just like they usually are when new music drops.
I will say this much, if Prince is really bothering you this much, then do yourself a favor and just go for Christ sake. I'm not saying you shouldn't be mad but damn. People here have been acting like some relative died or something like 9/11 happened and it's not even close to being that serious. Stop making yourself miserable about something as small in the grand scheme of things as this. It's supposed to be all about the music right?
Per5eph0ne
Peace, Love, and some Purple Rain!!
SexyBeautifulO
Damn that! I'm all for boycotting!! It's my money and if Prince doesn't appreciate my spending it on him then I won't!
Yes, Prince is a superbly multitalented musical genius but WE his fans made him the STAR that he is! All the talent in the world means NOTHING without the folks that'll spend their hard earned money for it!
Don't believe me, look at the top musical artists that are out now. The majority don't have an ounce of Prince's talent but what they do have is folks that'll spend their hard earned money on them and they are stars. When folks stop spending money on them, they become has-beens and reality show fillers.
A fate Prince apparently thinks can't happen to him because he's had folks like me who bought the good, the bad and the what the hell am I hearing ah well his next one could only be better, going to see him perform his hits for the last time for the umpteenth time and bought his stank ass perfumes just because!
MrsGoodnight
christos7 said:
MrsGoodnight said:
Hang on a minute... wasn't it Christos7 who was defending Prince's actions in the announcement thread?!...
..and Ur point is?
Well how can you claim to support his decision to start legal action and then say this: "I might stop supporting him financially as a result, 4 what it's worth."
Personally I won't be boycotting him - no way! What has his decision to start proceedings against Ebay and You-Tube got anything to do with us? Do we own or have any legal or financial interests in either business? No. So why should I feel that I shouldn't buy any further Prince related stuff? I've been a fan for over 22 years and I'm not about to start getting all pissed off because my avatar at HQ has been removed. OK I can admit to being slightly disappointed about this stuff but not to the extent that it seems to be bothering a lot of people on here...
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Exactly, I dare say it's getting scary in here though it's been a mess on the org for years. The people who call themselves fans want to rip Prince apart and then rip others apart if they can find something in all of this to support. I personally don't like what he's doing and I wish he'd stop all of this but it's his choice and I'm not going to lose sleep or money from this. As long as he's dropping new music on us then it's all love from me with the man. I'm here for the music, PERIOD.
purplecam said:
A man who talks sense - gimme a hug!
It makes me wonder why some people bother to call themselves 'fans/fams'
I've been wondering that for many years now myself but it's their right for better or worse. Sad thing is, it's not over. Something else will happen before the year is out that will cause the same reactions. When it does, I'll be watching jamming to my latest Prince CD.
Reply #41 posted 09/17/07 10:01am
funkyhead
I'm of the opinion that everything that 1st got me interested in Prince, and kept me interested all these years, as an artist, has dwindled and eroded steadily over time. Primarily his subject matter.
Plus the guy is a walking contradiction whose main motivation now seems 2 b greed.
I might stop supporting him financially as a result, 4 what it's worth.
come on my friend, P has been a mass of contradictions since day 1, it's waht makes him unique and maddening at the same time!. Are you really telling me that if the ever elusive classic rock funk album to beat P. Rain came out you wouldn't buy it, or if P toured in a small venue near you you wouldn't go?.
Heck no!!!
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sosgemini
hasn't the general public been doing that with prince for years? what's new?
Space for sale...
thekidsgirl
Will u b boycotting Prince after all the adverse pubicity?
If you will, so will I
No, I wont boycott him... I think he's enough adult 2 do his choices, even the wrong ones....
Therefore I disagree with Prince sueing Youtube, etc...
m3taverse
Who'se the 15 year old here... get a grip man.
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meow85
I thought about it, and no. I may not agree entirely with what he's doing, and I definitely don't agree with his approach or how he's handling the whole Youtube issue, but it's his right as artist and creator. In fact, though his tactics may be asshole-ish to the Nth degree, this melds perfectly with what he's always been trying to do in terms of artistic rights and ownership. Music might want to be free, but it doesn't want to be stolen.
What I think Prince should be doing though, instead of suing all these websites and companies and generally coming off as a prick, is finding a practical and appealing way to harness the power of the internet to his own advantage. Whatever or whoever is in control of 3121.com has not been doing a very good job of that. Like, at all. Former official sites weren't much better, either.
If Prince doesn't want people downloading or viewing his videos for free, that's fine. But if he's going to disallow that, he should find an avenue to release said videos to the people for some agreed-upon fee or trade. I think that's fair. Right now he's coming off as a greedy brat who won't share. People love your work, Prince. Let them have it in some way, or they will move on.
"A Watcher scoffs at gravity!"
Reply #48 posted 09/17/07 12:02pm
CalhounSq said:
I will but only if you promise to be less insane tomorrow
Seriously though, this ain't that bad. The only eyeliner he's taken to his face is rimming his eyes, so I'm cool w/ that
I hope next time Prince takes up drawing on himself it'll be a kitty.
Maybe Prince has decided he has enough money now. Perhaps it's worth it to him to destroy traces of his past on the internet.
If he goes underground and becomes one of those David Sylvian guys who creates for a limited audience, great! I'll make an effort to keep up.
Maybe that's what he wants now, to just kick back and chill.
Reply #50 posted 09/17/07 1:03pm
viewaskew
Prince has been alienating fans for years, and for all the wrong reasons. Sure, the name change and "slave" nonsense lost him many casual listeners, but at least we still had the music. Then the problems with 1800 New Funk, the Crystal Ball orders, the NPG Music Club issues, threatening fan sites...none of these things were especially endearing. Making it worse, the quality of his music began to lessen. With this latest round of stupidity on the heels of the mediocre album Planet Earth, I'm really just holding out on live performances and the small hope that some of his vault material will see the light of day without too much damage to its original form.
Heiress said:
Maybe that's the issue there. Since converting, Prince has been going out of his way not only to act as if his former self and former work are unworthy, but to pretend it never existed in the first place. He refuses to sing certain songs and edits many of those he will. Maybe, just maybe, this has more to do with his clean slate ideas than money or ownership. It sounds goofy, yeah. But it's Prince. We all know he's prone to strange or baffling behaviour.
denideni
Boycott Prince - No way!!
I'v been a fan 4 ova 20years and in all that time his concert tickets cost almost the same now as they did then, some ppl would pay more for a less talented proformer!!
Not 2 mention he has given away his last album, all u had 2 do was buy a paper or go 2 one of his concerts!! I'v got 5 copies!! and its a great album 2!!
Give the man a break and let him get on with it!
U cant fault his music
Jatrig
You sound like a reactionary republican -- saying inflammatory crap that if someone actually thought about for 20 seconds, would be dismissed as simplistic and missing the point. Yea, you're right - people shouldn't give a damn if Prince sues his shoeshiner (clever) but I think it is the proper domain for Fans (fams or whatever the hell you'd like to call them) to get upset if the artist they enjoy listening and viewing is avidly working AGAINST the fans listening or viewing them except in limited venues where the artist profits. This isn't encroaching on a personal battle by prince, but goes to the very essence of what being a fan of a musician is all about - - listening to their music!
I never cared that Prince was a jehovah's witness, that he seems like a bad friend, that he's contradictory, that he pisses purple, whatever - that's irrelevant....but his personal battle against bootlegs and his use of intellectual property rights DOES effect me as a fan since it effects how much and easily I can listen to his music. It's hard to CONCENTRATE on what's no longer available to me. Yes, he's been very prolific and given us more "legal" music than any other artist of our time -- but that's irrelevant. As a fan - we want all of it; that's our proper role afterall. So we're not 15 year olds whining about his personal matters, but are FANS upset that he is limiting what we can enjoy.
meow85 said:
I think you're on the money there mate. Dead on. It'd be quite interesting to hear what he has to say - I know we're not going to but it'd be nice...
Look, if I could hang in there when he was threatening to sue his fans, en massse, directly (1997), then nothing is going to change this time. I may hate his guts and the things he does, but there's no point in me going through the motions of ranting and raving about how "I'm never going to support Prince again." ... again. I'm a lifer. I accept that. I'm always going to be interested in his music. Some of us have lived through this, up close and personal, before.
"Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you." - Kahlil Gibran
CalhounSq
a pussy right next to his mouth so he could lick it
[Edited 9/17/07 14:59pm]
I never met you, but I LOVE you & I will forever!! Thank you for being YOU - my little Princey, the best to EVER do it
Cinnamon234
Boycott Prince for what? I really think some fans are being ridiculous about the whole thing. I mean although I do think that suing youtube and ebay is not the best idea, I respect that it's Prince's choice. Whether you agree with him or not, Prince has the right to do whatever he pleases as far as his music and image is concerned.
"And When The Groove Is Dead And Gone, You Know That Love Survives, So We Can Rock Forever" RIP MJ
"Baby, that was much too fast"...Goodnight dear sweet Prince. I'll love you always
christos7
As is often the case on the internet, my original post has been misinterpreted.
I didnt start this thread as a 'call 2 arms' against Prince. I was simply posing the question as 2 whether people may or may not boycott him, as it's been suggested in many of the comments @ sites like perez.com, youtube etc over the last couple of days.
Although it may seem contradictory, I do in fact support Prince on his stance against copyright infringement in general. That is not the reason I cited as 2 why I may not continue 2 by his product.
Please reread:
"I'm of the opinion that everything that 1st got me interested in Prince, and kept me interested all these years, as an artist, has dwindled and eroded steadily over time. Primarily his subject matter.
I might stop supporting him financially as a result, 4 what it's worth."
Jamzone333
As Whitney would say, "HELL TO THE NAW!" As long as the brother is bringing it, I will buy every 45, 33 1/3, 12 Inch, single, album, VHS, Beta, Dat, CD, MP3, DVD and bootleg and then download all of it on my ipod!
"A united state of mind will never be divided
The real definition of unity is 1
People can slam their door, disagree and fight it
But how U gonna love the Father but not love the Son?
United States of Division"


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New report says South Africa is one of the most entrepreneurship friendly countries in the world
Dec. 3 2015, 2:49 pm Apr. 22 2016, 12:07 pm
In a country where strikes are frequent and unemployment is increasing, the best path to a good career may be entrepreneurship. This is what 76 percent of South Africans involved in a survey for the 2015 Amway Global Entrepreneurship Report (AGER) thinks. They say they consider starting a business as a desirable career opportunity for themselves. Good thing is 73 percent possesses the necessary skills and resources to start a business.
"There are two critical factors to becoming an entrepreneur, the first is the emergence of the entrepreneurial opportunity and the second is the intention to start a business," says Raj Parshotam, General Manager at Amway South Africa.
Amway says such opportunity exist in South Africa, making it rank the country as the second most entrepreneurship friendly country out of 44 markets considered in the report.
South Africa also ranked as one of the top ten countries (which includes India, China, Slovenia, Turkey, Thailand, Mexico, Malaysia, Brazil and Vietnam) with a large population that desires to start their own businesses.
"Through the 2015 AGER, we are exploring motivations and mindsets with the intention to ultimately create a more supportive world for entrepreneurs to start up, succeed and sustain their own businesses," Parshotam said.
"The 2015 AGER delves into the key characteristics of entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial spirit and introduces the Amway Entrepreneurial Spirit Index (AESI) which measures entrepreneurial spirit in three dimensions including desirability (whether respondents desire to start a business), feasibility (whether respondents feel prepared to start a business) and stability (whether respondents would let their social environment, such as family and friends, dissuade them from starting a business) against social pressure derived from acclaimed psychologist Icek Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior. 73 percent of South Africans show a very strong stability against social pressure, according to the 2015 AGER.
Professor Boris Urban of Wits Business School explains: "South African entrepreneurs can be described foremost as open for change. Approximately, 79 percent of South African have a positive attitude towards entrepreneurship, and are slightly more positive when compared to the international average (75 percent)".
According to him, this positive, however, is highest in those between 35 to 49 years, with the most appealing aspects to starting a business, independence from an employer and self-fulfillment.
"On the other hand, for 85 percent of South Africans, the fear of failing is an obstacle to starting a business, which is above the international average (70 percent)," says Professor Urban.
Entrepreneurship brings about the creation of new business opportunities, innovation and productivity which in turn leads to economic growth.
Parshotam notes that since it has been proven that the desire to start a business is there, "now we need to use these insights to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and provide opportunities that will see our economy grow".
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That cell-based therapies will become broadly available to treat diabetes and other diseases without the need for life-long immunosuppression.
To be a global leader in the development and clinical application of cost-effective and widespread of cell-based therapies with a focus on the treatment of diabetes without the need for immunosuppression.
The Institute for Cellular Transplantation at the University of Arizona provides an ideal environment to accomplish this undertaking. Our primary mission will be accomplished by:
Operating and maintaining a state-of-the-art infrastructure for cell-based therapies at all levels, including technologies, equipment, staff, and support functions
Manufacturing human islets of the highest standard for clinical transplantation by applying current premium conditions in pancreas procurement, islet cell isolation, islet and organ quality assessment, culture and shipment; and by conducting cutting-edge translational research and development to further enhance islet product manufacturing
Conducting innovative translational research and development in tissue engineering and bioimaging with a focus on in vitro and in vivo oxygen demand and delivery so as to optimize engraftment and further the successful clinical outcome of cellular therapies in diabetes without the need for immunosuppression
Achievement of these goals requires close interaction and partnership between groups working in engineering, biomaterials, bioimaging, molecular and cellular biology, endocrinology, immunobiology, and transplantation, and infrastructure for the manufacturing, assessment and supply of cell-based products at the highest standard.
The Institute for Cellular Transplantation at the University of Arizona focuses on translational research and development in the area of human islet cell manufacturing and transplantation, addressing the process from organ procurement to delivery of islets, with the goal of optimizing the viable islet yield (highest number of islets at the highest possible quality) per pancreas. Tissue engineering approaches to optimize islet engraftment is another major focus of the institute, which will result in further improvements in the outcome of transplantation and the ability for clinical islet allo-transplantation without the need for life-long immunosuppression. This includes the application of human stem cell derived beta cells and porcine islet xeno-transplantation, which may enable large-scale application of this therapy. We are pursuing five main focus areas for clinical research and development in islet cell-based therapy: Organ Preservation, Islet Manufacturing, Organ and Islet Quality Assessment, Islet Culture and Distribution, and Islet Engraftment.
Major focus areas of the Institute for Cellular Transplantation. These areas are currently in pre-clinical and clinical phases of development. In addition to what is depicted, there is ongoing translational research in new tools and areas of tissue engineering and imaging to further refine and optimize islet cell products and engraftment with the goal of ultimately improving the outcome of transplantation without the need for immunosuppression.
Organ Preservation
Islet Manufacturing
Organ and Islet Quality Assessment
Islet Culture and Distribution
Islet Engraftment
In current clinical protocols, islets are transplanted in the liver. It is estimated that more than 50% of the transplanted islets do not engraft and die shortly after infusion. Hypoxia, instant blood mediated inflammatory reaction, and toxicity of immunosuppressive drugs used have been implicated in this substantial islet death, resulting in the need for multiple islet transplants per recipient to achieve insulin independence. A strategy for achieving a highly efficacious, engineered islet graft and site that features localized, sustained delivery of growth and neovascularization-promoting factors, as well as anti-apoptotic and immunosuppressive agents (or cells), along with the transplanted islets is critically needed to improve islet survival and engraftment post-transplantation. In addition, a localized transplantation site has the advantage that it is more amenable to non-invasive imaging techniques for monitoring site and graft performance. Insulin-producing β-cells in islets are extremely fragile and are damaged when deprived of oxygen (hypoxia). Therefore, the ability to monitor a pre-engineered site for oxygen and vascular supply prior to the acceptance of transplanted tissue would greatly enhance the chances of treatment success. The combination of tissue engineering and bioimaging approaches is expected to accelerate the next breakthrough in islet transplantation. Development of biomaterials, probes and methods for non-invasive assessment of pre-engineered localized sites as well as health and oxygenation of transplanted tissue will also benefit other areas of regenerative medicine.
A major focus of the Papas lab current research, which is sponsored by the JDRF Encapsulation Consortium and the NIH/NIDDK, is the successful clinical transplantation of islets or stem-cell derived β-cells to reverse diabetes without the need for immunosuppression using such techniques as described above. The Papas lab utilizes novel methods for in situ oxygen delivery [via a miniaturized wearable and ultimately fully implantable (size of a few pennies), electrochemical oxygen generators] to retrievable vascularization inducing macro-encapsulation immunoisolation devices. Enhanced oxygenation to such immunoisolation devices in vivo can: 1) dramatically reduce the necessary size from that of a 40" flat-screen TV to that of a postage stamp); 2) enhance beta cell functionality (in terms of glucose-stimulated secretion within them); and 3) reduce the dose of cells required to reverse diabetes. If successfully translated to the clinic, the work in this area, conducted in collaboration with Giner Inc. and TheraCyte Inc., has the potential to have a profound impact on reducing overall costs, increasing availability, and improving short-and long-term outcomes of β-cell therapies for the treatment of diabetes while eliminating the need for immunosuppression.
Implantable "Tea Bag" in Development Releases Insulin for Children with Diabetes
Breathing New Life Into Diabetes Treatment
UA Researcher Awarded Grant for Islet Cell Transplant Work
Dr. Robert C. Johnson Appointed to the UA Institute for Cellular Transplantation
Suszynski TM, Avgoustiniatos ES, Papas KK. Intraportal islet oxygenation. J Diabetes Sci Technol. 2014;8(3):575-80.
Papas KK, Avgoustiniatos ES, Suszynski TM. Effect of oxygen supply on the size of implantable islet-containing encapsulation devices. Panminerva Med. 2016;58(1):72-7.
Since joining the University of Arizona in 2011, Dr. Papas has worked on building and integrating his team in the Institute of Cellular Transplantation (ICT) within the Department of Surgery while creating an extensive national and international network of academic and industrial collaborators. These efforts resulted in a strong, externally funded, and highly-visible research program. The total active grant amount for the entire collaborative effort totals more $16 million, with approximately $8 million directly awarded to the U of A with Dr. Papas as the PI.
The majority of these grants are funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) or the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).
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For more information on the Institute for Cellular Transplantation, call (520) 626-7167.


Shea and Syd McGee founded their eponymous design studio in a spare bedroom with no room for fabric samples. Fast forward a few years, and the duo behind Studio McGee have completed over 330 projects nationwide, launched their own online store as well as a brick-and-mortar location, and have 45 team members. They're best known for their bright and airy style that's approachable, relaxed, and unstuffy.
We interviewed Shea McGee about her work process, her career journey, and the everyday work of being a renowned designer.
How did you come to a career as a designer? My degree is in Communications, but I have always appreciated good style and design. After college, I worked in PR and discovered that it wasn't for me. Around that same time, we bought our first home and started remodeling it while I was taking a few design classes. Neighbors and friends would stop by, check on the progress, and eventually began hiring me to consult and design spaces. Once I started designing I was hooked and there was no going back.
Where do you find inspiration? Everywhere! I don't think you need to travel to exotic locales (even though that's really fun) to find inspiration - there is beauty to be found every day all around us. From the mountains in our backyard to the color palette on a book cover, you just have to look for it!
What role does Framebridge play in your business? We use Framebridge all the time to frame our clients' travel and family photographs. Whether its a grid or more eclectic pairing, almost every single home we design incorporates a gallery wall.
What's your favorite Framebridge product / service offering? I love that Framebridge has a killer frame selection that are all in good taste. So many framers offer too many options and you have to really dig to find the good ones. I also love being able to visualize the frame with the art before committing!
What is the most rewarding part of working as a designer? Install day and seeing our clients come home to completely finished house! We spend months and sometimes years working with clients to build their homes and then get a couple days to bring all the furniture in, hang the artwork, and style every surface - that's when the magic happens!
What is a normal Tuesday like for you? My Tuesdays look like me sitting in a rolling chair going from one desk to the next reviewing designs, putting together fabric schemes and editing drawings. In the middle of those meetings, I will film a little bit for our webisodes and meet with our production teams for McGee & Co. products!
What's the most challenging aspect of your work? We have SO many things going on which is very exciting, but I also want to give everything lots of attention and my best effort.
What is a design trend you're currently excited about? I'm really excited about warmer tones making a big comeback - think saffron, dusty rose, and rust.
We've also been inspired by Studio McGee's work. When our customers kept asking for a gallery wall like this one by Studio McGee, we knew we had to create a beautiful wall with bottom-weighted mats. That idea became The Triptych, one of our most popular gallery wall designs.


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Q: Understanding Bilinear Layers When having a bilinear layer in PyTorch I can't wrap my head around how the calculation is done.
Here is a small example where I tried to figure out how it works:
In:
import torch.nn as nn
B = nn.Bilinear(2, 2, 1)
print(B.weight)

Out:
Parameter containing:
tensor([[[-0.4394, -0.4920],
         [ 0.6137,  0.4174]]], requires_grad=True)

I am putting through a zero-vector and a one-vector.
In:
print(B(torch.ones(2), torch.zeros(2)))
print(B(torch.zeros(2), torch.ones(2)))

Out:
tensor([0.2175], grad_fn=<ThAddBackward>)
tensor([0.2175], grad_fn=<ThAddBackward>)

I tried adding up the weights in various ways but I'm not getting the same result.
Thanks in advance!

A: The operation done by nn.Bilinear is B(x1, x2) = x1*A*x2 + b (c.f. doc) with:

*

*A stored in nn.Bilinear.weight

*b stored in nn.Bilinear.bias
If you take into account the (optional) bias, you should obtain the expected results.

import torch
import torch.nn as nn

def manual_bilinear(x1, x2, A, b):
    return torch.mm(x1, torch.mm(A, x2)) + b

x_ones = torch.ones(2)
x_zeros = torch.zeros(2)

# ---------------------------
# With Bias:

B = nn.Bilinear(2, 2, 1)
A = B.weight
print(B.bias)
# > tensor([-0.6748], requires_grad=True)
b = B.bias

print(B(x_ones, x_zeros))
# > tensor([-0.6748], grad_fn=<ThAddBackward>)
print(manual_bilinear(x_ones.view(1, 2), x_zeros.view(2, 1), A.squeeze(), b))
# > tensor([[-0.6748]], grad_fn=<ThAddBackward>)

print(B(x_ones, x_ones))
# > tensor([-1.7684], grad_fn=<ThAddBackward>)
print(manual_bilinear(x_ones.view(1, 2), x_ones.view(2, 1), A.squeeze(), b))
# > tensor([[-1.7684]], grad_fn=<ThAddBackward>)

# ---------------------------
# Without Bias:

B = nn.Bilinear(2, 2, 1, bias=False)
A = B.weight
print(B.bias)
# None
b = torch.zeros(1)

print(B(x_ones, x_zeros))
# > tensor([0.], grad_fn=<ThAddBackward>)
print(manual_bilinear(x_ones.view(1, 2), x_zeros.view(2, 1), A.squeeze(), b))
# > tensor([0.], grad_fn=<ThAddBackward>)

print(B(x_ones, x_ones))
# > tensor([-0.7897], grad_fn=<ThAddBackward>)
print(manual_bilinear(x_ones.view(1, 2), x_ones.view(2, 1), A.squeeze(), b))
# > tensor([[-0.7897]], grad_fn=<ThAddBackward>)


Professor Hugh Craig – a pioneer of the digital humanities in Australia, a generous teacher and mentor and one of the University of Newcastle's most respected leaders - is retiring after a 40-year career.
Known for his masterful composure and intellectual acuity, Professor Craig is one of the University's most highly regarded scholars and a world leading expert in stylometry, the statistical analysis of literary stylistics. His research involves a unique mix of literary studies, statistics, linguistics and computer science, and has defined the field.
Professor John Germov, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education and Arts), said Professor Craig had made an important and sustained contribution to leadership at a School, Faculty and University level.
"He has been in all ways much more than a model university citizen. He has made a positive impact on the lives of his students and colleagues and inspired us to be the best we can be," he said.
The University Council has conferred the title of Professor Emeritus as a most fitting recognition of his outstanding academic achievements and record of service.
Professor Craig is an expert in sixteenth and seventeenth century literature, including Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Applying literary and linguistic computing techniques to early modern literary studies, he has helped to establish Australia and New Zealand as leaders in the field of Shakespearean and early modern bibliography.
As Director of the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing (CLLC) since 2001, and building on the work of his mentor, Emeritus Professor John Burrows, Professor Craig's work has demonstrated that quantitative, statistical and other computing techniques can help to analyse and appreciate literary texts.
Over the years, Professor Craig has supervised, mentored and trained some of the world's top specialists in stylometry, and today this work is internationally accepted as a way of describing writing styles empirically and establishing the authorship of disputed works.
One of Professor Craig's most significant contributions to the field has been the computer-assisted exploration of the use of the most common words in the English language, such as he", "and", "but" and "if". Analysing the frequency with which different writers use these words has enabled Professor Craig and his team to understand the unique 'signature' that defines writer's styles.
Among his findings are that Shakespeare was the likely author of a number of scenes from the Ben Jonson play, The Spanish Tragedy, and that Christopher Marlowe collaborated on parts of the Henry VI plays – reflected in the inclusion of Marlowe as co-author on the title pages of the plays for the first time in the 2016 New Oxford Shakespeare.
Professor Craig has demonstrated a remarkable openness to collaborate throughout his career, leading to the application of computational analysis beyond the work of great writers to research in the health sphere. His techniques have been applied to the analysis of biological markers in blood samples to identify a type of cancer, and in the field of speech pathology, where changes to language are being used in the early identification of Alzheimer's disease.
In his leadership roles at the University of Newcastle, Professor Craig has helped to promote a culture of excellence in the Faculty of Education and Arts and is highly regarded by everyone, from his academic and professional colleagues to his students.
He leaves the University as retiring Director of the Centre for 21st Century Humanities (since 2015), and Director of the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing. He has held a series of senior leadership roles in the Faculty of Education and Arts, including as Director of the Humanities Research Institute at Newcastle from 2010-2012, where he provided new focus and momentum for humanities research at the university; and as Deputy Head of Faculty and Assistant Dean – Research (2013-16), where he designed and implemented a new Faculty research strategy.
Under Professor Craig's oversight, the Faculty has built scale, improved its global rankings and ERA performance, and increased research funding by 10% annually, with more than 50% now sourced from industry.
He has also been a generous supervisor, with 48 HDR completions, who has helped many progress their careers through co-publishing and collaboration. He has a masterful light touch that allows his colleagues and students the freedom and confidence to explore the possibilities, to think for themselves and to find the best solutions.
For those who have worked with him, Hugh Craig will perhaps be remembered best as a connoisseur of fine wine and a good cup of tea, a lover of a good read, as self-effacing and charming, a passionate and rigorous scholar, a talented administrator, and a highly-valued mentor, colleague and friend to many at the University of Newcastle.


We witnessed the resurgence of the tube top last winter—fashion girls were revisiting the favorite top trend of their 13-year-old selves but repurposing it in adult stylings over button-downs and turtleneck knits. Come summer, the layered look has proved a bit trickier, but testing out a tube top on its own is not for the faint of heart. Leave it to Kaia Gerber to demonstrate an updated way to wear the throwback top while still appearing up-to-date and fashion-forward.
Winding down the weekend at Soho House in Malibu, Gerber paired a black tube top crop top (in a classic waffle fabrication, no less) with striped high-waisted straight-leg pants and black leather combat boots. The pants and boots infused the ensemble with a punkish vibe, illustrating a tube top's versatility if smartly styled.
Head below to see how Kaia Gerber pulls off this tricky top style.
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This Whitetail Deer Tapestry Pillow is made using advanced ClimaWeave materials, making it the perfect throw pillow for both indoor and outdoor use. Full-color, backed, corded, and poly-filled, this pillow provides ultimate comfort for you and your guests! On both sides, the pillow features a watercolor-styled illustration of a majestic and alert whitetail buck.


Ragini Nandwani (Lovely of Zee TV's Mrs. Kaushik Ki Paanch Bahuein) is a die hard Salman Khan fan and would do anything to meet the star. The day she found out that Salman is coming on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Pa Li'l Champs to promote his upcoming release, Bodyguard… Ragini was thrilled to bits and coaxed the channel authorities to make her a part of the episode.
Ragini's joy knew no bounds when she found out that the character of Salman in the movie Bodyguard is named Lovely Singh. She clapped her hands and rushed to the producers with this piece of info and rattled out a well thought out explanation as to why she should be made a part of the show.
On the D Day, the usually chirpy actress arrived on the sets of Li'l Champs with a thousand butterflies in her stomach. She ensured her make-up was in place and she was dressed appropriately for the occasion not to mention that even the mirrors knew what she wanted to tell Salman when she meets him.
Ragini apologized profusely to the producers for her folly but nobody scolded her, rather laughed at her expense on how she looked so awkward when Salman spread his arms to give her a huge hug but all she could manage was stand near his side nervous that she would faint at being so close to him!
Ragini would definitely remember this moment all her life as a bitter sweet symphony moment.


The Counterfeitersis a 1925 novel by French Nobel laureate André Gide. It's about the decay of morals and is a stunning investigation into the role of the writer as an artist. The book is a modernist piece, toying with time and perspective, moving along unexpectedly, always aiming to show the reader the true development of the story.
There is a very nonchalant treatment of homosexuality, with many characters falling in and out of love with one another, despite social, moral or gender barriers. Some of the love is perverse, and some of it is tragic.
It's the story of a group of families entwined by their passions. We see how the odious aspects of life influence the three Molinier brothers. We watch the struggle between the two opposing authors, the wicked Comte de Passavant and the ever-searching Edouard. With many breathtaking moments, the novel paints a deep portrait of the struggle to persevere through life and all it has to offer.


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Can Low Carb Affect Your Hormones?
Short answer: Yes. But this can vary widely by individual and can be both positive or negative, depending on the person.
The interesting factor here, is that when these people have their hormones tested, most thyroid panels will come back normal (because most doctors only test Thyroid Stimulating Hormone or TSH and T4 hormones).
Interestingly, even for those who have completely normal blood results, adding a lot (like Standard American Diet a lot) of carbs back to the diet will make these symptoms go away. This obviously means that low-carb is bad for these individuals…. right? Nope! And actually could mean quite the opposite.
I've noticed with clients that those with the worst "carb flu" in the beginning either had a lot of weight to lose or had an underlying hormone imbalance, and that logically, these people would benefit the most from going low-carb in the long run. Unfortunately, because of the carb flu, these people often had a to take a gradual path to low-carb, or the symptoms would be overwhelming and they'd be overly fatigued.
For a long time, I considered this slow-transition a problem, and was able to find some things (adding more natural salt into the diet, taking magnesium and gelatin, etc.) that made the transitions easier.


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Heracleum acuminatum är en flockblommig växtart som beskrevs av Johann Christoph Schleicher. Heracleum acuminatum ingår i släktet lokor, och familjen flockblommiga växter. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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In 1927/28 werd het veertiende voetbalkampioenschap van Oost-Thüringen gespeeld, dat georganiseerd werd door de Midden-Duitse voetbalbond. SC Apolda doorbrak de hegemonie van Jena en werd kampioen en plaatste zich voor de Midden-Duitse eindronde. De club versloeg FC Viktoria 1904 Güsten, VfL 1911 Bitterfeld en Chemnitzer BC. In de halve finale ging de club echter met de billen bloot en verloor met 16:1 van Dresdner SC.

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Więzadło kulszowo-udowe (więzadło kulszowo-torebkowe) (łac. ligamentum ischiofemorale; ligamentum ischiocapsulare) – jedno z więzadeł stawu biodrowego znajdujące się na jego tylnej ścianie.

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Swój początek bierze na tylnym brzegu panewki kości kulszowej. Biegnie skośnie ku górze i bocznie. Część włókien dochodzi do przedniego brzegu krętarza większego kości udowej, a pozostała splata się z warstwą okrężną.

Funkcje
 ograniczanie przywodzenia uda
 hamowanie obrotu uda (w położeniu zgięciowym) do wewnątrz

Bibliografia
 A. Bochenek, M. Reicher, Anatomia człowieka, Warszawa, Państwowy Zakład Wydawnictw Lekarskich, 1990, s. 582-583,

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Width and depth of resection for small colorectal polyps
On April 11, 2018 March 29, 2018 By giejournalIn GIE, Investigations
Post written by Sho Suzuki, MD, PhD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
We conducted this prospective, randomized, exploratory study to investigate the resection width and depth achieved by cold snare polypectomy (CSP) for small colorectal polyps compared to those achieved by hot snare polypectomy (HSP).
CSP was recently proposed as the primary technique for the resection of small colorectal polyps instead of HSP or endoscopic mucosal resection because of its low risk of adverse events. The resection width and depth achieved by polypectomy is associated with both curability and safety of polypectomy for colorectal tumors. However, the resection width and depth achieved by CSP compared to those achieved by HSP are still unknown.
This study showed that the mucosal defect size immediately after CSP was significantly larger than that after HSP, and it decreased within 1 day after CSP, while it increased for HSP. Additionally, the resection depth achieved by CSP was significantly more superficial than that achieved by HSP; CSP achieved resected submucosal tissue in only 24% cases, while HSP achieved resected submucosal tissue in over 80% of cases. However, both CSP and HSP successfully resected muscularis mucosa tissue in over 90% of cases in each group. These results suggest that CSP has sufficient curability for sub-centimeter colorectal polyps up to high-grade dysplasia, which is equivalent to HSP, and could account for a lower risk of adverse events such as bleeding and perforation after CSP compared to that after HSP. Thus, CSP is a reasonable treatment for sub-centimeter sized colorectal polyps.
Figure 2. Endoscopic and histologic findings after cold snare polypectomy. A, A rectal polyp 9 mm in size (1 black or silver scale of measure device is 2 mm). B, Diameter of the mucosal defect immediately after cold snare polypectomy was 12 mm. C, Diameter of the mucosal defect 1 day later decreased to 8 mm. D, The resected specimen contained only muscularis mucosa tissue. E, The thickness of submucosal tissue was 0 μm.
Cold snare polypectomycolorectal polypsEndoscopygastrointestinal endoscopyGIE
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Super moist and delicious peanut butter plum brownies that will fill your kitchen with fall flavours. It is an easy-to-make recipe that even beginners can manage with.
Everyone craves for comfort food – some more than others. All of you know what happens when you munch on a conventional brownie – you'll feel bad, guilty, and gain weight.
Can food be comforting and healthy at the same time? I have good news for you – you can have a piece or even more of your brownie without feeling regret or putting on weight.
Take a look at the table I drew to compare conventional brownie (butter, sugar, eggs, refined flour) and Nutriplanet's plant based whole food brownie.
You could have almost three pieces of Nutriplanet's whole food brownie for the amount of calories in a piece of conventional brownie.
You'd need to eat seven pieces of whole food brownie to get the same amount of fat you'd be getting from only one piece of conventional one. Moreover, there is 8.5 times more saturated fat in the conventional brownie.
With a lot of plums on market I tried the plum-version of my delicious brownie – it only got yummier! The juicy plum halves are just a delight in the middle of the cake! And the cayenne just adds the necessary extra spice.
In a small bowl, cover the chopped dates with 200ml water and let soak for at least 15 minutes.
In a big bowl, mix together the flours, baking powder, carob powder, cacao powder, and cayenne pepper.
Place the dates with the soak water, banana, peanut butter, and coconut milk into a blender and blend until smooth. Add applesauce and blend again.
Add this date mixture to the bowl of dry ingredients, and mix with spoon until all the dry ingredients have disappeared.
Spoon half of the batter into a round or square baking tin (bottom lined with parchment paper and sides greased with a bit of coconut oil).
Cover the batter with plum halves.
Pour the rest of the batter onto the plums and even with spoon.
Heat oven to 350 F (175 C). Bake for 30-35 minutes. Let cool in the tin for at least 15 to 20 minutes before removing.
Make your own apple sauce – peal 4-5 small or 3 big apples and boil in a bit of water for 5 minutes. Let cool.
If you use tartrate baking powder (like I did), add 10 g to the dry ingredients.
If you do not have oat flour, you can measure 155 g of oats and grind them into flour.
Store the leftover brownie pieces in freezer. Heat up in oven whenever needed.
Nutritional info (76g piece, 1/16 of the cake): 139 kcal, 23.6g carbohydrates, 3.35g fats, 3.53g protein, 3.72g fiber.


Confidence among local businesses has improved during the first half of 2016 compared with the same period last year. This is according to a survey Bank of Botswana (BoB) known as Business Expectation Survey (BES), the results of which were published this week. The survey, which is carried twice a year by the central bank, indicates that optimism among businesses strengthened in the first half of the year and is expected to rise further in the survey horizon for both domestic market-oriented firms and exporters. It is indicated that optimism among businesses improved from a confidence level of 43 percent in the second half of 2016, to 48 percent for the current survey period, which is the first half of 2017. While growth in optimism might be encouraging, it however emerged that firms seem to have developed some uneasiness with the business conditions in the first half of the year, as their confidence level for the period is said to have declined by three percent compared to their perceptions about the same period in the previous survey. But firms are said to have not lost hope and expect a better future as far as business is concerned with business confidence level of 55 percent for the second half of the year and 67 percent for the 12-month period to June 2018. Domestic-oriented businesses confidence stood at 48 percent during the first half of the year, an increase from 43 percent registered in the last part of last year. Looking ahead, the level of optimism improves to 56 percent in H2:2017 and 65 percent in the year to June 2018, the survey indicates.
Similarly, it says the confidence level of export-oriented businesses increased from 42 percent in the second half of 2016 to 50 percent in the second first half of this year and the figures are expected to remain the same during the second half of the year before recovering remarkably to 75 percent in the second half of the year going well into the first half of 2018. The expected upswing in business confidence for 2017 and the first half of 2018, the report says is due to a more positive outlook by both export and domestic-oriented businesses. In another interesting development, local businesses are said to have indicated preference to borrow from South Africa to finance their planned capital investments for the second half of 2017 and the 12-month period to June next year, with net balances of 8.7 percent to 7.3 percent respectively while remaining almost neutral about borrowing from elsewhere in both periods. Reacting to this when addressing the media this week, BoB Governor Moses Pelaelo said this might be due to the fact that most companies operating here are most cases subsidiaries or associates or South Africa- based businesses.
Firms are reportedly skeptical about borrowing from the domestic market as reflected in a net balance of -4.9 percent in the first half of 2017, which worsens to -12.8 percent in the longer horizon, from the second half of the year into the first half of 2018. The above, the survey says, partly explains the decline in growth of business credit by domestic commercial banks during the first quarter of 2017. The central bank says this is contrary to the anticipated reduction in domestic interests' rates by the business community, which is consistent with the reduction in the Bank Rate from 6 percent to 5.5 percent since August 2016. The survey further says sentiment about easy access to domestic credit remains weak, worsening from a net balance of 9 percent in the second half of 2016 to 6 percent in the first half of 2017 and says this could explain weaker expectations about domestic borrowing.


1800 Coconut Tequila, Pineapple Juice and a splash of Sprite.
Herradura Reposado Tequila, Agave Nectar, Fresh Lime and a splash of OJ.
Bacardi Wolf Berry Rum, Peach Schnapps, Blue Curacao, Cranberry and Sour Mix.
Bacardi Dragon Berry Rum, Cranberry Juice, Sour Mix and 7Up.
Bacardi Arctic Grape Rum, Blue Curacao, Sour Mix, Sprite and a squeeze of lemon.
Bacardi Black Razz Rum, Raspberry Liquor, Sour and Cranberry.
Three Olives Dude Vodka dropped into a half of Cider.
Three Olive Loopy Vodka, Banana Liquor, Splash of Milk. Splash of Sprite, Grenadine. Garnished with crushed fruit cereal on the rim.
Three Olives Cherry Vodka, Three Olives Vanilla Vodka, Cola. Garnished with a cherry.
Three Olives RangTang Vodka, Licor 43, OJ, Sour and Pineapple. Garnished with a cherry.
Three Olives Grape Vodka, Razz Matazz, Lemonade and Sprite.
Three Olives, Cake Vodka, Three Olives Whipped Cream Vodka, White Chocolate Liquor, Milk. Garnished with rainbow sprinkles.
Three Olives Cherry Vodka, Three Olives Cake Vodka, Butterscotch Schnapps, Cranberry, Splash Milk (Cheery Garnish).
Three Olives Vodka, chilled and served straight up.
Three Olives Pomegranate Vodka and Pomegranate Liqueur.
Three Olives Vanilla Vodka, Coconut Rum, Splash of Pineapple and Sour Mix.
Three Olives Whipped Cream Vodka, Orange and Cranberry juice.
Three Olives Grape Vodka, Three Olive Vanilla Vodka and a splash of cranberry juice.
Three Olive Cherry Vodka, Triple Sec, Cranberry Juice and a splash of lime.
El Jimardo Tequila, Red Bull and Watermelon Schnapps.
Early Times Fire Eater, Apple Liqueur and Cranberry Juice.
Three Olives Whipped Vodka and Hazelnut Liqueur.
Three Olives Dude Vodka, Triple Sec, splash of Sour Mix and Lemon-Lime Soda.
Estancia Pinot Noir, Bogle Merlot, 14 Hands Cabernet Sauvignon, Blackstone Merlot, J. Lohr Cabernet Sauvignon and Mark West Pinot Noir.
Murphy Goode Sauvignon Blanc, Hess Select Chardonnay, Kendall Jackson Chardonnay, Nobilio Sauvignon Blac and Relax Reisling.
Evie's Tavern University has a full menu of appetizers, salads, sandwiches, pizza and more to satisfy your appetite; large fully stocked bar; and the friendliest staff on the Parkway. Come watch your favorite sporting event on one of our 19 LED TV's or challenge a friend to a game of pool or a round of golf on our Golden T. Enjoy outside dining under our covered patio. We have live entertainment on Friday night. This location is at the entrance to Palm Aire at University Parkway and Whitfield Avenue.


A group of Hollywood producers travels to Uruguay to buy an antique locomotive train that they feel would be perfect for a new picture. In the small town where the train is located, locals thrill to news of the purchase. Members of the Friends of the Railroad Association, however, are so incensed that they devise a plan to block the locomotive's sale by seizing the train -- with the police in hot pursuit.


Three strangers from Enköping, Sweden, will take the Roadburn stage next April. Maybe you heard Stuck in Motion's self-titled debut when it was released this past summer, and maybe you didn't, but if their playing Roadburn is your introduction, then we're all the more thrilled to bring them to you in Tilburg.
Like any movement over time, there are those who simply go through the hallmarks of a style without adding anything to it. Stuck in Motion do precisely the opposite. They present a '70s-loyalist heavy rock that brims with instrumental chemistry and soul alike, and has a laid back vibe all the while that's too inviting to refuse. They probably didn't set out to do so, but they've wound up proving that there's vibrancy in classic forms, and the energy they bring to bear while remaining so poised in the delivery and warm in tone makes their sound immediately their own.
So maybe the album's flown under your radar. Well, there's still plenty of time to get up to speed before April comes around, so hit up their Bandcamp or do whatever you have to do to get filled in and grab a vinyl before they're gone, because it's hard to imagine the pressing will last before Enköping's best kept secret make their way to Roadburn.


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The Ideological Battle for America Begins Here
In Economics, Elections, Front Page, US Politics by Allen West July 5, 2019
Folks, you have heard me say it a number of times: the ideological battle for America is here, in Texas. It is the reason I wrote Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death, and it is the reason that I am exploring the possibility of becoming the Chair of the Republican Party of Texas (RPT).
If you need proof, look no further than this article, posted yesterday by The Hill:
"There is a significant and growing probability that Texas will become the most consequential swing state in presidential and senatorial elections to come. A campaign in the Lone Star State could cost President Trump the White House next year, even if Texas voters will ultimately choose him.
A powerful combination of demographic forces are propelling Texas from one of the reddest states in the union into a swing state. Democrats will likely make an outside play in Texas ahead of 2020, along with a full run for its projected 41 electoral votes. Texas also stands to gain three seats in Congress after the next census, making it a crucial state for both parties."
And, this, from The Economist:
"In the real version of America many of the biggest political choices are made not in Washington but by the states—and by two of them in particular.
Texas and California are the biggest, brashest, most important states in the union, each equally convinced that it is the future. For the past few decades they have been heading in opposite directions, creating an experiment that reveals whether America works better as a low-tax, low-regulation place in which government makes little provision for its citizens (Texas), or as a high-tax, highly regulated one in which it is the government's role to tackle problems, such as climate change, that might ordinarily be considered the job of the federal government (California). Given the long-running political dysfunction in Washington, the results will determine what sort of country America becomes almost as much as the victor of the next presidential election will."
My assertions have not been mere hyperbole. Keeping Texas red is of vital importance to this nation. This is a critical time for the Lone Star State, and for our country.
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During his 22 year career in the United States Army, Lieutenant Colonel West served in several combat zones and received many honors including a Bronze Star, three Meritorious Service Medals, three Army Commendation Medals, one with Valor device, and a Valorous Unit Award.
In November of 2010, Allen was elected to the United States Congress, representing Florida's 22nd District. In July of 2020, Mr. West was elected Chair of the Republican Party of Texas.
West is a commissioned officer in the Texas State Guard. He's a Newsmax Contributor, former Director of the Booker T. Washington Initiative at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Senior Fellow at the Media Research Center, and author of Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin's Journey to Family, Faith and Freedom, Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death, and We Can Overcome: An American Black Conservative Manifesto.
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Blueprint of a Cocktail class will teach you how to shake, stir, strain and enjoy timeless drinks.
Pro tip 1: You can't put lemon juice in a Manhattan and stir it or it will separate. This class will teach you which drinks should be shaken vs. stirred.
Pro tip 2: Always strain your drink after shaking – you want to remove any citric pulp and ice chips that are left over as they'll change the flavor and dilute the drink, respectively.
TRUCKEE, Calif. — Truckee Tavern and Grill is helping visitors not only learn to make incredible cocktails at home, but also feel more comfortable when ordering from the bar.
The business' "Blueprint of a Cocktail" course teaches simple, executable formulas with proper ratios and ingredients so anyone can create a timeless beverage with the freedom to modify as they choose.
Upon entering the class, you take your seat at the bar alongside nine other excited students. One of my classmates was Amy Smith, a local attending her first class as well.
Throughout the class, students enjoy small bites from charcuterie boards as they taste and learn to make six different cocktails.
In front of you is a laminated, illustrated cocktail index with proper measurements for the recipes discussed in class that participants get to take home.
Beside the cocktail index place mat is a lovely array of fun cocktail modifiers you can add to the cocktails, including a glass dropper bottle of the Tavern's house-made aromatic bitters, also for keeps.
The bar's bitters are made through a long process, which includes adding small charred pieces of the barrel into the bitters to enhance their special blend of herbs and spices, rather than aging the bitters' concoction in the barrel itself.
So long as you stick to the method of balances and ratios of liquor to acid to sugar to modifiers like bitters or aromas from citrus peels, you can virtually mix any flavor. The class teaches a "cocktail algorithm," if you will, to create a nearly-perfect drink from any spirit, sweet, bitter, sour and water ingredient you choose.
The final phase of the class has teams of two choose various ingredients from each cocktail category to experiment with their own new flavors (and Dierks was right, our tequila-pear liqueur-Sherry combo was a solid 7 out of 10).
In the hour-and-a-half social lesson, I got to meet fun and kind locals, learned to make classic cocktails that would make even my grandfather proud, and can say I have a much better understanding of balancing flavors.
The next time we find ourselves ordering a nice drink from the bar, we know what to look for, which Dierks says can be a funny situation.
"Now you're all going to see someone shake your drink without straining the cubes, and it'll drive you crazy," he said.
The Blueprint of the Cocktail class takes place every Saturday from 6-7:30 p.m. at Truckee Tavern and Grill, located upstairs at 10118 Donner Pass Road in Historic Downtown Truckee. Space is limited; visit truckeetavern.com or call 530-587-3766 to learn more.


The vibrant cultural quarter of Lincoln is home to one of the greatest Cathedrals in Europe. Considered one of the hidden gems of Britain, Lincoln is a medieval city built on the site of a major Roman settlement. Visitors today can see the past, present and future combined in a magnificent setting.
The Cathedral possess one of the four remaining original Magna Carta from 1215 which it displays in the Castle nearby, drawing people from across the world to see the 'birth certificate of democracy'.
This iconic building houses breathtaking architecture, a medieval library, the shrine of St.Hugh, the tomb of Katherine Swynford and many more hidden treasures.
The Cathedral is open daily and tours can be booked on arrival.


Situated close to the Costa Smeralda and enjoying lovely sea views, Residence Rocce Sarde comprises of just 10 attractive self catering apartments with a shared pool and use of hotel facilities.
The popular Residence Oasis is well situated, just a short transfer from the airport and across the road from the long white sandy beach leading to Alghero town.
"Wonderful villa. It was just the right size, location and the pool was wonderful. The support from the local rep was wonderful in the sense that he was there when needed and responded efficiently but you never felt you were under constant supervision."


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Unused Fiber-Optic Cables Repurposed as Seismic Sensors
So-called dark fiber can serve as regional seismic activity monitors and also detect earthquakes thousands of kilometers away, according to new research.
A bundle of fiber-optic cables. Credit: iStock.com/tiero
By Kimberly M. S. Cartier 8 March 2019
During the 1990s, telecommunications companies installed thousands of kilometers of fiber-optic cables underground in anticipation of the dot-com boom. What can we do now with all of that unused dark fiber? Turn it into an extensive seismic activity sensor, according to a recent study.
The team used a relatively new technique called distributed acoustic sensing, or DAS, to measure how seismic waves affect the underground cables. "The neat thing about the technique is that you can use it to measure seismic waveforms at a very large number of locations on an existing fiber," Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, lead author on the study, told Eos. "Dark fiber is just a term for fiber that has been installed as part of a network but isn't currently used for communications," he explained.
When applied to existing dark-fiber networks, DAS gives the same data at a lower cost than a comparable number of above-ground seismic stations, he said.
Earthquakes Near and Far
In a fiber-optic cable, pulses of light that contain data travel along glass or plastic fibers. The fibers are designed to perfectly reflect and trap the signal within the filaments, but if a filament has any imperfections, a small amount of light scatters back toward the source. By studying changes to the backscattered light in underground cables, scientists can infer how movement in the ground—say, from seismic waves—strains the fibers. This technique, DAS, has been used to study localized seismic activity in Alaska, California, and Iceland.
Ajo-Franklin, who is a geophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., and his team have now demonstrated that DAS can detect and monitor seismic activity across a much larger region and also detect distant quakes. "We knew that we could do distributed acoustic sensing, and we knew the fiber was in the ground, so we had a good feeling that we would be able to record something," he said. "The big question was what the quality of the data would be and what kind of applications it could be used for."
The researchers studied a 27-kilometer stretch of dark fiber near Sacramento, Calif. They recorded 7 months of passive seismic data and got measurements of the seismic wave field 500 times per second every 2 meters along the cable.
The sampling rate let the researchers monitor both low- and high-frequency seismic activity. With this, the researchers detected earthquakes that ranged from 4.4 to 8.1 in magnitude and some that were more than 7,700 kilometers away. They looked closely at the M8.2 earthquake that struck Chiapas, Mexico, in September 2017 to measure postevent seismic activity at low frequencies.
The team used ambient seismic noise from cars, trucks, and a nearby train line to map the subsurface.
The team also used ambient seismic noise from cars, trucks, and a nearby train line to map the subsurface. "There's a train that runs colinear to the cable, and we were using energy from that train to do seismic imaging underneath the cable," said Ajo-Franklin. The high spatial density of the measurements let the researchers create a 2-D map of the seismic wave field beneath different sections of cable and also measure the depth of groundwater along the fiber.
The team published these results last month in Scientific Reports.
Seismic Networks of Opportunity
The results show that "there is quite a bit more variability in the subsurface than what could have been observed through direct measurements in a well," according to Eileen Martin, an assistant professor of computational modeling at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg who was not involved with the research. "It would not be affordable to drill test wells with this kind of [spatial] density, and the ambient noise analysis of dark fiber provided a cost-effective solution to resolve this subsurface variability," she told Eos.
"DAS can unlock the telecommunications infrastructure to be seismic networks of opportunity on local and regional scales."
This study "is a roadmap to applying DAS technology," Herbert Wang, a professor of geomechanics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, told Eos. "DAS can unlock the telecommunications infrastructure to be seismic networks of opportunity on local and regional scales and maybe on up to continental and ocean-basin scales," said Wang, who was not involved with this study.
The technique's potential application to earthquake monitoring is "compelling," Martin said. "These high-density, continuous measurements increase the likelihood that a sensor is near any small earthquake source. This hopefully means finding more small earthquakes and fixing the current biases in small quake observation counts, [as well as] faster detection of earthquakes for early earthquake warning systems."
A Versatile Seismic Tool
The team noted that the combination of dark-fiber networks and DAS in general could provide high-quality monitoring for many seismically interesting phenomena. Subsurface hydrology, melting ice sheets, and maybe even geodetic studies might benefit from dark-fiber seismology, Ajo-Franklin said.
Ajo-Franklin said that DAS also shows a lot of potential for measuring seismic activity offshore. Many seismically active areas 20 to 30 kilometers offshore don't have any offshore monitoring, he said, but fiber cables installed offshore could help monitor those areas in situ.
Dark-fiber networks preferentially run beneath highways and train tracks, Ajo-Franklin noted, so DAS would be particularly useful for studying subsurface geology and seismology in urban areas. Seismology with DAS could also be beneficial in areas that are not tectonically active but experience induced seismicity from human activity, he said.
"There's a lot of fiber already in the ground for telecom applications," Ajo-Franklin said. "Fiber with no information on it is not very valuable at all."
—Kimberly M. S. Cartier (@AstroKimCartier), Staff Writer
Citation: Cartier, K. M. S. (2019), Unused fiber-optic cables repurposed as seismic sensors, Eos, 100, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EO118025. Published on 08 March 2019.
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