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Rio is made dirty by this weak verdict
Rebecca Adlington, double Olympic champion
The Beijing star
The International Olympic Committee's decision means that it is not going to be a clean Games in Rio, which is truly disappointing.
Russia should be gone. I do feel sorry for the athletes who have not cheated but it is about sending out a message.
The IOC has a duty of care to deliver a clean environment. We still haven't got there
A lot of people are persuaded to do drugs if they think that is somehow normal. If it had repercussions such as blanket bans, those people who might have been persuaded to stray would question it a lot more.
It is great that the IOC has ruled that Russian athletes cannot compete in Rio if they have served a doping ban.
But I also think it is a weak decision, especially when the IOC is then putting trust in the…


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Professor Wears Helmet, Body Armor to Class to Protest Campus Carry
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9 Aug 2017 San Antonio, TX
San Antonio College professor Charles K. Smith wore body armor to class to protest a law allowing concealed carry permit holders to carry their guns on campus for self-defense.
According to Daily Mail, Smith told mySA.com, "It definitely makes me feel uneasy that there are more firearms on campus than there should be. Dressing this way was just a statement on how I felt." He added, "'I realize students were carrying guns on campus illegally, but now it's legal to do so, it increases the chances of something happening,'
Smith's suggestion that the possibility of "something happening" increases post-campus carry is demonstrably false. For example, campus carry has been the law of the land in Colorado since 2003, and where are the crimes, classroom shootouts, and mayhem the left predicted? Such events have not occurred. Utah adopted campus carry shortly after Colorado and where are the on-campus crimes, classroom violence, and bloodshed the left predicted? Again, it has not happened.
Writing in The Orange County Register, Crime Prevention Research Center's John Lott pointed out the safety record with legal guns on campus even extends to armed teachers on K-12 campuses. He traced school carry at K-12 schools beginning in the 1990s until now and showed that in all those decades, the only incident was an accidental discharge in Utah in 2014. That is one incident in decades.
Currently, "Twenty-five states now allow teachers and staff to carry [at K-12 schools], though the rules vary. Utah, along with Alabama, New Hampshire and parts of Oregon, allows teachers and staff to carry at their own discretion. Other states require the approval of the superintendent or school board. In Ohio, at least 40 school districts allow teachers to carry."
As for campus carry at universities and colleges, nine states prohibit public colleges and universities from banning it. Those are Colorado, Utah, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Oregon, Texas, Idaho, Kansas, and Georgia. And campus carry will take effect in Arkansas on September 15, 2017, prohibiting public colleges and universities from barring concealed carry on campus in that state.
Where are the crimes? Where are the mishaps on campuses in these states? Again, no where to be seen.
Concealed carry permit holders are among the most law-abiding of law-abiding citizens, and the campus carry safety record stands as proof. As for professor Smith, it would be wiser for his colleagues in non-campus carry states to wear helmets and body armor to class, as gun-free campuses are the ones where heart-wrenching, high profile attacks have historically occurred.
AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and host of Bullets with AWR Hawkins, a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
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The Win32_TerminalService class provides Terminal Service load balancing indicators.
WMI Provider value is Win32_WIN32_TERMINALSERVICE_Prov.
The AcceptPause property indicates whether the service can be paused.
Values: TRUE or FALSE. A value of TRUE indicates the service can be paused.
The AcceptStop property indicates whether the service can be stopped.
Values: TRUE or FALSE. A value of TRUE indicates the service can be stopped.
The CheckPoint property specifies a value that the service increments periodically to report its progress during a lengthy start, stop, pause, or continue operation. For example, the service should increment this value as it completes each step of its initialization when it is starting up. The user interface program that invoked the operation on the service uses this value to track the progress of the service during a lengthy operation. This value is not valid and should be zero when the service does not have a start, stop, pause, or continue operation pending.
The DesktopInteract property indicates whether the service can create or communicate with windows on the desktop.
Values: TRUE or FALSE. A value of TRUE indicates the service can create or communicate with windows on the desktop.
The number of disconnected sessions on this server. These sessions may still be actively consuming server resources, however they currently have no network.
The DisplayName property indicates the display name of the service. This string has a maximum length of 256 characters. The name is case-preserved in the Service Control Manager. DisplayName comparisons are always case-insensitive.
If this service fails to start during startup, the ErrorControl property specifies the severity of the error. The value indicates the action taken by the startup program if failure occurs. All errors are logged by the computer system. The computer system does not notify the user of "Ignore" errors. With "Normal" errors the user is notified. With "Severe" errors, the system is restarted with the last-known-good configuration. Finally, on"Critical" errors the system attempts to restart with a good configuration.
The ExitCode property specifies a Win32 error code defining any problems encountered in starting or stopping the service. This property is set to ERROR_SERVICE_SPECIFIC_ERROR (1066) when the error is unique to the service represented by this class, and information about the error is available in the ServiceSpecificExitCode member. The service sets this value to NO_ERROR when running, and again upon normal termination.
The PathName property contains the fully qualified path to the service binary file that implements the service.
The ProcessId property specifies the process identifier of the service.
The ServiceSpecificExitCode property specifies a service-specific error code for errors that occur while the service is either starting or stopping. The exit codes are defined by the service represented by this class. This value is only set when the ExitCodeproperty value is ERROR_SERVICE_SPECIFIC_ERROR, 1066.
The ServiceType property supplies the type of service provided to calling processes.
The StartMode property indicates the start mode of the Win32 base service. "Boot" specifies a device driver started by the operating system loader. This value is valid only for driver services. "System" specifies a device driver started by the IoInitSystem function. This value is valid only for driver services. "Automatic" specifies a service to be started automatically by the service control manager during system startup. "Manual" specifies a service to be started by the service control manager when a process calls the StartService function. "Disabled" specifies a service that can no longer be started.
The StartName property indicates the account name under which the service runs. Depending on the service type, the account name may be in the form of "DomainName\Username". The service process will be logged using one of these two forms when it runs. If the account belongs to the built-in domain, ".\Username" can be specified. If NULL is specified, the service will be logged on as the LocalSystem account. For kernel or system level drivers, StartName contains the driver object name (that is, \FileSystem\Rdr or \Driver\Xns) which the input and output (I/O) system uses to load the device driver. Additionally, if NULL is specified, the driver runs with a default object name created by the I/O system based on the service name.
The State property indicates the current state of the base service.
The TagId property specifies a unique tag value for this service in the group. A value of 0 indicates that the service has not been assigned a tag. A tag can be used for ordering service startup within a load order group by specifying a tag order vector in the registry located at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\GroupOrderList. Tags are only evaluated for Kernel Driver and File System Driver start type services that have "Boot" or "System" start modes.
The total number of sessions on this server. This includes both connected and disconnected sessions.
The WaitHint property specifies the estimated time required (in milliseconds) for a pending start, stop, pause, or continue operation. After the specified amount of time has elapsed, the service makes its next call to the SetServiceStatus function with either an incremented CheckPoint value or a change in Current State. If the amount of time specified by WaitHint passes, and CheckPoint has not been incremented, or the Current State has not changed, the service control manager or service control program assumes that an error has occurred.
0 - The request was accepted.
1 - The request is not supported.
2 - The user did not have the necessary access.
3 - The service cannot be stopped because other services that are running are dependent on it.
4 - The requested control code is not valid, or it is unacceptable to the service.
5 - The requested control code cannot be sent to the service because the state of the service (Win32_BaseService:State) is equal to 0, 1, or 2.
6 - The service has not been started.
7 - The service did not respond to the start request in a timely fashion.
8 - Unknown failure when starting the service.
9 - The directory path to the service executable was not found.
10 - The service is already running.
11 - The database to add a new service is locked.
12 - A dependency for which this service relies on has been removed from the system.
13 - The service failed to find the service needed from a dependent service.
14 - The service has been disabled from the system.
15 - The service does not have the correct authentication to run on the system.
16 - This service is being removed from the system.
17 - There is no execution thread for the service.
18 - There are circular dependencies when starting the service.
19 - There is a service running under the same name.
20 - There are invalid characters in the name of the service.
21 - Invalid parameters have been passed to the service.
22 - The account, which this service is to run under is either invalid or lacks the permissions to run the service.
23 - The service exists in the database of services available from the system.
24 - The service is currently paused in the system.
The Change method modifies a service. The Win32_LoadOrderGroup parameter represents a grouping of system services defining execution dependencies. The services must be initiated in the order specified by the Load Order Group as the services are dependent on each other. These dependent services require the presence of the antecedent services in order to function correctly.
Retrieves a structural representation of the service's security descriptor.


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Beauchêne is an island of contradictions.
Named for its French discoverer whose name means "beautiful oak," the island is not only devoid of trees, but partially devoid of all vegetation, it's southern half resembling a rock-strewn sci-fi movie set.
Lying 30 miles south of Sea Lion Island, Beauchêne is the most remote of the Falklands. It has been a formal nature reserve for 46 years. Its position puts it closer to the sub-Antarctic Falkland Current than any other point of the archipelago. These characteristics make it interesting. The isolation makes it a challenge.
But in early 2010, it was visited by the Shallow Marine Surveys Group (SMSG).
Listed by Wikipedia as "uninhabited", it is nearly impossible to navigate through its countless inhabitants, which include 109,000 breeding pairs of black-browed albatross, 71,000 pairs of rockhopper penguins and 400 pairs of gentoo penguins (source: Falklands Conservation 2005 census)
Once locally exterminated by sealers, the island's sea lions greet visiting boats with curiosity and circle divers with playful enthusiasm.
Funded by the Overseas Territories Environment Program with contributions from the Environmental Studies Budget and the Antarctic Research Trust, thirteen scientists and divers used the Golden Fleece as a platform from which to survey coastal bird populations and the underwater environment of the southern islands.
The Golden Fleece anchors off the coast of the 1.75 km2 island
Expectations for birdlife on Beauchêne were confirmed by coastal surveys conducted by expedition members Alastair Wilson and Celine Blanchard. As a rat-free island, it hosted healthy populations of Cobb's wrens and tussacbirds. As a seabird outpost, the penguin and albatross colonies were a riot of cacophonous life. Notably absent were ducks, geese, and other wading birds. But then also notably absent were the sandy beaches and shallow coastal slopes they inhabit.
Tussac and black-browed albatross dominate the northern half of Beauchêne.
What instead dominated were cube-shaped boulders and towering cliffs. Striking in form above the water, they plunged dramatically below the waves as well. Though graced with a fine weather window and relatively low-lying seas, the Golden Fleece was nevertheless unable to anchor off the steep island sides at many sites, leaving surveyors to conduct drift dives instead.
Possibly indicative of an inshore nursery habitat, a 15 cm juvenile cat shark (Schroederichthys bivius) is one of many seen in the sandy waters of Sea Lion Island.
Swimming through waters clearer than elsewhere in the Falklands, surveyors recorded numerous species previously unseen in the archipelago, some of which are likely to be new to science. Systematic counts of the species demonstrated that even "common" Falklands' species were different at Beauchêne, as some normally abundant species like large sea urchins were rare, while other species like small batstars not usually seen around the main islands were plentiful.
For the two UK sponge specialists on the expedition, the caves and steep walls of Beauchêne were ideal collection areas. They photographed and sampled over 200 specimens for analysis. Subsequent laboratory work will determine how many of these have never before been documented in the Falklands, or in the world.
One of the six species of nudibranchs not previously documented in the Falklands
In addition to the ecological data collected through survey work, over 1400 photographs and 70 specimens were brought back to Stanley to be included in SMSG collections. The specimens mostly represent unknown species which will be identified using guides from throughout the Southern Ocean or in some cases shipped to international specialists. The photographs will be compiled into an upcoming underwater field guide as well as reports on the species, habitats, and ecology of the Falklands' shallow marine environment.
Though the island is diminutive in size, the filled notebooks and databases the expedition returned with suggest that Beauchêne's biology could fill volumes.
Expedition member Steve Cartwright fills one of the SCUBA cylinders used during the 114 dives conducted by the team over 10 days.
Dr Paul Brickle is joined by a flock of swimming rockhopper penguins.
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Details of paddy rice distribution is essential for food production and methane emission calculation. and 94%, respectively. The Landsat-based paddy rice map was an improvement on the paddy rice layer within the National Land Cover Dataset, which was generated through visual interpretation and digitalization within the fine-resolution images. The agricultural census data considerably underreported paddy rice area, raising severe concern about its use for studies on food security. 4(c)). Built-up experienced much lower LSWI (around 0) than did paddy rice (> 0.2) (Fig. 4(c) 4(e)). Paddy rice 1094614-85-3 IC50 had smaller variations between EVI (NDVI) and LSWI. Therefore, the rule-based decision trees were deployed on 1094614-85-3 IC50 LSWI, NDVI, and (NDVI + EVI)/2-LSWI to map the ripening paddy rice. Here the image within the 254th day time in 2011 for path/row = 116/027 (116/027-254/2011) was used as an example to illustrate the procedures to create the decision rules and determine the optimal threshold values. Step 1 1 Selection of training regions of interest (ROIs): homogenous ROIs were visually interpreted and digitalized within the Landsat false color composite (FCC) image of LSWI, NDVI, and (NDVI + EVI)/2-LSWI for paddy rice (22 ROIs with 1,077 pixels), dry cropland (22 ROIs with 1,077 pixels), forest (44 ROIs with 974 pixels), and built-up and bare land (21 ROIs with 989 pixels). Step 2 2 Evaluation of ROI separability: the Jeffries-Matusita (J-M) distances of the ROI pairs between paddy rice and other land types were determined (Richards, 1999). All J-M distances were above 1.9, which suggested that paddy rice had great separability from other land types using the training ROIs collected from your Landsat FCC image. Step 3 3 Statistical distribution of ROIs: paddy rice showed distinguishable statistical distributions (Fig. 5). The built-up and bare land LSWI ranged from ?0.2 to 0.2 and was significantly less than paddy grain (Fig. 5(a)). The forest NDVI was above 0.7, higher than paddy grain (Fig. 5(b)). The paddy grain (NDVI + EVI)/2-LSWI ranged below 0.2 and was less than dry out cropland (Fig. 5(c)). Fig. 5 Statistic distribution of LSWI, NDVI, and (NDVI + EVI)/2-LSWI for paddy grain, dried out cropland, forest, and built-up region over the 116/027-254/2011 (acc. represents precision). Step 4 Perseverance of the perfect thresholds: the perfect thresholds were computed using regression trees and shrubs from working out ROIs: Tbuilt-up/bare-land= 0.2682 for LSWI, Tforest= 0.6849 for 1094614-85-3 IC50 NDVI, and Tdry-cropland= 0.2219 for (NDVI + EVI)/2-LSWI. Stage 5 Execution of your choice rules: your choice guidelines and threshold beliefs had been deployed on LSWI, NDVI, and (NDVI + EVI)/2-LSWI. The techniques above were applied over the Landsat pictures through the ripening stage. The threshold beliefs were determined using regression trees and shrubs in R Project, Edition 3.0.1 using a prediction accuracy above 95% (Desk 2). Desk 2 The threshold ideals as the inputs of rule-bases decision trees and shrubs for the Landsat pictures during the grain ripening stage The algorithm robustness was examined from the precision evaluation for three Landsat moments (116/027-254/2011, 114/028-264/2011, and 114/028-251/2012), which protected the primary paddy grain cultivation area. For 116/027-264/2011, a complete number of just one 1,541 tests ROIs (24,656 pixels) was arbitrarily generated inside the subset area included in the WorldView-2. For 114/028-251/2012, 2,915 ROIs were generated randomly. 285 ROIs (167 for non-paddy grain and 118 for paddy grain) GDF2 and 2,630 ROIs (2,068 for non-paddy grain and 567 1094614-85-3 IC50 for paddy grain) were aesthetically interpreted and digitalized onscreen through the high resolution pictures on Google Globe as well as the Landsat FCC picture of 114/028-155/2012 (R/G/B = SWIR/NIR/Crimson), respectively. We utilized the same-year flooding/transplanting grain map (114/028-176/2011) as the bottom truth mention of evaluate the precision from the ripening grain map on 114/028-264/2011. The precision evaluation was summarized from the mistake matrixes along with consumer precision, producer precision, overall precision, and KAPPA coefficient for the ripening grain maps (Congalton, 1991). 2.5 Implementation of algorithms The field studies were completed in 2011, it had been used while the baseline yr as a result. Images this year 2010 and 2012 had been used to fill up the gaps due to clouds, cloud shadows, or Landsat 7 ETM + SLC-off in the 2011 pictures. For every Landsat footprint, we constructed the flooding/transplanting and ripening paddy grain maps into one paddy grain map using the next guideline: the 2011 flooding/transplanting map was the original input. If.


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Experienced pair recalled to Stoke City starting XI v Bournemouth
Michael O'Neill looking for win to pull Stoke City into Championship play-off zone
Steven Fletcher and Harry Souttar start for Stoke against Bournemouth. (Image: Bradley Collyer/PA Wire)
Michael O'Neill has recalled John Obi Mikel and Steven Fletcher to his Stoke City starting XI to take on Bournemouth (7.45pm).
Stoke can draw level on points with fifth-placed Bournemouth with a win at the snowy bet365 Stadium, where the lights are back on after a mini power cut earlier this evening.
O'Neill has packed his midfield with Mikel joining Jordan Thompson and Joe Allen, while Nick Powell is further up with Fletcher.
Sam Vokes pays the price for not taking chances on Tuesday night in the fog against Nottingham Forest while Jacob Brown drops to the bench, where there is no room for either Tom Ince or Thibaud Verlinden.
Josh Tymon (groin) has passed a fitness test to be named as substitute.
Stoke City v Bournemouth live - Key duo return to starting XI
Stoke City 'in talks' with jet-heeled ex-Man City winger Rabbi Matondo
Assistant manager Billy McKinlay told Radio Stoke: "John's had a few days under his belt and we've missed him so it's good to have him back, although Jordan Cousins has been fantastic for us.
"John comes back in and, with (Sam) Clucas as well getting a little more training under his belt, hopefully we're getting players back and over the next couple of weeks we'll have a bit more time to work on a few things. The more the merrier in that sense."
Allen makes his second start in five days having missed the previous nine months with a ruptured Achilles tendon.
McKinlay said: "Joe's been training well for a period of time without being playing football so we feel he's got another game in him - or at least part of the game.
"The next couple of weeks will be a little bit better in terms of getting work into them on the training pitch, not so many games.
"We think it'll be beneficial and we hope to go into that period on the back of a good result."
Fletcher, who missed the Forest game with a swollen knee, is hoping to add more spice to the attack.
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"I think so," said McKinlay. "His training has been disrupted over the last month with a knee injury. He's a big player for us and he'll benefit as much as any over the next month to get some training in.
"There's no doubt we need to do better in the final third in terms of opportunities and getting bodies in the box. Having Steven back will hopefully help us in that regard."
Stoke: Bursik, Smith, McClean, Collins, Chester, Souttar, Mikel, Thompson, Allen, Powell, Fletcher. Subs: Nna Noukeu, Batth, Vokes, Shawcross, Brown, Oakley-Boothe, Clucas, Cousins, Tymon.
Bournemouth: Begovic, S Cook, Simpson, Kelly, Smith, Rico, L Cook, Lerma, Stanislas, Solanke, Surridge. Subs: Travers, Zemura, Ofoborh, Kilkenny, Gosling, Brooks, Riquelme, Anthony, King.
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Of course this post will get ignored and everyone will keep talking about illegal aliens on this thread.
Not ignored and thanks for the clarification.
apparently irony is not understood by some, right Buzzpost?
Not everyone is as enlightened, privileged and intelligent as you. Damn it man, you are special!
This is the link to the announcement for the street party that resulted in the rioting...there is no mention of immigration anywhere.
You people who never even heard of Santa Cruz until yesterday can try to spin this anyway you like--but trying to call this an immigration rally that led to violence is a mischaracterization.
No. I call BS. YOU are the one trying to spin things and ANYONE that promotes ILLEGAL immigration into ANY country is an anarchist.
You people who promote this crap are exploiting cheap labor, emotions, and want to see this country become something other than a first-world status.
Keep up the spin. It ISN'T working. Go tilt at windmills all you want; it won't change a damn thing.
So after all, it was premeditated, it was the anarchist group and the FBI is investigating.
Police spokesman Zach Friend said investigators believe the attack was premeditated because officers received two phone calls for shots fired and a man down prior to the violent outburst. Friend said the calls appear to have been make to "divert police and fire resources away from the riot."Officers found no problems at the scenes of the diversionary calls, Friend said. Investigators said the rally of about Thomas Williams 250 began as an advertised May Day event for worker's rights was "unsanctioned" and used as "political and physical cover for the organized anarchist group." The night of the riot, a Santa Cruz police officer responding to the downtown gathering was surrounded by demonstrators who jumped on his squad car hood, poured paint on it and pelted the sides with rocks.Investigators will be working with the FBI to identify any individuals on videos pulled from downtown businesses and available online.
Santa Cruz police ask FBI to help investigate what they believe was 'coordinated' attack on the city - Santa Cruz Sentinel story has nothing to do with illegal immigration.
This title of the thread is misleading...wish that could be changed, or this topic moved.
Well it sure wasn't smart for the illegals to join up with anarchists on a day that in the USA is traditionally anarchists and socialists marching and often rioting. May 1 has always been that kind of day in the USA, as we have our own different kind of Labor Day at the end of summer.
Did the illegals really think the anarchists were going to change how they celebrate "their" day because the illegals wanted to protest their causes on the same day?
Did the illegals really think the anarchists were going to change how they celebrate "their" day because the illegals wanted to protest their causes on the same day?
I think most people are smart enough to know the difference. May 1 is traditionally, since Cesar Chavez, celebrated as day of the worker here in the US. Rarely, but it is celebrated here in the US and I dont think our country has any problem celebrating multiple causes in one day. Thank God for freedom of speech. On April 22, 2010, we celebrated two causes, "Take your Daughter/Son to Work Day" and "Earth Day". I dont think either group was willing to give up the day and furthermore, I dont even think the anarchists had a permit to rally like others who marched in protest of the AZ law. Anyway, case closed. Its not related to illegal immigration.


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Dog-friendly country inn the perfect place for a post-lockdown staycation
With holidays abroad off the radar for many this year, looking for places to stay closer to home has become a popular pastime for me.
By Daniel Bailey
Times have been tough through the pandemic with the prospect of venturing overseas remaining a distant target in 2021. But every cloud has a silver lining as the old saying goes and despite the dramatic decline in foreign adventures there are many UK staycation venues that could be set to prosper.
Take The Farmhouse at Mackworth in Derbyshire for example. After a long year of cancelled plans, working from home and excruciating uncertainty over what the future might hold, a visit to a cosy dog-friendly hotel with our pet whippet was just what the doctor ordered.
Situated in what was once an 18th century farmhouse, this lovely 10-bed country inn gives you a feeling of warmth as soon as you walk through the doors and with its rustic contemporary decor, the building blends both old and new brilliantly thanks to its attractive boutique rooms and super cool modern bar and restaurant.
The Farmhouse at Mackworth is a lovely 10-bedroom country inn. Image: Farmhouse at Mackworth
As well as our four-legged friends, the hotel is ideal for walkers and visitors to the Peak District, while it's also handy for business-types looking for an overnight stop outside the city. Before checking in we decided to make the most of the good weather with a short, but pleasant, walk across the farmlands towards Mickelover.
Back at the hotel the generously-sized bedrooms, all named after Animal Farm characters, are attractively decorated in country inn style. Ours - 'Benjamin' - featured a Nespresso coffee machine along with warm white robes to lounge in, and there was a short flight of stairs which led to the bathroom, adding to the homely feel.
For us it was all about getting comfortable with a cuppa before heading down with the pooch for a hearty meal and bottle of wine, tucked away in one of the many nooks and crannies of the spacious bar.
Menu orders for the evening were fried buttermilk chicken and smoked pork belly to start, a beautifully tender 8oz sirloin and beef ragu pizza for the main courses along with lip-smackingly sumptuous desserts of baked lemon curd cheesecake and banana sticky toffee pudding.
One of The farmhouse's attractive boutique rooms. Image: Farmhouse at Mackworth
The Farmhouse seems to have got its food offering down to a tee and the eggs benedict breakfast the following morning was equally impressive.
Its Mackworth location is a big plus. You only have to drive three miles and you're in Derby city centre and ten miles the other way are the cobbled streets of Ashbourne in the Derbyshire Dales, while Kedleston Hall is another nearby attraction.
And with lots of car parking space, good bus connections and the ability to host weddings with up to 130 guests in 'The Folly', The Farmhouse really does have a lot going for it.
A visit to a cosy dog-friendly hotel with our pet whippet was just what the doctor ordered.
Address: The Farmhouse at Mackworth, 60 Ashbourne Road, Derby, Derbyshire, DE22 4LY
Web: www.thefarmhouseatmackworth.com
The super cool modern bar and restaurant. Image: Farmhouse at Mackworth
Room prices start at £90 per night
Delicious pizzas feature on The Farmhouse's restaurant menu. Image: The Farmhouse at Mackworth
The beautifully tender steak. Image: The Farmhouse at Mackworth
The hotel's generously-sized bedrooms are all named after Animal Farm characters. Image: Farmhouse at Mackworth


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As you well know, reputable family dentists can be the key to helping you maintain and improve your dental health. While most Americans like to find a family dental care professional and stick with them for life, the truth is that sometimes you need to find someone new to ensure you're getting the best care possible. If your cosmetic and family dentistry professional is throwing up any of the following red flags, it's probably time to move on.
As DentistryIQ.com writes, one of the surest signs that it's time to find a new family dentist is when your dentist begins to suggest more expensive surgery or cosmetic dental procedures when the cheaper option will work just as well. A common example of this is when you need to get fillings. Silver fillings will do the job, and if they're going to be in the back of your mouth, appearance isn't really an issue. Many dentists looking to up their profits will suggest the more expensive filling that looks like a natural tooth. You need a dentist who cares about your health, not filling their coffers.
For Yahoo! Health, a dentist that fails to recommend a specialist when full dental implants or other specialized procedures are required is doing his or her patients a true disservice. While it's true that most dentists will have some knowledge of the different types of dental medicine, specialists in cosmetic and family dentistry should be used when appropriate. If, for example, your dentist isn't an orthodontist but claims they can do your braces for you, maybe it's time to find someone with the humility to give you a recommendation for a specialist as needed.
As any first year dental student can tell you, your family dentist should be focused on fixing any problems you have, not their symptoms. Say, for example, you have chronic tooth pain when eating. The best dentists will find ways to address that issue permanently. On the other hand, if your dentist gives you a tube of numbing toothpaste and calls it a day, you aren't getting the care you deserve. Quick may be convenient, but permanent solutions are the key to your long term dental health.
Reputable family and cosmetic dentistry professionals can protect and restore your teeth, but that's only if they make a real effort to maintain the same level of service at all times. If your dentist has started to commit any of these dental faux pas, find someone new. You'll be glad you did.


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Fredrik Wangler has been appointed new CEO of Ecofiltration Nordic AB (publ) and starts in April. Fredrik has extensive experience from the water and wastewater industry. Fredrik has a background in both sales and project management from companies like Ramböll, Dustcontrol and Cerlic Controls.
"I am very excited to take on the role as CEO for a growing cleantech company like Ecofiltration. Environmental issues and especially clean water have always been close to my heart" Fredrik Wangler says.
"Fredrik will have a very important and strategic role in the company's expansion. His valuable experience from larger waste water treatment plants will strengthen Ecofiltration's continuous work to sell larger applications for phosphorus removal and recovery" says Peter Nilsson, head of the board.


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During the week of June 17th, I participated in the Dumbarton Oaks-Villa I Tatti staff exchange by visiting with colleagues in the Biblioteca Berenson. It's hard to overstate the physical beauty of I Tatti. Even more impressive - to an art librarian with an academic background in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italian art history - are the ordered ranks of boxes that lined the walls of the Fototeca. Developed by I Tatti's founders, Bernard and Mary Berenson, the Fototeca houses approximately 250,000 photographic prints, documenting Italian paintings and drawings from 1250 to 1600. Many of them bear the Berensons' original notations, whether remarks on a work's location, provenance, dating, or attribution – precious information for scholars consulting the archive. Since 2007, Fototeca staff have been engaged in a comprehensive inventory of its holdings. This essential work of collection management led to a special initiative to digitize and catalog the "Homeless Paintings of the Italian Renaissance." "Homeless" was Berenson's classification for paintings whose current location was unknown, including works that have been lost, destroyed, stolen, or sold to anonymous collectors. To date, approximately 16,000 photographs (c. 32,000 digital images representing both the rectos and versos of each print) have been made available through Harvard's Visual Information Access (VIA) system. Since 2010, staff in the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) have also been compiling an inventory of our holdings, an effort to gain full intellectual and physical control over the approximately 500,000 items in our photographic and archival collections related to Byzantine art, architecture, and archaeology. For ICFA, it was immensely beneficial to study the Fototeca's established inventory program and learn about the workflows and processes in use directly from colleagues at I Tatti. It was also fascinating to immerse myself for a week on campus and learn about other exciting initiatives related to the Library, digital projects, social media, and the fellowship program. I am grateful to the directors of Dumbarton Oaks and Villa I Tatti for making the trip possible, as well as to wonderful colleagues at I Tatti, who so graciously and generously made themselves available during my visit - in particular, Michael Rocke, Director of the Biblioteca Berenson.
For five days during the last week of May, I participated in the exchange program between Dumbarton Oaks and the Villa I Tatti – the Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies in Fiesole, near Florence, Italy. I Tatti was the 1959 gift of the Renaissance art connoisseur Bernard Berenson (1865–1959) to Harvard, and much like Dumbarton Oaks, I Tatti's buildings, interiors, gardens, and art collection are stunning. Also like Dumbarton Oaks, the Center's library facilities (the Biblioteca Berenson) and archives (including Berenson's photographic archive, the Fototeca) are first-rate. The staff at I Tatti is welcoming, gracious, and helpful, and they made certain that I was included in the communal gatherings for morning coffee, mid-day dinner (served with wine from the I Tatti vineyards), and afternoon tea. After library hours, I walked "home" down the terraced gardens to a commodious apartment, complete with a terrace and a view over the Tuscan hills. For five days, life was very good!
I [saw] 'Aya Sofia on Monday! No work of man that I have seen conveys such a sense of space & not even a humming bird soars & floats more easily. What that great church must have been before those Vulcherous Latins looted it!
You are part of a life that nourishes & enriches my own during the happy years when travel was taken for granted before the Barbarians broke our hearts & reduced to rubble all the Ivory Towers. I hold tenaciously to old friendships & to clasp your hand over time & space & to dip, even for a moment, into the ordered loveliness of I Tatti was something essential, long craved.


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Kauno rajono savivaldybė är en kommun i Litauen.   Den ligger i länet Kaunas län, i den centrala delen av landet,  km väster om huvudstaden Vilnius. Antalet invånare är . Arean är  kvadratkilometer.

Terrängen i Kauno rajono savivaldybė är platt.

Följande samhällen finns i Kauno rajono savivaldybė:

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—Richard Nilsen
Southern Appalachians: Mountain crafts
Part 6: In which a sour old man says some difficult things about some very nice people
Alan Hollar
Alan Hollar is a wood carver from Crossnore. He stands about 6-foot-seven and wears a ball cap and big frame glasses. He is giving demonstrations on cutting lathe-turned wood bowls at the craft center at the Moses Cone mansion along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
The craft center is a kind of fantasy world, filled with quilts, stained glass, preciously carved wood and beautifully glazed pottery. As soon as you enter, you are hit with the odor of sachet and the sound of Irish flute and dulcimer music.
None of this has anything to do with the Appalachian Mountains, except as it is marketed to wealthy yuppies looking for faux-authentic mountain crafts.
"It's true, I suppose," says Hollar. "It used to be that mountain crafts were things that people couldn't buy and so made for themselves. Now, they can buy pretty much anything they need at the Wal Mart. Crafts have become things that cannot be made by machine."
Folk Art Center, Blue Ridge Parkway
The problem is one of integrating a past of poverty and make-do with a present of money and art galleries. Hollar is certainly correct when he says, "A culture cain't stand still."
Appalachian mountain crafts has suffered from the same forces that stultify Native American arts. both cultures have not stood still and are part of the same 21st century that we all live and breathe, but the market has identified their niches, and forced a "brand" or identity on them that is inauthentic.
In terms of Native American art, there are many fully-integrated artists working, as Native Americans, without having to resort to Indian stereotypes — artists such as Rik Danay, Bob Haozous and Kay Walkingstick — but too often the art-buying public wants instead pots and blankets. It is why artist Fritz Scholder once exhorted, "Stop painting Indians!"
by Harrison Begay
Despite his warning, the market for so-called "traditional" Native American art is clotted with talking blue coyotes, lance-carrying warriors and never-ending rainbirds. And the inevitable "Bambi paintings" of deer and bear.
Originally, the creation of this Dorothy Dunn-style of Indian art was to help promote Native American arts and give talented Native artists a chance to make a living from their art. Perhaps it was too successful: Now, that style is considered "traditional," and ordinary buyers of the art don't want to look at anything that doesn't fit the mold. And "Indian art" is a ghetto from which the truly talented feel pulled two ways: They want to escape the ghetto, yet, they want to create art from their cultural roots.
The Southern Highland Craft Guild has done something of the same for mountain crafts. It was formed in 1929, and was an attempt to make some money for poverty-sticken mountain folk.
Perhaps it has also worked too well, for there is little left of the mountains in these elegant doo-dads.
The tourists who glide through the Parkway Craft Center at Moses Cone Memorial Park, or the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville, N.C., want souvenirs more than art, and they want something that portrays the fantasy of a "simpler way of life" that people "used to live" in the rural mountains. So, they find candles, stained glass, soft-colored quilts and jewelry in the form of dogwood flowers or bluebirds and feel they have come in contact with a more authentic way of life.
But it ain't so. Instead, they have come in contact with a successful marketing strategy.
Some of the art is very nice, even beautiful in its way, but it is a far cry from anything that was made back in the hollers and coves when if you needed a ladle, you carved one from a chunk of wood.
"We were born into a world filled with random shapes and odd angles," Hollar says, "but we made for ourselves a world of wallboard cubicles and we long for something with a touch of that randomness we miss. That's why people like those bowls with the uneven edges turned from wood boles."
Burl vase by Alan Hollar
And Hollar's bowls are beautiful: They exploit the essential beauty of woodgrain and its colors. He is a master craftsman. But no matriarch living in the cut-off coves of Appalachia before electrification who required a bowl for kneading dough would have been happy with one that sported a great hole in its side.
It isn't only the visual arts. The mountains are full of music. There was church music — some of it nearly unlistenable — and dance music, and the music that was played on front porches when the aunts and uncles gathered together and played old "chunes."
Emmett Lundy
You can find old recordings of some of that in the Alan Lomax collections. It is rough-hewn music, in a style that valued a keening, flat-affect voice — a style copied by Bill Monroe that he called the "high lonesome" — and always clearly amateur.
You can hear the old music in re-releases of those Lomax recordings, like those made in 1941 of Emmett Lundy from Graham County in Virginia. There is a plaintive sourness in the playing, learned from his teacher, Green Leonard. No one would call the music pretty, yet it is intensely beautiful. It is authentic.
The racks of CDs at the craft centers feature instead the commercial recordings of professional musicians who have created an ersatz "traditional" music that is hardly distinguishable from New Age pap. It is music with no angles or edges — completely unlike the hard-muscled people of the hills, who were all angles and edges — "with the bark still on."
The soft-toned flute jigs on the stereo are like no music I ever heard in the Appalachians. Where were the scratchy fiddle tunes with every note slightly flat? Where were the affectless hymn tunes sung by straight-lipped mountain families? Why is that hammer dulcimer playing The Two Fairy Hills instead of the the strummed dulcimer playing Rock of Ages?
This is the mountain experience smoothed out and made marketable, giving the uninitiated the illusion of authenticity with none of the wood soot and bacon grease.
The CDs are on a rack by the register. They are all prettified.
"Do you have any really ugly music?" I ask. The young clerk — probably a college student from the flatlands come up to the mountains for a summer job among the "plainer, simpler folk" — doesn't understand what I mean.
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moses cone memorial park
mountain crafts
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About Richard Nilsen
Richard Nilsen made a living out of having opinions. He was born in New Jersey and handed down one of his first significant opinions by leaving.
He was art critic with "The Arizona Republic" from 1986 to 2012 and is proud of the fact that he was never shot at, although he was once hanged in effigy by "Western Horseman" magazine after a nasty review of Cowboy Art. Since 2005, he was also the classical music, opera, dance, architecture and back-up movie critic.
"It's all connected," he says.
But newspaper work is only one of a long and eclectic series of jobs and "life positions."
He has been a truck driver, a book packer, a sales clerk. He has taught crime-scene photography to police cadets. He has worked at the Seattle zoo and as writer and editor on a Black weekly newspaper in Greensboro, N.C. He has been both a bum and a department head in a 2-year college, where he taught photography and art history.
He once lived for a year in a coal bin.
He graduated from Guilford College in North Carolina in 1970, but when asked about his credentials, is more likely to mention the zoo.
He now lives in Asheville, NC.
Phoenix Art Musem
72 years of movies
Counting the years
I am old, I am mad
Rock Show
Close encounters with beauty of the third kind — Part 3
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It took several previews, but adidas Skateboarding's first full-length film, Away Days, is available now in its entirety. Three years in the making, the film compiles footage taken across over 90 cities and stars legacy pros Mark Gonzales, Dennis Busenitz, Silas Baxter-Neal and Lucas Puig, among others.
Fresh off making its rounds and premiering in cities like Los Angeles, London and Tokyo, Away Days marks one of the most anticipated skate films of the year. adidas Skateboarding even dropped an all-new teaser for the feature, which includes never-before-seen outtakes and tricks (above).
Purchase Away Days on iTunes now.


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Q: Is there any difference between Silicone and RTV I've used silicone RTV that's intended for use on PCBs and have also used 100% silicone purchased from the hardware store to use on PCBs. I was not able to tell a difference between the two. Everything looked and smelled exactly the same. I know there could still be differences, but I'm wondering if they're just selling it specifically for electronics so they can charge a premium. The cost of RTV for electronics is around $30 while the stuff at the hardware store is $6.
Obviously not all silicone/caulk from the hardware store is the same as silicone RTV. The question is if some of it is and if people are wasting money on silicone RTV.

A: Cheap silicone is acidic (like vinegar) while GE's Room Temperature Vulcanizing (RTV) is not, and is suitable for electronic anti-corrosive insulation on metals. The main features are thermal insulation and high voltage insulation in addition to the expected dust & water HV protection.
However, the application is only as good as the cleanliness of the contact surfaces, to avoid creepage effects.

A: GE Silicone from hardware stores is always labeled either Silicone I or Silicone II. You'll find the type in very small print, often in an out-of-the-way location on the label. Silicone I releases acetic acid as it cures. It is corrosive to copper and is not ideal for electronics. Silicone II releases methanol as it cures. It does not corrode copper, it is non-conductive and it works fine for electronics, though without any electrical specification.
All GE silicone in hardware stores is RTV, i.e., Room Temperature Vulcanizing.

A: The difference is "acid cure" vs "neutral cure"
RTV silicones use a few different, but related, cure chemistries.  The most common one is what's called an "acetoxy" or "acid" cure, which releases acetic acid as it cures.  This explains both the vinegar odor, and why you want to avoid this chemistry for electronics applications, where said acetic acid will corrode copper parts.
The second one is what's called an "alkoxy cure".  These release methanol, ethanol, or isopropanol as they cure, and are a type of "neutral cure" silicone.  This means they don't have the corrosion risks associated with acid cure silicone products, and are suitable for electronics applications.
However, they have some cost and performance disadvantages in applications where acetic acid corrosion is a non-issue, so they are relatively uncommon formulations nowadays.
As a result, most "neutral cure" RTV silicones available on the consumer market these days use a different cure chemistry, a so-called "oxime" cure that releases a funky chemical called methyl ethyl ketoxime during the cure process.  This is not an acid, and thus doesn't pose quite the same risks of corrosion that an acid cure product poses, but may not be acceptable for critical applications because any potential influence MEKO might have on copper corrosion is not as well known.
TL;DR: for non-critical applications, any consumer neutral cure RTV product is acceptable -- just avoid products that don't say "Neutral Cure" on the label, and you'll be fine.

A: For electronics work you want "platinum cure", "addition-cure" or electronic grade silicone. "RTV" means "room temperature vulcanizing" and is a generic term that includes various types of curing. So is "silicone", it can refer to materials from oils and greases to relatively hard silicone rubber. Some silicone rubber is vulcanized at raised temperature. As part of summer work when I was in high school we fabricated silicone nuclear power plant seals using a large heated mold and a horse trough filled with water  to cool it. The raw milled rubber came as kind of a cord.
The typical big-box store construction grade silicone caulking has acetic acid cure, and acetic acid is both corrosive and quite electrically conductive. You can smell the vinegary odour quite easily.

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The Orbs must have a great sense of humor, they seem to be matching the frequency and vibration of color to match the person with whom they are communicating. How fun is this!
This is beyond amazing that the Orbs are connecting through Color. As you can see, some of the Orbs are matching the colors of the experiencers' clothing. Perhaps it is a possibility that by 'matching' the frequency and vibration of the colors, they are establishing a connection to the experiencers, giving them a reference point from which to begin a deeper connection. If this is the case, then the Orbs can be congratulated for being so smart!!


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Programming, though not itself a humanity, can serve as one. Consider Latin. By the end, the justification for Latin's role as the introduction to liberal learning was less to enable students to read the classical authors in the original with comfort, than by its exacting grammar, and its subtle and exact vocabulary, to form the mind to the tolerance for nuance and habit of precision prerequisite to all kinds of intellectual progress.
In Latin's case it was a sad diminuendo; but the role is one worth filling. Programming, which begins with the abstract essence of grammar and subordinates and iterates it to depths which language cannot sustain, enforces a power of expression as exact and as subtle as the expectation of literal interpretation can make it.
Any kind of work that approaches perfection by a cycle of degrees intermitted by trial, feedback, and return to the beginning – draft and revision, model and prototype, mock-up and construction – similarly strengthens the faculties at each return; but programming does it fastest, and most bracingly. Any programmer knows how the pain and boredom of protracted debugging leaves a hollow feeling in the brain like a sore muscle, which becomes, after a rest, the certainty of having become a little smarter.
Programming is the ultimate mimesis. Its reach is the reproduction, not only of the world and everything in it, but of all possible worlds. In this way – because to address anything well, a programmer must do so in a way which potentially addresses everything – programming is the only great centripetal intellectual force of our time; and programming is the only profession left where it pays to have a universal mind.
Kenneth Clark, in his essay "The Concept of Universal Man," usefully defines a universal mind, on the model of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, as one which, seeing a natural phenomenon, wishes to understand it; which, seeing a human design, wishes to improve it; and to do all this for humanity's benefit.
Programming does not, by itself, yield those values; but it gives that power. The willingness to see designs and procedures as expedient and perishable contrivances – not the unanswerable inheritance of wisdom or tradition – is predicated on the ability to extract them from the inertia of their contexts by translating them into a precise and neutral language.
In this way, programming drives toward philosophy. Ada Byron, the first person to understand programming, called herself "a metaphysician and an analyst"; and programmers have never been able to escape philosophy. In object-orientation they created the first experimental metaphysics; and throughout their work, they run into old problems as they work toward the old goal: clear and distinct ideas.
The Stoics required philosophy to show and to resolve definite choices in life; they required the philosopher to be visibly and measurably changed by the practice of philosophy. This should not be confused with a positivist dismissal of word-chopping (though some of the same arguments recur), or a pragmatist tolerance for vagueness as long as it yields results. Programmers are willing to make and adhere to subtle distinctions, even without obvious applicability, as long as they are part of a useful perspective; and they are the more unwilling to leave an idea vague as it proves useful, believing that its refinement can only make it more potent, and more widely useful.
It is suggestive that programmers' favored literary mode is the essay – which Montaigne created on the model of Stoic discourses.
This resemblance to Stoicism is not accidental; it is so strong that it is two-way. Chrysippus, the father or forerunner of Stoicism, was also one inventor of formalized logic (even partially symbolic). Had the Romans invented computers, he would have stood in the same relation to their computer languages that Boole does to ours.
Such an affinity between a discipline and a school of philosophy is familiar from mathematics. Mathematicians are either Platonists, or not Platonists; and if not, what they are instead is unimportant. Mathematicians, even confessed Platonists, do not support the scheme of the Republic; programmers do not teach the eternal return (or even the infinite loop).
But show me a committed programmer who does not believe in the possibility and necessity of a radical and unconditional independence; who does not at once value loyalty as both the best thing that can be offered, and the least that is to be expected; who does not think happiness only as valuable as it is won through courage, not received as a gift or stroke of luck – or, conversely, who does not find unhappiness or querulousness contemptible in the intelligent, as if they should know better; and you have found an exception to the rule.
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How is science different from older ways of using reason to understand the world? One difference is its connection with the arts, in the sense of mimesis. The Greeks tried to explain things in the world, or to prove things about it. But science explains or proves only pragmatically and indirectly, because scientific understanding is not, in itself, either explanation or proof: it is image, likeness, imitation.
The beginning of science is the principle that things which behave alike, are alike – even at disparate scales, under disparate circumstance, or for disparate ends. Either one is a version of the other, or both are governed by the same law. Gravity alike draws moon to apple and apple to moon; selection produces the artificial breed and the natural species; circulating information knots into systems like ecologies and minds.
Science is not a form of art; but no society has produced a scientific discovery unless its arts were already mature. The periods of Arabic scientific discovery were also periods of toleration for the representative arts – to explain the pulmonary circulation, Ibn an-Nafis had to draw a diagram. A scientist does not have to be an artist; an artist does not have to be a scientist; but philistine scientists and superstitious artists lose something. Great as they may be, they could have been more.
Brunelleschi, as a painter, created perspective, and mathematicians caught up with projective geometry. Chemists created new pigments and Impressionists, who saw the world in "patches of color," saw a new world.
More characteristically, the sciences of anatomy and natural history were created by, and still depend on, artists. The work of the anatomist is to reconcile a body, a continuous and not always clearly differentiated mass of cells, with the Body; the work of the naturalist, to reconcile the adaptive and adapting ramifications of a common descent, with a scheme of Species; but the human Body, the animal Species, are abstractions made by art – anatomical drawings exhibit the plan of the Body, naturalists' drawings exhibit the scheme of the Species, to show what is meant by the name before the compromises of embodiment.
Leonardo called himself the disciple of experience; Galileo looked to the book of nature; the formulations are interchangeable because arts and sciences are both equally vulnerable to the same danger of self-regard. Original art is original not by breaking with tradition, but because it returns to the "master of masters," to nature; and original science is not done by pressing on with the questions in hand, but by looking to nature, not to extract an answer, but to learn the right question.
The sound of ticking is passing out of the world – at least out of the public spaces, and out of most private lives. Monks heard it first, in stone chambers with narrow high windows, where wrought-iron heaps of parts, glimmering with hammer-shadows, had been anviled into what would become known as the first clocks. And each slip of the escarpment must have had the finality of a hammer blow, must have echoed from the walls like thunder from the valleys.
They built these machines to remember the hours of prayer when the sun was hidden by the clouds of their northern climate – strange to think now, that it was ever possible for time to be overclouded – and how unbearable it must have been, a whole community losing hours every day, vainly glancing at the sundial or the frozen water-clock, living together in that state of time deprivation which psychologists assure us can drive an individual insane – which has been used as a method of torture.
But then there were clocks, clocks everywhere – clocks in the towers, clocks in the street, a clock in the hall, a clock on the mantle, a clock in the pocket, a clock on the wrist – and each one slipping to tick, slipping to tick, the sound never far away, like the world's breathing, running through everything – the frantic tick of a wristwatch, the steady pulse of a pocket watch, the white noise of a bedstand clock, the creaking (always ready to fill awkward silences) of a mantle clock, the stately tick-tock of a case clock (crouched like a mastiff in the hall, strong and reassuring, pendulum steady and slow as the voice of a murmuring poet), the crawling, hatefully patient unwinding of the clock on the office wall.
Hearing has more in common with touch than with sight. The noises we know too well to notice are like a steady, guiding hand, with touches that reassure and comfort. (Movies are dreamlike in part because our medium or atmosphere of sounds is thinned out to a conscious selection from a library of sound-conventions.)
The flow of centuries was measured out by the space between ticks – when the tick has ticked and is gone like the time that it took, but still the next tick is to come to tick and go on to the next. Think of the effect of a mother's heartbeat in the womb, of a mother's breathing on an infant, of a mother's voice on a child; and think of this sound, more certain than a heartbeat, as needful as breathing, the voice of a clock's willful presence. How could it not have formed the minds of those who grew up with it? How can its departure not have an effect, not somehow change the world?
So many old, good sounds are going or gone, or become kinds of luxury: the clatter of hooves, the scraping of gears. People still somehow know that records skip; but when they hear a record skip, do they feel the urgent need to get up and free the needle? With portable music and satellite radio, even static may come to be a mere indulgence, a touch or a flavor.
City people know little of the noises of the country, the wavelike near and far of barking, the symphonies of the birds, the ragas of cicadas, the call and response of the frogs – or the kind of suspenseful quiet when I set a ticking clock by my ear only to cover the sound of my own breathing. But they know the city's sounds, and the sound which is the city – the rumble of the cars, millions of chattering explosions driving thousands of careering pistons, the asphalt flexing and the manhole covers shuddering, the wheels slipping and the brakes shrieking, the horns blowing and the air brakes sighing. And underneath – what is underneath? What world is in the cities, on the other side of the combustion engine?
If not too long from now the streets are full of cars which glide silently and trail only steam (and will the sidewalks be clammy and tropical with the steam?), if the cars of the future are to be ghost cars, seen but unheard, silent as sailboats – what sound of the city is behind?
Millions of people – could you hear a million alarm clocks go off at the same time? A million people laughing at once at the same primetime joke, cheering the same pass, cursing the same fumble? How far would the music of the clubs carry, would the steel-framed buildings thrum with the beats from their subwoofers as they shiver now at the passing of trucks? Romans said magna civitas magna solitudo – the greater the city, the more alone in it – but what does the city become, if you can shout to your friend across a busy street, and be heard? When you cannot help but hear the sick old men rave? When the gunshot in the slums echoes in the bedrooms of the mansions, and wakes the mayor's children from their sleep?
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Ousted leaders won't impact AAP in polls, says Bhagwant Mann
The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday held an impressive rally at Samana where party's star campaigner and Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann said that ousted leaders such as Yogendra Yadav and others won't be able to dent party's prospects in the 2017 assembly polls.
punjab Updated: Sep 17, 2015 11:55 IST
Vishal Rambani
Samana is a prestigious seat both for the ruling SAD and opposition Congress. Last time, Akali leader Surjit Singh Rakhra had won the seat defeating Patiala royal scion and Captain Amarinder Singh's son Raninder Singh. A massive AAP rally here is sure to create some worries for the two traditional parties.
Addressing the gathering, Mann termed the SAD and the Congress as two sides of a same coin. He said the AAP is the only alternative left before people who are tired of "successive corrupt regimes that have done nothing but exploited the common man for their political gains."
Lashing out at the state government, Mann said: "It's a mafia government, which is working overtime to loot public as they are aware that they won't be able to come back to power. The AAP is set to sweep Punjab polls", said Mann.
Later, in an interaction with the media, Mann said ousted leaders such as Yogendra Yadav and others won't be able to dent AAP's prospects with their 'Swaraj Abhiyan'. He said the massive turnout at AAP rallies clearly indicates that people believe in Arvind Kejriwal . "I hope good sense will prevail among rebel leaders and they would come back into the party fold to strengthen it ahead of polls," he said.
AAP's Punjab convener Sucha Singh Chhotepur said the public is disillusioned with the SAD-BJP rile.. "It's the Badal family that is reaping all benefits. All decision are taken to directly or indirectly benefit the family," said Chhotepur.


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The Path Made Clear
The Path Made Clearby Oprah WinfreyFlatiron Books, 2019
Healing Truths
Oprah Winfrey offers advice to help you become your best self, achieve your dreams and live your truth.
by David Meyer
Oprah Winfrey – host of the most popular talk show in television history and founder of the Oprah Winfrey Network and the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa – believes a force deep inside you can show you your purpose – if only you listen. To figure out what to do, consider who you should be and what means the most to you.
Winfrey offers life lessons derived from her career of talking with people, being resilient, seeking wisdom and listening. She punctuates her spiritual journey with quotes from famous friends and TV guests. Her approach is vested in the New Age, but many readers will find it uplifting and, clearly, Winfrey's philosophy has worked well for her. If you're wondering about your own life path or seeking inspiration, she offers guidance with warmth and star power.
Oprah Winfrey started her career as a news anchor at a TV station in Baltimore, where she hosted a talk show, People Are Talking. She recognized that interviewing people was her life's purpose.
Your life is not static. Every decision, setback or triumph is an opportunity to identify the seeds of truth that make you the wondrous human being that you are. Oprah Winfrey
Winfrey trusts her feelings, believes anything is possible and recognizes that all people have "the seeds of knowing" within them. Life is an ongoing, dynamic process and you will continually learn, grow and renew. Ideas will come to you and plant themselves like seeds in your mind. Focus on these gifts and strengthen them. Life will veer in different directions as you receive new insights. The roots of your calling are deep inside you. Nurture them.
Your struggles – job loss, a ruptured relationship or financial problems – usually come with little "whispers" that indicate that your life is trying to send you a message. Hear them. When you ignore these whispers, you invite chaos.
Winfrey always felt at home on a stage. Yet when Harvard University asked her to give a commencement speech, she felt immense pressure. She kept putting off writing the speech, fearing she might have nothing fresh to say.
Find your lane. Make space for the flow to show itself. Follow the natural rhythm of your life, and you will discover a force far greater than your own. Oprah Winfrey
She procrastinated, which made her feel guilty. Negativity and resistance pop up when you pursue something meaningful and important. Winfrey realized that resistance always accompanies achievement. Confront your fear. Let negative internal chatter pass through you. Find the courage to move forward.
Often people work to achieve a goal but sabotage themselves just short of the win. Perfect your vision of what you want to achieve. That intention should come from your heart and be authentic to you. People will respond to your truth.
Trust that the universe has a bigger, wider, deeper dream for you than you could ever imagine for yourself. Oprah Winfrey
Winfrey's founding of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa was a formidable challenge. But her intense desire to give impoverished girls an environment that would nurture them and help them reach for the stars guided her. Impoverished girls would learn, as Winfrey had learned, that their potential and possibilities matter more than their circumstances. She committed to making her dream a reality, and she always thought it would succeed. Almost 400 graduates from her leadership academy have gone on to universities. They learned that their only limits are those they set themselves.
Many top performers, no matter their field, work in their flow state – super focused, where everything seems to click and to be clear, and where time stands still.
My life's goal is to be of service to a greater good. Wherever that true calling takes me, I've always been willing to go. Oprah Winfrey
For example, National Basketball Association champion LeBron James plays basketball with incredible focus and passion and thus embodies the truest versions of himself. Once you set your course, give yourself room "to focus on the next right choice." Finding flow brings a sweet intensity to life.
Fail Up
Mountains are serene from a distance, but climbing them presents a series of obstacles. Using those obstacles as an excuse to not make the climb would be easy.
All dreams start from the core. Unless you are in total alignment with whatever you envision, the dream will get derailed. Your intention has to be pure. Oprah Winfrey
In trying to start her network, Winfrey hit one problem after another. The press pounded her. The media kept reporting her initiative as "struggling." Then Winfrey realized she was privileged to be able to put her network together. She stopped describing it to herself as a struggle.
Sometimes the story you tell yourself no longer serves you; let it go. Every experience helps shape you into the person you're meant to be.
The late writer Maya Angelou was an important spiritual teacher for Winfrey. She made Winfrey feel loved and valued.
Once you accept…you have done everything that you can do, you surrender it. Let it go to the power and energy that's greater than yourself. Oprah Winfrey
Winfrey recognizes people's growing desire to bridge differences, to stop attacking those who hold different beliefs and to focus on what people have in common. Listening deeply to another person relieves their suffering. Don't wait until you retire to start thinking about your legacy. Do it now, and start living from that perspective.
Winfrey says she started her book club because she wanted everyone to read To Kill a Mockingbird. She also admires The Wizard of Oz, in which Dorothy goes on a hero's journey to find her "true self." Her companions – the scarecrow, the tin man and the cowardly lion – represent the aspects of herself she disempowered.
On Winfrey's show, a mother repeated her son's dying words: "Oh Mom, it is all so simple." From that moment, Winfrey has asked herself, "How am I making things more difficult than they need to be?" Your answer to that question, she says, points the way to the next step on your path.
Works for Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey is a beloved best-selling author, actress, television host, producer and household name. She has done a great deal of good in the world and has succeeded as few American women have. Much of her advice is sound – though couched in today's notions of mindfulness and relentless positivity. You may wonder whether it applies only to someone who's already resolved their basic financial needs. That is, you may wonder if you must have a certain amount of money before you can heed your inner whispers and find your truth? Winfrey would say, of course not. In any case, she writes with grace and remarkable self-effacement and expresses genuine concern for her readers. Her sincere desire to spread what she regards as healthful and helpful homilies shines through these pages. Winfrey offers many lovely sentiments, and her fans will gain from reading them.
David Meyer
David N Meyer is a content editor at getAbstract and author of The 100 Best Films To Rent You've Never Heard Of, Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music, The Bee Gees: The Biography, and other books. You can find his essays on film and music at davidnmeyer.com


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'use strict';

const ConsistentlyInteractive = require('../../audits/consistently-interactive.js');
const Runner = require('../../runner.js');
const assert = require('assert');

const acceptableTrace = require('../fixtures/traces/progressive-app-m60.json');
const acceptableDevToolsLog = require('../fixtures/traces/progressive-app-m60.devtools.log.json');

const redirectTrace = require('../fixtures/traces/site-with-redirect.json');
const redirectDevToolsLog = require('../fixtures/traces/site-with-redirect.devtools.log.json');

function generateNetworkRecords(records, navStart) {
  const navStartInMs = navStart / 1000;
  return records.map(item => {
    return {
      finished: typeof item.finished === 'undefined' ? true : item.finished,
      startTime: (item.start + navStartInMs) / 1000,
      endTime: item.end === -1 ? -1 : (item.end + navStartInMs) / 1000,
    };
  });
}

/* eslint-env mocha */
describe('Performance: consistently-interactive audit', () => {
  it('should compute consistently interactive', () => {
    const artifacts = Object.assign({
      traces: {
        [ConsistentlyInteractive.DEFAULT_PASS]: acceptableTrace,
      },
      devtoolsLogs: {
        [ConsistentlyInteractive.DEFAULT_PASS]: acceptableDevToolsLog,
      },
    }, Runner.instantiateComputedArtifacts());

    return ConsistentlyInteractive.audit(artifacts).then(output => {
      assert.equal(output.score, 99);
      assert.equal(Math.round(output.rawValue), 1582);
      assert.equal(output.displayValue, '1,580\xa0ms');
    });
  });

  it('should compute consistently interactive on pages with redirect', () => {
    const artifacts = Object.assign({
      traces: {
        [ConsistentlyInteractive.DEFAULT_PASS]: redirectTrace,
      },
      devtoolsLogs: {
        [ConsistentlyInteractive.DEFAULT_PASS]: redirectDevToolsLog,
      },
    }, Runner.instantiateComputedArtifacts());

    return ConsistentlyInteractive.audit(artifacts).then(output => {
      assert.equal(output.score, 95);
      assert.equal(Math.round(output.rawValue), 2712);
      assert.equal(output.displayValue, '2,710\xa0ms');
    });
  });

  describe('#findOverlappingQuietPeriods', () => {
    it('should return entire range when no activity is present', () => {
      const navigationStart = 220023532;
      const firstMeaningfulPaint = 2500 * 1000 + navigationStart;
      const traceEnd = 10000 * 1000 + navigationStart;
      const traceOfTab = {timestamps: {navigationStart, firstMeaningfulPaint, traceEnd}};

      const cpu = [];
      const network = generateNetworkRecords([], navigationStart);

      const result = ConsistentlyInteractive.findOverlappingQuietPeriods(cpu, network, traceOfTab);
      assert.deepEqual(result.cpuQuietPeriod, {start: 0, end: traceEnd / 1000});
      assert.deepEqual(result.networkQuietPeriod, {start: 0, end: traceEnd / 1000});
    });

    it('should throw when trace ended too soon after FMP', () => {
      const navigationStart = 220023532;
      const firstMeaningfulPaint = 2500 * 1000 + navigationStart;
      const traceEnd = 5000 * 1000 + navigationStart;
      const traceOfTab = {timestamps: {navigationStart, firstMeaningfulPaint, traceEnd}};

      const cpu = [];
      const network = generateNetworkRecords([], navigationStart);

      assert.throws(() => {
        ConsistentlyInteractive.findOverlappingQuietPeriods(cpu, network, traceOfTab);
      }, /activity continued/);
    });

    it('should throw when CPU is quiet but network is not', () => {
      const navigationStart = 220023532;
      const firstMeaningfulPaint = 2500 * 1000 + navigationStart;
      const traceEnd = 10000 * 1000 + navigationStart;
      const traceOfTab = {timestamps: {navigationStart, firstMeaningfulPaint, traceEnd}};

      const cpu = [];
      const network = generateNetworkRecords([
        {start: 1400, end: 1900},
        {start: 2000, end: 9000},
        {start: 2000, end: 8000},
        {start: 2000, end: 8500},
      ], navigationStart);

      assert.throws(() => {
        ConsistentlyInteractive.findOverlappingQuietPeriods(cpu, network, traceOfTab);
      }, /Network activity continued/);
    });

    it('should throw when network is quiet but CPU is not', () => {
      const navigationStart = 220023532;
      const firstMeaningfulPaint = 2500 * 1000 + navigationStart;
      const traceEnd = 10000 * 1000 + navigationStart;
      const traceOfTab = {timestamps: {navigationStart, firstMeaningfulPaint, traceEnd}};

      const cpu = [
        {start: 3000, end: 8000},
      ];
      const network = generateNetworkRecords([
        {start: 0, end: 1900},
      ], navigationStart);

      assert.throws(() => {
        ConsistentlyInteractive.findOverlappingQuietPeriods(cpu, network, traceOfTab);
      }, /Main thread activity continued/);
    });

    it('should handle unfinished network requests', () => {
      const navigationStart = 220023532;
      const firstMeaningfulPaint = 2500 * 1000 + navigationStart;
      const traceEnd = 10000 * 1000 + navigationStart;
      const traceOfTab = {timestamps: {navigationStart, firstMeaningfulPaint, traceEnd}};

      const cpu = [];
      const network = generateNetworkRecords([
        {start: 0, end: -1, finished: false},
        {start: 0, end: -1, finished: false},
        {start: 0, end: -1, finished: false},
      ], navigationStart);

      assert.throws(() => {
        ConsistentlyInteractive.findOverlappingQuietPeriods(cpu, network, traceOfTab);
      }, /Network activity continued/);
    });

    it('should find first overlapping quiet period', () => {
      const navigationStart = 220023532;
      const firstMeaningfulPaint = 10000 * 1000 + navigationStart;
      const traceEnd = 45000 * 1000 + navigationStart;
      const traceOfTab = {timestamps: {navigationStart, firstMeaningfulPaint, traceEnd}};

      const cpu = [
        // quiet period before FMP
        {start: 9000, end: 9900},
        {start: 11000, end: 13000},
        // quiet period during network activity
        {start: 18500, end: 22000},
        {start: 23500, end: 26000},
        // 2nd quiet period during network activity
        {start: 31500, end: 34000},
        // final quiet period
      ];

      const network = generateNetworkRecords([
        // initial page load + script
        {start: 1400, end: 1900},
        {start: 1900, end: 9000},
        // script requests more content
        {start: 11500, end: 18500},
        {start: 11500, end: 19000},
        {start: 11500, end: 19000},
        {start: 11500, end: 19500},
        // quiet period during Main thread activity
        {start: 28000, end: 32000},
        {start: 28000, end: 32000},
        {start: 28000, end: 35000},
        // final quiet period
      ], navigationStart);

      const result = ConsistentlyInteractive.findOverlappingQuietPeriods(cpu, network, traceOfTab);
      assert.deepEqual(result.cpuQuietPeriod, {
        start: 34000 + navigationStart / 1000,
        end: traceEnd / 1000,
      });
      assert.deepEqual(result.networkQuietPeriod, {
        start: 32000 + navigationStart / 1000,
        end: traceEnd / 1000,
      });
      assert.equal(result.cpuQuietPeriods.length, 3);
      assert.equal(result.networkQuietPeriods.length, 2);
    });
  });
});


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Cornetti, centre, with Nutella Brownies, left, and Almond Danish at Canova in Edmonton.
Amber Bracken/for The Globe and Mail
Labouring over Italian pastries
Couple makes popular panettone – a Milanese sweet loaf – using a traditional method straight from Italy , writes Liv Vors
Liv Vors
Published October 21, 2016 Updated October 21, 2016
Canova Pasticceria
canova.ca
This is Baby Tony," announces Kris Owczarek with fatherly pride as he hoists a swaddled basket up onto the front counter at Edmonton's Canova Pasticceria.
His wife and business partner, Carla Roppo-Owczarek, beams as he unwraps the cloth to reveal a glistening, golden blob of fragrant dough. Baby Tony is the starter for Canova's traditionally made panettone. He resides at the cozy northside bakery, which is sandwiched on a side street between a busy thoroughfare and the bustling CN railways. Baby Tony will provide leavening for the thousands of panettone – a Milanese sweet loaf traditionally served for Christmas and New Year's – that Canova intends to produce for the impending holiday season.
It isn't a task for those with an aversion to commitment. And the Roppo-Owzcareks are averse to neither commitment nor risk.
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Their story began in 2011 when Ms. Roppo-Owczarek, a self-described Food Network junkie who longed to work in the food industry, found herself with more free time as her children were starting school. Around then, local biscotti bakery DeFazio Gourmet was on the market. The couple, neither of them formally trained bakers, were intrigued enough to check it out.
"We asked if they were willing to train us if we bought the business, and they were. So we said, 'Let's do this!'" she recalls. The pair dove into the world of Italian cookies, acquiring the business in January, 2012, and did a brisk business selling biscotti of many flavours to local coffee shops.
Owner Carla Roppo-Owczarek, right, serves a customer at Canova.
The pair was eager to branch out, and Mr. Owczarek travelled to Italy to learn as much as possible about the art of intricate Italian pastries. The Roppo-Owczareks were also eager to master the difficult art of making panettone, as they were continually dismayed with store-bought versions ("They are so dry," bemoans Ms. Roppo-Owczarek). Mr. Owczarek, however, was shocked to discover that the majority of Italian bakers used a prepackaged mix instead of committing to the arduous and days-long method of baking them from scratch.
"Luckily, he found a few bakers in Milan who still made panettone the old way," recalls Ms. Roppo-Owczarek. Her husband returned with a new-found skill set, and eagerly set about fermenting raisins to create the basis for a sweet dough starter.
Thus, in 2014, Baby Tony was born. Tony, like a human infant, demands feeding every few hours. Fed with flour, the wild yeasts from the fermented raisins burp a constant stream of bubbles that will give the panettone its characteristic loft. After 18 hours have elapsed, copious amounts of egg yolks, butter and candied fruits are mixed in, and the dough is portioned out and shaped into rounds. It rises again before it is baked.
Cornetti.
"After you bake it, you have to hang them upside down or they collapse under their own weight and end up like a sad pancake," says Ms. Roppo-Owczarek with a laugh. "I'm not sure if anyone else in Canada is making panettone this way," adds Mr. Owczarek.
Canova has largely flown under the radar until now.
"Last year, we sold our panettone out of Sobeys and Sunterra Market in Edmonton, as well as a few places in Calgary, but we're trying to branch out into retail,"says Ms. Roppo-Owczarek. The pair hopes that this will change as word spreads of their commitment to their chosen craft. She adds, "We're hoping to create a buzz, but moving into retail from wholesale is a whole different beast. It's challenging, especially in this economy."
Canova Pasticceria has dipped its toes into the uncertain waters of retail sales by offering sweet and savoury pastries, amaretti cookies, and nutella brownies, in addition to biscotti and panettone. They recently started brewing Seattle-based Caffe Umbria coffee. While the temptation to dabble in more baked goodies lurks in the background, the Roppo-Owczareks know that their strength lies in their specificity, and with Baby Tony.
"We're small, so we can't do everything," says Ms. Roppo-Owczarek. "If it grows, we'll be ready. In the meantime, we will just keep doing what we love here."
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