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Happy Together: Hong Kong Romantic Expressionism
Happy Together is an expressionist watercolor of rough intimacy and unrequited romance.
Wong Kaw-Wai is the cinematic master of lost love, and here he applies himself to a particularly troubled couple. They both need to be cared for, and to some extent they both like caring for each other, but not in a symbiotic or mutually beneficial way. Tony Leung likes taking care of Leslie Cheung, but Leslie Cheung doesn't like being taken care of, and conversely Tony Leung doesn't like it when Leslie Cheung tries to take care of him in return. They like being together (each other's presence) more than they like anything about the other person (each other's being). Each of them is happy (individually) when they're together, but they don't experience that happiness together (consensually).
Both actors are wonderful in their roles, but it would be a shame not to mention Chen Chang, who plays a relatively minor role but is absolutely unforgettable. His character has the unique ability to hear conversations that are happening far away (not because he was exposed to gamma rays or anything but just because he was temporarily blinded as a child—he's more Daredevil than Spider-Man, if we want to stick with this awful superhero analogy), and Chang just plays him so sympathetically that he pops from his first scene to his last.
I've already written at length about certain aspects of Wong Kar-Wai's visual style, so I'll try to keep this brief and to the point. I love it. There are a variety of other directors I might like more than WKW for whatever reason, but if I had to pick one visual style to watch every movie in for the rest of my life, it would be his. He uses every tool from the broad strokes like color palette to the small details like shutter speed in order to blow out his characters emotions in a way which is beautiful without becoming unrelatable. Here he uses shifts between color and black & white, obstructive framing, step printing, wide angle close ups, jump cuts, and more; and it all adds to the bursting emotion of the piece.
Happy Together calls for us to throw off the emotional anchors that keep us grounded in the present, unable to move forward into the future. It's a reminder that even if we're happy when we're together, that doesn't mean being together makes us happy. Sometimes we have to let go and understand that "I know where to find him if I want to see him."
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Q: Rotating 2D Vector by unknown angle such that its direction vector is [1,0] I am trying to rotate a vector [x,y] around the origin such that when the rotation is completed it lies on the X axis. In order to do this, I'm first computing the angle between [x,y] and [1,0], then applying a simple 2D rotation matrix to it. I'm using numericjs to work with the vectors.
math.angleBetween = function(A, B) {
    var x = numeric.dot(A, B) / (numeric.norm2(A) * numeric.norm2(B));
    if(Math.abs(x) <= 1) {
        return Math.acos(x);
    } else {
        throw "Bad input to angleBetween";
    }
};

math.alignToX = function(V) {
    var theta = -math.angleBetween([1,0], V);
    var R = [[Math.cos(theta), -Math.sin(theta)],
             [Math.sin(theta), Math.cos(theta)]];
    return numeric.dot(R, V);
};

(Note: math is a namespace object within my project. Math is ye olde math object.)
This code works sometimes, however there are occasions where no matter how many times I run math.alignToX the vector never even gets close to aligning with the X axis. I'm testing this by checking if the y coordinate is less than 1e-10.
I've also tried using Math.atan2 with an implicit z coordinate of 0, but the results have been the same. Errors are not being thrown. Some example results:
math.alignToX([152.44444444444434, -55.1111111111111])
// result: [124.62691466033475, -103.65652585400568]
// expected: [?, 0]

math.alignToX([372, 40])
// result: [374.14435716712336, -2.0605739337042905e-13]
// expected: [?, 0]
// this value has abs(y coordinate) < 1e-10, so its considered aligned

What am I doing wrong?

A: If you're rotating something other than your vector, then you'll need to use your R matrix.  But if you just need to rotate your vector, the result will be [Math.sqrt(x*x+y*y),0].

A: Actually, the task of building a rotation matrix that aligns a known 2d vector with [1, 0] doesn't require any trigonometric functions at all.
In fact, if [x y] is your vector and s is its length (s = Sqrt(x*x + y*y)), then the transformation that maps [x y] to align with [1 0] (pure rotation, no scaling) is just:
          [ x y]
T = 1/s^2 [-y x]

For example, suppose your vector is [Sqrt(3)/2, 1/2].  This is a unit vector as you can easily check so s = 1.
    [Sqrt(3)/2     1/2   ]
T = [  -1/2     Sqrt(3)/2]

Multiplying T by our vector we get:
    [Sqrt(3)/2     1/2   ][Sqrt(3)/2]   [1]
T = [  -1/2     Sqrt(3)/2][  1/2    ] = [0]

So in finding the rotation angle (which in this case is Pi/6) and then creating the rotation matrix, you've just come full circle back to what you started with.  The rotation angle for [Sqrt(3)/2, 1/2] is Pi/2, and cos(Pi/2) is Sqrt(3)/2 = x, sin(pi/2) is 1/2 = y.
Put another way, if you know the vector, you ALREADY know the sine and cosine of it's angle with the x axis from the definition of sine and cosine:
cos a = x/s
sin a = y/s where s = || [x, y] ||, is the length of the vector.

A: My problem is so mind-bendingly obvious that I cannot believe I didn't see it. While I'm checking the domain of Math.acos, I'm not checking the range at all! The problem occurs when the vector lies outside of the range (which is [0,PI]). Here is what I did to fix it:
math.alignToX = function(V) {
    var theta = -math.angleBetween([1,0], V);
    var R = [[Math.cos(theta), -Math.sin(theta)],
             [Math.sin(theta), Math.cos(theta)]];
    var result = numeric.dot(R, V);
    if(Math.abs(result[1]) < ZERO_THRESHOLD) {
        return result;
    } else {
        V = numeric.dot([[-1, 0], [0, -1]], V); // rotate by PI
        theta = -math.angleBetween([1,0], V);
        R = [[Math.cos(theta), -Math.sin(theta)],
             [Math.sin(theta), Math.cos(theta)]];
        result = numeric.dot(R, V);
        if(Math.abs(result[1]) < ZERO_THRESHOLD) {
            return result;
        } else {
            throw "Unable to align " + V; // still don't trust it 100%
        }
    }
};

For the broken example I gave above, this produces:
[162.10041088743887, 2.842170943040401e-14]

The Y coordinate on this result is significantly less than my ZERO_THRESHOLD (1e-10). I almost feel bad that I solved it myself, but I don't think I would have done so nearly as quickly had I not posted here. I saw the problem when I was checking over my post for typos.

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Fuyumi Sakamoto
Fuyumi Sakamoto is a Japanese female enka singer under EMI Music Japan. Born in 1967, her debut occurred when she won an NHK song contest in 1987 at the age of 19. Over the past 15 years, she has gained wide popularity as an enka artist. She took a brief "intermission" of about one year and returned to the stage in spring 2003.
She is also a vocalist of rock band "His" with bassist Haruomi Hosono and guitarist Kiyoshiro Imawano, though Imawano died in 2009.
Her 1994 song "Yozakura Oshichi" is the notable song in her career. Although her songs were not popular in Japanese younger generation, it became one of her rare songs known by Japanese youth.
On January 7, 2009, Sakamoto released double A-side single "Asia no Kaizoku/Mata Kimi ni Koi Shiteru", debuting at #13 on the Japanese Oricon weekly charts."Mata Kimi ni Koi Shiteru" was her cover version of Japanese music duo Billy BanBan's song. Though she always took part in the Kōhaku Uta Gassen wearing kimono as an enka singer, she took part in the event without kimono for the first time and sang "Mata Kimi ni Koi Shiteru" at the 60th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen in 2009. After the performance, the double A-side single "Asia no Kaizoku/Mata Kimi ni Koi Shiteru" climbed from #87 to #15 on Oricon weekly charts.
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How to make any food a superfood from James Wong's "How to Eat Better."
Eat more fruits and vegetables. Especially vegetables.
If you've made a health-related New Year's resolution, this strategy is probably part of it. Whether you're losing weight, going vegetarian, trying paleo or keeping your blood sugar down (that's me) this advice is central.
Any amount of vegetables you add to your diet is smart. But you can be even smarter about it.
A new book, "How to Eat Better" by James Wong (Sterling Epicure), gathers up a wide range of science-based information about how to choose, store and prepare vegetables and other plant foods so that you get the absolute most of the good things in them. Did you know that the lycopene in tomatoes is released by cooking? Or that frozen blueberries are identical in nutrition to fresh (and are best eaten without milk products)?
I have been fascinated by this book since I got it. It's sort of like those "Eat This, Not That" books, except for food that's already healthy. My favorite bit I learned was that by chilling cooked rice or pasta overnight, you turn some of its simple carbs into resistant starch, which your body treats like fiber. That gives it a lower glycemic index, great for someone like me with high blood sugar. Also love that supersweet pineapple has twice the Vitamin C of the less delicious traditional kind, with no more sugar. But Wong shares hundreds of tips like that. And he explains the science and what kind of research is behind them.
Here are some of the points that Wong makes in his book that I find particularly interesting.
The variety of fruit or vegetable you choose can make a lot of difference to its nutritional benefits. For instance, yellow-skinned mangoes can contain five times more Vitamin C and A than round and green mangoes.
Pink or red grapefruit can provide 50 percent of the daily recommended dose of Vitamin A, compared to two percent from a white grapefruit. (And just about everything thinks the pink ones taste better).
Grape or cherry tomatoes have more lycopene and other phytonutrients per ounce than large tomatoes. That's because they have more skin and seed per ounce and that's where you find the important phytonutrients.
Yellow cauliflower has more Vitamin A than white. In fact, darker color is almost always an indication of more micronutrients.
Taking mushrooms out of the refrigerator and placing in a sunny window for an hour or two will multiply their Vitamin D content dramatically. Three sun-touched mushrooms will provide all the recommended amount of Vitamin D for a day. One study found that a 1-second exposure took Vitamin D from 0 to 824 percent of daily recommended intake.
Broccoli should be eaten as fresh as possible. It can lose up to 70 percent of its vitamin C and betacarotene and 50 percent of its antioxidants in six days. But other vegetables, particularly hard squash like butternut, increase their nutrition and taste in storage.
Many vegetables' healthful properties are defense mechanisms for the plant, so they increase in response to an injury, like slicing. So grating carrots makes them healthier than eating whole or sliced. And if you grate them and leave them in the fridge, they keep producing more antioxidants.
Some vegetables are best raw, others best cooked. Broccoli's good stuff is most available from the raw vegetable, but if you cook it and then add a dressing made with mustard, you make its phytonutrients available. But it should be cooked by steaming, sauteeing or microwaving. Don't boil broccoli and pour off the water: there goes the good stuff.
Sweet potatoes should be baked, not microwaved, fried or steamed if you want maximum heart-healthy polyphenols.
Cheap orange juice is comminuted, which means they blend whole oranges to a pulp and then filter the pulp. So you get the benefit of healthful chemicals in the zest and skin: more than from more expensive juices, which squeeze the pulp and toss the skins.
Robusta coffee (the cheap supermarket type) has more chlorogenic acids than arabica coffee (the expensive coffee shop type). Filtered coffee is a better way to extract polyphenols. Pale roasted beans are better than dark roast. So, drink cheap, light, filtered coffee, not fancy dark roast coffee in a French press or espresso.
So maybe that's going a little too far. Not every food has to be completely maximized for nutrition. And it would be hard to apply all the information in this book. I've picked out a few tips to work into my own life. I'm chilling my pasta and rice, eating blueberries for breakfast, adding more beans, especially black beans, and having a shot of cherry juice at night. And I'm going to try these recipes.
Combine all the ingredients except the garlic and cheeses in a large, shallow saucepan. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 15 minutes until the pasta is tender.
Stir in the garlic and grated cheeses. Cover with a lid, remove from the heat and let stand for five minutes to thicken.
Heat 1 teaspoon olive oil in a saucepan and brown 7 ounces ground beef in it.
10 minutes until the pasta is tender and the beef cooked through.
Ladle into 4 bowls and serve each topped with 1 tablespoon fresh ricotta cheese and a sprinkling of dried red chile flakes and oregano leaves or flowers.
Toss together all the ingredients except the basil in a roasting pan and roast for 40 minutes.
Stir the basil through the tomatoes to combine.


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Looking at a Profit and Loss Sheet can strike fear into the most ambitious business owner. It can also be a source of great anxiety if you are not sure of exactly what you are looking at.
Many business owners use the 'what I don't know won't hurt me' approach to the numbers. This couldn't be further from the truth, the numbers will hurt you very deeply if you don't have your head firmly wrapped around them.
You will need to get out all of the financial papers you have been hoarding in the bottom draw and take a look. What's in the bank accounts? What are your monthly expenses and overheads? What are the input costs for all of you products and/or services?
The key points to understand here are what do you have, what is coming in and what is going out on a weekly, monthly and annual basis.
Now that you know your actual current financial position; you can set some financial goals for your business. This is when a spreadsheet will come in very handy. You can download my Simple Budget Planner here.
By creating a budget you will be able to see very clearly how much you need to make to cover you costs and what you need to make to stay in the black.
Finally, understand your percentages. This will enable you to stick to your budget and work out where costs are too high or margins are too low.
If you are unsure of yourself, then ask your accountant or pay for some training. Great advice is priceless.
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Perfect for networking events or to treat your team, enjoy an indulgent afternoon with one of our experienced chocolatiers learning the art of making and correctly tasting chocolate, to include a fascinating talk about the cocoa bean, its origins, history, and how it becomes a chocolate bar from a bean. This session includes a practical demonstration in which we encourage guests to get involved.
A crazy innovative and memorable activity that requires a steady hand and nerve. Teams represent a country of their choice, they must build a land mark building either of their own design or an existing structure from their chosen country constructed entirely out of chocolate.
Our Belgian chocolate making workshops are perfect for any corporate occasion. We have run these sessions for many different companies for a variety of purposes such as staff rewards and incentives, networking events and client entertainment. If you want to make your guests feel special and give them something different then look no further this is the activity for you.
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The Victron 200 Amp Argo Fet Battery Isolator is designed similarly to diode battery isolators, however the main difference is the FET isolators allow simultaneous charging of two or more batteries from one alternator (or a single output battery charger), without connecting the batteries together. Therefore this means that discharging the accessory battery for example will not result in also discharging the starter battery. Which is makes it perfect to prevent your main start battery going flat. In contrast with diode battery isolators, FET isolators have virtually no voltage loss. Voltage drop is less than 0,02 Volt at low current and averages 0,1 Volt at higher currents. When using ARGO FET Battery Isolators, there is no need to also increase the output voltage of the alternator. Care should taken however to keep cable lengths short and of sufficient cross section. Example: When a current of 100 A flows through a cable of 50 mm2 cross section (AWG 0) and 10 m length (30 ft), the voltage drop over the cable will be 0,26 Volt. Similarly a current of 50 A through a cable of 10 mm2 cross section (AWG 7) and 5 m length (15 ft) will result in a voltage drop of 0,35 Volt! This model Does Have Alternator energize input Some alternators need DC voltage on the B+ output to start charging. Obviously, DC will be present when the alternator is directly connected to a battery. Inserting a Diode or FET splitter will however prevent any return voltage/current from the batteries to the B+, and the alternator will not start. The new Argofet isolators have a special current limited energize input that will power the B+ when the engine run/stop switch is closed.


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CWD acquired the much coveted ISO 9001:2015 certification last March 2 to 3, 2021 after passing the stage 2 certification audit by TUV Nord, a licensed and registered ISO certifying body.
The ISO 9001:2015 is all about Quality Management System (QMS). The recently acquired certification speaks of the District's true resolve to deliver customer-focus public service and assure that services are properly maintained and improved at par with the best in the industry, using risk based thinking at all times.
The ISO journey of Casiguran Water District started way back July 23, 2019 when Gov. Chiz Escudero through A.O No. 6-2019 included CWD to participate on province-wide ISO-QMS Seminar-Workshops as to be conducted by the Development Academy of the Philippines for government agencies and SMEs to develop Quality Management System certifiable to ISO 9001:2015. Starting on March 2020 however, the ISO journey was stalled for four months due to the pandemic. Trainings via webinar resumed on July 2020.
Having launched the CWD-QMS on September 17, 2020, the District went through the stringent Stage 1 certification audit on December 29, 2020 and successfully passed.
Casiguran Water District is so far the only water district in the Province of Sorsogon to acquire ISO 9001:2015 certification. The ISO Team members of CWD that were on the forefront in the District's ISO Journey include Engr. Eduardo P. Tejada, Ralph Louie H. Rafer, Cecilio E. Habalo Jr., Norman M. Habla and Leandro Duque.
The legal basis for the development of ISO-QMS includes Executive Order No. 605, dated February 23, 2007: Institutionalizing the Structure, Mechanisms, and Standards to Implement Government Quality Management Program, Amending for the Purpose Administrative Order no. 161, s 2006.
The record reveals that as of March 7, 2019, only 16% of Local Water Districts has acquired ISO 9001 QMS certification.
More than ever, the Casiguran Water District will always be guided by its motto: Serbisyong Bulahos para sa Gabos!


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Home Business News China says it is 'ready to work with US'
China says it is 'ready to work with US'
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump are trying to solve a trade tariff war
China has said it is "ready to work" with the US, suggesting progress in trade talks between the two countries.
It said it would be willing to work with the US to "implement the important consensus" reached at December's G20.
At the Buenos Aires summit the two countries agreed to suspend new trade tariffs for 90 days to allow for talks.
China's statement comes after President Donald Trump tweeted "big progress" was being made in relations after a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Just had a long and very good call with President Xi of China. Deal is moving along very well. If made, it will be very comprehensive, covering all subjects, areas and points of dispute. Big progress being made!
In Saturday's tweet, the US president said "talks were moving along very well".
Sunday's statement from Lu Kang, the spokesperson for the country's foreign ministry, appeared to confirm President Trump's optimism.
"China stands ready to work with the US to implement the important consensus reached by President Xi Jinping and President Trump in Argentina, expand co-operation on the basis of mutual benefit, manage differences on the basis of mutual respect," Mr Lu said.
Prior to the G20 meeting in Argentina, the US had warned it was considering 25% tariffs on $200bn (£152bn) of Chinese goods – more than double the 10% initially planned.
The White House says the tariffs are a response to China's unfair trade policies, which Mr Trump blames for helping to create a huge trade deficit.
What's the background to the trade war?
Mr Trump campaigned for president on a pledge to make trade fairer for the US, and repeatedly blamed China's trading practices for making American manufacturers less competitive.
US-China trade war in 300 words
The impact of tariffs on two US firms
The US imposed tariffs on a number of Chinese products, including consumer and industrial items such as handbags and rice.
China responded in kind, and both sides – the world's two largest economies – ended up imposing tariffs on billions of dollars of goods.
Media captionHas Trump kept his promises?
The US has hit $250bn of Chinese goods with tariffs since July, and China retaliated by imposing duties on $110bn of US products.
Tariffs ended up raising costs for American companies. Analysts say this is one of a number of factors that have put pressure on markets in recent weeks.
What's changed in recent weeks?
In early December, Mr Xi and Mr Trump met after the G20 summit in Buenos Aires for the first time since their trade war started.
Mr Trump agreed not to boost tariffs on Chinese goods from 10% to 25% on 1 January, and the US said China would buy a "very substantial" amount of agricultural, industrial and energy products.
What Trump and Xi's temporary truce means
The details of that deal are yet to be ironed out, however.
Negotiators from both countries have been in touch over recent weeks and face-to-face talks could take place in January.
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Helmeryk von Würzburg, także Helemrich von Wirzeburch, Almericus de Wurzeborg (urodz. ?, zm. wiosna 1263 pod Lubawą) – mistrz krajowy Prus w latach 1262-1263.

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Helmeryk pochodził z Würzburga (stąd przydomek "von Würzburg"). Wywodził się z bogatej rodziny ministeriałów związanych z miejscowymi biskupami. Ojciec Helmeryka, Hartwig, był kuchmistrzem w królewskiej rezydencji w Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Do zakonu krzyżackiego wstąpił w roku 1237 w Würzburgu. Z komandorią w rodzinnym mieście związany był długo, gdyż źródła potwierdzają jego obecność w Würzburgu jeszcze w 1246 roku. Następnie przeniesiony został do Ziemi Świętej. Związany z ówczesnym wielkim mistrzem Popponem von Osternohe pełnił funkcje szatnego zakonu oraz zastępcy marszałka zakonu. Do Prus przybył jako pełnomocnik wielkiego mistrza Anno von Sangerhausena. Celem wizyty pełnomocnika wielkiego mistrza na obszar prowincji nadbałtyckich była ocena rządów mistrza krajowego oraz pomoc w zaprowadzeniu porządku w trudnym okresie pierwszej fazy drugiego powstania pruskiego. Sytuacja w Prusach była na tyle krytyczna, że Helmeryk von Würzburg postanowił sam przejąć rządy, usuwając z funkcji mistrza krajowego Harmuda von Grumbacha. Nową funkcję pełnił blisko rok. Wiosną 1263 roku podjął nieudaną próbę rozbicia oddziałów pruskich dowodzonych przez Monte. Do bitwy, w której Helmeryk von Würzburg wraz z czterdziestoma innymi braćmi zakonnymi poniósł śmierć, doszło pod Lubawą. Ciało poległego mistrza krajowego złożono w katedrze w Chełmży.

Bibliografia
 Maciej Dorna Bracia zakonu krzyżackiego w Prusach w latach 1228-1309, Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, Poznań 2004, str. 180-181.

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Predatory Open Access Journals: Risks of Association
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The Language Teacher - Issue 43.1; January 2019
Gary Henscheid, Tokyo University of Science
Open access journals can be broadly defined as those freely available to readers online. While they are lauded by proponents for improving access to information, not all are completely open. Many offer access to some content while restricting access to other articles, and still others provide full online access after a certain time period. JALT publications, for example, are available to non-JALT members after six months.
Multiple studies indicate that open access research is significantly more likely to be cited than research published in non-open-access journals. There are two major open access models - those that charge authors to publish, and those funded under any of multiple other business models. Those charging authors are known as "gold open access", and this article investigates the ethics of paying to publish. The primary concern is that objectivity in the peer-review process is compromised by profit motives. University of Colorado at Denver librarian Jeffrey Beall dubbed them "predatory journals," and his account of them is discussed next.
Beall observed a proliferation of journals that charge authors fees to publish. He alleged a conflict of interest between paying to publish and peer review, and published lists of predatory journals and publishers from 2008 to 2017. Joelle Mornini (2017) provided a history of Beall's lists and related, on-going endeavors on her blog, The Always Learning Librarian.
Predatory publishers, Beall charged, "consider money far more important than business ethics, research ethics, and publishing ethics, and that these three pillars of scholarly publishing are easily sacrificed for profit" (Beall, 2017, p. 275). Many language journals are included on the lists, and if true, Beall's allegations raise serious ethical questions:
Since the advent of predatory publishing, there have been tens of thousands of researchers who have earned Masters and Ph.D. degrees, been awarded other credentials and certifications, received tenure and promotion, and gotten employment – that they otherwise would not have been able to achieve – all because of the easy article acceptance that the pay-to-publish journals offer. (Beall, 2017, p. 275)
With careers and reputations at stake, it was only natural that Beall noted a fervent defensiveness among many pay-to-publish authors, but even more troubling were the tactics that gold journal publishers would use to discredit him. Under pressure from his employer, Beall ceased publishing his lists in January 2017. Please see Beall's (2017) article for details. A cache of his lists as they last appeared can be found on Catherine Voutier's Exploring the Evidence Base blog (2017).
Despite being inadequate substitutes for thoughtful evaluation of research, blacklists and whitelists are widely used by universities. Beall predicted increased use of preprint servers such as arXiv.org [https://arxiv.org/] in academic publishing, which he believes will result in "the elimination of author fees and all the corruption that goes along with them" (Beall, 2017). In the meantime, pay-to-publish journals are rapidly proliferating, and the next section discusses the magnitude of the problem globally.
A Monumental Problem
In order to assess the scale of the problem, Shyamlal Yadav (2018) summarized the work of an International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which provided an online venue "to share findings on 175,000 publications published by some of the most important predatory publishers." Yadav also commented on the diversity of the journals, noting that they ranged "from Journal of Aging Research and European Journal of Medicinal Plants to Journal of Religious Studies, Buddhism and Living."
Predators have heretofore operated largely unscathed, but in the article, "Denialism on the Rocks: It Just Got a Lot Harder to Pretend that Predatory Publishing Doesn't Matter," Rick Anderson explained the causes for action by the US Federal Trade Commission in 2017 against OMICS, an Indian publisher. In addition to making fraudulent promises of peer review in return for fees that were not disclosed, OMICS allegedly made false claims about its editorial board, and it would not allow authors to withdraw papers they had submitted (Anderson, 2018).
While the scope of the problem in language education in Japan is hard to fathom, the author knows of at least one university English instructor posting articles published in predatory publications on academia.edu, and of another employed on a pay-to-publish editorial board. As Hirosaki Gakuin University Professor Edo Forsythe, editor of The Language Teacher's Wired column, argued:
There may be good people who will maintain high standards while using author fees to provide a quality journal to the public for free. But for every one of them, there will be 10 more who take any paper without real standards and those who are rejected from the "good journal" will flock to the others because they need to publish quickly and don't have the time or inclination to work to improve their writing ability enough to get into the "good journal." (E. Forsythe, personal communication; June 20, 2018)
Brown and Cook (2013) asserted that the risks to one's reputation of being associated with them were not worth taking. It therefore behooves scholars and writers not only to familiarize themselves with extant lists, but also with tools enabling independent assessments of various repositories and venues for publication. The next section offers a few suggestions for avoiding dubious publications.
Avoiding Shams
One resource for legitimizing open access journals is the Directory of Open Access Journals [https://doaj.org/], a comprehensive database that attempts to exclude predatory journals. The ICIJ will hopefully soon be releasing names of the thousands of predators that it has identified, but ThinkCheckSubmit [https://thinkchecksubmit.org/] provides helpful tips for avoiding predators as well.
Perhaps more of the onus for screening predatory journals should fall on faculty members during application screening and in interviews. If an author's work has truly undergone scrutinous peer review, then email, Google Docs, or other records of correspondence with reviewers could easily substantiate their authenticity.
Besides where to publish one's work, authors also must decide which sources to cite in their research, and in light of the caveats issued by prominent researchers in Japan, avoiding predators seems prudent. Finding corroborating evidence is always a good idea, but it's imperative if a source or its findings seem suspicious somehow.
Paying to publish is legal, but Beall and other investigators have questioned the ethics of publishers whose reviews are tainted by the influence of money, as many on Beall's lists and others are strongly suspected to be. Though Beall discontinued publishing his lists, they are still considered authoritative by many, and those and other lists like them are readily available online.
JALT publications are widely recognized in Japan, and since neither they nor university journals accept payments to publish, these are probably two of the better options for authors here. Standards in university journals vary widely. Those for the elite universities may be relatively high, while other universities publish materials without any review at all. Nevertheless, subjecting one's work to peer-review is prudent and well worth the extra effort.
Despite the risks and pitfalls, fresh perspectives must be welcomed, and writers cannot be discouraged by occasional setbacks. Hiring committees usually request copies of applicants' papers, and job candidates are given opportunities to answer questions about their work and about their approaches to teaching in interviews. Provided authors have thoroughly explored their topics, and can defend the value of their ideas in language teaching, their knowledge, integrity and enthusiasm should shine through in interviews, as well.
Anderson, R. (2018). Denialism on the Rocks: It Just Got a Lot Harder to Pretend that Predatory Publishing Doesn't Matter [Web log post]. Retrieved from https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/08/07/denialism-rocks-just-got-...
Beall, J. (2017). What I learned from predatory publishers. Biochemia Medica, 27(2), 273-278. doi: 10.11613/BM.2017.029
Brown, H., & Cook, M. (2013). Unscrupulous journal solicitations: What they are, what they do, and how you can protect yourself. The Language Teacher, 37(3) 48-49.
Mornini, J. (2017). Legacy of Beall's list: Ongoing efforts to identify predatory journals [Web log post]. Retrieved from https://alwayslearninglibrarian.wordpress.com/2017/07/29/legacy-of-beall...
Voutier, C. (2017, January 23). Beall's List of Predatory Publishers [Web log post]. Retrieved from https://clinicallibrarian.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/bealls-list-of-predat...
Yadav, S. (2018, July 19). Inside India's fake research paper shops: pay, publish, profit. The Indian Express. Retrieved from https://indianexpress.com/article/india/inside-indias-fake-research-pape...
Gary Henscheid is an adjunct English instructor at Tokyo University of Science and at Daito Bunka University. He holds a B.B.A. in financial management from St. Mary's University of San Antonio, and an M.Ed. in counseling from the University of North Texas. Prior to moving to Japan in 2000, he worked in building material sales and banking.
Websites Mentioned
ArXiv.org (https://arxiv.org/) is an e-print service of Cornell University for the fields of math, science, engineering, economics, and finance.
Directory of Open Access Journals (https://doaj.org/) is an independent, community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access free of charge to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
ThinkCheckSubmit (https://thinkchecksubmit.org/) is an international, cross-sector initiative that aims to educate researchers, promote integrity, and build trust in credible research and publications.


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If you have Gaia Repo 1, 2, & 3, then after you update the Gaia Repo to 3.2.0+, then uninstall Gaia Repos 2 & 3.
Continue to with the rest of the setup below.
This is the easiest way to install Seren if you already have the GitHub Browser add-on from TVAddons / Fusion.
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Seren doesn't come pre-installed with providers. You will need to install some providers.
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Again, these are paid services. They are incredibly cheap and totally worth every penny if you want a hassle free Kodi experience with high-quality and high-bandwidth streams.
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Go to the Add-on Browser > Install from repository > Nixgates Repo > Services > install "Up Next".
After it installs, the select "Configure" on the same screen.
Change "Default action when nothing selected" to "Don't play".
If you saw this message that means you were one of the early adopters of the Seren add-on from when it was initially released.
Apparently, some of the changed they made in the newer version could not repair the bugs from the initial release.
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If you run into any issue when trying to install Seren, please let me know in the comments below. I love to help. Thanks.
I've authorized Trakt in my settings, but it seems to have done nothing. My username does not appear over the authorize button, and I don't see "My movies" or "My shows" as options inside of Seren. I do however see Seren as one of my authorized apps inside my Trakt profile.
Try restarting Kodi now. I think I've seen Seren needing a reboot before it will show the new menu items after authorizing your Trakt account.
I had already tried that, as well as reloading the skin and rebooting the computer. What finally fixed it was going into my "Connected Apps" on the Trakt website, revoking access for everything, and then re-authorizing only Seren. I haven't re-authorized anything else yet, but I think it would work as it should now.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing how you fixed it.


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Happy Holidays from Twist Art Gallery
posted by Beth Gilmore at 9:06 AM
It's Not Hellfire at Twist Gallery
Joe Nolan for the Nashville Scene
Consistently the best venue on the Crawl, Twist kicks the year off with a mythological menagerie. Jessica C. White's narrative drawings find furry friends like bunnies and deer taking on the role of mythological mouthpieces, speaking deep moral truths to our uncertain times. To her credit, White's animal oracles don't go for cheap laughs or creep-show schlock. Her picture-book renderings provide a believable setting for their asides, which, at their best, are touching and heartfelt. In the Arcade 73 space, Nashville's Matt Christy returns from his well-received show at The University of the South in Sewanee. Recent Christy shows have included everything from baroque, pop-culture collages to porno-inspired paintings. We're not sure what's on for tonight, but a typical Christie show is half eye candy, half creepy juxtapositions…and half sublime insight. You do the math.
Opening reception 6-9 p.m., Jan. 2, as part of First Saturday. also there will be a second opening reception on January 9th from 6-9 pm
Christmas is installation art
from the journals of Beth Gilmore ... quote.... Christmas is installation art. a great many folks only make art a few times a year easter, christmas and halloween. this is usually done by putting a lot of crazy colorful s#*t in their front yards... and obviously Christmas trees
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Twist Art Gallery presents: Matt Christy... Wrench Rupture Suture... in Twist 58 ... January 2010
Twist Art Gallery presents: Matt Christy ...Wrench Rupture Suture ... in Twist 58 ...January 2010
opening January 2nd from 6-9pm as part of the First Saturday Art Crawl in Nashville's Historic Arcade and the 5th Ave. of the Arts
Show runs January 2nd - 30th, 2010
Matt Christy is a writer and an artist from Nashville. He graduated from Watkins College with a BFA in Fine Arts. He has written criticism for Number: an art's journal. Matt might someday pursue a Master's degree in art criticism and critical theory.
The Tennessean: Sarah Shearer's portraits at Twist 58 question feminine ideals
Sarah Shearer's portraits at Twist 58 question feminine ideals
Sarah Shearer: Seven Questions, currently on view at Twist 58, explores the nature of beauty, superficiality, strength, happiness and other ideas in two series of female portraits.
Shearer created a special little world for the show, starting by painting the gallery floors bright pink — a hue somewhere between bubblegum and Pepto Bismol.
The paintings are "pretty feminine and introspective," Shearer says, "so I thought I might as well go with that. It's pretty bold."
Shearer's combinations of texture and pattern are equally bold. In her larger paintings, she positions a woman (or women) staring confidently from the canvas, against striking backgrounds of stripes or elaborate designs rendered in turquoise, gold and other vivid colors. These are made by spraying paint through fabric as a stencil.
Shearer also employed this stenciling technique on the gallery's large windows, creating a white, frosty base over which she painted her name in a flowing script. The resulting signage gives the gallery the appearance of a little boutique. Indeed, it's similar to a hair salon a few doors down.
The smaller paintings in the show are Shearer's newest. They complement the more reserved larger works with harsher, more forceful images and rougher textures built from layers of rubbery, dried latex paint.
Sarah Shearer: Seven Questions remains on view at Twist 58 in the Arcade through Saturday. Gallery hours this week are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday and 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. For information, call 1-888-535-5286 or go to http://www.twistartgallery.com/">www.twistartgallery.com.
— MICHELLE JONES, FOR THE TENNESSEAN
Family members branch out with Three Ways Different at Twist Art Gallery
By MiChelle Jones
FOR THE TENNESSEAN
It's not immediately obvious what Dona Berotti's glass and copper sculptures, Cristina Viscu's graphite drawings and Rob McClurg's ceramic pods have in common. Yet Three Ways Different, on view at Twist Art Gallery through Dec. 26, not only works as a cohesive show, it's also one of the most interesting gallery exhibitions of the year.
The show's theme began taking shape four years ago, when husband-and-wife artists McClurg and Berotti became host parents to Viscu, a young artist from Moldova who was at the time an exchange student in Berotti's advanced placement art class at Hillwood High School. Viscu is now a junior at Watkins College of Art and Design, where McClurg is a sixth-year faculty member.
Pieces in an exhibition
"There was kind of a joke in the family that there was a Cris way, a Dona way and a Rob way, because we all thought very differently," Berotti says. For Father's Day, Berotti and Viscu presented McClurg with a card that said "way." "Then Cris came up with the title for the show, Three Ways Different, because we were all living in the same household, but we all perceive and work in different ways."
Close inspection of Berotti's glasswork reveals textures reminiscent of antique tin ceilings. Indeed, she uses ceiling material when constructing her molds. Viscu's snippets of portraits are at once exquisitely rendered and sketch-like.
For the past few years, McClurg has been making ceramic forms inspired by seeds. They vary in size (the largest are about 22 inches long by 11 inches wide) and the finishes range from smooth and shiny to rough and splotchy, painted to resemble natural clay. Some of the pieces resemble chess pieces, others bear a passing resemblance to sperm, and the largest forms are gourd-like and sometimes contain clay beads that rattle when shaken.
The second room of Three Ways Different has a more spontaneous, experimental feel than the first. This is partly because while the artists had developed a loose plan for the first room, the second space was more of a work-in-progress during installation.
Two works in particular resulted from late-night improvisation: a piece combining elements of all their work and an interactive piece that took shape when they hung another glass sign — reading "What Are You Looking At?" — over a small settee found in the gallery.
"That happened at 2 o'clock in the morning," Berotti says, laughing. "The whole (idea) with that question was to deconstruct the scene. . . . Are you looking at the art? Are you looking at the person sitting on the couch? Is the person sitting on the couch part of the piece, which they do become. Then the piece becomes constantly changing, because someone new is sitting on the couch."
Berotti says the inclusion of the settee makes the piece, which felt incomplete on its own.
"That was just a very fortuitous thing . . . and apart from that, I will do that if I ever show that work again."
Partners in art
In contrast to the subtlety of that piece is the kinetic feel of the installation on the adjacent wall. McClurg's pods march diagonally toward the ceiling from a small heap on the floor. A glass baby bottle by Berotti is inverted over the pile, spilling copper wire intertwined with Berotti's own hair. Tiny snatches of Viscu's drawings are mixed in among the pods.
"We wanted to do a last piece that was all of us together — a collaborative piece," Berotti explains. "And also that happened late at night. That was actually the play part of the piece, the play part of the exhibition."
"Dona is the catalyst on that," McClurg says. "I would have just gladly closed the boxes back up and said, 'Look, I'm tired, I want to go home.' I did actually say that."
But Berotti prevailed, and the three played around with the arrangement. The following morning, just hours before the opening reception, Viscu and her roommate tweaked the pods so the curly ends were angled, creating the illusion of movement.
Though Berotti and McClurg have curated shows as a team and also worked together on pieces, Berotti describes this as their "first big, major collaboration." It is also an artistic expression of the bond they share with their former exchange student.
"We're still a family," Berotti says. "Even though Cris is not with us, she's still a part of our family."
What: Three Ways Different, ceramics, glass and pencil on paper by Dona Berotti, Rob McClurg and Cristina Viscu
Where: Twist Art Gallery, Arcade No. 73
When: Through Dec. 26
Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday–Friday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday
www.twistartgallery.com
from the journals of Beth Gilmore....quote...definition of studio vs. gallery .. it cant
even count all the times people confuse these words . they don't even
contain any of the same letters. example to help explain the
difference... a studio is a kitchen, a gallery is a dining room..
Jessica White at Twist Art Gallery January 2010
Jessica C. White at Twist Art Gallery #73 : January 2010
Similar to the way animals were used in folktales and ancient mythologies to explain the mysterious world of the past, I create images with animals that attempt to make sense of uncertainties in our world today. Children's book images, medieval bestiaries, and folk tales inspire my investigations both visually and textually. Much of my exploration revolves around good versus evil, right and wrong, justice, and wonder.
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Nashville Gallery Examiner: Everyone can use a good church'n up
Nashville Arts and Entertainment Nashville Galleries Examiner
Everyone can use a good church'n up
December 1, 8:55 AM Nashville Galleries Examiner Chuck Beard
Waffle Shop
Nashville's Downtown Presbyterian Church
I'd say by now that the after effects of last weekend's turkey debacle have begun to subside your hunger as it has mine for birds, fresh-oven rolls, and homemade pies. I think my stomach is now growling out of relief instead of anger. I figure why not celebrate this newfound relief by treating myself with and telling all of my closest friends (you) about a great deal on waffles!
Pause as my stomach giggles.
Yep, I said it! This Thursday, December 3, from 11am-2pm, the Downtown Presbyterian Church is opening its Waffle Shop for the 84th time. Begun in 1926, the Downtown Presbyterian Church is continuing its bread and butter fundraiser event by inviting you to come over and visit with them and waffles, turkey hash/sausage, grits, coffee/spiced tea, baked goods, craft items, and their ever elusive cheese wafer for the mere price of $6 per person. All of the money raised from the event goes towards the church building fund and church ministries, like feeding the homeless every Wednesday and Sunday.
As you may or may not already know, the Downtown Presbyterian Church has not only become an immense help for the local homeless by providing food, shelter, support and positive direction, it has also developed into quite the central hub for many local artists to hone their own talents within the church's artist-in-residency program. In exchange for studio space, chosen artists are more than happy to lend helping hands within a variety of church functions and donate their artistic knowledge to others wanting to create something more for themselves. One such artist that has participated in this program and is opening a solo show this Saturday, December 5th at the Twist 58 Gallery is local talent Sarah Shearer.
Shearer, always creating work that permeates deeper than whatever the canvas reveals, has carried on along her artist statement by attempting to do work that reflects her ideas that have stemmed from countless questions flying around her own head. This show, appropriately called Sarah Shearer: Seven Questions is built around the foundation of the following questions:
What is meaningful?
What is superficial?
What makes me happy?
Why do those things make me happy?
What is beauty?
Why are some things that are beautiful labeled superficial?
Does beauty equal weakness in your eyes?
So come out to Twist and Twist 58 Gallery this Saturday, December 5th, from 6-9pm and check out the best of Shearer's (as well as the exhibit Three Ways Different: works by Dona Berotti, Rob McClurg and Cristina Viscu too) latest efforts. Maybe you can ask the artist for some of the answers she found within her work regarding to her introspective questions. Maybe, if you're not scared to look deeper, you will find answers to some of your own questions as well!
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Sacred Space: Sounds of the Present in a Place from the Past
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Tuesday, December 01st, 2009
By Joe Nolan
In Nashville, great musicians record in great rooms – Elvis Presley at RCA Studio B, Jack White at Blackbird Studio. Now, artists and engineers are discovering a space for music-making that isn't a studio at all. It's a 150-year-old church sanctuary inspired by the architecture of ancient Egypt. WPLN's Joe Nolan reports.
Audio for this feature is available here.
In the Sanctuary of Nashville's Downtown Presbyterian Church, a small audience gathers in the front pews for a live concert. After fiddling with his tuning pegs and shaking the bangs from his eyes – singer/songwriter Terry Price eases into his first song…
(SOUND: Terry Price "No Ice" live)
The Sanctuary is bigger than a professional basketball court, but Price's tentative finger-picking fills the room. Nearby, an audio engineer turns up the input knob on an old-school tape machine. The uniquely named Welcome to 1979 is a Nashville music studio that prides itself on its vintage gear and its commitment to recording on reel-to-reel tape instead of on computers. The first time audio engineer Neil Anderson and his partners toured the church they knew they wanted to record there.
ANDERSON – "We just fell in love with the rooms. We've always wanted to record in rooms that were this large and this monumental. The walls are very reflective which means the sound will bounce around quite a bit, and the ceilings are extremely tall which lend themselves to monstrous sounding recordings."
Although they fell for the space's sound, the engineers had been invited on a tour to see the church's stunning architecture. Exotic birds, colorful flowers and Egyptian motifs fill the Sanctuary's walls, while palm trees bend above a cracked desert in the huge stained glass windows.
JIM HOOBLER: "At the front of the Sanctuary, it looks like a stage setting from Aida. Like you could perform Opera up there."
Jim Hoobler is a curator at Tennessee State Museum and a member of the Downtown Presbyterian Church.
HOOBLER: "There are frescoes on the walls that have a perspective painting of a hall of columns. Amun Ra, the Sun God of Egypt is carved at the top."
Painted versions of the winged disc symbol of Amun Ra repeat throughout the Sanctuary, which is one of the few surviving examples of Egyptian Revival architecture in America.
The style was inspired by Napoleon's survey of Egypt in the late 1700's. Designed in 1851 by William Strickland – the architect of the Tennessee State Capitol – the room is built for music. Hardwood and plaster materials reflect sound throughout the space. The coffered ceiling with it's crisscrossing beams and inset canvas panels creates a grid of boxes that capture music and redirect it back down into the audience.
(SOUND: John Francis "Johnny Cash On the Radio" live)
Strickland's design allows a songwriter like John Francis to sing and play guitar – with no amplification – and make what the engineers call a "monstrous sounding recording".
While the Sanctuary's sound may be a new discovery for Welcome to 1979, the space has already hosted recording artists like old-timey chanteuse Julie Lee and Patty Griffin, who's new gospel CD was recorded in the Sanctuary and is set for release in early 2010. While gospel music is a natural fit for a church, unplugging for an acoustic show was an unusual twist for hard rock band Orange Willard and their lead singer Rusty Paquay.
(SOUND: Orange Willard's "Angels" live)
RUSTY PAQUAY: "We try to be the loudest band around and most powerful. This is like one of those very rare moments for us especially because we're so used to playing clubs and loud venues… nice change of pace."
The engineers from Welcome to 1979 return to the Downtown Presbyterian Church for another live recording during the Gallery Crawl this Saturday. The monthly art event provides a built in audience for the shows. While the concerts are a promotional opportunity, all the recordings are done for free. Chris Mara – the studio's owner – sees the series as a creative project, not just a marketing ploy.
CHRIS MARA: "I think art inspires art. You know when I'm down here I feel more creative and same with the artists we bring down here to record they just love the space. I mean artists made this."
It's been said when it comes to good music, it's the singer not the song that counts. Sometimes, it is the singer. Sometimes, it's the song. But, sometimes, it's the space that makes all the difference.
For Nashville Public Radio, I'm Joe Nolan
(SOUND: John Francis "People On The Edge Of The World" live)


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Stars come in all different sizes. Our own sun is considered to be a medium sized star. The creation of a star will almost always end up with lots of extra gas and dust. These broil, crash together and can eventually become asteroids and then planets. A star always has a gravitation pull, and the strength depends upon the size of the star. The bigger the star, the more gravitational pull it has on the objects around it.
When we see a star, including our sun, we are watching it as it burns the hydrogen contents of its core (the center). This process takes billions of years and it creates heat that is spun off into the universe. We experience this when we go outside and feel the heat of the sun on our skin.
You would think that the bigger the star, the longer it would exist, but it's really the exact opposite. Larger stars burn up their hydrogen core much more quickly that small and medium sized stars. When that happens, there is an intense new process that begins, called fusion. When the star doesn't have any more hydrogen, it is like being starved. It slowly begins to collapse in on itself and, in the process, tries to use up all of its resources to create different kinds of materials.
If you look at a dying star, you would see that the light actually pulsates and can get larger. This is because it is no longer stable and is using everything it has to try to keep from dying. You might be surprised to find that some of the materials that it is creating at this point includes helium, silicon, and oxygen. It will continue to create materials until it gets to one point. When it creates iron, it's all over. Once the core turns to iron, it doesn't have the ability to 'burn' anymore.
When a star can't burn anymore, due to an iron core, it begins to collapse in on itself. Due to intense gravitational pull, in just a small amount of time it can shrink from the size of the earth to about 6 miles wide. The core continues to heat up to billions of degrees until it finally explodes. This is called a star going 'nova'. This blasts out all of the material into space. It may take billions more years for all of that stuff to gather again to form a new nebula and then make new stars and eventually planets.
Stars die – so that new suns and planets can be created. It is all part of the life process of the star. If you think about it, as part of our planet we are made and grow from everything around us, and therefore we are all made of 'star stuff'.
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Tweedy the clown is putting on a show with his legendary comedy and slapstick skills. Unfortunately classical musician Ludvink Loyal thinks he's there to put on a symphony concert. Can two contrasting characters learn to get on and make the show work? Let's hope so.


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Travel Guide to holidays in... Eglwysbach, Conwy, Wales
Eglwysbach is a town in Conwy, Wales. It is situated near to Conwy, Llanrwst, Llanrwst, Rowen, Colwyn Bay, and Gyffin and is one of 12 towns or villages in Conwy in which Go2 has cottages or holidays lets available. The nearest main cities are Bangor (population 15,280), Swansea (population 169,880), and Newport (which has a population of 116,143 according to the 2001 Census). Follow the links to find holiday cottages and lets available in this area on Go2, or view the surrounding area on the map below.
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Osun Government Seeks Patience from Workers
by Adegboyega Odumesi
Sunday Owoeye, Osun State Head of Service, on Thursday, appealed to members of the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, COEASU, to exercise patience over the issue of their contributory pension and other related matters.
While reacting to reports of the press conference held by the union on Wednesday, Owoeye stressed that workers need to take cognizance of Rauf Aregbesola's disposition to their welfare since the inception of his administration.
Owoeye, who said the Aregbesola's administration has been able to manage the state's affairs in spite of the global financial crisis, stressed that the government is working assiduously to address all the issues raised by the union.
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"Every Nigerian is aware of the economic and fiscal mess which all states of the federation are contending with as a result of the ineptitude of the Federal Government in prudent management of our country's commonwealth. The State of Osun is no exception. It takes a sense of saving for a rainy day and high dosage of financial engineering on the part of the State Government of Osun to cope and attend to critical needs of the citizenry up to date with a strategic scale of preference. Suffice it to state that it is settled in economics that human wants are unlimited but resources are scarce," Owoeye said.
While reiterating the state government's unflinching commitment to the welfare of workers, Owoeye stressed that they should be hopeful of a better tomorrow.
"The Unions should exercise patience because at the bottom of patience, one finds heaven.The commitment of the State Government to its workers' welfare remains unflagging in spite of the current frustration it is facing from the Federal Government's inability to fulfill its federal allocation obligations to the state.
"The Unions should not be in despair because in no distant time, there is hope for a better financial tomorrow bearing in mind that the man who walks in the company of hope is not a lonely man. Taking panicky actions at a time like this would only exacerbate, rather than ameliorate, the situation of things," he added.
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THE REAL WAR HORSE
11th November 2018 marks 100 years since the end of World War One. Also known as the Great War, it remains one of the largest, deadliest conflicts in history with an estimated sixteen million people dying as a direct result of the war. Whilst we remember the men and women who fell this Sunday, we might also spare a thought for the eight million horses and countless donkeys and mules who died whilst serving the war effort.
These animals died not just from shellfire but also suffering painful deaths from wounds, starvation, thirst, exhaustion, disease and exposure to terrible weather and appalling conditions from freezing mud on the Western Front to the oppressive heat of Tunisia, Eritrea and Burma.
At the start of the war, the British Army had 25,000 horses but a further 115,000 were purchased under the Horse Mobilisation Scheme. Over the course of the war, between 500 and 1000 horses were shipped to Europe every day for the British Army alone.
Initially, most of these horses were used as cavalry horses as they had been for thousands of years. But their vulnerability to modern machine gun and artillery fire meant their role changed to transporting troops and ammunition. At the start of the war, military vehicles were relatively new inventions and prone to problems, which meant horses and mules were more reliable, cheaper forms of transport.
Many of these animals were used to transport ammunition and supplies to the troops as well as the sizeable field guns. It would take six to 12 horses to pull each gun. Sources also show that Dummy horses were sometimes used to deceive the enemy into misreading the location of troops.
Beyond the horror of war, there was some animal welfare in place. Vets treated 2.5 million horses and two million of those recovered and returned to the battlefield. The British Army Veterinary Corp hospitals in France alone cared for 725,000 horses and successfully treated three-quarters of them. A typical equine hospital could treat 2,000 animals at any one time.
Well-bred horses were more likely to suffer from shell shock and be affected by the sights and sounds of battle than their less refined compatriots, who could be taught to lie down and take cover at the sound of artillery fire. Records show that one-quarter of all deaths were due to gunfire and gas; exhaustion and disease claimed the rest.
During the war, horse food was the single largest commodity shipped to the front by some countries, including Britain. The manufacturers of Quaker Oats put in a bid to supply army horses with cakes baked from oats and molasses, but this proposal was dismissed as too extravagant.
Back on the Home Front, some owners took drastic measures such as putting their animals to sleep before the army could seize them to avoid their horses facing the terrible and terrifying conditions at war. War Horses were considered of such value that is a soldier's horse died, he was required to cut off a hoof and bring it back to his commanding officer to prove that the two had not simply become separated.
In a single day during the Battle of Verdun in 1916, 7,000 horses were killed by long-range shelling on both sides, including 97 killed by single shots from a French naval gun. Losses were particularly heavy among Clydesdale horses, which were used to haul guns.
Over the course of the Great War, Britain lost over 484,000 horses- one horse for every two men. Yet many more were left or sold off in the places they served for an even worse fate than death- a life of hard labour and torment. It was whilst living in Egypt in the 1930s that a British woman named Dorothy Brooke was struck by the number of Allied war horses and donkeys who had been sold to be workhorses in Cairo. Nearly all were emaciated, old and worn out. She wrote a letter to the Morning Post (now the Daily Telegraph), exposing this reality. It moved readers so greatly that they sent her the equivalent to £20,000 in today's money to help end the suffering of these noble beasts.
Within three years, Brooke had purchased five thousand ex-warhorses. Most had to be humanely put down to end their suffering but they at least ended their lives more peacefully than would otherwise have been the case. In 1934, she founded the Old War Horse Memorial Hospital in Cairo with the promise of free veterinary care for all the city's working horses and donkeys. Soon after The Brooke charity was established and has been a leading force in helping working animals and their owners in the developing world.
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10 things you may not know about Gemma Tattersall's eventer, Arctic Soul aka "Spike"
Born in Ireland he was bred by Michael Whitty.
He started life as a racehorse but he didn't win a thing. "He was rubbish" says Gemma.
He was rescued off the meat truck in Ireland by Marti Rudd, a Performance horse dealer who bought him for 500 euros. Nicki Roncoroni purchased him for Philip Kerr who rode him for a number of years. Nikki produced him to 1* level and then Gemma was given the ride in 2012 when he was eight years old.
His first event with Gemma was a novice at Tweseldown in 2012 which he won. He went from novice to 3* in a year.
His favourite things are going cross-country and rolling. He absolutely loves water and will paw the ground to make a splash. He loves puddles and will find the muddiest wet puddle to roll in.
He eats Gain horse feeds: freedom mix and freedom nuts, hay and haylage, plenty of grass.
The last person who fell off him was Sarah (one of Team Tatts grooms) when he bucked her off.
What he wished he knew at six years old- eg bucking in the dressage warm up is a waste of energy.
His favourite event is Burghley according to Gemma.
What he could not live without: Gemma, his best friend and his field mate Pamero 4
Gemma Tattersall and "Spike" are Ambassadors of Equine Charity, The Brooke and support their "EVERY HORSE REMEMBERED" campaign. www.thebrooke.org
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Whether you are searching for a vintage find, beautiful one-of-a-kind piece or just looking for something unique to do for the day – Vintage Bazaar is the ideal place. Stroll about quintessential New England pastures, visit each "outdoor boutique" and stop along the way to enjoy treats from local food vendors. Spectacular displays and unique wares will amaze you…it is an inspiring treasure hunt experience that you won't soon forget. So mark your calendars, grab your family and friends, and get BAZAAR!


Homeowners face many electrical issues that are challenging and frustrating without the assistance of a trusted electrician. Green Line Electric of Shelton, Washington, only sends qualified electricians we would have in our own home to perform electrical safety inspections or knob and tube replacement.
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Most of us have small metal items that are used in the bathrom; nail clippers, bobby pins, tweezers, and the like. Household blog Superwoman found a great way to organise these — add a magnetic strip to the inside of a medicine cabinet.
Magnetic tape can be found at any hardware store. Cut a strip to fit your medicine cabinet or other storage area, peel away the cover on the tape side, and you're in business.