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A public cloud experience - in the privacy of your datacenter
For some organisations, moving to the hybrid cloud is not an option. And nor is using the public cloud.
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Jason Bourne (2016) Review | Action Movie Anatomy
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Published: August 10, 2016Updated: September 24, 2016
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down Jason Bourne!
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Sing and Sign baby signing classes in... Hitchin, Stevenage & Letchworth
About Me
Hi! My name is Emily and I run Sing and Sign classes in Hitchin & Letchworth.
I started signing with my first child, Dan, in 2005 and found it fantastically useful. Dan had so much to say but verbally wasn't quite there yet, so signing allowed us to talk to each other and show each other things. It was great for telling me when he was hungry or thirsty (sadly never tired though!), and helped avoid many a meltdown. I had such a wonderful time of it with Alex teaching us, that it cemented my desire to continue with my other two children, Jack and Phoebe.
The classes are very informal and there is no need for children to sit still and be taught. They are welcome to move around and get involved using the instruments and toys! Booking is very easy using the website link, but classes do fill up quickly as places are limited per session. Book your next term early to avoid missing out. If you're interested but it's still a bit early for your baby to come, do please join my waiting list, and you will receive ongoing information on events and an invitation to book when your child is of age.
Stay up to date with us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/SingandSignNorthHerts.
I really hope to meet you soon!
More Info
Class Information
You are very welcome to bring older siblings to class with no extra charge, but I do ask that they sit quietly and let the babies enjoy their class.
If you are bringing twins, you do not have to pay for both of them. I understand how hard it must be to have to buy two of everything, so at Sing and Sing it's just one payment.
Sing and Sign Venues
All Sing and Sign venues have been chosen as they are child friendly and easily accessible.
If you are interested in a small group of friends getting together to learn Sing and Sign, I am also very happy to run groups from people's homes.
I am now enrolling for the summer term start April 24th 2017. The time table below reflects the classes for this summer term. Please note if there are less than 4 places booked in a future class I reserve the right not to run it but will endeavour to find you an alternative. In all cases should a class not run you have booked and paid for, a complete refund will be given. Bank holiday classes missed will be arranged by discussion in class at a majoritively convenient date.
Day Time Stage Location Monday AM Stage 1 Hitchin Christian Centre, Hitchin Friday AM Stage 1 Norton Methodist Church, North Ave, Letchworth
Sing and Sign in Local Nurseries
Sing and Sign now has an excellent Nursery Affiliation Programme which will train staff on their own premises at a time to suit all. We will teach staff a selection of signs, tailor made to the nursery's individual requirements and design an Individual Action Plan to inspire staff and make signing fun and easy to incorporate. Following training, the nursery will receive a Certificate of Sing and Sign Affiliation together with ongoing access to our signing resources and a complimentary package of products.
If your baby attends nursery or you know of a childcare facility that would be interested in receiving further information, please do pass our details on, or contact us at the number/email above.
Local Nurseries which have enjoyed Sing and Sign Affiliation include :
Highbury Lodge Day Nursery, Highbury Rd. Hitchin, Tel : 01462 434317
Putteridge Community Nursery Putteridge Rd, Luton, LU2 8HJ Tel 01582 480734
Smartys Day Nursery, Old Community Centre, Burford Way, Hitchin, Tel : 01462 441397
Greenside Community Nursery, Culverhouse Rd, Luton, Tel : 01582 594632
Leapfrog Day Nursery, Stevenage College, London Road. Tel : 01438 722563 Wonderland Montessori Nursery, Unit 1a, Station Rd, Hitchin Tel: 01462 423666
Noah's Ark Nursery Shephall View, Stevenage, SG2 1RR, Tel 01438 749090
Puddleducks Day Nursery, Butterfield House, Hitchin St, Baldock. Tel 01462 490955
Some of the babies from my classes


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The report "Global Fluoropolymer Market" enlights crucial and discrete factors dominate the market growth forecast period from 2018 to 2025. The report conjecture is based on historic Fluoropolymer market data from 2012 to 2018 and ongoing market bearings. The Fluoropolymer report intent to deliver discerning information and well-defined facts boost the Fluoropolymer industry growth.
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WSU Connections
The WSU Connections store in Spokane combines retail operations, an Athletics Department ticket office, WSU Spokane research information, and is staffed by Cougar Athletic Fund personnel. Card-carrying Cougar Alumni Association members receive a 10 percent discount at all three Connections stores on all items except wine, cheese and sale goods.
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AWS services or capabilities described in AWS Documentation may vary by region/location. Click Getting Started with Amazon AWS to see specific differences applicable to the China (Beijing) Region.
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what a day, haha!
i am not that stressed this week that is good because 2 weeks than it is christmas are you excited!? oh well yes i am i have to do all my x-mas shopping i didn't get anything yet :o what about you?
today i wore a verry simple but also a good look, i am just in loove with my necklace which is so delicately built, and if the sun shines throught it give us the shades of rainbow colours!
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More sorting/reorganizing/swatching of the polish stash has resulted in finding another pair of polishes in my stash that look pretty much identical in the bottles. Are they dupes on the nail? Let's see!
Today's post will be comparing Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in 140 Rockstar Pink with NYC In A New York Color Minute "Sparkle Top Coat" in 276 Big City Dazzle. Let's start with looking at the bottles. As you can see, Sally Hansen Rockstar Pink doesn't seem to stay as well suspended in its clear base as NYC Big City Dazzle. But the color looks about right.
index is 1 coat of Rockstar Pink
middle is 2 coats of Big City Dazzle
ring is 1 coat of Rockstar Pink
pinky is 2 coats of Big City Dazzle
index is 1 coat of Rockstar Pink
middle is 5 coats of Big City Dazzle - yes five -
it's super thick looking so I do not recommend building this up.
Since I'm taking this right off, I didn't do any clean-up. Sorry about that.
ring is 1 coat of Rockstar Pink
pinky is 2 coats of Big City Dazzle
If you're just looking at the color (without examining it 3 inches from your nose), these are dupes. Both are clear bases with predominantly magenta/hot pink glitter with blue and gold glitter. Both have itty-bitty micro glitter with small glitter. However, the Sally Hansen has the magenta/hot pink glitter in both the itty-bitty and the small sizes in addition to the itty-bitty micro gold glitter while the NYC only has a small amount of the gold itty-bitty micro glitter mixed in with the rest of the glitter. This means the glitter density is completely different - the Sally Hansen would probably be opaque with 2 coats while the NYC would take many, many coats to be opaque (I put 5 coats and it still wasn't as dense as 1 of the Sally Hansen) - which makes them not dupes. The NYC is most definitely a "sparkle top coat," as the label states.
If you missed my previous comparison (that is actually a dupe) between a NYC and Sally Hansen polish, click here. I think that before I buy any more Sally Hansen or NYC polishes, I'll check the stock of each line to see if I already have it or not...and if one does look like another I have, then I'll have to consider opening the bottle in the store just to peak - not apply - to see how they compare on the brushes.
If you had to pick one to keep, which would you pick? As of right now, for me they both will be staying.
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Endocannabinoids: the body's own marijuana
The presence of cannabinoid receptors in mammals suggested the existence of endogenous molecules in the brain, which bind and activate these proteins. In 1992, almost 30 years after his discovery of THC, professor Mechoulam isolated the first endogenous compound for these receptors from porcine brain. This component proved to be a lipid: N-arachidonoylethanolamine. The compound was called anandamide ("ananda" is Sanskrit for internal bliss).
Three years later, 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), was found as a second endogenous ligand for the cannabinoid receptors. Anandamide and 2-AG are termed endocannabinoids: the body's own marijuana. The discovery of the endocannabinoids and their receptors, together called the endocannabinoid system, has opened a new road to studying the effects of marijuana and to investigating its physiological role in health and disease. It is thought that the endocannabinoid system is involved in the regulation of a variety of physiological processes, such as pain sensation and appetite, memory, blood pressure and motor coordination. The endocannabinoid system plays a role in several diseases, such as neuropathic pain, cancer, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, schizophrenia and obesity. For example, it is well known that smoking marijuana leads to binge eating (i.e. having the 'munchies').
Inspired by this observation, researchers have found that increased endocannabinoid levels in the hypothalamus led to chronic cannabinoid CB1 receptor activation, which was associated with weight gain and the metabolic syndrome in obese patients. This raised the interest of pharmaceutical companies to discover potential drug candidates to regulate the activity of the endocannabinoid system. The cannabinoid CB1 receptor blocker rimonabant was shown to be effective in obese patients, but unfortunately caused severe psychiatric side effects, such as depression and suicidal ideation. This led to the withdrawal of this compound from the European market.


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How to Fundraise Without Silicon Valley
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Nicole Sanchez
We are witnessing a new wave of investment and entrepreneurship in the United States. How can we level the playing field for women-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs of color to fund, grow and scale their thriving businesses? Learn both investor and entrepreneur perspectives on what it takes to build and back inspiring companies and bring the deal process to life for diverse founders.
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At Baxi, we enjoy a great relationship with our installers, and believe that we can achieve great things by working together. That means more than just providing great heating and hot water solutions.
For many years now, we have been supporting charities and community enterprises on both a local and national level, and we'd love to help our installers who wish to do the same.
Keep your eye on these community pages for more details of initiatives coming soon, and visit our Corporate Social Responsibility pages if you'd like to find out more about the charity work we do in the meantime.


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Canine Distemper Virus (CDV) is a viral disease that infects the gastrointestinal, respiratory, and central nervous systems. Dogs who have not been vaccinated for Canine Distemper are the most at-risk. While the disease can also be contracted when improperly vaccinated or when a dog has high susceptibility to bacterial infection, these cases are rare.
CDV can be spread through direct contact (licking, breathing air, etc.) or indirect contact (bedding, toys, food bowls, etc.), though it cannot live on surfaces for very long. Inhaling the virus is the primary method of exposure. There is no known cure for CDV, and quick response to the disease greatly improves your pet's chances at survival, especially for younger puppies. Because of its severity, we advise you to contact our office as soon as you notice something might be wrong.
Symptoms of Canine Distemper Virus:
CDV initially attacks the tonsils and lymph nodes, and symptoms can be unnoticeable for the first 6 to 9 days. Pay close attention to your pet for any of the following ailments, as they may indicate CDV:
Diagnosing and treating CDV
There are a number of tests that can be performed to determine if your pet has CDV. The two most common types are biochemical tests and urine analysis. Biochemical tests will reveal if your dog has a reduced number of lymphocytes, and urine analysis will detect viral antigens. Together, they indicate that the body is fighting an infection and which infection it is likely fighting. If neurological damage is suspected, a CT scan or MRI might be warranted to determine whether any lesions have developed on the brain.
Once CDV has been diagnosed, treatment focuses on alleviating symptoms since there currently is not a cure for the disease. Most treatment plans differ because there are numerous strains of CDV, and every canine's disease progresses differently. Treatment planning is conducted after a dog is evaluated, the strain they've contracted is verified, and their current status is determined. In managing your pet outside of the treatment provided by our veterinarian, it is important to monitor your dog for symptoms of dehydration or pneumonia:
It is entirely possible to recover from Canine Distemper Disease. Recovery is usually dependent upon the strength of the dog's immune system and the strain of distemper they have contracted. It can take up to 2 months to fully recover. How quickly you respond to potential CDV symptoms also impacts your pet's chances at survival. Studies show that canines vaccinated as many as 4 days after contracting the disease still receive immunity and can fully recover. We highly recommend seeking immediate veterinary attention after suspecting that your pet has come into contact with the disease.
If you have any questions about Canine Distemper or think your pet may have come into contact with the disease, please contact our office.
We encourage you to contact us with any questions or comments you may have. Please call our office or use the quick contact form.
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We took our 5 month old puppy in to get neutered today and had a great experience. They educate you on expenses without making you feel guilty if you decide against extra options. We were able to pick him up 5 hours after dropping him off which was also amazing. Would highly recommend to anyone looking for a vet.
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Dr. Genova has been my 4 legged daughter's doctor for her whole life (10 years). He is very personable, informative and kind. I seriously cannot say enough positive things about him.. Why else would I trust him to take care of my baby girl?
The rest of the staff is also very kind. Most of them have changed throughout the years but one thing that hasn't is that you can immediately tell how much they all love animals.
This is definitely one of this places that I wish I could give more than 5 stars to.
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We had our first experience at Village at Main Veterinary Hospital today and I couldn't wait to write a review because of how pleased I was with the entire staff and environment. I arrived way early for my appointment but they took me anyway since it was open with no problem at all. As soon as we walked in the door my puppy and I were greeted with smiles and even staff that didn't run the counter came out and greeted and loved on my puppy as well which really put her at ease. Every staff member acknowledged our presence at some point. We were taken back to an exam room and we saw Dr. Tran who was warm and loving toward my puppy, she really took her time and you could easily see that she loves what she does. Dr. Tran covered all of my questions I had planned to ask as well as asked if I had any others. I would highly recommend this clinic to anybody who has had a bad experience at another clinic because it will totally make up for it as it did in our case. Thank you so much again for making us feel right at home and loving what you guys do, I will continue to drive 30 minutes just to have my pooch continue to see you guys :)
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Thanks. So that EULA doesn't explicitly say the licence can be moved to a new machine but I suppose you are saying that is how it is interpreted.The MSA is just to store your original licence.. after that you are free to use local after transfer to the new PC.
By "type of device" does the EULA mean PC to PC, laptop to laptop" etc
Device can mean a real or virtual machine.
Device. In this agreement, "device" means a hardware system (whether physical or virtual) with an internal storage device capable of running the software. A hardware partition or blade is considered to be a device.
Stand-alone software. If you acquired the software as stand-alone software (and also if you upgraded from software you acquired as stand-alone software), you may transfer the software to another device that belongs to you. You may also transfer the software to a device owned by someone else if (i) you are the first licensed user of the software and (ii) the new user agrees to the terms of this agreement. You may use the backup copy we allow you to make or the media that the software came on to transfer the software. Every time you transfer the software to a new device, you must remove the software from the prior device. You may not transfer the software to share licenses between devices.
Just realised I'm not sure how the licence is transferred Is there anything to do on the old machine or is it just a case of install on new machine, deactivate in some way on old then activate on new?No as that cuts the link. But you only need to use account to link, then transfer licence. At that point, you can revert to a local account.
I think you answered that, but how long will I be able to use the old machine once deactivated or do I need to make sure I have everything before activating on the new machine?
You ensure licence is digitally linked to MS account on old pc by being on version 1607 and logging in with MS account, install 1607 on new pc, use activation troubleshooter to transfer licence (see tutorial section) and then simply delete windows from old pc.
The OEM Marker found in the firmware, means that the BIOS has an OEM SLIC table in it. It would have originally been activated with an OEM-SLP key from the factory. That could not have been the key you entered. Those keys are blocked from being accepted as a manual entry to activate Windows. They won't work to activate Windows 7 or Windows 10 when entered manually. That means you either used the OEM-COA key from the COA sticker, or a Retail key. You say you used a Retail 7 Pro key, so what was in the SLIC table is irrelevant. It has no bearing on transferability. It is not the licence being transferred.


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Bestselling author and inspirational speaker Rachael Jayne Groover, along with Datta Groover, the founder of the Authentic Speaker Academy, will present an Awaken Your Impact seminar designed for life coaches, healers, authors, entrepreneurs and business owners that strive to stand out, inspire change and create more wealth while maintaining integrity with their messages. The practical training event will be held from 2 to 5 p.m., July 8 at the Zach Theatre, in Austin.
By Sheila Julson
For over three decades, renowned psychic medium John Edward has used his abilities to help people shed light on the enigma of the Other Side. He's gained an international following as the host of two successful cable TV shows, Crossing Over with John Edward and John Edward Cross Country. In addition to penning eight New York Times best-selling books, he continues to tour the United States, holding live events and connects with audiences through his membership-based interactive web program, Evolve.
by Nicholas Trice and Heather Kouros
Mindfulness is a buzzword these days, with practices being rapidly integrated into modern psychology, sports and conversations in mainstream media. While mindfulness is beneficial in all aspects of life, the nature of golf is specifically conducive to a deep practice of mindfulness.
by Alana Weaver
Meridian Energetics is a new healing modality that works directly with the etheric body, or aura, to assist and heal dysfunctional energetic patterns that create realities that our conscious selves do not wish to live in. The etheric body is the energetic duplicate of the physical body; it's what holds the physical form together as a unit onto itself.


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ShredTech Upgrade/Replacement USB Rechargeable motor
Upgrade/Replacement pack includes:
1x Silver Rechargeable motor base:
-ShredTech Silver Rechargeable USB motor base.
-Base Motor will fit any ShredTech Electric Mixer Bottle.
-Motor is cable of spinning at over 11,000 RPM.
-Will fully mix any powdered supplement in a matter of seconds.
1x USB recharging cable:
-USB to 3.5mm jack plug.
-Standard cable used for all ShredTech Rechargeable Electric Mixer Bottles
-Light indicator on USB port.
-Orange = Charging
-Green = Fully Charged
- Base Dimensions: 2.0 x 2.5 x 2.5 inches
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The St. Lawrence Choir is a large, mixed-voice ensemble that performs music from the classical choral repertoire as well as contemporary works by Canadian and other composers. In addition to its subscription season concerts, the Choir is regularly invited to appear at the International Music Festival of Lanaudière; it has also worked on collaborative projects with the Cantata Singers Ottawa, the Montreal Choral Institute, Vanier College and the Chœur du Musée d'Arts de Joliette.
St. Lawrence Choir was formed in 1972 by Iwan Edwards and a group of singers residing in the West Island of Montreal. Concerts were presented in Lachine until 1983 when the Choir relocated to downtown Montreal. For almost 25 years the choir appeared regularly with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra as the largest component of the MSO chorus, and made numerous recordings with the symphony. In 1992, the Choir was involved in two concerts to mark the 350th anniversary of the founding of Montreal. In 1999 and 2000, St. Lawrence Choir performed with the MSO and Charles Dutoit at Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center to critical acclaim, presenting works by Faure, Dallapiccola, Szymanowski, Orff, de Falla, and Theodorakis.
The St. Lawrence Choir has had the privilege of working with excellent soloists and orchestras, collaborating with the McGill Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble Amati as well as with renowned soloists such as Victoria de los Angeles, John Avey, Theodore Baerg, Colette Boky, Benjamin Butterfield, Ben Heppner, Gaëtan Laperierre, Daniel Lichti, Richard Margison, Kevin McMillan, Peter Pears, Gary Relyea, Henriette Schellenberg, Daniel Taylor and Nathaniel Watson.
With the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Choir appeared in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, New York, Philadelphia, Saratoga Springs and at the Lanaudière International Music Festival in such works as Handel's Messiah (conducted by McGegan, Edwards, Grossman), Brahms' German Requiem (Decker), Mahler's Symphonies Nos. 2, 3 and 8 (Mehta, Slatkin, Dutoit), Beethoven's Missa Solemnis (Shaw, Edwards), Bach's B minor Mass (Edwards), Penderecki's Polish Requiem (Penderecki), Berlioz's Requiem (Dutoit), Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (Dutoit), Mendelssohn's Elijah (Edwards), Verdi's Requiem (Dutoit) and Dvorak's Stabat Mater (Dutoit).
Since its inception, the St. Lawrence Choir has broadcast numerous concerts across Quebec, the rest of Canada and Europe, over the French and English channels of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and via Euroradio. The St. Lawrence Choir is proud to have presented works by Canadian composers such as Victor Davies, Ruth Watson Henderson, Jacques Hetu, Jean Laplante, Donald Patriquin, Imant Raminsh, Bruce Ruddell, Patrick Wedd, GillesTremblay (premiere of 'Avec'), Alain Gagnon (Canadian premiere of 'Chansons d'Orient' 2011) and Ivo Antognini (world premiere of 'Brink of Eternity' 2011).


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Guardians Vol. 2 Concept Art Reveals Early Mainframe Designs
The end of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 featured a nod to the Guardians of the past, bringing together Stakar Ogord (Sylvester Stallone), Charlie-27 (Ving Rhames), Aleta Ogord (Michelle Yeoh), Krugarr (currently uncast), Martinex (Michael Rosenbaum) and Mainframe (Miley Cyrus). Concept art for Martinex and Krugarr has already surfaced, but now Jackson Sze, a senior illustrator at Marvel Studios, has released early ideas for Mainframe.
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All three designs differ fairly substantially from what's seen in the Marvel sequel. In one of the accompanying Instagram posts, Sze notes that Tully Summers, who worked as a concept artist on The Dark Knight Rises, created the final design.
Describing the first image, Sze calls it a "silly retro design option for Mainframe," which seems quite apt, as it looks as if it would be at home in a classic sci-fi film like Star Wars.
The second option looks sleeker and seems at least partially inspired by the robot designs in the Super Sentai series, which inspired Power Rangers and a number of other shows.
The most recently posted design is a bit more patriotic, with Sze adding, "something Red, White, and Blue for 4th of July. Another Mainframe option! #gotgvol2 #marvelstudios #conceptart."
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An attorney representing the taxicab driver who struck and killed a man at a downtown Miami intersection early Thursday morning, said his client drove home and wasn't even aware the vehicle had hit anything.
"He had no concept that he hit a person at the time," said attorney Michael Kaufman. "He went home and went to sleep."
Police and a witness said the cabbie was driving his vehicle through an intersection at Biscayne Boulevard and Fourth Street in front of Bayside Marketplace at 1:35 a.m. Thursday, when the vehicle struck and killed a man.
A witness and Kaufman said the cab driver for Miami-Dade Taxi was driving a yellow Crown Victoria through the intersection while the light was green. Police have not named the cab driver or the dead man, who is described as being in his 60s. They said he's from Miami but doesn't have any family here.
Manuel Ibanez told Miami Herald news partner CBS 4 that the impact sounded like a twig snapping.
"It was horrible,'' he said. "I was walking north and a taxicab that was going northbound had the green light, had the right of way, and a gentleman walking across the street, he hit him and kept going. And pretty much the guy is dead in the middle of the road. The officer tried CPR but he was gone."
Despite the contact, the cab driver continued north on Biscayne, then went home. Kaufman said after his client fell asleep, cab company workers called and informed him that police were looking for him. So he drove to Kaufman's office at Biscayne Boulevard and 119th Street, where police found the vehicle shortly after 5 p.m.
They spent hours investigating the vehicle and retrieving forensics.
After the crash, police released the cab's number and its license plate to the public in hope that someone would spot the vehicle. They also retrieved video that showed the cab heading north on the boulevard, but not striking the man.
As of Friday afternoon, the cab driver had not been charged with a crime or issued a citation. Kaufman, who said he was waiting to talk to detectives, said his client has a clean driver's license and no prior arrests. He said he has two children and a wife. The attorney said there was not extensive damage to the vehicle, just a dent in the hood.
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In the State Senate, I work hard to make the best decisions for our district given current budget constraints. Seeing the challenges our Bloomington and Richfield communities face gives me a strong desire to work on education at the state level. I will work hard to make sure that our funding of schools reflects an understanding of the critical role they play in Minnesota's short and long term success. In order to meet the needs of society, we must ensure that schools today address the needs of learners from early childhood through post-secondary years.
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I hear people all across Bloomington and Richfield talk about how they have stayed in our communities because they like the stability, the services and the quality of the schools. We need to find ways through effective budget legislation to strengthen our communities. We have unique opportunities to access parks and wildlife areas and we need to find ways to ensure that these are enhanced and protected for future generations.


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Bridge Housing, a partner of Neami's Way2Home homelessness outreach service, is due to launch a new not-for-profit real estate agency in Sydney.
Home Ground Real Estate, also operating in Collingwood, Melbourne, allows private landlords to provide affordable housing by leasing their properties for below market-value rental rates.
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The European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) were jointly organized this year for the ?fth time in a row, after some years of mutual independence before. After Freiburg (2001), Helsinki (2002), Cavtat (2003) and Pisa (2004), Porto received the 16th edition of ECML and the 9th PKDD in October 3–7. Having the two conferences together seems to be working well: 585 di?erent paper submissions were received for both events, which maintains the high s- mission standard of last year. Of these, 335 were submitted to ECML only, 220 to PKDD only and 30 to both. Such a high volume of scienti?c work required a tremendous e?ort from Area Chairs, Program Committee members and some additional reviewers. On average, PC members had 10 papers to evaluate, and Area Chairs had 25 papers to decide upon. We managed to have 3 highly qua- ?edindependentreviewsperpaper(withveryfewexceptions)andoneadditional overall input from one of the Area Chairs. After the authors' responses and the online discussions for many of the papers, we arrived at the ?nal selection of 40 regular papers for ECML and 35 for PKDD. Besides these, 32 others were accepted as short papers for ECML and 35 for PKDD. This represents a joint acceptance rate of around 13% for regular papers and 25% overall. We thank all involved for all the e?ort with reviewing and selection of papers. Besidesthecoretechnicalprogram,ECMLandPKDDhad6invitedspeakers, 10 workshops, 8 tutorials and a Knowledge Discovery Challenge.
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Hailing from Copenhagen, Denmark, Alice Rose plays and sings beautiful, mesmerizing and thoroughly modern pop music that captures the essense of the old world and the new. Whoever saw her perform live on stage, will remember her very unique musical style and performance. Her one-woman performances, her stunning vocals, her jugglers skill using samplers, computer, beat boxes, strings, casios, keyboards, harmonicas and toys--all come together in a delicious concoction of electro-folk--equal parts trip- hop, pop, electronica and dance. She is a true adventurer in the music world today and is constantly exploring new grounds. Alice plays the viola with her own bowing style and sings her intriguing lyrics with a voice that spans a wide register, from the sweet angelic, to the hard and wild... Right now her new thing is live looping and live remixing. She will take one of her unique tunes and perform it live with human beatbox, use the voice as an instrument to layer the chords, build baselines with the viola and make a hip-hop beat with her little drum machine, and that way slowly build up her songs. Occasionally she invites guests on stage to join her, and
2013 saw the light of her latest studio album, 'each is a DREAM', co- produced by PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish and Techno wizard, Gabriel Ananda. The album is an ecclectic pop album, with string quartet, and lot's of guest musicians and was mainly performed acoustically with piano, vocals and viola.
2015 Alice started to perform on the street with her loop station, she wanted the freedom to meet her audience whenever she wanted to, and share her music with people outside a digital universe. It became quite the adventure! Due to restrictions with the city of Amsterdam, where you are not allowed to use amplification, she developed an art performance called, Silent Concerts, where she performs her concerts "silently, using 4 sets of headphones and people can put on the headphones and dive into her sound universe. From being "just another street performer", she created an avant-garde performance equally art installation, concert and protest act.
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It is a word that we use as we think about the end of our lives. We think of legacy when we consider someone who has lived a long and meaningful life. However, it is more than that.
Legacy is an active, present word. The legacy that we leave behind is in the making NOW! How we live...NOW...how we act...NOW...what we say...NOW...are all determining the legacy we will leave to others.
Paul writes to the Philippian church "The things which you have learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you." (Philippians 4:9) Paul is inviting them to observe the legacy that he was presently displaying before them.
Let me rephrase his thoughts in the form of questions. As we look, I believe it will help us reflect on our lives and the impact potential we have...if we will trust the Lord to work through us. Let's consider these questions in light of our own lives.
1. What are you teaching others? ("the things which you have learned from me")
Paul is telling them to observe what he has been teaching them. It is a sobering thought to ask "What am I teaching others by my actions and attitudes?" The answer will give us a first glimpse into the legacy we are leaving.
2. What are you giving others? ("the things you have received from me")
Another way to think about this one is to ask..."Am I consumed with myself and my needs, or do I intentionally look for ways to give value, love and honor to others?" We are treasured far more by what we give than what we take. In fact, there are two types of people in the world...givers and takers. Be a giver! Add value to someone's life today!
3. What are you saying? ("the things you heard from me")
Words are powerful. The Bible says that the power of life and death is in the tongue. In other words, we can bless someone or we can bind up someone by what we say. What are those around you hearing from you today?
4. How are you acting, in both attitude and behavior? ("the things you saw in me")
People see our lives, and learn a great deal from us even when we do not say a word. And if our actions speak, then our attitudes speak even more! Is it time for an attitude adjustment? Remember...our attitude is contagious, so let's watch what we are spreading!
The end of that verse tells us what kind of legacy Paul was leaving. He said that if we would follow his life and legacy that the God of peace would be with us. What a challenging thought to me!
One last question for us: Are we living in such a manner, that if people follow in the footsteps of our legacy, that the God of peace would be with them? Oh, may we live for Jesus in such a way, that people will see us and hunger for Him!
Now that is a legacy worth leaving!!
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This crustose epiphyte occurs mainly on the smooth bark of tree branches such as thorn, hazel and oak. The spherical discs (perithecia: 0.2-0.4mm diam.) are similar to those of Arthopyrenia lichens so are small and best viewed with a hand lens. In the field, the clincher for its identification is the presence of a number of smaller black dots (pycnidia). This mixture of perithecia and pycnidia gave rise in lichenology circles to the phrase Little and Large as in the phrase, Oh look, heres Little and Large. The species is relatively frequent in suitable habitats in Ireland, especially in the north and west.
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On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 09:24:15PM -0700, Vladimir R. Bossicard wrote: > I'm now following the "using Forrest" howto and I am rewriting the > Xindice documentation. > > I don't know if I made a mistake, but the files I already wrote > suddenly disapeared. I don't know if it is after a > "forrest seed" or one of my numerous mv/rm commands, so I will only > blame myself. I hope it wasn't Forrest.. the 'seed' target will only generate template docs if the content directory didn't previously exist. Eg, trying to clobber Forrest's docs: jeff@expresso:~/apache/xml/xml-forrest$ forrest seed ..... ensure-nocontent: ------------------------------------------------ This project already has content in /home/jeff/apache/xml/xml-forrest/src/documentation/content/xdocs. ------------------------------------------------ BUILD FAILED file:/home/jeff/apache/xml/xml-forrest/build/dist/shbat/bin/../forrest.build.xml:403: Project already has content > I started from scratch and have the following problems: > > - I copied the Forrest howto directory in my project directory (I know > that I have problems with the howtos so I wanted to start with something > that worked). I modify the tabs.xml with: > > <tab label="How-Tos" dir="howto/"/> > > when the mouse goes over the link (in the index.html file), I can see > "http://localhost:8080/Xindice-documentation/howto/" but when I click on > the link the browser lands at "http://localhost:8080/howto/index.html" > and since the "Xindice-documentation" is missing, I have a "not found > resource". The Forrest webapp has the same problem :/ I thought I fixed it long ago.. will have a look. > - When I add "Xindice-documentation" I can successfully see the pages > but their content is empty. The first page is ok (index.html) but the > individual how-tos are empty (the border, menus are ok but not the > content). I already had problems with how-tos and taking the one from > Forrest unfortunately doesn't help. > > - When I copied them into "xdocs/community/howto"... it works! Short answer: I just fixed the default sitemap to allow '*howto' directories anywhere. Eg /howto, /foo/howto, /foo-howto. Only community/howto is treated specially, with revisions. I hope this behaviour meets the majority of use-cases. It's done by adding this rule: <!-- Any other howto directories get transformed, without revisions --> <map:match pattern="body-**howto/*.xml"> <map:generate src="content/xdocs/{1}howto/{2}.xml"/> <map:transform src="library/xslt/howto2document.xsl" label="content"/> <map:call resource="skinit"> <map:parameter name="type" value="document2html"/> <map:parameter name="resource" value="{3}"/> <map:parameter name="dir" value="{1}howto/"/> </map:call> </map:match> and tweaking howto2document.xsl to allow XMLs without revisions. Long answer: The default sitemap has this rule: <map:match pattern="body-community/*/*/**.xml"> ... <map:part src="content/xdocs/community/{1}/{2}/{3}.xml"/> ... <map:transform src="library/xslt/{1}2document.xsl" label="content"/> ... </map:match> So only community/howto/*/*.xml files are treated as 'howto's. In the long term, we intend to fix this with content-aware pipelines (CAPs), which infer the document type by examining the DOCTYPE declaration (and other stuff). CAPs are implemented but not integrated into the sitemap, so for now, a special sitemap rule needs to be added, as documented at: http://xml.apache.org/forrest/your-project.html#N10132 (which I've just done) > I let work on this one for the moment... > > -Vladimir > > PS: good job but unfortunately not ready to be used by everyone. You > still need a lot of patience... Yes, Forrest inherits Cocoon's ability to be infuriating ;) --Jeff > Vladimir R. Bossicard > www.bossicard.com
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Ah yes, another rambling paragraph about how I was busy and/or had nothing exciting to blog about and/or plain old forgot to blog… Except I was super busy and none of it really warranted its own post, so I really spared you. Anyway, here are a few things you missed while I was off doing who knows what: Read More
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Hello, Eczema!
Summer is not technically my favorite season, though I did consider it to be for a while (because of my birthday, obvs). Don't get me wrong—I love swimming and sunshine and the ocean and fireflies and late nights and thunderstorms and stunning sunsets and fresh garden veggies and a million smoothie bowls and ice cream for dinner. But I cannot stand the humidity. I'm not really a fan of the heat either, but the humidity is what really kills me. This summer, the weather has driven me especially crazy because my eczema has been acting up more than usual. Read More
Begin Anywhere
Another month of 2017 is coming to a close. It's hard to believe this year is nearly halfway over (seeing as it feels like it's gone on for four years already), but here we are. For nearly 70 years, Mental Health Awareness Month has been observed in order to fight stigma, provide support, educate the public, and advocate for care. At the beginning of May, I knew I would post something in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, but I wasn't sure where to start or what to say. Read More
Sick Day Recipes: Part Two
Sooo, have I mentioned that I'm sick? As I'm typing this, I have to pause every twelve seconds for a violent coughing fit in which I nearly hack up a lung. There has also been a muffled ringing in my ear since I woke up an hour before my alarm this morning, which has made conversations very strange today. So. Much. Fun. It appears things are not quite turning around for me yet.
Sick Day Recipes: Part One
Being sick is absolutely never fun, but it is even worse to be sick during the summer. The weather is lovely, sunny, and warm. There are still so many things left to do before the cold creeps in, so taking advantage of every second of daylight is crucial. I would much rather soak up the sun, go for a swim, or take an adventure to somewhere new than curl up in bed surrounded by blankets and tissues.
Alas, I came down with a cold about a week and a half ago. Read More
This Wild, Honest Life
When I was a little girl, I thought telling lies was cool. In my mind, it was a very "adult" thing to do, and it was often far more exciting than the truth. There is a very fine, thin line between lies and "make believe." As a child, my wild imagination allowed me to think I could easily straddle that line without crossing it. My parents taught me it was wrong of course, and I learned. But even after I knew, sometimes I couldn't help myself from telling a little white lie here and there. I thought it was easier to lie. It was surely less scary than telling the truth.


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Under the Bridge, Enjoying the Silence
Twenty-four years ago, the Loma Prieta earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay Area. It caused the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to collapse. The eastern span was fixed, but a plan to build a new, safer eastern span was put into place – hopefully protecting commuters from an earthquake. Over the years, the bridge closed for long durations, typically on the three-day weekend of Labor Day.
Fast forwarding to yesterday. My girlfriend's mom invited us to go kayaking in the bay. "Heck, yes", I believe my response to be. I didn't think the outing would carry any significance until we were gearing up to go out. Ms. Mae Rose exclaimed, "I can't wait to hear how quiet it'll be under the bridge." I hadn't forgotten that the Bay Bridge was closed for the final construction efforts to open the new, earthquake resistant easter span, but absence of countless commuters roaring across the western span hadn't occurred to me.
After paddling out to the bridge, we sat underneath taking in the eerie, yet calming absence of the empty bridge. I wanted to … I needed to capture this experience. This video, recorded from my phone, doesn't do it justice until you fully understand the industrial hum and noise is coming from the city.
If you're thinking "big whoop", understand that the construction of the new eastern span is complete and the likelihood of the bridge closing to traffic for a considerable amount of time is … well, unlikely. Maybe I'll go back another day to record video for comparison. Until then, use your imagination.
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In 2004, my best friends and I journeyed to from Louisiana to California to attend the Coachella Music Festival. Years later it stands out as one of the best concert experiences I've ever experienced. One of the highlights was an impromptu performance by Beck Hanson. Thousands of us packed into a tiny tent stage to witness the musical genius orchestrate an entire performance with noting but a hacked Gameboy and a mic. Years later when Beck would release an album in sheet music form only, needless to say I wasn't surprised by the advant garde surrounding it.
Last night, for the first time, I was able to experience Beck's vision through the Song Reader issue of PopUp Magazine. PopUp is easily my favorite event to attend in San Francisco and this issue was something special. Beck and a few hand picked musicians performed pieces from the Song Reader sheet music. This mixed with PopUp's signature editorial content provided a refill of inspiration that I needed badly.
Everyone from Dan the Automater to John C. Reilly contributed to the evening's musical entertainment. Folks like Susan Orlean provided interviews while others like Dan Handler, of Lemony Snicket fame, provided compelling storytelling. It was a departure from the PopUp I'm used to, so I have to say that I left still wanting something. Don't get me wrong, the music was amazing but the night was about 90% music and 10% storytelling. And yes, songs are storytelling but I've grown used to editorial format of each issue and will have enjoyed the Song Reader issue as a form of lagniappe. That translates to "a little sumthin' extra" where I'm from.
As with every PopUp issue, it's one and done. Never recorded, never filmed. It lives on as a memory or a oral history. So in the end, isn't that at the heart of what makes PopUp special? If not one else is listening, I still ask myself.


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Merrill Lynch, which has been offering retirement financial planning counseling to customers for some time, is going to extend the service to corporations to be used as an employee perk.
To that end the giant financial services company is making its debut as an exhibitor at the 1987 Premium Incentive Show and the Meetings and Incentive Travel Expo that opened yesterday for a four-day stay at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
The Rockefeller Center office of Merrill Lynch has dispatched a nine-member team of financial consultants to man the booth three at a time, under the command of James B. Wark, 26 years old, whose idea the booth was. He thinks he will be reaching the right people at the Premium Incentive Show.
So does Paul J. Beress, president of Sushi and Lox Creative Products of Torrance, Calif., which he founded with his partner, Craig Tomita. His booth showed off such typical premium show products as plastic baby bottles shaped like baseballs, bats and footballs. It was his first show, too.
There must have been a number of first-timers there because the exhibition was of record size, with 2,900 exhibitors, up from 2,000 last year.
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Another newcomer was Britain's Wilkinson Sword, in the person of Roderick J. Gibbs, whose exhibit suggested that swords and dirks and poniards when properly engraved are proper incentives, perhaps even a threat. A Marine Corps sword goes for $610.
In its own separate area, the Meetings and Incentive Travel Expo is like a colorful walk through the pages of Travel & Leisure magazine - each national tourist organization, each hotel and each airline showing its cleanest and prettiest face.
In the midst of it all was Ken Conry, 40, from Scottsdale, Ariz., who looked quite out of place with his six-gun and sheriff's star. With his sister Kathleen, he was promoting Conry's Memory Machine, a videotape camera that becomes a memory machine only when he puts it to work. Mr. Conry, a ''futurist'' who teaches a course called ''Dimensions of the Future'' at Mesa Junior College, is offering to create videotape movies starring corporate employees as part of an incentive program. Every man a star.Continue reading the main story


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Christmas Gifts
Brinkburn Street Brewery
Brinkburn St Brewery's Winter Is Coming gift sets are the perfect Christmas gift for the beer lover in your life. Available with two 750ml sharing bottles and two glasses (for sharing with your loved one) or three 750ml bottles and one glass (for the non-sharing type), there are three winter beers to choose from: The House Of The Rising Sun
(abv 7.2%), a decadent and luxuriant chocolate raspberry porter; Festive Hop Gremlin (abv 5.6%), an ultra-hoppy and fruity winter IPA; a dedication to the pioneers of beer making, Homage to Mesopotamia (abv 5.2%), a porter which includes late additions of Shiraz grape juice and honey in the Mesopotamian style. Available from good bottle shops in the Newcastle area including Fenwick Food Hall, Glugg and CentrAle tel 0191 260 0688, www.brinkburnbrewery.co.uk
Hadrian Border's Mince Pie Christmas Beer Gift Packs include three bottles of dark amber festive ale, which packs in a light touch of cinnamon, a tickle of orange and a raisin finish in a malty bottle of Christmas cheer.
Relax and sit back, toast your toes by the fire and let the night gently slide past with these mince pies in a glass. Five-litre mini kegs are also available with the option of Tyneside Blonde, Mince Pie or Farne Island. For stockists see social media or contact the brewery. www.hadrian-border-brewery.co.uk
Champion Bottles and Taps has a range of present ideas, including bespoke three-can/bottle gift boxes to suit your own taste as well as a range of special large sharing/gift bottles including sours, stouts and barrel-aged goodies. You can also pick up one of the counter pressure-filled 1-litre Growlers, which stay fresh for four weeks – meaning you can get someone fresh draft beer to drink on Christmas day.
Gift cards are available from £5+ and merchandise including T-shirts and shopper bags are available to buy online. 2018 tasting evenings and 'Introduction to…' dates will also be announced throughout December with tickets available to buy online.
Pick up a Pie Tea Voucher at The Pie Shop in North Shields and treat your favourite person to a Geordie afternoon tea. Sample a selection of the North's favourite products, from a doorstop slice of gammon to a quirky pease pudding, a trio of mini pies and sides of flavoured mashed potato, steepy mushy peas and a boat of beef gravy. For pudding, there's sweet sticky toffee pudding, apple pie and a clotted cream scone – all served with custard or cream. www.geordiepieandmash.co.uk
Head to CentrAle in Newcastle Central Station for all your festive beer and spirit needs. Fill a unique gift box with your choice of beers from the biggest range of North East beers to be found anywhere, plus selected national and continental beers. CentrAle is also home to the finest spirits produced in the North East and currently stocks 16 local gins, vodka and the Alnwick Rum range. There are also wines which can't be found anywhere else locally, including English wine from Ryedale, North Yorkshire and a French wine from the Domain de Palejay estate, run by an expat Geordie. Add something from the locally produced snack range and a couple of Fentimans mixers and soft drinks from Hexham. www.facebook.com/centralebeer
Try something a bit different at Battlesteads with Dark Sky Observatory vouchers. At the heart of the picturesque village of Wark in Northumberland, the Battlesteads Pub, Hotel and Restaurant offers a warm and friendly welcome, a place to unwind and and attentive service in luxurious surroundings as well as a range of Experience Days and events including a night in its Dark Sky Observatory. Vouchers, available to the value of adult, concession and family tickets prices, are avaialble at www.battlesteads.com/observatory
Firebrick Brewery will be at Newcastle's Christmas Market under Grey's Monument, December 11-17 with Tyne 9, Year in Beer and Pick-n-mix gift packs on offer. There will aslo be eight-pint mini-kegs, single bottles, Tyne 9 glasses, Christmas themes cotton gift bags and more. www.firebrickbrewery.com
Block & Bottle, the multi-award winning butchers and craft beer shop in Gateshead, has everything you need for Christmas, from presents to your free-range Christmas dinner. You can order free-range bronze turkeys, geese, rare-breed aged beef, pigs in blankets and more to make your Christmas dinner extra special now. Meanwhile, p resent ideas available at Block & Bottle include:
• Butchery class vouchers
• #CANVENT – Beer advent calendar
• Shop gift vouchers – available from £5+
• Beer gift packs – choose from 150 different beers in bottles and cans
• A growler of fresh draught beer available in 1-litre or 1.89-litre branded reusable glass growlers
• Block & Bottle merchandise
Find out more about Block & Bottle and visit the online shop at www.blocknbottle.com
Another collection of 'Peculierly' delightful gifts are available from Theakston Brewery, Masham, North Yorkshire. From Backward clocks to Peculier Socks, Theakston has the perfect gift for everyone.
Old Peculier is available on a plate as well as in a pint glass thanks to the brewery's range of Peculier preserves, Christmas puddings, cheeses and chocolates served on oak cheeseboards handcrafted by the Theakston Cooper.
Peculier Gift Boxes are new for 2017, and if you can't decide on which Theakston gift to select, a tailored hamper may be the perfect answer. Each hamper contains a selection of unique Yorkshire goodies, Theakston merchandise and fine Theakston ales, which makes them the ideal solution.
Shopping with Theakstons couldn't be easier and everything can be delivered straight to your door. Go to www.theakstons.co.uk/shop and order online or call the gift shop, tel 01765 684 333.


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The above painting is entitled "Rätsel der Psyche" by Margaret Hofheinz-Döring and is from 1970. The title translates as "Mystery of the Psyche" (Galerie Brigitte Mauch Göppingen).
"The inclination to exchange thoughts with one another is probably an original impulse of our nature. If I be in pain I wish to let you know it, and to ask your sympathy and assistance; and my pleasurable emotions also, I wish to communicate to, and share with you." —Abraham Lincoln, as quoted in Lincoln's Melancholy
Mr. Shenk has written two books, both of which have been extremely well received: Powers of Two and Lincoln's Melancholy. In addition, he has contributed to The Atlantic and Harpers Magazine.
Mr. Shenk is also on the Programming Committee of The Moth, an organization devoted to advancing story-telling where he was also one of the founding advisors; he is the Executive Director of the Black Mountain Institute, which supports bringing writers into public life; and he has also taught creative writing in the past at The New School, NYU, and Washington College.
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[Note: This interview was conducted on March 31, 2017]
OR: Josh, a very sincere thank you for giving us part of your time. I was hoping to start by discussing your book Lincoln's Melancholy. Your approach is quite eye-opening. For many years, depression was viewed as a character flaw, today it's mostly seen as an illness to be cured. But, you seem to take the position that it's an aspect of personality and that not only did Lincoln learn to accept this aspect of himself, but that his greatness was in many ways because of his depression and not in spite of it. Would you say that that's an accurate summary? And if so, what led to your developing this mindset?
JWS: It's something that I've had an increasingly difficult time with over the years. To the extent that depression is only seen as an illness to be treated and cured, then, yeah, we need to appreciate the way that it is intertwined into character. To the extent we appreciate Lincoln as a character, we have to appreciate all of his dimensions. That said, we can easily make the mistake of going in the other direction and romanticize this suffering. I think it's important to not do that.
When I wrote the book, I was primarily interested in, and remain interested in, a full understanding of the way that the things we care the most about and admire the most are bound up with the greatest difficulties that we face as a species. I think that Lincoln is an embodiment of that linkage.
My real priority as an artist and as an intellectual is to explore these linkages. I think the formulation that you articulated is, in fact, a formulation that is associated with the book, but it really feels more like a marketing line than it is the real truth of the book. The truth of the book is this paradox that the man who gave us our civic scripture also was personally tortured. I don't know just what we do with that. Any kind of triumphalist argument that says, "Oh, depression is some aspect of greatness," I think that it may not be inaccurate, but it doesn't cover the big picture of this extremely challenging reality that what we care most about is often bound-up in pain. It often leaves us befuddled about what we make of that.
I'm a lot more humble now than when I published that book. I also think that I have a different relationship toward my work now I'm less interested in trying to convey some inspirational message to readers. I'm more interested in trying to just be with the conundrum that Lincoln and many other lives present.
OR: Would you say that the conundrum is that nobody would wish to have this as part of them, but we don't get to make the choice and so if we're able to understand it we do have the possibility of taking that suffering and allowing it to be put to use?
JWS: I think the conundrum is that the aspect of life that we most appreciate and long for and try and hold on to is bound up with the aspects of life that we most want to make go away.
OR: I think there were two major depressive episodes in Lincoln's life. The first was after Ann Rutledge died when he was still pretty young. The second was just before he married Mary Todd. These were incredibly serious, he was suicidal. But, when he gets to the White House, he is under constant stress and endures personal pain – primarily through the death of his son – yet, he doesn't seem to experience a depressive episode despite having a fairly melancholy temperament. Was that due to him maturing? Or finding effective means to cope?
JWS: I think that he had matured somewhat and he had developed adaptations to express his suffering in different forms. I don't think he was suffering any less. Whether he was depressed, it really depends on your definition of depression. Certainly, the clinical criteria are easy to see in the early episodes and are not so clear in the Presidency, because he continued working and we know he was never disabled for long periods of time. But, I don't know that you could say that he wasn't depressed. Again, it's a question of how you define depression.
OR: Obviously, though, he managed to get on a more even keel…
JWS: I'm not sure that's the case either. We have an understanding of depression where it is very hard to account for the subtleties and nuances of depression and in the chronic cases how it becomes entwined with character – thinking and feeling. Something way beyond simple checkmarks on a diagnostic sheet. This is another place where my humility in understanding depression has grown over time.
The simple answer to your question is that Lincoln was not experiencing the classic clinical symptoms of depression that would have led him into treatment were he alive today. Anyone who saw him when he was in his mid-20s or early-30s would have, any modern clinician would have, wanted to bring whatever treatments at their disposal to bear. During the Presidency, it's a lot murkier. But, we're presented with characters like Lincoln in the Presidency all the time, where there is some psychopathology, but it is co-occurring with very high function. That kind of jams the machine of considering what mental illness even is. I don't know how you even talk about that in the context of illness and health. Because it's both.
OR: If Lincoln was alive today and treated with anti-depressants, how would he have changed? Do you think he would have been just as effective as a President?
JWS: I don't know. The question of anti-depressants is an extremely difficult one. How effective are they? And, what do they do? Counterfactuals are a very abstract exercise. I don't, in my gut, believe that modern anti-depressants would have made much of a difference for Lincoln, but I could be wrong.
OR: The last thing on Lincoln I wanted to ask you, is whether or not there is a specific takeaway for people that have depression? Is it that there are specific strategies that you can employ to help you cope and that you can still be highly functional? That it's possible to make creative use of your own suffering?
JWS: Yes, I think there are takeaways. Number one, just recognizing that this exists. A lot of people who have appreciated the book have appreciated just the acknowledgment. Number two, I think you can take away that if you have a kind of depression or if you see depression as a lifelong challenge of character, not just an acute and discreet illness, then the choices that Lincoln made to orient himself towards meaning and service and his coping strategies with humor and poetry…these can be very effective. You admire that path of his life and certainly find things to adopt.
Finally, the ultimate question that Lincoln's life begs is 'How does one bind up suffering to some higher meaning?' What does that look like for us? None of us are going to be American Presidents in the Civil War. What does that look like in our much more mundane lives? So, that take away is a question, not a conclusion. But, generally, good stories leave you with more questions than answers.
OR: I agree.
You also wrote a very good book called Powers of Two. It examines the role partnerships play in creativity, in contrast to the stereotype of the lone genius. I wanted to ask you specifically because you talk at length about the songwriting partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. I've always been told as a Beatles fan that they were more or less independent and didn't have a true partnership. But, you take the position that they had a true collaboration. What did you see that others didn't that allowed you to take that position?
JWS: The idea that they work separately is not inaccurate, but all meaningful creative relationships have strong elements of autonomy. To say that John and Paul weren't a real collaboration and that they worked separately is like saying, "Oh, you know I heard that those guys were married, but they're not. And I'll tell you how I know they're not because he goes to a different place all day and so does she. It's not just any day, it's every day. They go to different places." It's a naïve understanding about the way relationships work. We are that naïve with creative relationships, because we have so little context, in part because of the lone creative genius myth. We don't even think to ask the question about the nature of the relationship. That is silly and problematic because that's the way meaningful work always gets made.
The other basic error people tend to make is to think that there is opposition between individual integrity and relationships.
OR: What, at the root, is the basis for creativity flourishing in duos? Is it our natural desire to compete? Or are certain pairs just complimentary to each other, filling in the gaps in ability?
JWS: We are social creatures and everything we do is bound up with other people. The most nimble and properly creative, in the sense of generating something that is new and different, is a diad for all kinds of reasons. There's a creative dynamic in all kinds of groups, but the diad is an unusual one. The beginning of the book talks in some detail about this, about the way two people can create their own reality. Two people can move between being individuals and being in a group extremely fluidly.
Ultimately, I think it probably goes back to some kind of dialogical equality in the human mind. We're set up for exchanges, for binary exchanges. It's a primary mode of exchange.
I've been talking very abstractly, but it's also just empirically true. When you look at how creative things happen, what you hear over and over again is that there is a critical group context, but that big advances happen in some kind of a diad.
OR: I wanted to also touch on an essay you wrote for The Atlantic called "What Makes Us Happy?" It draws upon a longitudinal study of Harvard men conducted by George Valliant. How were you able to gain access to Valliant's records?
JWS: I read George's books when I was writing Lincoln's Melancholy and after I published the book I found that of all the things I read, his stuck with me and felt typical to life in a way I had not experienced with Freud or Jung or any other of a dozen theorists. It felt like his framework for articulating how people are and how we do well or poorly, just really seemed to arise organically in my life. I just found myself thinking about…it just fit, it's like if you have an onion that needs cutting and looking at all these other theories felt like having a spoon or a spatula or something. George's work felt like a knife to me.
I reached out to him and asked him if he was open to being written about. The situation was quite complex because it was a confidential study and he had not given any writer access to the material. But, he saw where I was coming from and that I had a very earnest and deep interest. He had read my book on Lincoln and liked it and we were able to work something out. He trusted me enough to let me read some of the files and to respect the confidentiality of the study. It was a lucky thing. I think he feels the same way, he feels that I was able to articulate his findings and that it was special.
OR: Is it fair to say that while we know certain factors contribute to happiness or unhappiness – such as having long term relationships and avoiding substance abuse – we're all so unique that breaking into a science what makes us happy is a nonsense exercise? In the end, we just have to go live our life and "squeeze the lemon"?
JWS: That's one way to say it, sure. I think the underlying result that we have is that happiness is not a birthright, but rather our ability to have healthy adaptations to circumstance. That's not to say that environment is meaningless, just that adaptations seem to be a key to happiness. And as you mentioned, who has that capacity is almost impossible to predict.
OR: You also contributed a beautiful essay to the collection Unholy Ghost called "A Melancholy of Mine Own." It's very personal. Where does the courage come from to be so vulnerable? Did you find it challenging or have second thoughts?
JWS: Vulnerable has never been a challenge for me. The challenge is trying to organize; to write about yourself and extract from the chaos of thoughts and feelings something coherent. The challenge is to unpack the complexity of yourself, to create an "I" that's not a made-up character. You cannot in writing truly represent the infinite complexity of the self. I'm sure in ways it can be difficult to be vulnerable. I'm sure there are some aspects of it that I have an aversion to, but it's not the primary challenge. I want to be known and known fully, I want to be known with the full picture of experience.
OR: Can we look forward to any other works from you in the near future?
JWS: Yes. I'm working on a new book that I hope to finish soon. I have an exciting and demanding job now directing the literary center at UNLV and have recently agreed to become an Editor of a literary magazine. So, there are a lot of exciting things happening right now.
OR: We very sincerely appreciate your time today and have enjoyed all of your books. We'll look forward to the next one we see that comes out. Thanks, Josh.


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Anecdotes to amuse the reader.
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Located just steps from bawdy Bourbon Street, Bistro at Maison de Ville's fans come from miles around to get a taste of Creole-American combos with a modern twist. This intimate little bistro is crammed full of tables. You may even feel as though you are dining with twenty instead of just two. But the soft light of wall lamps hung to reflect light onto the impressionist oils tends to tone down...
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Greg Picolo, long the Bistro's chef, bought the restaurant in 2007 after it had closed briefly post-Katrina, and, after another brief timeout in 2009, now runs the show throughout this intimate and ambitious establishment. Although the hotel is no longer open, the mirror-lined dining room is once again a showcase for his contemporary Creole cuisine with classic French and Italian touches. The...
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The small room's tables and leather banquettes recall Parisian neighborhood restaurants; a mirrored wall with Impressionist paintings complements the dark-wood bar and accents.... Pros + inventive cuisine
Sad to say that this place is no longer open. It was a great little place and the hotel was one of my faves. Not sure if they will reopen. I heard its up for sale. Patrick Von hoorebeek has a place called Bar Vin not far from here. And Chef Greg is at Redemption Restaurant, I believe .
Great food and absolutely wonderful staff. The gumbo was great! Fabulous hurricane drinks there as well. Located just a couple of blocks fron Bourbon street.
On October 13, 1986, The Bistro at Maison de Ville opened its doors. Inspired by the neighborhood bistros of Paris, The Bistro's dining room was designed with red leather banquettes, beveled-glass mirrors, natural wood flooring and Impressionist-style original paintings. The Bistro's goal was and is to offer its guests an exceptional and relaxing dining experience in the heart of the historic...
Fine dining at its best in the heart of the French Quarter. Showcasing nouvelle Creole cuisine, Parisian ambiance and superior service.
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Chaim Trachtman is the Director of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology, NYU Langone Medical Center and Professor of Pediatrics at NYU School of Medicine. He cares for children and adolescents with kidney disease and is the principal investigator for several NIH-funded and industry-sponsored studies of kidney diseases and hypertension. He is on the editorial board of the journal Pediatric Nephrology and is on the Medical Advisory Board of the National Kidney Foundation-NY. He has edited a book entitled Woman and Men in Communal Prayer: Halakhic Perspectives that brought together several viewpoints on the halakhic validity of partnership minyanim. He is married to Audrey Trachtman, former executive board member of JOFA, and is the father of three wonderful girls and their three husbands. So far, Chaim has five grandchildren.