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Welcome to Launchpad
Artscape Daniels Launchpad is more than Toronto's newest and most exciting collaborative space. It is an idea. An intention to create a community where emerging and established artists, designers and creators, who believe they are capable of more, can succeed like never before. A place where you can forge a sustainable career through collaboration, coaching, mentorship and inspiration — all while furthering the profitability of your art.
Artscape Daniels Launchpad has grown out of ten years of consultation, research and collaboration involving artists, designers, colleges, universities and arts and culture-focused trade and service organizations.Learn More
Artscape Daniels Launchpad is a first-of-its-kind centre for entrepreneurship providing facilities, programs, services and support that are tailor-made to help artists and designers thrive.
Artscape has been working with creative communities for decades, and we understand that now, it is harder than ever to make a living as an artist or designer. We designed Artscape Daniels Launchpad to bring together everything artists and designers need to thrive under one roof.
Our supporters know creativity is valuable and they want to support Launchpad to empower artists and take the creative industries to a new and exciting place. They recognize creativity's power to bring transformative ideas, collaborations, experiments and purpose to our communities. This project would not be possible without their outstanding contributions.
Artscape is assembling an extraordinary team of leaders with specialized expertise in entrepreneurship development, multiple creative disciplines and technology as well as broad knowledge of resources services and support available in Southern Ontario.Meet the Team
Where to find us
130 Queens Quay E
Toronto, ON M5A 3Y5
Artscape Daniels Launchpad is located on the 4th floor of Daniels Waterfront – City of the Arts. Our hours of operation are Monday through Friday, 8am-10pm and Saturday and Sunday, 9am-9pm.
Our neighbours in the building will include Colleges of Ontario, CORE Architects, George Brown College, House of Cool, Manifesto, OCAD University, The Daniels Corporation, The Remix Project and others.
The East Bayfront District is fast becoming Toronto's new hotspot for creativity and innovation. Situated in Toronto's downtown core, directly across from the lake and Sugar Beach, steps to Loblaws, St. Lawrence Market, Distillery District, Union Station and Billy Bishop Airport with nearby cafes, restaurants, shopping, parks and bike trails. Walk Score: 96 | Transit Score: 97 | Bike Score: 94. Immediate access to the Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway, and steps to rapid transit.


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Directions to our office are provided below.
Located at:
1534 Kings Highway
Swedesboro, NJ 08085
(856) 467-5392
You can simply complete our contact form (shown below) to send us a message immediately, or email us at email@example.com.
Or, you can simply follow the directions (provided below) to our office:
From 295 South:
Take 295 South to Exit 14 Repaupo. At the end of the Exit ramp, make a left. Proceed to the first intersection. On your left is the Repaupo fire house. Make a right. Stay straight on Swedesboro-Paulsboro Road until you dead end into a T, this is a juncture with Kings Highway. Make a right onto Kings Highway. Continue on Kings Highway through town until the road splits into a V. Keep to your left. This is the continuation of Kings Highway. We are approximately one block up on the left hand side.
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295 North to Exit 10 Swedesboro. Make a right off of the exit ramp. This is Center Square Road. Stay straight onto Center Square Road until it dead ends into a T. The road in front of you is Kings Highway. Make a left onto Kings Highway. You will enter the town of Swedesboro. Continue towards the center of town. The office is a large white Victorian on the right.
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Take the NJ Turnpike to exit 2. Make a left onto 322 West. Stay straight until you get to the intersection of 322 and Kings Highway. This intersection is controlled by a traffic light (a short distance). On the corner is the Kingsway High School. Turn left onto Kings Highway. Stay straight. In the center of town you will come to a five point intersection. The road you are on splits into a "V". Take the left spoke of the V. This is the continuation of Kings Highway. We are on the left.

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FC: William Drake Elliott 2nd Grade
1: Westwood Elementary School Miss Michele's Class
2: Open House | Drake got to meet his new teachers, Miss Michele and Miss Robyn. He was also very excited about meeting the class pet, Woodstock!
4: Drake's Baptism Tabernacle Baptist Church Rev. Gary Watson | For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 | Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come; the old has gone, the new is here! 2 Corinthians 5:17
5: Labor Day Beach Trip
6: Outer Banks Beach Trip with Mamaw and Papaw
7: Halloween Ghost Train at Tweetsie
8: The shelves at a downtown food pantry are a little fuller this week thanks in part to the generosity of second graders from Westwood Elementary School who visited the Ashe County Sharing Center on Tuesday. Approximately 112 second grade students visited the center Tuesday morning to donate canned goods along with other nonperishable items. One by one, the students entered the pantry in single file fashion as they handed over grocery bags filled with essential food items. The center's director, who chose to remain anonymous for confidentiality reasons, explained to each group of students that these items will be distributed to needy local families who do not have the means to allocate the necessities. Jefferson Post Article
10: The Manger in Miniature Church Christmas Play December 13, 2009 | Christmas Around the World 2nd Grade Program December 17, 2009
11: White Christmas December 19th Snow
12: Christmas 2009
14: Jan ~ Feb SNOW... SNOW... SNOW...
15: Family Night | April 19, 2010
16: Catawba Science Center
18: Ambassador's Coronation
19: Sport
20: Drake in his new glasses! | Drake practicing his guitar!
21: Trip to the NC Zoo
22: Last Day of
24: Fort Lauderdale
26: Florida Everglades
27: Mt. Rogers
28: Visiting Papa Terry in Myrtle Beach
29: And now it ends... No more second grader... No more summer vacation... Back to school as a growing third grader!


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One of the signs of a great leader is how well they motivate their team and how efficient they are about doing it.
You can't fake excitement. An inspired leader is able to translate their vision and ideas into genuine excitement within the team that surrounds them. And then an effective leader goes on with their daily business and lets the team do the work. The opposite of micromanagement, a leader that has inspired the troops, and has built a trusted core within the team, is often hard get time with. Because they believe in the leadership of their people, the uber-leader assumes that the job/project/work will get done with little or no additional oversight from them. At that point they are empowering their team to succeed.
On the other hand, if the leader is more a manager than a leader, they may not have the enlistment of the energy and passion of the team. It's more than walking the talk, it's about being seen for something deeper than business or profit opportunity, it's about honest expression of passion.
I recall a manager I once had who appeared bored about leading our group. While it was hard to call them a micromanager, because they were often hard to schedule meetings with, they did not inspire by their actions. More importantly they were not inspired themselves. A job is a job is a job, was the message. Just get it done, report back to me, and don't ask too many questions.
On the issue of air cover. An inspired leader IS AIR COVER. The faith and energy they put into their vision lends influence and cooperation from other teams and other executives. A "boss-type" manager doesn't really have time to invest in promoting YOUR projects to upper management. And thus, when silos become the prioritizing factor in workload, the less-inspired-manager's team will most likely get less priority. And perhaps, if there is enough churn, no priority at all.
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text: Displaced Iraqis gather in a temporary shelter in Makhmour, a town in Iraq's Kurdish region [Azad Lashkari/Reuters] Makhmour, Iraq - Omar, 29, slowly hobbles his way through a small courtyard, where dozens of people, including women and children, finish a meal of rice and beans. All of them recently escaped territory held by fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) by crossing into Iraq's Kurdish region. They are now living in a temporary transit camp in the town of Makhmour, an hour south of Erbil. "I fell into a trench; it was three metres deep," Omar, who did not provide a last name, told Al Jazeera, recalling his night-time escape from Mosul, east across the Tigris river to Makhmour. Abandoning ISIL is punishable by death, but each week, hundreds of people have been taking the risk to cross into Makhmour, said Peshmerga Brigadier Mehdi Younes. "They began coming a year ago, but a month ago, more started arriving," Younes told Al Jazeera. "[In early March], 300 people arrived in one night - women, children and men." INTERACTIVE: Enemy of enemies - The rise of ISIL Younes believes this escalation is due to civilians' growing awareness of the massing of Iraqi forces south of Mosul, in preparation for an offensive to retake the city from ISIL. Late last month, Iraqi security forces working with local tribesmen launched an offensive west of Makhmour, prompting an estimated 2,000 people to flee in less than 24 hours, according to local aid agencies. Civilians who remain in ISIL-held territory are also facing increasing pressure to join the group, Omar said. Head to Head - Who is to blame for the rise of ISIL? "On Fridays, they ask people to take up arms and fight. If you don't obey, they will force you to fight," said Omar, who was ultimately planning to relocate to Baghdad. Financial hardships and an increase in coalition air strikes have also prompted more civilians to flee ISIL-held territory in recent days, said Aymenn Tamimi of the Middle East Forum think-tank. "Another less common and very expensive route some Iraqis take is traversing Syria to get to Azaz area in north Aleppo countryside, and from there, try to get to Turkey," Tamimi told Al Jazeera. But this route is only available to those who can afford to pay thousands of dollars to smugglers - a difficult prospect for many Iraqis, who are struggling day by day to survive. Sahar, a married mother of two from a small town near Hawija, lamented that only ISIL's staunch supporters are able to lead a comfortable life in territory that the group controls. She fled to the Makhmour area early last month. Sahar, 24, who declined to provide her last name, says her family is desperate for money, and her brother has vowed to take any job that becomes available. "Even the military, anything to get money," said her brother, Ahmad, squatting next to Sahar in the barren courtyard of the temporary transit camp. Ayad, a 35-year-old from ISIL-held Hawija who spoke to Al Jazeera under a pseudonym, relocated to Makhmour in early March after walking for 13 hours with his wife and children to escape their crippling financial hardship. "I was unemployed for six months," said Ayad, noting he lost his cafe business after ISIL demanded taxes that he could not afford. "We were hoping that someone would come and rescue us... Some people have started eating shrubs [because there is no money for food]." READ MORE: Fallujah crisis - 'We are being left to slow death' Some residents who can afford it have paid hundreds of dollars to smugglers to be relocated from ISIL-held territory - including Adila, a 39-year-old electrical engineer who spoke to Al Jazeera under a pseudonym. "All of the people [of Mosul] want to leave, but [for many] there is no way," Adila said, noting she was planning to head next to the Kurdish capital of Erbil to meet other family members. The social fabric of much of Ninevah province has been shredded, and the challenges of reconciliation are looming before us. Tom Robinson, director of the Rise Foundation Civilians fleeing ISIL-held territory often travel with rusty Kalashnikovs for protection, relinquishing the weapons to the Peshmerga once they reach Kurdish territory, Younes said. Kurdish security forces are tasked with questioning new arrivals to ensure they do not pose a threat. "The people we don't have information about we keep for a few days, but others are just here for a few hours, then they're free to go," Younes said. However, the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, recently expressed concerns over the situation in the Kurdish-controlled Nazrawa camp for displaced persons in the Kirkuk area, saying civilians were being "forcibly transferred to camps where restrictions on their freedom of movement are imposed in a manner disproportionate to any legitimate concern, including those related to security". In other cases, some people who have fled from ISIL-held territory have been banned outright from entering Iraq's Kurdish region. For months, more than 500 men, women and children who belong to the Juhaish tribe, which is widely viewed as an ISIL affiliate, have been living in no-man's land northwest of Makhmour: denied entry into Kurdish territory, but unable and unwilling to return to ISIL. "They have not been allowed across the Peshmerga lines for security concerns," said Tom Robinson, director of the Rise Foundation, an NGO based in the Kurdish region. "They lived under ISIL and the village that they are from supported ISIL, and put up significant resistance when the recent Sinjar operation took place." Letting these people through could be viewed as a betrayal of those who suffered at the hands of ISIL and its affiliates, Robinson added. "The social fabric of much of Ninevah province has been shredded, and the challenges of reconciliation are looming before us," he said. READ MORE: Tension mounts between Iraqi Arabs and Kurds Today, the displaced people from the Juhaish tribe live on a barren patch of land on the eastern side of the Sinjar Mountains, surviving on dirty water and scraps of food donated by sympathetic Peshmerga fighters. "We have been without bread for over a week … We are completely isolated from the world," Mahmoud Saleh, one of the stranded people, told Al Jazeera in a telephone interview in early March. Five in the group have died so far, he said - including a woman and her newborn during childbirth. Skin diseases and malnutrition have also become common, Saleh added. While Robinson acknowledged that preventing a civilian population access to safety would be in direct conflict with international humanitarian law, "the issue here is that to some key players, this group of stranded tribespeople are not considered civilians due to their alleged affiliation with ISIL". The Kurdistan Region Security Council, in charge of security and intelligence in Iraq's Kurdish region, declined Al Jazeera's request for comment on the matter. Saleh, meanwhile, denied allegations that the group of displaced persons was shielding ISIL members. "They can check," he said. "If there are people who have been with ISIL, we will kill them ourselves." SOURCE: Al Jazeera Middle East Iraq ISIS


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Welcome to South Africa's top Giant Schnauzer kennel
We are a dedicated Giant Schnauzer kennel, based in Gauteng, South Africa. We base our lines on Gently Born dogs, as Gently Born has consistently been the top kennel in the world for over a decade. Gently Born are noted for their healthy lines, which is of paramount importance to us. We understand the importance of genetic diversity, and have imported completely unrelated dogs for this purpose.
We are registered members of the Kennel Union of Southern Africa (KUSA), and are active exhibitors of Giant Schnauzers. Please enjoy our website, and contact us should you require any further information.
Should you be interested in a Giant Schnauzer puppy, then please have a look at our puppy page to stay abreast of any planned matings, and litter announcements. We only own and breed black Giant Schnauzers.
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The aluminium transport cases from Accu Case are the perfect solution for all your transport needs when on the road. They offer safe transport and cover your equipment from dust and damage. There's a carrying handle on both sides.
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The Club Med holiday business may want to consider renaming itself Club South China Sea: The French firm is set to be bought out by Chinese and French investors who are targeting China for its future growth.
The company is hoping to break into the Chinese holiday market and aims to make the country its second-largest customer base within three years.
The 540 million euro (US$697 million) deal sees the French firm's two biggest shareholders, China's Fosun International (復星) and France's Axa Private Equity, offering 17 euro a share — a 23 percent premium — to Friday's close. The share price rose to 17.02 euro a share on Monday.
Club Med, which has traditionally focused its business in Europe and North Africa, said the approach was "friendly."
"The board took note of the friendly character of this offer. The board will meet again after the delivery of the report by the independent expert to provide its reasoned opinion on the terms of the tender offer," it said.
A joint statement from Axa and Fosun said they wanted to "implement a strategy in line with the difficult environment of the tourism market in Europe, in particular in France."
"An acceleration of the development strategy in the emerging countries as well as the strengthening of the market shares in mature markets are necessary," the statement said.
Henri Giscard d'Estaing, Club Med's chief executive and son of former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing, would remain in charge under the terms of the offer.
He joined the company in 2002 and turned around its loss-making position after the business suffered from an ill-advised foray into the services sector, away from its traditional upmarket holiday villages.
Fosun and Axa have 10 percent and 9 percent stakes respectively, and Fosun could play a pivotal role in Club Med's expansion into China, where it launched its first resort in 2010.
Club Med said revenues at its holiday villages in the six months to the end of last month fell 6.4 percent, with bookings in Europe over the past eight weeks down 4.6 percent, owing to the weak French market. However, Asian bookings jumped 13.9 percent.
The burgeoning Chinese middle class is becoming more demanding and overseas visits have topped 83 million, with spending of US$102 billion, overtaking Germany and the US to become the world's largest outbound tourism market, according to Chinese authorities.
Chinese tourists tend to travel to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau — where they can gamble legally — but have started to look further afield.
According to Thailand's tourism authority, Chinese tourist numbers jumped 93 percent to 1.1 million in the first three months of this year, and the country beat Hong Kong to the top spot for overseas visits for the first time.
Chinese tourists are also particularly fond of French fashion brands including Dior, Louis Vuitton and Chanel, spending £3,500 (US$5,280) per trip, according to China Confidential.
Club Med pioneered the all-inclusive holiday resort in the 1950s and 1960s, but has recently struggled amid the economic downturn in Europe.


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I hope you all had a wonderful holiday. Ours turned out to be a beautifully warm, fun, peaceful and relaxing day. See you next year.
Happy Holidays
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Happy Holidays to you, too, Melissa! I remember seeing the first picture of your little Gavin here, and it seems like that was only about 6 months ago – now looking at these pictures, I was quite surprised to see him running around already… 🙂
Hi! Can you believe Gavin is already 14 months! I can't believe it. He's RUNNING everywhere nonstop! Hope you had a wonderful holiday as well.


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Going back to work after baby is hard.
For every mom.
Breastfeeding or bottle feeding, hard labor or easy, one baby or many -every working mom who has to get up and leave their baby to go back to work is going to face a struggle.
The ping of sadness, the scramble to find good childcare, the phone call to your boss when your baby is sick and you can't make the 9am meeting you're supposed to be running. Even if you have the best job with the best boss and the best childcare situation where your partner or grandma get to stay home -every working mom will face these moments where you're like, BALANCE, BRING ME ALL OF THE BALANCE!
Now, throw in a desire to continue breastfeeding.
But, rest assured, ladies, it can be done.
Breastfeeding Guide: How to Keep Up When You Go Back to Work
Invest in a Good Pump
If you are going to be doing a lot of pumping you don't want to rely on one of those hand models -you will have hands like Shaquille O'Neil and basically no time to work. Those cheap ones you can get at Target aren't going to be much better -the suction is a joke and they don't work well or consistently for hardcore pumpers. Set aside some real cash while you're pregnant to invest in a unit that will really work well, long term. Or, consider renting one from your hospital. You may feel like you're being milked at a dairy farm, but they get the job done.
Start Pumping Early
As soon as you establish your milk supply and have baby committed to breast, start pumping. It is hard to get used to pumping -it takes extra time, it sometimes doesn't feel as productive as nursing, and it changes your milk production. The sooner you begin learning how to fit in pumping the better it will be for you when you transition to pumping more during the day. Added bonus: you can start to build your milk supply.
Figure Out How to Store
There are few things more sad for a mom than losing breast milk to poor storage. Find the best way to store your liquid gold so you and your baby can benefit from it. If packaged and stored correctly, you breast milk can remain good for up to 12 months in the freezer. It pays to figure this out so you can provide the milk to your baby as long as possible.
Give Your Baby Bottles
Once your baby has established a good latch and milk supply, it is important that you begin to introduce the bottle to your baby. You want them to be accustomed to taking a bottle in addition to nursing so that when you return to work the transition won't be quite so difficult on them. It may help to have dad or another loved one give baby a bottle instead of doing it yourself -sometimes nursing babies don't enjoy taking bottles from mom quite as much.
Speak with Your Employer
It is within your rights to take time to pump at work. You can't be excessive about it, but as an employee, you are entitled to certain rights and protections when it comes to pumping at work. For example, many employers have to provide you ample time and a private space to pump in. Most employers are okay with this, but it helps to speak to your employer when you return to work to let them know what you need. You can learn more about the law here: Break Time for Nursing Mothers.
Looking for additional support? Pop into the mom.life app and ask the moms there.


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Adult-Education College and Career Educational Leadership
Creating pathways to success for adult students
Adult Education College and Career Educational Leadership (ACCEL) is collaboratively rethinking and redesigning adult education to accelerate student success. We are a coalition of adult schools, community colleges and partners throughout the region. Our mission is to support adult education students' transition to college, workplace success and community contributions.
Contact us to explore options for your future:
- Learn English
- Master a new skill and/or subject
- Get your high school diploma or high school equivalency certificate
- Receive job training
- Transition to community colleges or other opportunities


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"Auron comments that a lot of summoners get lost at this point, as they are oblivious to the giant blinking arrow and map screen. Also, as we find out later, there's pretty much only one path out of the plains. These must be the dumbest summoners ever."
Final Fantasy X Part 17
So now everyone is in the Mt. Gagazet caves. Mt. Gagazet is a really, really big mountain. As if there is any other kind. This means that I have a lot of running and battling to do before reaching the cave exit. I can see you are all on the edge of your seats waiting to read about this.
After twenty-some hours of running from point A to point B, the game designers finally decided to throw some "puzzles" into their non-cloister-of-trials dungeons. There are some blocked-off pathways in the cave that only open up after I solve two puzzles. This sounds simple enough. However, it's up to Tightass, Wakka, and Rikku to swim through the waterways and take care of the puzzles. I'm totally screwed.
On the way to the first waterway, Wakka gets the munchies and wonders "how many steaks" he can make from a behemoth. I'd pay money to see Wakka say, "I wonder if I can smoke this?" while fighting an Ochu.
Once the party reaches the pond, Lulu makes an extreme statement of the obvious, telling the three swimmers that they're responsible for the water stuff. Of course, I quickly realize who she's dealing with and cut her some slack. Yuna takes her time saying farewell to Tightass, like he's going to be gone for weeks rather than minutes.
The perfectly clear cave pool is lit by glowy rocks and filled with really annoying fish. Luckily, whenever I use Tightass's Flee command, I don't have to hear him saying one of his "clever" phrases, since he's underwater. I have to be thankful for the small things.
After the three of them emerge from the water, they find themselves at "The First Trial of Gagazet." It's a glowing orb suspended in the center of two spinning barriers. Wakka has to throw his blitzball, timing it so that the ball goes in the space between the barriers and hits the orb. How convenient for Yuna that she not only brought along a blitzball-wielding guardian, but he's also one of the few people who could even make it to the trial. I'd hate to see Lulu chucking her poor stuffed animals at the thing. Let's not even get into Auron's sword.
It only takes Wakka a few clumsy tries to hit the glowy orb. This nets the group a completely useless Lv. 1 Key Sphere and opens up the pathway to the next trial. Run, run, run, swim, swim, swim, battle, battle, battle, and I'm there. Once again, it's up to our tedious trio to complete the trial. Hey, I can make statements of the obvious, too!
This time, there are three underwater holes of different sizes, each one with a different colored light inside. I'm supposed to pick which person swims into which hole. Not only are the holes sized for each individual, but the color of the light matches the color of each person's sphere grid indicator. I have to take a break, since my brain hurts after solving that difficult brain-teaser.
Again, another new pathway opens up. This one actually leads out of the cave. I get my ass out of there, skipping all the other treasure chests in the cave, because I don't really feel like fucking around in there anymore. On the way out, Auron lags behind the group in order to talk with Yuna. He cryptically warns her that "they" will attack soon. "She has sent fiends to test our summoner's strength," he clarifies slightly. Yuna is confused as to who he means, but come on. How many well-known females have we heard of thus far? That's right, it's Yunalesca. Yuna is all surprised and stuff. "In Zanarkand, she awaits the arrival of the strongest." Well gosh, if he was going to ruin the surprise of discovering Yunalesca in Zanarkand, then why the hell didn't he say something earlier? Oh, right, the game designers didn't want to reveal that plot twist too early. Yuna asks if Yunalesca is still alive. "As much as Mika and Seymour and me......oh crap. I didn't just say that," Auron responds. Then he randomly asks if she's "lost [her] nerve." Well, of course not. She's Yuna the Brave and Strong and Stupendous! "Nothing frightens me now," she Mary Sues. The two of them have a non-romantic Moment, as Auron joins the Yuna Brown-Nosing Squad and tells her that his old fuckbuddy her dad would be so proud of her. "Then...I must not let him down," Yuna replies as she turns to see the rest of the party standing a short distance away, waving at her. Fucktards.
A save point at the end of the cave plus Auron's not-so-subtle foreshadowing indicate to me that there just might be an upcoming boss battle. Sure enough, as soon as the group emerges into the open, Auron looks around suspiciously. "It comes!" he randomly screams. Um...I so did not want to know that. Taking that statement in context, however, Auron apparently meant "It's standing right there." Because it is. And it's huge.
"It" is a gigantic dragon with huge fruity wings. Apparently there is no other kind of dragon in Spira. This fight is insanely easy, as once again I don't use Tightass. The sad thing is, I did all this preparation, including Protect and Reflect, when all I had to do was cast Bio and Darkness, hit it with Auron's sword, and use Bahamut's limit break. Well, I'm not complaining, as Seymour violated me quite thoroughly in the last boss battle.
The dragon dies dramatically, giving me a feeling of accomplishment that I don't especially deserve. Afterward, Rikku stops and faces the group, whining about needing to rest. Auron's all "No time to stop, beeyotch, it wasn't that tough of a battle." But Rikku's not really tired. You see -- and this is going to be such a huge shock to all of you -- she wants to stop because she's trying to put off Yuna's death as long as possible. Jeebus Cripes. I am so annoyed at this obnoxious whining repetition that I want to shoot Yuna in the head myself just to piss Rikku off. Oh, but then who would get to Mary Sue the hell out of herself in the next game? We can't miss out on that.
Yeah, I'm sure it sucks for everyone who gives a crap about Yuna that she's supposedly going to die and all, but thankfully for me, most of them keep their yaps shut about it. I can only take so much wankst and whining before I punch a hole in the TV screen or stab my eye out with a pen. Rikku gives in -- you guessed it -- whinily, and the group continues on. Speaking of wankst, however, Tightass stays behind, hanging his head so that we understand that He's Sad and Shit. Wakka tries to be all touchy-feely and compassionate, but the two of them just exchange some statements of the obvious. Auron, a few steps ahead of them, chuckles at their stupidity.
Tightass takes exception to being laughed at, which causes Auron to utter one of the most horrifying lines in Final Fantasy history: "You remind me of myself." Holy God, no. Okay, for the sake of my sanity, I'm going to assume that the aforementioned statement is followed by "That is, if I were a giant, assreeking wanker." Because otherwise, Auron has just corrupted himself beyond repair. And....I just don't think I can get through the rest of the recap if that were the case. Indulge me just this once, please.
Actually, Auron goes on to say that at this point in his own journey, he was desperately trying to find a way to save his hot hunk of summoner meat from certain death. Even though he had previously been okay with the whole thing, this exact spot was where he thought, "Hmmm....if Braska dies, I won't be able to have sex with his hot ass......that's bad!" Wakka is floored at the thought of Auron being anything like that sorry dickwad that is Tightass. "Legendary guardians choke sometimes, too, ya?" "Legendary guardian? I was just a boy," Auron scoffs. "A boy about your age, actually. I wanted to change the world, too. But I changed nothing. And then instead of spending the next ten years happily frolicking about the Farplane with my sexy man beast, I had to take care of a whining wankpile. That is my story." On that upbeat note, Auron walks away, feeling sorry for himself. Not that he's not entitled at this point. I mean, dude.
The camera does a close-up on Tightass, who looks surprised, as if realizing, "Hey....there are other people besides me.....and they have feelings and stuff!" Of course, he's more likely noticing Yuna's ass way ahead on the trail. I know that my horrid sentence structure makes it sound like Yuna's ass has spontaneously detached itself and is now lying on the ground. But that would probably make Tightass stare, too, wouldn't it?
Tightass follows the group, as if he's going to do anything else. Since they're now at the summit of the mountain, the ruins of Zanarkand can clearly be seen, and boy, are they spiffy. Oh, that's because they're an FMV. In order to make this extra special cool, the game designers have thrown in a sunset, so instead of shitty gray buildings, we get to see lots of neato pink and orange.
The entire scene is spoiled by a fit of wanking. Predictably, the Wankese is all about how Tightass had to see the ruined Zanarkand to believe it, and Yuna's going to die. We are "treated" to the sight of Asian!Tightass staring at a contemplative Asian!Yuna, to underscore how Incredibly Serious this whole thing is. You see, Yuna is going to die. And that sucks. Or something. "The last chapter in my story," Tightass continues, giving the lie to my thought that this couldn't get any wankier. You'd think I would have learned by now.
Oh yeah, and what about that whole "Tightass is a dream" subplot? You'd think that since they made such a big stinking deal out of that in the last installment that there might be a mention of that. Particularly in light of the fact that Tightass is now staring the real life ruined version of his hometown right in the...um...face. But no, that plot point has been shoved back up the game designers' asses, presumably for later. Continuity, shmontinuity.
There's some more Intelekshooul and Poetic wank, before the Black Screen of Relief signals that it's time to unplug our ears. Unfortunately, it's a false alarm -- the Wankese has ended but the real wank has only just begun.
Okay, remember how Rikku tried to stall the whole thing and take her stand about two minutes ago? Well, the game designers think that we were doing something fun instead of listening to that crap. So lucky us, we get the following scene.
"Yuna, I say no!" Rikku says out of the blue. "If we go down there, then you'll..." DIE! She'll freaking DIE! And Rikku doesn't want her to! WE GET IT ALREADY! Everyone else is completely sick of this shit, too. Even Wakka is rolling his eyes in aggravation. Yuna says something inane and touchy-feely to Rikku, but I'm suddenly completely distracted by the amount of eyeliner that Yuna's wearing. I don't know why I never noticed it before, but she looks like a more masculine version of Squall. Now I know why she tries so hard not to cry all the time -- cleaning that shit up would be a nightmare.
This entire prolonged scene reiterates two points with which we are very, very, very, dear God, very familiar: Rikku wants to save Yuna, and Yuna must go ahead with the Final Summoning, because it's her decision and her destiny. Only picture those two subjects being discussed with two heaping tablespoons of Angsty Whining and a dash of Steadfast Determination, not to mention a few pinches of Melodramatic Camera Angles. Mix that on high with one Irritated Recapper and some alcohol, and you've got this obnoxious scene. Now, I realize that the game designers needed to pad this sucker to their usual 50+ hours, but couldn't they have thrown in a Squall/Seifer sex scene? Yes, I realize that this is two games too late, but several thousand VGRites (numbers exaggerated just a little) can't be wrong.


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If the mere sight of Tai Shan, the roly-poly, goofily gamboling masked bandit of a panda cub now on view at the US National Zoo isn't enough to make you melt, then maybe the crush of his human onlookers, the furious flashing of their cameras and the heated gasps of their mass rapture will do the trick.
Scientists who study the evolution of visual signaling have identified a wide and still-expanding assortment of features and behaviors that make something look cute.
What features and behaviors do think make something look cute?
Cute cues are those that indicate extreme youth, vulnerability, harmlessness and need, scientists say.
"Omigosh, look at him! He is too cute!"
"How adorable! I wish I could just reach in there and give him a big squeeze!"
"He's so fuzzy! I've never seen anything so cute in my life!"
A guard's sonorous voice rises above the burble. "OK, folks, five oohs and aahs per person, then it's time to let someone else step up front."
The six-month-old, 11kg Tai Shan -- whose name means "peaceful mountain" -- is the first surviving giant panda cub ever born at the Smithsonian's zoo. And though the zoo's adult pandas have long been among Washington's top tourist attractions, the public debut of the baby last month has unleashed an almost bestial frenzy here. Some 13,000 timed tickets to see the cub were snapped up within two hours of being released, and almost immediately began trading on eBay for up to US$200 a pair.
Panda mania is not the only reason that last year proved an exceptionally cute year. Last summer, a movie about another black-and-white charmer, the emperor penguin, became one of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. Sales of petite, willfully cute cars like the Toyota Prius and the Mini Cooper soared, while those of noncute sport utility vehicles tanked.
Women's fashions opted for the cute over the sensible or glamorous, with low-slung slacks and skirts and abbreviated blouses contriving to present a customer's midriff as an adorable preschool bulge. Even the too big could be too cute. King Kong's newly reissued face has a squashed baby-doll appeal and his passion for Naomi Watts ultimately feels like a serious case of puppy love -- hopeless, heartbreaking, cute.
Scientists who study the evolution of visual signaling have identified a wide and still expanding assortment of features and behaviors that make something look cute: bright forward-facing eyes set low on a big round face, a pair of big round ears, floppy limbs and a side-to-side, teeter-totter gait, among many others.
Cute cues are those that indicate extreme youth, vulnerability, harmlessness and need, scientists say, and attending to them closely makes good Darwinian sense. As a species whose youngest members are so pathetically helpless they can't lift their heads to suckle without adult supervision, human beings must be wired to respond quickly and gamely to any and all signs of infantile desire.
The human cuteness detector is set at such a low bar, researchers said, that it sweeps in and deems cute practically anything remotely resembling a human baby or a part thereof, and so ends up including the young of virtually every mammalian species, fuzzy-headed birds like Japanese cranes, woolly bear caterpillars, a bobbing balloon, a big round rock stacked on a smaller rock, a colon, a hyphen and a close parenthesis typed in succession.


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Base your review and promotion of the product on your personal experience. If you have not tried the product yourself, ask someone who has to help you write a review. Look for comments and discussions about the product online. If you see a lot of negative impressions about the products, perhaps you should not promote it at all.
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Romans 13
Deuteronomy 13:4 Respect and obedience are the right responses to Almighty God.
Romans 13:1 Submission: wives to their husbands (Ephesians 5:22-24); children to parents (Ephesians 6:1-3); servants are to submit to masters (Ephesians 6:58); younger believers to their elders (1 Peter 5:5). Believers are to submit to leaders in the church (Hebrews 13:17), and all are to be subject one to another (Ephesians 5:21).
Romans 13:1 and 2 If we do not submit to the laws of the government, we will be judged by those laws. All governments are a temporary necessity in this present evil age to maintain a semblance of order until God's perfect Kingdom comes.
3-5 The word "minister" could also be translated "servant" as it often is in other translations.
Hebrews 11:13 They were persuaded by God's promises regarding His coming Kingdom to the degree that they determined their lifestyle accordingly.
We are strangers today in this world because our citizenship is reserved in heaven as we await God's coming Kingdom. Pilgrims are those on a journey to a holy place. Our pilgrimage ends when we enter the Kingdom of God. Strangers and pilgrims do not get all wrapped up in the affairs of the land in which they live. They know their home is elsewhere.
2 Corinthians 5: 17-21 As ambassadors, our citizenship is in God's coming Kingdom, and we are sent to represent this Kingdom to the world.
1 Peter 2:11 and 12 "Visitation" should be translated "observation." The day of observation for unbelievers is today.
1 Peter 2:13-17 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man.
Romans 13:6 and 7 Governments cost money; therefore, they levy taxes.
Mark 12:15-17; Matthew 17:24-27 Jesus showed Peter that God would give provision to do what is right in obeying the financial demands of the government.
Romans 13:8 God does not want us to owe anyone because indebtedness may place us in a compromising position to be controlled.
1 John 3:16; 4:11 We owe love because God loved us, and He commands us to love others. Love is the fulfilling of the Law.
Romans 13:9 and 10
Romans 13:11 and 12 We are to maintain an awareness of the urgency of our times.
Romans 13:13 and 14 We must acknowledge the time wasters and cast them off:
Romans 13:14 Casting off and putting on are two separate actions that must be connected. Casting off without putting on is impossible, as is putting on without first casting off.
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Date Acquired: 08/08/2005
Subjects: COMO, Georgia Library Association
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Acquisition Source: Jack Fisher and Guy Frost
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Goodbye Smart Phone
- Published in Thinking Aloud
New research out shows that smart phones can affect physical and mental health and people are shouting out about it. Workshops to detox are on the rise, psychologists are giving dire warnings about the increase in anxiety, depression and suicide, especially amongst young people – the new IGEN. The articles are interesting, eye opening and worth reading but I thought I'd add my few cents worth to a phenomenon I find very disturbing.
I was resistant to the idea of a smart phone until two years ago mainly because I don't like touch screen keyboards. When I accidently gave my dying Blackberry a spin in the washing machine, I gave in and bought a Samsung mini Galaxy. Small, neat, lightweight, simple. A simple ring tone, a few Apps, connect up the email and sufficient until the day…. Well that day has come.
Every ping announcing the arrival of some piece of information that's not going to make one iota of difference to my life other than emails relating to my writing was having an effect on my concentration. I started to get twitchy and imagined I could hear the ping every few minutes.
To conquer this behaviour, I turned it off during my writing hours but my mind kept straying, wondering if I was missing out. I think younger people call this FOMO ( fear of missing out).
My next strategy was to shove it under the mattress using the out of sight out of mind principle. That worked for about two hours, providing I was deep into my imaginary life where eyes still met over coffee and people used telephone boxes or wrote letters in beautiful flowing script to declare love or condolences.
Living in Malvern with a huge hill behind the cottage means that reception can be intermittent. Calls get cut off and text messages stay in the outbox until I can stand on the low wall in the courtyard and wave the phone about. 'Go damn you,' my American neighbour heard me say one morning, as he watched me wave my device in the air. 'You're addicted,' he laughed, stubbing out his cigarette.
His words plucked a chord and for a few days I turned off the phone all together. After all, I have a landline, a laptop and a tablet. It felt alright. In fact it felt brilliant. My sleep was better, I now do yoga in the mornings instead of checking my phone and I get a renewed sense of what my life used to be like back in the 1970s. It's liberating.
So what lies behind drastic decision to actually get rid of my smart phone? Some might speculate that I can no longer cope with the acceleration of technology now that I am post 60 and from a dinosaur era. Others may think I'm ill or having a breakdown. Quite the opposite in fact. I'm enlightened or should I say I've got my marbles back since I was against the idea of the smart phone in the first place, realising as a behavioural specialist where this might lead. Research coming out is proving my initial fears to be true.
So what are my top reasons for saying goodbye to my smart phone?
My eyes are sore and are at risk of being damaged so says my optician. I don't have 20/20 vision – in fact I have one functioning eye and I'd like to keep it. Extensive exposure to blue violet light is toxic and can potentially damage the back of the eyes. It affects sleep patterns and moods.
Smart phone users wandering through busy streets staring at their screens are in danger of having an accident. I've found myself stopping in the middle of the pavement for someone to walk round me then they give me a mouthful because I interrupted their browsing for one second.
I used my brick-sized mobile to connect with family back in the eighties and can't remember any examples where it was used for work until I was going to be late for something. It was a phone for heaven's sake not a walking office. It knew its place. Now, smart phones connect us to everything from a virtual learning environment to porn and on line gaming where children can be drawn into a vortex of unpoliced, unsupervised connections and adults can experience painful withdrawal symptoms when they are without their phones for five minutes. I've seen panic behaviours exhibited in some of the most rational and controlled people.
What really pushed me over the edge was when I went into a restaurant last Friday and sat near a family of five, all of whom were scrolling, swiping or stabbing on their devices. No communication apart from the odd grunt, no eye contact, no bonding or connection. Even the toddler was sucking on a plastic toy mobile. I watched this scenario play out when their meals arrived. Fingers wrapped around chips but eyes stayed firmly on the screen. No more to say really is there other than it made my stomach turn. Loneliness, isolation, inability to exchange ideas in more than a line at a time..... is this the future of society?
Nokia must have seen this coming. I loved my 3310. It did everything I needed to do – phone, text, a fabulous radio and a camera. Iconic, classic and comforting. Thank you Nokia for being ahead of the times. I'm off to buy mine today. Love retro but then I came of age in 1974. J


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A special night in Ferrari for Gordon Ramsay's Maze restaurant
London, 10 September – Award-winning chef and Ferrari enthusiast, Gordon Ramsay, arrived in style in a Ferrari California T to his exclusive Maze restaurant event last night in London's Mayfair to celebrate the 10th year Anniversary of the restaurant.
First opening in 2005, the Mayfair institution often regarded as the restaurant that launched the small plate revolution, continues to tear up the rulebook re-working classic French dishes with an inspired Asian flourish. Now headed up by Head Chef Alex Thiebaut, the Michelin-starred restaurant from the Gordon Ramsay Group includes a sushi bar overseen by Sushi Chef Gohei Kishi in a true East meets West culinary union.
Multi-Michelin starred with 26 restaurants world-wide, Gordon Ramsay is no stranger to quality: 'I've absolutely loved driving the California T. It's just a joy to drive with the roof down, particularly around London when the weather is nice. I've had the pleasure of driving and owning many different Ferraris, but the California T stands out.'
The Ferrari California T continues to attract a wide range of admirers from clients all around the world, with the styling echoing that of one of the most beautiful Ferraris of all time, the 250 California of 1957. The California T is a brilliant expression of Ferrari's sporty DNA, while its retractable hard top (RHT) and 2+ configuration, amongst other features, make it supremely versatile. Like all Ferraris, the California T boasts cutting-edge technological solutions that make it absolutely unique, most notably the new turbocharged V8 engine.


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NSU Receives $1 Million Grant to Create Innovative Law Clinic
Funding to Provide Services for Intellectually and Developmentally Disabled Adults
FORT LAUDERDALE-DAVIE, Fla. – Nova Southeastern University's (NSU) Shepard Broad College of Law received a $1 million grant from The Taft Foundation to establish an innovative clinical program to address the legal needs of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (AIDD) and their families. The NSU AIDD Law Clinic will be launched in the fall of 2016 and will begin enrolling third-year students to staff it by January 2017.
"Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities have a myriad of legal issues that can impede their independence and infringe on their individual rights," said Jon Garon, J.D., dean of NSU's Shepard Broad College of Law. "This is an exciting opportunity for us to serve this vastly underserved population by partnering with The Taft Foundation to provide pro bono legal services."
While the particular fields of representation will vary depending on client needs, the most likely focus areas will be public benefits, housing, and educational rights. NSU's College of Law will be working closely with the Brooklyn Law School which introduced a similar clinic last spring, also funded by a grant from The Taft Foundation.
In addition, the AIDD clinic will provide community outreach through workshops, events, and community training to educate and encourage these adults, their families, service providers, and the general public regarding issues facing the affected population.
Prior to his passing in February, 2011, Don Taft was a business leader, philanthropist and a strong supporter of the South Florida community. In 2009, he combined his passion for athletics, helping special needs youth and NSU when he made a generous gift to the university and the Don Taft University Center was named in his honor, becoming the permanent home of the Special Olympics Broward County.
"This $1 million grant will enable NSU, through the Shepard Broad College of Law, to continue reaching out to South Florida's special needs community to improve their day-to-day adult lives," said NSU President Dr. George L. Hanbury. "Since serving the community is one NSU's core values, we welcome this opportunity to further strengthen our commitment to this key group of deserving people."
The $1 million grant will be distributed in $250,000 increments over four years.
Garon added, "The clinic will offer our students the opportunity to realize their potential by exposing them to a wide range of skills, including litigation, planning and drafting, and mediation. It's an unparalleled laboratory for them to develop their professional identities. We hope it will inspire many students to work on behalf of clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities in their legal careers."
The AIDD clinic expands the clinical legal education provided to NSU Law students and service to the Broward County underprivileged community. NSU Law also offers ten additional in-house and field-placement based clinical programs. In addition to opportunities for law students, the NSU Law clinic recently added a Legal Incubator program which partners with newly admitted lawyers to expand their professional training while expanding pro bono legal services to the community.
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Shepard Broad College of Law: Nova Southeastern University's College of Law offers a cutting edge, skills-centered academic program in three-year full-time and four-year part-time divisions. With its recently redeveloped clinical programs, every NSU Law student is guaranteed a live-client experience. In-house clinical studies are supplemented by full-time field placement opportunities practicing law in Florida, across the United States, or select locations throughout the globe. To solidify student success after graduation, NSU Law pioneered a curriculum on the business of lawyering through the Global Law Leadership Initiative. NSU Law students have a myriad of curricular opportunities, including a rich, diverse curriculum, concentrations in International Law or Health Law; dual degree programs abroad in Rome, Barcelona, or Prague; dual degree programs at many of NSU's 17 colleges; and much more. For more information, please visit: www.law.nova.edu/
About Nova Southeastern University (NSU): Located in beautiful Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Nova Southeastern University (NSU) is a dynamic research institution dedicated to providing high-quality educational programs at the undergraduate, graduate, and first-professional degree levels. A private, not-for-profit institution with more than 26,000 students, NSU has campuses in Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Miami, Miramar, Orlando, Palm Beach, and Tampa, Florida, as well as San Juan, Puerto Rico, while maintaining a presence online globally. For more than 50 years, NSU has been awarding degrees in a wide range of fields, while fostering groundbreaking research and an impactful commitment to community. Classified as a research university with "high research activity" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, NSU is 1 of only 37 universities nationwide to also be awarded Carnegie's Community Engagement Classification, and is also the largest private, not-for-profit institution in the United States that meets the U.S. Department of Education's criteria as a Hispanic-serving Institution. Please visit www.nova.edu for more information about NSU and realizingpotential.nova.edu for more information on the largest fundraising campaign in NSU history.
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Ever since it was invented in the mid-twenties, television has been the best friend of businesses that sell commodity products to consumers. Stuff like FMCG, automotive, fashion, has always been the easiest to sell by running TV ads on prime time television, for one simple reason: the TV ad is one of the very few advertising formats (if not the only) that can create an emotional connection with people. So in order to make you pick PEPSI rather than CocaCola from the shelf, PEPSI has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars on TV ads for the last few decades.
Fast forward almost a century later, and a big chunk of those TV budgets are moving to online video, for one very simple reason: better ways to measure ROI. Which is great and all, but there's one tiny problem: we're measuring the wrong things.
Let me put it this way: if you ask an advertiser to tell you what they want out of their TV / online video campaigns, they will say this: reach and brand awareness. That's it. Because they know that if they create better brand awareness for more people, their sales will increase. Doh! But here's the funny-but-worrying part: advertisers are measuring brand uplift by counting the number of people that click on their ads. In advertising jargon, CTR. Which is like saying that in order to measure the brand awareness generated by the 20 feet Samsung billboard in Times Square you need to count the number of people who stop whatever they're doing and go buy a Samsung. Which, pardon my English, is complete nonsense.
So rather than measuring the length of video campaigns in kilograms, I think we should be measuring it by analysing brand recall. Which means, analyse if a viewer remembers a brand before and after they watch the video ad. It's the way we're going to measure effectiveness of video ads in the future, because it makes more sense to measure length in miles, weight in kilograms and awareness in brand recall. And I know a company already doing it. Quite well.


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The first round of D1 conference play has concluded, and Central Arizona College now heads into conference DII play. The season concludes with the all important and tension filled DI series' to determine post-season stature and seedings.
The Vaqueros ended round one at 5-5 in conference play and 19-5 overall with a sweep of the Gila Monsters of Eastern Arizona Saturday.
"It just seems like we've been on the wrong end of these walk-offs" said head coach Anthony Gilich. "Hopefully they start equalling out." Although it was the top of the seventh, you could consider it a walk-off. YOU know what I mean.
Liam Spence bounded one through the right side to score Brett Harris after he had doubled with one out in the top of the seventh in game one, and Jake Vander Wal roped a two-out single to center scoring Spence for a Vaqueros 5-4 lead. Spence had advanced to second on the throw to try and nail Harris at the plate. Gilich brought in starter RJ Dabovich and he threw a hitless 7th for the Central win.
The final was 5-4.
Nick Trogerlic-Iverson threw a nice five giving up four runs, all in the fifth inning. Central held a 3-0 lead up until that point.
"He actually pitched pretty good" said Gilich. "They had two dribbler singles and a walk with a double to the wall that plated three runners, so it was pretty weird."
Alix Garcia doubled, singled twice, stole a base, and scored as he continues to rip everything in sight. Matt Dalke did what he does in the sixth with no hits and a strikeout, and starter RJ Dabovich "was available" for the seventh and he closed it out.
With improvement each and every start, Jason Nelson threw a masterpiece in game two. Six innings, ten please-sit down-sirs, one inconsequential walk and two singles. It was a sight to see.
It was a run-rule 12-0 shutout.
"I had this hunch it would be a good matchup for Cervantes" said Gilich.
Hm. Quijote!
(Only the parents will get that reference).
Daniel Cervantes doubled, homered twice, scored three times, and drove in five runs on the day. Hunch away coach. Ernny Ordonez doubled, going three for four and scoring twice. Garcia scored twice, Luke Schwartz drove in two with a late single, and Brett Harris hit another double.
The Vaqueros face Benedictine College in this week's doubleheader before traveling to Glendale Community College this coming Saturday.


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Harp Tiree demo - Handel's Praeludium (T. Birkenbeil)
Lutheal piano demo - Bach's Larghetto (T. Birkenbeil)
Clavecin Stop demo - Bach's Larghetto (T.Birkenbeil)
Cimbalom demo - Handel's Praeludium (T. Birkenbeil)
May 6, 2011
Full Download:Download contains: 9500 x 44.1kHz 24-bit Wav samples with accompanying sampler patches for Halion, Kontakt (2 and higher), Logic EXS24. Download comes as four separate files: 5.0GB, 1.2GB, 1.2GB, 2.5GB (zipped).
Breathtaking capture of perhaps the rarest piano in existence, with over 9500 individual multisamples that deliver an unsurpassed level realism.
The instrument:
The lutheal is probably one of the rarest piano instruments in existence – with only one original instrument being left. Invented by the Belgian George Cloetens, it uses a grand piano as its basis and allows to change the tone of the piano by applying the Lutheal mechanism. Built in 1922, it has been completely restored and resides at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in Brussels.
Two famous works by Maurice Ravel - "L'enfant et sortileges" and "Tzigane" - make use of the Lutheal.
Conductors from all over the world inquire regularly to rent the luthéal for concerts in order to play Ravel's pieces. However, shipping the last remaining one of its kind to around the globe proved to be impossible. As a result, we teamed up with MIM to provide a comprehensive sample set of this rare instrument.
Besides the regular grand piano sound - coming from a great Pleyel grand piano - the iron mechanism of the Lutheal offers additional sounds: Clavecin stop, Harp Tiree stop and Cimbalom.
The Clavecin stop produces a sound reminiscent of a harpsichord by adding nails to the strings.
The Harp Tirée stop adds felt dampers to the strings, producing a harmonic sound similar to an all-acoustic version of a Fender Rhodes electric piano, with its warm yet sparkling and lively harmonics.
Both the Clavecin and Harp Tiree stops can be added at the same time to create a combined setup which is referred to as Cimbalom, offering the sound spectrum of a dulcimer.
How the samples were captured:
The instrument was sampled chromatically with every register, providing up to 32 velocity layers to musically reproduce the Lutheal. Additionally, samples of the release noises of each key and stop have been recorded and are available with 8 velocity layers per key to contribute to the overall picture of the instrument. Pedal noise samples of each stop (pedal push/release) have been recorded as well.
To start right away, presets are available for all common sample formats including HAlion2, Kontakt2 and higher, as well as EXS24.
For the critical task of recording the Lutheal, we employed custom-made Wagner U47w tube microphones in conjunction with Crane Song Flamingo preamps and Universal Audio 2192 digital converters.
For maximum sound quality, we recorded in 192 khz/24 bits resolution, downsampled to 44.1 kHz/24 bits.


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These are the notes I use as an instructor when teaching this workshop. The notes accompany slides.
Documenting REST APIs
1.0 Documenting REST APIs
- Focus of the course is REST APIs
- Takes 3 hours to complete
- Learn with a real example and context
- No programming skills required
- What you'll need
1.1 The market for REST API doc
- Programmableweb API survey rates doc #1 factor in APIs
- Since 2005, REST APIs are taking off in a huge way
- Because REST APIs are a style not a standard, docs are essential
- The web is becoming an interwoven mashup of APIs
- Job market is hot for API technical writers
- API doc is a new world for most tech writers
- Learning materials about API doc are scarce
1.2 What is a REST API?
- An API is an interface between systems
- APIs that use HTTP protocol are web services
- SOAP APIs are the predecessor to REST APIs
- SOAP used standardized protocols and WSDL files
- Problems with SOAP and XML: Too heavy, slow
- REST is a style, not a standard
- Any message format can be used with REST
- JSON most common format
- REST focuses on resources accessed through URLs
- Sample URLs for a REST API
- The web itself follows REST
- REST APIs are stateless and cacheable
- REST APIs don't use WSDL files, but some specs exist
- Other REST formats: OData
1.3 Exploring a REST API marketplace
- Our course scenario: Weather forecast API
- Get an idea of the end goal
- Find the Weather API on Mashape
- Answer some questions about the API
1.4 Getting authorization keys
- About authorization for API calls
- Get the Mashape authorization keys
- Text editor tips
1.5 Submit requests through Postman
- GUI clients make REST calls a little easier
- Common GUI clients
- Learn by doing, then deep dive into concepts
- Make a request in Postman
- Save the request
- Make requests for the other endpoints
- View the format of the weatherdata response in JSON
1.6 Installing cURL
- Installing cURL
- Mac
- Windows
- Notes about using cURL with Windows
1.7 Make a cURL call
- About cURL
- Prepare the weather request in cURL format
- Make the request in cURL (Mac)
- Make the request in cURL (Windows 7)
- Single and Double Quotes with Windows cURL requests
- Make cURL requests for each of the weather endpoints
1.8 Understand cURL more
- cURL is a cross-platform way to show requests and responses
- REST APIs follow the same model of the web
- Try using cURL to GET a web page
- Requests and responses include headers too
- Unpacking the weather API cURL request
- Query strings and parameters
- Common cURL commands related to REST
- Example cURL command
- Test your memory
1.9 Using methods with cURL (Petstore example)
- Using Petstore API
- Create a new pet
- Update your pet
- Get your pet's name by ID
- Delete your pet
- Import cURL into Postman
- Export Postman to cURL
2.0 Analyze the JSON response
- Prettify the weatherdata JSON response
- JSON is how most REST APIs structure the response
- JSON objects are key-value pairs
- JSON arrays are lists of items
- Including objects in arrays, and arrays in objects
- Identify the objects and arrays in the weatherdata API response
2.1 Using the JSON from the response payload
- Making use of the JSON response
- Display part of the REST JSON response on a web page
- The AJAX method from jQuery
- Logging responses to the console
- Inspect the payload
2.2 Access the JSON values
- Accessing JSON values through dot notation
- Printing a JSON value to the page
2.3 Diving into dot notation
- How dot notation works
- Use square brackets to access the values in an array
- Exercise with dot notation
- Showing wind conditions on the page
2.4 New API endpoint to document
- Shift perspectives: Now you're the technical writer
- You have a new endpoint to document
- Essential sections in REST API documentation
- Create the basic structure for the endpoint documentation
2.5 Documenting resource descriptions
- The terminology to describe a "resource" varies
- Some examples
- When it gets confusing to refer to resources by the endpoint
- The same resource can have multiple endpoints
- When describing the resource, start with a verb
- How I go about it
- Critique the Mashape Weather API descriptions
- Recognize the difference between reference docs versus user guides
2.6 Documenting the endpoint definitions and methods
- Terminology for the endpoint definition varies
- The endpoint definition usually contains the end path only
- Represent parameter values with curly braces
- You can list the method beside the endpoint
- Your turn to try: Write the endpoint definition for surfreport
2.7 Documenting parameters
- Parameters are ways to configure the endpoint
- Data types indicate the format for the values
- Parameters should list allowed values
- Parameter order doesn't matter
- Passing parameters in the JSON body
- Time values usually follow ISO or Unix formats
- Construct a table to list the surfreport parameters
2.8 Documenting sample requests
- The sample request clarifies how to use the endpoint
- API Explorers provide interactivity with your own data
- API Explorers can be dangerous in the hands of a newbie
- When to show multiple responses
- Document the sample request with the surfreport/{beachId} endpoint
2.9 Documenting sample responses
- Provide a sample response for the endpoint
- Define what the values mean in the endpoint response
- Strategies for documenting nested objects
- Where to include the response
- Use realistic values in the response
- Format the JSON in a readable way
- Add syntax highlighting
- Embedding dynamic responses
- Create a sample response in your surfreport/{beachId} endpoint
3.0 Documenting code samples
- REST APIs are language agnostic and interoperable
- Deciding which languages to show code samples in
- Auto-generating code samples
- Generate a JavaScript code sample from Postman
- Implement the JavaScript code snippet
- SDKs provide tooling for APIs
- Create a code sample for the surfreport endpoint
3.1 Putting it all together
- Full working example
3.2 Creating the user guide
- User guides versus reference documentation
- Essential sections in a user guide
- Also include the usual user guide stuff
3.3 Writing the overview section
- About the Overview section
- Sample overview
- Common business scenarios
- Where to put the overview
3.4 Writing the Getting Started section
- About the Getting started section
- Show the general pattern for requests
- Sample Getting Started sections
- Hello World tutorials
3.5 Documenting authentication and authorization
- Authentication and authorization overview
- Defining terms
- Consequences if an API lacks security
- API keys
- Basic authorization
- HMAC (Hash-based message authorization code) vOAuth 2.0
- What to document with authentication
- Where to list the API keys section in documentation
- Include information on rate limits
3.6 Documenting response and error codes
- Response codes let you know the status of the request
- Common status codes follow standard protocols
- Where to list the HTTP response and error codes
- Where to get error codes
- When endpoints have specific status codes
- How to list status codes
- Status codes aren't readily visible
- Status/error codes can assist in troubleshooting
3.7 Documenting code samples and tutorials
- About code samples
- Code samples are like candy for developers
- You are not the audience
- Focus on the why, not the what
- Explain your company's code, not general coding
- Keep code samples simple
- Add both code comments and before-and-after explanations
- Make code samples copy-and-paste friendly
- Provide a sample in your target language
- Code samples are maintenance heavy with new releases
3.8 Creating the quick reference guide
- About quick reference guides
- Sample quick reference guide
- Visual quick reference guides
3.9 Exploring more REST APIs
- Let's explore more APIs
- Attack the challenge first, then read the answer
- Shortcuts for API keys
- Swap out APIKEY in code samples
4.0 EventBrite example: Get Event information and display it on a page
- The challenge
- About EventBrite
- Get an anonymous Oauth token
- Determine the resource and endpoint you need
- Construct the request
- Make a request and analyze the response
- Pull out the information you need
- Code explanation
4.1: Flickr example: Retrieve a Flickr gallery and display it on a web page
- The challenge
- Flickr Overview
- Get an API key to make requests
- Determine the resource and endpoint you need
- Construct the request
- Analyze the response
- Pull out the information you need
- Code explanation
4.2 Klout example: Retrieve Klout influencers and influencees
- The challenge
- About Klout
- Get an API key to make requests
- Make requests for the resources you need
- Analyze the response
- Pull out the information you need
- Code explanation
4.3 Aeris Weather Example: Get wind speed and use as conditional value
- The challenge
- The Aeris Weather API
- Get the API keys
- Construct the request
- Analyze the response
- Pull out the values from the response
4.4 Course Completion
- You finished!
- Summary of what you learned
- The next course
- Feedback
4.5 Publishing API docs
- Publishing context
- Why focus on publishing API docs?
- My story: Turning from DITA to Jekyll
- Five reasons why developer doc doesn't use HATs
- The HAT tooling doesn't match developer workflows and environment
- HATs won't generate docs from source
- API doc follows a specific structure and pattern not modeled in any HAT
- Many APIs have interactive API consoles, allowing you to try out the calls.
- With APIs, the doc is the interface, so it has to be sexy enough to sell the product.
- A new direction
4.6 List of about 100 APIs
- A survey of API documentation sites
- Programmableweb.com: A directory of API doc sites on the open web
- Look at 5 different APIs
4.7 Breaking down API doc
- API docs have tremendous variety
- No common tooling
- Similar patterns and structures
- Three kinds of API doc content
- Guides
- Tutorials
- Reference
4.8 Tool decisions
- Writers tools or developers tools
- Integrating into engineering tools and workflows
- Pros of having developers write
- Avoids documentation drift
- Allows the person who creates the code (and so best understands it) to also document it
- Cons of having developers write
- Problem 1: The curse of knowledge
- Problem 2: Not task-focused
- Problem 3: Output doesn't integrate with user guide doc
- Problem 4: Gives illusion of having complete doc
4.9 Github wikis
- Github wikis as complementary repositories to code projects
- Markdown syntax
- The wiki repository
- Treating doc as code
- Working locally allows you to leverage other tools
- Limitations with Github wikis
- Activity: Create a Github wiki and publish content on a sample page
- Activity: Save the Github repository locally
- Activity: Make a change locally, commit it, and push the commit to the Github repository
5.0 More about Markdown
- Markdown overview
- Development by popular demand versus by committee
- Why developers love Markdown
- You can work in text-file format using your favorite code editor
- Print a page
- You can treat the Markdown files with the same workflow and routing as code
- Markdown is easy to learn
- Drawbacks of Markdown
- Markdown has different flavors
- Markdown and complexity
- Analyzing a Markdown sample
- Activity: Write some Markdown on a page
5.1 Version control systems
- About version control systems
- Different types of version control systems
- The idea of version control
- Basic workflow with version control
- Branching
- GUI version control clients
- Activity: Follow a typical workflow with a Github project using Github Desktop
- Activity: Create a branch
- Activity: Merge the branch through a pull request
5.2 Pull request workflows through Github in the browser
- Managing reviews through Github
- Create a new Github repository
- Add collaborators to your project
- Make edits in a separate branch
- Create a pull request
- Process the pull request
5.3 REST API specification formats
- REST API specifications
- Should you use an automated solution?
5.4 Swagger
- About Swagger
- Activity: Create a pet
- Activity: Find your pet by the ID
- Sorting out the Swagger components
- Some sample Swagger implementations
- Activity: Create a Swagger UI display
- Create a Swagger spec file
- Set Up the Swagger UI
- Upload the Files to a Web Host
- Interact with the Swagger UI
- Auto-generating the Swagger file from code annotations
5.5 More about YAML
- About YAML
- YAML is a superset of JSON
- YAML syntax
- Comparing JSON to YAML
- Some features of YAML not present in JSON
- About RAML
- Creating a RAML Spec
- Auto-generating client SDK code
- Sample spec for Mashape Weather API
- Outputs
- Activity: Deliver doc through the Anypoint Platform Developer Portal
- Activity: Deliver doc through the API Console Project
- Activity: Deliver doc through the RAML2HTML Utility
5.7 API Blueprint
- API Blueprint is another spec
- Sample blueprint
- Parsing the blueprint
- Create a sample HTML output using API Blueprint and Apiary
- a. Create a new Apiary project
- b. Interact with the API on Apiary
- Restlet Studio
5.8 Static site generators
- What are static site generators
- Static site generators give you a flexible web platform
- Developing content in Jekyll
- Activity: Publish the surfreport in a Jekyll theme
- Download the Jekyll Aviator theme
- Add the weatherdata endpoint doc to the theme
- Publish your Jekyll project on CloudCannon
- What's cool about CloudCannon and Jekyll
5.9 Readme.io
- Software as a service sites
- No need to spend time developing your own site
- Activity: Publish endpoint documentation on readme.io
- a. Set up a readme.io account
- b. Configure API settings
- c. Add endpoint documentation
- d. Interact with the documentation
6.0 Miredot
- How Miredot works
- Example annotations
- Activity: Explore Miredot's output
6.1 Custom UX solutions
- Beautiful API doc sites require front-end design skills
- When it makes sense to partner with UX
- Web platform languages
- Solution at Badgeville
- Use scripts to generate JSON from source code
- Import the JSON into your web CMS
- Developing custom solutions
6.3 Design patterns
- What are design patterns
- Several design patterns with API docs
- Some non-patterns
6.4 Design pattern: Structure and templates
- Using a template
- Pushing values into more stylized outputs
- Templates in Jekyll
- Templates make it easy to change display globally
6.5 Website platform
- One integrated website
- Documentation as product interface
- Integrating information across the entire site
6.6 Code samples
- Developers love code examples
- Syntax highlighting
- Code formatting
6.7 Long-ish pages
- Minimize clicking
- Examples of long pages
- Why long pages?
- Is it a best practice to make long pages?
6.8 API interactivity
- API explorers
- Novel or actually instructive?
- Dynamically populated code samples with API keys
6.9 Challenging factors
- Requirements that may cause problems
7.0 Tools versus content
- Don't forget the content
7.1 Overview to native library APIs
- About native library APIs
- Do you have to be a programmer to document native library APIs?
- My approach to teaching native library API doc
- What you need to install
7.2 Getting the Java source
- About the sample project
- Clone the source on Github
- Open the right location in Eclipse
- Maven
7.3 Java in a nutshell
- Overview
- About Java
- Classes
- Methods
- Fields
- Objects
- Constructors
- Packages
- Exceptions
- Inheritance
- Interfaces
- JAR files and WAR files
- Summary
- Javadoc overview
- Characteristics of Javadoc
- Generate a Javadoc
- Javadoc and error checking
7.5 Javadoc tags
- About Javadoc tags
- Comments versus Javadoc tags
- Where the Javadoc tag goes
- What elements you add Javadoc tags to
- Public versus private modifiers and Javadoc
- The description
- Avoid @author
- Order of tags
- @param tags
- @return tag
- @throws tag
- Doc comments for constructors
- Doc comments for fields
- Cases where you don't need to add doc comments
- @see tags
- Links
- Previewing Javadoc comments
- More information
7.6 Exploring the Javadoc output
- About the Javadoc output
- Class summary
- Class details
- Other navigation
7.7 Doxygen, another document generator
- Doxygen overview
- Integrating builds automatically
- Other document generators
7.8 Creating non-ref docs with native library APIs
- About non-reference docs
- Reference docs can be an illusion for real doc
- Reference docs are feature-based, not task-based
7.9 Test everything
- Step 1: Set up a test environment
- Step 2: Test the instructions yourself
- Wrestling with assumptions
- Step 3: Test the instructions against an audience
- Ask a colleague to try out your instructions
- Should you watch when users test?
- Enjoyment benefits from testing
- Accounting for the necessary time
8.0 Workshop completion
- Practicum to get real-world experience with API doc