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CoQ10 is a vitamin-like substance with a structure similar to Vitamin K. In diabetes it is theorized that using CoQ10 may enhance activity of certain enzymes and may stimulate insulin secretion. It has been studied for a variety of cardiovascular disorders. It may produce GI upset, insomnia, and rare increases in liver enzymes. There are a variety of drug interactions including decreased bleeding time with warfarin use, possible attenuation of the antihypertensive effect of beta blockers and decreased endogenous CoQ10 with statin use. On the other hand, CoQ10 may lessen the toxicity of the chemotherapeutic agent, doxorubicin. In studies involving both type 1 and 2 diabetes, CoQ10 has shown variable effects on diabetes endpoints.
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OMAHA, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lindsay Corporation (NYSE: LNN), a leading provider of irrigation systems and infrastructure products, today announced it plans to release financial results for its fiscal 2012 fourth quarter and year ended August 31, 2012, before the market opens on Wednesday, October 17, 2012. Management, including Rick Parod, President and Chief Executive Officer, will host a conference call to discuss the results the same day at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
Interested investors may participate in the call by dialing (888) 321-8161 domestically, or (706) 758-0065 internationally and referring to conference ID # 34441230. Additionally, the conference call will be simulcast live on the Internet, and can be accessed via the investor relations section of the Company's website, www.lindsay.com. The Company will have a slide presentation available to augment management's formal presentation, which will also be accessible via the Company's website.
About the Company
Lindsay manufactures and markets irrigation equipment primarily used in agricultural markets which increase or stabilize crop production while conserving water, energy, and labor. The Company also manufactures and markets infrastructure and road safety products through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Barrier Systems Inc. and Snoline S.P.A. At June 25, 2012, Lindsay had approximately 12.7 million shares outstanding, which are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol LNN.
For more information regarding Lindsay Corporation, see Lindsay's website at www.lindsay.com. For more information on the Company's infrastructure products, visit www.barriersystemsinc.com and www.snoline.com.
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This release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties and which reflect management's current beliefs and estimates of future economic circumstances, industry conditions, Company performance and financial results. You can find a discussion of many of these risks and uncertainties in the annual, quarterly and current reports that the Company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements include the information concerning possible or assumed future results of operations of the Company and those statements preceded by, followed by or including the words "anticipate," "estimate," "believe," "intend," "expectation," "outlook," "could," "may," "should," "will" or similar expressions. For these statements, the Company claims the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this press release.
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We (the CCG) are bringing our knowledge of patient care to look at how services are planned and how the patient's journey through care can be improved.
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We have set up a number of clinical programmes to look at specific conditions. They are:
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Guardian writers' prediction: 11th (NB: this is not necessarily Paul's prediction, but the average of our writers' tips)
Last season's position: 11th
Odds to win the league: 1,000-1
Stoke may just be the Premier League's most fearsome club. A wind-swept stadium whose inhabitants defy its structure to generate the most intimidating din in the land, burly players who challenge and charge relentlessly, and a clear-headed manager who refuses to apologise for his no-frills approach and might not be prissy enough to rule out an admonitory bout of naked headbutting if the situation demanded it.
All involved with Stoke deserve acclaim for making their club so feared so soon after ending a 25-year absence from the top flight. One negative side-effect from the way they have achieved this is that it is not only opponents who fear the Potters: transfer targets seem wary, too. Especially forwards.
Only Aston Villa used as few players as Tony Pulis did last season and the manager, who has a hefty sum to spend, is eager to equip himself with more options, declaring he wants two new strikers.
He has made offers for Nice's Loïc Rémy and West Ham's Carlton Cole, and been linked with a slew of others, but so far no one has succumbed. It is easy to deduce that although Stoke are now an established Premier League force, they are not viewed as a club where forwards can enhance their careers – at least not forwards of the calibre they seek.
It is easy to see why: attackers have to work extremely hard there for relatively little reward – Stoke created fewer shooting opportunities than any other side in the league last season, averaged less possession per game than anyone else (39.6%) and completed fewer passes. Their forwards tend to spend a large amount of their time chasing and closing down and, as a consequence, find themselves under inordinate pressure to take any opportunities that do eventually come their way.
James Beattie and Dave Kitson do not appear to have been able to cope with that and have become disgruntled while Ricardo Fuller, although sometimes brilliant and always willing, has not been able to consistently rise to the challenge either: his shots-to-goals ratio of 5.6% last season was the lowest of any forward in the league. Tuncay Sanli is a classy and energetic player who does not find himself in front of goal as often as he would wish and, perhaps as a result, is being linked with a move. Mamady Sidibe tries hard.
The best way to attract a top-notch striker may be firstly to demonstrate an intent to evolve by bringing in a couple of midfielders to free the forwards. Unless Liam Lawrence stays and rediscovers his best form, then a right-sided player who can replicate the runs and crosses that Matthew Etherington provides from the left would be welcome.
Similarly, a tad more creativity and penetration could be introduced to central midfield where Glenn Whelan, Dean Whitehead, Salif Diao and Rory Delap can all be relied on to do fundamentals diligently but do not quite have the ingenuity to inspire Stoke into the top half of the table.
Unless Pulis can lure upgrades before the transfer window closes (and despite the above concerns we should not exclude that possibility because he has always been a crafty operator in the market) there seems little hope of Stoke making a great leap forward.
Nor, however, does there seem any likelihood of them significantly regressing. Despite debaggings at Chelsea and Manchester United towards the end of last season, Stoke should remain a generally well-organised, highly driven unit who will not concede ground lightly.
With Ryan Shawcross fully fit again and Robert Huth or Danny Collins at hand to partner him if Abdoulaye Faye fails to recover from the uncharacteristic loss of form and/or motivation that afflicted him towards the end of last season, the core of their defence will be solid.
The full-back areas are also well-staffed – either Huth, Collins or Andy Wilkinson on the right and Danny Higginbotham on the left – and the highly promising Asmir Begovic may be ready to offer even greater reliability in goal than Thomas Sorensen, who has been a stalwart for the club but is starting to betray signs of decline. Only four teams – Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool and Aston Villa – kept more clean sheets than them last term and there is no reason why opponents should get any more joy out of them this time round.


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Well, I might. Nintendo announced that the Opera web browser will be made available (on its own cartridge, I'm assuming) for $29. They also announced a TV-tuner card.
This got me thinking, with the PSP offering a web browser for free, what makes Nintendo think that they can charge $29 for one? A couple of things, I guess. First, Opera has a history of charging for their web browser (how that business model works when every other browser in the world is free, I have no idea).
Second, the Nintendo DS is pretty much wiping the floor with the PSP (and every other game console, portable or not, for that matter) in sales right now. So they can afford to do whatever they want.
Lastly, the DS doesn't have an easy way (USB cable) to connect to a PC to update itself with new features like the PSP does. Sure, they could try it over wifi, but do you want to be the guy in charge of tech support for 12 year old kids around the world trying to flash the firmware on their DS over wifi? Yeah, me neither. 🙂
So, I guess it makes sense for them to release Opera on a cart. And they couldn't very well give it away for free. The real question is, will I cave and buy it when it comes out? I already carry several devices on my person at any given time that can browse the web, so Opera on the DS would have to be pretty special. But we all know I have very low resistance to this sort of thing. 🙂
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I've written about her before, but sadly she hasn't written anything new in years.
Her name is Dorothy Gilman.
Of course after reading why she died - complications of Alzheimer's disease - I can understand why there was nothing new.
Her obit was published on February 3 in the New York Times, and I have to admit that I didn't realize how sad her passing would make me feel.
Dorothy Edith Gilman was born in New Brunswick, N.J., on June 25, 1923; she decided on a writing career when she was still a child. Planning to write and illustrate books for children, she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Under her married name, Dorothy Gilman Butters, she began publishing children's books in the late 1940s.I understand that an author is not wholly the main character in their books, but there has to be some part of them that leeches out and into the characters. So don't blame me too much if I visualize Dorothy Gilman as Mrs. Pollifax. Now for those unfamiliar with this character, Mrs. Pollifax was the elderly (if 60ish is elderly - maybe in the '60s it was) widow who decided that she had reached the point where she wasn't needed anymore, so she should either kill herself or fulfill her life's wish of becoming a spy. Fortunately for the world, Mrs. Pollifax made the drastic and dangerous decision of becoming an employee of the CIA, and she enjoyed a 14-book run - now don't you think that's impressive?
Clever, lucky and naïvely intrepid, Mrs. Pollifax employs common sense and a little karate to rescue the kidnapped; aid the resistance (when you are a suburban lady spy, a fashionable hat is ideal for concealing forged passports); and engage in all manner of cheery deception (when doing business with a malefactor who is expecting a can of plutonium, a can of peaches makes an excellent if short-term substitute).I have to confess - although I might have done this before - but I have read her series, either in whole, or a book at a time, at least 10 times, and I can say this without it being hyperbole. It's also nice to know that I am not alone in my fondness for Dorothy Gilman author, or Mrs. Pollifax, spy. There is a wonderful blog devoted to Mrs. Pollifax, and the blog's author can provide even more comprehensive information on the series, if you're interested. But don't limit your reading to just the Mrs. Pollifax books - Dorothy Gilman was a very prolific author who wrote some wonderful books that were not series, but stand alone as complete works.
One of the things that you may notice, if you decide to pick up a Dorothy Gilman book is that she deals a lot with spirituality, and finding ways to discover oneself, or hidden strengths, either through religion, mysticism, or spirituality. As much as I love Mrs. Pollifax, my two favorite books do not feature her, but are separate books: Incident at Badamya and Caravan. I never tire of reading these books, and I doubt I ever will.
RIP Dorothy Gilman, and know that I am not alone in loving the work you have left behind. Through this you will live forever.


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Yes, Christians who attend churches that tolerate and encourage loving homosexuals will go to eternal damnation in Hell, even if the church claims to be an "evangelical Christian" or "Bible-believing" church, because Romans 1 clearly condemns not only homsexuality but homosexuals as people.
God hates all homosexuals as people as it is clear from Romans 1 and the Biblical account of Sodom and Gomorrah.
All Christians who truly believe in the Holy Bible must leave evangelical Christian churches that teach loving homosexuals, because they have bowed down to Satan and stand against the Holy Bible, which is the Word of God.
God hates all gay people, and God hates all Christians who love gay people.


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The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is a very well done imagination of what it might have felt like to have been Mary, the mother of Jesus. Told in the first person, the slim volume (only 81 pages) is beautifully written. Although the author doesn't explicitly refer to it, this is what Mary might have been thinking when, as the Bible says, "Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart."
Traditionalists may be offended because Toibin's Mary is not a Christian; she doesn't even follow the Jewish teachings after her son's death. There were some strange things that occurred during his life, but she maintains a skeptical stance. She says that if he died for the sins of the world, it wasn't worth it. That's the hook that caught me. Indeed, what mother would be willing to sacrifice her son to die for the sins of the world? And what kind of god have we invented who would demand such a sacrifice?
There are some anomalies in the book. Toibin's Mary has a 21st century outlook on the role of men and women. She wears shoes, not sandals. But the book is very much worth the little bit of time it takes to read it. Then ponder it in your heart and wonder if Toibin's imagination gets it right.


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Shelford Heating Ltd was formed in 2011 following a Management Buyout from Watson Petroleum consisting of the Trade, Assets and Goodwill. All staff previously employed where transferred as Employees to the new company.
Many of our current Customers will recall the Purchase of Shelford Energy and Shelford Heating by Watson Petroleum in March 2009 from its then Owners Shelford Petroleum Oil Transport Ltd where it all started in the 1960's when oil became a fuel for the home heating market in rural Cambridgeshire and surrounding Counties.
This knowledge of oil heating was further expanded in the late 1990's to include gas heating along with installation of heating systems, and full maintenance packages. Shelford Heating now successfully services 10,000 customers annually.
The future of heating is forever changing, and we are now embarking on major changes in how our homes and businesses are heated along with generation of free and renewable energy. Unfortunately the days of cheap fuels are no longer! As a result we need to identify more sustainable sources and improved technologies.
Shelford Heating Ltd has invested heavily in extensive research of new technologies, staff training, development of its product range and the installation of new computer operating systems that will take us forward into the next generation of ownership with opportunities to grow organically and continue providing a First Class Service to homeowners, business, and commercial organizations throughout Cambridgeshire and the surrounding Counties.
Shelford Heating can now offer a total solution to Home and Business throughout Cambridgeshire, and we will continually strive to deliver new Technology in both terms of Reliability, Efficiency and After Sale Support.
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The first day of The Superyacht Owners' Summit kicked off today with power and punch as a panel of aviation experts shared their opinions and insights from what is arguably a more mature industry operating in a synergistic market. Bob Atkinson of B Capital, Kasyan Bartlett of Affinity Aviation, Nic Imrie of Stratajet, Janus Kamradt of Executive Jet Management and Jonathan Russell of Hill Dickinson were joined by Martin Redmayne at the event, which will run alongside the London Yacht, Jet & Prestige Car Show for the next two days.
Early on in discussions, transparency – or the apparent lack of it in our industry, was tackled by panelists, who cited its positive affect on buyers and financiers in the private jet market. Blue Book and JETNET were both referenced as buying aids and information platforms which don't yet exist in our industry. Granted, improved transparency and visibility would no doubt be tougher in the yachting industry where higher levels of personalisation among countless other factors make it almost impossible to compare like for like assets – but it seems there is room for improvement nonetheless.
Jonathan Russell of Hill Dickinson said, "If there is one lesson to be passed on, being able to give better visibility of the true cost of assets would be it." While some suggested that banks were more likely to lend to jets over yachts because of this shortfall, Janus Kamradt of Executive Jet Management did put forward an argument for the willingness of some banks to get involved, suggesting, "some banks use yachting as a hook for private wealth. They live with the fact that they have to get into bed with a yacht or indeed a private jet to achieve that. An awful lot of banks would not be interested if it was just about the one transaction."
Throughout discussions, the fundamental differences between the two customers were flagged up by both panelists and audience members, who recognised, as Jonathan Russell pointed out that, "private aircraft is seen as more of a business tool. Yachts are all about leisure." As Nic Imrie talked through Stratajet, an app that uses algorithms, rather than an agent, to enable chartering experiences at the touch of a button, the audience pondered the chances of this sort of technology being developed for superyacht charters. Can such passion-driven purchases be made at the touch of a button? Time will tell.
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How Large Is Large?
February 28, 2012
"I love this! But can you paint it for me on a much larger canvas?"
And the response is "How large is large?"
Imagine yourself in this moment. You feel a deep personal connection with a cityscape painting on a 10″ x 12″ canvas. And you know you'd love it even more if the painting is larger. The happy ending, of course, is you decide on a 48″x 48″ canvas and this Calgary artist created a similar cityscape just for you (see the image below).
Paintings do this. They help us feel things. Paintings bring something into our life that never before exisited. And we have an oppotunity everyday to respond to this nourishing experience.
As an artist, a painter, I love bringing things into existance.
So tell me, "What would you like painted?"
Jim Pescott is an international contemporary artist who lives and creates in Calgary, Alberta. To contact Jim directly about his paintings, or a project you think about, please phone 403-870-0591 or email him at firstname.lastname@example.com. Jim's website is http://www.jimpescott.com


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Makana went on FOX promoting Bernie Sanders. This is what happened… "I made a video about the news by remixing the news which then made the news and then I went on the news and remixed the news itself." – Makana
This has got to be one of the best news stories ever done by Fox News! Kudos to Makana Music for an awesome song, a phenomenal music video, and an amazing straight-from-the-heart interview!


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Rhys Nicholson: I'm Fine
Rhys Nicholson is only 27 but exudes the confidence of a man who knows exactly who he is, from the exquisitely tailored appearance to the waspish superiority of his withering wit.
It was not always thus: at high school he was the bullied, unpopular outsider, and when he was 18 he escaped to all the freedoms the big city offers – and became an unabashed 'slut'.
He is a different person now, and even looks back on those days with detachment, able to tease his past self almost as if it were someone else, a callow youth whose actions bewilder the 2017 version. So although this show is all 'me, me, me' – even when you think he's going to talk about refugees, he turns the focus back on himself – it comes with a mocking self-awareness of his past lives.
Given those early years in Sydney, much of his material is dirty – which his formidable force of personality pushed through some 'don't go there' resistance. But there is an extra dimension, too, for this is a comedian who can address his anxiety disorder through his reaction to sex toys. However promiscuous he might have been, Nicholson confesses to being vanilla in his sexual tastes ('I'm not a pervert!' he insists most firmly), so the inventory of a sex shop not only makes him blanch, but triggers his fears.
Elsewhere he touches on such issues as his former battle with bulimia and insidious white privilege, but always delicately. Nicholson is light on his comedic feet, both in dancing around such matters and making the hour flow so freely, thoughts and observations segueing seamlessly together. He is the epitome of the urbane raconteur, precise and pointed with no time for whimsy yet seeming so naturally conversational.
He kicks off I'm Fine – a show title that's a gift for reviewers who want to damn with faint praise – with the sort of contemptuous sneers of small towns and small minds that are his forte.
The pace slackens and millennial irony increases before we get to sexual matters, and at the end the, erm, climax of the sex talk is a little crass, too, but probably necessary to wrap things up. However, even in relative lulls Nicholson is never less than an engaging raconteur. Audiences are in safe hands with him.
Review date: 14 Apr 2017
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The European Union provides tons of information online that can be a real treasure. Sometimes there is so much that is difficult to know where to start.
An excellent resource is the "Summary of legislation" site, where you can find useful information on the EU in eleven different languages. The site include detailed EU glossaries with clear explanation of 233 key EU terms.
But probably the best place to start is the "Eurojargon" glossary (this in 20 languages); a "plain language guide" aimed at untangling for the general public many confusing terms often used by EU insiders.
These are not real translation glossaries: they don't include an easy key to the translation of each term. But since all this material is in at least eleven different languages, it should prove useful to many translators.
The links provided here get you to the English version of these pages. In each page you can then select your language.
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is an author, columnist and broadcaster
Political correctness has become a term of abuse, even though it has given dignity and hope to millions. The movement needs a rebrand
The new report on joblessness shows the role played by discrimination – but attitudes within our community must change too
The very fact of a Muslim being in this high office could do more to combat radicalisation than any number of government strategies
From Othello's downfall to the inter-religious love of The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare's explorations of assimilation, black pride and imperial disdain resonate now more than ever
When even young girls are being dressed in hijabs, we need to ask what the female cover-up symbolises
The civil-rights campaigner inspires and infuriates in a vital book that should get us all arguing, writes Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Will Self, AL Kennedy, Nina Power, Pragna Patel, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Jim Al-Khalili, Jenni Murray, Mary Warnock for the New Humanist: Our panel discusses whether a secular society merely separates church and state, or if secularism has a wider remit
Bound for Oxford and the arms of her True Love, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown thought she could abandon her life in Uganda. But memories of politics and pickles linger
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Religionists do not want parity - they want special treatment and an unacceptable influence over policy.
Her father ruled her life, her aunt called her ugly, as Katherine Frank's biography reveals - but that's no excuse for the way Indira Gandhi ran India
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on why a new report is right to take a tough line
Caryl Phillips unearths the legacy of slavery in the US, Ghana and Britain in The Atlantic Sound
They're known as 'baby fathers' - black men who have children with more than one partner. But while some white women lust after them, many black women have had enough.
After years of dispiriting neglect, there has been a renaissance among Muslim artists in Britain. Not all of them devote their art to God, but most give short shrift to the notion of art for art's sake and sheep in formaldehyde.


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FDA Recalls Hydroxycut Products
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned dieters and body builders Thursday to immediately stop using Hydroxycut. The FDA said that the manufacturer of the dietary supplement has agreed to recall 14 Hydroxycut products which are available in grocery stores and pharmacies.
These supplements which are used by people trying to shed pounds or by body builders to sharpen their muscles have been linked to cases of serious liver damage and at least one death.
Hydroxycut is advertised as made from natural ingredients and accounts for about 90% of the market for weight loss supplements.
Dietary supplements are not as tightly regulated by the government as medications. Manufacturers don't need FDA approval ahead of time before marketing their products.
If you or someone you love suffered injury as a result of taking a diet pill, contact the medical malpractice attorneys of Pennsylvania for a free consulation. Berger & Lagnese, LLC specializes in cases involving dangerous products.


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Nearly 70 percent of smartphone users in Taiwan have downloaded applications to their phones at least once, while users of Apple's iPhone have a greater tendency to download paid-for applications than those using phones running Google Inc's Android system, a recent survey showed.
According to a survey conducted by the Taiwan Digital Convergence Development Association (台灣數位匯流發展協會) and Taipei-based appWorks Ventures (之初創投) between Dec. 17 and Dec. 28 among 1,501 people aged 20 and above, 52.8 percent still use traditional feature phones, while 47.2 percent have replaced their old devices with smartphones.
Of the 650 smartphone users polled, 86.1 percent of Apple's iPhone owners said they had downloaded paid-for applications at least once, while only 69.8 percent of Android smartphone owners said they had purchased applications from Google's Play Store.
On average, iPhone users had downloaded 32 applications to their phones, while users of smartphones running Android had downloaded 17 applications.
Jamie Lin (林之晨), co-founder of appWorks Ventures, said the dispute between Google and the Taipei City Government over Android apps' free probation period had meant Android phone users were less willing to purchase apps than iPhone users.
The city government should resolve the case as soon as possible to help Taiwanese app developers regain competitiveness in the market, Lin said, adding that Japanese developers had generated more than NT$10 billion (US$341.2 million) in revenue from their aps.
The survey also showed that up to 68.2 percent of smarpthone users used less than five applications on a daily basis, and by operating system, users of iPhones (which run Apple's iOS) used seven applications at most, while users of smartphones running Android used no more than five applications on a daily basis.
By category, gaming apps accounted for up to 49.1 percent of paid applications downloaded, followed by social networking apps with 33.8 percent and travel apps with 22.4 percent.
The survey showed users spent NT$363 on financial apps, NT$252 on entertainment apps, NT$238 on e-book or e-magazine apps, and NT$225 on social media apps.
Meanwhile, the survey showed that Samsung Electronics Co is the most popular smartphone brand with a market share of 27.4 percent in Taiwan, followed by HTC Corp (宏達電), with a market share of 26.2 percent. Third in the survey was Apple with 19.8 percent, folowed by Sony Corp's 9.6 percent, Nokia Oyj's 2.6 percent and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc's 2.4 percent.


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Category Archives: Liberty
Implementing a training schedule (part 3)
Well, those recent posts were all well and good but how are you going to do this day to day? How do you even make this plan of Friendship-Liberty-Traditional? The first thing I do is create a list of what … Continue reading
Chunking down training tasks
(excuse the squealing in the above video, I'm trying to sound really excited! ha) Like I discussed in the last blog post, I've been re-examining my training on Dante. We need to move forward and we seemed to have gotten … Continue reading
Free Play vs. Equipment Work
Before Dante was injured and work halted, I had noticed a big difference in his attitude when we did clicker training with a target and NO halter/cavesson on him, VS. when I did the same work with clicker and target, … Continue reading
When the Horse dulled by humans Wakes Up
Most horse people are unaware that many horses used by humans in everyday riding have become dull – to survive they have tuned out most of what is going on around them. Horses generally want to get along so between … Continue reading
Opening the Door: Great day with Dante
A little cooler and some cloud cover made it far more bearable to be out there at the barn. Dante did great! He loved following the target and was so eager, rather like a cat chasing a laser light! I … Continue reading
more about round pen sessions
A few weeks back I did some round pen sessions with Z that were videotaped for another person to view. For some time, I have not felt totally comfortable with the "how and why" of the round pen. I felt … Continue reading
long discourse on liberty work
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A suspected burglar had to be freed from a ventilation shaft of a pub today after spending seven hours stuck inside.
The man's cries for help were heard by a drayman delivering shortly after 6am at Twin Farms, Main Road, Kenton Bank Foot.
He told the driver he had been trying to rescue a cat and had become wedged in the pipework at around 11.30pm last night.
But the man, in his late 20s, was eventually arrested after a delicate operation by fire officers to winch him up 12 feet and on to the roof.
West Denton fire station officer Dave Curran said: "We were called to the scene at about 6.20am.
"The man was stuck some 12ft down the narrow shaft and was out of sight.
"He was wedged down the bend."
Four fire engines including a specialist appliance was sent to the pub in a bid to cut the man free.
But the equipment wasn't used when it became apparent the man was stuck in an awkward position to reach.
"We lowered a rope down and told him to put his foot in the loop and managed to slowly winch him up," added the fire officer. "It was bit like a cheese grater because all the sharp bits from inside the pipes were sticking into him.
"He was shouting and swearing as he was being brought up as his skin was scraping off his knuckles and other parts of his body.
"But he didn't suffer serious injuries. It took about 40 minutes to get him out."
The man then got onto the roof and refused to come down as the police arrived.
Acting Det Insp Scott Hall of Newcastle North CID said: "A man was later arrested at the scene and taken to Etal Lane police station for questioning on suspicion of burglary."


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25,700 college students get refund after strike, according to early numbers
Striking college faculty rally in Toronto on Wednesday, Oct.25, 2017, calling on the province to send college administrators back to the bargaining table. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Thomas campean
TORONTO -- Nearly 25,700 full-time Ontario college students received tuition refunds after a five-week strike derailed their semester.
Ontario's Ministry of Advanced Education confirmed Tuesday that 10.3 per cent of Ontario's roughly 250,000 full-time college students asked for, and received, their money back after the strike.
Minister Deb Matthews said the figures are still preliminary and could change in the coming weeks as further numbers are reported by Ontario's 24 colleges.
"Over the past months, I have heard from students about hardships they have experienced as a result of this strike," she said in a statement. "It is clear that they have borne the brunt of the labour dispute between colleges and faculty. Preliminary reports from colleges indicate that the vast majority, approximately 90 per cent of students, chose to stay and finish the semester."
Matthews said she expects many students who withdrew from this semester will return in January and September.
"I want to say to those students who did decide to withdraw, we hope you will return to college," she said. "We need your talent and skills in this province and want to keep seeing you succeed. We will work with colleges to support and encourage students to re-enrol."
Last month, the minister ordered colleges to refund the tuition money for any student who felt unable to complete the condensed semester. The decision is likely to cost the schools millions of dollars, which would have otherwise been saved because of the labour dispute.
The government ended the strike in November with back-to-work legislation passed in a rare weekend sitting at Queen's Park.
Earlier Tuesday, PC legislator Lorne Coe said the government was dragging its feet when it came to releasing the figures because the information was politically damaging.
"Ontarians have the right ... to know the consequences of the premier's lack of leadership on the community college strike," Coe said. "Will the minister stop playing politics and confirm today that approximately 25,000 dropped out from Ontario's community colleges due to the Liberal government's inaction?"
NDP education critic Peggy Sattler said government inaction over the strike has put all students in a difficult position and hurt their education.
"These students were backed into a corner, and made the very difficult decision to withdraw from the shortened semester entirely in order to get a refund," she said in a statement. "Those that have chosen to remain in class face their own challenges, including increased workloads and condensed schedules. Many students will be left struggling to recover financially and academically long after the semester is over."


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Like Aliens, But More So
Okay, so Soulstorm, a new Dawn of War expansion has been officially announced.. It's got Dark Eldar and a ooh-still-a-mystery race in it, and there's no point in asking me what the latter is because I honestly don't know. Honestly. Stop staring at me like that. Alright, alright, it's Ewoks. Now go away.
Actually, a lot of guessers reckon it'll be Tyranids, the most notable ommission amongst the Warhammer 40,000 RTS' ranks, but developer Relic have claimed in the past that they'd never do the big space-lizard-monster-insect-horror-things because the old game's engine isn't quite up to how they'd like to do them. Minds change though, so I'm not personally going to definitely believe that old statement just yet.
I can think of some people who are surely praying for it to be a different faction though, and that's the chaps behind the DoW Tyranid mod. More on which follows should you be so kind as to click on the red words below.
[Yes, in case you're one of the twelve people who read it first time around, this is a repost. And no, there is no need to mention this. It's back now, and that's all that matters, 'kay? Thanks.]
Tyranids, for the uninitiated, are kind of brainy Aliens (capital A entirely deliberate) with a penchant for the more horrific peninsulas of genetic modification, and have the occasional firearm to back up their towering, drooling claw-monsters. And yes, they're a bit like the Zerg, but that's really a fault of science fiction at large often defaulting to this type of vicious alien lifeform. There are doubtless several dozen inaccuracies in that brief summation that will ire Warhammer 40,000-heads, so I'll warn them now: unless it's something the average RPS reader really, really needs to know, snobbily correcting me in comments will result in your words being replaced with "I care more about the incidental details of a fictional universe than I do the feelings of other human beings. Also, I smell of day-old chips."
Last time I looked, this mod had Genestealers (boggo footsoldiers in this context) and that was it – everything else was Space Marine buildings given a suitably bio-horror silly name. Now, give or take the odd Carnifex, it's pretty much all there. Slimy hive buildings, towering Gaunts and, most importantly, they play recognisably differently from DoW and its two expansions' existing races. There's a little bit of Chaos in there, a nod to the Ork mechanics, sure, but these guys really swarm. Even if you're losing, they create a sense of truly terrorising your foe. I do like me a Necron or two, but I don't really want to play as anything other than Tyranids now. It's an excellent mod, made with a clear love for both the source material and Dawn of War. Download it here. As it stands, it's almost a full, free expansion.
So, while I'd love to see official Tyranids, I'd feel absolutely awful for these chaps if they were to be Soulstorm's second race. Ooh, I just don't know what to wish for now. What should I wish for, readers? Tell me!
On a final note, if you start typing 'Tyranid' into the Google searchbox built into Firefox, it offers to look for sites about Tyra Banks for you. A shame it doesn't work the other way, thus distressing men seeking pictures of large-foreheaded former supermodels.


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Ron Morris Pottery 1960
I think this is leading light Terry Watson - no idea who the lady is.
This is Jean Gough with Mr and Mrs Sutherland. It looks like Little Park street premises.
The Umbrella Club at Little Park Street 1950's-
Enroute to the Police Station.
In the 60's,the Umbrella apparently help Miss Umbrella heats - this is just one of the photos held in the Umbrella archives in the Coventry History Centre.
A young looking Terence Watson
In this photo - Geoffrey Sutherland,Arthur King, Norman Reader and poet John Hewitt.
Occasion of the Julian Orchestra at Little Park Street.
Harry Secombe at the opening of the Umbrella 1955
"Long Live the Umbrella"
A H Marshall - early President of the Umbrella 1957
Josie Heath - Club Member
Don Lindon - one of those instrumental in creating the Umbrella Club in 1955 and Chairman of Jazz.


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Stedtfeld Family Collection
MC123 - Scope and Content
Collection Inventory
(Access note: Access to this collection must be approved by the donor. Please contact Special Collections for further information.)
The Norman V. Stedtfeld Collection was donated to Idaho State University Special Collections by his daughter Karen Offen. It contains 28 boxes filled with over 50 years of Pocatello, Idaho history. Mr. Stedtfeld served as Secretary-Treasurer of Garrett Freightlines beginning in 1935 after obtaining his law degree from University of Idaho in 1932. He was promoted to Vice President-Secretary in April of 1957. He was very involved in the trucking industry serving on the board of state trucking organizations and the American Trucking Association. Mr. Stedtfeld also served in the local area in organizations such as the Pocatello Chiefs, Pocatello Chamber of Commerce and Rotary. This collection has been reorganized in some aspects but much of it is in its original grouping.
The first part of the Stedtfeld collection is focused on Fred and Pauline Stedtfeld parents to Norman Stedtfeld. This part of the collection is made up of 2 file boxes and 3 item boxes containing items belonging to Fred such as World War II ration stamps, keys, and wallet items. Most of the documents for Fred Stedtfeld are from his death and the distribution of his estate including his last will and death certificate. Menus from various restaurants either owned or employed. Remaining items belong to Mrs. Stedtfeld. She had a long life and collected a great deal of greeting cards for various occasions. Documentation includes insurance, Last Will and Testament, the sale of the property owned by Mr. and Mrs. Stedtfeld, and the statements from the nursing homes in which she spent her last years.
Photographs and negatives are contained in our photograph section under PMC 123. This includes the personal family photos of Pauline Stedtfeld with many accompanying negatives. Also included is the photo collection of Norman Stedtfeld from trucking conventions and such followed by Garrett Freightlines photographs. These photos are of the terminals, trucks and employees.
The following two boxes are from Mr. Stedtfelds years in the Pocatello Chamber of Commerce in which he served as director four terms. The business of the Chamber from 1948-1972 is recorded in correspondence, meeting minute, membership rosters and reports. This collection also includes the documents and correspondence concerning the Pocatello Chiefs. News clippings regarding the Chamber of Commerce are contained in NVSs personal files.
The next two boxes involve the Pocatello Rotary Club in which NVS was a member since 1947 and served as President from 1959-1960. By-laws, rules, facts and requirements are included in these files along with club directories and rosters from 1948-1993. Also contained in these files are 2 copies of the publication, History of Pocatello Rotary Club which was put into motion by NVS during his presidency. News clippings involving Rotary and its activities can be found in the news clipping folder of NVSs personal files.
The personal files of Norman Stedtfeld are contained in the next three boxes. These include his American Bar Association receipts and newsletters of which he was a member since 1933. Also included are is also the account records and membership fees in the Pocatello Golf and Country Club. NVS was not only a member but a stockholder and a member of the board. Personal financial records and investments and correspondence and rosters of Delta Chi fraternity which NVS was a member is also contained here. Item boxes include plaques and certificates and ledger and expense books.
Mr. Stedtfeld served as director of Utah, Montana, and Idaho Transportation Associations and director and a member of the taxation committee of the Western Highway Institute. One file box contains these records in addition to California, Oregon, Washington and Nevada.
NVS was involved in the American Trucking Association (ATA) in various capacities. He served on the Taxation Committee, Credentials Committee, and the Executive Committee. His main responsibility was as Vice President-Idaho for the ATA. Included in this collection are speeches and reports written by NVS for conventions of Idaho Motor Transport Association (IMTA). Reports regarding the trucking industry in general are also included.
NVS worked for Garrett Freightlines from 1935-1970 as Secretary-Treasurer and then as Vice President-Secretary. He also sat on the Board of Directors. His position entitled him to the financial, personnel, and stock records for the company. He kept a great deal of these items. This part of the collections is seven boxes containing audit reports, minutes and transcripts from meetings such as stockholders and board of directors. Mr. Stedtfeld also kept the records of each of the trucks owned by the company, how much licensing fees were, and the costs involved in maintenance. A few accident reports and repair costs from these accidents are included along with correspondence with the insurance company.
Throughout the span of time, Garrett was involved in various lawsuits. Mr. Stedtfeld has the complaint and suit documents which are contained here. Around the time of his retirement in 1970, the company was involved in a large lawsuit involving Navajo Freightlines in Denver Colorado. Another lawsuit involved female employees claiming discrimination of women in management.
Employee records include payroll and promotions documents. There is a collection of seniority lists, and letters of resignations. Lists of stockholders, debentures, and proxy are among the minutes and documents and correspondence concerning the stock held by Clarence Garrett upon his death. Newspaper clippings containing the rise and fall of Garrett stock throughout the years.
Not only did he work side by side with Clarence Garrett but he was also involved in activities outside of the company with Mr. Garrett. You can find mention of Clarence Garrett in the Pocatello Chamber of Commerce, Pocatello Rotary, and Pocatello Golf and Country Club files. The photograph collection also contains many prints of Mr. Garrett and Mr. Stedtfeld together. Included in this collection is the manuscript of a biography about Mr. Garrett with contributions and proof read by NVS and two songs written about the Garrett brothers and Clarence himself.
Garrett publication, Garrett Topics, and other publications with stories about Garrett Freightlines are in the final Garrett file box.
A final item box contains larger magazines, an atlas, Garrett pens and notebooks, desk items for NVS, and ATA trademark gifts and items.
A legal sized file box contains the Last Will and Testament of Fred and Pauline Stedtfeld, an aunt of Ella Mae Stedtfeld various court documents regarding filed complaints in Navajo, Montana RR and some minor lawsuits.


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Ghana is experiencing constitutional and electoral coup d'état – Dr. Bawumia
The running mate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the 2012 general elections, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has announced that Ghana is now experiencing constitutional and electoral coup d'etat.
"In the nineteen seventies we had military coup d'états and dictatorships; Nana Akufo-Addo was at the fore front of the fight for democracy and we delivered democracy… today instead of military coup d'états you are having constitutional and electoral coup d'état."
The NPP running mate revealed that the party, "after the votes of December 7 discovered clear incontrovertible monumental electoral fraud against the people of Ghana."
He made the comment when the leadership of the party addressed a gathering of NPP supporters at the 'Obra Spot' in Accra to demand clarification on the next line of action from the party leaders with regards the final results from the elections.
According to Dr. Bawumia, "the integrity and the sanctity of our democracy is being undermined and it is therefore time to get up and stand together to defend the democracy of this country."
Dr. Bawumia said the NPP "cannot stand for it; we have to protect the future of this country, we cannot allow this to happen and this is why we are pursuing all legal means necessary to make sure that this stealing of the mandate of the people is over turned. And this is why we are asking all of you to come together to make sure you support the leadership of this party as we prosecute this particular case through all legal means necessary."
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Dr. Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande (born on October 7, 1960) is a Hindustani classical music vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana.
Early life and training:
Born in Mumbai into a family with strong musical traditions, Dr. Bhide-Deshpande started her early classical training under the guidance of Narayanrao Datar. She then completed her Sangeet Visharad from the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya. Since then, Dr. Bhide-Deshpande has been under the tutelage of her mother Smt. Manik Bhide, who has been instilling in her the intricacies and traditions of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana. Dr. Bhide-Deshpande also received guidance from one of the stalwarts of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana, Pt. Ratnakar Pai until his death in 2009.
Dr. Bhide-Deshpande holds a Masters degree in Microbiology and earned a doctorate in Biochemistry from the University of Bombay.
Performing career:
It was not until she completed her doctorate, when Dr. Bhide-Deshpande even considered a professional career in music. Despite, Dr. Bhide-Deshpande was well received by musical connoisseurs since her late teens. Since the late 1980s, Dr. Bhide-Deshpande has been on concert tours to every continent and frequently performs at prestigious music conferences around the world, including the Sawai Gandharva Sangeet Mahotsav in Pune, Maharashtra.
Musical style:
Because of her strong influences from the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharanas, Dr. Bhide-Deshpande, has created her own musical style that respects the vocal culture and presentation aesthetics of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana. She holds a strong command over the three primary saptaks.
Dr. Bhide-Deshpande has an intimate understanding of Bandish and bandish-composition and has created many of her own bandishes, which she has published in her book, Raag Rachananjali (2004). A sequel titled "Ragarachananjali 2", containing 98 more bandishes (compositions) was published in 2010.
Ashwini Bhide is not only a music scholar but is also blessed with a beautiful voice. I have personally known Ashwini since her early teens and it makes me so happy to see her blossom into such a wonderful Khayal singer. She has earned the reputation of being one of the top young artists of India... Having learnt many old compositions, she has been able to retain the spirit of the tradition through the dialects she has used as well as pay attention to the subject matter!
— Pt. Ravi Shankar
Ashwini Bhide is also a powerful teacher, as well as performer and has taught a handful of distinguished disciples like Saniya Kulkarni-Patankar, Revati Kamat, Shruti Ambekar, Saili Oak Kalyanpur, Shivani Haldipur, Dhanashree Ghaisas, and Poorvi Tonpay.


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Keynote Speech: Geoff Walsham
Development Informatics in a Changing World
Main journals in Information Systems and Development:
- Information Technology for Development.
- Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries.
- Information Technologies and International Development.
The focus on the 'development' part in ICTD: Need to distinguish research on ICT in developing countries and research on ICT for development. The 'for development' part is whehter ICT help, contribute or are explicitly aimed at achieving development.
Need to theorise the meaning of 'development': what is development? It is not only about basic needs, although they matter. And it is nor about about technology as a silver bullet:
we tend to celebrate what's new.
It is good to keep ICT4D multidisciplinary, in part because it forces us to define what we are doing, and define it in terms that are understandable for people of all disciplines. And this includes defining what we understand by development.
Multidisciplinarity is also about drawing theory from multiple disciplines, carry out joint research studies. One of the problems, though, is that publishing still is discipline-focused.
Above all, we need strategic development focus, policy-oriented research. Strategy should be the starting point, and then embed in it whatever technology is needed to make it possible. A strategic approach is broader, more comprehensive, and thus more likely to make a sustainable, bigger impact, a real change. Strategy, of course, must include the communities it is aimed to.
Strategic research is about building infrastructures (e.g. HISP on health), promoting social justice (e.g. SMS and mobile activsim), supporting economic activity for the poor (e.g. M-PESA), providing access to global markets and resources (e.g. Jordan's approach to ICT-led development), new IT-enabled models (e.g. virtual economies), etc.
An aspect that deserves special attention is the gender issue. Though there is strong evidence that mobiles 'empower' women in a number of ways (e.g. enabling economic activity), old male-dominated hierarchies persist and the use of mobiles for economic activity does not necessarily enhance women's status in the community.
Q: designing for people with abilities is actually designing for everyone, not only disabled people but people with low literacy or cultural levels, etc. A: Agreed.
Ismael Peña-López: isn't ICT-led development yet another iteration of what happened with oil in Arabic countries, or coffee in Latin America, where few get rich and multiplier effects upon the rest of the economi are very little? A: agreed. But, just because of that, and because many countries are notwithstanding promoting such policies, this is a topic that needs being researched in the field of ICT4D.
More info
- Live recording of the session.
- Ineke Buskens & Anne Webb (2009). African women and ICTs: investigating technology, gender and empowerment.
- Tim Unwin's photos of the keynote.
Information and Communication Technologies and Development (2010)
If you need to cite this article in a formal way (i.e. for bibliographical purposes) I dare suggest:
Peña-López, I. (2010) "ICTD2010 (X). Geoff Walsham: Development Informatics in a Changing World" In ICTlogy,
#87, December 2010. Barcelona: ICTlogy.
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Trayvoi Hicks
Troyvoi Hicks possesses many years of experience in the entertainment industry. Prior to joining the industry's premier employment agency Executive Temps as the Director Of Placement, Hicks was an Executive Assistant to the Director of Business & Legal Affairs at Saban Entertainment, Executive Assistant to the Senior Vice President of Advertising & Publicity at Warner Bros., and the Personal Assistant/Office Manager to actor/producer/director Robert Townsend. In his current role, Hicks is responsible for corresponding with industry clientele and directing ET's advertising and marketing plans. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Dartmouth College and his Master of Arts in Education from San Jose State University. Hicks also has over 10 years of teaching and administrative experience in private and public schools.


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The General Overseer of Deeper Life Bible Ministries, Pastor William Kumuyi is currently building an ultra modern campus for his N1billion private university called Anchor University.
The proposed site for the campus is a vast expanse of land, which has already been fenced, along the Lagos/Ibadan Express way. The campus will serve as the permanent site of Anchor University whose main campus is sited inside Deeper Life's multibillion IBTC headquarters at Ayobo-Ipaja, Lagos.
The new campus will include hostels, faculties, administrative blocks, chalets, laboratories etc.


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India: Islamic State unable to gain foothold in the country
NEW DELHI (AP) - India's home minister said Saturday that the Islamic State group has been unable to gain a foothold in the country even though India has the world's second-largest Muslim population.
Indian security agencies are keeping a close watch on Islamic State's activities and have been successful in countering the challenges posed by the group, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said.
He told reporters in New Delhi that good coordination between state and central security agencies has led to the arrest of more than 90 Islamic State sympathizers in India.
Five members of Indian Mujahideen, an Indian terror outfit, have been sentenced to death, underlining the government's successful efforts to check terrorism, Singh said.
His remarks came amid fears that Islamic State's influence is growing in the region. IS is trying to establish a presence in Asia as it comes under pressure in its heartland in Syria.
Muslims constitute 14.2 percent of India's 1.3 billion people.
"India is the second-largest country as far as Muslim population in the world is concerned. I can say with full responsibility that despite such a large population, (Islamic State) has not been able to gain its feet" in India, Singh said.
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At first blush, queer economy brings me visions of nothing but trouble. SF Party Queers shirking the lifestyle possibilities of a politicized, radical notion of queerness for the fearsome economies of social capital. We trade in looks and glares. Our rat race hustles from club to club, deals are made in the mess on the dance floor, our daily bread comes 140 characters at the time, tweet by tweet. It's hideous.A definitional version looks like this: economy comes to us from the Latin and Greek, a combination of oikos (house) and nomos (manage)…how do you manage your house, girl? Queer arrives via the Scottish and possibly Germanic dialects before that, stemming from roots meaning oblique, peculiar, perverse. Pervert, itself, shares a root with subvert, and in a queer economy, we indeed find power and sustenance by managing our affairs in off-center, non-traditional ways. This side-angle strategy to managing our lives–to problem-solving–is a profound asset.
Through our queer lives we are given a deep education in the failings of a system bent on hegemony. Living a life outside the bounds of normalcy shows us normalcy's seams. This situation levies upon us a certain amount of adversity–the climate outside the norm is harsh. (And harsh in different ways for different queers: let us remember the intersectionality of our oppressions) I, in my eternal stretch toward hopefulness, choose to believe that this long-form adversity of a life lived queer acts much the same way as short-form adversities like earthquakes and hurricanes might: it brings us outside the horrifying, demeaning habits of everyday capitalist life and gives us reason to act out an ethic of love and mutual aid. To form familial bonds and understand the power of self-actualization, DIY, and communal action. Our adversity also serves to remind us of the struggles others face–to wear away at the xenophobic shield society asks everyone to uphold.
In our facebooked, single-serving, over-marketed, sample-anything society, we see that in the face of capitalist hegemony (straight economy?) caring for people we don't know is not just being a good person, it's a political act. To live a queer life: to build lives that transgress or at least
expand the walls of the straight world is to be politicized. For queers to come back around to a depoliticized queer economy of parties and "liked" statuses is a willful act of ignorance. We have the opportunity to manage our houses quite differently than much of society–we have the opportunity to economize upon our lot in life for the greater good of people.
And let me be clear, what I'm heading for is utopia. It's my old standby. Fantasies and tastes of it most certainly keep me living. I define it as a better world for all of us (not just some). I don't think that's inaccurate and I also don't think that's impossible. Utopia comes to us from roots meaning "no place". It's like no place you've ever been. And how do we get no place we've ever been? Best not take the road we're on, we all see where that's headed.. Best to take the side route. The oblique entrance. The peculiar method of managing our days will get us there best. The queer economy.
This is what keeps me afloat: difference.
…Contrast. Subtleties of light. Comparing where I am now to where I could be. At heart, I'm a tinkerer. I get my thrills from small successes leading to larger goals. From honing the edge of everything to a finer and finer point. When I think of my queer economy, I think about my preferred definition of Making a Living: not how one makes money, but how one makes a life on the daily. All animals do it. Many of us human animals do it in large part by making money. But there's more to a life than that, we all know. So how do you make your living?
I come from a Do It Yourself home and a DIY punk scene and a DIY camp aesthetic. At my core, I believe every othered member of our society has some version of a DIY ethic because otherwise we would be extinct. I believe that, whether we notice it or not, each act of doing it ourselves is a profound act of empowerment. Not that self-reliance is on a pedestal for me–interdependence is just as important, if not much more so. More that we live in an economic system that is wrecking our planet and every living thing upon it and that wretched, untenable, self-destructing system says that it is simply *the best* way to get things done and make lives better. That system cannot abide by people doing it themselves because that system cannot abide by anything that is free. Things that are free are freeing. Doing it ourselves is about building a life beyond capitalism, even if it's actually just about mending, sharing, or brutal necessities of poverty.
I make my living by divining difference: I stay afloat by seeking what needs to be fixed and finding ways, large and small, to fix them. By doing it myself and in communities that do it themselves. To accept a politicized life is to accept the long haul. The long haul is always in need of sustenance, and sustenance comes from these daily acts of freedom. Tiny tastes of a better world. Sips of utopia.
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The More Than You Ever Knew Cabaret: Trans Women's Hearts In Giltter, On Stage will be premiering on June 6th at the African American Arts and Culture Complex as part of the 2012 National Queer Arts Festival. Annie is writing, directing and performing in this cunning and hilarious show about unspoken truths of queer, trans women's experience. Our promise to you: no sob stories.
Trojan X, a collaboration with Keith Hennessy to be present-ed in the fall of 2012. Trojan X looks at the secret passages of cultural upheaval, asking the public of San Francisco's Mission and Financial districts to, please, look a gift horse in the mouth.
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Upcoming MULYP Events
MULYP's Mission is to engage young professional's in the National Urban League's movement towards the achievement of social and economic equality.
The Milwaukee Urban League (MUL), established in 1919, is one of the oldest of the 112 National Urban League affiliates. MUL is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that provides advocacy, research, and social services.
Founded in September 1998, the Milwaukee Urban League Young Professionals (MULYP) is an auxiliary arm of the Milwaukee Urban League focusing on community service. Through its committees, MULYP sponsors a variety of community service projects, fundraising activities, social and cultural events, leadership development workshops, and educational and political forums. Membership in MULYP provides individuals the opportunity to develop themselves professionally by creating a network of support among peers. Since 1998, MULYP's membership has grown significantly and the organization has increased its visibility both locally and nationally.
Since its founding in 1910, the National Urban League, headquartered in New York City, spearheaded our nonprofit, nonpartisan, community-based movement and played a pivotal role in the 20th century freedom movement. The Urban League grew out of the black migrations, a spontaneous grassroots movement for freedom and opportunity, and is the nation's oldest and largest community based movement devoted to empowering African-Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream.
At the heart of the Urban League movement are the professionally staffed affiliates in over 100 cities in 34 states and the District of Columbia. The Milwaukee Urban League (MUL) has a distinguished history. Established in 1919 as an affiliate of the National Urban League (NUL), our agency is one of numerous NUL affiliates established during the early 20th century, when millions of African-Americans migrated northward from southern states in search of greater opportunities and a better way of life.
To assist African-Americans in their transition to urban life and employment, the Milwaukee Urban League originally taught basic skills such as social courtesies, proper dress and grooming, sanitation, health, and homemaking. To aid in the development of healthy lifestyles, it also sponsored a community center for holiday gatherings, youth recreation and crafts, boxing skills development, and, by the 1920s, a medical clinic. Our mission today follows this same tradition. We offer numerous programs that are designed to help African-Americans, and other people of color, achieve civil rights, social, and economic equality so they can become more self-reliant members of society.
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The Milwaukee Urban League has been a catalyst for social justice and change for over 85 years, helping minorities seize opportunities that promote quality of life. A dedicated team of staff, volunteers, sponsors, and the Board open doors to information, skill development, and other support, to help African-Americans and other minorities achieve their full potential.
Presidents of MULYP
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VDOT News - Bristol
Michelle Earl 276-696-3283
Sept. 29, 2016
Business Route 23 bridge in Pound to close two days for bridge work
Closure will be from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. Wednesday, October 5 and Thursday, October 6
BRISTOL – In an effort to safely set new beams for the Business Route 23 bridge in Pound, the bridge will be closed two days next week.
Weather permitting, the Business Route 23 bridge in Pound will be closed from 8:30 a.m. until 5p.m. Wednesday and Thursday (October 5 and 6).
Due to the size of the beams and their proximity to overhead power lines when lifted by a crane, it was determined the best way to safely do the work was to temporarily close the bridge.
Motorists should detour around the closure using Route 23 to access Business Route 23 north and south of Pound.
Information in VDOT news releases was accurate at the time the release was published. For the most current information about projects or programs, please visit the project or program Web pages. You may find those by searching by keyword in the search Virginia DOT box above.


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The first AI program to beat professional human players in no-limit Texas Hold'em
Skill Ratings
Incorporates an "action informed value assessment tool" (AIVAT) for cutting edge in-depth poker analysis
Developed by the Computer Poker Research Group at the University of Alberta, Canada
Developments in poker AI will lead to a completely new way of understanding the game. Just like Doyle Brunson's "Super System" book on strategy raised the bar in terms of mainstream poker ability in the late 70s, a new "action informed value assessment tool" (AIVAT) developed by the Computer Poker Research Group at the University of Alberta is set to have a similar and perhaps even greater impact on the world's most popular eSport.
The trouble with poker is you often get away with your mistakes. A clear example is getting your chips 'all-in' in bad shape (let's say queen-jack suited against two kings before the flop). If you get lucky with the five community cards dealt out (they contain an eight, nine and ten to make you a 'straight' for example) you will scoop a huge reward regardless. A more obscure example is getting away with a 'bad bluff'. With complete 'air' you might get your opponent to fold their superior holding on the river (you holding just an unpaired 'high card' against their 'top pair' say).
But maybe your opponent's game strategy is such that they call 99 times out of 100 in that exact same spot, and you simply got lucky that this was that 1 in a 100 occasion they folded. What's more, given the action of the hand, maybe a single pair is right at the bottom of your opponent's 'range' of likely holdings, and they would have called with practically anything else they were likely to have. You've netted a positive result in chips, but the play is clearly a mistake theoretically.
The team in Alberta have developed a new AI called "DeepStack", which is the first program to beat professional human players in no-limit poker. An off-shoot from the way DeepStack has been built means we now have a way of analysing and rating poker play which overcomes the shortcomings of just using chips. Not only does AIVAT return adjusted scores for each hand (more proportionate to the skill involved and less dependent on chance), but the data is incredibly insightful for identifying strengths and weaknesses in poker strategy.
Below are a few key hands from a recent match between DeepStack and Austria's Poker Federation president Martin Sturc, helping us take a closer look at how AIVAT works in greater detail…
Hand 71
Here we see the biggest possible swing in chips (a full double-up for Martin), yet AIVAT rates the action to have gone roughly as expected, in fact with a small positive gain for DeepStack. How can this be?
The first thing to note about AIVAT is that it does not only factor in DeepStack's exact holdings (the ace-eight in this case). Instead, the technique computes a "range value" for Martin's hand, given all possible cards that DeepStack could hold, weighted by how likely DeepStack would act in the same way in each case. Since DeepStack is a computer with a fixed strategy, this range of possible holdings is known, and the value is a calculable figure and a true measure of the expected gain or loss in chips given Martin's hand, the community cards and DeepStack's betting line.
But there are additional sources of luck that come from these specific dealt cards and DeepStack's chosen actions. The AIVAT technique therefore makes further "luck adjustments" to more accurately determine how skilfully Martin played his hand. Knowing DeepStack's strategy for all possible holdings, plus looking at other lines of play that DeepStack could have followed, yields this immensely powerful tool for generating meaningful scores.
In this example, the range value of Martin's ace-deuce (combined with the board that made him a straight) is a gain of 11134 chips. This is the average result of playing his hand the same way against DeepStack's entire range. Two obviously lucky occurrences in this hand include the miraculous river card (making Martin's straight) and the fact that DeepStack elected to call Martin's all-in bet instead of folding.
So firstly, to assess how lucky the random cards were for Martin, AIVAT estimates their value in each case. Here we see that AIVAT attributes an average loss of 26 chips from simply being dealt ace-deuce on the button compared with any other two cards. However, the flop containing an ace certainly helps, and AIVAT attributes an average gain of 74 chips given this specific flop over any other random possibility. The turn is a slightly unlucky card (an average loss of 84 chips compared to any other possible turn card), but the river is like manna from heaven (a whopping average gain of 5707 chips compared to any other river card that could have been dealt in its place).
Next, AIVAT also determines whether Martin was fortunate from each of DeepStack's randomized actions. When compared to folding or raising pre-flop, which DeepStack will indeed do some of the time in this spot, AIVAT suggests that Martin gained an average of 22 chips from a call instead. Again, this is not just factoring being up against ace-eight, but being up against any possible two cards that DeepStack will hold. Each of DeepStack's actions is analysed in this way and we again see a very large value at the river; the dramatic effect of Martin's all-in bet being called. Against all possible holdings that DeepStack would call 300 pre-flop, check and then re-raise to 900 on the flop, lead out 1200 on the turn, and then check the river, the average difference in results from Martin going all-in and getting called, as opposed to Martin going all-in and DeepStack folding, is a gain of 6997 chips.
And so in summary for Hand 71, we would expect Martin to gain 11134 chips from the way he played his ace-deuce, given the community cards and DeepStack's actions. But AIVAT additionally estimates that he got lucky by a total of 11434 chips. Martin's net result is therefore an overall rating of -300.
So how good are these AIVAT estimates? The short answer is 'pretty damn good'. But for those seeking further comfort, DeepStack's intuition (or 'heuristic evaluation of states') comes from hundreds, perhaps thousands, of CPU years of computation. Advances in the understanding of deep neural networks have allowed DeepStack to teach itself the value of specific poker scenarios. By additionally being able to simulate a vast number of games against itself in real-time, this new value assessment tool, of cards and of actions, surpasses what human beings could possibly hope to achieve in several lifetimes of gameplay experience.
While the actual chips won and lost give a somewhat distorted view of the actual skill involved in a single hand of poker, over time this measure will tend to the same conclusion that the AIVAT ratings will. The DeepStack research team has proven that AIVAT significantly reduces the variance in poker results in a fair and unbiased fashion. What AIVAT therefore gives us is the ability to assess a player's true win-rate after vastly fewer hands than if we were just using chips, with additional in-depth insights into the merits and drawbacks of individual plays. By analyzing trends in one's own AIVAT data one can appreciate the game of poker and improve one's own ability like never before. The International Federation of Match Poker is working with the University of Alberta's Computer Poker Research Group to power an official skill rating system adopting these revolutionary techniques that AI can provide. It is hoped that this data will be used to determine the finalists at the next IFMP World Poker Championships, and ultimately who is the best poker player on the planet.
Four more interesting hands from the Martin Sturc v DeepStack match:
Hand 223
"How many times shall we run it?"
Here's another example of the players getting their chips all-in, but this time before the flop. We again see a huge difference between the chips and AIVAT score.
Martin is clearly fortunate to be dealt pocket queens, but in this all-in scenario given the betting we see that he is a massive statistical underdog against the full range of hands DeepStack will take all-in pre-flop in this way (one must assume mainly with KK and AA). Additionally we can deduce that the actual holding of ace-five suited is right at the bottom of DeepStack's range here.
The AIVAT "all-in equity" chance correction is equivalent to running the remaining board cards infinitely many times, against each of DeepStack's possible holdings, and taking the average.
Martin is expected to lose 16546 chips given this betting pattern against DeepStack and holding QQ. But AIVAT deems him to have been very unlucky in this scenario, to the tune of 16658 chips. Hence, the hand played out roughly as expected, with just a slight positive score for Martin overall. As ever the chips alone neither tell the complete story nor give us a means of accurately rating the play.
Hand 225
"No more cold decks"
The poker term being "cold decked" refers to being dealt a very good hand, only to be up against an even better one. Martin rivering trip jacks against a full house here is one such example. However, the beauty of AIVAT analyzing the situation against DeepStack's full range means that these unlucky occasional cold deck scenarios are eliminated. While the jack on the river is disastrous in the actual KJ vs AJ showdown (hence why Martin lost a big pot here), it is actually a lucky card for Martin given all of the holdings DeepStack could have had at this stage.
The less obvious insight here is that Martin got quite unlucky with DeepStack's final re-raise. The AIVAT values can really help players understand and appraise the merits and drawbacks of their own strategies.
Hand 103
"Make sense of that!"
Here's a hand example that would be very hard to unravel without AIVAT. DeepStack flops 'the nuts' with a straight, but hitting top two pair couldn't be much better for Martin's hand either (another cold deck example). Against DeepStack's full range Martin is in fact expected to win 981 chips with 68 and this betting pattern. And it is actually the turn card that affects the score by the greatest amount. Martin's two-pair is devalued substantially with four cards to a straight on the board. Martin is lucky that DeepStack's randomized actions are to check down the turn and river, but on balance the expected gain in chips, despite the extremely unlucky turn card, nets Martin a very healthy score for this hand.
Hand 66
"To bluff or not to bluff…"
Martin was probably very pleased to get away with a cheeky re-raise bluff in this hand. But the large AIVAT value against the fold indicates that DeepStack is more likely to call or re-raise here. So Martin was fortunate, and the play is not a winning one long-term.