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Knights Inn Oklahoma City Southwest
Knights Inn Oklahoma City Southwest
7400 S May Ave
Oklahoma City,
Phone: 405-682-2211
Toll Free: 800-477-0629
Fax: 405-681-8516
Knights Inn Oklahoma City Southwest is located three miles from the Oklahoma City airport. This hotel features your choice of two double queens or one king bed, with free local and long distance calls, 24 hour front desk service, business center, guest laundry and a airport shuttle. Smoking and non-smoking rooms are available. This hotel is conveniently located near several restaurants and just minutes from area attractions including the State Fairgrounds, Whitewater Bay and downtown Oklahoma City.
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Discounts: AAA Discount, Group Rate Discount, Senior Discount
Facility Amenities: ADA Compliant, Airport Shuttle, Credit Cards Accepted, Free Breakfast Served, Handicapped Parking, Laundry, Meeting Space Available, Non-smoking, Pool Outdoor
General Information: Number of Units: 61
Group Amenities: Advance Group Reservations Required, Baggage Handling, Bus/Motorcoach Parking, Complimentary Room for Driver, Group Rates Available, Tour Group Welcome Reception
Highway Corridors (within 5 mi.): I-35, I-40, I-44
Internet Connectivity: Facility High-Speed, Facility WiFi, In-room High-speed, In-room WiFi
Location: Airport
Room Amenities: Cable/Satellite TV, Coffee Maker, Free Newspaper, Hair Dryer, In-room Movie Rental, Iron/Ironing Board, Kitchen Facilities, Microwave, Refrigerator
Room Type: 1-Bedroom Units, King, Queen
Special Rating: AAA 2 Diamond, Gold Key property:
From I-35, take I-240 W, exit at S.May Ave (#1B). From I-44, take I-240 E, exit at S. May Ave. From I-40 & I-44 W, take I-240 E, exit at S. May. From I-40 & I-35 S, take I-240 W, exit at S. May.
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After covering such subjects as bestiality in Sleeping Dogs Lie, and suicide martyrdom in World's Greatest Dad, Bobcat Goldthwait returned to the big screen earlier this year with God Bless America; his darkest, violent and most scathing film to date.
Joel Murray stars as the middle aged Frank. A divorced old fart living in a crappy apartment, he spends his evenings alone in front of the box, catching glimpses of the "oh no you didn't generation" and their fascination with celebrity culture. When he gets word that he is dying of cancer, Frank takes this as a sign from God to go out in a gung-ho blaze of glory, and kill one of the many putrid Sweet 16 brats in the area. In the process, he strikes up a companionship Roxy, a teenager equally phlegmatic with asinine society. Together, the platonic kindred spirits go on a Bonnie & Clyde killing spree across America, bumping off any vile human that gets in their way.
Nothing is off-limits for mockery in Goldthwait's America. Not only attacking the zeitgeist pop culture, he takes aim at the indie subcultures, homophobes, and Bill O'Reilly style news commentators. Even Woody Allen and his penchant for "young hairless Asians" is a topic this tyrannical comedian feels is worth berating. Whilst some of these jokes land, it soon becomes glaringly obvious that God Bless America is a one-trick pony of a movie, relying on crass, futile rants to keep the audience engaged with the film, rather than any sort of genuine satire or development.
Brother to Bill, Joel Murray is excellent as the shlubby sad clown, making the character both compelling, funny and, at it's darkest reflexive points, relatable. The same goes for newcomer Tara Lynne Barr, who delivers the "I hate Juno" shtick with great panache and wry reflexivity.
More than ever, we are inundated with annoying, nonsensical media entertainment. Even if, like me, you actively chose not to watch such degrading reality tripe, it still permeates everyone's lives, and certainly dumbs down the pub conversation. Whilst Goldthwait's script may be bursting with dogmatic arguments against this here horrible world, they are far from revolutionary thoughts. By trying to be so broadly satirical about mass culture, Goldthwait loses the subversive punch and savagery he usually excels with. Just as painfully telegraphed the ironic title is, God Bless America is so intent on being angry and polemical that it forgets to ever be entertaining.
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Fun fact: One film that is currently wowing UK arthouse crowds is Ben Wheatley's Sightseers. It's narratively similar to Bobcat's movie: a couple travelling across pastoral England and murdering the angry village folk that they've grown sick of. I'm quite desperate to see it, and expect a review of that sometime around Christmas.

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The fastest models of day to day life and work loads make us all tired and bored. The only way out of this situation is to have some entertainment. When it comes to entertainment, the choice varies from person to person. For a person like me, the most soothing entertainment will be either going to have a long drive or to have a glimpse of some masterpieces of paintings. But being so much busy, it's really a big deal to plan an outing. Uffizi tickets have solved this problem to a great extent. This is actually a site containing about 500 files of original paintings exhibited at real Uffizi Gallery.
It's not a simple website but a great deal of collection of masterpieces. The site contains all general information about the Uffizi Gallery, index of Virtual Uffizi rooms, index of artists, advanced search form, reservation services for visiting the real gallery, and everything about Florence, Italy. I always wished to be in Italy, since the day I read Romeo Juliet, but unfortunately I couldn't, but it seems Uffizi's growing network will soon take me there. The site in my opinion is a super entertainment channel, for smooth entertainment lovers.
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Adrienne and Christian are both so fun and wonderfully nerdy. Both are engineers in Boston but are getting married here in Atlanta this November. I was REALLY glad to get a chance to run up to Boston and shoot their engagement photos in and around their home.
God bless 'em, they're both just so cool. They're the kind of folks that I have to be careful with because I'll let the sessions drag on and on just so we can hang out longer. (And they were such good sports for letting me photograph them all afternoon long) From the point of a photographer, these guys are like photo-gold. They're both so confident and comfortable with each other. You can feel the connection between them even when they're not touching. We spent some time shooting an intimate in-home engagement session, and then they got dressed, and we went out to shoot in the city.
I'm dividing their shoot into two blog posts. Photos of Adrienne and Christian around Boston coming soon. 🙂


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"An impractical man--which he not only seems to be, but really is--will always be unreliable and unpredictable in his dealings with others. He will engage in actions that mean something else to him than to others, but he is at peace with himself about everything as long as he can make it all come together in a fine idea."
Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails


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Subtitle: You can't filter out agendas with Isinglass
May you live in interesting times goes the alleged Chinese proverb brought to my attention by the writings of Terry Pratchett and we certainly do in 2016.
I don't think it remiss to point out that as broad as the spectrum is that drink beer you would probably suggest that the older "CAMRA" set are to the conservative right and the younger "CRAFT" set are to the liberal left and while I'm not one for grouping people along political lines it would seem that many brewers and bloggers in the beer bubble, to their own detriment, probably do so.
The EU referendum vote in the UK on 23rd of June, that ended up with the result being to leave the European Union caused fissions, unsurprisingly many on my twitter time-line were for Remain.
Schisms formed on 8th November with the results of the US presidential election that saw Donald Trump become the elected, prospective 45th president of the USA.
Of course this lead to more fallout from breweries, brewers and bloggers on twitter.
One tweet caught my eye, from an actual brewery account and I'm not going to post it here simply because this is neither about naming and "shaming" (free speech is an absolute, even "hate" speech) nor do I bear any grudge towards the brewery or the brewer (he is a nice chap) or wish to see his business suffer.
Thing was, they (he) called for the assassination of Trump. Now, whatever your feelings and political leanings are, two things struck me about that:
- Calling for the death of someone, in jest requiring a very broad context, is not right (choose other hyperboles)
- Using a business account to do so is stupid.
Then again many brewers & business owners in general, have personal accounts from which to let forth their own thoughts and despite all the caveats they may have in their biographies sometimes it can be guilt by association.
What is also striking is the lack of people who called out the brewery on this tweet and also subsequent tweets about boycotting specific countries.
We can probably, fairly postulate that many people didn't even see the "assassination tweet" but to those that did see it and did not pass comment on it, you really do need to look inside yourselves and question that whatever morals and integrity you bleat about so often, is it that honestly what you actually practice.
"We use selective annihilation of mayors and government officials, for example, to destroy the presence of the state and create a vacuum. Then we fill that vacuum."
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Portobello, Wolverhampton
An exciting new development of 40 homes in Wolverhampton
An exciting new development of 40 homes for affordable rent, which will comprise:
- 10x 2-bedroom bungalows
- 4x 2-bedroom wheelchair standard houses
- 4x 3-bedroom wheelchair standard houses
- 14x 1-bedroom flats
- 8x 2-bedroom flats
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Bungalows by September 2018
Apartments by December 2018
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In order to be considered for one of these properties, you will need to register with Wolverhampton City Council now, in order to place a bid on their website Homes in the City. All properties will be advertised online from April 2018. You will need to register for housing by filling in an online housing application form. This will be checked and a priority banding will be provided along with your registration date and application number. You will also be told the property types that you are eligible to bid on based on your family size and needs.


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Dell's China Phone Just a 'Proof of Concept'
"The only thing that we're confirming is that we're in product development with China Mobile," he said, "We were there as a development partner for the [Google Android-based] oPhone platform."
Blogs such as Engadget are reporting that the phone is named the "Mini 3i" and has a 2G GSM radio, a 3-megapixel camera, and a 3.5-inch, 360x640 screen. But Parretta said all of those details may still be up for grabs.
"We haven't named any products, and we're not confirming anything [in terms of product details]," he said. "We were there showing a proof of concept."
Although other reports are referring to the event as the phone's "first official appearance," Dell spokeswoman Anne Camden said the company hasn't actually introduced any retail smart phones, even in China.
"It wasn't officially, formally introduced so much as it was waved around," she said.
Dell once made top-notch Windows Mobile PDAs, such as the Editor's Choice Axim X51v in 2005. But they've backed away from the handheld market in the past four years, although rumors keep cropping up that they're about to enter the smart phone market.
For instance, this February AT&T Mobility chief executive Ralph De La Vega said Dell "announced" a smart phone, a statement that Dell denied and AT&T later backpedaled on.
Earlier, in January 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported that Dell was working on something called the "MePhone" that they would introduce in Feburary. That rumor also proved to be false.


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Darktable is a photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.
You can use Shotwell to organize your library of photos.
- Import multiple formats
- Edit tags
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- Simple editing on the fly
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January 13, 2014
After the credit bubble got busted, a new trend of buying through prepaid started gaining momentum. Initially there was a lot of skepticism, and people thought who in their right minds would pay for getting a payment card beforehand. But things changed, and prepaid players were able to provide more offers, more discounts and it started to work. In the B2B segment, corporate merchandizing and gifting was a big adopter.
Intelispend Prepaid solutions was in the prepaid card services in the corporate incentives and consumer promotions marketplace. Prepaid cards were seeing good adoption in delivering corporate incentives to rebates and even employee payroll. Intelispend was formed as a joint venture by American Express and Maritz. Inc in 1997.
However, recently Blackhawk Networks acquired Intelispend in December, 2013. And we think it was a great buy. Corporate R&R spends are increasing and Intelispend was a major player in that segment.
InteliSpend Prepaid Solutions LLC., specialized in intelligent prepaid solutions for business. The platform helped to design prepaid card products that can do everything possible that a prepaid card to do. They had a working relationship with American Express, Discover, MasterCard and Visa which give the customers even more options.
Intelispend also had an impressive list of clients. They included 71% of the Fortune 500 and satisfaction levels exceed 92%, according to the company.
Now with Blackhawk, the company is expected to operate in the similar fashion. Their patented process, DirectSpend, offers a unique type of card customization called as Selective Authorization. This gives the customers the freedom to choose what merchants to include or exclude from card redemption. This has seen good response from the customers and helps to differentiate them from competitors.
They offer a wide range of products and services in the prepaid domain. Two special features include universal acceptance and selective acceptance. Their rebates, loyalty and giveaways are quite popular because they can be tailored to choice.
A wide range of offerings is what makes them tick. The impending acquisition will play a huge role in the future of this organization. Two prepaid giants coming together does not happen everyday.


text: Last Minute Christmas Shopping Ideas Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps December 24, 2013 This film is available now on DVD. You can see a trailer here. I expect the sequel will be called 'Neo-Prometheus: The Return of the Pelagian' in a special collectors edition 'self-absorbed' packaging. Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps Comments Anonymous said… A merry and blessed Christmas to you and all who are dear to you Mr. Laurence!You have a great Catholic blog! Keep up the good work in 2014 - please!Barbara 24 December 2013 at 14:05 Celia said… I seem to remember being rather confused by 'Prometheus', at any rate not finding it easy to follow. That was prophetic and if the Pelagians are going to get involved..I'm probably just too self-absorbed.Happy Christmas and keep blogging! 24 December 2013 at 17:38 Post a Comment


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"I have a fear of complacency. I don't want to end up in the same place where I first started, so I always challenge and push myself to try almost everything," says 32-year-old, Taiping-born Sarah Lian. And indeed, Lian is a go-getter who's constantly on the move from one thing to another, be it hosting, emceeing, acting or working out.
"I think it's just what you want to get out of life and how much you're willing to risk, and how much effort or investment you want to put in it. I could just be happy emceeing jobs here, but I wouldn't be satiated," she continues.
She's referring to her sudden return to Canada after being in Malaysia for years, at a point in time that has seen her career hit its peak, with appearances in major commercials, hosting gigs for the Shout! Awards and ESPN, and magazine shoots every other week. "I thought I was going to be complacent about this, so what did I do? I packed my bags and moved back to Toronto in 2011 and I just became a nobody again," she says.
She took up acting classes and, even though she has 20 commercials under her belt, she says that she just sat there as if she had never read a script before.
"You learn. You learn to be humble. You learn to enjoy learning, and you push yourself in certain areas that you thought you never could," she observes. "When you're in Canada and working with other actors, and about all of them are vying for that one role, you better stand out. It's not your looks that are going to stand out, because everybody is freakin' gorgeous there."
But Lian is no stranger to sudden moves. Having lived in Vancouver since she was eight years old and, aside from a few summers in Malaysia, she decided to move back to her home country after graduation.
"Without sounding politically incorrect, I was like a white girl who was thinking, 'Oh, I should know more about my family roots!' but really, I just wanted to discover my motherland," she says.
Of course, if she was told that she would be living in Malaysia when she was 16, she would never have believed it. But when the time came, she thought, why the hell not.
"I had so many friends who were like, 'Are you sure? You don't even know the place that well.'
There were a lot of naysayers and negative comments, but you only have one life to live, so just go and do it," she asserts.
Making decisions and mistakes on one's own time and not anyone else's has become a belief system that Lian holds dear as she drives herself forward with whatever she does.
"I felt like it was my decision, so I didn't feel like they [parents] were involved in the whole process. It was just a case of letting them know," she recalls, "because when I moved, it was all on my own. I didn't really expect to get any help from them. I do go back to see my parents whenever I can, but in this day and age, technology is so amazing that you can be a part of your loved ones' lives everyday if you really wanted to."
The parents were, of course, not very happy about her decision. But growing up in Canada, it didn't bother her, as she felt that she wasn't doing anything to hurt herself or anyone else.
"This is the life that I wanted to lead. I chose happiness. I didn't choose sacrifice," she asserts. "In Asian culture, I think a lot of people choose sacrifice and it's almost like a badge of honour. That's the currency that they work in, and I see that."
Taking a step back and looking at it from a macro level and all the different types of relationships that occurred in her life, as well as her friends' lives became the main theme.
"Oh, I sacrificed so much for you; therefore, I did a lot for you, so now you have to sacrifice for me," says Lian, as she illustrates an example. "It becomes this self-perpetuating cycle of sacrifice and misery. Maybe, this is universal; parents stay together, even though they're unhappy, so that their children can have a father and a mother. Well, they also can see that you're miserable, and they equate that with the dynamics of a family! Is that more important? It creates a bad environment. Or women who get beaten by their partners, and they're like, 'Oh, but he needs a father. F**k that. You want to teach your kids that you can't treat a woman like that."
Despite doubts from friends and a lack of parental support, arriving here without any leads didn't deter Lian from her goal to make it big in the showbiz scene. "When I first got here, I just took any opportunity that came knocking. I was in such an early point in my career. You don't want to reject things," she says. "So people started to take notice and offered me photo shoots or asked me to model and audition for various shows. I was just taking advantage of being new and fresh in the market and seeing what I could do and what I was comfortable with. The more you work, the more your work speaks for you."
Having interned in Malaysia three years prior to her move, she got in touch with one of her ex-bosses who introduced her to a few producers. One of them offered her the chance to host a small event for their video content.
She continues, "That led to the first show that I did, which was Gua.com.my. It was Media Prima's first online platform. I was one of their hosts for the show where they just covered events and things happening in town."
The Media Prima online portal opened doors for Lian as she became the recognisable face of the show, and her journey into hosting and emceeing skyrocketed. Over the next few years, she would be involved in many NTV7 and 8TV shows before her move back to Canada.
Naturally, all the moving around and non-stop activities made it hard for Lian to juggle various aspects of her life.
"Dating, of course, was quite difficult, to be honest. It is probably one of the hardest aspects of this industry, unless you have someone who you've been with for the longest time, someone who understands."
But despite that, she insists that relationships have always taken a backseat in her life.
"I would never move to any city for a man. I would never consider my boyfriend's feelings, if I wanted to do something. I'm a very direct and straightforward person, but my approach in life has never been about those things," she says. "I feel that a relationship will happen if you care about the person, and if you have a mutual understanding. To meet a guy who can understand my way of thinking or even understand that I have career goals was definitely difficult because, at the end of the day, a guy just wants to come home to someone who's there, who will also be part of his life, his partner-in-crime. I wasn't able to give that to anyone, so it was definitely a difficult time."
While dating became a smaller struggle for Lian, the bigger struggle that she faced was probably the rejection that comes with the industry.
"All the jobs that I never got. Every single job I never got was a fall. And not just that; these weren't small 'Oh, I didn't get this emcee job.' These were six-figure, American network lead roles that I flew to another country to do a screen test for. And to find out that I didn't get it was just such a blow. It was down to me and another girl, and I didn't get it. I would be so depressed," she recalls.
But like the proverb says, "Fall seven times, and get up eight," Lian knows that, in the end, it's really up to you to keep on trucking. "What are you going to do? Are you going to wallow? Or cry? There was no point to that. Clearly, I wasn't good enough. Or maybe, it was something beyond my control; maybe, I was too short, or too tall," she reflects with a playful smirk, which shows no signs of the regret or sadness that she so emphatically described earlier.
Malaysia, of course, has no shortage of pretty girls appearing on TV, but like all entertainment platforms around the world, sexism has remained a constant throughout her experience around the world.
"I think gender issues are more prevalent, because a lot of societies, regardless of whatever region you're from, stem from men.Men were able to do all these things and women would just support them. But now, women are able to achieve just as much as men, and because they had such a long history of leading, it's hard for people to get their heads around it,"
"I think gender issues are more prevalent, because a lot of societies, regardless of whatever region you're from, stem from men.Men were able to do all these things and women would just support them. But now, women are able to achieve just as much as men, and because they had such a long history of leading, it's hard for people to get their heads around it," she observes. "I think there will always be biases. It's so hard for some beautiful women to get a regular job or role because they're always going to be seen as the lead. So when they play some random waitress, there's a fear that they're going to steal the show."
Looking at the Malaysian film and TV industry, Lian agrees that our country has a lot of beautiful stories as well as amazingly talented directors and actors, but is often held back by unnecessary hindrances and petty politics that get in the way of making things happen. "I feel that the industry has been quite complacent with a lot of things that it does. People simply don't take ownership. They're more about the money, or the numbers that they get, or which actors or actresses can command more social media attention," she notes.
Which makes sense in an age where things are more quantifiable through one's reach, numbers and engagement. But this, of course, leads to situations where bloggers are appearing in movies, not because they have the acting skills or the nascent talent, but due to their perceived pull. "I think that our country can do well, but only when the government or the industry is willing to accept that there are people outside of the Malay-speaking population who can generate the numbers," she adds.
She scales things back and begins to muse how someone who grew up in a farm in Sg Petani versus someone who grew up in Damansara can differ in culture, opinions and thoughts. "Why is it that their education and sets of values are completely different?" she asks. "We can't just point our finger at something and blame it for that. But when you consider the bigger picture, we've already been segregated from the start: Chinese schools, government schools, private schools, etc. It already sets the tone for what kind of job you're going to get, what kind of friends you're going to have, where you're going to live and such."
She ties this back to the issues raised in the recent box-office hit Ola Bola, where some people questioned the validity and the historical accuracy of the film's portrayal of the Malaysian national football team during qualifications for the 1980 Summer Olympics.
"It's about a time in Malaysian history that people love, and a subject that we all love [football] in Malaysia, which is great. Whether the story is completely accurate is one thing, but what's important is that you see this whole unification, a common goal. It doesn't matter if you are Indian, Chinese or Malay. That's almost a footnote in the whole point.
"You'll always feel marginalised, if you're not part of the majority. How do we overcome this? I can never imagine being in Malaysia without Malays or Indians. I can't imagine that, so why do we ostracise each other and point fingers at each other every time something like that occurs?"
"You'll always feel marginalised, if you're not part of the majority. How do we overcome this? I can never imagine being in Malaysia without Malays or Indians. I can't imagine that, so why do we ostracise each other and point fingers at each other every time something like that occurs? It's sad. You want to teach children to live an honest life and do the right thing. Don't instil those kinds of values at a young age."
But these racial issues aren't just unique to Malaysia, I point out. It happens all around the world constantly. Just look at Hollywood and the whole #OscarsSoWhite debate.
"I think it's a lot of not just casting people. Look at Fresh Off the Boat; it's a brilliant ABC comedy about Eddie Huang's childhood in the US. But white people wrote it. So you can put Asian faces there, but those are not the kind of conversations that we have with our parents. No means no, shut up and go upstairs; that's it, that's the end of the conversation," she counters. "I think now's the time for Asia to really step up and find some really great things that connect all of us to the same type of value system, the same problems, the same issues that anyone would be able to actually understand and get."
Interestingly enough, TV and emceeing was not Lian's first career choice.
"I did a Bachelor of Design in Fashion. I did it because I loved it. I did it because I could see myself spending 12 hours on that a day for work," she says. "It's interesting because a lot of people tend to look at financial security and career longevity when selecting their courses. I think different people have different value systems. Some people choose things to be more practical, and you become a teacher or a doctor or a lawyer where your skills will be useful. There are others who do it just for the money, so they see what's the most lucrative. Some people don't know what they want, so they choose something broad enough to encompass everything like Mass Communications."
She continues, "I felt that if there was going to be any investment in my education that I wanted to do something that I wanted to do and not something that my parents wanted me to do, regardless of whether I could study hard and become a doctor or a lawyer. It didn't appeal to me. At one point, it did, and then, for some reason, fashion started to appeal to me more. It wasn't so much the fickleness of it, but the stories that are cultivated at certain periods of time. I like that you can understand the economic and social impact of a particular era when you look at a garment."
While she still designs on the side, Lian feels that her education and decision to pursue fashion has helped with her career.
"I think when you sign up for a university education, you're there to learn how to analyse and critique, you're there to learn how to understand concepts and transform them into your own thinking and adapt them. So if you were to ask me if I have used any of my education, I'd say absolutely," she says firmly. "Of course, with my skills, I can use different kinds of software and mediums such video and photography. Those kinds of things have really helped me with everything that I've done."
Now the boss of her own agency, she looks at the younger generation from the viewpoint of an experienced mentor.
"I do think that the younger generation generally have a sense of entitlement. They see something amazing and feel like that's where they should be, but they haven't put in the five years," she says.
For Lian, one has to pay one's dues. She knows people don't like to fall and feel defeated.
"They're afraid of it and, because of that, they steer clear of it. If you don't fall, you'll never know how painful it is and you won't be able to get up."
"They're afraid of it and, because of that, they steer clear of it. If you don't fall, you'll never know how painful it is and you won't be able to get up," she reflects. "I started an agency because I saw how people work in this line and what they try to do to make themselves known. And because I come from Canada, and we pride ourselves on being transparent, it's almost like if you prosper, I prosper. There's no reason to push someone down so that you can ascend. I think there's a lot of that happening in my industry. Even with some of the people that I've managed before or helped with their careers, there was a huge sense of competition."
Because of that, Lian aims to create a company with a clear set of standards.
"I just want to work honestly. So now, we have a few people that we're managing, and they're not all 'celebrities', but they're definitely people who are incredibly talented. For us to brand them and help them move forward with their careers, it's just one of those things that if I get to be a part of something wonderful, and if I can ignite someone's flame to burn so big and so brightly, then that's all I actually want," she claims.
When asked if she feels like she has achieved all that she wants or if she'll ever stop, Lian says that it's just her attitude to pay it forward.
"I had so much help when I first started. A lot of people helped me with my career. I've always wondered where I'd be without them. The fact is, I'd be nowhere," she says. "I've also wondered why they helped me. I think, in the end, it all boils down to my honesty. I've never been shady like, 'Oh, I just want to hang out with you', but had an ulterior motive. I would never exploit a friendship for that reason. People don't want to communicate. They're afraid though, and I don't know why they're afraid. If you don't ask, you'll never know."
Photographs by Kim Mun, produced by Hopscotch Photography; Styling by Ian Loh; Art Direction by Rebecca Chew; Hair by Chiaki Sabata; Makeup by Joey Yap; Stylist assisted by Sarah Chong and Nawaf Rahman; Art director assisted by Kathryn Tan. All Kimono's by Oldees.
First published in Esquire Malaysia, the May 2016 issue.


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FC: Krishawn's Natural History Adventure | BY: Aunty Brittany
1: I hope that spending time in nature with you will help you to develop a love for the world around you and become more active. By spending more time outside, you will start to develop a more creative state of mind. Bonding in nature will help to create a better attachment between us. Playing will help you adapt to different life styles. I wish that interacting with nature will help you better in life with stress management and control. With unstructured play, you will be able to have self-regulation and be able to respond to the world around you better. Learning about the history of plants and animals in the area, will hopefully help to develop a sense of empathy and curiosity as well as sensitivity towards nature. Cooperating with your peers will help to develop trust.
2: Let Create a Nature Book! | From every place you visit, you can make a page or pages to remember what we did.
3: As you grow, hopefully so will the book we create. | Collect: some different color leaves Flowers Feathers Photos Post cards Other thing you would like to add
4: Read about the silly chicken who learns to speak and how easily he misleads the people in the town he lives in. Also we get to learn how to speak some Spanish. | Read books from International Children's Digital Library
5: What would you do if you met a talking animal? | Would people in Harrisburg believe a talking chicken? | What would you say to a talking chicken? | Where would you run if a chicken told you that the world was going to swallow everyone up?
6: Walk to the library | We can walk to the library and along the way look at the different plants and animals that are there.
7: When we get to the library were can read about plants, animals and bug of all shapes and sizes and see is any of the animals saw along the way are in the books. | Make sure when we are walking to the library you are always holding someone's hand and looking bother ways before crossing the street
8: Lets Go for a Nature Walk | We can explore the trails at WildWood Park. Look for different plants and animals that live here. | After we are done exploring we can go to the nature center and learn more about some of the plants and animals that were spotted.
9: Hours of Operation Park: Daily from Dawn till Dusk Nature Center: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00am-4:00pm Closed Mondays | Wildwood Park 100 Wildwood Way Harrisburg, PA 17110 http://www.wildwoodlake.org (717) 221-0292
10: Visit the Zoo | Let go to Lake Tabious | Admissions Park: $5 Safari: $5 | Hours of operations May to September Saturdays & Sundays, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Memorial Day to Labor Day Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. October Saturdays & Sundays, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. | We can learn about animals the animals they have. While there we will be able to learn about the history of the some animals and where they live.
11: Let go to Zoo America | Admissions Regular (9-54) $10 Junior (3-8) $8 Senior (55+) $8 Children (2 and under) free | Zoo America 201 Park Avenue Hershey, PA 17033 (717)534-3900 http://www.zooamerica.com
12: Lets Go to the Museum | We can go to the State Museum of Pennsylvania. | Let's visit some of the Curiosity Connection area, like farmland and living forest. Let's learn about the stars in the planetarium.
13: Hours Wednesday - Saturday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Sunday 12:00 Noon - 5:00 PM | State Museum of Pennsylvania 300 North Street Harrisburg, PA 17120 (717)787-4980 http://www.statemuseumpa.org/
14: Lets go to the Whitaker Center | We can visit Forces of Nature, A mind-blowing examination of how weather and geology affect planet earth. We can visit some of the interactive exhibits, like move it, fly it, and solar powered car. We can also learn about some of the forces of natures while we are here. Then after we can visit the IMAX and see a nature movie such as Born in the Wild.
15: Prices: Adult $15.00 Child (3-12) $12.50 Student (with ID) $12.50 Seniors (55+) $12.50 | Hours: Tuesday-Saturday: 9:30am-5pm Sunday: 11:30am-5pm | Whitaker Center 222 Market Street Harrisburg PA 17101 (717)214-ARTS http://www.whitakercenter.org/
16: Go See a movie at Imax | We can see one of their Documentaries | Prices: Adult $9.50 Child (3-12) $8.00 Student (with ID) $8.00 Seniors (55+) $8.00 | Located at the Whitaker Center | For a Rainy day
17: We will have to look up the times for the movie before we leave. | Then after we can visit the IMAX and see a nature movie such as Born in the Wild.
18: Picnic | We can go to the park and have a picnic with nature. or when we go to the zoo we can have lunch with an animals
19: You can go to Hoffer Park. walk along the river, but be careful not to get to close to the water.
20: Look for some animals | Lets go out and look for different animals in the area. | We can go outside two different times of the day and see what different animals are out at those times.
21: Critters of the DAY! | Ants Bees Dogs Cats, & other animals | Creatures of the NIGHT! | Raccoons skunk possum fireflies & other night animals
22: Let go out and draw what we see | Lets go outside and draw different plants animals and creepy crawlies we see.
23: Lets explore technogy | we can go out and take photos of nature and create a story of their life or of what they are doing
24: Stay Safe and Healthy | Always wear bug repellent to prevent bug bite. If you are bit by a bug put ice on it. | Don't eat anything that you don't know what it is unless your told it is fine to eat | Don't talk to people you don't know unless Your with an adult you know and they know the person
25: Always wear that is SPF 15 to 30 sunscreen to prevent sunburn. Make sure you where a hat outside in the sun, too. If you are sun burnt use aloe to sooth the burn. | If a storm blows in don't go under a tree or in shed. Don't take shelter near water or any metal objects.
26: "leaves of three let it be." Don't touch certain plants in case they are poisonous | Make sure to always hold an adults hand when crossing the street of walking though a parking lot | Don't put anything in your mouth that isn't food | Healthy and Safety Continue
27: Leave wild animals animals along. Don't play with animal you don't know. If are bit by a wild animal let the nears adult, you know, know. | Make sure you are wearing right clothes for the weather, like a coat in the winter, or a baseball cap in the summer. When you are playing outside wear closed toed sneakers and make sure your laces are tied.
28: Photo Cite page the page where I will record where I found my photos | Wildwood Park, Harrisburg PA 1/04- taken by TheRoss Book Covers, Silly Chicken- Snip from International digital children library snip of Middletown public library, from middletownpubliclib.com Photographs by Brittany Marshall and Kristey Marshall


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The Democrats, after winning the Midterm Elections, have promised within the first 100 hours of their new reign to raise the minimum wage. Is this sound policy?
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Since I have been practicing civil litigation for decades, there are no cases for which I am not prepared. I've worked on several cases with corporate defendants and have extensive litigation experience under the federal RICO act. I attribute my success in these cases to my ability to go through thousands of pages of discovery and find exactly the points that are helpful in your case. I have learned to deal with complex pricing and negotiation structures and I have the knowledge to understand the intricacies involved in the corporate environment. With a thorough understanding of the complexities of the case, I often have cases dismissed early, or on appeal. I know the value of looking at all the details, including valuation and possible punitive damages. I have experience in cases involving:
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My client was sued in the United States District Court by a purchaser who claimed $11 million in damages in a commercial bribery case when a buyer was allegedly paid by the salesman to take orders. The case was tried to verdict, which ended up with damages totaling $78,000 against my client. After a successful appeal, my client paid nothing and was dismissed from the case.
A lawsuit between two brothers was filed in the Cook County Chancery Court, one brother seeking to be declared a partner in a business. A mediation was held and at a mediator's recommendation, my client offered three million dollars to settle the case which was refused. The case proceeded to trial on claims of breach of fiduciary duty and for an accounting. The court ruled for my client and dismissed all claims. I successfully defended the trial verdict in the Illinois Appellate and Supreme Courts.
A real estate appraiser was sued in federal court by a mortgage company alleging his participation in a civil conspiracy to commit mortgage fraud. After pretrial motions were granted dismissing the RICO and conspiracy allegations, my client was eventually dismissed and paid nothing to the plaintiff.
Several newly elected union officers were fired from their positions. I sued and they were reinstated in their positions. A monitor was appointed by the court to conduct a new election. A separate lawsuit was filed by the same officers, and the union was required to repay two million dollars to its health insurance fund and replace all of its trustees.
An assistant vice-president was terminated by an Illinois university for reporting illegal contracts to the Illinois Attorney General's Office. I tried the case before a jury in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois in 2013, resulting in a verdict for the plaintiff ordering his reinstatement, $960,000 in back pay and $2,000,000 in punitive damages and attorney's fees.
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The summer holidays have just started so the last thing you're thinking about is 'back to school' however, now is a good time to think whether your child (or children) have enough space to do their homework, and whether you could improve their working area to make homework and home-projects a doddle rather than a chore.
Picking the right desk can make all the difference, so here's a few fast tips to help you make the right decision.
As laptops start to replace many home desktops you may well think a traditional computer desk is obsolete. Think again. The only thing that makes a desk a 'computer' desk is the slide out keyboard stand, and possibly space for a printer. A printer is still a must for any workstation, and the keyboard stand, well we recommend investing in an ergonomic keyboard that can be used with the laptop. When typing over long periods a time, nothing beats a good keyboard on a proper desk, rather than the awkward, aggravating, static postures that come with using a laptop for too long.
Research shows from an ergonomic point of view, you should make your laptop work more like a desktop. Unfortunately we're doing the opposite. Most laptops are used flat on the desk for extended periods and this may well result in neck problems. Outside of school many teenagers use laptops in extremely bad ways: this includes on tables (usually too high) and on their knees (bad for the neck). With hotdesking, work areas are no longer configured correctly, if at all. This is why setting up a proper desk is so important, having a work station suited for typing and working on the computer for long periods of time, will do the world of good for your child's health, not to mention their concentration.
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To encourage homework doing, a good atmosphere needs to be set up. If possible, set up the homework space in an area near a window for natural light. A normal lamp along with window light would be sufficient but if this is not possible then consider purchasing a quality light, such as the OttLite desk lamp. OttLite's 508 illumination technology brings the high quality of natural light indoors. These lamps are energy-efficient, plus they reduce glare and eyestrain to create the ideal environment for reading and studying
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The study space needs to be stocked with the essentials your child needs for homework — pens, pencils, paper and other necessities. A desk full of drawers is a great way to organise supplies and keep them at your child's fingertips. Use stationary caddies and pen pots for easy access to everything they might need, from a pencil to a paper clip. You should also include a small standing bookcase or a bookcase mounted to the wall, for stocking other study tools or reference materials.
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author of The Second Winter
OP: Most novels set during the Second World War tend to focus on Germany, England, and the United States. What made you want to write about a family in Denmark in the early 1940s?
Fredrik is based very loosely on my father's uncle, who was a member of the Danish resistance during World War II. When I was five years old, I came across a photograph of "Fredrik" when we were visiting Denmark, and I vividly remember the impression it made upon me. This man was a literal giant. He could have wrapped a hand around my body. I asked my dad who he was, and my dad told me the story of his uncle, lifting him onto his motorcycle at the end of the war and driving him through the streets of Copenhagen, showered in confetti, for the victory motorcade. As a young kid, I couldn't quite comprehend what it meant that Fredrik had resisted the occupation—I just had a vague sense that he carried a pistol, snuck through the dark, and, as my dad told me, spent his nights with his eyes wide open, too scared to sleep. The more I learned, the more complex Fredrik's story became. He took amphetamines to keep himself awake. He died just after the war from leukemia, contracted no doubt because of the stresses he was under. He was everything a hero should be. But he had also been sent away by his parents when he was twelve or thirteen to live on a farm, because he apparently had some sadistic tendencies and had killed family pets. And, most confusingly, he was married and had two children. It was in the contradictions of this heroic savage as father that the idea of the story was born.
When I set out to write The Second Winter, I wasn't attempting to write about the war or even about Fredrik. Fredrik's story gave me the language to create a metaphor. For me, the power of the novel lies in its deeper meaning: In the eyes of a child, fathers do inexplicable things—they steal, they kill, they rape. To some extent, this innocent confusion is not lost, at least not entirely, even as we grow older and place in context the things we do as adults. For me, this was the pleasure and challenge in writing the novel, to convey this beast as a man whom we not only relate to but in some measure love.
OP: You paint such a vivid portrait of Denmark and the characters that populate The Second Winter. Did you do a lot of research before you began writing the novel?
Most of the imagery from the novel comes from my own memories—people I met and places I visited as a child. My father immigrated to the United States when he was fifteen, and as I grew up, we made many trips back to Denmark in the summers. Likewise, as a kid I became fascinated with the idea of Germany occupying Denmark, and I grew up on these stories told by my father, which took on the stature of myths in my mind. I believe that it is these personal memories, even if sometimes second- and third-hand, that lend the novel its verisimilitude.
That said, it was also very important to get the history and atmosphere right. The beauty I discovered in writing historical fiction is that it gives a writer cultural reference points that have become a language of their own. I was able to invoke certain icons or truths—such as Nazism or the Star of David or King Christian on his horse—that a reader will understand to mean more than just these few words or images; then to manipulate those icons in a way that gave depth to the story. For example, the fact that Hermann Schmidt, who takes the photograph of Polina, is a Nazi predisposes a reader to think of him as a bad man, which I was then able to use to my advantage in demonstrating that he might also have some good in him with which a reader can identify. In any event, this exercise only works if the writer gets the history and atmosphere right.
OP: The Second Winter has so many moving parts, with a large cast of characters, and it covers more than five decades. Did you have any writing tricks or quirks to help you wrangle all that time?
Four years is a lot of time in which to fit various pieces together. No tricks—just hard work. The initial draft of the book materialized in a matter of weeks, as though I were channeling it. Putting it together into its present geometry, though, took countless hours longer.
OP: Fredrik and Polina are both such striking characters, yet they are so dissimilar. How did you approach each character? Toni Morrison once spoke about how she had to scale back one the characters from her novel, Pilate from Song of Solomon, so that she didn't overwhelm the story. Did you ever feel that way about any of the characters in your novel?
What a wonderful question! The quick answer is the simple truth: A writer cannot write about anything except him or herself. This is a tautology. Even the different viewpoints that you might think you are depicting ultimately are just different sides of yourself. So both Polina and Fredrik are me, and in this sense neither could actually overwhelm the story. Not many critics would complain that Picasso used too much blue paint.
At the same time, my approach to the story was to write it with many facets—a literary manifestation of Polina's pendant. To some extent, it is each of the primary characters' story, Fredrik's, Polina's, Oskar's, and even Amalia's and Angela's. The challenge for me was to find the balance that would create a consistent voice throughout. This meant placing an emphasis on the plot and on themes, as embodied in the characters, rather than choosing a single character as the primary mover of the story. My guess is that some readers will think this is Fredrik's story, some Polina's, some Oskar's. I have my own thought about whom it belongs to. I will leave it to every reader to decide how they view these different voices.
OP: Music and photography both play important roles in your novel. Are music and photography important to your work as a writer?
Another wonderful question! You are making me think! I do tend to think visually. When I set out to write this book, the one rule I made for myself was to create a world the reader could see. I wanted the characters to act, and for those actions to speak entirely for themselves. I did not want to explain anything or rely upon internal monologues for meaning or insight into thoughts or emotions.
One of the starting points for this novel was the conception of Polina. I am a man, not a woman. That doesn't mean that I cannot write about women, even from a woman's perspective, any more than a woman cannot write from a man's. However, I did not want to try to write outside myself. I wanted to be honest in terms of defining who Polina was to me. She starts the novel as a photograph, which is a two-dimensional piece of art. She gains more depth than any other character, in that we get to see her as a child, with her motivations revealed. Then she transcends that singularity back into a piece of art.
Music is also something that is very important to me—not necessarily specific pieces, but in its elements. Sound and rhythm become melody. Again, when I set out to write the novel, I wanted it to evoke sounds as well as images to readers. I wanted readers to be able not just to see this world but hear it. I love movies. I wanted this book to be read as sort of a film written in the mind of a reader.
One of the strongest elements of a film is its soundtrack. Think of The Royal Tenenbaums without the music. It would still be beautiful, but it would have a different power. A novelist does not have the same tool available. You can mention a piece of music—like I did by invoking "Heart and Soul," which everyone knows. But for the most part the music I saw for the novel's soundtrack were its sounds. Think of Hermann in the angry cacophony of the bar, then walking outside into the insistent blurry hum of the rain, then the cadence of his footsteps, then the titter of Polina's distant laughter. I was as aware of these contrasts and sounds and echoes as I was of the visual imagery I was creating as I wrote each section of the book.


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Robert "Bob" Benge (c. 1762–1794), called Captain Benge (or "The Bench" to frontiersmen), was one of the most feared Cherokee leaders on the frontier during the Cherokee–American wars (1783-1794) in the area of present-day Southwest Virginia.
Early life[edit]
Born as Bob Benge about 1762 in the Overhill Cherokee town of Toqua. He was the redheaded mixed-blood son of a Cherokee woman and a Scots-Irish trader named John Benge, who lived full-time among the Cherokee. He had a sister Lucy. The available sources strongly imply, but do not prove, that young Benge and his sister Lucy were also half-siblings with George Guess, better known as Sequoyah. Both Sequoyah and Benge were great-nephews of Old Tassel and Doublehead. Under the Cherokee matrilineal kinship and clan system, children were considered born into their mother's clans, and their mother's brothers were very important figures, especially for boys.
When Dragging Canoe and his party moved to the southwest in 1777, John Benge moved his family to a new home in Running Water, one of the Chickamauga Lower Towns. When Bob, who became known as "Captain Bench," his half-brother The Tail, and cousin Tahlonteeskee got old enough, they joined with their maternal uncle John Watts in fighting the Cherokee–American wars. During the Cherokee Removal of 1838, the fourth wagon train of a thousand Cherokees from Alabama was conducted by Captain John Benge, son of the Chickamauga warrior.
Exploits as a warrior[edit]
Living at Running Water Town (now Whiteside, Tennessee), enabled him to meet and operate with the Shawnee band of Chiksika and his brother Tecumseh. Benge often went with them on raids and forays during the time they were at Running Water. In one of his early raids, in spring 1777, he is said to have captured two women while raiding around Fort Blackmore, Virginia.[1] Afterward he often ran with the mixed group of warriors led by Doublehead out of Coldwater Town at the head of Muscle Shoals, Alabama on the Tennessee River. Among his accomplishments was saving the population of the town of Ustally in 1788 which John Sevier had slated for destruction.
Benge raided as far north as the Ohio River, deep into southwestern Virginia, all of the Washington District of North Carolina, and southeast into Georgia and South Carolina. These included a joint raid between his party and that of Doublehead into the Kentucky hunting grounds.[citation needed]
The Brown family[edit]
Benge was at Running Water Town when word came that an agreement had been reached with John Sevier for an exchange of hostages; it mentioned the Brown family, who had been taken captive in 1788 as they reached Nickajack, passing through the Five Lower Towns on the Tennessee River. Only three of the surviving members remained among the Cherokee, the other three having been sent to the Muscogee.
Joseph Brown and his sister Polly were brought immediately to Running Water, but when runners were sent to Crow Town to retrieve Jane, their youngest sister, her owner refused to surrender her. Benge mounted his horse and hefted his famous axe, saying, "I will bring the girl, or the owner's head". The next morning he returned with Jane. The three were later handed over to Sevier at Coosawattee.
Cavett's Station[edit]
Benge came to a parting of the ways with his former close ally, Doublehead, over an incident at Cavett's Station. In 1793 John Watts led a raid on the Holston River settlements, aiming at White's Fort (now Knoxville, Tennessee). There, Benge negotiated the surrender of the garrison and its defenders with the promise of safe passage. Doublehead and his band violated the parole by attacking and killing them all: men, women, and children, as soon as they were outside the small fort. This was over the pleas of Benge, Watts, and James Vann to honor the agreement. Benge never operated again with Doublehead after the incident. The massacre also contributed to a bitter animosity between Doublehead and Vann that led to a division between the Upper and Lower Towns after the end of the wars in 1794.
Benge raided as far as the westernmost counties of Virginia, attacking Gate City, Virginia in 1791, and Moccasin Gap and Kane's Gap on Powell Mountain in 1793.[2]
He was killed April 6, 1794 in an ambush in what is in what is now Wise County, Virginia during an extended raid deep into enemy-held territory, while escorting prisoners captured from a settlement earlier in the day back to the Lower Towns. The militia took his scalp and sent it to the Governor of Virginia, Henry Lee III, who sent it on to President George Washington. Credit for killing Benge went to militia leader Vincent Hobbs Jr, son of one of the original white settlers of current Lee County, Virginia.
- American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol.1, 1789-1813, Congress of the United States, Washington,DC, 1831-1838.
- Evans, E. Raymond. "Notable Persons in Cherokee History: Bob Benge". Journal of Cherokee Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 98–106. (Cherokee: Museum of the Cherokee Indian, 1976).
- Moore, John Trotwood and Austin P. Foster. Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1769-1923, Vol. 1, pp. 228–231. (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1923).


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US marathon man John Isner, whose longest-ever tennis match is Wimbledon folklore, lasted only two games before his knee buckled against Adrian Mannarino.
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On 23 Jul 2010, at 17:56, Andy Seaborne wrote: > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Dataset(new): Given RDF graphs (referred to by symbols) > > <G_0>, .... ,<G_l>,<G_n1>, ....<G_nm> a dataset DS is the following > set of > > (mathemetical) sets, > > > > DS = {<G>,<G_n1>, .... ,<G_nm>} > > > > where G = {<G_0> merge .... merge<G_l> } > > > > and merge is RDF merge in the sense of rdf-mt. > > We also denote the symbol referring to a graph as "name" and particularly > > call the graph<G> "default graph". > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Why do you need to redefine RDF dataset? See my previous mail... I had the impression that several people were unhappy with named graphs as we have them (pairs graph-name). My idea/suggestion was to try out another definition which might be more what these people expect in an upwards compatible way with SPARQL1.0, i.e. ... > You don't make use of this > definition anywhere. What visible difference are you getting at? ... I wanted to attempt a redefinition with exactly that "feature" of no visible difference. > If > there is no visible difference, why are you proposing a change? You > don't use the definition for your graph store proposal where you just > use "dataset". It seems we may have a chance to reach convergence in this discussion then on the graph store definition at least, which is something! (let me still comment on the alternative dataset definition comments in the following, as I still believe it works, without firmly arguing at this point for adopting it) > The definition does not make sense to me. What is <G_0>? Is it an IRI? <G_0>, .... ,<G_l> are meant to be symbols referring to Graphs and these symbols are IRIs . no, in your terminology you used S_0, ... S_l, the only difference is that I proposed to use IRIs to denote the symbols for the graphs directly. > Or a name for the purposed of this definition? If it's an IRI, then > > > DS = {<G>,<G_n1>, .... ,<G_nm>} > > is a set of IRIs, right?. well, then { S0, .... Sn } would also be a set of symbols, but no, I meant the set of *graphs* referenced by these symbols. > How does the spec get a graph in order to > query it? In SPARQL 1.0 it's Map IRI->graph. (A Map is a Set of pairs > with a look function from "key" the first in a pair to "value" the > second in a pair. In Java you can even iterate over a Map as a set of > pairs.) In Java/programmatically, that would stay exactly the same, as said above, the definition was solely meant as attempt to move from the current named graph definition to something more acceptable for those inconvenient with that definition - with exactly the purpose that it causes no visible difference. > > > How can RDF Graphs, which are sets, have names. symbols, not names > Sets don't have "names" > other than in the self-denoting sense that literals do. I can define the set S = {t1, .... tn}, so why shouldn't I be able to define the set <g> = {t1, .... tn} likewise - understanding IRIs as symbols. > > Suppose: > GET http://faraway/resource -> "1"^^xsd:integer > > today > and > > GET http://faraway/resource -> "2"^^xsd:integer > > tomorrow. > > so http://faraway/resource is not a permanent name for the number 1. because that http://faraway/resource is rather a graph store consisting of a single graph than a graph? (cf. previous mail) > > > DS = {<G>,<G_n1>, .... ,<G_nm>} > > is that a set of symbols or a set of graphs? the latter, where the graphs are dereferenced by the symbols, see above. > Or a set of symbols and graphs? > > How does this work for GRAPH, FROM and FROM NAMED? > > > G = {<G_0> merge .... merge<G_l> } > > This breaks SPARQL 1.0. > > The default graph IS NOT the RDF merge of the named graphs. It is a > graph without constraints. /Some/ systems may make it the RDF merge of > the named graphs you misunderstood me, <G_0> ... <G_l> are not named graphs, but those graphs that make up the default graph (by the FROM clauses) whereas <G_n1>, .... ,<G_nm> are the named graphs... maybe that's our misunderstanding. Hope that clarifies matters, Axel > (usually, they don't, they make it the union but that's > OK with some wiggle room about a priori knowledge of the domains of > discourse - /pace/ Steve). > > BUT this is NOT required by the spec for SPARQL 1.0. > > Andy > >Received on Friday, 23 July 2010 21:33:45 UTC
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|June 1987
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|November 1993
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After articling and practicing in Vernon, BC, for 3 years, I moved back to Vancouver Island and the Cowichan Valley. I then took 8 years off to be at home with my 2 sons.
In May 2005 I returned to private practice in Duncan with a local firm in Duncan. Since August 2011 I have been practicing as a sole practitioner focusing on family law. In August 2011, I established my own firm as a sole practitioner, focussing on family law, as well as residential conveyancing.
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After the bold statements and trash-talking, anything but a first round victory may have been labelled a disappointment. Although falling short of his prediction, the way the Irishman took Siver apart meant fans in the TP Garden in Boston didn't want it to end, such was the excitement of the one-sided victory.
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Following up his beating of Dustin Poirier, putting Dennis Siver away without even appearing to break sweat shows that maybe Conor McGregor has the skills to back up his continuous barrage of taunts and promises. Aldo says he's not convinced, but you can bet your bottom dollar he won't be talking McGregor lightly.
In the co-main event Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone earned what looked a fortunate decision victory over his friend Benson Henderson. Having beaten Myles Jury 15 days ago at UFC 182, Cerrone avenged two previous defeats to Henderson in a closely-contested lightweight match-up. Taking his winning streak to seven, the unanimous scorecard decision means Henderson has lost two consecutive fights for the first time in his career.
Uriah Hall also tasted victory in Boston. After a deep cut under Ron Stalling's eye forced the referee to end the middleweight bout, Hall took his winning run to three. Stallings was making his UFC debut and took the fight on short notice when both Costas Philippou and Louis Taylor withdrew through injury.
McGregor's fellow Irishman Norman Parke, unbeaten in five UFC fights, lost a split-decision to veteran Gleison Tibau in the first fight on the main card.
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Conor McGregor def. Dennis Siver via TKO (strikes) – Round 2, 1:54
Donald Cerrone def. Benson Henderson via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Uriah Hall def. Ron Stallings via TKO (doctor's stoppage) – Round 1, 3:37
Gleison Tibau def. Norman Parke via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
Cathal Pendred def. Sean Spencer via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27, 30-27)
Lorenz Larkin def. John Howard via TKO (punches) – Round 1, 2:17
Chris Wade def. Zhang Lipeng via unanimous decision (30-26, 30-26, 30-26)
Patrick Holohan def. Shane Howell via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Johnny Case def. Frankie Perez via TKO (punches) – Round 3, 1:54
Charles Rosa def. Sean Soriano via submission (D'arce choke) – Round 3, 4:43
Sean O'Connell def. Matt Van Buren via TKO (punches) – Round 3, 2:11
Joby Sanchez def. Tateki Matsuda via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 30-27)


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