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ATP Stuttgart: Fognini Captures First Career ATP Title
(July 14, 2013) In the morning of the final day at the Mercedes Cup, tournament director Edwin Weindorfer reported a positive outcome of this year's tennis event in Stuttgart.
"With about 44,000 spectators who have attended the tournament throughout the week, we achieved a new record in terms of visitor numbers. This is very important for us … (and) a milestone for the Mercedes Cup," Weindorfer announced.
He also added three reasons for this boom: "We did the same job like the years before but also tried to improve the tournament every time. The weather was great during the week, a thing which is impossible to control, and of course, Tommy Haas has fostered the sale of tickets in preparation of the tournament. He didn't make it to the final but with Philipp Kohlschreiber, we had another German in the draw until the end of the week.
Weindorfer is also convinced that top 10 players will return again to the Weissenhof club once the tournament makes its transition to grass.
"That's the reason why we made this decision (to switch from clay to grass). We already have the commitment from the players to participate here in 2015. So we will not see a player like Rafael Nadal here in 2014, but hopefully one year later."
Tennis action started with the doubles final where the first-time pairing of Facundo Bagnis and Thomaz Bellucci faced the Polish tandem of Tomasz Bednarek and Mateusz Kowalczyk.
The Argentine-Brazilian combination played their first career ATP World Tour doubles final and they have had a good run in Stuttgart so far, eliminating the top and fourth seeded teams in the draw.
After defeating the tournament's second seed in the first round, the Poles on the other hand benefited from a walkover into the final. Bednarek and Kowalczyk also had the better start into today's encounter.
Bagnis lost his serve twice in the opening set, which went in favor of the Poles with a score of 6-2 after 25 minutes. The turning point of the match took place in the sixth game of the second set when Kowalczyk missed a forehand volley and therewith the chance to gain a break and a possible 4-2 lead. The inevitable happened as Bednarek lost his serve in the following game and Bellucci closed the set out in the tenth game.
In the match tiebreak, the South Americans saved one match point before they eventually celebrated their victory with the help of a double fault, winning the third set 11-9.
In the singles final, the tournament's second seed Philipp Kohlschreiber, who had a short practice session with Markus Wislsperger two hours before the match including some tennis-football, eyed his fifth career ATP World Tour title. The German reached his third final of the year with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Victor Hanescu yesterday and another victory in straight sets against Gael Monfils in the quarterfinals, which represented his 100th career clay court win.
Conversely, Fabio Fognini was aiming for his first career title on the ATP World Tour. The Italian previously played two finals before but lost both in Bucharest and St. Petersburg last year. Fognini has played a solid clay court season so far with good results like reaching the semifinals at the ATP Masters 1000 in Monte Carlo and he also achieved his personal best result in Roland Garros by reaching the third round. Here in Stuttgart, the fourth seed reached the final without losing a set including victories over top seed Tommy Haas and Roberto Bautista-Agut.
In the beginning of the match, both players had some problems finding their rhythm and showed inconsistent performances plenty of nervous unforced errors. In the first six games, both players broke each other's service four times. In the twelfth game, it was Kohlschreiber, who gained the decisive break to take the first set after 45 minutes of play.
With the beginning of the second set, Fognini improved his groundstrokes and took an early break in the first game. In the following game, the 26-year-old from San Remo was able to defend the advantage until the end of the set to serve it out in the tenth game.
The quality of the match improved with better rallies and more emotions on court. Fognini broke serve in the third game of the final set as well as the in the fifth. The German had a chance to gain one break back and the atmosphere on center court heated up but it didn't help.
The Italian sealed the victory winning 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 after two hours and six minutes to finally claim his maiden title on the ATP World Tour.
"I'm really really happy playing like this during the entire week here to finally win my first title. I knew that I had to be careful when Philipp gained the break back. I tried to stay calm and just thought of my next service game. This is what worked for me!" stated a visibly excited Fognini.
With the win, the Italian earned €74,000 in prize money, and of course, the coveted Mercedes-Benz A 45 AMG, 'Edition 1' car. The white Mercedes was driven on court by Henri Leconte, who won the tournament in 1984.
Although it happened to be the birthday of the Italian's girlfriend, Fognini didn't seem to be willing to give it to her as a present.
"I think we can share it," he laughed. "The car will stay at home, so she will have the opportunity to use it but I also want to enjoy some rides with my friends in my town."


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Your movement spells make allies swifter than normal.
Prerequisite(s): Dex 13+.
Benefit(s): You can alter spells that grant a creature a movement type it doesn't normally have to increase the speed for that movement type by 10 feet.
Level Increase: +0 (a brisk spell uses a spell slot equal to the spell's normal spell level.)
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Update using Web services, datasets and diffgrams
How to use Web services, datasets and diffgrams to update a database.
In this tip, I continue the series on using Web services and Datasets. In the first tip, I explained how to create a Web Service that retrieves data from a stored procedure into a Dataset and transmits it in its XML representation to the consuming application.
In the second tip, I explained how to consume the Web service, and explained how the XML representation gets transformed back into a Dataset. I used that Dataset by DataBinding it to a DataGrid for display in an ASP.NET Web Form.
In this tip, I demonstrate how to make changes to the data in the Dataset (on the client application), then send the modified Dataset back to the Web service provider to update the database. To accomplish this, Microsoft has created the concept of a DiffGram. Due to the disconnected nature of the Dataset, it is possible that many different sources (other applications, or many different users of the same application) could have changed the underlying data after it was sent to our consumer. Also, its possible that our consuming application can do more than just update the data...perhaps it can add new rows of data to the Dataset, or delete rows of data from the Dataset. The Dataset keeps a running log of all changes to the original dataset to know 1) what happened, and 2) when did it happen. Then, when the dataset is passed back into the Web service, the dataset can be reconciled back into the original data source. Updates to the dataset will result in update statements to the data source. Inserts that occurred on the client to the dataset will result in insert statements to the original data source. The same is true for deletes, as well. The key is that the DataAdapter knows how to reconcile inserts, updates and deletes back to the data source and map the appropriate fields, parameters, etc. I use the terms "the DataAdapter knows" accomodatively -- it doesn't just "know." You must tell it, but the way you do this is through the DataAdapter Wizard, as I'll demonstrate in just a moment.
To illustrate this, I've created a new Web service and a new Client application that retrieves an Affiliate's information, allows the user to change it in a Web Form, then return the updated information back to the Web service server where the data source is updated with the changes. I've provided the source code, and I've provided a screen cam video that walks through the entire creation process. These tools should be used in conjunction with this tip to get the complete picture of what is going on. In the rest of this article, I'll outline the steps at a high level that were used to accomplish this.
- First, I create a new ASP.NET Web services project.
- Next, I drag-and-drop the affiliate table from the Server Explorer to the Web service designer surface. This creates a SqlDataConnection and a SqlDataAdapter object on the designer surface. I select the SqlDataAdapter and click the "Configure Data Adapter" option under the Properties window. This pops open the "Configure Data Adapter Wizard".
- In the Wizard, I opt to create stored procedures, add a where clause to the generated SQL statement to make sure I am only getting the affiliate record for a specific AffiliateID, name the four stored procedures appropriately, then allow the Wizard to create the appropriate stored procedures for me.
- When returned to the designer surface, I select the SqlDataAdapter and select Generate Dataset option from under the Properties window. I name this new Dataset dsAffiliate. This creates a new instance of a Dataset on the designer surface called dsAffiliate1.
- Now I access the code-behind for the Web service and create two Web Methods, one called GetAffiliateDetail and the other UpdateAffiliateDetail. GetAffiliateDetail requires the affiliate to pass an AffiliateID and returns a Dataset in the format of dsAffiliate:
<WebMethod()> _ Public Function GetAffiliateDetail( _ ByVal xintAffiliateID As Integer) As dsAffiliate SqlDataAdapter1.SelectCommand.Parameters.Item("@affiliate_id").Value = xintAffiliateID SqlDataAdapter1.Fill(DsAffiliate1, "affiliate") GetAffiliateDetail = DsAffiliate1 End Function
The UpdateAffiliateDetail function merely accepts an instance of dsAffiliate and returns an integer for confirmation.
<WebMethod()> _ Public Function UpdateAffiliateDetail( _ ByVal xdsAffiliate1 As dsAffiliate) As Integer UpdateAffiliateDetail = _ SqlDataAdapter1.Update(xdsAffiliate1, "affiliate") Return 1 End Function
I build the application.
- The next step was to build the consuming application. I create a new ASP.NET Web Form application, then add two buttons (Get and Update) and about six textboxes (for the different properties of the Affiliate.)
- I create a Web Reference to the Web service I created in steps 1 through 5. This will add an instance of the dsAffiliate schema to the Web Reference -- this is important for the next step to work!
- I drag-and-drop a Dataset object from the Toolbox to the designer surface, and set it as a Typed Dataset to the dsAffiliate schema that appears in the drop-down box. By default, it will name this instance of the Dataset as dsAffiliate1.
- For each of the textboxes, I set the DataSource property to the appropriate field in the dsAffiliate1 Dataset. This allows me to retrieve the values without writing code to do it.
- Now, I code the cmdGet button's click event. It should look something like this:
Private Sub cmdGet_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim ws As localhost.Service1 = New localhost.Service1() DsAffiliate1 = ws.GetAffiliateDetail(1) DataBind() ' Since the web is a stateless environment, we must save ' off the contents of the dsAffiliate1 Dataset, or else ' it will lose its contents. Session.Add("myDataset", DsAffiliate1) End Sub
Notice that after I call the Web service to retrieve the DsAffiliate1, I then call DataBind. This refreshes the textboxes with the values from the database. Also, notice that I save off the contents of the DsAffiliate1 into the session. As the comments above denote, this is to maintain state across a typically stateless environment.
- Next, I code the cmdUpdate button's click event. It should look like this:
Private Sub cmdUpdate_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click Dim ws As localhost.Service1 = New localhost.Service1() ' As noted above, we COULD have pulled from a ' database from a persisted file, or any other ' data store. In this case, we use the Session ' for sheer convenience. DsAffiliate1 = Session("myDataset") ' We'll use not just any DataRow, but specifically ' an affiliateRow that has knowledge of the ' specifical columns in our DataSet. Dim dr As localhost.dsAffiliate.affiliateRow dr = DsAffiliate1.affiliate(0) dr.affiliate_name = txtName.Text dr.affiliate_address = txtAddress.Text dr.affiliate_city = txtCity.Text dr.affiliate_state = txtState.Text dr.affiliate_zip = txtZip.Text dr.affiliate_phone = txtPhone.Text dr.affiliate_email = txtEmail.Text Dim iRet = ws.UpdateAffiliateDetail(DsAffiliate1) Response.Write(iRet) End Sub
As you'll notice, I retrieve the DsAffiliate1 from the Session object, then begin to update its values with the new values the user typed into the Web Form. Then, I send the DsAffiliate1 into the UpdateAffiliateDetail Web Service. This in turn will save the values back into the data source (as explained in step 5 above).
Compile both the Web service and the Web Form. Then run the Web Form application and watch the magic happen. This is a great model for how Web services and Dataset were designed to operate. You can expand this model to do as much processing on the client (consumer) as possible, then when you are finished upload the changes back to the Web service data provider and allow it to rectify the changes back into the database. You can even be clever about how you save information back, alerting the user that the underlying data has changed and asking them if they are sure they want to overwrite these changes. Try adding this level of functionality in your applications before .NET -- especially considering how few lines of code we actually wrote!
I hope you enjoy these tips, and stay tuned for the next one where I will show the exact structure of the DiffGram and the DataSet that is being passed back and forth between the consumer and provider through the use of SOAP Extensions.
About the Author
Robert Tabor is a Microsoft Certified Professional in Visual Basic with over six years of experience developing n-tier Microsoft-centric applications for some of the world's most prestigious companies and consulting organizations, such as Ernst & Young, KPMG, Cambridge Technology Partners, Sprint, American Heart Association, and the Mary Kay Corporation. Bob is the author of Microsoft .NET XML Web services by Sams Publishing, and contributes to SoapWebservices.com and LearnVisualStudio.NET. He is currently working on initiatives within Mary Kay, the second largest eCommerce site in retail volume on the net, of how to utilize .NET within their e-business group.


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Todays Football Tips 15/08/17
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One day residency and lecture at Designers Talking 2015COMB Gallery in Milwaukee, May 2015
On their own, Bijan Berahimi's fluorescent printed one-sheets read as cheerful ruminations on identity, creativity, and commerce. They're the kind of thoughts that populate a designer's head on the daily: who I am I really making this for; am I having fun; is it ethical. The posters' neon smiley faces and teardrop soccer balls might fool you into thinking these are easy questions to answer.
But Berahimi's collages tell a different story—an anxious frenzy of illegible half-thoughts, broken hashtags, and dismembered palm trees.
Pierre Bourdieu's species of capital (economic, symbolic, cultural, and social) play an important role in decoding the work on view and help pinpoint something universal to insatiable makers in the age of social media: the sometimes conflicting desires to create work that is true and meaningful and celebrated and profitable. Right? Wrong? IDK.
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The Adult Clinics are a series of classes designed for those who have some experience in tennis and would like to improve their game together with other players. There are different programs each weekday that make the clinic lots of fun, mixing activites up and providing variety for each session. Each session starts with a 15 minute warm up period, designed to get the blood pumping and the muscles moving. This is also a time when the coaches will quietly observe the skill level of each player.
Following this, each session focuses on developing a particular tennis skill. At the end of the session, a cool down period and stretching period will commence. All aspects of the game of tennis are covered throughout the week, so each player will get the most out of the clinic.
The Adult Clinic Successful Doubles is for those who love to play doubles and improve their doubles skills. It focuses on double drills, volleys and double tactics, including good team work strategies and more.With relatively small class sizes, each participant will be able to maximise their time during the sessions, to develop their skills and prepare for future games with friends, colleagues and family members.
Why Participate?
- Fun and active way to stay fit
- Improves technical skills
- Great opportunity to find new hitting partners
What Should I Bring?
- Tennis Racquet
- Towel
- Water
Additional Class Information
- If you have any injuries, please be assessed one on one and bring a medical certificate to participate in the class.
- Classes, coaches and venues are subject to change due to availability.
- All classes are on "First Come, First Serve" basis and subject to availability.
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com or contact Club Services.
- Please be ready 10 mins before classes start to ensure they run on time.
- Discounts available for block bookings for multiple sessions.
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Native Instruments Kore: The Workflow Machine
A lot of people think that Native Instruments' Kore looks really interesting, but have a hard time wrapping their head around the concept. Is it hardware? Software? For the studio? For live performance? Does it work only with Native Instruments products? And most importantly, do I need this thing?!?
A new type of product deserves a new type of review. We'll get heavily into the hands-on aspect of actually using Kore so you can decide whether it's for you or not; see the Expert Opinion sidebar for additional information.
Kore is a package with Mac (Universal Binary)/Windows software and a USB 2-based hardware controller. The controller has two main functions: An audio/MIDI computer interface, and a control surface dedicated to ergonomic control over the software — you don't have to rely on a mouse and keyboard. You're not obligated to use the Kore audio/MIDI interface, but the software won't run unless the controller connects to your computer.
Whether for studio or live, Kore's main element is the KoreSound — a "container" for VST/AU plug-ins you can save and recall. A KoreSound can be as simple as a single instrument or effect containing one preset, to a complex combination of instruments, effects, mixing, and routing. (For example, two layered synths split with a third bass synth, each going through a different plug-in, and mixed so that the synths pan hard left and right while the bass synth goes in the center). Furthermore, all these plug-ins' programmable parameters are accessible through a hardware, hands-on interface that's also mirrored in the Kore software, should you favor mousing around.
The KoreSound is not tied to any particular host or program other than Kore. You could use a KoreSound with Logic Audio on a Mac, then load that same KoreSound into Ableton Live or Sonar running on Windows. As long as the same VST plug-ins are installed on both Kore-friendly platforms, the KoreSound is transportable. Also, Kore itself includes many effects you can load into a KoreSound. This increases transportability, as you can be sure any Kore system has these effects.
Kore is designed to work with a large number of plug-ins and possible sounds. So, another Kore function is to streamline the process of finding sounds. It's a selling point for instruments to have lots of presets, but learning them so you know which one to load for a particular musical situation can take forever. Kore "tags" presets with attributes, then assembles these in a database. All presets included in NI's Komplete 3 and Komplete Sound 2 have been tagged (you can download these for any of the bundled products from the NI web site). Plug-ins from other companies including Arturia, Korg, GForce, Spectrasonics, etc. are supported in the controller pages, which we'll cover in a bit. (However, you'll need to add tags to these program's presets yourself.)
For example, suppose you like warm, synthesized string sounds with an analog character. You really like NI's Pro53, and you want to use that. You basically select the desired attributes ("warm," "string," "analog"), then Kore displays all sounds meeting those criteria and the instruments to which they belong. If there's a suitable sound generated by the Pro53, start loading.
You can also add tags to your presets; the documentation spells out the intention of various attributes in detail so you can maintain consistency between your presets and already-tagged presets. (Note: If you have existing versions of NI plug-ins, they're updated automatically to be "Kore-friendly" when you install Kore.)
Kore inserts into your host like any other plug-in (Fig. 1). Each instance is basically a KoreSound, and you can insert as many instances as your computer can handle — a KoreSound "container" by itself doesn't take up a lot of resources, but as expected, packing it with soft synths and effects does.
The working dynamic goes something like this: You want to add a bass track while using a sequencing program, so you insert an instance of Kore. You're now at the Sound Level. You use the browser to find KoreSounds that match your needs (acoustic bass, synth bass, whatever), then load it. Once it's loaded, if you want to tweak it, you . . . well, that's next.
The controller (Fig. 2) is a relatively compact, metal box housing 8 programming switches, 8 touch-sensitive knobs, data wheel, navigation controls, and a display (it also contains the audio and MIDI interface, but we'll stick to the programming aspect for now). The controller serves up a series of pages for whatever plug-in you've selected; you change parameters using the knobs and switches.
Wherever possible, NI shoots for consistency. For example, the same knob that controls filter cutoff in their FM7 controls filter cutoff in the Pro53, and is located on the same page. Manufacturers who support Kore also try to follow this protocol, although given the great differences among synths, not all controls have a one-to-one correspondence among various products.
I've also loaded synths that do not yet support Kore, such as Cakewalk's Dimension Pro. In this case, automatable parameters are mapped across the controller pages. At first, it seems easier just to grab a control with a mouse. But with Dimension Pro, there are four different programmable "elements." Suppose you want to tweak the Bit Reduction parameter on the four elements. Kore happens to display these on the same page, so you can tweak them with four knobs in real time. Without the controller, you would need to adjust one element, click over to the next one, adjust that one, click over to the next one . . . you get the idea.
The other big advantage is having a tactile controller for doing automation moves. The only real drawback is you can't tweak parameters simultaneously on different pages. There's logic to how the parameters are grouped on the various pages, but that logic can't cover all situations. Therefore, you can add User Pages that group any controls (from plug-ins, the mixing environment, etc.) into individual pages. These are particularly useful for live performance. However, I still tend to think of the Kore controller as a programming/tweaking tool, because for "live performance" moves, I find I really need 16 faders — so I'm not about to throw away my Peavey PC-1600x. Then again, I can plug it into the Kore controller's MIDI input.
For live performance, Kore becomes a standalone program that adds an additional "performance mixer" layer. This consists of "performance channels" that hosts groups of KoreSounds, and offers a complete mixing/processing environment — think Steinberg's V-Stack on steroids.
For live use you can save performances and when you change from one preset within the performance to another, parameters can crossfade smoothly to "morph" from one sound to another. (You can also switch between Performances, but note that you might call up an instrument that needs to load lots of samples, and this may take some time. As a result, it's best to load as much as you need within a single Performance, and just switch between presets.)
Yes, it really is for the studio and for live performance, and is indeed part software and part hardware. Kore gets high marks for original thinking, and works as claimed. I would have preferred pages with 16 parameters and 16 controls, along with a bigger LCD . . . although eight parameters is convenient if you don't want to have to think about too much at once. For additional opinions about Kore, check out the sidebar.


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Migraine in Women
Of migraine affects about 13% of the population. This is a painful and "disabling" health disorder, affecting primarily the female sex.
Why? As shown by clinical studies conducted in the Department of Gastroenterology and Nutrition of the Hospital of Kiron in Barcelona, the reason lies in a specific enzyme.
We will talk about this, as well as give simple recommendations how to deal with migraines, which you, no doubt, will be useful.
1. What causes migraine in women?
According to Ramon Tormo, a neurologist at the Hospital of Kiron in Barcelona, three out of four migraine sufferers are women.
Perhaps you also know this pain, loss of efficiency, which often accompanies migraine attacks, and this "pilgrimage" for doctors – in search of effective treatment.
Why is migraine more common in women? And yet, Is there an effective tool, which will help us to avoid its painful episodes and improve quality of life?
The doctors came to the following conclusions:
1. Migraine in women causes a specific enzyme deficiency
First, ask yourself: Does someone in your family, except you, suffer from a migraine?
In the study in question, it was found that the cause of migraine is the deficiency of the enzyme called "diamine oxidase", abbreviated its name in Latin letters – DAO.
And this deficit has hereditary nature. You, of course, will ask what function this enzyme performs and why its deficiency causes migraine.
The answers to these questions are as follows:
- The enzyme DAO destroys a molecule called "histamine." These molecules are found in many products that we eat, for example, in dairy products, meat, citrus… Being destroyed in the body, it is excreted from it with urine.
- What happens when the level of histamine in the blood is very high? It accumulates in the plasma, causing inflammation. At the same time, the biochemical processes in the brain deteriorate, the blood flow rate in the brain increases, some brain tissues become inflamed.
2. Migraine and hormonal changes in women
There is another reason why the deficiency of this enzyme affects women more. These are permanent hormonal changes associated with ovulation, menstruation and menopause. Their influence on the body should never be forgotten.
- Female hormones and menstrual cycles cause a natural deficiency of the DAO enzyme. If the heredity factor is added to this, the situation becomes even worse.
- Interestingly, during pregnancy, the placenta activates the production of the DAO enzyme; thus the woman's body protects the fetus. Therefore, in these 9 months we do not feel the slightest signs of migraine.
- Due to the fact that we experience regular hormonal changes, drugs and medical procedures act on our body in different ways – depending on the hormonal "background". For example, in one day a medicine helps, in another – no. It all depends on what phase the organism is in – premenstrual or menstrual; or there was a menopause. In this latter case, the pain is particularly intense.
2. How to deal with migraine and prevent it?
Scientists have found out that inheritance is not transmitted by the migraine itself, but by the propensity to deficiency of the enzyme DAO. And with this deficit you can cope with the help of pharmacology – by introducing into the body this enzyme and bringing its level to the necessary.
But your neurologist should prescribe it and prescribe the treatment , since only he can establish an accurate diagnosis and the presence or absence of a deficiency of this enzyme.
It is believed that in 90% of cases migraine arises because of its lack, but in 10% of cases the causes of the disease are unknown.
What "strategies" do we need to adhere to to reduce the likelihood of migraine attacks? The main recommendations are as follows:
1. Try to control stressful situations, since stress often provokes these attacks.
2. It is necessary to reduce the intake of foods that contain histamine. It:
- Milk
- Cheese for long periods
- Yogurt
- Wine
- Beer
- Carbonated drinks containing sugar
- Coffee
- Rice flour
- Sausages
- Ham and meat semi-finished products
- Greenery
- Fermented vegetable products such as soybeans
- Frozen fish
- Eggplant
- Vinegar
- Chocolate
- Canned anchovies
- Deciduous beetroots
- Avocado
- Juices from the supermarket.


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Oh dear, I was watching TV this afternoon when suddenly the images got "noise" and impossible to be viewed. It turned out that a portion of the wire going to our aerial antenna got broken unexpectedly. I don;t know how to replace or troubleshoot so I waited for my bro to come home after his office to let him see what happened. He is our handy man at home and it looks like that we also need to replace our antenna already. I have no choice but to check some antennas at the shops on weekends to have it replaced.
Meanwhile, not having a TV for a day or two, I still have more time to be on my computer and explore the net once again. I have to find some good deals and bargains on different stores so watch out for them


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Nasal area work happen to be adding to the actual glamour associated with celebs with regard to lengthier compared to many people recognize. Whenever numerous typical searching people consider the superstars about the giant screen, tv and also the rock-and-roll phase, they might be hit through the stars' illusive excellence. These people seem therefore marvelously beautiful. Had been all of them delivered this way? Nicely, the majority of the celebs in whose appears all of us covet have experienced a little bit of assist using their pleasant plastic material doctor's scalpel. Noses, boobs, as well as physiques — plastic surgery offers improved all of them. Precisely how perform the actual physicians carry out these types of remarkable changes known as nasal area work? To begin with, an additional much more medical title with this enchanting process may be the rhinoplasty. The rhinoplasty is really a surgical treatment carried out with a panel licensed cosmetic surgeon inside a medical center or even medical environment. It's regarded as a good outpatient process since the individual is actually permitted to proceed house on a single day time since the procedure. Within the working space, the actual doctor uses possibly the actual open up or even shut way to arrange as well as get rid of sinus bone fragments, cartilage as well as cells prior to toning right into a more appealing settings. The actual open up technique is conducted through putting a good incision straight beneath the actual nostrils to be able to open up the location. This method enables a lot more presence as well as entry however may depart a little scar tissue. Within the shut edition, just about all function is conducted by way of the actual nostril pathways. The nasal area consists of each bone fragments as well as cartilage, the actual tougher skeletal program is found in top of the link part, as the much more versatile cartilage is actually included through the reduce fifty percent. Precisely that celeb superstars have experienced rhinoplasty, breasts enhancement as well as liposuctions are occasionally just hazily recorded within news posts, however examining "before as well as after" pictures can offer a great little bit of info. Term offers this which Marilyn Monroe was among the innovators within the amusement business to lessen how big the woman's honker. A glance at "before as well as after" pictures uncover the dark brown haired youthful lady having a broader nasal area compared to which from the golden-haired bombshell that the general public dropped in to lust along with. Erina Fitzgibbons is actually a common rhinoplasty receiver, even though their is generally regarded as a good example of exactly what to not perform. Cher is actually an additional celebrity that has already been fairly open public regarding the woman's methods. Your woman, nevertheless, is actually a good example of a surgical procedure that has already been carried out within great flavor as well as within unified position along with the woman's organic functions. Wish to study from the actual celebs regarding nasal area work? Training consist of, indeed, you are able to enhance your own appears by using the scalpel, as well as to be certain in order to line up your own strategy with your personal person look.


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It was a relatively quiet scene outside the South Boston Courthouse where the first day of jury selection in the trial of the alleged Boston Marathon bomber began.
Security was tighter than normal, which included bomb sniffing dogs and officers from Homeland Security helping to secure the area.
In the front of the courthouse, steel barriers kept television crews and cameras from getting too close to the building. Behind the building, two armed Coast Guard boats patrolled the harbor.
Despite the lack of activity, a large number media members from all over the world waited outside for any information to come from inside the courthouse.


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Anti-gay marriage group steps up for Prop. 8
ELECTION 2008: Proposition 8
A group opposed to same-sex marriage wants to help defend Proposition 8 before the California Supreme Court, saying lawsuits seeking to overturn the Nov. 4 ballot measure threaten the initiative process.
Three suits filed the day after the election open the door to "step-by-step elimination of the people's right to amend the Constitution by initiative," attorneys with Liberty Counsel said Monday in papers submitted on behalf of the Campaign for California Families.
They said Attorney General Jerry Brown's office, which plans to defend Prop. 8 in court, represents only the interests of state officials in "furnishing marriage license forms" and enforcing the law and can't adequately speak for the voters who backed the measure.
Prop. 8, which passed with 52 percent of the vote, amends the state Constitution to allow marriage only between a man and a woman. It would overturn a state Supreme Court ruling on May 15 that granted same-sex couples a constitutional right to marry.
It is being challenged by two groups of same-sex couples, gay-rights advocates and local governments led by the city of San Francisco. They contend Prop. 8 violates fundamental rights of equality and interferes with the judiciary's constitutional duty to protect minorities. Two of the suits argue that the measure amounts to a revision of the state Constitution, which can be placed on the ballot only by a two-thirds vote of the Legislature.
Calling the suits "patently frivolous," Liberty Counsel founder Mathew Staver said in a statement Monday that "it makes no sense that four judges can rewrite the historic definition of marriage and more than 5 million people (who voted for Prop. 8) cannot restore it to its common understanding."
The state Supreme Court has not yet said whether it will accept the suits for review and grant the plaintiffs' request to block enforcement of Prop. 8, an order that would allow gay and lesbian couples to marry while the case was pending. The justices could also address the validity of an estimated 18,000 same-sex marriages that were conducted before the election.
The Campaign for California Families, a conservative religious organization, is asking to intervene in the case and take part in any hearings the court holds. The group that sponsored Prop. 8, Protect Marriage, has said it will also seek to intervene. If the court denies the requests, the groups could still submit written arguments.
A similar question arose earlier this year when the court was reviewing state laws prohibiting same-sex marriage. The court allowed the same two organizations to take part in oral arguments, where they contended the laws were valid because children are better off with opposite-sex parents. The state did not make that argument, and none of the justices writing majority and dissenting opinions in the case endorsed it.
The court eventually decided that the conservative groups were not proper parties to the case because their rights were not at stake. In the new filing, however, the Campaign for California Families argues that it has a right to defend the ballot measure that it helped to pass.
"None of the (state officials sued in the case) has the same interests that the campaign and its members have in preserving the people's will as expressed in Proposition 8," the group's lawyers said.
The lead case is Strauss vs. Horton, S168047.


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Marking the shutdown, Carlucci pens a "Dear Congress" letter
State Sen. David Carlucci thinks Congress can "learn a thing or two" from the state Legislature in Albany, making the case in an op-ed that the state can be a model for the federal government.
In today's Journal News, Carlucci, D-Clarkstown, Rockland County, knocked Washington's "toxic combination of hyper-partisanship and an unwillingness to compromise" that caused the federal government to ultimately shut down as House Republicans and President Barack Obama continue their stalemate over funding the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
"No political party has a monopoly on good ideas, and to suggest that one wing of the political spectrum does is precisely the reason we find ourselves in a quagmire in Washington today," Carlucci wrote.
Carlucci, of course, is a member of the Independent Democratic Conference, a four-member caucus that teamed with Senate Republicans to share control of the state Senate. The move left Senate Democrats out of control, despite there being a numerical majority of registered Democrats in the chamber.
You can read Carlucci's full op-ed here.


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The Negative Effects of Technology in the Workplace
Technological development brings about the change of life styles. Computers are one of the most important factors of this development. This has affected many areas, especially in the workplace. Introduction of computer has led modern industry to progress. Factories can produce more much and rapid an amount of products. However, it also brings negative effects. This essay will demonstrate the possible negative effects of technology on the workplace, focusing on the demand on higher skills and the chance of advancement.
Technological development demands higher skilled workers. The modern industry requires faster and perfectly accurate results. This requirement means that employers need to use computers. In the past, for example, there were many workers controlling machines on the production lines, so they had occasionally made miscalculations. This was because most machines were only controlled by worker's hands. Today, computers do this job instead of workers. This situation gives the improvement of productive capacity and quality. As a result, many workers have to learn higher skills, such as using computer, to control machines, because it becomes very important to remain competitive in their enduring jobs (U.S. Department of Labor 2004).
Technological development also negatively influences the advancement chances of workers. Most workers want to have a good position and obtain a higher salary. One of the best ways to have a good salary in the past was to gain various kinds of experience and knowledge. According to Roberts (2004), before technology is expanding in the workplace, a worker who started in low-level job had a fair opportunity to change position to a higher level, but they don't have the opportunities now. The experience and knowledge are not valuable anymore because workers having high-skills which are required by employers can start out on the high level jobs. In consequence, employees not having high-skills do not have the chances of advancement even though they have worked for a long time (Roberts 2004).
In conclusion, technological development in modern industry requires workers to have higher skills. It could also influence the promotion chances of workers. Although modern life needs technological development, it has made social problems such as loss of employment.
U.S. Department of Labor 2004, Implication of Workplace Change, <http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/herman/reports/futurework/report/pdf/ch7.pdf>.
Roberts E. 2004, Technology in the Workplace: Computers, Ethics, and Social Responsibility, Stanford University, <http://cse.stanford.edu/class/cs201/Projects/effect-on-interpersonal-skills/Work1.htm>.


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Psych Bites | What is anxiety?24 February
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I love this post a lot, I'm hoping the more people post and talk about mental health issues the less it will be stigmatised.ReplyDelete
beth | babbleswithbeth.blogspot.co.uk
Loved this post so much! Thank you :) I suffer from GAD and get so much crap for it and no one seems to want to help or understand (including my GP!) I'm determined to get better and will try all the steps mentioned xReplyDelete
Girl you hit the nail on the head.ReplyDelete
I basically made myself better by ditching my medication (works for some people just not for me) and getting into Buddhism and Eastern teaching, much like yourself. I'm not kidding when I say listening to Ajahn Brahm literally changed the way I looked at my mind. As a result I find my anxiety and other nagative feelings much easier to control.
Such a shame that more and amore people seem to think it's a cry for attention rather than people opening up about serious problems. I thought I was going mad or was just a weirdo for a long time before people started coming out and talking about it because my symptoms weren't like anyone else's I knew. For example - I wouldn't really get any physical symptoms, all of a sudden my mind would just switch and shut down and I'd be like zombie for days on end - staring at a wall with no concentration. It was like my conscious mind just decided to go on holiday and I was left with basic functioning instinct but that was it - a bit like a computer having a meltdown.
Thanks for this post! Very well written and its nice to see someone with similar views speak so eloquently :)
Thankyou so much for writing this, it needed to be said!ReplyDelete
Emily - http://asmalldistraction.blogspot.co.uk/
Great post... so good to see discussion of how common anxiety actually is. I agree with Bethany, the more people talk and try to understand mental health issues hopefully gradually that awful stigma or even maybe it's even just miscomprehension will lessen... And that stigma is something that compounds all the scary feelings even more. My tip... try and cut down on sugar if you can. The high makes for a bad come-down. xoReplyDeleteReplies
Sugar is such a bad thing and you are so right, the come down afterwards is not good. I find the same with too much coffee.Delete
Great post, I love your writing style and that you explain things so it's easy to understand. I'm so glad you are doing your Psych Bites, I am looking forward to the next one.ReplyDelete
Your psych bites series is such a good idea. It is always reassuring to be reminded that other people suffer similar experiences and with the increasing awareness of anxiety and other mental health related issues this is happening more and more.ReplyDelete
It's so true that leading a healthier life improves anxiety for some people! Improvement of my diet and lifestyle in small steps helped me massively with my anxiety and panic attacks when it was at its worst :)
Thanks for this post, I'm looking forward to the rest of this series! x x x
Thank you for sharing this! Your knowledge of the matter, from your degree, really shows, as well as your empathy to how people are seen/treated, when they have anxiety. I have a friend who is unable to drive because she has so many anxiety attacks. Her life is made so hard and often people are keen to judge her for it. Luckily, she has a lot of close friend to help her during situations. I suffer from ME, though they are currently investigating if I actually have lupus, but I know that it is a debilitating, chronic condition that is played down as 'oh, so you're just tired. So am i,' when actually it causes so much pain that I can often barely function. I look forward to continuing to read your posts on this xReplyDelete
Gloriously written. I use medication to control mine and I wrote a bog post about how it feels - http://blotandreapply.com/sometimes-its-not-an-option-to-just-say-yes/ - if anyone is interested.ReplyDelete
Charlotte - www.blotandreapply.com x
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this was a great post, beautifully written as always xxReplyDelete
Are you doing more posts like this? I find them really interesting and I think it's a good thing to spread awareness of. :)ReplyDelete


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With today's busy lifestyles, most people are opting for home furnishings and materials that are easy to care for while maintaining their beauty for longer periods of time. This is especially true when choosing flooring options because floors take on so much daily wear from walking to spills to pet stains. If you are looking at choosing hardwood floors or carpeted floors, they require very different types of care to keep them looking their best.
Daily Maintenance
All manners of dirt and grime make it onto your floors every day, and so they need to be cleaned frequently. Hardwood floors and carpeted floors are relatively easy to keep up with on a daily basis. The amount of maintenance your floors require whether you choose hardwood or carpet does depend on your lifestyle, health needs, and habits.
Hardwood floors should be swept often using a broom or a dust mop. A microfiber style dust mop head works especially well at picking up dirt, crumbs, and pet hair is lightweight and is a quick process. Mopping is recommended in high-traffic areas about once or twice a week, and less frequently in lighter traffic rooms. To mop hardwood floors, you can use a quarter of a cup of mild dishwashing soap with a gallon of warm water or a cleaner recommended by the manufacturer. Just make sure the mop is only slightly damp because standing water can cause damage to even sealed hardwood floors.
Maintaining a carpeted floor is not difficult, but it can be labor-intensive. Carpets hold more allergens, dirt, and odor-causing materials, so frequent vacuuming is necessary. If you suffer from allergies, you many need to vacuum carpets in high-traffic areas daily. Also, carpets are susceptible to stains from pets, food, and tracked-in dirt, so spot-cleaning stains using a manufacturer recommended treatment will be necessary at times.
Long-Term Maintenance
To keep your floors looking fantastic for years to come, you will need to do more than the basic daily maintenance and cleaning. Hardwood floors and carpeting will both require more intensive treatments to keep them looking good. Depending on lifestyle and traffic, the frequency of deep cleaning or repairing your floors will vary.
Hardwood floors can last for generations with the proper care. While hardwood can sustain damage such as warping from liquid, scratches, dents, and dings, this damage can be fixed rather than needing to be replaced. Sanding and refinishing the damaged area is fairly inexpensive and can a weekend fix. Entire rooms can also be sanded and refinished, though that is more time consuming and labor intensive. However, this is easier and cheaper than having to replace an entire floor.
Carpet has a much shorter lifespan due to wear from traffic, stains, and odors. If damage such as unraveling, rips, or matting occurs, it generally cannot be repaired, and the carpet will have to be replaced. Having the carpets professionally steam cleaned on an annual basis will help keep your carpets looking newer for longer periods and can remove allergens, smells, and even set-in stains.
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From posthuman to transhuman: animality and the politics of nonhuman being
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Schillmoller, AL 2005, 'From posthuman to transhuman: animality and the politics of nonhuman being', paper presented to The politics of being: the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Conference, Sydney, NSW, 15-17 June.
The concerns of this paper have been precipitated by the chauvinistic humanism of the western philosophical tradition. In spite of its ostensible rejection of humanism and its rhetoric of hospitality towards the 'other', Continental philosophy seems to have been unable to escape this chauvinistic impulse. In the rare instances where it problematises the relationships between humans and non-human others, Continental philosophy adopts an oppositional discourse which reinforces the anthropocentrism and speciesism of humanist metaphysics. In doing so, it embraces the very distinction it has called into question elsewhere, failing to free itself from the epistemic prejudice of the discourse it has sought to displace. Perhaps, as Calarco and Atterton note, its real sin, is one of omission.
This paper seeks to problematise the bifurcation of humanity and animality which results in an affirmation of humanist hegemony according to a logic of opposition and objectification. With reference to the conceptual resources of continental philosophy, it will consider the possibilities for rethinking and transcending the objectifying sensibility of humanist thought. In doing so, it is mindful that what we might want to say about animality is constrained by philosophical discourse and that any attempt to communicate what Bataille refers to as the 'immanence' of animality, lies beyond discursive knowledge. With reference to Heidegger's notion of poetic imagination and the phenomenology of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, the paper will consider whether it is possible to envisage 'being' in other than humanist terms, and in doing so, to develop a transhuman and sensorial engagement with non-human others. Deleuze and Guattari's performative text on animality, in which the ontological primacy of being is eschewed in favour of the notion of 'becoming' will be also be explored, with a view to developing a discourse of non-human being which overcomes the human/nature opposition and which transcends notions of identity, imitation and representation.


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The Keswick festival was very busy and had something for everyone.
There were talks by celebrities such as Chris Bonnington, Helen Skelton, Monty Hall etc. which took place in a meeting room in the town.
Talks also took place in a giant wigwam on the outdoor site where we had our stand. I did two POWERbreathe talks, one on Friday and one on Sunday. Both went well and led to sales. One couple said that they had cycled 5 miles just to hear me and bought a POWERbreathe. Most people would cycle 5 miles just to get away from me talking!!
We spread the word quite widely about POWERbreathe, as there were people from all over the country taking part in the numerous, running, swimming, cycling and tri events that took place. I think every person in Keswick who had a bike turned up to ride down a slope and up a ramp to shoot up in the air and be cushioned in a gigantic airbag on landing.
By amazing coincidence, next to our stand was the UK equivalent of Vittorio Brumotti, Ben Savage 16 times UK stunt bike rider. http://www.savageskills.co.uk/
As I had all the info on Brumotti he came over to look at my photo's from Italy (from where I'd not long returned). He had a go on the POWERbreathe K5 and he was very impressive completing a full 30 breaths on 62 cmh2o, banging out 6 litres per breath. The next day he came over and said he had felt he had done a workout like he had never felt before and was very interested. I gave him a POWERbreathe Plus Medium Resistance model and he happily offered to provide feedback on his training.
Ben Barton from Cronton Sixth Form College in Widnes spent a lot of time with us on the K5 and expressed an interest in one for his school which is a Centre of Sporting Excellence. They are doing a new degree in Sports development.
We also had two people visit the stand who suffered from spondylitis. One a lady who bought a POWERbreathe and the other a fell runner.
One couple told us with big smiles on their faces that they both had POWERbreathe's that they got from their Doctor after they had educated him.
Finally we also tested a free diver who could do 6.2 litres without using any initial power, so he must have been even stronger. He actually chatted enthusiastically to a sceptic about POWERbreathe as he couldn't believe what he was seeing, as he could only do 2.5 litres on the K5.
In all a good weekend, and a big thanks to Mary Anne for her help.
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Working in partnership to protect the public and reduce reoffending
Working in partnership to protect the public and reduce reoffending
We have a team of Women's Safety Workers who work closely with the female victims of domestic violence, when the victim is willing.
The male offenders will be attending the Building Better Relationships programme as part of their sentence imposed by the court.
The Women's Safety Worker will ensure that the victims know what the programme entails and the progress their partner or ex-partner is making. They will also ensure that they have a pre-arranged place of safety in an emergency and access to emergency contact numbers and support services such as counselling.
For further information about the support offered to victims of domestic abuse in Warwickshire, please click on the link below;
The WWM CRC has today launched its new initiative 'Victim Impact Awareness'.


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Visiting UCLA
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UCLA Architecture and Urban Design is located in Perloff Hall, at 365 Portola Plaza, on the northeast portion of the Westwood campus.
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The closest major airport to UCLA is the Los Angeles International Airport, LAX.
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Make a left turn on Westwood Blvd. and follow it into campus.
UCLA's main campus is bounded by Sunset Blvd. on the north and Le Conte Ave.
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Artful Daggers, by writers Adam P. Knave and Sean E. Williams and artist Andrew Losq, is visually one of the most distinctive titles Monkeybrain Comics publishes. The series, which portrays a world 50 years after the end of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, considers the impact of bringing 19th-century technology into medieval times. Or as the creative team puts it succinctly: "Swords, Spies and Science."
To mark today's release of Artful Daggers #6, which CBR previewed Tuesday, I reached out to the writing team of Knave and Williams to discuss their universe, where kingdoms have been replaced by corporations. While the focus of the interview is their writing, Losq's impact on the series is clear, as his collaborators admits they "end up cutting dialogue more often than not, as Andrew's able to do more with an expression than we can with dialogue."
Before closing our interview, Knave was happy to chat briefly about his other Monkeybrain ongoing (with co-writer D.J. Kirkbride and artist Nick Brokenshire), Amelia Cole. It's an especially current topic of discussion given that on Aug. 14 IDW Publishing will release the digital series' first print collection, Amelia Cole and the Unknown World.
Tim O'Shea: Tell me how you arrived at doing the iconic covers for the series?
Sean E. Williams: Part of it was logistical, part of it was world-building, part of it was marketing. Doing 12-plus pages per month -- pencils, inks, colors -- plus a cover, was too much for even a super-artist like Andrew. We also wanted to show off a little piece of all the different factions in the Artful Daggers world, and we wanted something that would pop in the lineup on comiXology.
Adam P. Knave: There's also a lot going on, as far as world-building goes, and the covers end up being a little hint as well. We see, when we hit a new corporation, its logo, but putting them all on the covers lets people piece together what their individual foci are.
How do you two divvy up writing duties?
Williams: We alternate who does the first draft of an issue, and who does the first rewrite. From there it's who's got the lighter schedule for the first lettering pass.
Knave: It's funny, while we plot out everything beforehand, we don't know exactly what scenes the other one is going to come up with. So it ends up as a game, trying to amuse and excite each other with the scripts. It keeps the creative juices flowing. We're our first audience, and if it doesn't make us both excited to be making the book then a scene is wrong.
Williams: True. We throw out a lot of crazy ideas. Like the Tails backup stories. That was one that all three of us got excited about. A lot got shoot down in all directions, though.
In terms of introducing items from the 1800s into the Middle Ages, did you two have to do a great deal of research as to what would be proper to inject in the story?
Williams: We inventoried all the technology and science Twain had in the book, and then research specific tech as it pops up in the story.
Knave: Sean, you make it sound so … simple and clinical. Look, let's be real: We've had fights over chain of technological advancement. We've easily spent whole days' worth of time just working out exactly what bit of tech makes sense where and how. And I think we'll be doing it the entire run of the book. The world grows and so does our research.
Williams: I'm just glad Twain mentioned filaments, or Adam would have won THAT fight.
Do you two have a favorite character to write among the AD cast?
Williams: They're all so different, it's fun to play with each of them. If I had to pick, I'd say Piper. I think Adam likes Robert the most, though.
Knave: It's true. Robert wasn't in the original cast, before we started writing. But we needed a specific character to fill a role and Robert came to mind. He just sort of swam into focus for me and I fell in love with him. Then Andrew drew him and I started putting an extra scene with Robert in just to watch Andrew draw him. I just got my very first pair of prescription sunglasses and they look like Robert's, no lie.
Williams: Seriously? Nice!
The art for AD is quite distinctive, thanks to the unique style and page layouts by Andrew Losq. Are there ever scenes where you almost feel bad having to place dialogue on the page? Do you consult with him on the best spots to place dialogue?
Williams: We end up cutting dialogue more often than not, as Andrew's able to do more with an expression than we can with dialogue. That's why the lettering pass is my favorite part of the process.
Knave: Whereas it may be my least favorite. I mean I love it because it gives us a chance to really make the words fit the art, and like Sean said, that's more often than not cutting back due to the great art. But if you've never done a lettering pass … you have to make the script fit the art.
So if Andrew adds a panel you have to add a panel to the script, so the letterer knows what he's working on. And when it starts to feel like I'm transcribing a comic I get fussy. I'm a big baby. Also, the placement is all down to our wonderful letterer Frank Cvetkovic, who has meshed with Andrew's art so well! It's always fun to see how Frank and Andrew tell the story.
Do you see Artful Daggers as a finite series, or are you hoping to go for ongoing?
Williams: Great thing with doing this at Monkeybrain is we have total control. We've got the next two arcs plotted out already, but the world gets bigger with every issue, and we keep finding more stories to tell in it. Personally, I'd like to go back and see the founding of the Tricksters. Or maybe we'll save that for the TV series.
Knave: And the spinoff novels.
Williams: And the tabletop role-playing game.
Knave: This world is huge and complex and interesting to us. We're not planning on stopping any time soon.
IDW is set to release the first Amelia Cole trade next week. What kind of extras are you working into the trade?
Knave: We ran into an interesting problem with that. The first story Amelia Cole and the Unknown World was six issues that each varied in length from 22 to 28 pages. So when it came time to collect them we had to sit with IDW and work out page count vs. price. Our sweet spot became 152 pages, at $19.99.
We used every single page, and crammed some tricks in so we could, but that left us with only a few pages for extras. We ended up running six pages of Nick Brokenshire sketches, two pages of which D.J. Kirkbride and I had never seen before, either! We also worked in every one of the six covers by using them as endpapers and such. There is not a page of the book that doesn't have art on it, I think. There may be one. But only one.
Do you feel that being published by IDW (rather than another indie publisher) gives you a greater advantage of exposing Amelia Cole to like-minded potential fans?
Knave: We'd both been fans of a lot of IDW's output for years going into this and when we first started talking with them their excitement over the project won us over instantly. Working with them has been a blast. Justin, our editor, is wonderful. He's made some great catches to ensure the book looks wonderful and has been just responsive and involved.
Really, I think the advantage working with IDW gives us is the staff. Great people, who really want to put great books out. We're lucky to get to work with them.
After trying to draw an audience for your ongoing digital Amelia Cole work, how hard is it to shift gears and generate interest for the TPB at the same time? Or do you feel you are marketing to two different audiences (digital vs. traditional publishing)?
Knave: It has been fascinating. They are different, though with a lot of overlap. We have developed ways of thinking about press and PR stuff for the digital issues over the last year and change and some of those do carry over. But print has its own tricks as well.


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Baozi – Steamed Buns
Date: Sunday, December 15th
Time: 10:30am – 1:00pm
Cost: 300 RMB, 260 RMB for members
One of the staples of Chinese cuisine, Baozi are rich in history and in flavor (provided you choose the right fillings). Learn the story behind these classic Chinese steamed buns, how to make them from scratch and how to make a variety of traditional and contemporary scrumptious fillings.
We will be doing the following fillings:
- Meat – Chicken with Peasprouts, Onion
- Vegetarian – Bak Choy with Shiitake Mushroom
- Sweet – Red Bean
*Please specify if you have any dietary needs
The baozi will be cooked and prepared two ways:
- Steamed
- Pan-fried
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Xiyu Phoon - Consultant
It has been estimated that around 90 per cent of data today was churned out in the last two years. With the explosion in social media and provision of open government data, perhaps it comes as no surprise that the era of 'Big Data' has arrived.
Every morsel of data, no matter how insignificant it may be perceived to be, has a story to tell. With almost unfettered access an immense library of data at our fingertips, we can analyse and visualise data in all sorts of ways and find some compelling stories.
As an example, we might be interested to see whether there is a relationship between fast food and crime. We can download data on the number of fast food outlets per local authority from Public Health England and crime deprivation from the Open Data Communities website. The number of fast-food outlets is given as a rate per 100,000 of the population, whereas crime deprivation includes burglaries, thefts, criminal damage and violence and is ranked from most to least deprived based on population-weighted average ranks of lower super output areas within local authorities.
When we plot the values together, we see a negative trend, suggesting that the most crime-prone areas have the most fast food outlets. However, we cannot discern from these datasets alone whether this is because fast food promotes criminal behaviour or that fast food outlets tend to pop up in the most deprived areas, which happen to have higher crime rates. As with all forms of data analysis, there will undoubtedly be some caveats, such as how data sets were collected in the first place and whether they are comparable.
Given that most data has an inherent spatial component, we can take such basic data analysis further and plot a map, which can be quite useful to see the distribution of fast food outlets.
As we can see, there is plenty of data available from a number of different sources which can be combined in order to discover all sorts of interesting titbits of information which can be presented in a variety of ways.
Our day-to-day projects at Temple focus primarily on environmental data, but we are increasingly making use of open data to enhance our analyses and help our clients with more in-depth decision-making.