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A loving family discovers that their daughter has fallen ill. While her parents set out to get her the treatment she needs, her determined older brother turns to the power of imagination to help them cope. While the outside world offers a harsh reality, these innocent children create a surreal fantasy world that gives them the play and comfort they need. Embark on a grand journey to five different lands filled with incredible robo-moose, floating baobabs, giant mushrooms, and clocks melting to the rhythm of passing time.
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One of Hollywood's most respected directors has opened a hotel in a palazzo in southern Italy. Francis Ford Coppola, the head of a dynasty of film-makers and most famous for directing The Godfather, is expanding his portfolio of luxury properties with a 19th-century Italian villa, his first hotel in Europe.
Opening today, Palazzo Margherita is located in the attractive little town of Bernalda – the birthplace of Coppola's grandfather, Agostino – in Basilicata. Built in 1892, the palazzo has been completely renovated and its interiors redesigned by Jacques Grange. It is decorated with handpainted fresco ceilings in Baroque style, furniture designed by Grange and marble flooring. A courtyard at its centre opens onto secluded gardens with semi-tropical plants, a magnificent fountain and a swimming pool.
With just nine palatial bedrooms and suites, most with a terrace or balcony, the resort is extremely intimate, a homely setting for get-togethers that Coppola wanted to create for family and friends. In the evenings, the salon is turned into a private screening room; guests can choose what they watch from Coppola's personal collection of more than 300 Italian films.
'The Palazzo Margherita for me is a dream come true – its magical gardens, the family gathering in the magnificent salon for whatever purpose: celebrations, intimate teas or evenings of films,' he says.
Indeed, the hearty Mediterranean food and local wine flows easily here. Guests can choose to dine in their own suite, at a table in the Cinecitta Bar or even in the kitchen itself, to witness the chef's handiwork.
The hotel is the sixth in Coppola's portfolio, joining others in Belize, Argentina, Guatemala and the US.
Palazzo Margherita, 64 Corso Umberto, Bernalda, Matera, Basilicata, Italy (00 39 0835 549060 ; www.coppolaresorts.com)
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Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1958.34
This painting depicts Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot (1841–1895), who began working closely with Edouard Manet around 1868. She married Manet's brother Eugéne in 1874. Manet painted Morisot's portrait several times, at first presenting her in static poses with neatly styled hair. About 1872 he began painting her in more momentary, fleeting states. In this painting she appears to be moving, her hair disheveled as she throws a furtive glance to the side. Manet's sketchy brushwork gives the painting a daring unfinished look, suggesting the tempo of modern life. Morisot's pensive, nervous expression suggests that Manet was sympathetic to her struggle for recognition at a time when women were not expected to pursue professional careers. Indeed, Morisot's parents were urging her to settle down to a more conventional life at the time.
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Douglas, Heradon (2010) Thin Hypervisor-Based Security Architectures for Embedded Platforms. Masters thesis, Royal Institute of Technology.
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Virtualization has grown increasingly popular, thanks to its benefits of isolation, management, and utilization, supported by hardware advances. It is also receiving attention for its potential to support security, through hypervisor-based services and advanced protections supplied to guests. Today, virtualization is even making inroads in the embedded space, and embedded systems, with their security needs, have already started to benefit from virtualization's security potential. In this thesis, we investigate the possibilities for thin hypervisor-based security on embedded platforms. In addition to significant background study, we present implementation of a low-footprint, thin hypervisor capable of providing security protections to a single FreeRTOS guest kernel on ARM. Backed by performance test results, our hypervisor provides security to a formerly unsecured kernel with minimal performance overhead, and represents a first step in a greater research effort into the security advantages and possibilities of embedded thin hypervisors. Our results show that thin hypervisors are both possible and beneficial even on limited embedded systems, and sets the stage for more advanced investigations, implementations, and security applications in the future.
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The crank length is not necessarily determined by the length of the cyclist's arms. Most competitive racers in our Invacare® Top End® Force™ Series Handcycles are using shorter (170mm - 185mm) and narrower (14" - 16") crank arms and spinning rather than muscling through the gears.
The crank height and back placement are positioned to make sure the cranks don't hit the legs or chest rather than the crank length being compromised for this situation. A strong cyclist may want to have longer cranks to increase the leverage he/she is able to generate into the crank, but the longer crank arms could wear down a newer or weaker cyclist. Making smaller crank circles does not cause the cyclist to exert as much energy.
The crank width is more determined by the chest and leg widths. This is especially true with the Invacare® Top End® Force™ G Handcycle when the cycler's torso is used to crank and is sometimes positioned slightly over the crank assembly, and the S cranks are used to clear the chest and legs.
Generally speaking, it is best for a new handcycle owner to choose the standard lengths and widths listed on the order form. The crank arms are easily replaceable and, after the cycler has used them for some time, he/she will be able to make a better decision about these dimensions.


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Hello Readers!
Happy October!
You already know about my YouTube addiction, so it's won't surprise you that while I was a watching a video, I came up with a great idea. An idea that my real life bff and fellow blogger Miss Print helped bring to life.
After watching Sprinkle of Glitter's Box Swap video, I posted on twitter that I too wanted to swap a box with someone, but alas didn't vlog nor have anyone to actually swap with. Prompt to respond Miss Print said "we have all the same books anyway". While this was true, and a point well taken, I wouldn't be dismayed. I explained to her that a box swap didn't necessarily need to include books, but rather other things that we love (we, as readers are multifaceted you know). After that, Miss Print got it! Without even having to ask, I knew she's was on board.
So we chatted both on and offline and decided that we wanted to host a box swap for book bloggers.
Introducing the Giving Thanks Book Blogger Box Swap hosted by myself (The BookBandit) and Miss Print!
Any book blogger located within the United States is free to sign up (use the sign up form below). Sign ups are open for the whole month of October, from October 1st (when this post goes live) and will run until 11:59 p.m. on October 31st. Please provide as much information as you possibly can. Please make sure to fill out all required fields (any confidential information will of course remain confidential).
Obviously this is a book blogger box swap, books are more than likely expected, but please feel free to include other non-book goodies in your box. This isn't only a chance to give and receive a great surprise, it's also a chance to get to know others within the blogging community. And (obviously) to give thanks to such a community.
Emma (Miss Print) and I will be busy matching participants the first week of November. You should receive your match during that first week, via e-mail, no later than November 9th (ideally, we're aiming for the 7th of November, but by November 9th at the latest).
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Before he was Walter White or even Macolm's dad, everyone's favorite meth cook was wowing television audiences as Hallucinating Guy on Chair. At least we're pretty sure he was, as the Cranstonian balls-tripper is only shown for half a second in this 1982 commercial for Atari's Mega Force. Either way, this video is essential viewing for anyone currently working on a "Breaking Bad but with perms" fan art project.
Alleged chess-boxing prowess notwithstanding, Staten Island's premier martial arts-themed rap group is far better known for their skillz on the mic than the joystick. But in 1993 the Killa Bees swarmed to Nintendo's Super Game Boy, the miraculous Game Boy-to-SNES adapter that let you play Kirby's Dreamland in four colors instead of two. "It's amazing!" marvels Wu frontman the RZA, a baldfaced lie that casts serious doubt on the Clan's claim to be for the children.


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The biggest problem can be the smallest thing, and that's the case in the sewer world.
More than 20 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into California waterways last year, according to the state Department of Water Resources Control Board. That's not counting the partially treated sewage that makes its way into our water from overflows and sewer system malfunctions.
Many big sewer pipes are old, and many of the sewage treatment plants are antiquated. But the biggest problem faced by sewer systems in California is the tiny pipe called the lateral.
That's the pipe that runs from your home to the street, the small pipes under all of our homes that end up joining the bigger sewer pipes. When those pipes develop cracks, water leaks into them.
Storm water itself would not overwhelm a sewage system, because it's designed to be a closed system. Storm water is not supposed to BE in sewer pipes. So in one way, it shouldn't even matter what the weather is like – storm water shouldn't really mix with sewage at all.
But during a rainstorm, water seeps into your broken lateral pipe, and all your neighbors' pipes, and that rainwater mixes with sewage in the sewer pipes, and the volume of water/sewage can actually build up far beyond the capacity of the sewer pipe. And in the same way, thousands and thousands of gallons of water mixed in with the sewage can swamp a treatment plant during a rainstorm.
That's the number one concern of sewage treatment plants now. And the sewer districts need your help.
Those laterals are owned by homeowners. They're on private land, so the district can't just go in there and tear them up to replace or fix them.
However, most sewer districts offer a service where they will inspect your laterals to check for leaks, and many have started programs where the district will help pay the cost of repairing or replacing those pipes.
Sewer systems are run by local municipalities. Most communities have a local sewer district, and officials at the district can help you inspect and fix your lateral pipes.
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For [REDACTED], released in November 2013 on F2, original artwork was commissioned from our friend Neil McChrystal and the first piece, "Shock", was used to create the "virtual" cover for our free download of Endless Silence. Rich Harding was the Art Director for the project overall, assisted by Karla-Louise Davidson, who had a big hand in the development of the lovely vinyl package, available from Plane Groovy, which really showcases Neil's great work.
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"Roojai.com" Celebrates 2nd Anniversary & "Always There When You Need Us" Motto, Offers Surprise Prizes Worth More Than Bt12million, Up for grabs is a "Nissan Note Car - Roojai Limited Edition" PLUS an iPhone X every month, Gold every week 15 Nov
Roojai.com (https://www.roojai.com), the innovator in online car insurance, celebrated its success on its 2nd anniversary in Thailand in grand style by bagging seven awards from the "TCCTA CONTACT CENTER AWARD 2017". Organized by the Thai Contact Center
Thailand e-Commerce Week 2017 or National e-Commerce Exhibition, was officially opened on a "Hope to Enhance On-line Trade Chance for Thais". Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (MDES) revealed Thailand ranked southeast Asia's largest e-commerce
DST (NYSE: DST), a global provider of specialized technology, strategic advisory, and operations outsourcing to the financial and healthcare industries, today announced it distributed personal health products at Boon Choo Home for Special Children in


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Entity Framework 4.1 introduced the concept of database initializers as a way for your application or tests to perform some actions before your database is used for the first time. On the team blog and in demos we commonly show setting a database initializer through a call to the Database.SetInitializer method. This is certainly an easy way to set an initializer, but it also possible to decouple initializer configuration from your application code by setting them in your app.config or web.config file.
In this post we'll look at database initializer basics and then show how they can be configured in either code or your config file.


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Plans set out by the department of transport not enough to improve the safety of young drivers
Crispin Moger, CEO of Marmalade, a leading provider of cars and insurance for young people, argues that the plans set out in the Department of Transport consultation today are not going to help improve the safety of young drivers. He calls on the Government to consider other initiatives that are proven to save lives.
He said: "I'm always pleased when the Department of Transport looks at ways of removing the two main problems facing young drivers today – cost and safety. While incentivising young drivers to pass their driving test first time has some benefits, namely a potential reduction in costs, I don't agree that learner drivers will necessarily come to the test more prepared as is being proposed.
"The biggest issue for young drivers stems from their lack of experience behind the wheel, which means they won't always know how to react in certain situations or how to handle a car in different conditions. It is this experience that we need to focus on building, even after a young person has passed their test.
"The statistics show that, on a national basis, 1 in 5 drivers has an accident in the first six months following their test – so how is this policy going to help? We've managed to get that figure down to 1 in 20 for our customers by providing ongoing support and advanced telematics systems and I believe that all new drivers should have telematics in their car for at least two years. As well as reducing premiums, it saves lives – and that's something you can't put a price on.
"I am just not convinced that this is the best idea. It might be better to set a minimum number of hours that all learner drivers need to spend behind the wheel, whether with a driving instructor or an experienced driver, within a certain period of time to ensure young people are getting a good level of tuition and experience.
"This move also has the potential to actually increase the pressure that young people are under when passing their test, making it more likely that they make mistakes which could lead to a fail. And we need to be increasing rather than hindering their chances."


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Come and experience the relaxed atmosphere at abarbistro, the perfect place to unwind and enjoy great food and drink in a laid-back environment. We are one of Portsmouth and Southsea's leading restaurants and are proud to be listed in the Good Food Guide 2019. Our friendly staff serve our fabulous food all day, every day.
Our menu is sourced locally and prepared daily by head chef Mark Andrew and his team. We pride ourselves on using local butchers to supply our meat and only source fish caught around the British Isles. Food is served daily from 12pm and we prepare everything from fresh ingredients on the premises. We are pleased to be recognised by the Good Food Guide for the past 8 years.View Our Menus
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Our unique world class tasting room accommodates a thriving wine offering, doubling up as a wine retail shop with a portfolio of around 200 wines from around the globe. All of these wines can also be drunk in house in abarbistro, giving our customers one of the biggest and best wine lists in the whole of the south of England. We also offer pre-supper tastings in Camber Wines which are informal, and add an extra dimension to your evening.View Our Wines
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Cask ales make a great addition to the selection on offer in the bar, including lager, craft beers and ciders. Starboard is one of the most popular which comes from the Goddard's brewery on the Isle of Wight. We are also proud to offer from our bar Romsey's Flack Manor's Double Drop and Irving Brewery's Frigate also the very popular Sharps Doom Bar
The Good Food Guide 2019 We are very proud to be in the next Waitrose Good Food Guide
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Weamco, founded in 1973, is a family owned and operated manufacturing company with its facility located in Sapulpa, OK, USA. Specializing in two major product lines, Weamco has become the paramount manufacturer of conventional meter provers and fabricated strainers in the industry, shipping products worldwide.
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Friends, I was so glad I was able to catch the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival last week via livestream (this was the first time they made that available). Christian families need to support Christian filmmaking and do what they can to get the word out about them so that they can have wholesome options over Hollywood!
Many of the people involved in this Stephen Kendrick (director of Courageous), Doug Phillips, Kevin Swanson, RC Sproul JR., and more.
One of the highlights that just made me tear up was not when they were handing out the awards for best films but when they had Doug and his daughter, Faith, who is just 14, sing a beautiful Italian ballad together. She is quite talented and it was just lovely! So lovely that I wanted to share it with you here today:
Notice how he holds her hand (while she is a bit understandably nervous, I would be too!) and shows fatherly love and approval in his eyes throughout the duet displaying his heart of loving and caring father. I am grateful for godly men who aren't afraid to show their love and admiration to their daughters and do life with them!
In a culture where daughters are unprotected and often slandered/abused in their own home, it was refreshing to see the opposite! Be encouraged mothers, and know that there are other families out there trying to raise their children for the Lord and that you are not alone in the journey. And I do believe that the fruit of what God is doing is beautiful. Also, if you would like to encourage strong father/daughter relationships in your home you might want to check out this Father & Daughter Banquet event if you are in the midwest or this one in Georgia.


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One Giant Leap for Mankind
Those Oldies amongst us who can actually remember Neil Armstrong walking on the Moon never think of it as just history. We were there. It was live, and we were all part of it.
Practically everyone on earth who could, was huddled around a TV set watching the shaky black and white pictures in awe.
It was something that united the whole world like nothing before. First stop the moon, then onwards to the stars! They talked about tourist trips to the moon within 5 years. Hotels on Mars within 10 years, and a passenger cruiser to Jupiter by 1999!
But harsh economic and scientific realities meant a rapid slow down in our race to the stars, the space program was downgraded, and dreams of space travel for everyone were pushed aside, and all but forgotten. But then something else came along, even larger than the moon landing in the history of the World – The Internet.
Now there really was no limit to what man or womankind could ever.
With the internet, you could make your own personal journey to the stars! Untold wealth for everyone we were told, just pick up your free site, and wait for the money to roll in. Not just to the stars, but to heaven itself!
At least that's what we were all led to believe just a couple of years ago, when Amazon introduced the first affiliate sites. But sadly, just like the little boy playing with his space toys, excitement, and expectation have given way to frustration and disappointment, and a general feeling that it just is not possible for normal people to go to 'infinity and beyond!'
So is it time to take off your play spacesuit and give up? Is it time to shake your shoulders and resign yourself to the fact that yet another of your dreams has been jettisoned out of orbit?
NO! In fact the space race has only just begun!
Even though your experience with the internet may be a disappointment so far, just stop and think. Can you imagine what disasters would have happened in the early Apollo missions if the astronauts had not been such highly trained professionals with the best possible equipment and resources.
Why should the internet be any different?
The journey to the stars is not just for the elite few. It is for everyone who chooses to travel. But you must have the right resources. You must have the knowledge, expertise and equipment necessary to survive. Quite simply, your business will die without it, just like an astronaut without life support.
For example, did you know: –
- You must have your own Website. It should be professionally designed with links to multiple affiliate / associate sites. A free affiliate / associate site is not enough on it's own.
- You also need to have your own domain name, not a free site name with a really long URL that no one will want to click on.
- You need to read everything you possibly can to learn how other people have done it. I now have a collection of dozens and dozens of free e-books which I give away on my site, which contain all of the knowledge you will need.
- You can get thousands of people to your website by offering freebies and other things. Just spend a few hours surfing all the freestuff sites for things you can give away on your own site.
- You must have a constant source of traffic going to your website. Only a tiny fraction of people visiting your site will buy anything, so you need to get thousands to visit. Once you understand and accept this, and know how to get them, then you are on your way!
- You will never make any money by only advertising on free sites, even with submission software. Let people place an ad free on your site. You will get far more response than placing your own ad on someone else's free site.
- Once you start to become successful, then you can become even more so, by writing your own articles and submitting them to some of the thousands of e-zines and getting free publicity.
- Definitely the best way of doing business is to have your own newsletter to communicate with your customers to build up a relationship with them. For this you need a listserver. This is software which enables you to communicate with thousands of people at once.
I used to be like one of those poor monkeys in the early space flights, being led blindly into oblivion by their masters. Believing all the hype about instant riches, and not being able to do anything about it. Luckily I realized before too late, that instant riches is just fantasy. But with an investment of time to learn what to do, and an investment of money to get the right tools, anyone can be in control of their own flight to the stars!


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When Blake Lively stepped out in October rocking what looked suspiciously like a shoulder length lob, well, it wouldn't be an overstatement to say the world went into meltdown at the thought of the Gossip Girl actress chopping off her iconic beach blonde locks.
And despite the 30-year-old looking ridiculously chic with her new shorter 'do, when we found out it was all a sneaky slight of hand from her go-to hairstylist Rod Ortega, the protective mother in us (because for some reason all mums universally hate it when you cut your hair) was pretty relieved.
Actually a carefully crafted faux lob that looked insanely realistic, we went from a little bit too emotional that the mother of two had cut her hair, to dying to know the secret to her semi-permanent bob in less time than you can say 'Serena Van Der Woodsen'.
So what's the secret? A-list hairstylist and Lively's go-to pro Rod Ortega revealed all to InStyle: 'The whole structure of a faux bob for me is pinning hair to the pin cushion that I create in the back of the neck,' he explained.
Pin cushion?? Chill, it's actually a two and half inch section of hair at the base of Lively's head that Ortega braided into two super tight plaits that he then circled round on themselves and secured in place with good old kirby grips.
So why is it called a pin cushion?
We're glad you asked. The rest of Blake's signature long blonde hair was then folded up and secured with pins to the 'pin cushion', aka the braided circle at the base of her head, which created a faux shoulder length bob.
'Anything that you pin loose into that pin cushion, it's going to hold. You could go on a rollercoaster and it's going to hold,' Ortega told InStyle, 'The reason it looks real is because the faux bob isn't so helmut-y. It's loose, and the only way you get that is if you have a strong structure in the back that you can pin it to. So when you turn right and left, it'll move.'


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Dorr Historical Collection Collection consists of Choral recordings and tapes made by St. Luke's Choristers founded in 1930 by William Ripley Dorr; stills from films in which Choristers appeared. Dr. Richard J. Bing Music Score Collection Collection consists of the collected musical manuscripts of Dr. Bing (b. 1909), Director of Experimental Cardiology and Scientific Development at the Huntington Medical Research Institutes in Pasadena, California. Ernest Kanitz Collection Books, scores, and recordings of Austrian emigre composer and teacher Ernest Kanitz (1894-1978). Frederic Myrow Collection Collection consists of manuscript scores, manuscript sheet music, recordings, correspondence, personal collection of books, scores, and recordings of Frederic Myrow. Gladys Ryland Books and sheet music used in dance instruction in the 1930s-40s, many annotated by Ms. Ryland. Hanns Eisler Collection This rich collection contains Hanns Eisler's personal and business correspondence from his years in Southern California (1942-48). In addition the archive contains a few biographical documents and photographs. The collection also contains several recordings for films on records by Hanns Eisler. Harry James Collection Original orchestral scores and parts for Big Band leader Harry James' band. Ingolf Dahl Archive This collection contains the manuscripts, scores, and books of American composer and USC Music faculty member Ingolf Dahl (1912-1970). James Arkatov Approximately 200 b&w images of classical conductors and soloists photographed in concert by the former Los Angeles Philharmonic cellist, ca.1950-1980. James Newton Howard Collection Extensive collection of film scores by Newton Howard, dated from 1987 to 2005. Latin American Popular and Folk Music: Scores --> Mack David Collection Collection consists of 550 items of sheet music dating from 1924; screenplays and miscellaneous material including budgets, correspondence, contracts and advertising brochures related to films that composer Mack David (1912-1993) had worked on. Mary Wood Hinman Printed collections of English folksongs; plays, ca. 1912, for which Hinman directed the dance numbers. Miklos Rozsa Collection of Rare Letters Miklos Rozsa's 123-piece collection of rare letters, documents, photographs and manuscripts spanning three centuries of musical history. Mischa Bakaleinikoff Collection Collection consists of Music scores and manuscripts of film composer Mischa Bakaleinikoff (1890-1960). Nancy Smith Sheet Music Collection Collection consists of Sheet Music of Late 19th and early 20th Century American popular songs. Phonograph Cylinders Collection The collection is comprised of seventy-five phonograph cylinders produced by several Edison companies as well as the Columbia Phonograph Company. The phonograph companies represented include Edison Amberol Record, Edison Blue Amberol Record, Edison Standard Record, Edison Records, Edison Records: Echo All Over the World, Edison Gold Moulded Records: Echo All Over the World, Edison Gold Moulded Records, and Columbia Phonograph Company. Ray Herbeck Los Angeles Swing Band Collection Collection consists of original scores and various chart arrangements, band photographs, concert reviews, recording and performance contracts, advertisements, etc. Ray Herbeck (1910-1989) was born in --> Rayner Brown Collection This collection contains the music scores, manuscripts and books of American composer, organist and teacher, and USC alumnus Rayner Brown (1912-1999). Richard Lert Collection and Music Score Library Collection includes personal and business correspondence, scores, and recordings of lectures and performances by the Austrian-born American conductor and teacher, Richard LErt (1885-1980). Robert Linn Collection Archives of the composer Robert Linn (1925 - 1999) and USC School of Music professor of theory and composition. Rosenberg Sheet Music Collection Collection consists of American popular songs from 1870-1970. Samuel Colt Collection Collection consists of Books, miscellaneous theatre programs, letters, piano score and unpublished manuscript by actor Lionel Barrymore, covering the years 1911-1959. Samuel Colt is the son of actress Ethel Barrymore. Sheet Music Bound volumes of songs, ca. 1850; loose sheet music (vocals) ca. 1880-1920. USC School of Music Press Releases, Clippings, & Programs, 1961-80; Honorary Society, Beta Phi Mu 1897 - 1987; Dr. Pauline Alderman Papers (for the history of the School entitled We Build A School Of Music) --> USC Warner Bros. Archives Collection consists of paper documents and ephemera (including photographs, set design art, and musical scores) generated in the making of films and television at the Warner Bros. Studio from the inception of the studio to 1968. Legal files on various personalities round out the collection. Watts Writers The Watts Writers' Workshop was founded in 1965 by Budd Schulberg. This collection contains clippings about the workshop and works by Jimmie Sherman, one of the Workshop's members. Welte Piano Rolls (Richard Simonton Coll.) Player piano rolls recorded with the Edwin Welte system by prominent European and American musicians, 1905-1920; catalogs of the Welte Company in Freiburg, Germany. William Grant Still Draft biography of the pioneering Black composer-conductor; articles by and about Still (1895-1978); copy of Rostros de Bronce (1964) by Nestor Ortiz Oderigo containing biographical treatment of Still.


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Tuesday, April 11, 2006
new york techno-flann
watched House on my laptop on the train ride up. took a nap.
got off at pennstation, turned on ipod, and people watched, fun to
watch the crowd.
arranged ride with mom via cell phone
checked for location of Banana Republic using googl via cell phone (there's a blazer I've vaguely wanted to get)
enjoying beautiful east coast springtime (a bit humid) enjoying the nice irony given all the rain in the bay area,
walked up 7th ave to times square enjoying food stands
saw nypublic library in sun-hazed distance, wound up in bryant park, with free google wi-fi!
so here i am writing this e-mail
beautiful beautiful morning, a nice diffuse new york haze. convinced me i should enjoy mornings more...
see a video from my new camera, uploaded to google video
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Surgeons use a number of tools when performing procedures on patients, including, but not limited to, sponges, scalpels, forceps, surgical masks, and needles. In fact, it is estimated that surgeons routinely use around 250 different types of instruments during a single procedure. With so many instruments out and about, it may not come as no surprise to Indiana residents that these objects are often left behind in patients. Thousands of such incidents take place yearly. In fact, between 4,500 and 6,000 such cases occur, according to some estimates.
Dram Shop Act and accountability in drunk driving crashes
Accident victims and their loved ones often feel frustrated after a car crash, and they want answers. How the accident was caused and whether their life will ever be the same are just some of the questions that go through the minds of many car accident victims. Getting answers can be difficult, but obtaining accountability doesn't have to be. In Indiana, it is possible to hold not only a drunk driver accountable for his or her negligent act, but also the establishment or host that provided him or her with alcohol.
Cerebral spinal fluid leaks signal danger for patients
The skull is a bone much like others in the body. There's a potential for it to break or crack on impact, which could have further consequences. Head trauma doesn't always involve a broken skull, but when it does, it's of the utmost importance to do all you can to get an accurate diagnosis.
Car accidents and automated vehicles: what's in the future?
As technology advances, companies have begun popularizing the concept of driverless cars, giving the assumption that a driver can sit behind a wheel, check out, perhaps catch a movie on their phone while the car steers itself safely down the road. Though this scenario may be possible at some point in the future, the partially autonomous systems currently available do not work this way. Despite this fact, many drivers still find themselves wrapped in a false sense of security.
Helping you qualify for SSD benefits
Living with a disability is nothing short of challenging. While individuals in Indiana may be able to alter their lives to better handle the difficulties that accompany his or her disability, it remains a tough situation with which to cope. In fact, a disability, whether born with or acquired later in life because of an injury or illness, could present many financial challenges due to necessary medical care and the inability to work.


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Next (in reverse chronological order, but it makes sense to me) the p58 gun. I think "AbhpzTa"'s version is pretty much the same thing as "Thunk"'s (based on Matthias's component), but in such a compact form it's harder to see what's going on. Here's "Thunk"'s:What we have here is not one but two herschel loops, both period 58. The top one is connected to the bottom one by another herschel track, and there's a reaction that duplicates the herschels in the top track, sending one on its way around the loop again and another down toward the bottom track. But this doesn't happen without input: it needs a period 58 glider stream. Where does it get one? Patience…
Where the cross track feeds into the bottom loop, the two herschels collide and out of the collision come not one but two gliders every 58 generations, heading southeast. They're pretty close together. Too close, in fact, because we want to reflect one stream 90°, and that can't be done without messing up, and getting messed up by, the other stream. So we use this cute reaction:
Two perpendicular glider streams go in, two go out. Same directions, but displaced. Meanwhile the parallel glider stream just squeaks by. That puts the two streams further apart, but not by enough, so we do the same thing again. Now they're separated by enough.
(But wait, that reaction needs a second glider stream, going northeast, to work. Two of them to make it work twice. Where do we get two? Patience…)
One of the two not-so-close-together parallel streams gets kicked to the right, and the other to the left, with this apparatus. It's called a snark, and it's by far the smallest and fastest stable glider reflector known. Here you can see a glider coming in from the northwest and another on its way out to the northeast.
The stream that gets kicked to the left gets kicked left again, using a different, larger, oscillatory object, I think in order to get the correct glider phase or position for the outgoing stream. It's now heading northwest, back toward the herschel loops — in particular, toward the intersection of the upper loop with the downward connector. That's right, it becomes the glider stream needed to make the herschel duplicator work.
The other stream gets kicked to the right three times — now it's heading northeast, crossing perpendicularly the two parallel streams, and it runs into a block at just the right time and phase to make the stream displacer work. Then it gets bent to the right four more times, putting it perpendicular to the two parallel streams again, so it can make the other stream displacer work. We didn't need two new streams after all for the displacers, or even one… the displaced stream and both of the auxiliary streams are in fact all the same stream! Reminds me of a Heinlein story for some reason.
Finally, in the version "Thunk" posted, there's one more kick to the right sending this stream off to the southeast to become the gun's output, but there's no need to do that; it could just continue to the northeast. And that's the gun.
Unlike, say, the Gosper glider gun, which just needs two queen bees and two blocks to get started, this one relies on glider streams to work; it regenerates those streams itself, but it has to be built in the first place with glider steams to get started with. What happens, I wondered, if you erase one of the gliders heading into the herschel duplicator? Does it just create a gap in the output glider streams, or does something more serious occur? Something more serious, it turns out.


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Most of us know Jinsey Dauk as a photojournalist. She started snapping portraits as a girl and quickly emerged as the nationally recognized photographer that we think of today. Her work, primarily black and white, has captured the faces and moments for our lives in that timeless, uniquely Jinsey-way for 30 years now. Seemingly, we were her inspiration. Something in each of us - our faces, our precious children, our special moments - prompted her to do what she does. Prompted her to catch us, in natural light and with ease, looking like ourselves, only better...often much better.
However, it turns out that all these years, Jinsey has also been finding inspiration and beauty without us. After much prodding, she has agreed to share a few pieces of her personal work.
Jinsey's work for Jinsey's sake is bright, sensual and surprisingly private. It retains much of the movement and soul we associate with her commissioned wedding and portrait work as (seen on www.Jinsey.com), but, despite some variation in technique and presentation, the images are largely composed of color and shape. The colors, while bright, recede into the photo - pulling us in. Once in, colors and shadows reveal small nooks and passages that take us ... I don't know where, but it is warm and calm.
Make no mistake though, like Jinsey, the perspective is often wacky and unexpected.
--Erika Del Priore, Erika Del Priore Interiors


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- Written by Adam Wasdovitch
- Published: 25 March 2014
The Killzone franchise has always managed to steal the spotlight in one form or another, either by causing drama through under delivering on it's over-hyped promises, or by stunning gamers with its technical prowess and gorgeous visuals. Killzone: Shadow Fall is the premier launch title for the Playstation 4 and the 4th main entry in the franchise and stole the show at E3 2013 with a breathtaking gameplay demo. Guerrilla Games seized the opportunity to both showcase the abilities of Sony's newest game console and reinvent the quickly stagnating franchise.
Departing from the grit covered, desolate battlefields of the previous entries in the series, Shadow Fall moves to the lush and diverse planet of Vekta, where the ongoing conflict between the Vetkans and the Helghast rages on. Twenty years after the destruction of their home planet of Helghan by the Vektans, the Helghast find themselves occupying half of the planet after guilt-ridden treaties had been hastily written and begrudgingly signed by both factions. The result is a wall that circles the entire planet, the proverbial "Iron Curtain" of this new cold war.
The planet of Vetka is a gorgeous world whose vast oceans, modern cities built upon striking sea walls, and lush environments are brilliantly contrasted by the industrial and hazy Helghast occupied territory and provides plenty of opportunities for Guerilla to flex their graphical muscle. Highly detailed environments are well-lit with many dynamic and diversely colored lights, which is a welcome change of pace to the usual gray and grit the series has come to be known for. Distance vistas and backgrounds are rarely static and are often lively with the activity of cargo platforms, moving transports, and large spacecraft, providing an excellent atmosphere to compliment the uneasy peace that has settled over Vekta.
You play a Vetkan Shadow Marshall named Lucas Keller who witnesses his father's death during the Helghast's brutal evacuation of Vetkans from their newly occupied half of Vetka. Twenty years later, Lucas finds himself as a prisoner of war on the wrong side of the wall. He is beaten before being exchanged for a Helghast prisoner held by the Vetkans. The prisoner exchange quickly devolves into a shooting match, and Lucas is tasked with finding out who is trying to reignite the war and who was is important that the Helghast, who slaughtered a surrendering army on Helghan, would keep a Shadow Marshall alive to trade for.
For the first time in the series, I found myself intrigued by the characters, plot, and the surrounding universe, which has always been nothing more than an annoying necessity that provided the backdrop for the conflict, and gave a little meaning to the actions of the characters. If anything, the poor writing and unlikeable characters (mainly Rico) detracted from the overall experience of the previous games. Shadow Fall undoes the cliched good vs. evil tone by introducing many characters whose actions and words make you question their motives and ethics. Levels are filled with a variety collectibles that flesh out the setting and add a touch depth to what was always a very shallow storytelling experience. While not worthy of any awards, the narrative holds together well and only rarely falls into the trap of cliches.
Furthering the shift that Guerilla took with Killzone Shadow Fall is a new approach to level design and pacing. Past Killzone games have been very linear affairs with on-rails and vehicle based sections to keep things from becoming too mundane. Shadow Fall is still linear, but it takes a slight sandbox approach to its level design and often gives the player much more freedom to tackle objectives how they see fit. Levels often have multiple routes to each objective, as well as optional objectives that aid in accomplishing the main task, and exploration is rewarded by discovering the aforementioned collectibles, weapons, or adrenaline packs.
To emphasize this new approach, Lucas has a variety of abilities that increase his awareness of the surrounding environment or reactionary tools that are used to even the odds in a tough situation. An electronic sensor can be used to highlight enemies behind wall, while adrenaline packs can be used to revive Lucas when he is down, or slow down the game world with a bullet time effect that allows for more precision aiming.
Lucas is also accompanied by a flying robotic companion called the OWL that can be used to attack or stun enemies, deploy a shield to take cover behind, hack various terminals, deploy ziplines to unreachable areas, and revive you when you're down. The Dualshock 4's touch pad is used to select the different OWL abilities. Swiping across one of the four cardinal directions selects changes the ability while clicking the touch-pad recalls the OWL. It's a clever use of the touch-pad to extend the functionality of the controller and I do hope that more developers utilize this in the future.
Despite the tools to detect enemies and the fact that the OWL can distract or stun targets, I rarely found myself being rewarded for stealth and relied mainly on shooting my way through the objectives. Suppressed weapons were rare, and the opportunity to quietly deal with enemies at range was few and far between, which left point-blank melee attacks as my only real option for a stealthy approach. Enemies were too easily alerted to my presence and seemed to have a telepathic connection with their friends, who would be alerted the moment you were spotted. I rarely felt that I could get the drop on my enemies despite knowing their position, and the levels quickly devolved into traditional running and gunning.
Shooting in Shadow Fall is an improvement over the rest of the series, with tight and responsive controls and mostly solid shooting. Guerrilla has also ditched the old sticky cover system, which would often frustrate more than help, for traditional crouching without sticking to cover. Your character will still dynamically take cover behind walls when you are crouched and will only peak over cover when looking down the sights, but you're never stuck to cover, alleviating a lot of frustrating moments I had when I played Killzone 2 and Killzone 3. However, the way in which you take damage seemed wildly inconsistent and I often found myself being killed without much warning, which would often ruin the steady pace of progression.
As the the story progresses, the missions depart from the slower paced sandbox approach for a more linear shooting sequence, on-rails section, free falling sections, or the forced stealth section. Other parts have you propelling yourself in zero gravity, sometimes shooting down drones or destroying turrets, but usually just traversing space. None of these sections seem to overstay their welcome, yet few of them provide any noticeable challenge over the typical shooting and scooting. There is little enemy variety, however, save for a few shielded units that require one extra step to kill and some robotic mechs which rear their ugly heads towards the end of the game.
Light puzzle and platforming elements also crept into Shadow Fall's campaign in a way that is never overly challenging and never feels out of place in context of the environment or the plot, and jumping from container to container or over small crevices without being prompted by a context-sensitive command is a nice change of pace. This extends to the enemies as well, and require environmental variables to be satisfied before you can take them down.
The single player campaign is well-paced and fun, and does a great job of demonstrating the graphical capabilities of the Playstation 4. It takes the series in a much needed step in the right direction, but doesn't really stand out as anything special, though a few of the set pieces are memorable visual experiences and the ending pleasantly surprised me.
Accompanying the single player experience is fairly typical multiplayer component complete with AI-controlled bots. The tight shooting and movement controls found in the single player carry over to the multiplayer and the 60 frames per second help make the already solid feel of the game shine even more. Sadly, this high framerate isn't consistent and there are often noticeable drops. Furthermore, the screen quality loses its crisp and clean look that is present in the single player.
Warzone, matches with rotating objectives, return in Killzone Shadow Fall, along with the ability to create your own game modes with custom rules and objectives. Guerilla regularly rotates in community made modes into the playlists in an attempt to keep the multiplayer fresh. Sadly, these playlists do not attract many players and you often find yourself back in the Warzone or Team Deathmatch playlist just so you can play with other humans.
Players choose from one of three classes, each with their own abilities. The assault class features assault rifles and can stun enemies or launch an attack drone to attack enemies. The scout class is equipped with sniper rifles and both support and aggressive abilities, which can highlight enemies around the player and to cloak and launch a deadly melee attack on an unsuspecting victim. The support class sports large machine guns and all abilities are tailored to a supporting role, such as the ability to place down a spawn beacon so that fallen comrades can spawn in closer to the battlefield, or the ability to place down defensive turrets. Character customization isn't all that robust, with limited unlocks and a basic loadout system that allows you to customize five separate loadouts for each class, and ranks are gained through completing challenges instead of experience points earned through killing enemies, assists, and completing objectives.
Overall, the multiplayer is a pretty standard affair with no real lasting appeal. The three classes do offer some variety but the missions that make up the Warzone are all variants on popular multiplayer game modes. The custom game types have a lot of potential, but without friends to enjoy them with you'll be stuck playing the standard game modes as the custom game playlists stay empty. Sadly, like the single player, nothing really stands out about the multiplayer experience and there is very little here to win you over from other multiplayer shooters.
Killzone Shadow Fall is a solid launch title that showcases the technical abilities of Sony's new console, and the sandbox approach to the campaign is a nice change of pace from typical point A to B of the series. However, the level design and tools at the player's disposal are more restricting than they could have been and feel lie more of a missed opportunity than a design that rewards creativity and experimentation. The multiplayer, while unremarkable, is strong enough to be fun for awhile and will keep fans of series interested enough to keep the lobbies full for the foreseeable future. All in all, Guerrilla Games has successfully adapted the Killzone franchise to the next generation with a fun and gorgeous game that continues to forge its own identity among mainstream shooters.


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Invasive Alien Species referred to as exotic, introduced, foreign, non-indigenous or non-native
Invasive Alien Species plant also referred to as exotic, introduced, foreign, non-indigenous or non-native, is one that has been introduced by humans intentionally or otherwise through human agency or accidentally from one region to another.
Invasive Alien Species plant that has escaped from its original ecosystem and is reproducing on its own in the regional flora is considered a naturalized species. Those naturalized aliens that become so successful as to spread in the flora and displace native biota or threatens valued environmental, agricultural or personal resources by the damage it causes are considered invasive.
Humans have been transporting animals and plants from one part of the world to another for thousands of years, sometimes deliberately for social or personal gain and sometimes accidentally. In most cases, such introductions are unsuccessful, but when they do become established as an invasive alien species (defined by IUCN (2000) as "an alien species which becomes established in natural or semi-natural ecosystems or habitat, is an agent of change, and threatens native biological diversity"), the consequences can be catastrophic.
According to the Convention for Biological Diversity, invasive alien species are the second largest cause of biodiversity loss in the world and impose high costs to agriculture, forestry, and aquatic ecosystems. In fact, introduced species are a greater threat to native biodiversity than pollution, harvest, and disease combined.
The global extent and rapid increase in invasive species is homogenising the world's flora and fauna and is recognized as a primary cause of global biodiversity loss. Bio-invasion may be considered as a form of biological pollution and significant component on global change and one of the major causes of species extinction
Foresters, taxonomists and ecologists are now well aware of the problems caused by the invasion of alien species into natural areas and the associated negative effects on global patterns of native biodiversity. Once established, some alien species have the ability to displace or replace native plant and animal species, disrupt nutrient and fire cycles, and cause changes in the pattern of plant succession. Studies are underway to better understand the impacts of these species on native ecosystems.
Many invasive plants continue to be admired by people who may not be aware of their weedy nature. Others are recognized as weeds but property owners fail to do their part in preventing their spread. Some species do not even become invasive until they are neglected for a long time. Invasive plants are not all equally invasive. Some only colonize small areas and do not do so aggressively.
Characteristic features of Invasive Alien species:
Invasive species possess characteristic features like "pioneer species" in varied landscapes, tolerant of a wide range of soil and weather conditions, generalist in distribution, produces copious amounts of seed that disperse easily, grows aggressive root systems, short generation time, high dispersal rates, long flowering and fruiting periods, broad native range, abundant in native range.
Preliminary data from one interesting study shows that invasive species are likely to have relatively small amounts of DNA in their cell nuclei. Apparently, the cells in these plants are able to divide and multiply more quickly and consequently the entire plant can grow more rapidly than species with higher cellular DNA content. This gives them a leg up in disturbed sites.
According to World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC), 1,604,000 species have been described at the global level. Thus India accounts for 8% of the global biodiversity existing in only 2.4% land area of the world.
Invasive Alien Species in India
According to Nayar (1989) the number of flowering plant species endemic to the present political boundaries of this country is 4900 out of a total of 15000, i.e. 33%. Hajra & Mudgal (1997) report 5400 endemics in 17000 angiospermous species of India, which comes to 31.76 %.
India is an important center of agri-biodiversity having contributed 167 species to the world agriculture and homeland for 320 species of wild relatives of crops.
The present study focuses on 173 species of invasive alien plants in India. These include the most serious invasives, such as Alternanthera philoxeroides, Cassia uniflora, Chromolaena odorata, Eichhornia crassipes, Lantana camara, Parthenium hysterophorus, Prosopis juliflora and others.


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Hello everyone and welcome back to #DreamTeam linky! Hope you're all having a lovely week – this week I come with a huge apology…for being so slow with commenting and also for failing to schedule my DreamTeam post properly. Major linky host fail this week and huge apologies…sometimes we have one of 'those' weeks, herumph. Anyway thanks for joining us again! It's fab to have you all spreading the #DreamTeam love 🙂
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — All off-season, family members and friends asked Ike Davis if he was going to be traded. He had heard the rumors and read the newspaper reports. He figured he might be, but no, he told them. His father eventually spoke out about how the Mets were handling the situation. All the while, Davis was busy rehabbing his oblique and working yet again on his swing.
Ultimately, the Mets decided no trade offer was good enough, and so after they had essentially given up on him, Davis arrived here well before the official start of spring training. One day Manager Terry Collins asked to meet with him, presumably to talk about the open competition at first base with Lucas Duda. They set a time to meet later in the day, but after Davis finished his workouts he left the complex.
"Totally forgot about it," Davis said. "That was my fault."
Thus began his season. He met with reporters Friday to discuss the trade rumors and his competition with Duda, for what, he said, would be once and for all. He said he was a bit shocked he was not traded, and he insisted that the rumors were "not a big deal." Being traded is part of baseball, he said. He seemed more upset with the sportswriters for reporting the rumors than the Mets for trying to trade him.
He said he approached every season as if he were in a competition. But perhaps he would not be in one now had he played better last year. His batting average was anemic, so he was sent to the minor leagues at midseason to work out his swing.
One National League scout, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described Davis's swing as very complicated, with a lot of moving parts. His hands moved, his feet moved. It all had to go right for Davis to hit the ball properly. Then he was constantly fiddling with his swing.
"It's all in his head," the scout said. "He's got all the physical equipment. He's athletic. He's strong. He just has to listen to somebody he trusts and make the adjustments."
Aware of this, Davis watched hours of film of himself from last year and from seasons prior, studying his swing. He found that his back leg was coming up, which had caused his hands to drop. It was one tiny detail that he kept doing wrong.
He rehabbed the strained oblique that ended his season and started hitting earlier this off-season, in November instead of January. He corrected his back foot and got comfortable with what could be a new and improved swing.
"Not changing my swing 65 times might help," Davis said.
Collins watched Davis hit a few days this week and said he was "very impressed" with him. Davis had arrived with a "whole different approach," he said. Although he still had a bit of a hitch, to Collins's trained eye, his swing looked better positioned.
"He's tried to fix it," Collins said, "and he looks better. He really does."
As for the competition at first base, Collins was not sure how he would decide between the two. He said if both were hitting well, he would want to find a way to have both in the lineup, meaning Duda would probably play the outfield. Davis is mostly a known commodity at this point. If his swing is going well, he could play the way he did in 2012, when he hit 32 home runs. Or his swing could be a mess, the way it was last season.
"I just see a different Ike Davis," Collins said. "Last year he came in as the guy. Now he's fighting for his life. And I think that changes the way you go about things."
About one week ahead of schedule, Bobby Parnell threw off a mound for the first time since having surgery on Sept. 10 to repair a herniated disk in his neck. Manager Terry Collins reiterated that Parnell was expected to be his closer.


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Robert W. Fogel, a Nobel-winning economist whose number-crunching empiricism upended established thinking, most provocatively about the economics of slavery, died on Tuesday in Oak Lawn, Ill. He was 86.
His death was announced by the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, where he had been a distinguished professor. He lived in the Hyde Park section of Chicago.
Professor Fogel, a rumpled former New Yorker by turns amiable and combative, was widely known for work that aroused objections if not open hostility in academic circles, chiefly through his pioneering use of cliometrics, which applies economic theory and statistical methods to the study of history. (Clio was history's muse in Greek mythology.)
He first came to prominence in 1964, when he contended that railroads had been far less important to the nation's growth than economists had long asserted. An outgrowth of doctoral work at Johns Hopkins University, his book "Railroads and American Economic Growth" became an immediate classic.
But it was the publication 10 years later of "Time on the Cross," a two-volume study of slavery, written with Stanley L. Engerman, that propelled Professor Fogel into the critical spotlight and instant celebrity.
They contended that slavery had not been, as widely portrayed, an inefficient system destined for collapse, with slaves living in virtual concentration camps and worked to death.
Rather, after studying medical records, cotton yields and other data, the authors argued that slavery had been highly efficient in utilizing economies of scale and that plantation owners had regarded workers as economic assets whom they were inclined to treat at least as well as livestock. This tended to limit exploitation, Professor Fogel and his colleague found, declaring, in fact, that slave life in the South was generally better than that of industrial workers in the North.
An intellectual firestorm resulted. Some critics accused Professor Fogel, who was married to an African-American woman, of being an apologist for slavery, though he and Professor Engerman had been explicit in acknowledging that slaves had been exploited in ways not captured by statistical data.
Despite the attacks, the authors did not budge from their findings and their main point — that slavery would not have ended without the Civil War.
"Everything Bob touches is controversial," said Claudia D. Goldin, a former student of Professor Fogel's and now an economics professor at Harvard. "It stems from the fact that he thinks outside the box."
Professor Fogel received the Nobel in economic science in 1993, sharing it with a fellow cliometrician, Douglass C. North. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited Professor Fogel for clarifying railroads' role in American economic development and the economic role of slavery.
He spent the latter decades of his career focused on demography and how standards of living, including nutritional resources, affect health and longevity. Through much of history, he found, shorter people and those with low body mass were more prone to illness.
He analyzed Civil War draft and pension records, linking them to mid-19th-century and early 20th-century census records to show how improved health enhances economic productivity.
He estimated that one-third of per capita economic growth in Britain between 1790 and 1980 was due to improved nutrition.
Professor Fogel's range of inquiry was extraordinarily wide; his monumental study of Britain, for example, involved medicine, physiology, demography and statistics in addition to economics and history. Robert A. Margo, professor of economics at Boston University, called him "the original interdisciplinary scholar."
In 2011 Professor Fogel and three co-authors published what The New York Times called the "capstone" of a huge project that had occupied decades of his later work: "The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700."
Robert William Fogel was born on July 1, 1926, in New York City, the second of two sons of parents who had emigrated from Russia and struggled to run small businesses during the Depression. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan and enrolled at Cornell, where, prompted by widespread forecasts of a postwar return to Depression-era unemployment, his interests swung from physics and chemistry to economics and history.
Before pursuing an academic career, Professor Fogel worked for years as a professional organizer for the Communist Party, which he eventually rejected.
In 1949 he married Enid Cassandra Morgan, whom he had met while she headed a Harlem youth group promoting the Progressive Party presidential candidacy of Henry A. Wallace. Their sons, Michael and Steven, both born before he began his graduate work at Columbia University, survive, as do five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Mrs. Fogel died in 2007.
In an essay for the Nobel committee, Professor Fogel wrote that he entered Columbia "with the naïve belief that by combining the study of history and economics I would quickly discover the fundamental forces that had determined technological and institutional changes over the ages, and that such knowledge would point to solutions to the current problems of economic instability and inequity."
He discovered, however, how little was known about these large processes and began to look at more discrete subjects, like railroad and steel technologies, employing an unorthodox approach using advanced statistical and analytical methods.
In his railroad analysis, Professor Fogel contended that wheat, corn, pork and beef — the four major agricultural goods — would have been shipped on existing water routes and by wagon had railroads not been available. He figured that in the absence of railroads, national output by 1890 would have been reduced by only about 5 percent.
This sharply contradicted the dominant view. A prominent contemporary, W. W. Rostow, had asserted that railroads were a major factor in the American economy's growth after the Civil War.
Many of Professor Fogel's findings have achieved broad acceptance, but criticism of the slavery work was intense. (Professor Goldin said many of the attacks came from people who had not read "Time on the Cross.")
One critic or another said the work relied on data from unrepresentative plantations, that the mathematics were imprecise, that it focused on the number of slaves who had been whipped rather than the frequency of the whipping, and that it failed to address the psychological effect of whipping on other slaves.
Professors Fogel and Engerman acknowledged some of the criticisms in later work but stood by their findings.
Professor Fogel taught at Johns Hopkins, the University of Rochester and Harvard in addition to the University of Chicago. He was on the faculty there from 1964 to 1975 and rejoined in 1981. He became director of the Center for Population Economics there.
In his Nobel essay, Professor Fogel paid tribute to his wife, Enid, whom he called his tireless, unpaid research assistant. "Throughout the years she has been the overseer of my social conscience," he wrote, "pulling me back to reality when she saw that my preoccupation with the abstract aspects of scientific issues had led me to extenuate their deeply human aspects."


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Girvan and Ballantrae coastguard rescue teams and Girvan lifeboat responded to an emergency beacon yesterday afternoon which was found to have went off by accident.
At 3.45pm on Tuesday 12th September, Girvan lifeboat's volunteer crew were paged by the UK Coastguard operations centre at Belfast to reports of an emergency beacon activation.
Girvan's all-weather lifeboat 'Silvia Burrell' launched on service and proceeded south to where the beacon's signal was last intercepted.
Whilst the crew carried out a search pattern from before Lendalfoot to the Ballantrae area and back again, the Coastguard Rescue Teams were conducting a shoreline search, with Belfast Coastguard and Police Scotland making further enquiries.
Further updates said the coastguard had triangulated the signal which was now showing to be coming from land, with this Girvan Lifeboat stood down and returned to station, leaving Girvan and Ballantrae CRT teams to conclude their search.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) ascertained that the beacon belonged to a fishing vessel and with the coastguard rescue teams having confirmed that no persons were reported missing the search was stood down.
A spokeswoman for the MCA said: "The coastguard got in touch with the vessel and it is possible that the beacon was moved out of place and went off by accident.
"The thing we concentrate on is that no-one is missing or in danger, we would always rather be out on the job in case someone needs us. In this instance we checked and no one was in trouble so the incident was then closed."
Girvan Lifeboat was back on station and made ready for service at 6.30pm.


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Smoke, whether from cigarettes, a wood-burning fireplace or fire damage, can infiltrate your home as well as your clothing. Getting rid of smoke smells can be done with the use of a few household products.
Open all windows to allow the smoke smell to escape.
Place bowls filled with white vinegar throughout each room to help remove smoke smells. Remove the bowls after 24 hours and repeat if the smoke smell is still present.
Sprinkle a liberal amount of baking soda on fabric surfaces, such as carpets, rugs, upholstered furniture, curtains and drapes. Allow the baking soda to remain for three hours.
Vacuum the baking soda off of the surfaces. Repeat if necessary to remove the smoke smell.
Add 1 gallon of water and 1 cup of vinegar to a bucket to clean the walls if the smoke odour is strong. Dip a sponge in the solution and wipe down the walls. Fill a bucket with clean water and wipe the solution from the walls.
Pour 118ml. of white distilled vinegar into a bowl and set it in your closet for 24 hours. The vinegar will help remove not only the smoke smell from the closet but also from your clothing.
Add detergent and 1 cup of white vinegar to a washing machine. Wash clothing on a gentle cycle with hot water. Rinse and hang the items outside to dry if possible. Otherwise, use the dryer.
Fill a bathtub with a few inches of hot water. Pour 1 cup of white distilled vinegar into the tub.
Hang dry-clean-only clothing on hangers on the shower curtain rod.
Shut the bathroom door and allow the clothing to absorb the steam for 45 minutes.
Open the door and drain the tub. Remove the clothing items from the shower curtain rod and hang them in a dry location or outside, if possible, to dry.
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They say that all good things must come to an end. How I wish that wasn't true! With the Edinburgh International Book Festival closing earlier this week, it was time to say goodbye to my happy place for another year. For me the festival represents everything that I love: words, books, storytelling and the city of Edinburgh itself.
On my last visit to the festival on Saturday, I had the pleasure of seeing three amazing events. The first one was Hari Kunzru with David Mitchell – two brilliant and inspiring authors who I have long since admired. The informal chat about Kunzru's new ghost story White Tears, was punctuated by music from the Delta Mississippi Blues, which made it all the more interesting and memorable.
My second event of the day was Sara Baume & Oddny Eir, two female author who use nature in their writing. Both Baume's novel, A Line Made by Walking and Icelandic author Oddny's debut, Land of Love and Ruins, sound utterly fascinating and I can't wait to read them.
My last event of the day was Take Me to the River at the Baillie Gifford Imagination Lab. The talk featured YA author Claire McFall, who was there to discuss her novel Trespassers and Martin Stewart, whose debut novel Riverkeep is up for the Edinburgh International Book Festival's First Book Award. Chaired by children's writer, Lari Don, the event explored the myth and folklore around death and loss in a light and quirky manner that went down very well with the audience.
When I left the festival to catch my train home, I took one last look around the beautiful gardens with a heavy heart.
Au revoir, Edinburgh International Book Festival. Until we meet again.


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In the Good Book, you reap the seeds you sow. (By "Good Book" we of course mean Cash by Johnny Cash.)
In the Gutter, you live like a dog, you die like a dog.
In the Gutter, you live like a dog, you die like a dog.
Sniper Wanted by Laramore Black
I am a dead man.
The water on the pavement splashes onto my ankles, soaking through my pants and sending goose bumps up my legs from the surrounding low temperature. My arms are wrapped around me as some sort of lost effort to keep warm. My feet feel like they are going out underneath me.
I wonder if the cold numbing my legs might be the only thing stopping them.
I rest in an alley to catch my breath for a few seconds, and wonder if this is the end.
The red and blue lights begin cascading down the sides of buildings and every reflective surface—sending me back into a sprinting panic. I glance over my shoulder to see the squad cars speeding down the road I've just run away from.
I am a dead man.
At the next intersection I am almost swiped by a car that slams on its brakes.
"Do you need help, young fella?" yells an elderly man through a cracked window.
Without hesitation I say, "Yes," and climb into the passenger seat.
"If you could take me across the Golden Gate, that'd be great."
"I'm heading that way anyway," he says. "What were you running from?"
"Bad people," I say. "Really bad people."
"I know the type."
No, you don't.
I smirk at myself in the rearview mirror and begin thinking maybe I am as good as they thought. Being good is, after all, at least half luck and looking around at myself in this car—I'm thinking I must have lots of good luck. I notice my heart and breathing begin to decelerate; my muscles relax.
I gloat for a moment at the thought of my miraculous escape. Then my heart rate explodes as shards of glass pass through the car mid-flip. Confused, trying to maintain consciousness I keep repeating, "We've been hit! We've been hit!"
We've been hit.
I begin to crawl out the window when I am interrupted by a voice.
"Now, now—you know you were supposed to take the fall. "
I bring myself to say, "What does it matter?—I'm clear."
"You were never clear."
"Did I succeed?"
"Yes, our employer will be pleased to hear your mission was…a success."
"—and my family?"
"Your family will be taken care of," he says. "Make peace for yourself."
Like a dog, I roll over onto my back to look up at the stars in the sky one last time, muttering prayers to any god that might listen, and then everything swirls, then fades out—following the blast.


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After twenty years of operation for Vita Cyprus Ltd, the time has full-grown for the company to move on in the field of construction and land development. The first residential complex Smarthome® at Tseri, completed in 2009 with great success. Up to date, the company initiated, undertaken and completed the contractive projects listed below.
Smarthome P01 - Tseri
The SMARTHOME P 01 project consists of three (3) detached houses located at Achilleos Street Tseri, in a newly developed and quiet area, 20 minutes away from the city center of Nicosia. The houses have easy and convenient access to the highway of Nic...Read More
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Smarthome P 02 consists of seven (7) detached houses, located at Kosta Theodorou Street, at Tseri, 6 minutes away from the roundabout of Tseri in a quiet and nice area.The houses have very high standards: including the use of special insulation brick...Read More
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Vita Court 2 is located at Tilemachou Kanthou Street, Palouriotissa, Nicosia, in a privileged and quiet area with access to all necessary facilities (schools, stores, supermarkets and banks) between Palouriotissa and Aglatzia, next to Larnacos Avenue...Read More
The company VITA CYPRUS LTD was originally founded in 1983 by Mr. Varnavas A. Varnava. It's founder, an entrepreneur by nature, became interested in rotational molding recognizing its potential in the growing plastic industry in the years to come, so, in 1996 a well-equipped factory started production of rotomolded items under the tradename VITAPLAST ... continue reading


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A flood watch was in effect for the eastern half of South Florid until Friday morning, the National Weather Service said.
The watch extended from West Palm Beach to Key Largo as rainfall totals of 1 to 3 inches fell in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties. Some isolated areas got as much as 5 to 8 inches of rain.
Overnight showers were swift to move in early in the morning, leaving roads wet for the morning commute throughout South Florida. There was steady, heavy rain in the morning, but it may taper off in the afternoon, said weather service meteorologist Steve Konarik.
"At the same time there is still going to be numerous showers throughout all of South Florida," he said.
There were reports of street flooding in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties.
As tropical moisture surges back into South Florida, shower and storm chances stay elevated through the rest of the work week.
The threat for rip currents will stay in place on our beaches into Thursday as strong high pressure remains anchored off shore, feeding in the breeze.
Wednesday will be mostly cloudy with scattered showers and locally heavy downpours possible. Highs will reach 85 and lows will be around 75.
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Thursday will be partly sunny, with showers and thunderstorms likely and temperatures around 84. Friday will see similar conditions with highs around 87.
Some drier air may settle into the region by the weekend. That should help taper back storm chances and yield some more sunshine.
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Bieber Fever
I can't believe I am going to write this piece and give even more airtime to that chick, Justine Bieber.
You know who she is. Of course you do. She has dominated your online world for the best part of two years now. She has polluted your twitter timeline. Well not her, but all of her fans….
Hang on, hang on, I am being disrespectful to the teen sensation. Of course Justin Bieber is a 17 year old boy and I gotta tell you, after watching the interview from Michael Usher on Australian 60 Minutes this week, I gotta say my opinion of the Biebs has somewhat changed.
I did joke about him being a 'her' and not calling him Justin but Justine. I did this based on nothing at all except knowing that he was occupying vital cyberspace which I would have much preferred be given to – well anyone!
I didn't really know any of his songs but I knew his story. Well I thought I knew his story. I thought he was some kid who knew he could sing, and had an ok boyish look and charm about him and went online to sell himself as the next big thing.
I thought you pretentious little shit. Most stars wait to be discovered. You went online to be found.
Then I watched the interview. As it turns out, Justin had loaded the video onto YouTube so that his family could see him sing and dance. That's ok I thought. I've done the same with my kids so far away friends and relatives can see what they're up to.
He doesn't quite know how they became viral and in turn created an internet sensation. Long story short, he was discovered by a producer, signed and his star rose rapidly.
He also came from a broken home and certainly didn't have the advantages that a lot of kids have today. It appears as though his life wasn't cookies and cream but he loved to sing and play the drums (which he was shown doing at a very young age rapping out a beat on some chairs).
He seems very down to earth and I gotta say, he's pretty likeable.
When I heard about his hair being auctioned off a couple of weeks ago I thought this kid is so up himself that he thinks people want his hair but he explained that he thought he could sell it off for charity. Better off doing that than throwing it in the bin! He's right. If he can auction off his do and raise money for a worthwhile charity, well why the hell not? Who am I to judge? Maybe I was jealous that he had hair to auction off and I don't!
I guess I can learn to appreciate the Biebs a little more now. After all, his new documentary style movie is called Never Say Never and he ended his interview with Michael Usher with this:
"It gives people hope and at the end of the day….if you focus and keep your dreams in front of you….never give up. Never say never. Anything is possible"
It's a great attitude. Anything is possible with the right attitude. That's how I try and live my life.
Justin Bieber, you're alright kid and I'm going to give you a break from my cruel taunts and jokes.
That doesn't mean I'll be buying your songs though! But it also means I won't be stopping my teenage daughter from buying them either.
Good luck mate. I hope it doesn't go to your head and that in 20 years time, you're not the current day Charlie Sheen.


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An up-and-coming chef, writer, food stylist and all-around foodista in New York City, Jessica writes two blogs that, though their styles are different, attempt to teach people a very important piece about herself: she loves food, and she knows what to do with it.
On Cooking with Whisk(y), Jessica examines the use of the ever-delicious brown spirit. She incorporates it into her take on classic cocktails, as well as unique dishes that are great for both the sweet and savory eater. Jessica takes the different flavors that make up a variety of brown spirits and incorporates them into some truly decadent treats. For a perfect lunch combination, try her Braised Meyer-Lemon Chicken and Kale Sandwich with Bourbon Mayo with a Double Bourbon Root Beer Float. And for a side dish to any dinner, make her Cauliflower with Bourbon, Raisins and Pine Nuts.
Over at Food=L.O.V.E. NYC, Jessica takes her readers through her food travels in New York City as well as her hometown of Sag Harbor, educating them on eco-friendly, local and sustainable tactics along the way. What I really like about this blog is that she gives some good background on the inspiration behind all of her dishes, where they came from, and why she really enjoyed making them. Knowing that the person who made that recipe put some serious love into each step makes a huge difference when it comes to finding a dish to prepare at home, and Jessica is definitely showing everyone the love.
For a simple weeknight meal with friends, try the Spaghetti with Ramp Pesto and Shaved Asparagus - I made this for a meal with friends and had people begging me for the recipe! For a sweet treat to end the night, try her Strawberry Rhubarb and Ginger Pie.
If bourbon, food, cooking and love are your things, than these two blogs are sure to be your new favorite daily reads. Check them out at Cooking with Whisk(y) and Food=L.O.V.E. NYC today!


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Pictured at Senator Bartolotta's Southpointe office on March 1st from left to right Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership Public Policy Manager, David Streeter, Literacy Council Board President & Director of Programs, Kris Drach, Senator Bartolotta, Peter's Township Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, Brian Schill, Heritage Public Library Director, Mary Duranti, and Little Lake Theatre Managing Director, Andrew Seay.
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The City of Encinitas came close to winning first place in a national water conservation contest. Residents were asked to participate in the Wyland Foundation's 2013 National Mayor's Challenge for Water Conservation by pledging to save water and then taking measures to conserve, such as sweeping instead of using a hose to clean up.
Encinitas was a close second to the winner, Bremerton, Washington in the 30,000-99,000 population category, according to Bill O'Donnell, assistant general manager from the San Dieguito Water District, which along with the Olivenhain Municipal Water District serves Encinitas.
The only other California city in the top ten population ranking was Campbell, taking fourth. Together all participants in communities across the nation pledged to save 742,175,738 gallons of water this year.
If you are an Encinitas resident who participated in the contest, show how you saved water and email the description and optional photo to email@example.com.
To register for the 2014 Mayor's Challenge, visit www.mywaterpledge.com between April 1-30, enter the city name and pledge to conserve water, save energy and reduce pollution.
For more information, visit https://www.wylandfoundation.org/mywaterpledge.


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Our team of talented and passionate clinicians and therapists provide world class mental health care to consumers of all ages. We work in local schools, homes, and communities servicing children with diagnosed behavioral and mental health disorders. We also provide Outpatient Mental Health Therapy in numerous locations throughout the state of PA and in Ohio. If you or a loved one are in need of mental health care, Family Behavioral Resources and AERI have the capability, devotion, and clinical expertise to treat you. We put clinical excellence above all else. It is for this reason that we are the superior choice for your mental health care needs.
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