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Big Charlies has a varied fishery and you should be come here with flies for very shallow and very deep water, depending on how big of a bone fish you want to catch. Almost all of the flies recommended by anglers are larger sizes and we agree. Gotcha Clousers are at the top of the list from size 1 down to 4's. Regular gotchas are from size 1 to 4. Include Charlies down to 4's, Yarn Crabs size 2 and 4 and Pink Puffs size 4 and 6.
Offshore: If you have the opportunity, try getting out for the big guys. You'll need some big baitfish patterns. Also, don't forget about the Tarpon at Big Charlies....Bunny Death in 2/0, Toads in Purple and Chartreuse 2/0, a deceiver or two and a cockroach pattern.
Andros Island, located approximately 150 miles east of the Florida Keys, is one of the top bonefish destinations in the world. Big Charlie's Lodge is located in the middle of an area filled with flats, creeks, cays, cuts, and mangroves – some of the best bonefish habitat in the world. Whether you're a first time saltwater flats fisherman or a seasoned angler looking for a trophy bonefish, Andros Island should strongly be considered.
For first-time saltwater fishermen or intermediate anglers looking to improve, Andros offers huge numbers of bonefish that will readily take a fly. Anglers new to fishing for bones can be taken to areas of the island where they can tune their skills on large numbers of small to medium-sized fish. Andros may also be the best island in the Bahamas – if not the best in the world – for seeking BIG bonefish! If you are looking for big fish, then Andros is your place and Charlie's lodge is your spot.
One of the main draws for anglers visiting Andros is the uninhabited "West Side" of the island. A good portion of unexplored territory still remains on the west side, and the fish are rarely pressured. This equates to a large population of fish, many of which reach world-class size. This side of the island is acknowledged as one of the premier "trophy bonefish" areas in the world, and is also one of the top destinations in the Bahamas for tarpon. Charlie and his guides are tarpon fanatics, and arguably the best guides in the Bahamas for those anglers interested in pursuing the Silver King. A boat ride from Big Charlie's Lodge to the west side will average one to one and twenty minutes.
Charlie's lodge, the recently renovated Nottage's Cottages property, is located on Andros' Northern Bight at the very end of the road, known affectionately by the locals as the "Bitter End." The lodge can accommodate up to 16 guests at a time, and each room is equipped comfortable double beds, air conditioning, ceiling fans, refrigerator, and a private bathroom. The bar has a TV. Five of the lodge's rooms face the water and offer a panoramic view of the North Bight. The lodge's dining room sits adjacent to a large patio area, and both offer panoramic waterfront views of the Bight. Enjoy post fishing cocktails and fresh conk fritters on the deck, while watching your buddy stalks (spook) bones on the home flat. Actually, there is a productive flat in front of the lodge that is best fished during lower tides. The menu is a combination of classic Bahamian dishes and various international cuisine, all prepared by Charlie's co-host at the lodge, Fatiha Lamghari.
Anglers fish from Maverick and Dolphin skiffs, complete with poling platforms, 90 HP Yamaha outboards, long-range VHS radios, and spacious casting decks.
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hey eveybody,
i am completely new at poly clay and have been doing some reading here on craftster and at diane b.'s glass attic. i made some flat tiles that i want to sand and buff, and maybe add some kind of polish/finish to make them more shiny. i read that using a dremel is a good way to do the sanding and buffing, so i tried it. i'm not sure what i'm doing wrong, but i can't tell any difference between tiles i've worked on and those i haven't! maybe i'm not doing it long enough? maybe i'm using the wrong tools? here's some pics of everything; i'm hoping someone can offer some suggestions. first, here's some of the tiles. the blue ones have some transparent clay marbled in. the whitish ones are all transparent clay, and have some silver leaf on them.
this is my dremel and the attachments i've tried for sanding/buffing.
and here's the other attachments i have in my toolbox. do i have the right things, or do i need to go get something different?
thanks for whatever insights you can offer!


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There has been some fantastic work done around the country to get a large number of events up and running for the winter of 2019. It's time to park the couch and re-dust off the ole trusty steed and saddle up for another winter of fun and games.
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Get out there and get amongst it!
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Some Spring Electronic Jams
Posted on May 4, 2016 by Nick H.
Paneye – Desertism – Provenance After what felt like a long silence after his previous release, Paneye returns with a new cassette/digital LP via Provenance. What's showcased here is nothing short of what I was hoping for: a blending of … Continue reading →
Posted in ambient music, Uncategorized | Tagged ambient, ambient music, DJ Food, FSOL, Paneye, Provenance Records, Psychonavigation Records | 1 Comment
Psychonavigation Records and Other Crazy Fun!
Posted on December 10, 2015 by Nick H.
Psychonavigation Records and other Crazy Fun No Mask Effect – Quick Smart Sweet and delicious longform ambient! Field recordings, phonography, soundscape, atmospheric space and true ambient music come together to make huge, lengthy and engaging sound environments. The time it … Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ambient, ambient DJ mix, ambient music, amtospheric ambient, brian eno, chill out music, DJ Food, Dr. Atmo, Dub, FSOL, Lifeforms, lorenzo montana, lorenzo montana reissues, modern classical, Music on a Shoestring, neo classical, new composers, no mask effect, off land, offshoot records, organic ambient, Pete Namlook, Psychonavigation Records, soundscape, space ambient, space music, spacetime continuum | Leave a comment
Psychonavigation – Tranquillo – Offshoot Records Jams Summer 2015
Posted on August 1, 2015 by Nick H.
Psychonavigation, Tranquillo, Offshoot summer 2015 New Composers & Brian Eno – Smart It's about time these two collaborated. Not surprisingly, things are quite stunning. Piano tracks, ambient gems, soundscapes and some hints of jazz and classical compositions all get a … Continue reading →
Spring Showcase for Psychonavigation & Offshoot Records
Posted on April 6, 2015 by Nick H.
Spring Showcase for Psychonavigation & Offshoot Records Derek Carr – Almost Home EP – Offshoot Detroit styled techno hooks up with drum'n'bass with interesting results. Carr's Ep is awash in lush atmospheres, giving a fresh and retro feel that perhaps … Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ambient, ambient music, brian eno, derek carr, drum'n'bass, FSOL, new compsoers, offshoot records, Pete Namlook, Psychonavigation Records, the gateless gate, UOVI, waves on canvas | 1 Comment
Pyschonavigation Records/Tranquillo/Eire Supply/Offshoot Showcase Fall – Winter, 2014
Posted on December 22, 2014 by Nick H.
Here's what's been cooking on Psychonavigation and its sublabels over the last few months! Off Land – Quinarian – via Psychonavigation Off Land's second release for the Paychonavigation label follows on the heels of his previous album, "Tidewater Pulse." This … Continue reading →
PSYCHONAVIGATION / OFFSHOOT / TRANQILLO – Spring 2014
Posted on May 13, 2014 by Nick H.
Navigate your way to their homepage. Oliver Lieb – Inside Voices Ambien guru Oliver Lieb returns with a new full length and I'm definitely not the only person who is excited for it, so I won't look silly marking my … Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 90s ambient, acid techno, ambient, aphex twin, arche, Autechre, dark ambient, drone, drone ambient, dub step, electro, federico masconi, footwork, galati, glacial ambient, hardcore techno, IDM, johnny yesterday, lorenzo montana, offshoot records, oliver lieb, organic ambient, Pete Namlook, Psychonavigation Records, purple, scale tales, shammon delly, space ambient, steve stoll, techno, tranquillo records | Leave a comment
What's New From PSYCHONAVIAGATION Records
Posted on November 14, 2013 by Nick H.
PSYCHONAVIGATION !!!!!! Derek Carr — Binary Son –18th November 2013 — Limitation: 100 Eagerly following on the heels of his successful album, "The Digital Space Race," Carr offers up some soulful techno on this shiny new record. It's a nice … Continue reading →
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Electronic Reviews for Mid July and August, 2013
Posted on August 18, 2013 by Nick H.
Artist: Liminal Title: Creation I Released: 2012 Label: Killing Moloch Format: Digital First of all, it blows me away that the folks running the label and making the music are so young. None of them are over 20 yet. … Continue reading →
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New stuff from Psychonavigation Records
Posted on June 26, 2013 by Nick H.
Artist: The Living Room Title: The Living Room Released: July 8th, 2013 Label: Psychonavigation Format: Digital Genre: Ambient, melodic techno, downtempo, experimental As summer rolls on, Psychonavigation prepares to release this digital album from this Orlando Voom project. I … Continue reading →
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Ambient Bliss: Sense – The Dream
Posted on June 24, 2013 by Nick H.
Artist: Sense Title: The Dream Released: 24th June 2013 Label: Psychonavigation Format: Limited Edition CD/Digital Genre: Ambient, Electronica As summer blisters its way in, we're blessed to have another installment in our Ambient Bliss … Continue reading →
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The mission of the Department is to assist the students on undergraduate and graduate levels to become decisive, hardworking and dynamic agricultural engineers specialized in Plant Protection. Also, the Department aims to determine the diseases, pests and weeds of the cultured plants in Turkey, especially in Thrace region; to make research in order to prevent loss of product yield and quality by applying the eco-friendly integrated control methods against plant diseases, pests and weeds; to produce solutions for addressing plant health problems by preparing and implementing projects; to produce articles, papers, books and other publications based on the results of scientific research on health and protection of plants.
The vision of the Department is to reach a structure which will contribute to contemporary science and technology by supplying high quality training, research and service. For this purpose, the Department carries out projects on national and international level, organizes and participates in scientific conferences, and ensures the sharing of information on plant health.


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This is how you can find me napping most days. And this is how I play.
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I like sitting in this thing — just for a few minutes. Someday I will eat real food here and make a total mess.
South Mesa Trail
Another successful outing with Kayla today. She never made a peep the whole time. Probably because she was well insulated in this full body fleece suit. Might pick one up for myself!


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Cuboree is a weekend camp out for Cub Scouts and their families. Participants will enjoy camping, outdoor games, activities and campfire. This year's theme is Out of This World. Every pack needs to provide volunteers to help execute the event. Please contact William Kempt (email@example.com) and/or Beverly Johnson (firstname.lastname@example.com) if you have any questions or if you would like to serve as a volunteer.
The registration fee is $15 for Scouts and siblings and $5 for parents. Scout leaders are free. Registration should be completed by the pack leadership.
Registration should be completed by the pack leadership.
The final day for registration is Wednesday, February 28, 2018. All registration must be completed online; payment can be made with credit card, electronic check or PayPal. Council refund policy. There is no onsite registration.
Registration opens in January.
On-site check-in begins at 4:00 pm on Friday. Bring the following documents to check-in. It will help speed up the check-in process. Campsites will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Participants will have until 10:00 pm to set-up camp.
Notice! Please be advised that promotional videotaping/photography may be in progress at any time at an event. Your entrance constitutes your agreement that the council and district has the right to reproduce your likeness in videography/photography for promotion (e.g., publications, internet, newspaper).
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Ford Performance Hub Kit With ARP Studs 2005-2014 Mustang
Ford Performance Hub Kit With ARP Studs
2005-2014 Mustang M-1104-A
Ford Performance Parts 2005-14 Mustang wheel hubs equip your vehicle with performance.
These wheel hubs are designed as service replacements for FR500S Boss302S race cars and are an upgrade for your V6, Boss, GT, or Shelby GT500.
They feature ARP front wheel studs and include a new hub nut for each hub.
ARP stud specifications:
* Stud style: 3 in. press-in
* Thread size; 1/2-20 in. RH
* Knurl Diameter: 0.549 in.
* Under head length: 3.315 in.
* Features an Anti-lock Brake System reluctor ring making it the ideal replacement for ABS equipped Mustangs.
The 3" ARP wheel studs included with the Ford Performance hubs are pre-installed.
These ARP wheel studs require the use of open end lug nuts.
Ford Performance direct replacement. If your front wheels have excessive movement/play, it is time to replace your old worn out front hub and bearing assemblies with a brand new set of direct fit upgrade replacements from Ford Performance.


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Linux Sed command is a stream editor that can perform basic text transformation on input stream. It can be used for editing in shell scripts for non-interactive editing. Other command line editors like vi, nano or emcs are big text editors, and these cannot be used for non-interactive editing.
Sed's ability to filter text in a pipeline particularly distinguishes it from other types of editors. This article explains sed stream editor with its various options.
The sed command is regular expression aware command, means it can understand the regular expressions provided to it.
1) Substitute
Sed can be used to find and replace a pattern on the input. Option 's' is used for replacing a pattern. The syntax of the command is:
$ sed 's///'
For example:
$ echo "Hello there" | sed -e 's/there/here/'
Hello here
Sed command replaces 'there' with 'here'.
By default, sed command replaces just first instance of pattern in a line. For example:
$ cat numbers.txt
one two three one
$ sed 's/one/four/' numbers.txt
four two three one
Here, 2 instances of 'one' exist in the file. But sed has replaced only the first one. If we want to replace all the instances of the pattern, we need to use the 'g' command of sed:
$ sed 's/one/four/g' numbers.txt
four two three four
2) Insert and Append
A pattern can be inserted to the file with 'i' command and appended with 'a' command. This insert and append operation use a newline for inserting and appending. The regular expressions need to be preceeded by a backslash.
$ sed 'i \inserted line' numbers.txt
inserted line
one two three one
$ sed 'a \Appended line' numbers.txt
one two three one
Appended line
3) Suppressing and printing output
By default, sed prints to standard output as you might have noticed. To run sed in quiet mode, -n option is used.
$ sed -n 's/one/four/' numbers.txt
When using the above option, to print the output p command is used.
$ sed -n 's/one/four/p' numbers.txt
four two three one
$ sed -n 's/one/four/gp' numbers.txt
four two three four
This can be useful to use sed like grep:
$ sed -n '/root/p' /etc/passwd
It finds the pattern root in the file /etc/passwd.
4) Deleting lines
sed can be used to remove lines from a file with d command:
$ cat count.txt
$ sed '1,3d' count.txt
The pattern '1,3d' tells sed to remove lines 1 to 3 from the given file.
5) Writing to a file
The w command can be used to write the output to a file, which is by default printed on the standard output. The w command requires a filename to which the output will be written.
$ sed -n '/root/w rootpwd.txt' /etc/passwd
$ cat rootpwd.txt
As we can see, the output is written to the file rootpwd.txt
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As a global organisation dedicated to help the law practice in delivering more effective and timely service that helps in easy access to legal justice around the world. The World Law Alliance (WLA) is being chosen by several leading law associations and societies to lead a collaborative effort in support of advocacy programs across all the world's regions.
The mission of the WLA Global Advocacy Initiative is to build support among key policymakers and other opinion leaders for increased resources for research and public education concerning the legal justice system and legal options.
With effective advocacy, greater political will and enhanced global cooperation, law can be practiced and delivered more effectively across boundaries for the benefit of all humans and to secure a sustainable future for forthcoming generations. Our global and regional Advocacy leaders work to partner with international public policy experts that are critical to the success of our mission.
A global voice to express all views, WLA's mandate is to articulate a vision of what advocacy means across different countries and cultures, and our organization should suggest workable models that can be adapted to various regional situations.
WLA will work closely with all others to create a program in support of its Global Advocacy mission that will launch in 2014. So far, several partners have committed cooperation and along with WLA. The agenda for the WLA Global Advocacy Initiative will be regionally and even culturally targeted, prioritizing those regions and cultures with the greatest need for legal awareness and advocacy.


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Today is summer solstice. It marks the longest day of the entire year. It also marks the first day of summer (finally). But it also means that every day, starting tomorrow, the days get shorter and shorter by a few minutes. I'm really not sure how I feel about this... how can the first day of summer mark the shortening of our sunlit days and (secretly) the onset of winter?! The weather has been crazy and I feel like I've been waiting and waiting for summer to arrive here in Chicago. It's been cold and rainy with some days so hot that the air literally feels heavy and I get three shades darker from standing outside in the sun for 20 minutes (true story). Summer, to me, always means long long days where the sun doesn't leave us until very late in the evening and the nighttime breeze stays hot (unlike LA). But while I was waiting for summer to arrive, I didn't realize that the days were going to get shorter and the sun wouldn't stay out as long. I don't know why but it makes me so sad, maybe because winter was so long here this year. Where has the time gone? I think I might be crazy (along with sad and confused).
How did you spend your summer solstice?
ps. be sure to catch the biggest full moon of the year this weekend (Saturday)


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The Case Of The Missing Pi
(While the children are playing in our play rooms, I set up the room where they eat and open presents. I put a piece of pizza on each plate so that the kids can start eating as soon as they come in, as they are only allowed a certain amount of time.)
Mother: "I ordered five boxes of pizza, but there are only four there."
Me: "That's because I already used one box of pizza when I put a piece on each plate."
Mother: "Well, what happened to it? I want another box of pizza."
Me: "I put the empty box in the trash can, but I assure you that there were five full boxes to begin with."
Mother: "No! I want another box of pizza for free! I can't believe you would try to trick me!"
Me: "Ma'am, I'm absolutely not trying to trick you. If you want, we can certainly order you another pizza, but unfortunately it won't get here for another 30 minutes."
Mother: "This is absurd! I want to talk to your manager!"
(Our manager then tries to explain to the mother that she did, in fact, get five pizzas, but she won't believe him. A couple weeks later, we receive an electronic survey from her, where she again accused us of "stealing her pizza".)


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Pediatric Weight Loss Management Program - Patient Education and Resources
Pediatric Weight Loss Management Program - Patient Education and Resources
Find education and resources for children's weight loss management at Penn State Children's Hospital.
Make an appointment717-531-8674
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center resources
Learn more about children's weight loss management at the links below:
- Getting Started with Weight Loss
- Sizing up a Serving
- Penn State ProWellness (promotes healthy eating and active living for children and families)
Other patient resources
Find more resources for children's weight loss below:
- My Plate
- Let's Move!
- Let's Go! (a tool for you and your family to set goals and achieve them together)
- Healthy Program 5210 Let's Go - An interactive tool for you and your family to set goals and achieve them together
Nutritious and affordable snacks
It's important to keep healthy snacks around for you and your children. Here are some reasonable, delicious and nutritious ideas:
- Any fresh vegetable with hummus
- Bananas
- Honeydew melon
- Cottage cheese
- Nectarine
- Oatmeal (not instant)
- Greek yogurt
- Apples
- Sliced red or green pepper
- Almonds
- Baby carrots
- In-shell pistachios
- Hard boiled, scrambled or fried eggs
- Watermelon
- Grapes (freeze them for a different taste)
- Pumpkin seeds
- Cucumber
- Organic microwave popcorn
- Organic string cheese
- Edamame (dry roasted)
- Fresh or frozen berries (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries)
- Cherries
- Dried apricots, pears or apples
- Sliced jicama
- Cherry tomatoes
- Sugar snap peas
- Radish
- Tuna fish in a lettuce wrap
Quick links
- Surgical Weight Loss Program
- Penn State ProWellness
- Fit, Trim, and Slim Weight Management (adult weight loss program)


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The launch of the International Aid Transparency Initiative Standard in 2011 triggered a wave of excitement. The creation of a framework within which donors, nongovernmental organizations, development banks, funds and private sector contractors would commit to publishing timely, comparable data about the projects they financed or implemented aimed to shine much-needed light across the international aid chain and help the development sector provide better targeted support to beneficiaries.
Four years on from the IATI Standard and more than seven years since the launch of the initiative, IATI has, by its own admission, had little to no practical impact on the lives of development beneficiaries. With its steering committee meeting this week, many are now looking for tangible results, while others wonder whether IATI has had enough time to demonstrate progress.
Annelise Parr and Carolyn Culey, United Nations Development Program coordinator and senior policy advisor, development initiatives, respectively, at the IATI Secretariat argue it's too early to expect a direct impact on aid. Bolstered by widespread support from the development community and a few well-publicized victories — for example, getting the United States Agency for International Development to sign up to the IATI open data standard — the initiative doesn't seem in immediate danger of failing, yet.
Devex spoke with members of the development community to find out how IATI could make itself more useful. Indeed, a new UNDP-commissioned report into IATI's effectiveness found that it has much work to do, not only to improve the quality and accessibility of data but developing ways those data can be used.
Challenge 1: Improve data quality
The slow progress appears to be largely due to IATI facing a "chicken and egg" challenge: organizations are less motivated to invest in full data reporting until they find practical applications for the overall data set, whereas the usefulness of the data set is limited until a critical mass of organizations has contributed.
Over 350 organizations now publish to IATI, and according to a 2014 snapshot, most of IATI's 22 partner countries — seven out of 10 major donors — published good enough data for this to be imported into national systems. This indicates IATI is close to "a tipping point," said Parr and Culey, with the volume and quality of data finally reaching a size at which progress should gain momentum.
But seven out of 10 just isn't good enough, according to the UNDP report, which found "often important discrepancies" between IATI data and those obtained directly from donor country offices. IATA data are also "generally less reliable" than data provided by country offices.
Individual governments appear to be among the biggest culprits. France only publishes data from a selection of locations where they are active, for example, said Liz Steele, EU representative for Publish What You Fund. Other "European donors — for example Germany, France and Spain — are [also] not publishing data that is good enough to be useful," she said.
All in all, only 47 percent of EU aid flows are visible on IATI, meaning around $4.8 billion is not, Steele noted.
European donors that publish "good" or "very good" IATI data according to PWYF's latest EU Aid Transparency Review include the United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden and the European Commission.
At the same time, IATI can't be blamed for negligent government reporting, Steele stressed, adding that some major donors must "up their game."
One solution at the government level, said Roderick Besseling, open data coordinator at Dutch NGO Cordaid, is to force every organization or donor publish to IATI.
The UNDP's Parr and Culey agreed that this remained an issue but pointed to improvements. Around half of Busan development effectiveness endorsers, for example, are now publishing to 90 percent or more of the core fields in the IATA Standard.
Challenge 2: Develop uses for the data
Respondents to UNDP's review of IATI said the initiative should find better uses for IATI data, rather than "getting as many donors as possible to publish."
"From the few hundred publishers that publish to IATI, I would be surprised if more than 20 had something in a data file that you could actually use," acknowledged Cordaid's Besseling.
Still, he acknowledged by using IATI data "pretty much to its maximum capacity," Cordaid has been able to improve its own fundraising, communications and programming, though there is still room for growth.
Users, potential users and some stakeholders also said that IATI's public-facing websites, including the registry, are "not sufficiently user friendly and are difficult to access, navigate and understand."
Challenge 3: Track impact, not just financials
Most data so far track financial flows rather than impact. Again, this is mostly the fault of publishers.
Although the standard provides "added value" fields in which publishers can record information about the results of projects or programs, only two publishers are using these for more than 70 percent of their activities, according to the UNDP's Parr and Culey.
Publishing more data on the outcomes of projects would make IATI "extremely powerful," said Kate Gannon, program officer, PPA at Plan U.K., which is currently looking at how it could do this itself.
The impact of complex projects with soft outcomes — for example changing attitudes — would be difficult to measure, Gannon acknowledged. However, for health projects, she said organizations could provide more concrete data, for example how many vaccinations or mosquito nets had been distributed, or the extent to which cases of targeted illnesses had been reduced.
Challenge 4: More frequent reporting
The U.K.'s Department for International Development currently requires NGOs to report to IATI every three months — a frequency that "might be appropriate for some slow-onset responses," noted Sarah Johns, transparency adviser for U.K. NGO network Bond.
However, encouraging publishers to increase the frequency of reporting could be game-changing for IATI's usefulness, especially in humanitarian crises.
More granular, real-time data before, during and after a humanitarian crisis could create a moving picture of who is working on what and where, helping donors and NGOs coordinate a faster and more effective response, she said.
To address this, IATI is working on an extension to make the standard "fit for purpose" for humanitarian crises. "Once agreed, we would like donors to commit to updating their IATI data on a daily basis in fast-onset humanitarian crises," said UNDP's Parr and Culey.
IATI has already helped a significant proportion of its members increase the timeliness of their data in "normal" times, they noted. Nearly half of IATI members now publish data on their development cooperation at least quarterly, with some publishing monthly.
There has been less progress in publishing forward-looking data though. Only three IATI members are providing full forward-looking data, while just a quarter provided any at all.
Challenge 5: Raise awareness
The UNDP report author Ian Davies made a poignant admission in his introduction: Before being hired to conduct the study, he had never heard of IATI, despite working as a development consultant for 15 years.
One of the report's key conclusions was that IATI is not yet sufficiently known, particularly in countries benefiting most from the data it works to make available.
Cordaid's Besseling also flagged a need for IATI to improve public outreach. Showcasing practical examples of what IATI can do for NGOs who find themselves having to do more with less money and who could benefit from using "IATI not just [as] a financial transparency tool, but a tool to improve their own efficiency and effectiveness," he said.
According to a recent USAID study, government officials and activists in Bangladesh, Ghana and Zambia said they wanted more data. However, they were not aware of how much was already available, PWYF's Steele noted.
Some donor governments and multilaterals, however, are finding IATI fits well with pledges to improve transparency.
"[Governments like the U.K. and Sweden] made promises about being open and value for money and making sure they were getting the best results," said Craig Fagan, head of global policy, advocacy and research at Transparency International. "Now they have the tool."
When they are made aware of IATI, recipient country governments can check that pledged aid can be accounted for, giving them "a much better picture of whether the numbers are adding up," he added.
Challenge 6: Work together
More engagement with initiatives like the Joined Up Data Alliance, of which IATI is a member, would help IATI progress faster.
"It's about bringing these open standards together to find common solutions for their own specific problems," said PWYF's Steele. "So rather than the data being kept in silos, users can have a more holistic view by being able to use mix, match and mash up all the data from different initiatives."
IATI told Devex that it is working on this issue and IATI steering committee members endorsed a statement of collaboration with other global data standards during its last meeting in June 2015.
To this end, Cordaid is keen to explore other data sets and use them in combination with IATI. For example, it took data from the World Risk Index, a German index that measures countries' vulnerability to natural disasters, and used a program to recreate it in map form, with countries colored red, orange or yellow to indicate how at risk they were. It then used its own IATI data set to plot on the map Cordaid projects related to disaster alleviation.
Similarly, the U.K. imported its IATI data into Myanmar's Mohinga portal, while Madagascar is using its d-portal.org to provide a country-level view of IATI data, to compare with in-country aid management and help identify gaps.
IATI's Standard has "amazing potential" to help the sector respond to post-2015 challenges, Transparency International's Fagan said. To achieve this, however, it should broaden its scope and perhaps even rebrand from a focus on humanitarian aid to a focus on development cooperation.
Ultimately, the financial, human, technical and political resources already ploughed into IATI mean the initiative is unlikely to end up in the "dustbin of glamorous and great ideas that didn't take off," said Fagan. "We need to make sure that's the case. Everyone has a role to play."
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Absolutely irresistible one of the delicious chutney from south Indian cuisine, it is must with Dosa, Idli, Pesarattu, Uttapa, Upama. In fact no South Indian house hold would serve food without this hot, tangy wonderfully flavored coconut chutney.
Coconut is rich in oil which has vitamin A and E. Fresh coconut is sweet in taste and with all the minerals, fat and vitamins it is very nutritious. Coconut chutney along with coconut has garlic, coriander, onion, lemon and this makes the coconut chutney very tasty healthy and nutritious. The sheer sight of white / green coconut chutney seasoned with mustard seeds, curry leaves and whole red chili makes my mouth water.
Preparation Time: 10 min.
Making Time: 10 min.
Servings : 10 Generous helpings.
Ingredients Required for making Coconut Chutney:
- 1 Fresh Coconut
- 4-5 Cloves of Garlic
- 2-3 Green Chilies
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- 1 small Onion
- 1 Lemon
- 2-3 Curry leaves
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- 1/2Tea spoon Mustard seeds
- 1-2 Whole Red chilies
- Salt to taste
- 1 ml Olive oil or any other cooking oil
- Water
Directions For Making Coconut Chutney:
- Break the coconut to two halves.
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- Remove the coconut kernel from coconut shell.
|Kernel of Coconut removed from its shell
- Remove the brown color covering from coconut kernel with the help of peeler of knife.
|Coconut kernel after brown covering removed
- Cut the kernel after removing the brown covering to small pieces.
|Coconut kernel cut to pieces
- Peel garlic
- Peel and cut onions.
- Take out juice of lemon.
- Take
- Cut coconut kernel,
- Onion
- Garlic
- Green chilies
- Salt
- 10 ml. Water
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- in a mixer/ blender and make fine paste.
- Add water in small amounts while making paste.
- Remove the thick paste in a bowl and add lemon juice.
- Mix nicely.
- In a small pan take 1 ml. oil and heat it.
- When the oil is smoking hot add mustard seeds and let them splutter.
- Add whole red chili and curry leaves and cook for 30 sec.
- The color of red chili will change to dark red and curry leaves to brownish green and wonderful aroma will emanate.
- Pour over the paste of coconut with spices.
|Tangy Coconut Chutney
- Tangy, spicy coconut chutney is ready to be served with Dosa, Idli, Pesarattu, Upama, Uttapa, Poha,Sabudana Khichadi…..
- Do not add excess of water in the starting while grinding. Water should be added in small proportion as per the requirement.
- The paste should be thick.
- Lemon juice should not be added during grinding.
- If you are using only half coconut then rest can be stored in a bowl of water in the fridge.
- Do not add too much onion / garlic otherwise the subtle flavor of fresh coconut will get overpowered by garlic and onion.
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- 2-3 sprigs of fresh green coriander can be added to the coconut while grinding this will not only change the color to beautiful green but will also increase the nutritive value.
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- If you do not want to remove the outer brown covering of the coconut kernel then grind it with the covering , only the texture will become slightly grainy and color will have brown specks along with white color.
- Those who do not eat onion and garlic may omit them and add coriander leaves and 1 inch piece of ginger instead.Lemon juice can be replaced with tamarind pulp.
- If you like slightly sweet taste in coconut chutney then add 1 tea spoon jaggery while grinding.


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By Dave & Emily Whitlock · Fly Fisherman Magazine November · 2011
Sometimes it can be just as rewarding and stimulating to experience history and tradition, as it is to discover something new. About ten years ago my fly-fishing enjoyment and success was significantly improved when a close friend, Davy Wotton, introduced me to the fascinating methods and flies of traditional wet-fly fishing. Surprisingly, this method is as effective and enjoyable as any current, popular fly-fishing technique. Read more…


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Hillary Clinton lost more Electoral College votes than Donald Trump thanks to Bernie Bros
Bernie Bros strike again!
Anti-Donald Trump forces hoped the Electoral College would overturn the election results on Monday when electors met in their respective state capitals across the country. But as it turned out, more faithless electors actually defected from Hillary Clinton than the president-elect.
As of press time, seven Democratic electors attempted to vote for a candidate other than Clinton. Four — all from Washington State — were successful, while three others had their plans foiled.
Almost all the defections came from activists who supported the Vermont socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary.
It was an unexpected turn of events after anti-Trump Democrats placed their faith in the Electoral College in a last-ditch effort to see anyone other than Trump win the White House.
Anti-Trump forces needed to get 37 Republican electors to defect from Trump in order to deny him the 270 votes he needed for victory. Instead, two Republicans defected — one toward Ohio governor John Kasich and one to former Texas Rep. Ron Paul. And so the Never Trumpers went down in flames.
In Washington State — where Clinton defeated Trump by more than 15 points — one elector voted for Faith Spotted Eagle, a Native American activist who protested against the Dakota Access Pipeline. That vote came from Robert Satiacum, a Sanders supporter who called Clinton a "clown," "rat" and a "criminal," in an October interview with Politico.
Three other Washington State electors voted for Colin Powell, the Republican former Secretary of State who, ironically, helped push for the Iraq War and used a private email during his time at the State Department — two issues Sanders backers demonized Clinton for.
In Colorado, Maine and Minnesota, three Sanders-supporting Democratic electors attempted to vote for candidates other than Clinton, but were either replaced as electors or forced to revote and cast their ballot for Clinton.
In Colorado, the rogue elector who attempted to vote against Clinton was Michael Baca, a Sanders supporter who helped launch the Hamilton Electors — a group of electors who hoped to deny Trump an Electoral College win.
In Maine, Democratic elector David Bright initially voted for Sanders.
His vote was later ruled improper, and he was forced to vote again and cast his ballot for Clinton.
Yet another Sanders supporter from Minnesota, Muhammad Abdurrahman, also attempted to cast his ballot for Sanders and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for vice president.
But Abdurrahman, who was a Sanders delegate at the Democratic National Convention in July, was forced to step down as an elector and was replaced by an elector who voted for Clinton, as the results of Minnesota's statewide vote dictated.
The fact that more electors refused to carry out their duty to vote for Clinton than Trump electors is a bizarre twist of events in a campaign that was filled with bizarre events.
And while the defections did not accomplish what anti-Trump forces had hoped, they do provide fodder for those hoping to abolish the Electoral College.
For example it's possible that the four electors in Washington State — at least one of whom had planned to vote against Clinton even before the post-election effort to stop Trump from winning the Electoral began — could have thrown the election had Clinton won the Electoral College by a slim margin.
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Thanks all - what a generous spirited bunch you all are! I'm sorry Mamma Goose, but I've had the weeping woman some years, and, tho' I've checked, can find no trace of who makes her. If it comes to me, I'll let you know. xReplyDelete
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Rhodri Thomas, vice president of business development for Swiftkey and Sarah Wood, co-founder and CEO of Unruly, know what it's like being a fast-growing technology company and how much work goes into expanding internationally.
During a panel discussion at London's City Hall at the launch of the Mayor's international business programme, of which they will both act as mentors for UK tech companies looking to expand abroad, they shared some advice for startups on how to export a product, mistakes to avoid and why it is still the most satisfying part of their careers.
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Sarah Wood set up the digital advertising platform Unruly in Shoreditch's Old Truman Brewery ten years ago. She is still the co-CEO of the firm after News Corp acquired the firm for £58 million last year.
Wood spoke about her first foray into a foreign market, staying close to home by opening a Paris office: "We were a little bit slow opening internationally," Wood said. "The received wisdom was to crack the domestic market and then expand internationally, and we hadn't cracked the domestic market, but it was an emerging market so it didn't really fit.
"I'm a big exponent of pushing open half open doors, and that door was half open. We were starting to run campaigns in the French market, we had French publishers, and we spoke some French, so all those factors made it look like the right market to push into."
Would she do it again? "If we had planned it more carefully, maybe not. We could have definitely spent another three to six months coming up with a very well structured plan that measured our spend and had a strong rollout approach. As it was, we just wanted to take that first footstep. What we did later on was start planning more consistently. Once we had done Paris and had our first taste and learnt some of the issues, we realised that it is a lot of work, so we really need to think now about our future rollout."
Breaking the US
Rhodri Thomas moved to San Francisco with a small team three years ago in order to strengthen Swiftkey's relationship with key partners Apple and Google. He explained the decision, stating: "We believed that the cultural gap was small enough for us to still be effective and to lead the business in a way that we trusted there. In Asia it was more about hiring country managers and GMs to do that for us."
Finding the right people to entrust your business to in new markets is absolutely key according to both Thomas and Wood. "How you find that local talent that you can trust is key," said Thomas, "if the market is important enough for you to invest in then you have to do everything that you can to get the right people."
As a mother of three, Wood didn't want to move abroad, so she took a different approach, focusing on seeking funding to expand and hiring local talent in key markets. "We moved into the US without funding" she explained, "we moved into New York with a very small team and we could see that we would need to be able to scale faster if we were really going to take advantage of the opportunity."
So Wood took a hefty $25m Series A funding round from backers and started entering key US markets like New York, San Francisco and Chicago. "One thing I did realise very quickly was that the US isn't a single market," says Wood, "Treating each city differently is really important. Thinking really carefully about who leads in each individual market there. What is their history and background. It's a very relationships based economy. Also quite risk averse. So being able to evidence your previous success will go down really well."
Advice on working across time zones
Thomas said that he learned to be an early riser when building an international footprint for Swiftkey. His advice? "Start work really early."
Wood preached empathy when it comes to managing a worldwide team: "Always have empathy with people, members of your team that are in other offices in other time zones. If you think it's hard to schedule your diary imagine how hard it is for them when they are far away from the mother ship."
Final thoughts
Despite admitting that taking your company into international markets is a difficult task, both Thomas and Wood say that it is one of the best things they have achieved in their careers.
"The tools are out there to make it much easier than it was when Mad Men was based," said Thomas, "growing your company internationally and winning business abroad is probably the best thing you can do in your career."
Wood joined in: "It's true, it's amazing fun. It's so exciting when you scale and when you scale as part of a team it's the most incredible thing."
Ending on a practical note, Wood set out her three factors for expanding Unruly: "When we think about scaling, we think about three different things: logistics, commercial and culture. Logistics is hiring, office space etcetera; commercial is asking if your product will work, what is the market like? and culture, and of the three, that is by far the most important."
International business programme
The Mayor's new international business programme will see London's promotional body London and Partners running the scheme, which will bring an initial cohort of 50 high-growth companies together with mentors and the private sector to help them scale internationally and grow London's export market.
Read next: London mayor gives £25 million to digital startups
The initial cohort includes 34 tech companies, such as taxi app Gett, innovative bicycle lights Blaze and educational tech startup Technology Will Save Us. The programme has the ambitious target of helping 800 companies expand internationally within three years. For a tech company to qualify they must show evidence of 20 percent year-on-year growth and have a minimum of ten employees.
The programme will allow the high-growth companies to take advantage of peer-to-peer mentoring, both in workshops and one-to-one, from the likes of entrepreneurs Sherry Coutu CBE, Sarah Wood (Unruly), Kathryn Parsons (Decoded) and Niles Gopali (cloudBuy). Selected companies will also get access to private sector backing and overseas account managers, who will help scope international opportunities in key markets such as Europe, North America, India and China.


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Sources in the home ministry on Friday said the information technology ministry and all concerned departments and agencies were recently sounded out on the heightened cyber threat arising out of the surge in digital payment transactions. "We stressed on the need for digital wallet and e-commerce companies to ensure secure payments through the digital mode. This has become imperative in the wake of alleged cyber fraud reported recently by Paytm," said a senior ministry official.
"Considering how more and more people are switching to digital payments, encouraged by the government aiming for a cashless economy, it was an obvious move on our part to caution all concerned agencies against the possibility of cyber frauds and hacking attacks," said the officer.
Deputy National Security Advisor Arvind Gupta had recently red-flagged the vulnerability of banking industry which has rapidly gone digital over the years, said a PTI report.
In the recent past, he had said, several high profile attacks have taken place on the banks, "this is a worrying trend".
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The London-listed company controlled by Russia's richest man, Alisher Usmanov, has taken advantage of the recent rise in Facebook's share price to sell its remaining stake in the social network.
Mail.ru said on Thursday it had sold 14.2m Facebook shares for $528m (£338m). The firm first bought into Mark Zuckerberg's digital venture in 2009, spending $200m for a small stake when Facebook was valued at just $10bn. Facebook today has a stock market value of $102bn.
The shares were sold in July and August after Facebook's stock had finally returned to its initial public offering (IPO) price. The gain brings to an estimated $1.7bn the revenues Mail.ru has netted from its holding.
Facebook's stock has surged 57% this year and is now trading comfortably above its debut price of $38. Investors cold-shouldered Facebook after a rocky stock market listing in May 2012, but a strong performance on mobile phones and healthy advertising has lured them back.
Mail.ru sold 20m shares at the time of the IPO, netting $745m, and divested a further 23m shares in October; the price was not disclosed but Facebook's shares then traded at around $20, which means Mail.ru could have netted around $460m. Its final holding was sold this summer after the relevant lock-up period, which dictates when portions of the stock can be sold by early investors in the company, expired in May.
Usmanov has benefited many times over from Facebook's success. He also invested through the Russian tech investment fund Digital Sky Technologies, which sold a $1.7bn stake during the IPO last May. That disposal earned Usmanov about $1.4bn, according to Bloomberg.
A spokesperson for Usmanov said his USM Holdings still holds its remaining stake in Facebook - but has not disclosed its size and value.
With a £48m mansion in north London, Usmanov was recently identified in the Sunday Times Rich List as Britain's richest man. He is now using some of those funds to bet on an Apple recovery: in April, following a crash in Apple's share price, he said he had invested $100m in the iPhone maker.
"I believe in the future of this company even after Steve Jobs," Usmanov told Bloomberg. "When the company lost $100bn of its market value, it was a good time to buy its shares, as the capitalisation should rebound."
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PORTSMOUTH — Presidential hopeful Joe Biden will speak to Seacoast voters today about Iraq, an issue that has dominated the campaign thus far.
The Democratic senator from Delaware is scheduled to appear at Pease International Tradeport at 3 p.m. to outline his position on the war in Iraq and take questions from the public in attendance.
A plan for bringing the troops home while establishing a political settlement in Iraq has been the foremost issue in Biden's campaign, and has received support from his Democratic opponents.
The Biden-Gelb Plan for Iraq, assembled in May 2006 by Biden and President Emeritus of the Committee on Foreign Relations Leslie Gelb, have five points that would decentralize power and give the Shiites, Kurds and Sunnis control over their daily lives by creating a central government to control border defense and distribution of oil revenues. Sunnis would be given a proportionate share of oil revenues as they currently have none.
The plan also calls for reconstruction assistance funded by oil-rich Arab Gulf states, a political settlement in Iraq and creation of an oversight group to enforce these measures.
Biden has said he hopes to withdraw most forces by next summer.
Speaking in Iowa Monday at one of several Town Meeting forums and speeches around the state in the last week, Biden said, "There's only one possible path to a durable political settlement in Iraq and it's the one I proposed and that 74 other senators endorsed: decentralize power and give Iraqis local control over their daily lives ... The overwhelming majority of Americans believe we should leave Iraq without leaving chaos behind. The administration and its supporters have no strategy to achieve that objective. I do. Until we solve the problems in Iraq, the United States will have absolutely no credibility to solve problems that pose even greater threats around the world. Successfully dealing with Iraq will help restore America's global leadership."
Evan Carlson, spokesperson for Biden, said Thursday's talk will focus mainly on Iraq but said, "it is likely questions will range into larger foreign policy issues" such as the Middle East, Iran and Pakistan, especially with opening day of the Middle East peace talks taking place Tuesday in Annapolis, Md. with President George Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
As for Thursday, Carlson said, "The topic of discussion will be (Biden's) position on Iraq of getting the troops out without leaving chaos behind."
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Loop-based performance programs garner most of the attention for using software live. But if you look under Propellerhead Reason's hood and think outside the loop, you'll see that it's an amazing live-performance tool with capabilities that are often impossible to duplicate in a loop-based program. Reason 3's Combinator device, enhanced remote-control features and ability to route every output to just about anywhere allow it to be configured for a variety of performance applications, from straight-ahead keyboard jamming to remixing loops on the fly.
The Combinator can combine any Reason 3 device to form ear-catching, multilayered patches, but it also has a practical side as a keyboard-split mapping device. A keyboard range can be set for any synthesizer or sampler within the Combinator. For example, an NN-XT sampler might be assigned a keyboard range of C2 to B4, while a Subtractor in that same Combinator has a range of C5 to G8. If you have a 49-key (or larger) MIDI keyboard, you can squeeze in two to three keyboard splits — for three to four distinct sounds — all at your fingertips simultaneously from a single Combinator device.
Every synthesizer or sampler in the Combinator can have its own Velocity zone. That lets you add a vertical dimension to your patch mapping. For example, you might have a solo horn patch assigned to the Velocity range of 1 to 84 and have a full-blown horn section set to the Velocity range of 85 to 127. If you play with a light touch, you'll trigger the solo horn; if you strike the keyboard hard, you'll trigger the complete horn section. Between the keyboard-split and the Velocity zones, you could easily have six totally different sounds on your controller at the same time — set up and ready to play — without touching your computer.
Almost every parameter of every Reason 3 device can be mapped to a MIDI controller. A knob can sweep the oscillator waveform of a Subtractor patch, or the Velocity message sent from a keyboard note can modulate the Sample Start time of an NN-19 sample. For live performance, however, controlling a global effect can be a lot of fun. Rather than trying to remotely control each device's filter individually, route all of the devices that you want to filter through a submixer. Then, insert an ECF-42 Envelope Controlled Filter between the submixer and Reason's Hardware Interface input. Set the ECF-42's resonance to about 64, and map the cutoff frequency to a controller knob. With Reason playing a sequence or while you're playing the keyboard, turn the controller knob for the classic filter sweep effect. Use that same process to insert effects such as reverb, delay and distortion between a mixer and the Hardware Interface, and then control the effects' wet-to-dry mix ratio.
To change seamlessly between patterns playing on a pattern sequencer (such as Redrum or Matrix), try controlling the pattern and bank changes from a MIDI controller knob. To move quickly between tracks in the sequencer (in which the track that is record-armed dictates the device that you're controlling), assign a key on your keyboard to step up the track list and another key to step down the track list. A couple of unused keyboard keys will also work well for stepping through a device's patches. (Remote control for Target Previous/Next Track and Select Previous/Next Patch are assigned from the Additional Remote Overrides window.) Handling many parameters in Reason directly from your MIDI controller and keyboard lets you focus on the performance rather than the computer.
A key feature of DJing software is the ability to route signals to another stereo output — besides the master output — for headphone cueing. During a performance, the option to audition a patch or sequence before adding it to the main mix is a big plus. Though headphone cue is not preconfigured in Reason, it's possible to set it up with the addition of a multi-output soundcard (such as MOTU Traveler) and a DJ mixer. By routing the stereo outputs of a Reason device to a stereo pair of inputs on the Hardware Interface (such as inputs 5 and 6) and then taking the corresponding outputs from the soundcard (such as outputs 5 and 6) and connecting them to a stereo input on the DJ mixer, you gain discrete level and cue control over a device (or group of devices, if using Combinator or a mixer). Anything in Reason's rack can be headphone cued, provided you have enough individual outputs on your soundcard and plenty of DJ mixer channels.
There is another way to route the audio for headphone cueing. The audio from Reason's browser always runs through a device's stereo outputs, unless the patch you're auditioning has individual output assignments (which is rare). Consequently, you'll need to split a device's stereo output into two stereo feeds, using the Spider Audio Merger & Splitter. Send one stereo feed to a mixer device (such as the Mixer 14:2 or the Line Mixer 6:2) labeled Cue, and send the other stereo feed to a mixer labeled Mix. Take the outputs of the Cue mixer and route them to inputs 1 and 2 on the Hardware Interface. Take the outputs of the Mix mixer and route them to inputs 3 and 4 on the Hardware Interface. Connect the corresponding outputs of your soundcard to the appropriate inputs on your DJ mixer. Use channel 1 on the DJ mixer exclusively for cueing patches and channel 2 for outputting the main mix. To quickly mute and unmute channels on the Mix mixer (thereby adding or removing a device's signal from the main mix), map the mixer's channel mute buttons to keys on a MIDI controller.
In Reason 3, it's possible to assemble almost any type of live-performance rack you can imagine, complete with custom audio routing and MIDI control. After a significant investment of time, you'll have a unique virtual performance rack perfectly tailored to your particular needs. Loop-based performance programs are amazing, but there's nothing like hitting the stage with a customized rack of MIDI gear, even if it's inside your laptop.


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As a young child, Ricardo (Richard) Marlow was introduced to the guitar by his father, the eminent classical guitarist John E. Marlow. He went on to receive a degree from the James Madison School of Music (James Madison University) in 1997. Mr. Marlow subsequently took up the flamenco guitar and studied with master, Gerardo Núñez, in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, and continues to do so yearly since 1999. In 1997 Mr. Marlow began playing professionally as a guitarist for the Arte Flamenco Dance Company featuring Silverio Heredia, Cuquito de Barbate and La Keka, among other guests from Spain, in venues such as The Kennedy Center's Millenium Stage and the Baltimore Museum of Art, among others. He also worked with the Danza del Rio Dance Company and the Paco de Malaga and Anna Marinez Dance Company during this time.
Since 2003 Mr. Marlow has continued to fulfill an essential role in Edwin Aparicio's productions such as "Bailes Inéditos", "Encuentros", "Intimo", "Entresueños", "Flamenco/Flamenca", "Flamenco Men", "Al Andalus", "One plus One", and "Camino al Flamenco", where he shared stages with Jesús Montoya, Alfonso Cid, Roberto Castellón, Pedro Cortes Jr., "La Truco", Nelida Tirado, Carmela Greco, Sergio Aranda, Norberto Chamizo, Carlos Menchaca Juan Orozco "El Yiyi" and Amparo Heredia. One highlight was Edwin Aparicio's 2008 work "Dos Mundos" at the Gala Hispanic Theatre, where he was fortunate to share the stage with world-renowned dancer "La Tati", Jose Jimenez "El Bocadillo", Antonio Jimenez "El Porras", and Basillio Garcia Clavero, all from Madrid.
In 2005, Mr. Marlow performed at the 20th Mayor's Art's Awards at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall and Manuel de Falla's "El Amor Brujo", with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Strathmore in Rockville and at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, MD. Mr. Marlow has toured with Louisville Flamenco in Kentucky, Indiana, and Nashville, TN various times since 2007. In 2009, the GSFA concert series in Pittsburgh, PA presented Mr. Marlow at Synod Hall with La Tania and Jesus Montoya. Also in 2009, Mr. Marlow performed "L.A. Olé!" for the "Flamenco Forever Series" at the Ford Amphitheatre, Hollywood CA, under the direction of Antonio Triana. He performed with Antonio Granjero, Roberto Amaral, Fanny Ara, El Yiyi, La Genoveva and others. In September 2011, Mr. Marlow was an integral part of the very large production "Semana Flamenka" in Irvine, CA Barclay Theatre directed by Yaelisa, sharing the stage with 12 masters of flamenco including Jason McGuire "El Rubio", Chuscales, Pedro Cortes Jr, José Cortes, Jesus Montoya, Kina Mendez, Antonio de Jerez, Oscar Valero, Manuel de La Cruz, Maria Bermudez, and Nelida Tirado.
Mr. Marlow had the honor and pleasure to accompany the world renowned flamenco cantaora, Esperanza Fernandez, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC in November 2011.
Mr. Marlow is a featured artist in the 2013 Flamenco documentary "Sobre las Olas" by Carolina Loyola-Garcia. Since the release of his debut solo CD "Madera Sonora", Mr. Marlow has appeared for solo recitals and teaching workshops/master classes at numerous venues including Cal State University (CSU) in Fresno, VCU in Richmond, Duquesne in Pittsburgh, Shenandoah Conservatory "Pavan Series" in VA, Academy Art Museum in Annapolis, MD.
Throughout his career as a Flamenco guitarist Mr. Marlow has often found himself either on stage or in the recording studio making interesting fusions with many important musicians of other genres, namely Charlie Byrd, Frank Vignola, Canut and Andre Reyes of the Gipsy Kings, Giovanni Hidalgo, Turkish pop star Ege, Jimmy Wilson, Gary and Greg Grainger, Meritxell Negre, Roya Bahrami, The Washington Ballet, Kivanç Oner, Duende Camaron, and many others.
His percussive style of playing is highly sought after by local flamenco artists. He can be seen playing almost nightly at numerous venues in the Washington, DC and Baltimore metropolitan areas such as Vinoteca and La Tasca, etc.