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I made a mistake said something stupid that I wished I hadn't. I tried to clear it but I fumbled and moved on.
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Bible study for grown ups. Ever been around a person of tenacious faith? They are contagious in their optimism and their confidence that in the end, God will make it all work out well. These people are the life-changers for others fortunate enough to live around them. They are the world-changers. In a world of doubters and God haters, people of faith encourage God. I want to be that person, don't you? Listen to this episode from Mark 5 and see how faith grows and works in every day life.


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Rony Seikaly, the first collegiate draft choice in Heat history, has taken up varied interests in retirement, from playing volleyball to DJ'ing.
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I haven't posted to this blog over the last week because I've battling a severe ear infection. The type of owie that makes me want to find an adult-sized bottle full of pink amoxicillin liquid and jump into it. I can't remember having an ear ache like this since I was a little kid. Have I said ouch, yet? It caused me to miss the first meeting of a retreat/study group of colleagues here in my UU Church District. Our topic was David Bumbaugh's essay in the recent UU World "The Unfulfilled Dream" One of my colleagues was graceful enough to email around the full address from which this essay was taken. It was keynote address to our Southwest Conference UU Annual Meeting in 2006. Here's the video.
I am a Gen X child of the 80's. So my reading of Rev. Bumbaugh is that he is basically asking, as has been asked before about Unitarian Universalism, –"Where's the beef?" He asks from the vantage point of having lived through the merger of Unitarianism and Universalism and seen our history. I've only recently come in the door from Catholicism, yet I tend to agree with his historical perspective that Universalism seems to have gotten the short shrift in the Unitarian and Universalist merger and that the probing, missional, spiritual questions of Universalism were left behind in the wake of the social justice oriented marketing machine.
"The unfinished task Universalists brought to consolidation—the effort to restate the faith tradition in light of contemporary challenges—has been swept away by the fear—one that echoes throughout Unitarian history—that if we define ourselves too clearly, someone may be offended."
Thus it has been and thus it always seems to be in our religious life. Unitarian Universalism seems destined to be a mile wide and an inch deep. Yet there is a deep end of the pool. We need not stay wading in the shallows close to shore. The essence of Rev. Bumbaugh's reflection for me are the questions he asks of us.
If we are to be the religious movement some of us dreamed fifty years ago, if we are to respond to the needs of the world from a liberal religious basis, it is critical that we be able to address and answer three central questions: What do we believe? Whom do we serve? To whom or what are we responsible?
Indeed my first encounter with Unitarian Universalism in any meaningful way came at Harvard Divinity School, of all places, and the impression I got of Unitarian Universalism at that time was Unitarian Universalism was about unbelief, serving left wing political causes and being responsible to one's self. It was not an appealing message and I had no interest in Unitarian Universalism at that time.
I went to Harvard Divinity School during the years 1991-1994. During my years at HDS, I was still Catholic. During my years at HDS, Catholic students were the largest religious group represented in the student body. During my time at HDS, I seriously considered leaving the Catholic Church, but didn't. One of the reasons was that I wasn't sure where I would go if I left. I never, in three years at a traditionally Unitarian school, considered becoming a Unitarian Universalist, and the chief reason was the behavior of other Unitarian Universalists I met while there. As a whole, none of them had any room for my God (MY God. My God who wasn't the traditional personalized old white man in the clouds playing the universe like a computer game) or for Jesus.
Hear this with love my Unitarian Universalist brothers and sisters – it wasn't that all UU's I encountered had no room for God or Jesus, but the overall sense I got from the UU's I met in general was that I was not going to be comfortable in Unitarian Universalism if I left the Catholic Church. I remember enjoying the UU's sense of political activism and involvement. Their politics certainly seemed to match mine. I have many memories of being told about the superiority of humanism and atheism, but I have no recollection whatsoever of being told about Universal salvation by a Unitarian Universalist while at HDS. I have no memories of being introduced to William Ellery Channing or Hosea Ballou, or Theodore Parker, or even Henry Ware, although Emerson was spoken about frequently.
Later, I couldn't believe I missed it all. Where were these voices? These deep theological voices were not part of the conversation I remember from Unitarian Universalism while at HDS, all I remember is being told about a religion that was getting past all the god stuff. Thus when I finally did leave the Catholic Church I was a bit skeptical that my new religious home would indeed be Unitarian Universalism. The librarian at the Catholic high school where I was teaching, a Unitarian Universalist, convinced me that my deepest values, all the things I considered holy, were wrapped up in what it meant to be a Unitarian Universalist. God and Jesus included if I wanted. Then I heard about the language of reverence and found myself not long afterward at a traditionally Christian Unitarian congregation. I had come home. Unitarian Universalism had saved me.
And yet home isn't what it used to be, if it ever used to be what we thought. Longing for some idealized past is a losing proposition from the start. I grew up in a house run by a divorced single mom. The fantasy of a 1950's Father Knows Best home and family life was always just that – a fantasy from TV Land. I'm not sure there isn't anything amiss with Unitarian Universalism that isn't problematic for any denomination or any serious non-fundamentalist approach to religion or being religious in the early 21st century. The very nature of family life has changed. The very nature of what it means to be religious and to be a religion and to be a congregation is changing right now as we live it and experience it.
This is both a source of hope and a source of anxiety. There is much floating about the blogosphere lately related to folks leaving Unitarian Universalism for liberal Christianity, including this Dear John letter to Unitarian Universalism. This hits home for me. I am a Universalist Christian. I serve on the board of the UU Christian Fellowship. I have watched a number of people in my own congregation leave and become members of a church plant of a liberal Christian church not too far away. A couple of days ago, Anna Snoeyenbos wrote a great piece on her blog Deep River about her struggles being an Emergent Christian UU and wondering whether or not she's still at home with us or more at home in the Emergent Church movement, where denominational ties mean little. I wrote about the same concerns for a Greenfield Group project two years ago and called the project An Emergent Rev. X And yet I stay. Rev. Carol Howard, a Presbyterian minister, author and blogger calls folks with Emergent sensibilities who remain in the mainline churches "loyal radicals." I suppose that fits for now. I've always been a bit radical.
When I first read Rev. Bumbaugh's essay in UU World, I thought that maybe it was time that Unitarians and Universalists got divorced. I'm comfortable with divorce. I'm a Gen Xer. It's not my preferred resolution to relationship, but it's no longer a taboo. I thought, you know just let the more humanist crowd go and get on with it. After all, Universalism is a big sell these days with folks like Rob Bell preaching our theology to the top of the best seller lists.
Then I thought, no, loyalty is radical and it's time to bring the life of the spirit into a bold new relationship with all our people. Scratch that, will ALL people.


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Saturday, April 9, 2011
One Man, Two Times the Dumbass!
Persistence overcomes resistance, but persistence does not overcome dumbass. And the story of today's dumbass further proves that the dumbass is a mighty powerful force in those who are eat up with it.
For the tale of our Dumbass of the Day, we travel to Bolingbrook, Illinois, where we meet up with Robert Osewski, thief on probation and about as useful as tits on a boar hog. You see...on May 28, 2009, Robert the Thieving Dumbass broke into a local residence and stole a bunch of stuff and by stuff I mean a Wii, Xbox, jewelry, stocks and bonds and fifty bucks in change totaling over $20 Large, $20,000. Robert was later arrested, tried, convicted and placed on probation. Probation? For stealing $20,000 worth of stuff? The judge in this case has proven beyond the shadow of a doubt (a little legal lingo there) that he is a dumbass in robes and doesn't deserve to sit on the bench for which he was entrusted. But I digress.
Back to Robert the Thieving Dumbass. Robert is on probation now and he decides to pull off another burglary. That, in and of itself, is a dumbass thing to do, but our man Robert does the Daily Double of Dumbassery. The burglary he has planned is for....wait... for.... it....the same house that he robbed before! It takes a special kind of dumbass to do what Robert is about to do. When I say "special kind of dumbass", I don't mean exemplary, I mean dumb as a box of hammers. Robert failed to see the stupidity of his idea, so he went right ahead and busted in and stole from the same house he had hit a while back. That's pretty damn stoopid right there, but Robert went above and beyond the call of dumbassery. He brought along a helper, sort of an Apprentice Dumbass, to help him out. Another dumbass move. Oh, but it gets better still! Robert and his Apprentice Dumbass broke into the same house that Robert robbed before, mind you, and stole the same stuff he had stolen before! Does this man's dumbass know no limit?
The Bolingbrook Cops, not dumbasses at all, quickly saw the link between this burglary and the one Robert was convicted of in 2009. Robert the Thieving Dumbass and his Apprentice Dumbass were arrested and immediately placed in the custody of the Bolingbrook House For the Criminally Dumbass. OK, I made that part up, but the two dumbasses were arrested and taken to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
I'm sure it won't be long until Robert the Thieving Dumbass becomes Robert the Prison Bitch Dumbass and his partner in crime will be an Apprentice Prison Bitch to a loving inmate partner. Frakkin' dumbasses.
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An abstraction methodology for the evaluation of multi-core multi-threaded architectures
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As the evolution of multi-core multi-threaded processors continues, the complexity demanded to perform an extensive trade-off analysis, increases proportionally. Cycle-accurate or trace-driven simulators are too slow to execute the large amount of experiments required to obtain indicative results. To achieve a thorough analysis of the system, software benchmarks or traces are required. In many cases when an analysis is needed most, during the earlier stages of the processor design, benchmarks or traces are not available. Analytical models overcome these limitations but do not provide the fine grain details needed for a deep analysis of these architectures. In this work we present a new methodology to abstract processor architectures, at a level between cycle-accurate and analytical simulators. To apply our methodology we use queueing modeling techniques. Thus, we introduce Q-MAS, a queueing based tool targeting a real chip (the Ultra SPARC T2 processor) and aimed at facilitating the quantification of trade-offs during the design phase of multi-core multi-threaded processor architectures. The results demonstrate that Q-MAS, the tool that we developed, provides accurate results very close to the actual hardware, with a minimal cost of running what-if scenarios.
CitationZilan, Ruken [et al.]. An abstraction methodology for the evaluation of multi-core multi-threaded architectures. A: IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems. "Proceedings of 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS)". IEEE Computer Society Publications, 2011, p. 478-481.
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If you spend any amount of time online looking for information on nutrition, you have likely run across many different opinions on what you should eat. High fat, low fat....high carb, low carb... eat more meat, eat less meat... eat butter, avoid saturated fat. And the list goes on... It can be confusing to make sense of all of the information out there. But don't fear, there is hope!
Finding the right food for your body is a personal journey. Not every body responds to things equally. While certain things drastically affect one person, they may cause no issue for another. Example...I can not handle raw onions well. They leave me with horrible indigestion. But my husband eats them with no issue. Gluten consumption wrecks my digestive system for a good week-10 days, while, again my husband shows no negative digestive response to it. Other people can not possibly tolerate dairy, but others eat it fine.
Below is a list of posts focused on the subject of nutrition. You can also read about What I Eat and my general recommendations in this post.
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Ah it's finally here! The college guys are home, all of the high school guys are finishing up school, and our summer strength and conditioning program is underway!Read More >
Recent Posts
You see a lot of basketball training "experts" out there with their athletes doing all types of fancy stuff. A lot of hopping around, balancing on one leg, juggling poodles in the middle of a busy intersection… you get the picture.Read More >
We all know the best movements for building strength, size and power: pressing, deadlifting, and squatting. All are great exercises and should be a staple in every program but without balancing things out with additional pulling exercises, you are setting your athletes up for poor performance and potential shoulder injuries down the road.Read More >


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Deadwood, South Dakota was established in 1876. A gold mining town, located in the Black Hills of South Dakota, it sprang up almost overnight. The little mining camp was a rough and rowdy place to live back then. Today, Deadwood still has the charm of days gone by and you can still walk the streets and see the old buildings that would have many tales to tell, if they could talk. The cemetery where folks like Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane are buried overlooks the busy little town today.
Owning a piece of Deadwood - a piece of history - is now possible for anyone. The Deadwood Square Inch Land Company has made it possible for you to buy a little piece of Deadwood.


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It's easy to find your place in the world through communities. I mean, if you are interested in something and people who are usually around you may not care as much as you do about that thing, then online communities can be a way to find people like you. So that can mean that people with same interests can inspire each other, which, if you ask me, it's the best part. Once a person knows where to look for inspiration the innovative design wouldn't take so long to come to the white world. And as long as it's a community, you can still learn from others or help the people who want to develop. Like our community on the www.projectcommunity.info . I've learned sooo much, thanks to the new friends I've made. We exchange experience and we struggle together, which motivates me (and I hope not only me).
First of all, I like things and information well put, easy to understand but still as comprehensive as possible! So, in a community everything should be shared and used for the better of everyone.
Decentralization- people in a community should be equal. There shouldn't be nobody on top of everybody else. It would be too not interesting if people listen to just one person and the sense of creativity would be lost or forgotten.
Tolerance- people should listen to all of the opinions in a community, more points of view- more ideas.
Simplicity- in order to be well understood, a person should always express himself/ herself with simple words or pictures.
Brevity- you can leave a space for the people to consider and wonder, maybe develop the brief idea or content you have shared.
For the next year's class…
Every beginning is confusing, but here, my friends, we don't deal with confusion, but with confusiasm (Nancy White). :D If you don't know the meaning now, you'll figure it out reeeally fast, in the very beginning. Then the only thing for you to do is take the time for completing the assignments and you can enjoy your brand new community full of new friends and other confusiastics. ;)
There is not much to say or advice. You should get the best out of the course, which is easily achieved by listening to your tutors and follow their guidance. Everything is well structured and with the right pace you can do no wrong.
I've learned much about internet tools. Everything I've been taught will be valuable for my future work. Moreover, if I want to work from home, all kinds of internet tools will be more than helpful.
So I guess that's all for my first time working-on-a-project-with-a-team. It was great and certainly unforgettable experience for me. I hope no one is disappointed and everybody will have fun at the very end.


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I feel most persons have a great comprehension of what a scholarship is but, I will provide a quick clarification just in circumstance. Fundamentally, a scholarship is an award you earn via several endeavors and it will spend some or all of your expenditures for going to faculty. What is demanded to earn one is dependent on the particular scholarship you are trying to get. What expenditures will be covered and for how very long, as effectively as what faculty you go to are also dependent on the precise scholarship you are implementing for. That is it in a nutshell.
The significant point below is what a scholarship can do for you! Just about everybody agrees that a faculty schooling is the to start with stage to improving the in general high-quality of life. This is legitimate for lots of causes. For one matter, a faculty schooling frequently leads to jobs with far greater spend as effectively as wellness advantages. And, let us experience it, if you can consider treatment of your living expenditures easily and retain oneself wholesome, that is a large improvement to your high-quality of life. A different reward of a faculty schooling is that it gives you huge self-esteem simply because it is a large accomplishment. If your self-esteem is wholesome, you are not as likely to develop psychological wellness concerns. And, probably one of the greatest advantages of a faculty schooling is that it gives you the electric power to guidebook other persons to some thing greater!
Sad to say, even even though all of this is complete point, there are lots of limitations protecting against lots of persons from currently being equipped to do well in faculty. One of the greatest limitations for lots of of us is the price tag of a comprehensive faculty schooling. You are not only hunting at tuition and publications for your courses when you figure your costs. There is also space and board, food and clothes, basic university provides, and transportation – just to name some of the extra prevalent secondary expenditures. This is wherever winning scholarships can truly make all the variation in the world!
Several scholarships are acknowledged as "entire journey scholarships" – this type of award will typically spend for tuition, publications, and lodging frequently via your to start with degree, often via your entire faculty occupation but, they are commonly for one precise faculty. Other scholarships will spend your entire tuition at the establishment of your selection. Some others will deal with your lodging and food. Some are just downright exciting very little contests. In point, there are so lots of unique awards readily available out there that I simply cannot record them all below! All you have to do is look all over and use oneself. With the appropriate exertion, even the poorest particular person can go to faculty and do well!


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Have a look at biggest rivals of WhatsApp messenger
Whatsapp is the most using app in this India and this app is growing on the regular basis. Whatsapp is updating the app on the regular intervals as well, that's the major reason as well. But when we look around apart from Whatsapp, there are few other rivals of Whatsapp that you can consider.
Hike is also really popular among Android, iOS and Windows phone users. Basically Hike was really popular for the stickers and few other amazing features. Recently hike has also launched the story feature just like WhatsApp and Facebook.
Facebook Messenger
Facebook and WhatsApp basically belong to the same family but Facebook has really made few amazing changes for messenger app. FB messenger is available over all the platforms and recently that has got few amazing features too.
Blackberry messenger is now available for Android as well which was really popular among blackberry users previously. Now you can create your own stickers as well.
That's the biggest WhatsApp rival, as this app has huge number of features that are really missing in WhatsApp. Users can add up the group of over 1000 users and users can share the file of up to 1.5GB.
This app was really popular for voice calling; this app also provided the pinned chat and calling features first. You can make video call over this app right now. Right now this app added a feature that allows users to connect with the retailers and brands.
Skype usually provides rich video calling experience over the app. You can chat over there along with smiley and stickers. You can share your screen over Skype that's a biggest plus in this app.
Google Allo
Google has launched this app in 2016 to compete with other social media and messaging apps. This app has recently launched an update wherein user can take a selfie and turn that into a sticker.
Stay tuned for more updates like rivals of WhatsApp messenger and other Latest Web technology News updates.
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View Full Calendar of Events at the Flynn
Alison Bechdel: "Dykes, Dads, and Moms to Watch Out For"
August 3, 2012 through October 27, 2012
Artist Reception: Friday, August 3 from 5:30 to 8 pm
Vermont Women Writers Panel: Sunday, September 23 at 3 pm (details below)
The Amy E. Tarrant Gallery at the Flynn Center presents an exhibition of Bolton artist Alison Bechdel's artwork that spans her career (so far!). The exhibit features work from Dykes to Watch Out For, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006), and her recently-published graphic novel, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama.
Bechdel started drawing a monthly single-panel cartoon called Dykes to Watch Out For in 1983. This single panel evolved into an ongoing comic strip that was syndicated until 2008, when she made the difficult decision to end the comic strip. Bechdel admits that though it was not easy to let the popular comic strip go, it freed her to follow her new passion: writing about her own life. As she writes, "Actually, this may not be a new passion, just a less disguised version of the old one. Dykes to Watch Out For was an attempt to create a reflection of lesbians in general. My work as a graphic memoirist is an attempt to create a reflection of myself."
Bechdel's 2006 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic was deemed Best Book of the Year by Time Magazine. Not best graphic book. Best book! This spring she published a second memoir, Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama.
In Bechdel's artist statement, she includes "a small disclaimer" stating that she always feels a little ambivalent about exhibiting her cartoon artwork because she is afraid it will disappoint people – for various reasons – but mostly because the viewer is looking at her original drawings and not the "final" published product. It is a fortunate moment in that we actually get the opportunity to see just that, the process!
Contact Nancy Abbott-Hourigan at 802-652-4505 or firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
This exhibit is supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council.
Vermont Women Writers Panel
Sunday, September 23 at 3 pm, Amy E. Tarrant Gallery at the Flynn Center
Three of Vermont's most prominent authors, Alison Bechdel, Tanya Lee Stone, and Madeleine Kunin, talk about their experiences getting published and reviewed as women writers.
Co-presented with the Burlington Book Festival (September 21-23).


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Sex, Smuggling, Cigarettes and Murder
With her dark skin, brightly coloured clothes and wild, alluring nature, she came to symbolise a freedom that you either despised or desired.
Her ability to love freely, to travel openly, to slip between communities as easily as she slipped between Basque and Romani placed her beyond the rigid confines of Christian society and marked her not only as an outsider, but as something exotic; something essentially Spanish.
The Allure of the South
Based on the story by Prosper Mérimée, Georges Bizet's opera was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, on 3 March 1875, but left both audiences and critics unmoved despite its offering of sex, smuggling, cigarettes and murder.
Almost 140 years later, the Gazpachomonk investigates why this French production has turned into an icon and a synonym of Southern Spain. Read more....
Back in the early 1990's
No-one could say that life doesn't - at times - move in mysterious ways. It was in 1994 that two incidents occurred almost simultaneously. I had just met a woman who was a graphic designer working on the cover design of two films that were imminently to be released on video in Britain: Carlos Saura's Blood Wedding and Carmen. That Graphic Designer was to become my wife and the video covers were to re-appear sooner and more realistically than I would have imagined.
Later that year I moved to Seville for a year as part of a degree course. And where in Seville would I be studying? Why the university of course - a building that had been converted from its original use as the infamous tobacco factory - the very same tobacco factory in which Bizet's Carmen worked.
Spain: An Incomprehensible and Dark Continent
Whether I wanted to or not, Carmen was going to be a part of my life, as she has been for so many others since Bizet's Opera opened in France many years ago. Back in the late 1800's the bourgeoisie of Europe had at last mustered the courage to travel outside their comfort zones, and their collective vision began to settle on "the part of Africa that began at the Pyrenees": Spain.
It was an incomprehensible, exotic and dark country, one that came to be symbolised by the sensual, wild and demonic Carmen.
Carmen was a "gypsy" - the English word deriving from "Egyptian" - the land from which they are mistakenly said to have originated (as too does the word Gitano from Egiptano). But this was the name non-gypsies (payos) give to Romani people, and in so doing help little but to perpetuate the negative stereotypes. I was no different, I too fell for the stereotypes.
I found myself nodding in agreement as Sevillanos condemned the lazy lifestyle of the "gitanos" - particularly during the April Fair, as they dressed in Flamenco costumes, rode on horseback and drank and danced for 7 days.
Or during the Romeria as they rode the streets in old wagons pulled by horses - imitating the stereotypes of the very people who lifestyles they condemned.
It would be several years later that some of these stereotypes would be seriously challenged. I had rented out a flat above a Romani family in the middle of Toledo. A family that opened my eyes to many things. But that is another story for another time.
The People
Like the Jews, the Romani are an exiled race, expelled each country and only surviving by withdrawing into their own culture, language and customs for self-preservation. Customs that it appeared were being expropriated through myth and popular media - like Carmen.
In the past, the Romani in Spain had been forbidden to marry their own kind, to speak their language, excluded from all public office and even placed in labour camps. A familiar story for most indigenous groups the world over.
Was the Popularity of Carmen helping or hindering the cause of these people? What did it say about Andalucia and its people? Had Spain expropriated "gitano" culture for its own touristic ends? Or does Saura's film, the Pepsi advert and Maria Callas offer us an opportunity to redefine these popular themes?
Put up your feet, grab a drink...and decide for yourselves.
Multi-Media Carmen
To get a feel of how Carmen has been portrayed in the media, check out the video clips below for some unusual presentations. If you enjoy listening to podcasts, then download the free BBC play Carmen from here.
Watch one of the most famous musical songs from Carmen and the surreal, and hypnotic conductor of the orchestra in this short clip with Maria Callas.
Yes, even Opera can sell cola it appears.
For animation lovers, this rare shadow-puppet version of the Carmen.
Finally the film that started it all off. Carlos Saura's Classic version of Carmen is now viewable in its entirely on Youtube. Watch in awe as Antonio Gades glides past to the strum of Paco de Lucia's guitar. Magic.....


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There is a holomorphic function $f$ from the unit disc to itself s.t $f(0)=f(i/2)=0$. How can you prove the estimates $|f'(0)|\leq 1/2$ and $|f(-i/2)|\leq 2/5$?
Applying Schwarz's lemma we can get $|f(z)|\leq |z|$ but this gives an estimate too large. Cauchy's integral formula seems of no use since we don't know anything about other values of the function.


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How to get RPC return value between two different plugin
Is any possible to execute RPC and get return value between two different plugin ?
If I want to call "POST /operations/topology:get-edge-list" and get "Response output data" in my plugin, not via REST API.
(btw, there's no container in the plugin so I can't read operational/config data.)


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"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious
way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained
in all the books through your skin,
without even opening them."
(Mark Twain)
"There are worse crimes than burning books.
One of them is not reading them."
(Joseph Brodsky)
"If you have a garden and a library,
you have everything you need."
(Marcus Tullius Cicero)
"Books are the plane, and the train,
and the road.
They are the destination,
and the journey. They are home."
(Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life)
© Willeke Van Eeckhoutte and Ireland, Multiple Sclerosis & Me, 2011-2012. Unauthorised use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog's author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Willeke Van Eeckhoutte and Ireland, Multiple Sclerosis & Me with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.


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Memorial Park (Jacksonville)
Memorial Park is a 5.85-acre (23,700 m2) public park, located on the St. Johns River in Riverside, one of the most historic neighborhoods near downtown Jacksonville, Florida. It is the third-oldest park in the city,[2] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
|Memorial Park
|Municipal (Parks & Recreation Department)
|Jacksonville, Florida
|5.85 acres (2.37 ha)
|Olmsted Brothers
|Operated by
|City of Jacksonville
|Open all year
Memorial Park
|NRHP reference #
|Added to NRHP
|October 25, 2017
Memorial Park is situated on the north bank of the St. Johns River, bounded by Riverside Avenue. Shortly after World War I ended, the Rotary Club of Jacksonville suggested building a park in honor of the 1,200 Floridians who died in the conflict, and the following year, the City acquired the land.[3]
The park project was embraced by Jacksonville residents, and 31 civic groups were involved in raising money and planning. The Olmsted Brothers were commissioned to design the park. The firm also laid out the Biltmore Estate, several National Parks and numerous college campuses. They worked with local architect, Roy A. Benjamin.
The bronze sculpture, "Life" is showcased, and was created by Charles Adrian Pillars, a First Coast resident for over a quarter century. Pillars was also responsible for the two works of art from Florida at the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C.. The park, completed in 1924 and dedicated on Christmas Day, became Riverside's most popular location.
The Memorial Park Association (MPA) was founded in 1986 by Anne Freeman, and has worked to preserve the park for over a quarter century. High winds uprooted and toppled many trees in 1997, but city employees and MPA volunteers worked together to restore the park. Two 48" tall eagles, each sculpted in bronze, were donated by the MPA and dedicated on May 29, 2011. Their design was based on photographs of concrete statues originally installed when the park was opened. The artist was local sculptor, Diane LaFond Insetta.[4]
Current useEdit
Despite the loss of many trees in 1997, the area along the riverfront still provides welcome shade for people, fishing, jogging, pushing a stroller, or just sitting on a bench and reading.[2][3]
- ^ "Weekly list of actions taken on properties: 10/20/2017 through 10/26/2017". National Register of Historic Places Program: Weekly List. National Park Service. October 27, 2017. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
- ^ a b "Memorial Park". City of Jacksonville. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
- ^ a b Davis, Ennis. "Urban Parks: Memorial Park". June 23, 2008. Metro Jacksonville. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
- ^ Bauerlein, David (May 30, 2011). "Eagle statues now on guard at Memorial Park in Jacksonville". Florida Times-Union. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
External linksEdit
Media related to Memorial Park (Jacksonville) at Wikimedia Commons


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Years 7 and 8
In their first year at Cobham Hall, students follow a carousel programme, which introduces them to the three core languages: French, Spanish and German. In each language, they learn basic communication and vocabulary, with the emphasis on speaking skills and the common principles of language acquisition. At the end of Year 7, students may then choose between Spanish and German as their second language for Year 8.
In Years 7 and 8, students cover the foundations of Spanish, including learning how to introduce themselves and other people, how to talk about their families and pets, about food and things they like and dislike. By the end of Year 8, they should also be able to tell the time, talk about their house, daily routine, sport and hobbies and give directions. They will begin to learn present, past and future tenses.
Girls learn vocabulary and grammar constructions, which enable them to read, write, listen and speak about everyday contexts. They do activities across all of the four major language skill areas – reading, writing, listening and speaking. Throughout their language acquisition, girls are encouraged to be independent learners.
Role-plays frequently liven up lessons and simulate real-life situations to be handled in Spanish. At the end of Year 8, girls also hold their own version of Spanish X-Factor.
Year 9
Girls continue to build on the foundations laid in Years 7 and 8. They explore topics such as healthy living, family and relationships, future plans and social issues. The grammar and vocabulary taught in Year 9 prepare students for their GCSE in Spanish. Writing and reading texts become longer and more complex. Role-plays and other interactive activities continue to be used to strengthen the four language skills.
Year 9 Beginners
The Year 9 Spanish Beginners class is aimed at students who have had no prior experience of learning the language. Students have the opportunity to develop their linguistic and cultural awareness of the country and the language. They gain an insight into the Spanish language, following a tailored course to accommodate their different abilities.
Students are taught the basics of the language in order to enable them to have short conversations, such as introducing themselves and talking about their interests. Vocabulary is taught via a topic-based programme, which enables them to understand simple every-day phrases. Students learn how to use the grammar and vocabulary they have learnt in written and spoken tasks which refer to simple everyday contexts. There is also a focus on communicative and transactional language, along with language-learning skills and techniques. Students learn by using a variety of activities which cover the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. To enhance their classroom learning, students are also able to make use of additional online resources, such as Linguascope and Memrise. Topics covered include: introducing yourself, family and home, school life, hobbies and holidays and food.
Years 10 and 11: GCSE
At GCSE level, pupils are encouraged to consolidate and build on the language acquired in previous years. Topic-specific vocabulary and grammar are reviewed and revised, and activities continue to be based around the four key skill areas of listening, reading, speaking and writing. Further use of available online and digital resources is promoted, in order to support the development of independent linguistic awareness and progress. Communicative independence is reinforced by students giving presentations, working in groups, planning activities to support learning and making choices about activities which will develop their own linguistic competence. Continued use is made of ICT, online resources, puzzles and activities to support language acquisition. Time is also spent thinking about effective revision strategies and designing tools to support these.
Assessments include regular class tests across all four skills in Years 10 and 11, unit tests, internal examinations at the end of Year 10 and GCSE examination papers at the end of Year 11.
Sixth Form: A Level
Choosing to study a Modern Language at A Level is the smart route to a great future in today's global, multilingual and interconnected world. This two-year programme builds on the skills acquired at GCSE to boost communicative fluency and to immerse students in the culture and heritage of the country where the language is spoken. The course is linear, with final examinations at the end of the two years. Key topics cover contemporary political and social issues relevant to teenagers and to their future careers. Students also study works of literature and film as a means of cementing and contextualising the linguistic and cultural content of the course. More than one language can be studied.
All Year Groups
Language Assistants – The Languages Faculty at Cobham Hall benefits from the support of native speaker language assistants who support students in the development of their communication skills at all levels throughout the school. Students receive both whole class and one-to-one support.


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This page lists the views available in the explore page. Use them to change the context of the explore page and focus on a particular scope such as CPU, Requests, Network and many others. Play with them using the left sidebar in the explore page.
Overview of general resource consumption metrics
This view offers a general overview of the health of your infrastructure, with common resource utilization metrics like cpu, memory, file, and network utilization all in a single pane of glass.
Usage tip: Try grouping by host and/or container metadata when using this view (eg: host.mac > container.id). This view is often most useful when exploring groups of hosts and containers, since the metrics are relevant to underlying resource consumption.
CPU/Memory (Container Limits)
CPU and memory utilization metrics for containers
This view breaks down both CPU and memory metrics for containers in two distinct ways:1. Resource utilization of containers relative to the total host resources.2. Resource utilization of containers relative to the host resources allocated to each container.
Usage tip: CPU shares and quotas represent two different ways that CPU can be allocated to a container at the kernel level. For detailed descriptions of these metrics, see the Sysdig metrics dictionary.
CPU/Memory (System)
CPU and memory usage metrics
This view offers detailed metrics on CPU and memory usage, including stolen CPU time, memory faults and paging.
Usage tip: This view can help you determine if your instances are properly sized for the application in terms of CPU and memory capacity. High 'Memory Usage %' along with excessive hard page faults and large amounts of swapping can be good indicators that more memory or application performance tuning is required.
Service Bottlenecks
Breakdown of transaction times
This view offers a breakdown of where application transactions are spending the most time. The time transactions are spending in the current tier is broken out into processing time, file i/o time, and network time. Then a separate calculation shows the percentage of the transactions' total time that was spent in following tiers.
Overview of network-level metrics
This view offers a detailed view into your network health, with common network-level metrics like network I/O and connection counts all in a single pane of glass.
File I/O
Overview of file system metrics
This view offers a detailed view into your file system health, with common file-level metrics like file I/O and file system usage all in a single pane of glass.
Service Performance
Overview of service-level metrics
This view offers a general overview of the health of your applications, with common service-level metrics like container count and request activity all in a single pane of glass.
Usage tip: Try grouping by application and service metadata when using this view (eg: container.image > container.id). This view is often most useful when exploring groups of applications and services, since the metrics are relevant to holistic service performance.
Estimated performance capacity.
This view shows CPU% capacity usage and transaction requests and estimates the loss of capacity to service requests due to 'stolen cpu'. Estimated Max Requests are for the current CPU capacity, while Estimated Stolen Requests are those additional requests the instance could handle were it able to utilize the full physical CPU.
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Usage: By default, instances are shown with processes in aggregate, be sure to click the '+' symbol by each instance to see capacity metrics for individual processes.
Tip: CPU steal time' is a measure of the percent of time that a virtual machine's CPU is in a state of involuntary wait due to the fact that the physical CPU is either shared among virtual machines or due to contracted limits.


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And the reason is of course that the Saudi dictator family utilizes exactly those evil tenets that made islam "successful" in the first place.
There's no difference in coping with the Saudi dictator family as an ally than it would be coping with Nazi Germany, if it was still around. Except that this fascism is called religion.
Muslim supremacist hate against "infidels".
Islam in Sweden
Klevius: Is there any "community" other than muslim that harbors so much racist and sexist hate?
And the main evil behind this islamic incitement to hate comes from the "custodians of islam (and OIC)" i.e. the Saudi dictator family which our politicians (and BBC) keep telling us "is our best ally"!
Derek Ford, a scholar and professor, about recent developments regarding peace talks for Syria.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: First of all, what do you make of the preconditions set by the Saudi-backed High Negotiations Committee for joining the peace talks?
Ford: I think that it should be interpreted as ultimately a gesture of bad faith and a way to delay the peace talks, because the Russian intervention in Syria at the request of the Syrian government beginning September 30 of last year has really irreversibly changed the dynamics of the conflict in Syria.
And I think that, ultimately, the strategy of the Syrian government in alliance with the Russian government and with Iran has been to win enough territory back and gain the military upper hand in order to be able to implement political solution, because ultimately that's what is required.
However, that is of course directly at odds with the agenda of Saudi Arabia, which is to prolong the crisis, which is still to overthrow the government of Syria. And where the United States falls on that spectrum has wavered quite a bit over the last several years and continues to waver. It's looking increasingly likely that the United States will accept that Syria cannot be given over wholesale to terrorist forces like the [so-called] Army of Islam.
Press TV: Mr. Ford, it's been pretty much well-documented that the Russian airstrikes are targeting Daesh-held areas and Daesh terrorists. My question is why is the High Negotiations Committee focusing on the halting of Russian airstrikes when the United States is also at the head of a so-called coalition battling Daesh – in its own words – battling Daesh in Syria as well? Why do they want the Russian airstrikes to stop and not the US airstrikes to stop?
Ford: Yes, that's the good question and ultimately I think that, you know, it's important to understand that all the opposition in Syria are either Daesh forces, they're al-Qaeda forces, with the al-Nusra Front, they're the Army of Islam; there is no secular opposition, there is no progressive opposition. And so, the airstrikes against Daesh are airstrikes against the Syrian opposition.
Of course, the United States has been careful to not interfere too much with the relations that Turkey has with ISIL, with Daesh forces in the region. And so, to demand that there be a stop to Russian airstrikes is basically to demand that there be an end to the most effective campaign against Daesh forces in Syria.
Press TV: The United Nations Special Envoy to Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, has accused Saudi Arabia of deliberately trying to undermine efforts for reaching a political solution. He has also said that Riyadh is complicating his efforts by trying to control which opposition groups are allowed to participate in the talks. This is pretty much along the lines of what you said of the Saudis having or expressing bad faith when it comes to trying to find a political solution to the crisis in Syria. Can you elaborate on that for us?
Ford: Yeah, so ultimately what's happening is that Saudi Arabia, which funds the Army of Islam, which has at least a sort of implicit agreement with ISIL, wants to be able to hand-pick what "opposition forces" are at the negotiating table.
Of course Russia, Syria and Iran with quite good reason have reservations about that because you have... Not only is the Army of Islam a terrorist group, but Saudi Arabia wants to have at least three members that are affiliated with al-Qaeda on the negotiating team, which obviously is quite outrageous.
And then, Russia, in response, has requested that there be representatives of the Kurdish opposition on the opposition negotiation team. And this is an effort to introduce some moderate forces onto the opposition. And of course Saudi Arabia and Turkey are not happy with that.
And, so I think that basically it's a struggle over who will control the composition of the opposition group, and will it be entirely Takfiri groups who are represented.


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Every other Thursday, Gena Hamshaw of the blog Choosing Raw shares satisfying, flavorful recipes that also happen to be vegan.
Today: This dessert proves that vegans can have their cake -- made with summer's best fruit -- and eat it, too.
My time with this peachy crumble coffee cake was woefully short. I made it late on a Thursday night, inspired by my weekly produce delivery, which had brought me my first taste of ripe summer peaches. I snuck in a (divine) slice before bedtime -- I had to taste test it, after all -- but by the time late morning rolled around on Friday, a certain someone (okay, my boyfriend) had polished most of it off. Turns out he was as smitten with the coffee cake as I was. And rightly so.
More: If you want your peaches cold, try Gena's (vegan) peach pie ice cream.
In both the cake and the crumble, this recipe calls for melted coconut oil, which is my baking oil of choice; I find that it consistently creates a perfect crumb in a wide range of vegan baked goods. If you don't happen to have any, don't worry: Canola oil or vegetable oil will work, too, though coconut oil is a good investment for future baking adventures; its sweet and fragrant qualities complement quick breads perfectly. I've also skipped flax meal here, which is often used in vegan baking to replace eggs; I find that it can actually make vegan baked goods overly dense, or even gummy. This cake has none of that.
The result is everything that coffee cake should be: sweet, fragrant, and full of texture. There's a perfect balance between the soft, fluffy cake and the nutty, sugary, crumbly topping. To sweeten the deal, small pieces of peach are studded throughout the whole thing, creating heavenly little pockets of sweetness and moisture.
Vegan Peach Crumble Coffee Cake
Serves 9 to 12
For the coffee cake:
1 cup almond milk1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar1/2 cup organic sugar1/3 cup melted coconut oil1 teaspoon vanilla extract1 1/4 cups unbleached, all-purpose flour1 teaspoon baking powder1 teaspoon baking soda1 teaspoon ground cinnamon1/4 teaspoon sea salt1 cup peeled, diced ripe peaches
For the crumble topping:
3/4 cup all unbleached, all-purpose flour1/3 cup packed organic brown sugar1/3 cup chopped walnuts1 teaspoon ground cinnamon1/8 teaspoon salt1/4 teaspoon sea salt (or to taste)4 to 5 tablespoons coconut oil (melted or solid -- either will work)
See the full recipe (and save it and print it) here.
Photos by James Ransom
Gena's new book Choosing Raw: Making Raw Foods Part of the Way You Eat is a thorough, relatable guide to incorporating raw and vegan foods into any diet. It's full of no-fuss recipes for every meal, which range from fully raw to mostly cooked, with plenty of snacks and desserts to keep everyone happy.
The Food52 Vegan Cookbook is here! With this book from Gena Hamshaw, anyone can learn how to eat more plants (and along the way, how to cook with and love cashew cheese, tofu, and nutritional yeast).
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Growing up as one of six children in his Irvine home, Barrett Johnson remembers his house always being filled with music. With musicians on both sides of the family — even a professional banjo-playing grandpa — Johnson was inspired early on to pick up an instrument himself. So he'd often sneak into his brother's room while he was out, grab his guitar from under the bed and attempt to play it.
Johnson's older brother also exposed him to numerous songwriters. "He gave me tapes of Bob Dylan and Paul Simon," he recalls. "I was hooked after that. I just remember wearing those tapes out and completely turning my life upside down."
He hasn't put the guitar down since. Johnson has been gigging around Southern California for a decade now, and in 2008 released his first album, In Case I Went Missing, featuring tracks that have appeared on Private Practice and MTV's The Real World.
Along with fellow local artists Billy Kernkamp, Melanoid and Justin Grennan and the Project, Johnson will perform Friday night at South Coast Plaza Village, in a $5-ticket benefit for the local charity Music for a Cure.
One thing all of these artists have in common is that they've recorded with producer Dallas Kruse, who also happens to sit in with numerous Orange County bands. Kruse has already worked on albums with Grennan, Johnson, Kernkamp and Melanoid, as well as Selena Garcia and ska-pop outfit Suburban Legends, among others.
"He's a huge talent and he's going to be playing with all four bands Friday night," Johnson mentioned. "He's a real humble guy — he never talks about himself, but he's starting to become known for these albums that he's recording."
Johnson's band — including Kruse on keys and accordion, Mikey Hachey on bass, John Hanson of Melanoid on guitar, Jorgren Ingmar on drums and Grennan providing backing vocals — consists of many of the same members from the other bands performing Friday at the South Coast charity show.
"We all gig around, but then we all have our core groups," he explains. "The change between acts sometimes on stage is that someone hands someone else a guitar and they step behind the mic."
Johnson reports that he and Kruse are close to wrapping work on his sophomore album, due this fall and tentatively titled New Jerusalem, one of the new disc's songs.
"I refrain from talking about politics or religion with anyone," he says, "but I wanted to name (the album) something about hope or second chances, so I decided to name it something that I have hope in. There's a lot more to it, but that would be a long conversation."
For the past two months, Johnson and Kruse, who have known each other since high school at Calvary Chapel in Santa Ana, have been recording at Zion Studios. However, the experience this time around was far less grueling than it was making In Case I Went Missing: Johnson recorded that one in a studio in Hollywood in his downtime, and it took nearly four years to complete.
"With this one, it was different. I feel like this is my first album. It takes a lot to get excited when you've been doing music for so long, but I'm actually really, really excited about this."
Having gained success licensing songs from the last album for television, Johnson hopes the new one will catch on as well. He's also working on a side project, called Ultimate Bear Hug, with Doll Knight of local group Canvas; the duo is looking to record an EP to also pitch for commercial use.
Music, for Johnson, has developed from something he just enjoyed doing at 15 to something that now demands considerable effort. The turning point seems to have come in his late teens and early 20s, when he wrote enough material to start booking gigs, his first being at Alta Coffee in Newport Beach.
"I still play there once a year," he says. "It's from there that things took off. Once I got enough people to fill the coffee shop, I went to the next step and booked at the Gypsy Lounge and even more people came.
"It's been really cool. I'm grateful to have been surrounded by friends that are such talented songwriters, so when we have a show there are a bunch of us in one spot. It's that way now, which is why I like this scene."
Barrett Johnson appears with Billy Kernkamp, Melanoid and Justin Grennan and the Project Friday night at South Coast Plaza Village, 1631 W. Sunflower Ave., Costa Mesa. Tickets are $5, benefitting Music for a Cure.
Previously in Orange Pop:
- Rye Douglas aims higher with the Echo Sounding
- Locally Grown at the Grove gets off to a solid start
- Roman Alexander & the Robbery stealing attention
- Faded Paper Figures stick together
- Runner Runner debuts on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- Billy Kernkamp keeps it simple
- Things are heating up for Kiev
- The Grove reveals next Locally Grown lineup
- Hindu Pirates graduate high school
- Big potential from Venus Infers, Kiev


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Definition - What does Ovary mean?
The ovary is a female reproductive organ vital to a woman's sexual functioning and fertility. The production site of the female sex cell, the egg, the ovaries also maintain and control the health and functioning of the female reproductive system and develop the two primary sex hormones, progesterone and estrogen.
Diseases of the ovaries may impede or prevent pregnancy from occurring.
FertilitySmarts explains Ovary
The female body has two ovaries. These grape-sized organs sit towards the top of the uterus, on opposite sides but attached via two fallopian tubes.
During the early days of a woman's menstrual cycle, a sac-like cavity called a follicle develops in the ovary. The follicle is the location of egg development in preparation for impending ovulation.
The secretion of two hormones from the pituitary gland (luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone) triggers the release of the egg, which breaks free from the follicle and begins traveling through the fallopian tube in search of sperm.
While the egg approaches potential fertilization, the remnants of the follicle, called the corpus luteum, secrete progesterone and estrogen, which promotes the developing of the uterine lining and supports a potential fertilization, possible pregnancy, or upcoming menstruation.
Abnormalities, disease, or conditions of the ovaries can impede or prevent pregnancy from occurring. Ovarian conditions include:
- Ovarian cysts
- Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
- Ovarian tumors
- Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
- Ovarian torsion
- Hormonal dysfunction
- Genetic conditions or congenital abnormalities