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Healing through archives in partnership with Numbi Arts | London Metropolitan Archives
A Voyage Into the Past
Join us for a workshop at London Metropolitan Archives with Paul Dudman from the Refugee Council Archive, to introduce and share what an archive does and the importance of holding records as collective memory. There will be an opportunity to view and handle original documents that refer to the life of the Somali seamen that lived in East London.
You will then be invited to do a 'Hido Raac' with Numbi arts, a walking odyssey exploring the Somali presence and living histories of East London. The heritage walk will set off to explore the entangled, enveloped, co-constitutive narratives of commerce, culture and colonialism between Somali peoples and the city.
Beauty of Craftsmanship
Come and enjoy a taste of Somali culture with an afternoon of talks, weaving and object handling. Enjoy the new Somali object display in Room 24 (the Wellcome Trust Gallery of Living and Dying) and hear how it was developed by the Museum's Object Journeys project community partners.
Followed by a practical workshop session with Numbi Arts to recreate traditional basketry using recycled material. There be an opportunity to share stories and to learn new skills. This will be then presented in a pop-up exhibition which will provide a counterpoint display widening understanding of how the displaying of objects can both reveal and conceal aspects of history.


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One goal of the SRP is to integrate both biomedical and non-biomedical research components to address the complex nature of hazardous waste management and remediation. The stories below are examples of biomedical research conducted by SRP researchers.
Arsenic in well water may diminish intelligence in children: Evidence of a long-suspected connection between arsenic exposure and decreased intelligence among children is reported in a new study by NIEHS-funded scientists from the Columbia University Superfund Research Program Center.
Arsenic linked to blood pressure increases during pregnancy: Arsenic exposure is associated with greater increases in blood pressure over the course of a pregnancy, according to a new NIEHS-funded study of U.S. pregnant women. These findings may have important implications because even modest increases in blood pressure can affect future cardiovascular disease risk for mothers and their children.
Basic metabolism studies lead to a treatment for laminitis in horses: A compound developed by researchers at University of California (UC), Davis Superfund Research Program (SRP) to study basic catalytic mechanisms of an enzyme in the body is being used to treat laminitis in horses, relieving pain and inflammation.
Children Exposed to Cadmium May Be at Higher Risk for Learning Disabilities: Robert Wright, M.D., led a team of researchers to discover that children and teens with higher levels of cadmium in their bodies are more likely to have learning disabilities and be placed in special education.
Commonly Manufactured Nanomaterial Induces Neurovascular Toxicity: Nanoalumina, a widely manufactured nanomaterial, can accumulate in brain cells, inducing nerve and blood vessel damage and protein degradation in the brain, according to a 2012 study from the University of Kentucky Superfund Research Program (UK SRP).
Exposure to low levels of chemical mixtures linked with cancer: Chemicals can sometimes act together to cause cancer, even when low-level exposures to the individual chemicals might not be cancer-causing, or carcinogenic. This important finding emerged from an international task force of more than 170 cancer scientists, known as the Halifax Project, which collaboratively assessed the carcinogenic potential of low-dose exposures to chemical mixtures in the environment.
Novel Method Identifies Potential Key Pathway in Arsenic-Induced Birth Defects: Blocking the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) pathway in a chick embryo model prevents structural birth defects induced by arsenic, according to a 2013 study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Superfund Research Program (UNC SRP).
Prenatal Exposure to Perchloroethylene (PCE) and the Incidence of Birth Defects: Prenatal exposure to a chemical solvent can put babies at an increased risk for birth defects, according to a study published in the September 2009 issue of Environmental Health.
Residential Exposure to PCBs and Pesticides May Increase the Risk of Leukemia: The incidence of childhood leukemia in industrialized countries rose significantly from 1975 through 2004, and the reasons for the increase are not understood. Drs. Patricia Buffler and Catherine Metayer from the University of California at Berkeley are investigating how exposure to Superfund chemicals may affect a child's risk of contracting leukemia.
Study Links Prenatal Mercury Exposure and Fish Intake to ADHD-Related Behavior: A Harvard University study suggests that low-level prenatal mercury exposure is associated with an increased risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-related behaviors.
Study Suggests Possible Therapy for Arsenic Toxicity: Columbia University researchers conduce one of the first large-scale genomic studies conducted in a developing country. Their findings suggest a possible route for preventing disease in people exposed to arsenic.
Superfund study examines carcinogenicity of nickel nanoparticles: Brown University researcher Agnes Kane, M.D., Ph.D., shows evidence that nickel nanoparticles activate a cellular pathway that contributes to cancer in human lung cells.
Triclosan promotes liver tumor growth in mice: A collaborative study performed by NIEHS-funded scientists from the University of California (UC) San Diego and UC Davis showed that long-term exposure to triclosan promotes the growth of liver tumors in laboratory mice, raising concerns about its safety for humans. Triclosan is a common antibacterial chemical used in a wide variety of consumer products such as cosmetics, soaps, detergents, and toothpaste.
Widely Used Antibacterial Agents May Lead to Significant Health Concerns: Triclosan (TCS), a chemical widely used for its antibacterial properties, was shown to weaken heart and skeletal muscle activity in animal models in a study performed at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) Superfund Research Program (SRP) Center.
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An April 13th article by Fr. Benedict Kiely, Catholic Herald caught my attention this week. Entitled "The Cross ISIS couldn't destroy", the piece transported me back to so many parts of Syria that we traveled in during the 2011 "Arab Spring". He writes in
As we entered the Church of St Addai, the full hatred for the "followers of the Cross" was revealed. The Islamists had attempted to burn the church. A smashed statue of Our Lady was on the ground. The altar had bullet holes in it. Everywhere – in that church and the others we visited – the Cross was defaced, destroyed or in some way vandalised.
Even if a wooden door had a Cross on it, at least one arm would be broken. [..] All across the Nineveh Plains, the home of Christians for almost 2,000 years, the same thing has happened: Islamists cannot bear the imagery of the Cross.
Suddenly, Steve Rasche, an American who works for the Archdiocese of Erbil and was coordinating our visit, knelt in the rubble and picked up a Cross. Brushing off the rubble and dirt, he saw it was unbroken – the corpus had been removed, but the Cross was intact. Then Rasche, whom I later christened "the Crossfinder", told us the story of the miraculous Cross of Baqofah – which ended up on display during the weeks of Lent in, of all places, Westminster Cathedral.
During out time in Syria, we encountered many Christian and Muslim
areas that no longer fared as well as that crucifix. In the city of Saidnaya, a mere 17 km north of Damascus, we enjoyed the hospitality of the the Orthodox sisters at Our Lady of Saidnaya Monastery, one of the oldest monasteries in the world. We participated in Lenten Friday evening services, roomed overnight in the rooftop quarters for guests and gazed out at night in a city where Christianity and Islam coexisted peacefully.
The monastery has been badly damaged during the six year Syrian conflict, and, with the fall of a stable government, Christians and Muslims no longer share this magnificent resource, where an icon of Mary, attributed to St. Luke, was reverenced daily by both Christian and Muslim pilgrims. Is all lost? Hard to know, but in prayer, I find that the echoes of that time still move my heart and soul to consider how we must, more than ever, treasure our traditions, our heritage… our faith.


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The website's URL is plain enough. I am Jimmy St-Germain and I have been employed by Cirque du Soleil in various capacities (music publishing, CD inventory management and now intellectual property management) for nine years. I previously worked for SODRAC, a copyrights management society, for close to 5 years
I studied jazz guitar at CEGEP Vanier, gave private lessons, sang in various choirs among which Choeur St-Laurent and Choeur Polyphonique de Montréal and accompanied, in this capacity, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Philadelphia Orchestra and others. I also have studied choir direction with the Alliance des Chorales du Québec.
By the way, I also have the time to play guitar, if that's not obvious enough, although presently bandless. Main styles covered in my previous band are blues and rock. When by myself, I lean more towards jazz, folk and avant-garde music.
Qu'est-ce que « A TUNING A DAY » représente?
It's basically one of those crazy internet-fueled ideas whereas something is thrown on the wall and one basically sits back and watches to see if anything sticks.
In this case, I'm going to tune my guitar in a different tuning everyday, known or unknown, and compose a snippet and post it here as a vidcast.
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|Disneyland is one of the few places in California with water fountains.
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|A mermaid birthday celebration at Blue Bayou.
Dear Melinda,
A belated Happy Birthday to my favorite Mermaid. Your blog is music to my ears with splashing mermaid spirit. You are an inspiration for all of us to keep our power and create joy wherever we can for ourselves and our world which needs love and joy more than ever. Thank you, Perie
Belated Happy Birthday, Melinda the Mermaid! Yes, every day is a gift! Thanks for reminding us how gathering with friends is always a good idea.
Well, Happy Birthday, belatedly! :-) Great pictures. Lovely post.
Dear Melinda,
When I watched for mermaids in the gray waters of the North Sea near Denmark, I wondered after moving to the shore of the mighty Pacific,if mermaids could perhaps be found here, who also crossed the Atlantic and swam through the Panama Canal, and looked for more hospitable terrain near dolphins, and swimming around the lovely Channel Islands. But so far I have not seen one, until--there she was! Melinda. A cute and winsome mermaid right here in our midst, a princess mermaid wearing a lovely crown. Now to write a story about this mermaid with a big heart.
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Hi, Melinda. Fun, fun, fun. Thanks for sharing these family photos, shell crowns and yummy Blue Bayou delicacy and all. Belated happy birthday! I'm with you regarding the mourning millions of us are doing about the election. All we can be sure of, I believe, is that the next 4 years will be attempts to dismantle our nation and "take us back" to prior centuries, courtesy of Trump, Pence, Paul Ryan, and the clueless, out-of-touch GOP plutocrats. We have to be highly vigilant and fight any dismantling these politicians try to do.


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Filmed footage and images come together in her exhibition, Hidden Spire, which opens tonight and runs until 26 September.
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'From documenting the workshops, I have been inspired by the range of creative processes involved; from the initial sketches and discussions through to movement, expression, light and sound workshops, costume and set design. I have witnessed the ideas generated throughout this time change, develop and gather momentum towards final production.' - Nicola Armitage
|Some images from the design process.
If you're seeing Before The Tempest on Saturday 19 September, join can join Nicola for a 'live drawing' workshop, 12-2pm, as part of the Big Draw 2015 Festival launch in Oxford. Click here to find out more.
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UMCH's garden returned this year, thanks to all the youth who faithfully have watered, weeded and harvested the yummy produce. Among other things, they are growing watermelon, different types of tomatoes, and a variety of sweet pepper plants.
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Author Archives: Jeff Ayers
BALTIMORE COMIC-CON 2016: Comic Creators Consuming Coffee Panel
By Jeff AyersFor the second year in a row, writer Amy Chu gathered some like-minded creators together for the Comic Creators Consuming Coffee panel and Baltimore Comic-Con, caffeinated by Death Wish Coffee. The difference being this year, she allowed me to moderate
BALTIMORE COMIC CON 2016: Full Recap + Photo Gallery
By Jeff AyersFanboysInc was in full effect at Baltimore Comic Con this year, sharing a booth with our sponsors, Death Wish Coffee. A true recap of all the amazing things that happened in the Baltimore Convention Center would take almost as long
COMIC REVIEW: Aether and Empire #2 – The Status Quo
By Jeff AyersWriter: Mike Horan Pencils and Inks: Bong Ty Dazo Colors and Cover: Tim Yates $3.99 Blue Juice Comics Issue 2 of Aether and Empire sets the reader right back down in late 1800's Britain, complete with cockney accents and regal
KICKSTARTER PICK: Personal Space Sci-Fi Web Series
By Jeff AyersKickstarter sure has become quite the powerhouse for crowdfunding all sorts of projects. In that respect, it can be quite daunting to peruse the thousands of projects, even within a single category. That is why FanboysInc likes to try and
BREAKING NEWS: Death Wish Coffee Presents: ODINFORCE Comic
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TV REVIEW: Agents of SHIELD Season 3 Ep. 16 – Paradise Lost
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TV REVIEW: Agents of SHIELD Season 3, Episode 15 – Spacetime
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ADVANCE COMIC REVIEW: Aether & Empire #1 – An Overture to Eternal Glory
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As runners begin planning their race schedules for the season, Stride bloggers offer up their favorite races as suggestions.
If you're looking to break away from the many races on Chicago's flat streets this summer, look no further than the Bix.
This world-famous race takes place in Davenport, Iowa, which is less than a three-hour drive from Chicago. Held the last Saturday of each July, this challening 7-mile course is one of the best in the Midwest.
The course is hilly and the weather is hot and humid, but there is great music, a cheering crowd and runners in a variety of costumes.The out-and-back format of the race also offers the rare chance to run alongside elite runners from from all over the world.
Here are some of my favorite perks of the Bix:
- Prime People Watching: With a field of 20,000 runners and a strong costumed contingency, the human scenery is fantastic.
- Elite Navel-Gazing: Meb Keflezighi, Joan Benoit Samuelson and Bill Rogers are all long-time Bix participants.
- Wonderful Water Stops: Slip'N Slides, hoses, sprinklers, water guns -- and, of course, just some water in regular cups, too. The eager crowd takes their hydration responsibilities very enthusiastically.
- Post-Race Party: Along with the standard fare, there are more snacks, popsicles and tasty treats than you can shake a running shoe at.
To me, the Bix is more than just a hilly 7-mile race. It's an event. It's a holiday. It's a reunion. Most of all, it's a rite of passage.
As a testament to how much I enjoy this race, I'm running the event for the 11th time this summer. I've run this race while in the best shape in my life and in the worst shape in my life, while I was pregnant and when I became a new mom, and while I was injured and healthy.
As you're planning your race schedule for the season, definitely consider adding the Bix and make a vacation out of it. Registration for the July 25 race is already open.
Adrea Beatty is a writer by profession, a jock by trade and a runner by coincidence. After wrecking her joints playing sports, she now spends her time chasing down her husband, pushing her daughters in a stroller and shuffling along with her trusty labradoodle running partner. For more from Adrea, check out http://rulesforrunning.com.


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Valentine's Day is one day each year that I look forward to getting dolled up. Busy moms don't get the opportunity to get dressed up very often, so I like to really embrace the experience when I have the opportunity. However, getting ready for a date doesn't need to take as long as it once did when I was in high school or college. Thankfully I have discovered a few products that make doing my makeup easy and it looks a whole lot better than my makeup did in college!
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New York, NY - June 23 : Barbara Kopple attends the New York Premiere of Life Itself
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We're inviting people with dementia and their professional carers to explore the contents of a very special memory box in a unique workshop.
Together, we'll open up the box and use the sensory objects inside to tell the story of Lear and his daughters, before shaping new stories inspired by the objects.
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October is National Women's Small Business Month. It is an opportunity to celebrate the contribution of millions of small business women across the United States (and the millions of others around the world) who are building successful companies, creating jobs, and following their passions in the process.
It is amazing to think that as recently as 1988 many states required women to have a male relative signatory in order to obtain a business loan. H.R. 5050 – The Women's Business Ownership Act, passed in that year, eliminated that discriminatory requirement across all 50 US states. It also directed the creation of the Women's Business Center program, under the Small Business Administration, which now includes over 100 education centers across the US dedicated to helping "level the playing field" for women starting and running small businesses. And, it created the National Women's Business Council with the mission to, "advise the White House, Congress and the Small Business Association on issues relevant to women business owners – with a critical focus on how to alleviate the obstacles faced by both women business owners and women trying to start their own businesses."
It's amazing what a more level playing field and a bit of targeted help can do. The 2016 State Of Women-Owned Businesses Report from American Express OPEN reports that in 2002 women-owned businesses accounted for 28% of US businesses, which grew to 29% in 2007, 36% in 2012, and 38% in 2016. For 2016 that translates to, "11.3 million (11,313,900) women-owned businesses in the United States, employing nearly 9 million people (8,976,100), and generating over $1.6 trillion ($1,622,763,800,000) in revenues."
While that sounds, and is, impressive the news is not all good. While the number of women-owned businesses has grown, the Amex report finds that the share of overall US small business revenue for those businesses held steady at 4% between 2002 and 2016, and the share of small business employment remained relatively unchanged at 6-8%.
One reason for this may be that despite The Women's Business Ownership Act, women still do not receive equal treatment when it comes to small business loans—and they may be partly to blame. A recent study from Fundera (a small business loan matching service) found that on average female entrepreneurs request $35,000 less in funding than do their male counterparts. However, the study found that the problem doesn't end with the ask. Fundera reviewed loan applications across its entire system (Over 8,400 small business applicants: around 6,200 men and 2,200 women) and found that, "Women entrepreneurs get offered smaller loans across every product, from the same groups of online lenders, with no exception, and pay significantly higher interest rates than men do."
Interestingly, I haven't come across any reports or statistics showing that women entrepreneurs default on business loans more frequently than their male counterparts. The Fundera study did note that women applicants had on average lower credit scores and lower reported revenue than their male counterparts– but could not determine whether the difference in credit score and revenue was a cause or effect of the disparity in credit availability. Even more interesting, the Hiscox American Courage Index found that 38.7% of women entrepreneurs are focused on paying off debt, compared to 25.5% of men.
As with most things, numbers don't tell the whole story. And for every dispiriting statistic there is a success story. For example, read about the two women (and PaySimple customers) who built the successful CaRu Entertainment business. Or, head over to the NFIB (National Federation of Independent Businesses) website where as part of National Women's Small Business Month they are profiling successful female members.
Don't stop there! Take full advantage of National Women's Small Business month to celebrate the many successes of past and present female entrepreneurs; to contemplate how you can grow your own small business (or support small businesses (female-owned or otherwise)) and continue the advances in leveling the playing field for all small business owners; and to cultivate the skills, connections, and confidence you need to make your small business a success.
Start with following resources and events:
- SBA Web Conference: Get Tips for Starting or Growing a Small Business
As part of National Women's Small Business Month celebrations, the SBA's Assistant Administrator for Women's Business Ownership provides tips on turning an idea or hobby into a business and help with growing an existing business through programs like SBA's Emerging Leaders Initiative and government contracting opportunities.
Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 3:00 PM Eastern Time (Register Here)
- Raising the Next Generation of Women Entrepreneurs – Starting a Business at Any Life Stage
This free 1 hour webinar from SCORE (a small business mentoring non-profit) provides, "guidance and encouragement for women who own or want to own a small business…. Additionally, they will discuss best practices for navigating the ups and downs that come with being a woman in small business and provide tips for finding balance." The pre-recorded session includes an audience Q&A at the end. Provide your name, email, and zip to register and immediately view the webinar.
- National Association of Women Business Owners e-Learning Series
A dues-based membership organization, the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) represents over 9 million women-owned businesses with chapters across the United States. Becoming a member will get you access to a wide variety of resources and networking opportunities (They're offering a discount in October). But there are plenty of free resources too. Check out the webinars in the e-learning series, which range from using social media effectively to healthcare to exporting.
- SBA Woman Owned Small Business Contracting Program
The federal government has a set-aside for woman-owned small businesses, which may give you a leg-up on some federal contracts. Learn more about the program, figure out if you qualify, and register to participate on the SBA website.
- National Women's Business Conference 2015 Annual Report
This comprehensive look at the climate for female entrepreneurs in the US from 2012-2015 also includes a round-up of government and local organization activity in support of women-owned businesses.
- Small-Business Loans for Women 2016: Your Top Options
This list of funding sources from Nerdwallet provides alternatives to traditional bank loans and SBA loan programs that may work for small business owners in a variety of situations—problem credit scores, newly formed companies without a track record, and established businesses. Check out the comparison table at the very bottom of the post for a really helpful overview. (Note—Nerdwallet makes money off submitted applications, which is why there are links to apply for every option.)
- Enter the Balboa Capital 'How She Did It' Competition to win $1000
Balboa Capital (a small business financing firm) is celebrating National Women's Small Business Month with their second annual "How She Did It" competition. Female entrepreneurs are asked to submit the story of, "what inspired you to start your business, how you connect with customers, what challenges you might face (and how you overcome them), and how you continue to make your dream of entrepreneurship thrive." Balboa Capital management will review the entries and select the winner who will be featured on their website and get the cash prize. Enter Here—the deadline is October 31, 2016.
Also check out the Balboa Capital 2016 women in business infographic for the latest stats. For example, 29% of women stated they became business owners to implement a new business idea or vision, 19% to enjoy the freedom of being an entrepreneur and 12% to solve an industry specific problem.
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If there is any part of the solution that is needed to be a core part of the Real Estate Employee's success, it is definitely the Residential CRM Solutions. After all, getting new leads along with nurturing the existing or previous customers takes a lot of time.
Managing residential units is never easy. With over thousands of options – some freebies and some expensive solutions — some free and some costing thousands of dollars a month — how do Real Estate Developers find out which product is the best for their business?
Property-xRM powered by Microsoft Dynamics CRM with built-in Residential CRM Solutions module, helps you manage your Residential Units and transactions with ease. The step-by-step real estate process in Residential CRM helps you in attaining timely follow-ups and activities. It takes you through the entire sales/lease process right from lead to qualification booking, sales, invoicing, receipts and then extends to post sales activities like renewal, transfer, upgrade/ downgrade, variation agreements etc.
With Residential CRM, one can have the entire firm with a single view of each contact and customer. Store both customer data and a complete history of the customer relationship, as well as transaction details related to that customer, refer to the content – or update it – anywhere, on any device.


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Gettysburg College's Schmucker Art Gallery recently presented a student curated exhibition entitled "Visualizing War" that consisted of materials found within Special Collections of Musselman Library. The allotted space for the exhibit featured twelve pieces all pertaining to the Civil War. The curators, Natalie Sherif, Alexandra Ward, and Andrew Egbert, desired to capture the sentiments of those living in the North one-hundred and fifty years ago through the art pieces chosen. Although the display was small, it exuded remembrance and accomplished the curators' specific purpose.
Sherif, Ward, and Egbert did an excellent job collaborating their selected parts into a whole, meaningful exhibit. The use of a variety of carefully researched sources to examine Northern perceptions of the American Civil War and the evolution of its political, social, and militaristic visual representations was impressive. Special Collections at Musselman Library houses all of the displayed images and head archivist Carolyn Sautter aided in pulling the exhibit together. Being limited to the objects hindered the total effect that could have been posed in the exhibit through the use of additional outside images yet the pieces chosen still proved to achieve the goal. Special Collections has a vast collection of Civil War artifacts and memorabilia, therefore, more pieces could have been involved in the exhibit to enhance the presentation. Nonetheless the twelve chosen portrayed a crucial part of the American Civil War.
The title of the exhibition, Visualizing War, seemed to be misleading. Entering the exhibit, unknowing of the purpose, I expected to see various photographs of several wars. The title was appropriate, but needed to be refined with a description following the name to specify the meaning of the exhibition. The exhibition also could have been more successful if images from both the Northern and Southern perspectives were displayed. More well-rounded pieces would have enhanced the experience for the visitor, because the Civil War was not one sided. A strict division in the exhibition I believe would have been more powerful in visualizing the whole concept of the war. The exhibition also could possibly have been better designed if images from other-American wars were included.
The pieces themselves portrayed varying perspectives on the Civil War. I discovered that I was able to break down the twelve images into three categories: colorization of images, propaganda, and aftermath. Each category exhibited a different perspective of the war. The colors used in three of the pictures on display developed their own message regardless of the exact drawing. The use of color seems to be fairly important in the romanticized view of war and death. The 1863 map also used vibrant colors and connected to the notion of the North being the correct side. Five of the pieces entered into the exhibition were political propaganda pieces of the Civil War era that showed the negative view of the Confederacy. The last four pieces depicted heroic battle scenes and the brutal difficulties that were associated with the War Between the States. All of the images combined created a powerful visual exhibit that deserves notable recognition for a successful commemoration of the sesquicentennial.
Images from Special Collections, Musselman Library, Gettysburg College.


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School: Centerburg High School
Parish: Saint John Neumann
Parish Involvement:
I have been an active member of the high school youth group for the last three years, a member of our youth leadership team for the last two years and I frequently help with middle school activities such as fun nights and summer camp.
Service Performed:
I frequently help with middle school activities such as summer camp and fun nights and helped out with parish activities like fish fries and mulch sales. I attended Blest Week Ever, a week of service in the Columbus area, last year and am planning on attending again this year. I volunteered at the Shane Center for Therapeutic Horsemanship regularly for three years.
The Importance of Service:
Community service is one of those things that every high school student feels like they just have to do in order to strengthen their college applications- but what is it that is so important about community service? Giving back to your community has benefits beyond the possibility of helping to get into your college of choice, many of which you may never see. Serving others provides not only physical necessities but also spreads hope. Hope is what keeps people going on the tough days, what keeps people strong and alive in the faith. Through your actions and the spreading of hope, you are also able to spread and strengthen the faith in those who are struggling. Giving back to your community also improves and preserves the community for future generations. So, not only are you helping the current generation directly, but you are also indirectly helping the next generation and the next. Community service benefits not only the community, but also benefits the giver by building self-confidence and providing priceless life lessons. Additionally, the are countless places throughout the Bible that tell us to serve others. James 2:15-17 says, "Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, 'Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,' but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead." In John 13:34-35, Jesus says, "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." Matthew 25:40 tells us, "The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.'"


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About Me
I am a Reader working in Theoretical Physics at the Department of Mathematics of City, University of London. I have worked at City since March 2005. Before joining City I was a postdoctoral researcher at the École Normale Superiéure de Lyon (France) (2004-05) and at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) (2001-03). I have a PhD, MSc and BSc in Theoretical Physics, which I carried out at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) (1993-2001). Part of my PhD was carried out at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany).
I am a theoretical physicist working in Quantum Field Theory (QFT). I specialise on the study of integrable 1+1-dimensional QFTs and other closely related theories, such as statistical models, conformal field theories and integrable quantum spin chains.
Much of the work that I have carried out relates to the development of the Bootstrap programme, that is, computing scattering matrices, form factors and correlation functions and investigating their analytical properties and underlying mathematical structures. The main techniques that I have used in this context are the Thermodynamic Bethe ansatz (TBA) and the form factor programme. Much of my work in these areas has been carried out in collaboration with Andreas Fring, also at City.
Since 2007 my research has focused on applying some of the techniques above, notably the form factor programme, to the study of various measures of entanglement in 1+1-dimensional QFTs and quantum spin chains by employing branch point twist fields. Recently I have also contributed to the growing field of out-of-equilibrium dynamics in many-body quantum systems, by applying a generalisation of the TBA approach, together with hydrodynamic principles, to the description of current and density averages after a non-homogenous quantum quench. My most important contribution so far is this work. My main collaborator in these two lines of research is Benjamin Doyon.
My past and current work also include collaborations with Takato Yoshimura, Francesco Ravanini, Jean-Michel Maillet, J. Luis Miramontes, Marianne Hoogeveen, Carla Figueira de Morisson Faria, Frank Göhmann, Davide Fioravanti, Julian Dreißig, Christian Korff, Yixion Cheng, John L. Cardy, Olivier Blondeau-Fournier, my former PhD students Emanuele Levi and Davide Bianchini, my current PhD student Cecilia de Fazio, and my former Postdoc István M. Szécsény.
I have taught modules in all three years of our BSc programmes: Functions, Vectors and Calculus, Programming, Number Theory and Cryptography, Multivariable Calculus, Dynamical Systems and Complex Analysis. I have also supervised many final year BSc projects.


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Please use the 'Media resources' drop down menu at the bottom of this section to access the press release, high resolution images and further information about Motionhouse.
On tour now: Charge, (premiered 4th October 2017 at Warwick Arts Centre).
You can interview Artistic Director, Kevin Finnan about our work, Executive Director, Louise Richards about our work, our approach, our education programme or Rehearsal Director Junior Cunningham about dancing for Motionhouse.


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Video hosted by Google, which also allows you to download the video to your computer, your iPod, or your PSP.
Each week at Chi Alpha we record our messages in video and in MP3 format, and we also maintain a sermon archive (which includes instructions on receiving our sermons as a podcast). If you'd like to come visit us next week, you can learn when and where we meet.
This week (10/4/2006) we ask ourselves what Jesus would likely say to us based upon what he said to the seven churches in Revelation 2-3.
Hitting the play button above is the easiest way to listen, but if you prefer to download the message you can click the link below:
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WCICIL is a Center for Independent Living (CIL). It is a not-for-profit advocacy center funded by state and federal grants to provide services to people with disabilities.
WCICIL is different from other social service agencies. Each consumer is encouraged to decide what his or her own goals will be. WCICIL staff supports and encourages consumers to take the necessary steps to reach each goal.
A Board of Directors, of which 51% of the members must have a disability, governs the Center, and an Executive Director manages WCICIL.
WCICIL ( Quincy ), 639 York St., Suite 204, Quincy, Illinois 62301-1065, (217) 223-0400, fax (217) 223-0479, E-mail: email@example.com, or firstname.lastname@example.com
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The mission of the Center is to promote, increase and improve opportunities for independent living and lifestyle for persons with disabilities within the six-county service area: the counties of Adams, Brown, Hancock, Pike, McDonough, and Schuyler.


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These days, social platforms follow two main trends: the Enterprise Social Network and the Social Intranet. The main challenge of a professional social platform is to ensure it meets company needs and encourages healthy work practices. In this white paper, we'll discuss benefits and challenges of social platforms.
The enterprise social network (ESN) can be very similar to a typical social network. Here's the key difference: it is expressly intended for the work environment, to be used by company collaborators. Then we'll consider the alternate choice: the social intranet. This type of platform infuses traditional intranet structure with new social features, for a seamless experience that equally answers corporate and employee needs.
Why include social features in a corporate platform?
Boosting digital transformation
There are many potential benefits when companies implement social media platforms. When implementing an ESN or intranet, companies are aiming to foster better internal communication and collaborative work practices, as part of a larger digital transformation strategy. These platforms are meant to unify and create new processes, by combining and/or replacing old tools.
Adding social features reinforces the chances for a successful transformation. For instance, some communication tools inside a corporate platform can be a great alternative to email, and used correctly, the platform can be powerful tool for business use cases in Marketing, HR, or other teams that need to communicate with the entire organization.
Basic social features include:
- An enriched profile, to bring to light employees' expertise and interests:
- A news feed, that displays a global vision of the employee's activity and the company ecosystem (colleagues, communities, exchanges, etc.)
- User reaction and interaction, such as likes, comments and shares
An efficient social corporate platform should also create workspaces for easy project management, with: calendar, file sharing, posting, instant chat, etc. In some versions, this workspace is also used to share information from outside the enterprise. These spaces help employees to collaborate, exchange thoughtfully and develop their work relationships.
Some main uses for social corporate platforms (Lecko study, 2015):
- 37% sharing good practices
- 35% managing projects
- 20% support network
- 7% competition monitoring
- 1% innovation practices
Promoting Employee Engagement
You know this by now: employee disengagement leads to exhaustion, irritability, loss of concentration, cynicism, or worse. Implementing an enterprise social network can help to combat these frequent issues. For instance, inserting social features inside the enterprise can increase individual initiatives to coordinate and come together productively.
Trying to choose between an ESN and a Social Intranet? Check out the lumapps white paper on Social Platforms in the Workplace


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John: Newcastle, NSW
What do you think of your system now it is installed & you are producing power using a renewable energy source?
System is working well and we are happy to be 'green'.
What do your family & friends think of your decision to install a solar power system?
Haven't really discussed it much.
How did you find your experience with Superior Solar?
Are there any areas Superior Solar could improve to increase the quality of your experience?
Not really.
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Responsible for implementing the marketing and public relation strategies, to promote the various services of CHRISTUS Good Shepherd Hospitals; and position the system brand as a leader and advocate in the region. To accomplish this, the communications manager will work closely with the marketing department and key system leaders including the CEO, Campus Presidents, Chief Nursing Officers and board members of CHRISTUS Spohn. The functions of the Marketing Department include advertising, public relations, website maintenance, specified publications and internal as well as external communications, call center management/results tracking, specified events and crisis communications as necessary. The Manager will be responsible for the integrity of confidential information, including strategic plans, financial information, risk management situations and patient information. The Manager is called upon to make critical suggestions and strategy decisions related to issues and critical positioning opportunities, and to act as spokesperson to media representatives upon request.
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The idea behind this exercise is to connect books in any way that's meaningful to use, from the profound to the inane. Although Kevin Bacon is typically behind the six degrees game, books are just a bit more fun.
I will keep this quick, as I have a tiny, fussy baby calling my name as best she can – I just miss this space and thinking and talking about books.
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates – this month's starting point – is great, but terribly, terribly depressing. You know what else qualifies for this distinction? Wuthering Heights, but I loathe that book. Interestingly enough, I enjoyed Sabin Willett's retelling Abide With Me. Abide With Me features a summer romance, which naturally I relate to the '80s.
This brings me to The Body by Stephen King, which spawned the quintessential '80s movie Stand by Me (which relates nicely to the title Abide with Me, which I just now realized. One of the lovely things about Stand By Me/The Body is the idea of childhood friends. This, along with it being a love letter to small towns, is one of the more lovely aspects to Nickolas Butler's Shotgun Lovesongs.
Speaking of an ode to small towns, Empire Falls very much qualifies. In fact, most of what Richard Russo writes brings declining small towns to life. This particular novel is excellent and, in my opinion, very much deserved to win the Pulitzer Prize – as did Cormac McCarthy's The Road (though it's not his best work, in my opinion). I should have one more link, but I loved the symmetry of beginning with Revolutionary Road and ending with The Road too much to add another one.
It has absolutely nothing to do with lack of inspiration or time or exhaustion. Nothing at all. If you'd like to participate, please do!


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Hi, first I would like to say that it is a pleasure to be part of this forum.
Anyways I have an assignment due, and I am a perfectionist, so it is bugging me that it will not compile properly.
Here is the assignment: You are planning to transport a large number of people on a trip. You have 45-passenger buses and 16-passenger vans at your disposal. Any bus you use must be completely filled, and any remaining passengers transported by van.
You must write a Java program that returns the necessary numbers or each type of vehicle given the number of students to be transported. There should be methods to determine the number of buses, the number of vans and a main method to test them.
Here is what I have done so far:
public class bAndV{
public static void main (String args[]) {
System.out.println (bus(151));
System.out.println (vans());
public static int bus(int bus){
return bus/45;
public static int vans(int vans){
int rem = bus % 45;
if (rem % 45== 0)
return (0);
return ((rem/16)+1);
Error i recieve: cannot find symbol - variable bus
What must I do for the second method to identify bus as a variable from the first method? Thank you for the help.


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never fail to find a cat in a box around our house.....
happy Monday meow kids!
Sherbert always has the cutest sleepy faces!ReplyDelete
Thanks so muhc for such a great blog! I love Kitty Monday and all of your cats are darling, but I am so in love with Sherbet! Sooo sweet!ReplyDelete
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A hillside village situated in the God's Own country, Aryankavu is a small village in Kollam district of Kerala. Situated about 73 km east of Kollam, it is one of the most important pilgrim centres of the district. The Western Ghats pass through this village which is also connected by the National Highway 208 near Punalur and Thenmala. Aryankavu is famous for its Ayyappan (Sastha) temple. This temple is one among the five most important temples dedicated to Lord Ayyappa in Kerala.
Place to Stay
There are many budget hotels in the village. Some of them are KTDC Golden Peak (Tariff - Rs.1800), Green Valley Hotel, Apichayan's Cliff Resort, etc.
The official language spoken is Malayalam. English is also quite popular in this village.
The most important event in this village is the festival at the Ayyappan temple is celebrated during the last days of the Sabarimala Mandala Kalam in April.
Place of Interest
The Palaruvi Falls, located in the forest 5 km away from Aryankavu vehicle check post is one of the most beautiful tourist attractions. The Kadamanpara sandal forest is the second largest natural sandal forest after Marayoor. Rose mala (11.8 km away from Aryankavu Junction) is one of the eco tourism spots.
How to Get There
The nearest airport is the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport 89 km away.
Kollam district is well connected via the rail route. There are trains to Aryankavu on a regular basis.
Some of the nearest bus stations are at Thiruvanandapuram, Shornur, Pondichery, etc. You can make use of online bus ticket booking offers which is made available by travel websites. Get your tickets from online bus ticket booking sites like Ticketgoose.com and travel tension free.


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In the year 1996, our organization has initiated its business as the manufacturer, exporter and supplier of Plastic Rice Seeder. This seeder is suitable for the direct sowing of germinated paddy seeds into the wetland fields. As a gender friendly manually pulled implement, this seeder is ideal for using by male and female to simultaneously cover 8 rows of 20 cm row-to-row spacing in a single run. Besides this, the offered Plastic Rice Seeding Machine can be purchased from us at negotiable prices.
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Roberto Escobar is the brother to the famous Pablo Escobar who has been made popular in our times through the first installment of the Narcos series on Netflix. Roberto had set up a GoFundMe page for a crowdfunding campaign that was meant to impeach President Trump. However, this page was pulled by GoFundMe with some reports indicating that it had raised more than $10 Million.
Roberto Decides to Create a Cryptocurrency
Less than a day after his GoFundMe campaign hit a dead end, Roberto and Escobar Inc., launched ImpeachTrumpFund.com that now has a new target of $50 Million to get President Trump impeached as early as this year.
How to Donate
The fund-drive accepts the following popular cryptocurrencies:
- Bitcoin (BTC)
- Ethereum (ETH)
- Litecoin (LTC)
- Ethereum (ETH)
- Bitcoin Cash (BCH)
- Bitcoin SV (BSV)
- Tron (TRX)
- Stellar (XLM)
- Tether (USDT)
- ZCash (ZEC)
Donations can also be sent via bank transfer using SWIFT by first emailing [email protected] for more information. Full details on how to donate can be found on their website here.
Escobar Token ICO As Another Method to Donate
Another method of donating to the fund drive to impeach Trump is by participating in the sale of the ESCOBAR token. The website carrying out the token sale is currently under development but news reports indicate that it will be a stablecoin pegged to the USD.
The move of issuing an ICO for the ESCOBAR token aims at capitalizing the decentralized manner of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. This in turn means that no government can stop such a fund drive.
Olof Gustafsson, Escobar Inc.'s CEO explained to Hard Fork how it all came to being:
Originally the goal was to raise $50 million just using the GoFundMe platform.
After raising $10 million in just 10 hours we were shut down by GoFundMe and within 24 hours launched the ESCOBAR stablecoin cryptocurrency to avoid anyone censoring us again.
We believe the Trump Administration [sic] or President Trump shut us down.
An Alternative to Tether (USDT)
The COO of Escobar Inc., Daniel Reitberg, explained that the ESCOBAR token will be a far much better option that USDT.
Yes, we had plans to release this cryptocurrency in 2019 as a stablecoin alternative to the USD Tether. We do not trust the USDT.
We think that people should use our coin, as we have a much larger business sense than most other companies out there and Roberto Escobar has made hundreds of billions of dollars throughout his career.
More About Roberto Escobar
According to ImpeachTrumpFund.com, Roberto was the co-founder of the Medellin cartel alongside Pablo Escobar. He was one of the main accountants responsible for over $100 Billion in profits. Roberto founded the Escobar Inc. company to preserve the legacy of his brother.
What are your thoughts on Roberto Escobar and Escobar Inc. launching a cryptocurrency to impeach President Trump? Please let us know in the comment section below.


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Posts tagged [health]
Return to a (R)evolutionary based diet
This is a diet of lean meats, seafood, vegetables, fruits, (raw) nuts and seeds, moderate physical activity, adding all the essential vitamins, minerals and herbs of primitive man.
face reality
Reality is - trans-fatty acids, sugar and refined carbohydrates are not essential to your diet, in reality, they destroy your health, so do processed and preserved foods.
Supplementation is essential to your success. Vitamins, minerals, and essential fatty acids (omega 3 and 6) are essential to your health and a successful lifestyle changeover.
stop counting
The Annique Lifestyle follows an (R)evolutionary Food Programme and does not require the counting of kilojoules, fat grams or carbohydrate grams.
Stick to raw, natural organic and nutrient dense food- if it requires reading a label, put it back on the shelf.
Replace breakfast and lunch with the nutrient-rich Annique Lifestyle Shake and eat a healthy dinner which includes meat, vegetables and salad.
Drink water, Annique Rooibos tea and Annique herbal teas. The only thing you should count
arethe lost kilogrammes.
do supplement
When you have a weight problem or a health concern, it is a clear indication that the body is out of balance.
While changing your lifestyle and diet, your body will need extra assistance to re-balance its functions. We can plot your needs to determine which vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids your body needs.
Annique's Forever Healthy range of vitamin and mineral supplements has been created by nutritional experts to provide the optimum balance between science and nature.
Advanced, complex scientific formulas, combined with the best nature has to offer, has provided a range that will help to improve and preserve your health and wellbeing.
Most people have less than optimal digestive systems, leading to poor ingestion of nutrients. An unhealthy digestive tract and diseased organs will starve the rest of the body of essential nutrients and allow toxins into the bloodstream.
A diet high in refined carbohydrates also counteracts the good flora in the digestive system, leaving it depleted of these vital micro-organisms.
Changing over to Annique's Lifestyle Programme requires the supplementation of beneficial flora that will help the digestive system to break down and absorb food.
Taking probiotics will ensure that the maximum nutrition is extracted from food and supplements and allows the digestive system to heal itself.
This linkwill take you to the OptiFlora where you can order it for quick delivery.
Take a look at the meal replacement flavours here, which you can also order for quick delivery.
Rooibos Always greetings
Starving is not the answer to health
People who are successful at weight loss have a long-term strategy, vision and a lifestyle approach to dieting. They know that changing their lifestyle takes time, planning and effort to be healthy, slimmer and younger for the rest of their lives.
IT TAKES TIME...if you lose more than 0.5-1kg per week you are going too fast and the weight might come back on just as fast. Set realistic goals to ensure you achieve your goal.
If you would like to be monitored or just chat about getting started, send me a message at 0837163635
https://goo.gl/N3YnXU to check out meal options!
https://goo.gl/kWkYSS to check out a little help to help burn that stored energy!
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Neither (the egg-laying bunny or Easter came first): It was the chocolate-loving British public, which will scarf down chocolate in any form on any occasion – or so some press reports would have you believe.
So how did that public react when Cadbury's and other candy companies altered their packaging in recent years so the word Easter, once prominent on chocolate egg packaging at this time of year, was either eliminated or relegated to a spot on the back of the pack?
They kept right on buying their chocolate eggs!
But now they have an option to buy one called 'The Real Easter Egg,' from Manchester-based Meaningful Chocolate Company.
An article on The Blaze website says that company "emerged six years ago with the goal of spreading the Christian message through a variety of Easter and Advent products. Instead of politically correct bunnies, flowers and chicks, Meaningful Chocolate Company openly declares Christ as the reason for all of the festivity."
The Blaze continues:
But since the company first walked onto the Easter candy scene, its founder, David Marshall, said the descriptions on other company's Easter treats have become more and more bleak.
As an example, the company mentioned Cadbury's Easter Egg Trail Pack, whose name was changed to "Egg Hunt Pack." In addition, this season's label on Nestlé's Quality Street Easter egg reads: "Large Milk Chocolate Egg." Another Nestlé product, the Milkybar Easter Egg, now has the blunt name, "Milkybar White Chocolate Egg," proving that Cadbury is not the only company to blame for the pull.
"It looks like there is a trend," Marshall told Telegraph.
"A lot of businesses are not comfortable with the religious aspect of the festival," he continued. "If they want to make their product as attractive to as many people as possible it could well be that they want to remove references to the Christian festival because that will be seen as attaching to one faith tradition."
A spokesman for Nestlé told Telegraph that there had been "no deliberate decision" to remove the word "Easter" from its holiday products and assured that customers would make an "automatic" connection even if the word was not explicitly mentioned.
"Chocolate eggs have been synonymous with Easter and the Easter story since the beginning of the last century and the association is now an automatic one," he said. "There has been no deliberate decision to drop the word Easter from our products and the name is still widely used at Nestlé."
Cadbury has also denied accusations that it has caved to secular pressure and removed Easter from its iconic chocolates, stating that the word "Easter" still appears, if not prominently, on the back of its creme egg wrappers.
A website focused almost entirely on statistics — including some that nobody should want to be aware of! — just published a list of "14 Staggering Easter 2016 Sales Statistics". Among them: Sales associated with Easter in the UK were expected to be some £775 million this year. That is, indeed, a 'staggering' statistic!
I encourage you to ask your friends, family and colleagues to check out what my two blogs – Food TradeTrends.com and YouSayWhat.info – do in the interest of providing information you might, otherwise, never become aware of. You never know: Some of my research could prove useful, or possibly amusing, to you (and them).
(In the few months these blogs have been published, they've been seen, between them, in no fewer than 30 countries! I'm pretty staggered by that statistic!)


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Troop Zero
Pleasant enough but never quite as emotionally gripping as a coming-of-age story about acceptance can be, Troop Zero scores a handful of memorable moments when…
Pleasant enough but never quite as emotionally gripping as a coming-of-age story about acceptance can be, Troop Zero scores a handful of memorable moments when…
This film tells us that the gulf between what we want to know and what we can know may never be illuminated.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
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The opening image in "Farewell to the King" shows a man walking out on World War II. His lifeboat has been washed ashore on a tropical island somewhere in the Pacific, and while his fellow survivors are captured and executed by the Japanese, he plunges into the jungle, staggering and hallucinating until he is found by a native tribe. When the movie rejoins his life three years later, he is the king of the tribe and is trying to steer it clear of the war.
This image of the white man deep in the jungle ruling a tribe must be a compelling one for John Milius, who wrote and directed "Farewell to the King." In his screenplay for Francis Coppola's "Apocalypse Now," Milius created a similar character for Marlon Brando. Learoyd, the character played by Nick Nolte in this film, is like Kurtz, the Brando character: He has gone AWOL and native, and lives in a jungle fastness, catered to by a tribe that regards as a sort of god.
There is probably a deep-seated personal impulse at work here.
Does Milius imagine his characters shouldering the White Man's Burden, or does he see them escaping a corrupt civilization to live in an unspoiled natural society? With Kurtz, we never knew, but the Nolte character in "Farewell to the King" gladly embraces his new situation and wants to drop out of Western civilization if he can. At a key point in the film, he shows a visiting British officer a secret valley in the heart of the island, where a sort of Shangri-La has grown up, isolated from the corruptions of the outside. He feels it is his mission to protect this sacred place from the Japanese and the Allies.
It is tempting to consider the politics of this movie, which waver between benevolent despotism and anthropological zeal. But perhaps Milius really has no message. The spirit of the film seems closer to the work of Conrad or Melville than to contemporary politics: Here is an extraordinary man, the story says, who finds himself in an extraordinary situation and takes advantage of it. I was reminded a little of Van Wyk, the Dutchman in Conrad's End of the Tether who runs his corner of the Pacific more or less the way he wants to, and knows enough about his fellow Europeans to keep them at arm's length.
In a film like this, the central performance is crucial, and Nolte is absorbed by the character. Just a few days before seeing "Farewell to the King" I saw Nolte as a painter - a manipulator and player in the New York art world - in the Martin Scorsese segment of "New York Stories." Now here he was half naked in the jungle, dandling an infant on his knee. Nolte's strength as an actor is that he seemed at home in both environments; he was an inhabitant, not a visitor.
The plot, based on a novel by Pierre Schoendoerffer, is much more predictable than the situation. Learoyd, the Nolte character, is a full-blown tribal king by the time we see him again, and the movie bypasses any attempt to show how he won that status, preferring instead to move ahead to a more conventional action scenario. British commandos, led by Nigel Havers, are parachuted onto the island to try to enlist the American and his tribesmen in the war against the Japanese. Learoyd wants nothing to do with them.
"You cannot turn your back on this war," Havers warns him, and sure enough, he is right. Milius then unfolds a more or less predictable series of action scenes in which Learoyd turns into a superhuman fighting machine, blasting countless foes to smithereens before finally announcing, "From this day forward, I will raise my hand against no man." This vow is less impressive than it might have been, since there are few enemies left alive to raise his hand against. And then there is a sequel revealing whether Learoyd realizes his dream of living apart from civilization.
What is most interesting about "Farewell to the King" is its impulse to tell this story at all. It could so easily have become ridiculous, or merely violent, but Milius keeps edging back toward the philosophy of his hero. Learoyd is given several speeches in which he explains why he believes what he believes, and the movie never becomes only an action film. There is a contradiction somewhere, I suppose, in the story of a pacifist isolationist who kills in order to defend his vision, but what the heck, nobody's perfect.
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Cordless Phone Frequencies
The cordless telephone is a telephone that you can carry with you as you move around. The difference between the cordless telephone and the mobile phone is that the cordless telephone is connected to the base station via a fixed telephone line just like the ordinary corded telephone. The cordless telephone is comprised of a wireless handset that uses radio waves to communicate and it requires a base station for its operation. Unlike the corded telephone that uses AC electricity the cordless uses batteries for its power.
The cordless telephone operates on Cordless Phone Frequencies. The range of the frequency of the cordless handset and headset will depend on the available frequency and it will affect the call functionality and the quality of the signal.


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Florida State has pushed Jameis Winston's code of conduct hearing back to Dec. 1, a person familiar with the case said Wednesday.
It was originally scheduled for next week.
The new date is between the end of the regular season and the Dec. 6 ACC championship game.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the university has requested that information on the case not be made public.
A meeting was held Wednesday after Winston family adviser David Cornwell formally requested a delay last week. Both sides can request postponements of the scheduled date for reasons that would have to be individually reviewed.
The Heisman-winning quarterback is facing a university hearing to determine whether he violated four sections of the code of conduct — two for sexual misconduct and two for endangerment. A former female student said he assaulted her in December 2012.
Rules specify a formal decision letter must be sent to Winston within 10 class days after the hearing ends. That time limit could be extended "if additional consideration of evidence and deliberation is required," FSU spokeswoman Browning Brooks previously explained to the AP in an email.
The Seminoles are No. 2 in The Associated Press poll and No. 3 in the College Football Playoff selection committee's rankings. The semifinal games involving the top four teams are Jan. 1.
The woman's lawyer, Baine Kerr, declined comment, and Cornwell did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.
John Clune, another of the woman's Colorado-based attorneys, previously said he expected Winston to request a delay in the hearing.
Cornwell has complained that Winston wasn't given enough time to review all the documents provided to both sides. Clune countered that Winston shouldn't need additional time.
Winston could face sanctions that range from a written or verbal reprimand, to probation that could include being removed from the football team, to expulsion from the university if he is found in violation of the student code of conduct.
Former Florida Supreme Court Justice Major Harding will preside over the hearing after both sides were required to strike one of three former justices selected by the university.
Winston is expected to play Saturday when the second-ranked Seminoles travel to play Miami.


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Analytics and Research
Gamification gets the capability to advertise client participation in regions which have failed to draw on the target market, such as in exploring the marketplace and different areas of information collection. While the world wide web has given market researchers a broad pool of potential candidates from which to rapidly and easily access info, poorly-designed net surveys can make consumer participation lower and also for that reasonmuch less dependable.
Because of this, it has 'significant implications for information quality using a knock-on effect on the nature of their insights obtained', based on trigger Research, which lately wrote regarding its foray to gamification.
Trialling several well-documented gamification gamification genesys purecloud practices, the company found it obtained 'twice or 3 times as much comments regarding the more engaging queries and more hours got in supplying the answers'.
When Engage merely asked clients to explain themselves, for example, a mean of 85 percent of individuals answered employing an average of 2.4 descriptors. When asked to explain seven words however, response rates climbed to 98 percentage and descriptors climbed to 4.5.
In a small business context, obtaining the most amount of data out of a 20,000-strong labour can make the difference between embracing a brand new company-wide policy or not. Only by ensuring that the acceptable amount of involvement and detail can companies truly get the right choices for each of their workers.
Illustrating the value of benefits for people, Engage also found a query such as "What emotions do you truly think people keep business for it?" Generated response times of eight minutes, using a 50 percent 'fun speed'. After respondents were advised they would get points for correct answers, this climbed to some 12-moment completion period working with a 90% enjoyment rate.
The results illustrate perfectly how gamification techniques may excite individuals not to be engaged with the subject at hand – raising their own chances giving qualitative, qualitative answers – nevertheless providing more information generally about a particular topic.
Higher performance
Thinking about the dramatic effects of gamification on personnel participation amounts, it's easy to presume how gamification could be put into place within the office – in areas such as employee performance management, innovation and training.
Much like utilizing gamification in a survey, it might possibly be utilized as a member of a task-based endeavor to improve friendly competition among employees. As the essentials of gambling will always dictate 1 individual is 'greater' than another (possibly having more points on a revenue leaderboard, by means of illustration) the sense that team have been contributing and incorporating value towards something may be a highly effective enough emotion for them to continue doing this.
"[Users] create worth. That actually is what you want to drive," explains Michael Wu, a most important scientist in analytics into new advocacy company, Lithium, as stated by computing.co.uk.
Wu asserts that if employees understand just how much importance they've established, with respect to linking with one another and raising essential small business problems, "gamification becomes secondary, and worth will get main".
LiveOps, a telephone center seller with 20,000 independent callcentre contractors across the USA, states its own gamification platform has caused a 15 percentage drop in phone occasions. Added its earnings have grown between eight and 12 percent among several sales agents.
More than 1 / 2 of their organization's agents (60 percent) willingly check in the community website, together with 90 percent logging on every week to compete in new challenges and examine their private performance.
Generally, the organization claims it has increased earnings by two penny, thanks to implementing a gamified platform.
In a brand new report, 'The Engagement Market: The Way gamification is reshaping companies', " Deloitte cautioned that companies must be cautious about the way they supply and use data collected within their gamification-based endeavours.
As the fun factor surrounding gamification most certainly is present, it is vital that firms 'agree to terms on criteria for sharing information, while maintaining strict data privacy and safety criteria,' like they may with any other sort of consumer information collection; maybe keeping it stored in a data centre.
Furthermore, for gamification to be sustainable, it has to always evolve, since ( just like a real game) users can automatically strike a wall of growth: the utmost quantity of user items, such as.
"Gamification alone isn't sustainable in the long run," explained Wu of this subject. "Once you master a game, you complete all the levels, so you stop. You move onto a different game. Nobody plays a match for their entire life."