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Smoking marijuana or weed is still considered a taboo in many places all over the world. Some people (especially the older ones) raise their eyebrows whenever they hear people talking about cannabis casually. But times have changed a lot and recreational marijuana is now considered legal in many US states and in several Canadian provinces. Smoke shops and head shops have been seeing increasing sales, particularly when it comes to bongs and glass pipes. With an increasing demand for herb (whether for medical use or recreational only), the looming issue now is if the marijuana industry can meet the people's demand.
In response to the growing demand, weed growers are now likewise growing in numbers and the first cannabis manufacturing plant to be granted a license is found in Eureka, California. Quality is still of utmost importance, so getting this coveted license wasn't a walk in the park either. And one of the best things to this growing industry is the number of jobs it generates that not only boosts the economy but also makes a difference in people's lives.
The manufacturing affiliate of Papa and Barkley California (P&B), P&B Labs Humboldt, was issued a cannabis manufacturing license by the City of Eureka.
According to P&B, they will expand the operation of its Eureka manufacturing facility from research and development to non-volatile manufacturing to produce solvent-free, all-natural oils, and cannabis rosin used to create topicals, tinctures, and transdermal patches.
P&B Labs says they will also produce high quality, solvent-free oil and rosin for its business-to-business wholesale line, to partner with companies looking for pure cannabinoids for infusion into edibles and other products. They can now help infused product manufacturers ensure they are compliant under current and future medical cannabis laws and regulations.
(Via: http://www.krcrtv.com/north-coast-news/city-of-eureka-issues-first-cannabis-manufacturing-license/533243457)
If you are clueless to what is really going on in the Cannabis market, discovering that it is currently a multi-billion dollar industry can be mind-blowing. Yes, millions use weed for various reasons and some states already gave their go signal, allowing their people to smoke it without fear of getting caught and sanctioned. It is a big economic driver in America alone and generates countless jobs in a market that has now been devoured by technology.
Marijuana could become more than a recreational pastime in Aurora in the coming years if city council members agree to move forward with a recent request to add medical pot to the city's growing green galaxy.
Two council members on the city's ad hoc policy committee that deals with weed issues, Sally Mounier and Bob Roth, recently agreed to green-light a discussion on allowing the sale, manufacturing and cultivation of medical marijuana in Aurora. Those practices are currently banned under city code.
But, should at least six city council members so choose, that could change with the repeal of as few as two city ordinances, according to Tim Joyce, assistant city attorney.
At the May 30 meeting, Joyce said the city would have to axe a pair of building and retail codes if officials were to pursue allowing medical marijuana. It would not require a popular vote.
"All council has to do is repeal a couple ordinances —the business license ordinance that prohibits medical marijuana licensing and the building code that prohibits medical marijuana facilities," he said. "City council always has the decision to enact any ordinance or repeal any ordinance."
(Via: http://www.aurorasentinel.com/news/business/local-business/medical-mary-jane-manufacturers-request-spurs-aurora-officials-table-medical-marijuana/)
The increasing need for cannabis manufacturers is quite obvious with various medical and recreational marijuana stores opening everywhere. Somebody got to supply these places with quality weeds that are worth every penny that people pays for it. The country can now actually benefit from cannabis sales that used to be nonexistent when it was still sold on the black market. But today, taxes can be imposed and everyone is happy that people get their weed fix and the economy is also thriving with its help.
Eureka: First To Manufacture Cannabis With A License was first published to The Naked Conversations Blog
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For those who aren't familiar with the work of Aimee Bender, her writing includes several books of short stories and two novels, and can be generalized as a blending of the magical and surreal with the everyday. Through unique means, Bender renders characters and emotions with honesty and insight, often cutting to the heart of the human condition with a deceptively simple touch. I've been going through her latest book of short stories, The Color Master, and was struck by the way she used the thread of sustainability in a story called Bad Return. The story is centered on college senior Claire and her environmentally obsessed roommate Arlene, who is so broken up about a yogurt cup she finds littered in front of their apartment that she comes in crying about the existence of plastic: "We recycle it," she says, "but it can't do anything on its own, and all it can ever do is be itself again. It is the worst kind of reincarnation. Lame! That is so lame! And it's everywhere!"
Claire's relationship with Arlene is a strained one; she doesn't feel that they have anything in common. It's evident that Claire holds a slight bit of resentment towards Arlene, wondering at one point how "Arlene, of the questionably toxic perms and mascara drips and yogurt cup righteousness, always got the better guys." Claire mutters her hatred for Arlene and her boyfriend Fred as she shoves eggshells into their "small kitchen compost pile, which smelled like rotten food, which is just exactly what it was."
In just a few pages, Bender creates a super realistic portrayal of the roommate relationship, one that anyone living with another, college student or not, can likely relate to. It's that dynamic in which the smallest things, the things that may even have seemed positive about the person at first, start to seem very annoying. Claire ventures out that night to avoid the lonely feeling that comes with spending time around a couple. After a strangely enlightening interaction with an old man who may or may not have a daughter named Nina, Claire returns home to find Arlene up late, making waffles in the kitchen. It is here that Claire is able to see again to the core of Arlene's person, remembering the first time they met and feeling the effect of that encounter wash over her as if it had just happened. "In the fall," Claire says of Arlene, "she would be doing the Peace Corps or Teach For America….Arlene, who made sure every used item went into the right bin because she wanted all things, everything, to find its way back into the world, new."
I won't transcribe the ending because it is beautiful enough to require personal discovery. Bender's story is a wonderful reflection on the miracle that occurs when we're able to see past what annoys us about a friend to the love that underpins it; in this case, Claire seeing the beauty of the core idea that underlies Arlene's environmentalism, and how that idea applies to her whole person. Bender writes this realization as an act of renewal itself, and the thought of human love being a sustainable substance capable of renewal is one that we all hope for.
What are you reading right now? Besides the usual batch of textbooks, of course.

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Peanut is known as "long life nut", and eat the right peanuts then you can get much beneficial. The peanut is rich in many nutritious, high quality and inexpensive food, is the most favorite nuts in people daily life. The following article will give you 5 benefits of eating peanut often.
1, control appetite
The peanut is "high satiety feeling" food, which can make you feel fuller for long time. Peanut high satiety is not only caused by fiber and protein content, fat food. If you eat peanuts or peanut butter on the breakfast, it can reduce the intake of the whole day.
2, salt reduction
Salty snacks are usually high salt food. But the salt content in salted peanut is much less than the same weight of sliced bread, waffles. Therefore, the salty peanuts can not only meet you love to eat salty, but also not easily lead to excessive intake of salt.
3, stable blood sugar
Study found that, if people exchange a red meat diet into peanut, diabetes risk reduction of 21%. Peanut will slow down the absorption of carbohydrates. Eat some peanuts in the morning, and then your blood glucose will not be too high.
4, maintain a healthy heart
People eat many peanuts will reduce the risk of coronary heart disease 35%. Researchers think that the fatty acid composition in peanut, coupled with other components, can reduce the content of low density lipoprotein, let the heart healthy.
5, reduce the risk of colon cancer
The women who eat at least two times a week of peanut will reduce 58%; the risk of colon cancer and man can reduce the risk of 27%. Scientists analyzed, this is caused by the nutrient folic acid and other anticancer in peanut.


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…and the Ivy
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"The Ivy… is to me a lively representation of the work and power of faith," writes Charlotte Elizabeth in her intriguing and eccentric Chapters on Flowers of 1842. "Its strength consists in the tenacity with which it clings to something foreign to its own substance; identifying itself, by a wonderful process, with what it adheres to. Alone, it cannot stand: if you tear it from its prop, down must fall every branch, at the mercy of any trampling foot of man or beast…."
"Many years ago I planted an Ivy, and watched its growth with childish interest. Having fixed its root firmly in the soil, it speedily put forth shoots; and as these grew, the short, stout fibres appeared, grasping the rough particles of an ancient wall, plunging into every little crevice, and securing themselves by a process that excited my wonder beyond any thing that I can remember, at that period of my (young) life.
"I have pulled away the young branches, endeavouring to refix them in a different position but in vain: the work of adhesion was one that human skill could not accomplish, nor human power compel. The utmost that I could do was to afford an artificial support to the detached branch, until, having continued its growth, it put out new fingers, as I called them, to take a stronger hold on its bulwark."
Of course, she would not be aware that our contemporary walls are built with such very hard mortar that the "fingers' cannot get a good grip and the weight of heavy rain or snow will loose them from their hold. I have never seen this happen with ivy growing in its natural habitat, on the bark of a mature tree, where the combination of the crevices and the texture of the bark which makes them up, provides an extraordinary grip. Choose a variegated variety, such as 'Goldchild', above, and you have captivating colour also.


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A Pond Full of InkBook - 2014
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It is colorfully illustrated by Dutch artist Sieb Posthuma, who was awarded the Gouden Penseel prize for the best illustrated children's book.
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Eclectic, silly, and original by turns, this collection of refreshingly different poems will both charm and entice.
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It is encouraging to think that though Ms. Schmidt was never brought to America in her lifetime, posthumously her words can fulfill their destiny decades after her death. A Pond Full of Ink does not attempt to be anything other than what it is. A short, smart selection of fun poems for kids of every age. A small clever treat, consider its loaded silliness for your own personal collection.
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"A fairy tale author I know / starts work every day when the roosters crow." So begins the first poem in this collection of children's poet Annie M.G. Schmidt. Twelve poems, judiciously edited, perfectly selected, are paired with the ribald art of illustrator Sieb Posthuma. Readers who flip through the pages will encounter everything from thieves that covet the moon to a teakettle with musical aspirations. The end result is a collection that is silly, subversive, and sly by turns.
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2 thoughts on "Scare Tactics: They won't marry you!! They're just going to use you for sex!! Married to a Black woman WMBW edition Part 1"
I for one have been told on a few occasions that White men in particular don't necessarily like or think we're charming, and they're using us as African American women, but they would like to know what it'd be like to sleep with an African American woman though. I've also heard Black men also say that a White man couldn't possibly understand the struggle that a Black woman better than a Black man has so why does she need to be with him or why should she even entertain the idea of being with him. I understand the argument and can sympathize with it totally…however, I think a beautiful and seductive African American woman should ultimately be with the person who respects her, puts her needs above his own, and lavishes her with comfort, support, and understanding. She deserves someone who will cherish her, cherish being with her, and will be here bestest friend…
I have heard this mantra before and it reallocate has to do with trying to convince a black woman that she's not being loyal or faithful to the Black community. Black men have often used this argument to try to ensure that black women are weary about and even doubt about the possibility of being physical and/or lovemaking with non Black men. It's a sure way to doubt a relationship. Black women really have to decide for themselves that that's what they want from a man who wants them. Non Black men have the right if they assert it to be in a physical relationship with a black woman and no one should be trying to deter him from that especially if both of them want to take things to that level..


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'It's a different beast altogether than Who's Afraid of the Working Class, and not only because all the writers are older': Alison Croggon on Anthem
Midsumma Festival
'I find myself not only questioning the value of these tears, but also their cost. Who pays for these tears?': Robert Reid on the Little Ones Theatre's Merciless Gods
The artifical dilemma of binaries: Robert Reid on Fifteen Minutes from Anywhere's return season of Cock
'A triumph: remarkable, stunning, heart breaking': Robert Reid on Silvia Calderoni's extraordinary MDLSX
'There was so much joy in that space': Blind critic Olivia Muscat attends her first ever dance performance, Dancing Qweens
'The warmth in the auditorium was something I've only experienced on community nights at blackfella shows": Carissa Lee on The Butch Monologues
Robert Reid barely survives a 'howling maelstrom of transgressive audience behaviour' in The Miss Behave Gameshow
'Being part of that audience was electrifying': Alison Croggon on Mama Alto and Maude Davey's Gender Euphoria
How far can comedy go? Carissa Lee ponders Truly Madly Britney's take on fan culture at Melbourne's Midsumma festival


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Self care series:
My New Years resolution for 2016 was self care. Her.ceo was created based on my self care routines and beliefs. My important goal was to prioritize myself in mind , body and spirit and I did however I'll make that my New Years resolution for 2017 again is like a continuation. Self care is so important for success however is sa journey is not something you have overnight. I was very focused on prioritizing my mind body and spirit but I was more focus on prioritizing my mind because it has bee neglected for so long that I needed to refocused.
This is part of the self care series I am conducting (you can refer to the intro http://herceo.maidenwarriorshops.com/2016/10/29/the-self-care-series-introduction/ ) . The mind is the most powerful source in your body it literately controls your life . I always preach positively because it creates a healthy mind . When you are so negative you create an unhealthy state of mind. How can you create a healthy mind. Is sort of simple but it will take time. It took nearly few years and daily practice to create a healthy state of mind. This is how I did it
1. I removed any negativity from my environment. If it was a person , place or thing I removed it from my environment. When you removed negativity is less than likely that you'll start becoming negative. When you keep negativity around you will not stop being negative.
2. Read books. When I started this journey , I started reading a lot of self help books. You don't necessarily can read only self help books, however reading helps you reduce stress, develops knowledge and vocabulary. It also helps you stimulate your mind.
3. Meditation. Is started meditating about 5 years ago. I do it about 20-30 minutes a day. Some people do it for even longer. Meditation helps you be stress free, aging process slows down, it helps appreciate life more , it reduces your risk of depression and anxiety. If you never tried it try doing for 10 minutes a day it really helps.
4. Exercising. Exercising helps you reduce stress and builds happiness. Next year one of the things I am trying is Pilates and yoga. I just found a yoga studio so is good. If you can find a gym that can offer you classes and equipment that will be great.
5. Prayer. For me prayer has been a meditation plus a form of appreciation to god . I pray everyday twice a day . I say thank you for all its blessings.
6. Start your day with positive affirmations. Or I drink Yogi tea every morning and it always says positive affirmations. Affirmations helps you develop happiness and gratitude
Positivity is so much better than negativity. Is better to be positive than negative ….. And wait I forgot LAUGHHHHH as hard as you can it creates happiness


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"The mainland needs to continue to prepare for a possible military clash across the Straits. A military showdown with Taiwan is becoming more probable and may take place sooner rather than later," an editorial in the Global Times published April 8 reads.
Pilots have recently practiced firing at ground targets and dogfighting over the Qinghair-Tibet plateau to simulate flying over mountains and through narrow valleys, which the pilots expect to have to navigate in the event of a military engagement with the island of Taiwan, which is separated from mainland China only by the 81 miles of sea in the Taiwan Strait.
The pilots and warplanes from the PLA's Eastern Theater Command would lead the Chinese force if the PLA finds itself with no other option than to declare war against Taiwan. While the forces under the Eastern Theater Command are familiar with amphibious assault operations, pilots are "out of practice" in regard to securing a contested airspace over Taiwan's diverse terrain, the Asia Times reported Tuesday.
Beijing has long considered the self-ruling island to be a rogue province destined for reunification with the rest of China. The PLA has not-so-subtly demonstrated its ability to do so militarily, with PLA Air Force sorties encircling the island and dozens of PLA Navy ships practicing drills off the island of Hainan.
Since "the cost of dealing with Taiwan is rising immensely, a quick solution to the question may be essential. Despite a number of people being against reunification by force, the number that is pro-force and anticipating a cross-Straits war is growing unprecedentedly," warned the Global Times, a Chinese-owned news outlet.
War anxieties have sharply increased in recent months, with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen failing to affirm the 1992 Taiwan Consensus, by which both Taiwan and the PRC acknowledge the principle of One China. Some fear this may lead to a declaration of independence by Taiwan. The island's relationship with the US has also been growing closer, and US President Donald Trump has made moves to support the Taiwanese government with new military hardware, including submarine technology, and the Taiwan Travel Act, which Chinese officials have said violates the One China policy.


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Kellie Goncalves
Project at MultiLing
At MultiLing, I will be working on a project entitled: "Managing people and managing language: polylingual practices in 'blue-collar' workplaces". This project centers on the latest conditions of national labor, language and immigration policies, their ensuing ideological underpinnings and emerging sociolinguistic practices by investigating how asymmetrical relations of power are maintained in and through discourse within 'blue-collar' workplace settings among migrant Brazilian employees and their Norwegian employers in Oslo, Norway.
This interdisciplinary project combines theories of globalization, mobility, and multilingualism with the aim of making new theoretical advances within the fields of sociolinguistics and applied linguistics concerning the ways in which migrants' mobility and the type of work they engage in affect the way their polylingual practices are viewed, valued and used to better understand the societal and linguistic implications of global mobility.
Research interests
My primary research interests are at the interdisciplinary interface between sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, human geography and mobility studies, specifically within the fields of discourse, globalization, migration, multilingualism, education and tourism studies.
- 2009 PhD in English Linguistics
University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Title: Language and Identity Performance among Intercultural Couples: An Interactional Approach.
- 2001-2005 MA in English and Applied Linguistics
University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- 1998-2000 BA in German & Politics
New York University, NY, USA
- 1996-1998 Lafayette College, Easton, PA, USA
(Published McKelvy Scholar)
Previous academic positions
- 2015-2017 Marie Heim-Vögtlin Fellow (Swiss National Science Foundation)
Department of English Language and Literatures
University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- 2012 SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation) Visiting Fellow &
Honorary Visiting Assistant Professor
The University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Bothell
- 2010 - 2014 Lecturer & Assistant to Professor Dr. David Britain
Department of English Language and Literatures
University of Bern, Switzerland
- 2008 - 2010 Lecturer in Modern English Language
Department of English Language and Literatures
The University of Bern, Switzerland
Major Collaborations
- Language, Inequality & Global Care Work. w. Anne Schluter (Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China)
- Place-making in Brooklyn, New York. w. Beatrix Busse (Department of English, Heidelberg University, Germany)
- Semiotic Landscapes in the Global South and North. w. Amiena Peck (Department of Linguistics, University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
- Language & Gentrification. w. Jessi Grieser (Department of English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)
- Narratives of Parenthood. w. Elizabeth Lanza (Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan, University of Oslo, Norway)
- English – native language (C2);
- German – written and oral fluency (C2);
- Bernese – oral fluency (C2);
- Luso-Brazilian and European Portuguese – oral fluency in both varieties (C1);
- Spanish – oral proficiency (B1).
2013 Conversations of Intercultural Couples. Berlin/Boston: Mouton de Gruyter.
Domestics Talk: Language use and social practices in a multilingual workplace. In 'Language at Work' series. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. (w. A. Schluter) (forthcoming)
Labour Policies, Language Use and the 'New' Economy - The Case of Adventure Tourism. In Language and Globalization' series. Palgrave Macmillan. (forthcoming)
Edited work & special issues
(Ed.) Special Issue: X-Scapes: New Horizons in Linguistic Landscapes. Linguistic Landscape. (w. C. Thurlow)
(Ed.) Special Issue: Managing people with language: language policy, planning and practice in multilingual 'blue-collar' workplaces: a global perspective. Language Policy. (forthcoming)
(Eds.) Special Issue: Language, Inequality and Global Care Work. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. (w. A. Schluter) (forthcoming)
2019 fc. "What the fu** is this for a language, this cannot be Deutsch?" language policies, ideologies and practices within a kitchen crew in an Austrian hotel. Special Issue: Managing people with language: language policy, planning and practice in multilingual blue-collar workplaces: a global perspective. Language Policy.
2018 YO! Or OY? – say what? Creative place-making through a metrolingual artifact in Dumbo, Brooklyn. In M. Moriarty and J. Järlehed (Eds.), Special Issue: Creativity and play in the multilingual semiotic landscape. International Journal of Multilingualism.
"Stay and Play": investigating the Semiotic Landscapes of DUMBO, Brooklyn. In M. Moriarty and J. Järlehed (Eds.), Special Issue: Creativity and play in the multilingual semiotic landscape. International Journal of Multilingualism. (forthcoming)
Dishwashers and cleaners: language policies and multilingual practices in an Austrian hotel. Special Issue: Managing people with language: language policy, planning and practice in multilingual blue-collar workplaces: a global perspective. Language Policy. (forthcoming)
Live-in and live-out domestics: a case study of return migrants in Brazil. Special Issue: Language, Inequality and Global Care Work. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. (forthcoming)
2016 "Please do not leave any notes for the cleaning lady, as many do not speak English fluently": policy, power and language brokering in a multilingual workplace. Language Policy. (w. A. Schluter)
2013 'Cooking lunch, that's Swiss': Constructing hybrid identities based on sociocultural practices. Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication. Special Issue: Multilingual communication in binational families: Negotiating languages, identities and everyday tasks. Pp. 527-548.
2012a The semiotic landscapes and the discourses of place within a Portuguese-speaking neighborhood. Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies. Pp.71-99.
2010 Negotiating Identities and Doing Swiss in Intercultural Couples. In Junod, K. & D. Maillet (Eds.), Performing the Self. SPELL: Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature 24. Tübigen, Narr. Pp.75-89.
1998 Poems of Travel. The McKelvy Papers. Lafayette College Press: Easton, PA.USA. Pp. 81-105.
Book chapters
2019 Young Bilingual Adults. In A. De Houwer & L. Ortega (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingualism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 59-75.
2019 The Semiotic Paradox of Street Art: Gentrification and the Commodification of Bushwick, Brooklyn. In Peck, A., Williams, Q. and C. Stroud (Eds.), Making sense of people, place and linguistic landscapes. London: Bloomsbury. Pp. 141-160.
2018 The 'dark side' of hypermobility within Queenstown, New Zealand. In Bielenia-Grajewska, M. & M. E. Cortés de los Rios (Eds.), Innovative Perspectives on Tourism Discourse. Hershey PA, USA: IGI Global. Pp. 74-90.
2017 "Small town" or "small city"? Place-making activities in Queenstown, New Zealand. In Busse, B. & I. H. Warnke (Eds.), Place-Making in the Declarative City. Berlin/Boston: Mouton de Gruyter.
2015 The Pedagogical Implications of ELF in A Domestic Migrant Workplace. In Bowles, H. & A. Cogo (Eds.), International Perspectives on English as a Lingua Franca. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 136-158.
Conference proceedings
2012b And I'd say "This week, we're not going to clean the windows": Direct reported speech within a domestic labor workplace context. Conference Proceedings. GSCP (the Gruppo di Studi sulla Comunicazione Parlata). International Conference, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
2012c English as a Lingua Franca within a domestic labor context. Conference Proceedings. The 5th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca. Boğaziçi University, Faculty of Education, Department of Foreign Language Education, Istanbul, Turkey.
Media coverage
2013 "Mixed Marriages": Swissinfo.ch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLRrYmRtWy0
Invited Talks & Workshops
2019 Grassroots diffusion of English in a 'blue-collar' workplace: the case of a multilingual cleaning company in the USA. Research Colloquium organized by Prof. E. Schneider, University of Regensburg, Germany.
2017 Gentrification and the Appropriation of Space in Brooklyn, New York. University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. (invited talk)
2017 Intercultural Communication and the value of English in a Multilingual Workplace. University of Salzburg. Salzburg, Austria. (invited talk)
2017 Multilingual orthographic norm breaking: the case of 'wildstyle' graffscapes in Bushwick, New York. Panel: Material encounters and multilingualism (invited panel contribution, organized by D. Karlander & J. Järlehed). ISB 11 (International Symposium of Bilingualism). University of Limerick, Ireland.
2016 Doing Mobile Ethnography within Sociolinguistics. Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (invited talk & workshop).
2016 "Stay and Play": investigating the semiotic landscapes of DUMBO, Brooklyn. Panel: Creativity and play in the multilingual/multimodal semiotic landscape. (invited panel contribution, organized by M. Moriarty & J. Jarlehed). Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, Murcia, Spain.
2013 Theorizing Adventure Tourism: qualitative and quantitative approaches. Queenstown Resort College, Queenstown, New Zealand. (invited talk).
2013 The Linguistic and Semiotic Landscapes of three Brooklyn neighbourhoods. USRN: The Declarative City: Urban Communication as Place Making. University of Bremen, Germany. (Plenary lecture w. B. Busse).
2013 Linguistic Landscapes. Guest lecture (in D. Britain & A. Kern-Stähler's MA lecture) University of Bern, Switzerland. (invited talk).
2012 Language practices in various social networks: The case of Latino domestics and their English-speaking clients. Panel: Latino social networks in the city. (invited panel contribution, organized by R. Marquez & L.M. Rojo). Sociolinguistics Symposium 19. Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
2012 Researching socio-cultural practices & communicative strategies in qualitative studies. School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. University of Washington, Seattle, USA. (invited talk).
2011 Constructing safe adventures: Landscape and language in Swiss guidebooks and in tourist/host talk. Panel: Tourism, multilingualism and sociolinguistics (Invited panel contribution, organized by M. Heller, A. Jaworski & C. Thurlow). ISB8 (International Symposium of Bilingualism). University of Oslo, Norway.
2010 Negotiating Identities in Intercultural Couples' Conversations. Sprachenzentrum der Universität & der ETH Zürich, Language Center of the University of Zürich and The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Switzerland. (invited talk).
2009 Diglossia and the linguistic situation of German-speaking Switzerland. Department of Communication, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. (invited talk).
- Goncalves, Kellie (2019). 'What are you doing here, I thought you had a kid now?' The stigmatisation of working mothers in academia – a critical self-reflective essay on gender, motherhood and the neoliberal academy. Gender and Language. ISSN 1747-6321. 13(4), s 469- 487 . doi: 10.1558/genl.37573
- Goncalves, Kellie (2019). YO! or OY? - say what? Creative place-making through a metrolingual artifact in the semiotic landscaping of Dumbo, Brooklyn. International Journal of Multilingualism. ISSN 1479-0718. 16(1), s 42- 58 . doi: 10.1080/14790718.2018.1500259 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary
- Goncalves, Kellie (2018). The "Dark Side" of Hypermobility Within Queenstown, New Zealand, In Magdalena Bielenia-Grajewska & Enriqueta Cortes de los Rios (ed.), Innovative Perspectives on Tourism Discourse. IGI Global. ISBN 1522529306. Chapter 5. s 74 - 90
- Goncalves, Kellie (2018). The Semiotic Paradox of Gentrification: the commodification of place and linguistic fetishization of Bushwick's graffscapes, In Quentin Williams; Christopher John Stroud & Amiena Peck (ed.), Making Sense of People and Place in Linguistic Landscapes. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350037984. Chapter 8. s 141 - 160
- Goncalves, Kellie (2018). Young Bilingual Adults, In Annick De Houwer & Lourdes Ortega (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingualism. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316831922. Chapter 3. s 59 - 75
- Goncalves, Kellie & Schluter, Anne (2017). "Please do not leave any notes for the cleaning lady, as many do not speak English fluently": policy, power and language brokering in a multilingual workplace. Language Policy. ISSN 1568-4555. 16, s 241- 265 . doi: 10.1007/s10993-016-9406-2
- Thurlow, Crispin & Goncalves, Kellie (2019). X-SCAPES: New horizons in linguistic landscapes. Linguistic Landscape. ISSN 2214-9953. 5(1), s 111- 114
- Goncalves, Kellie (2018). Being a mom isn't all it's cracked up to be: the challenges of motherhood in the 21st century..
- Goncalves, Kellie (2018). Breaking the Silence: Narratives of Parenthood & Childlessness.
- Goncalves, Kellie (2018). Pitfalls of and opportunities for transdisciplinary research into bilingualism. How can we improve inter- and transdisciplinary connections between scholars working on bilingualism and who are coming from very different research traditions, using very different methodologies, from often opposed theoretical positions?.
- Goncalves, Kellie (2018). "What are you doing here, I thought you had a kid now?" The stigmatization of working mothers in academia.
- Goncalves, Kellie (2018). Women & Leadership: An introduction.
- Goncalves, Kellie (2018). YO! or OY? - say what? Creative place-making through a metrolingual artifact in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
- Goncalves, Kellie (2018). YO or OY, say what? Creative place-making through metrolingual artifacts in a gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood.
- Goncalves, Kellie; Barro, Gilles & Peck, Amiena (2018). Language and Gentrification: Northern aspiration, southern resistance.
- Goncalves, Kellie & Lanza, Elizabeth (2018). Narratives of Motherhood: An introduction (academic panel).
- Goncalves, Kellie; Lanza, Elizabeth & Lexander, Kristin Vold (2018). From Antlers to Esspresso House: X-scape and escape to Scandinavia's trendiest neighborhood. Show summary
- Goncalves, Kellie; Lanza, Elizabeth & Lexander, Kristin Vold (2018). From migrant grocery store to Espresso House: understanding urban change in the conspicuous cultural consumption of Grünerløkka Oslo, Norway.
- Goncalves, Kellie (2017). 4 days and 649 profile views: online and offline performances of female au pairs - the challenges of temporary transnational experiences in the 21st century.
- Goncalves, Kellie (2017). Gentrification and the Appropriation of Space in Brooklyn, New York.
- Goncalves, Kellie (2017). Intercultural Communication and the value of English in a Multilingual Workplace..
- Goncalves, Kellie (2017). Language and Social Mobility within 'Blue-collar' Workplaces: A Case Study in the USA.
- Goncalves, Kellie (2017). Mobile or immobile 'graffscapes': multimodal & multilingual street art and the re-appropriation of space in New York City..
- Goncalves, Kellie (2017). Multilingual orthographic norm breaking in Bushwick, New York. Panel: Material encounters and multilingualism.
- Goncalves, Kellie (2017). Pedagogical implications of ELF for transnational migrants in the US: a case of domestic workers. Invited Symposium: Innovations and challenges in ELF.
- Goncalves, Kellie (2017). Research and Reflexivity in Under-researched Contexts of Sociolinguistics.


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Chyrp: How Not To Use jQuery
Chyrp, a recently dugg blogging system, looks like a very good and clean blogging system. I strongly agree with Alex's (the author) philosophy about Ajax: no overajaxifying.
Because we've all seen AJAX abused too many times, Chyrp is made to use it only where it works good. For example, creating a new post uses AJAX, because it's already definite where it's going to end up (the content, with all the other posts [unless you made it a draft, in which case it goes in to "Your Drafts" and tells you so]). However, for creating a page it uses regular old form submitting. This is because pages are meant to be their own section of the website. There's no point in having it fade in to the content or do anything fancy, because you'll end up going to its own page anyway.
Chyrp uses jQuery; a good choice. Inferring from most of the Ajax-pushing code, I can see that Alex has made the JavaScript as clean as possible. There are still some room for improvement, however, as seen in this:
if ($("#admin_bar").css("display") == "none") {
It would be better to do this:
if (!$("#admin_bar:visible").size()) {
CSS styles are also littered throughout the code; they should be moved to classes in stylesheets so that their respective classes are applied when needed. This separates presentation from logic, which is ideal. But the most horrible sight is perhaps in
function activate_feather_tab(id) { $("#nav_text").removeClass("selected"); $("#text_form").css("display", "none"); $("#nav_audio").removeClass("selected"); $("#audio_form").css("display", "none"); $("#nav_chat").removeClass("selected"); $("#chat_form").css("display", "none"); $("#nav_link").removeClass("selected"); $("#link_form").css("display", "none"); $("#nav_photo").removeClass("selected"); $("#photo_form").css("display", "none"); $("#nav_quote").removeClass("selected"); $("#quote_form").css("display", "none"); $("#nav_video").removeClass("selected"); $("#video_form").css("display", "none"); $("#nav_"+id).addClass("selected"); $("#"+id+"_form").css("display", "block"); }
"Why?!" cried the anguished voice in my head. Other than that this might be generated on the server, I can think of no other explanation. This is what it should be:
function activate_feather_tab(id) { $("#nav_text, #nav_audio, #nav_chat, #nav_link, #nav_photo, #nav_quote, #nav_video").removeClass("selected"); $("#text_form, #audio_form, #chat_form, #link_form, #photo_form, #quote_form, #video_form").hide(); $("#"+id+"_form").show(); }
A server-side code-generating mechanism should have no problem generating this. Better yet, if all of the elements that need to be processed follow a certain naming pattern, the JavaScript doesn't even need to be generated on server-side, all it needs is pattern-matching CSS selectors:
function activate_feather_tab(id) { $("[id^='nav_']").removeClass("selected"); $("[id$='_form']").hide(); $("#" + id + "_form").show(); }
Aside from all this, what's up with directly setting the CSS
display attribute when you can use
show() or
hide()? This is a nice example that shows how jQuery can be underutilized.
Hey, thanks for the tips. I
Hey, thanks for the tips. I admit I'm not the most handy with jQuery, I'm still getting my head around some of it, especially the small things like that. Apologies for the mess, I'm usually the one who's totally obsessed over stuff like that.
As for the activate_nav_tab stuff, that's just me porting old code over and forgetting to optimize it. :P Regardless, I'll update it all right away.


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Immediate-past Foothill Cultural District President, University Guest House and Conference Center's Marketing Manager Debbie Tucker-Harrison, will continue as the board's Treasurer, with The Natural History Museum of Utah's Director of Marketing Jim Breitinger serving as the District's Vice President and Amy McIff, the Tower at Rice-Eccles Stadium's Senior Manager of Marketing and Communications, serving as the organization's Secretary.
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A Fool's Hope
Author: Thundera Tiger
Nominator: unknown
2004 Award Category: Races: Elves: Vignette - First Place
Story Type: Other Fiction ✧ Length: unknown
Rating: G ✧ Reason for Rating: N/A
Summary: Vignette set in Rivendell after the Fellowship's departure. Focuses on a conversation between Glorfindel and Elrond as they debate the wisdom in both the Fellowship's mission as well as the individuals comprising the unlikely group. A fool's hope? You decide.
Review scores are not available for 2004.
Reviewed by: Ainaechoiriel ✧ Score: N/A
An valid question makes for a great short story. What was Elrond thinking? And Glorfindel was the perfect one to ask. This story had humor and suspense (though we know how it all turns out, of course) and a valid anser to that question. Thundera fleshed out these two characters wonderfully in the process.
Reviewed by: Larian Elensar ✧ Score: N/A
Of course, we have the benefit of hindsight, but it certainly must have seemed impossible to all those great and powerful leaders who had to depend on hobbits and love and friendship instead of power. They were all pretty optomistic, considering the way things were stacked against the mission being successful.
Reviewed by: Marta ✧ Score: N/A
Wonderful! You're absolutely right, anyone looking objectively at the Fellowship would have reason to question the sanity of whomever put it together. You capture something of the humor in this meeting. More than that, Elrond's justifications for his choices actually make sense. Some sense, at least, as much as anything could. Well done.
Reviewed by: Dwimordene ✧ Score: N/A
You know, for a story based on a serious question, I couldn't help but laugh at Glorfindel several times. For some reason, this line in particular made me chuckle: "And because you have yet to thoroughly offend Thranduil this year, you have decided to send his son into what might be considered certain death. I beg the Valar that this is not the case." Nicely drawn (and at times humorous!) sketch of the reasoning that went into the choosing of the Fellowship. It's one of those decisions that no one, even those making it, can be particularly happy with, and were it not for foresight, even the various laws of necessity probably wouldn't have prevented efforts to change the composition of the company more than once. It's a matter of faith in the end-bolstered by reasons, but ultimately, everyone is relying on trust in the native good will of those going, and that nothing undertaken with such a will can ultimately fail.
Reviewed by: Lady Aranel ✧ Score: N/A
I loved this stories premise. I think the only thing missing was action between Elrond and Glorfindel. I know they are walking together for most of the fic, but I feel that because of that it was reduced to mostly dialog and I would like to know what gestures and facial expressions they have throughout or even where they are and their surroundings! The middle seemed to lag a bit because of this.
Reviewed by: Avonaus ✧ Score: N/A
That's nice. I should have read it ages ago, but the title put me off. I like stories that have hope and happiness in them.
Reviewed by: Ellbee ✧ Score: N/A
I like your take on Elrond's thought processes. Glorfindel makes an excellent point; it certainly looks like there's very little hope as he lays out the facts, and I would tend to agree that not all the members of the Fellowship were the best possible choice. Your Elrond makes the reader believe that, on the contrary, these individuals were the only possible choice.


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git checkout the Ego.
In the interests of giving back to the software community, I have been looking for an active open-source project to contribute to. I am working to gain mastery of ruby on rails, so naturally I gravitate towards projects of that ilk. Unfortunately, I have gained just enough knowledge to be a little smug, so when I found a project I wanted to work on I scrolled immediately to the README and started scanning. The first block of text was headed by:
Start here if this is your first ruby on rails project…
…with a link to a blog post. I kept scanning for information that would be relevant to ME. This was not my first ruby on rails project. I have my elaborate dev environment set up just the way I like it, thank you very much, and I can reproduce your project with a flick of my config file, I am sure (chuckles condescendingly). This is a snippet of the proceeding workflow:
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Getting a new project setup and functional is not an easy chore, and I was quite chastened when I swallowed my pride and checked out the blog post for first timers, which boiled down to:
- Install VirtualBox
- Install Vagrant
git clone repo
cd repo
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
cd /vagrant
bundle install
bundle exec rake db:migrate
bundle exec rails s
I could have been contributing hours ago, when I still had momentum! Perhaps my first pull request should still be to modify the README. I would rephrase the heading to read "For all developers: get started right here", and then remove every other instruction that followed.
Perhaps I should go get started…


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Sometimes, finding just the right name for your character can be tricky. Here, author Suzanne Hartmann shares some ways authors come up with names for their characters.
Naming Characters
By Suzanne Hartmann
Based on the responses I received from questioning authors at a couple of writing forums, the following were the top 10 responses to how writers name their characters.
1) Many characters come to authors already named. Somehow they just know what the character's name is.
2) Use on-line name lists. Here are a few:
3) Use roots of languages like Latin and Greek to build a meaning behind a character's name.
for an antagonist – mal means "bad," so you could create a last name like Malter or Termal or use a first name like Malia or Malin.
a character who is famous – aster means "star" It would make an excellent last name or could become a woman's name, Asteria.
4) Create a name based on a person's work or a main character trait in a foreign language. You can use an on-line translator such as babelfish.yahoo.com where you can type in the English word, choose the language to translate to, and it will give you the foreign equivalent. Do translations until you find one that can easily be tweaked into a good name.
Accountant is "contable" in Spanish and "contablista" in Portuguese, so a good last name might be Conta or maybe Blista or Ablist.
Engineer is "ingeniero" in Spanish and "Ingenieur" in German, so a good first name for a woman might be Genni, or maybe a last name of Geniero.
5) Find a name consistent with the character's ethnic background. You can search on-line for common names of any nationality.
My character Neil's parents were from the Netherlands, so I gave him a Dutch-sounding last name (Van der Haas and the English equivalent of a common Dutch name (Neil for Nels).
I also needed Arabic first names, so I did an on-line search for Arabic names.
6) Name a person for someone famous who reminds you of the character or someone famous in the field of work the character has. You will want to tweak the name, however, so it's not too blatant and obvious. To do this, you could use only the person's first name or change a few letters. To make the reference even more obscure, you could come up with a name that has the same initials or take the letters of a famous person's name and mix them up to create another name.
Someone who is honest – give him the first name Abe or the last name Lincoln
A psychologist – give him a name that has the same initials as Sigmund Freud
A cowboy – mix up the letters in John Wayne's name to come up with Jay Wohnen
7) Match the sound of the name to the character's personality/role. This works especially well for science fiction and fantasy novels.
antagonist – short, abrasive, harsh-sounding names
protagonist – eloquent, flowing names
8) Use words that indicate something about the person's character or work.
an antagonist – a name with "black" in it: Blackstone, Blackwell
a magician – a name that includes the letters "prest" (from prestidigitation)
a mechanic – a name of a car: Ford, Mercury, Cutlass, Bonneville
a cook/chef – the name of a spice: Tarragon, Curry, Cory (for Coriander)
a musician – the name of a style of music or something musical: Cadence, Staff, Baroque
9) Use the name of a friend, family, or acquaintance that you associate with a certain personality or a trait that matches that of your character. We all know people who are practical jokers, scatterbrained, intelligent, shady, etc.
10) Keep a list of interesting names you come across. You can find them in newspapers, phone books, on-line articles, social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, war memorials, office doors, letterheads of junk mail, game shows, the Bible. The list is endless.
Mix and match any of the above techniques to come up with unlimited unique names.
Suzanne Hartmann is the author of the novels Peril and Conspiracy, Christian suspense she calls fiction with a twist of the unexpected. For the last several years, she has also stepped into the editorial side of writing, with her work at Port Yonder Press and now Castle Gate Press. She offers a plethora of easy-to-understand writing advice on her blog, Write This Way, which she has compiled into a book of the same name (available at her blog). When not writing, editing, or homeschooling, she enjoys scrapbooking, Bible study, and scouring local library sales for good deals. She loves to encourage fellow authors, so stop by her Facebook Page and drop her a note.
LINK for Write This Way: Write This Way Blog: http://suzanne-hartmann2.blogspot.com/2007/01/write-this-way-take-your-writing-to-new.html
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Well, this was our last Inspired Dreamers for Term 2. Today we had Seepa Ah Lam, NZ Police and Brandon Jackson, Social Worker/Youth Worker of ATWC. They were born and breed in South Auckland and related so well with our students. Seepa and Brandon were very impressed with the kind of questions our students were asking. They thoroughly enjoyed their time with us and it was Seepa's first time sharing with a school, so well done to our students for engaging so well with both our speakers.
Well Done Torea Syndicate,
I was so proud of all the students today. The Powhiri was amazing. Jesse wanted to share but forgot to say, the Porwhiri was his biggest highlight – to be welcomed in this way – so well done to the whole syndicate and Kona, thank you for leading the students – it was amazing!
They both said how well behaved our students are. They were amazed at the questions, interaction and responses they received from our students – so well done Torea you left a lasting impression on Jesse and Kaveinga!
High Technology WOW…well I think we have gained new knowledge and inspiration from the "tech world" and our Inspired Dreamers within our community. Jesse Armstrong and Kaveinga Lisati of Vaka Interactiv, have opened our students eyes to "innovation" and "creativity" and to explore and dream big!
Vaughan, Gerwyn and Sui, were very blessed to be part of the Inspired Dreamers.
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In previous lives, Jared was one half of the technical team at ReadWriteWeb (now known as ReadWrite) and a webmaster at his alma mater, College of Charleston, from where he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism in 2008.
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I grew up listening to all kinds of music. It's not that anyone in my family were music snobs, they just all happen to like whatever sounded good on their ears. Because of that i still have an extremely eclectic taste in music that ranges from Billie Holliday to captain beefheart.
One of the most common voices i can recall is that of Linda Ronstadt. It would be until much later in my life that i would recognize the talent and how much she played a part in a love for several styles of music she would play.
It saddens me to say that I really didn't begin to fully appreciate he contribution to not only rock n roll but music in general until she was inducted in the rock n roll hall of fame in 2014 when the late Glenn Frey gave one of the best and most heartfelt induction speeches in memory. Then a group of the greatest female vocalist put on a performance of her songs that could have only been outdone by Ronstadt herself.
Linda Ronstadt couldn't attend the ceremony because of her ongoing battle with Parkinson's disease which has stripped her from her standard of singing the way she has held herself to.
This tragedy of art and of a pioneer has lead to the new documentary Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice. This documentary spans the lifetime of one of the greatest female vocalist that modern society has ever known.
When Norah Jones came out with her first album I fell in love with it to the point that one of the songs was prominent in my wedding. My only concern was that because Norah didn't write her own stuff at the time that her success might be short lived. Someone I worked with at the time pointed out to me that Linda Ronstadt didn't write her songs either and it didn't matter. It took me almost 15 years to realize that as much as he was right, he was also very wrong.
Ronstadt had a voice and ear that was unprecedented before and after. Every song she ever sang was her own because she made sure of it. She was a songwriter by simply using her one of a kind voice. While never having the confidence in herself one might think is unbelievable, she never sacrificed her want and need to sing certain songs a certain way. In my mind that makes her a true songwriter.
The sound of my voice does not focus on the tragedy of one of the greatest voices in music recording history being gone, it instead celebrates what the world was grateful to have lived through and what she was able to do for women on what is still maybe to most male dominated industries.
It is definitely hard for most documentaries to do true justice to an artists talent and ability but The Sound Of My Voice unique. It does everything you want from a film like this but when pulled together it's a film that makes you long for a time in music when there were no boundaries and anyone with the right talent could make their way.
Linda moved the world with her voice. I have always said how much of a tragedy it is that the greatest talents in the world get cut down too early whether it is from death or illness while mediocrity carries on forever. The truth is that Linda Ronstadt left the world with so much of her love and talent of every genre of music that we will never grow tired of hearing her. It's not just a few pop hits. She left us with a plethora of country, Mexican, Rock, POP, Ballads and American Standards that we will never find ourselves bored of her unique voice of the likes of that will most likely never be heard of again.


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Alfred Austin from A Letter from Italy 04/04/2011Posted by florencecapital in Uncategorized.
Tags: 1880-1900, Alfred Austin, Bellosguardo, Views of Florence
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Verse six of Alfred Austin's A Letter from Italy, published in Lyrical Poems 1891
How looked Florence? Fair as when
Beatrice was only ten:
Nowise altered, just the same
Marble city, mountain frame,
Turbid river, cloudless sky,
As in days when you and I
Roamed its sunny streets, apart.
Ignorant of each other's heart.
Little knowing that our feet
Slow were moving on to meet,
And that we should find, at last
Kindship in a common past.
But a shadow falls athwart
All her beauty, all her art
For alas! I vainly seek
Outstretched hand and kindling cheek.
Such as, in the bygone days.
Sweetened, sanctified her ways.
When, as evening belfries chime,
I to Bellosguardo climb.
Vaguely thinking there to find
Faces that still haunt my mind,
Though the doors stand open wide,
No one waits for me inside;
Not a voice comes forth to greet,
As of old, my nearing feet.
So I stand without, and stare.
Wishing you were here to share
Void too vast alone to bear.
To Ricorboli I wend:
But where now the dear old friend,
Heart as open as his gate.
Song, and jest, and simple state?
They who loved me all are fled;
Some are gone, and some are dead.
So, though young and lovely be
Florence still, it feels to me,
Thinking of the days that were.
Like a marble sepulchre.


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Area rugs make nice accents to a room, setting off a coffee table or entry point. But whether the rug is a large Oriental rug or a small, round area rug, it can bunch up when walked on. This is because the underside of the rug is smooth and glides over the carpet underneath. In order to stop this natural rug migration, you need a non-skid rug pad. Rug pads are available in a variety of sizes and shapes. Besides stopping the rug from bunching, they help with vacuuming by increasing the air flow. Keeping your rugs flat on the floor will provide additional safety as it's easy for people, especially the elderly, to trip on bunched rugs. And trips can lead to falls, which can result in broken bones.
Buy a non-skid area rug pad that will fit beneath your rug. If you cannot find the exact right size, then buy a larger size and cut it to fit.
Optionally, apply double-sided carpet tape to the back of your area rug, then stick the non-skid rug pad to the back of your area rug. The tape is for added security to hold the pad to the rug. While you could attach the tape side directly onto your carpet to hold the rug in place, when you would remove the rug later you would have tape residue left on your carpet.
Place the rug with the pad underneath on your carpet. The non-skid pad should stop the rug from bunching up.
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- In choosing an area rug for a room, a general rule of thumb is to have the rug 0.6 metres (2 feet) shorter than the shortest wall length. So, for a room that is 3.65 by 4.5 metres (12 by 15 feet), you would use an area rug that is 3 by 3.65 metres (10 by 12 feet).
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i don't know if you need scripting to accomplish what you want... you do know you can save process icon instances by dragging a process's triangle to the desktop, right? that will save all the configuration of a particular process at the time you create the icon.
you can also save multiple processing steps by dragging the triangle of the history explorer to the desktop. then you can double click the icon and edit the steps if you like.
but i understand what you are asking - you'd like to be able to have a pixelmath expression with variables but be able to control those variables from a gui. is that right?
A simple step by step example - say converting a picture to pure black and white - would do for now.
Possibly defining a variable of grayscale as threshold, and use a checkbox to invert.
Also the global functions - "apply" "apply globaly" "reset to default" "preview window"... should be covered superficially


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Beijer, which owns Dean & Wood in the UK, is acquiring the Norwegian company, Ecofrigo AS.
Ecofrigo AS is a project-oriented distribution company operating mainly within project planning and the distribution of environment friendly chillers and refrigerants.
The Norwegian company has reported sales of approximately SEK 35M with good profitability, and employs six people.
The company delivers environment friendly refrigeration units equipped with the latest technology from G & L Beijer's Italian subsidiary, SCM Frigo. It was founded in December 2009 and has in a short time established a strong position in the Norwegian market.
G & L Beijer acquired SCM Frigo at the beginning of 2011 and the acquisition of Ecofrigo means a further strengthening of the synergies.
In the acquisition of Ecofrigo, G & L Beijer has identified a number of synergy effects, mainly on the purchasing side. The acquisition is expected to have a marginally positive effect on G & L Beijer's profit per share. Ecofrigo is included in G & L Beijer's accounts from January 2012.
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During the Ideation Program, you will discover a wide variety of tools that support you in becoming a sustainable entrepreneur. How to start? What makes an idea a good one? Who is your customer? How to make impact? Join the following workshops: • 05 November: Introduction - 19.00h What makes a good idea? Team formation and introduction to sustainable entrepreneurship. ... Read MoreFind out more »


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No Holiday For Legionella
John Herbert
Legionella Risk Assessemnt Legionnaires Disease Expert
Downtime is a perfect time for Legionella
Buildings harbour a particularly dangerous, potentially fatal bacteria named Legionella Pneumophila more commonly known as Legionella.
It can cause a potentialy fatal illness known as Legionnaires' Disease. It is contracted by inhaling water droplets (aerosols) that cause lung infection, not by person to person contact.
Legionellosis, is the term for all ilness caused by the Legionella family of bacteria, including at least two flu type illnesses, Pontiac Fever and Logihead Fever. And we also have a another derivation, Legionella Longbeachae, a soil based version of the bacteria, that has caused Legionnaires' Disease due to inhaling potting soil or compost dust. If that's is not enough trouble, there is also a branch of Legionella Like bacteria the Legionella-like amoebal pathogens (LLAPs).
Legionella Pneumophila has several sub-types, and L. Longbeachae has two sub-types. It must be said that research is on-going, and new discoveries are made everyday.
Legionella Pneumophila is one of the aqueous variety, it grows inside building water systems, and breeds in stagnant and warm water areas between 25-35 deg C, the temperatures often found in cooling towers, and domestic water systems.
In Hong Kong and South China in the summer the 'cold' water system is warm water system, due to heating exposed water tanks and piping in the tropical climate.
L. Pneumophila is an aqueous bacteria, in nature it is commonly found in rivers and streams, and piped in to our buildings through the utility water system. Given the opportunity, it can breed inside everytype of manmade water system including cooling towers, domestic hot and cold water systems, air conditioners, irrigation systems, showers, ice machices, misting machines, spa baths, humidifiers, birthing pools, and other water systems.
Now, we are all preparing for the Chinese lunar new year holiday, when most organisations shutdown for an extended holiday period.
All across China and Hong Kong, cooling towers will fall silent for a week or two of rest. Water heaters, water tanks and piping will lie idle awaiting our return. In China most businesses are closed for 10 days or more.
That's a risk because Legionella will not be taking any holiday, given the right environment it will silently breed.
Take Precautions
Long holidays are high risk, whilst you are away the water systems,
cooling towers, etc. are warm and motionless, a prefect breeding ground for
Legionellae. Assess the risk, legionella can travel 6km from the source, some quick tips (without liability):
1. have a consultant assess the risk; 2. create planned shutdown / start up routinue, drain down water systems if possible; 3. before operating idle cooling towers and similar equipment, disinfect the piping and towers; 4. flush all water tanks and pipes before use; 5. avoid stagnate water in domestic hot and cold water piping; 6. dont inhale, avoid breathing aerosols during flushing, clean and disinfection procedures; 7. beware utility work, Legionella outbreaks are associated with the disturbance caused by water utility works;
About the Author
John A. Herbert is internationally recognised Legionella expert, and often
cited in the media for his experience auditing buildings to reduce the risk of
Leigonella Infection. He has worked in Asia for the last 20 years, he is REA,
and BEAM Professional.


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Location Marketing is the Flux Capacitor of Mobile Retailing | uberall
After discussing the changing dynamics of marketing in a mobile world and the ever-evolving retail landscape via technologies like visual search and mobile payments, today we finish our three-part series by examining why location-based search marketing is a critical component of success for every retailer.
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Chris Walton is an accomplished Senior Executive with nearly 20 years of success within the retail and retail technology industries. He is well-versed in merchandising, store operations, inventory management, product design, forecasting, e-commerce, pricing and promotions, and tech product development.
Chris was most recently a Vice President with Target, where he led the retailer's Store of the Future project and also ran the Target's home furnishing division for e-commerce. He previously worked for GAP, Inc., as a Distribution Analyst and Manager.
Chris holds a BA in Economics and History from Stanford University, and a MBA from Harvard Business School.
He likes to dress as Darth Vader for Halloween, and his wife also frequently asks him to ask Alexa, "to turn off the music."


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