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Best Business Schools in Europe
Many individuals attend college in a foreign country not only to earn a prestigious degree, but also to experience different cultures. A business degree is a valuable tool to have in today's tough job market.
A business degree will:
- Teach you skills useful for any career
- Improve your teamwork, time management, problem-solving, and leadership skills
- Give you opportunities to travel
- Prepare you for life
- Help you structure your personal finances
Whether you want to go for a basic accounting degree or pursue an MBA, earning a business degree is never a bad idea.
Earning a degree is a different experience in Europe than in the US. Whereas US applicants are pressured to show uniqueness, European applicants are asked to show why they are interested in a particular subject. Along with standardized test scores, European schools look at leadership skills and motivation. If you mention an extracurricular activity, it better be related to your intended field of study.
European schools are focused on education – there are no mascots, school colors, or football teams. This "no frills" approach to learning enables universities to be cheap (sometimes free!). While American professors are easily approachable and viewed as mentors, European professors lecture in great halls while standing on a raised platform. Which school you attend should depend on your personal goals.
Here are the top three business schools in Europe:
#3: Saïd Business School (Oxford, UK)
Here's a fun fact: just three months after they graduate, the average alumni is earning six figures (maybe these are people staying in Europe's luxury golf resorts later in life)! Oxford's prestigious business school is known for producing programmers. The school is divided into three sections: Business, Finance, and Management. Graduate students can earn their MBA in one year at SBS. In 2006, SBS launched a series of programs in which students can earn one of three diplomas in just 18 months. In 2013, SBS's MBA program was ranked 24th in the world, 3rd in the UK, 6th in "The Best International MBA Programs" (Forbes), and 5th in "International Business Schools" (Business Week).
#2: London Business School (London, UK)
LBS is the UK's top business school. It is consistently ranked as one of the top 10 business schools in the world. A competitive school, LBS offers many different business degrees including MBAs and PhDs. Sloan Masters in Leadership and Strategy is perhaps the school's most famous degree. It is a master's program developed for senior executives and professionals. Most Sloan Fellows have 15 years of experience under their belts before they start the program. The degree is full time and takes one year to complete. LBS also has a campus located in Dubai.
#1: INSEAD (Paris, France)
It's not easy to get into INSEAD. Students must score 702 or higher on the GMAT (one point higher than the score required to get into LBS). This global graduate school is famous for its MBA program. It also offers a Master of Finance, a PhD in Management, and many other executive programs. Because INSEAD has campuses in the Middle East, Europe, and Asia, students have the unique opportunity to study in three different continents. Alumni have endless opportunities because INSEAD shares career services with Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Kellogg School of Management in the US.
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I appreciate your subjective tone here. Most of the sites I've looked at are totally one-sided, like "American schools are the best and Europe sucks!" or vice versa. I'm being pressured NOT to study in Europe, but since my goal is to focus solely on my education, I think the atmosphere of a European college might just agree with me.


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Hampton News
Note: This issue is dated December 28, 1921 at the head of page one. It should be dated December 21, 1921 as confirmed by the "Vol." number at the top of the page.
A very jolly party made the night air ring with merriment last night (Wednesday) on the way to Newburyport and return in a "two horse open sleigh". The party was chaperoned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brown and everyone said they filled that capacity to perfection. The young people are very grateful to Mr. Warren Batchelder who furnished the conveyance.
Mr. Edward Palmer Brown was a dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Palmer on Xmas.
The Sunday evening service in the Congregational Chapel was very pleasing and instructive. The Rev. G. W. Clark had taken great pains in its careful preparation and must have felt pleased with the result. The pictures were taken from master paintings and were exceptionally fine in the portrayal of the life of Christ. They were interspersed by explanatory readings by Miss Craig and appropriate singing by the choir.
Don't forget the New Year dance, Monday evening, at the town hall. Come in costume if possible but Come Anyway.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Palmer had the honor of entertaining the oldest man in town, Mr. Aaron Palmer, who will be 92 the 27th of February, at dinner on Xmas day. Mr. Roscoe Palmer and family were also present. Mr. Charles Palmer and family were with Mr. and Mrs. Glidden.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Glidden plan to leave for California about the 15th day of January. While all are glad they can take this trip, they regret their leaving town for the winter as they will be greatly missed. It is with sincere regret that we learn a telegram has been received by Mrs. Wilson Olney that her brother, Austin Gill, died on Saturday in a hospital. He was operated on for appendicitis and apparently recovering nicely when his heart weakened and he died suddenly. Mr. Gill lived in a city in New Mexico and was married about a year ago. Mr. Gill lived in Hampton during his childhood days and was a great favorite with all who knew him because of his uprightness and manly ways and joyous, pleasant disposition. He was graduated from Hampton Academy in the class of 1900 and then took a course in Exeter Academy graduating in 1902. Mr. Gill then entered Harvard College graduating in 1906 and after this was graduated from the Harvard Law School. He made a marvelous record in the World War, returning with several medals. Of late he has made quite a stir in the literary world by stories which he has written and had published and had a very promising future. It is hard to understand why such a life should be closed so early and the young wife so sadly bereaved. The sympathy of this community is extended to his father and Mr. and Mrs. Olney who have been so recently deeply saddened. Mr. Austin Gill visited his relatives in town about two years ago, and all his friends were glad to welcome him here. The funeral was held on Tuesday and the burial will be in New Mexico.
Miss Mary Gookin, who is teaching in Claremont, N. H., Miss Janet Ward, who is teaching in Westminister, Mass., and Miss Anna M. Cole of Fairfax, N. H., are enjoying their vacation in their homes in town.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Winchester attended the wedding of Mrs. Winchester's sister, Miss Ora E. Drake, and Dr. Wallace L. Orcutt of West Newbury, at the Hotel Touraine in Boston last week. The happy couple took a honeymoon trip to New York.
Miss Theodate Hobbs is visiting her aunt and cousins in Amesbury this week.
The drive along Main Street was an exceptionally pretty one Christmas eve as so many houses were brilliantly lighted and the trees and Christmas greens threw out a real feeling of Xmas. Among the houses lighted were Henry Hobbs', Howard Lane's, Miss Mary Toppan's, Harold Winchester's, Mr. Tolman's, Mrs. Emma Young's, H. M. Lamprey's, Charles Leavitt's, and Mr. Thomas Perkin's.
Miss Mary Toppan entertained the families of Mr. C. S. Toppan and Mr. Edwin Batchelder of Newburyport, Mass., at dinner on Christmas and in the afternoon they had a real tree at Mr. Christopher Toppan's.
Victor Garland of Washington, D. C., Curtis Donnell of N. H. College, Raymond Garland, Guy Garland of Lynn, Mass., and John Perkins of P. E. A., are visiting their parents over the Yuletide. Stillman Hobbs of Andover, Miss Vivian Wood, who is attending the Normal school in Keene, N. H., Miss Helen Tolman of Sunapee and Mr. Neil Tolman of Tilton are also at home for their Christmas vacation.
Mr. H. Dewey Chase returned to his home in Wentworth on Tuesday after a pleasant week's visit with his wife in the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Batchelder.
John Colby Blake and family spent Xmas with Mr. Blake's daughter, Mrs. Charles Pressy in Salem, Mass.
The mumps are still with us. Mrs. Clara Tucker, mother of Mrs. Munsey being a victim.
Miss Alzena Leavitt is visiting her sister, Mrs. Hazel Smith in the home of their uncle, Mr. Amos Leavitt, in Wollaston, Mass.
Mr. Everett Godfrey's Rhode Island Whites are beginning their marvelous egg laying record. He is getting 38 eggs from 55 hens alternate days with 26 eggs. Mrs. Roland Emery's R. I. Reds are also doing well. She gathered 65 Tuesday from 160 hens.
Mr. Warren Hobbs has delivered the mail two days a week, Walter Scott having been called to Amesbury by the death of his mother.
Nathaniel Batchelder had the misfortune to break his wrist last week.
We are glad to see Mr. James DeLancey out after his serious fall a number of weeks ago, when the muscles of his leg were severely strained and torn. He is now obliged to use a cane but it is much better now.
Henry Hobbs is enjoying a visit with his nieces.
Norman Coffin spent Christmas with his mother in Exeter.
Mrs. Daisy Dunbar Marks of New York is the guest of Miss Rachel Blake. Mrs. Marks has been ill in a hospital a number of weeks.
Mrs. Roland Emery and little daughter Edith visited Haverhill on Friday. While there they called on Miss Susie Brown in the Gale Hospital and were sorry to find she had not improved in health as they had hoped. As soon as it will be safe for Miss Brown to be moved she will come to Mrs. Emery's and remain while she is recuperating.
Mr. and Mrs. Abbott Joplin were two of a family party which their daughter, Mrs. Finney, had invited to dine with her on Monday. Their son, Mr. William Joplin came for them in a closed car and brought them home.
Mr. and Mrs. Hill of Waltham spent Christmas with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Godfrey. They are always welcome guests in town. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Coffin were guests of friends in Amesbury over Xmas.
The Missionary auxiliary of the Congregational church will meet in the chapel on Wednesday of next week. This is the meeting when all the husbands are invited to supper and it is hoped large number will respond. The president, Mrs. G. W. Clark, will have charge of the program. The programs for the next year are in the hands of the printer.
There will no meeting of the Camp Fire Girls for the next two weeks on account of the Xmas holiday. The next meeting will be on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 1922.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sandbury have been spending the Christmas holidays with Mrs. Sandbury's brothers, Messrs. William and John Brooks.
The Monday Club will be entertained next Monday by Mrs. Emma Young with Mrs. Margaret Noyes as assistant hostess.
In the true spirit of the occasion and with due appreciation of all it implies, a large number of the inhabitants of Hampton gathered in the Town Hall on Friday evening to enjoy the first Community Christmas tree. The stage was beautifully decorated to represent an old fashioned kitchen and with the two heavily loaded trees presented a pleasing sight. Christmas has a meaning possessed by no other holiday throughout the world. America has its national and special days and other countries have theirs. Christmas is the only one alike in spirit and celebrated in all Christian lands. Christmas typifies all that is best in mankind; it is a time when all hearts express a reverence for God and his representative on earth. Men realize their interdependency and their duty to one another and so it is marked by the bestowal of this and other sentiments of benevolence and well doing. The exercises which had been prepared were well carried out and the children could be heard distinctly, particularly William White and Thelma Page. The violin solo played by Joseph Raymond accompanied in perfect time by his little sister at the piano was remarkably well rendered. The remarks by Rev. G. W. Clark were timely as they always are and the singing by the male quartette was excellent. Mr. Henry Hobbs presided in his dignified and pleasing manner and explained why we are able to have a Xmas tree. Had Charles Lane not had the ability to see what would be a lasting remembrance of him; the joy he could give the children and the big generous heart to provide for these things, the children of Hampton could not be the recipients of the presents which they receive each Xmas. The Community Christmas tree was a great success and the committee deserves the thanks of all for the great pleasure given and the Christmas spirit which it engendered. Santa Claus was very welcome and will never be forgotten by the children, and all went from the hall as they had come with joyous happy faces.
As the newly elected President and Senior Vice President of the Woman's Relief Corps feel they cannot serve next year, it will be necessary to elect two to fill these vacancies for which a special meeting is called on Tuesday, Jan. 3rd in the home of Mrs. Albert Coffin at 2:30 p. m.
Mrs. Coffey returned to Mrs. Rebecca Leavitt's on Monday after a pleasant visit with her daughters in Dedham over Christmas.
Dr. Sylvester Burnham of Newburyport preached an excellent sermon in the Baptist church on Sunday. Rev. Albert Mills of Pawtucket, R. I., will preach next Sunday as a candidate.
The union service Sunday night will be held at the Baptist church.
The monthly business meeting of the Community Club will be held Monday night.
The Executive Committee of the Parent-Teacher Association will meet this afternoon at the home of the secretary, Mrs. Nellie White.
The Baptists and Methodists unite in the social meeting tonight at the Methodist church.
The Holy Communion will be administered at the Methodist church Sunday morning.
The funeral services of Mrs. Annie S. Scott of Amesbury, mother of W. A. Scott of this town, were held from the family home, Collins Ave., Amesbury, Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Scott died Dec. 24. She was a woman of sterling character and held in high esteem by all who knew her. The spacious home was filled with relatives, friends and members of the church who desired to give expression of their love and respect, the casket was surrounded by a wealth of beautiful floral tributes. Rev. Charles M. Tibbetts, a former pastor and Rev. Matthew L. Simpson conducted the services. Mr. Tibbetts referred very fittingly to her life and service in the community. William T. Mountain, John Lundquist, Walter W. Flanders and George D. Jones served as bearers. The interment was in the family lot, Mount Prospect cemetery where a committal service was held conducted by Rev. Mr. Tibbetts. The community unites in extending their sympathy to Mr. W. A. Scott and other bereaved ones.


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by Pete Mazzaccaro
After a few years of wringing our hands about the pace of vacancies on the Avenue — it's been more than a year now since Borders Books at the Top of the Hill shut its doors for good — a new crop of restaurant announcements are cause for optimism.
Last Thursday we learned that Iron Hill Brewery had signed a deal to move its large, family-style brew pub into the former Express spot at 8400 Germantown Ave. The news comes on the heels of a number of other exciting restaurant openings — Brian Harrington's Chestnut7 at the former Solaris site, Chip Roman's Mica at the former Cuba! and Thai Kuu taking over the former Shundeez Persian restaurant.
Reaction to these stories has so far been overwhelmingly positive. Tired of bank openings, Hillers seem happy for a change of pace.
"Thank God, it's not another bank!" replied one online commenter to the Chestnut7 story.
"Can't wait!!!" wrote another in response to the Iron Hill story.
There's still some distance to go. Borders is still empty. Dozens of other properties on the avenue remain vacant. Still the mini- restaurant renaissance is important. More than any other recent additions to the Hill, these restaurants are going to be a legitimate reason for people outside of Chestnut Hill to come here. Hey, they'll even provide more reason for people who live in Chestnut Hill to stay here.
These new restaurants should help the whole neighborhood, including the many excellent restaurants we already have. Hopefully, the Avenue is turning a corner.
Now all we need is that 1,000- seat music venue…
Community Voices
The Local was founded for a number of reasons, but at its most fundamental, the Local was designed to provide a place for members of the community to voice their opinions.
We've been working on ways to improve our interactive features online, including the implementation of a comment system that uses Facebook. But we are also still looking to make you, the readers, more a part of our weekly print experience, too.
As always, we provide an open letter forum for readers. If you submit a letter of less than 300 words that is not libelous or patently false, we will run it. Further, We are always on the lookout for longer pieces, columns, op-eds and essays from members of the community. These can be essays about important matters in the community, larger, national issues, or even nice stories of the mundane joys of everyday life.
If you have an opinion or a story you'd like to share, e-mail me: firstname.lastname@example.com
Pete Mazzaccaro


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Wikipedia collects famous people's voices
From writer John Updike to actor Dustin Hoffman, Wikipedia is archiving the voices of notable people so that future generations can hear what they sounded like.
The Wikipedia Voice intro project is collecting 10-second audio recordings of anyone with a bio page on the site, NPR reports.
The BBC is contributing as many as 1,000 audio clips as well, the first time the network has openly licensed audio from its broadcast programs, according to Wikimedia UK.
Audio has benefits over video because some people do not feel comfortable in front of a camera, said Andy Mabbett, the Wikipedia volunteer who came up with the idea and is leading efforts to add more voices to people's Wikipedia pages.
The voice is also a "very personal thing," Mabbett said in an interview with USA TODAY Network.
"If you think about the people you know, if you hear their voice, it's very immediate, even more so than seeing a photograph of them," Mabbett said.
Other famous people with their voices archived on Wikipedia are actorMorgan Freeman,Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner.
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This 2009 Audi TT is obviously customized with heart and soul, a real head-turner with such fancy LED DRL addons. It may not have the tooth jarring aspects of a raw sports car but it is a perfect combination of style and uniqueness – there aren't as many on the road for sure, so it doesn't just blend into the sea of cars. The LED Daytime Lights has some merit to this fact, too.
I was blown away by the distinctive design of this "creme de la creme" road beast. It sure takes a lot of time and resources to prepare such beautiful car, but I want to tell you more about the LED DRL. Each LED Daytime Running Lamp has ultra-slim design and contains 5 pieces Super Bright High Power LED Lights. This means a total of 10 pieces high power SMD LEDs to achieve maximal lighting output – perfect for daytime use, as well for night time illumination. Our customers say it is a quality product that is worth the price and so much better than anything they can buy in the local auto parts stores.
You know what? Installing these badass Daytime Lights is relatively easy. They are commonly installed in between the bumper grille, or below bumper and the kit comes with the wiring harness for easy installation. First take off the grill plastic piece and mount the LED Daytime Running Light in between the grill plastic gap, then secure the lamp using the mounting brackets included in the package. Finally, connect the wiring harness and put back the grill piece. That's it, the whole thing should take you less than 20 minutes.
The black'n'white 2009 Audi TT is a real feast for the eye – LED DRL just underline the sharp and aggressive look of this German road machine. You can add that fine touch of LED technology and safety improvement to your ride, too. Wonder how? Well, since this LED Daytime Running Light Kit is universal fit, it could be installed on any car, SUV, or truck! Get you pair of Hella LEDayline Style DRL from iJDMTOY now!
Introducing iJDMTOY's new products for halo projector headlights and LED tail lights.


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Example 1: n = 6, d = 1
g = [2 1 3 2 1].'; x = [3 10 15 8 5].'; y = [0 2 5 % y(1,2) = y(2,1) = min(10-3,5-3,10-8,8-5) = 2 2 0 7 % y(1,3) = y(3,1) = min(15-10,15-5) = 5 5 7 0]; % y(2,3) = y(3,2) = min(15-3,15-8) = 7
Example 2: n = 3, d = 2
g = [1 2 2].'; x = [0 0 5 12 3 4]; y = [0 5; 5 0]; % y(1,2) = y(2,1) = min(sqrt(5^2+12^2),sqrt(3^2+4^2)) = 5
The test suite will focus mainly on the large-scale problem dimensions (e.g., large n and/or d). The purpose is to direct attention towards efficient runtime speed of execution. Note that your solution may run into a time-out error if it is not sufficiently efficient (which is why this problem falls into the Cody5:Hard category).
We have modified Cody's default size-based scoring function into a performance-based scoring system (implemented by our fellow Cody player LY Cao), in which the score of your submission equals 5 times the execution time of your solution (which reprents a score resolution of 0.2 seconds and allows for more room for performance improvement). Please ignore the code size and focus only on improving the code performance, as our test suite will reject any submissions running longer than 20 seconds (in contrast to Cody's default 40 seconds timeout limit).
Please be advised that an amazingly fast solution would earn a score < 5, meaning that it completes execution of all test cases within a second!
Update (11/21/2017): Additional test cases are added to ban cheater solutions (e.g., hard-coded submissions 1351541, 1351007, 1350563, 1349442, all came from Marco Tullio).
It's too bad that one stray wrong answer with an inordinately high score size ruins the scale of the solution graph. Is there any way to fix that?
Thanks for your feedback. That stray answer tried to hack the scoring in the test suite, and is now removed. Unfortunately, the current scale of the score map is still not good (hard to distinguish good solutions with score < 50). A possible workaround (from a user side) is to modify the scoring in the test suite to truncate the high scores (>=100) to 100, and the resulting y-axis scale would be [0,100] (which makes all solutions distinguishable). But this also results in a re-scoring of all solutions, which might change the current ranking of those similarly fast solutions (e.g., the current best two solutions have an equal score of 2)... I would appreciate any further suggestions (or comments from the Cody admin side) on this.
All problems should be scored by its speed rather than size imo.
leading solution is cheater solution: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/44353-group-wise-euclidean-distance/solutions/1391283
Banned cheater solution.
if you are feeling overwhelmed by a particularly persistent cheater just know that you can ban a player from your own problems by adding to your testsuite something like: lines=textread('groupDist.m','%s'); id=str2num(regexp(lines{end},'\d+','match','once')); assert(~ismember(id,[123456789 234567890]),'banned player id'); (where the array in the ismember line contains the list of player ids that you want to ban from your problem -e.g. my player id is 1379371; please do not ban me :)
Many thanks Alfonso for your suggestion. I was just thinking if I can ban a persistent cheater based on the player id. What you suggested is exactly what I need. If this guy cheats one more time (which is getting harder now with my added pcode in the test suite), I will definitely ban the guy using your suggested code.
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Official Short: SDHV Energy Efficiency Standards for America Act of 2011
Long Title: A bill to create clean energy jobs and set efficiency standards for small-duct high-velocity air conditioning and heat pump systems, and for other purposes.
Sponsors: Mr. Blunt, Ms. Stabenow, and Mrs. McCaskill
THOMAS: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:S.920:
- Sep 14 2011 12:00AM: Mr. Vitter added as cosponsor.
- Aug 2 2011 12:00AM: Mr. Brown of Massachusetts added as cosponsor.
- May 9 2011 12:00AM: Introduced.


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Alabama Counties: Pike County
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Provided by Alabama Maps
Pike County was created on 1821 Dec. 17. The county boundaries changed several times before being set at their current locations in 1866. The county was named for Gen. Zebulon Pike (New Jersey), a soldier in the War of 1812. The first county seat was established at Louisville, later moved to Monticello and finally located in Troy in 1839.
Pike County is located in the southeastern section of the state, in the coastal plain or "Wiregrass" area. It encompasses 672 square miles. A teachers' training college, Troy Normal School, was established in Troy in 1887. Today it exists as Troy University. Other towns located in the county include Brundidge, Spring Hill and Henderson.
Owen, Thomas McAdory. History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1921.
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(A) Unless a license issued under this chapter is suspended, expires, or is revoked, the license shall be renewed for three years, as determined by commission rule, after a determination by the commission that the licensee is in compliance with this chapter and rules authorized by this chapter and after the licensee pays a fee. The commission may assess the license renewal applicant a reasonable fee in the amount necessary to cover the commission's costs associated with the review of the license renewal application.
(B) A licensee shall undergo a complete investigation at least every three years, as determined by commission rule, to determine that the licensee remains in compliance with this chapter.
(C) Notwithstanding division (B) of this section, the commission may investigate a licensee at any time the commission determines it is necessary to ensure that the licensee remains in compliance with this section.
(D) The holder of a license shall bear the cost of an investigation, except key employees and casino gaming employees who are employed by a casino operator, in which case the casino operator shall pay the investigation cost.
Amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.44, HB 277, §1, eff. 10/17/2011.
Added by 128th General AssemblyFile No.38, HB 519, §1, eff. 9/10/2010.


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Hello everyone, I've been lurking and crawling around on various sites like this one, trying to absorb what I could about studio design, but ultimately I decided my situation is a bit weird, and it would be best to just ask for help! The folks on this forum seem very knowledgeable, so here goes
I'm building a studio in the loft of my barn. We designed the structure to follow the gambrel style roof, and it's completely free standing. I sheeted the outside of the structure with OSB and 5/8 drywall, then filled the 2x6 walls with tons of insulation. Parts have more like a foot of insulation, due to the cavities provided by the gambrels. On the inside I've started with another round of 5/8 drywall, and its starting to get nice and quiet inside, apart from doors and such.
So far, I'm fairly confident in my sound proofing. The real question I have though, is how to go about finishing the surface of this room for good acoustics? Initially I was thinking of drywalling the surface, for a nice clean painted finish that I could then start treating, however when we had just a bit of drywall on the walls, I already started noticing quite an echo in certain places of the room. I think that's because of some of the angles.
Overall room size btw is approx 20 wide x 25 long, give or take a few inches, and height in the center of the ceiling is close to 11'.
After hearing the sound of the drywall, I thought maybe I'd save some money I was planning on using for drywall, and re-use a bunch of donnacona I have - I think that's also called soundboard, it's that fibrous paper-y sort of stuff. I got a load of it out of a friend's studio for free. Problem is, it's ugly as sin, and I hate the thought of covering the ceiling with it in any way that can be seen. So, I thought of covering it with some kind of cloth, and then perhaps strapping some wood over top, following the joists, to bring back the gambrel style architecture into the room, but also to provide some sound deflection and breakup.
I was sort of thinking of doing from the shoulder up in with that stuff, and the lower part of the wall in drywall.
However, then I read that you don't want too dead of a room either, and now my head is just spinning
All that, to say this - what are your thoughts on finishing roughly half the surface area of the room (excluding floor) with donnacona? Any thoughts or experience on covering that stuff to make it more pretty? Can it be painted, and if so, how much does that affect its acoustic qualities? Has anyone dealt with angles of this nature before?
I attached a pic to give a rough idea of the angles involved.
Any thoughts / suggestions / comments would be more than appreciated - I have tons to learn about this stuff, and little time to do it!
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Senegal Care Volunteer Donates Bookshelves
Projects Abroad volunteer, Virginie Thouvenin, from France, has made an unusual and inventive donation to her care placement in Senegal. Noticing the need for a more organized way of storing the children's books, she sought out a carpenter in order to install four bookshelves. Virginie paid for this herself as she wanted to donate something which would make a lasting impression at the placement. The staff at Virginie's placement are very grateful.
If you are keen to make a donation to the children on your project, why not wait till you arrive on your placement and see what they need most? Something as simple as bookshelves makes a real change in the classroom creating a feeling of structure and tidiness, which is important within a working environment.
Projects Abroad's social manager in Senegal, Erica Frerking, explains the benefits; 'Now the books will be on display in the classroom for all the children to admire, and it is more organized and accessible for the teachers to use!'


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Illegal aliens: Hillary's flip-flops border on insanity
By Jim Kouri
Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton finally agreed to appear on the highly-rated Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor. Her interview, which was taped early last week while she was campaigning in South Bend, Indiana, was broadcast on The Factor over two consecutive nights.
When part two of "Hillary in the No Spin Zone" aired, and she was asked questions on the topics of foreign policy, the War on Terror, and illegal immigration. When Bill O'Reilly turned to the immigration debate, he asked, "Will you shut down sanctuary cities?" Hillary responded, "No, I will not."
According to a new report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the illegal immigrant population within the United States currently exceeds 13 million, an estimate that has almost doubled since 2000. Given this increasing trend, Hillary's response should be frightening to American families, who are forced to live with frequent criminal activity committed by illegals in sanctuary cities. Even during the Senate debate of the Grand Amnesty bill last year, Senator Clinton voted against the Coleman Amendment which would have banned sanctuary cities (Roll Call 177).
"It is an outrage that Hillary Clinton is running to become President of the United States, yet she is openly admitting that she will not enforce America's laws," said Eagle Forum Executive Director Jessica Echard.
"Sanctuary city policies put all Americans in danger, and as an elected official, Hillary Clinton is well aware of that fact. Do we really want to elect someone who will enable criminal aliens to roam our streets?" she added
Last August, several African-American college-bound teenagers were brutally murdered while listening to music in a playground in Newark, New Jersey, one of many US sanctuary cities. Although Newark is no stranger to violence, the perpetrator was an illegal alien from Peru, who had been previously charged with raping a 5-year-old girl, but was released despite his obvious illegal presence in this country.
"If Hillary Clinton will not enforce the law against sanctuary cities, why should we believe she will enforce any other immigration laws or build the fence?" stated Echard. "She will simply continue the Bush open border policies which she pretends to condemn and that have allowed our illegal immigration population to nearly double since 2000."
How quickly and conveniently the mainstream news media forget Sen. Clinton's shenanigans during the protests by illegal aliens that occurred in several US cities at the start of her presidential campaign. Sen. Clinton had moved to the right on issues such as the war on terror and the continuing invasion of the United States.
She slammed the Republicans -- especially those in the Bush Administration -- for allowing American citizens to be victmized by illegal alien predators.
According to Lt. Steve Rogers, a decorated cop in New Jersey and an award-winning writer, there are tens of thousands of murderers, rapists, child predators, robbers and drug dealers who are illegally in the United States. One study shows over 200,000 criminal aliens are preying on US citizens. Border Patrol agents in the Tucson, AZ Sector have apprehended 27,834 illegal aliens with criminal records, 74 of which were for homicide.
Last fiscal year, the Tucson Sector apprehended well over 14,500 illegal aliens with criminal records. These figures do not include the thousands of criminal aliens apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents or those in other Border Patrol sectors in other states. And it doesn't include the tens of thousands of criminal aliens who are able to escape detection at the border.
Then a mere few weeks later, Senator Hillary Clinton displayed how she can talk out of both sides of her mouth depending on whom she's addressing. Recently in New York, Senator Clinton, as part of her attempt to re-invent herself, told a cheering crowd that the United States had to protect our borders and deal with illegal immigration.
But, according to the Washington Times, Clinton and her fellow New York Democrat, Senator Chuck Schumer, turned thumbs down on two amendments to a Department of Homeland Security spending bill, which would have funded 2,000 new Border Patrol agents and more than 5,000 new detention beds to house illegal aliens.
On another occasion, according to NewsMax, the former first lady blasted President Bush on border security in a statement posted on her official Senate Web site. NewMax quoted Madam Hillary as saying, "This administration has failed to provide the resources to protect our borders, or a better system to keep track of entrants to this country," she complained, adding, "I welcome the addition of more border security." In the past she has claimed to be "adamantly against illegal immigrants."
Yet Senator Clinton and her comrades voted against border security enhancements, once again displaying her propensity for double-speak. Meanwhile, Senator Schumer's explanation -- once you cut through all the bull -- is that there's just not enough pork in such a bill for New York, since states such as California, Texas and Arizona stand to gain increased funding to control the borders. Senator Clinton, on the other hand, does what she does best: refuses to comment on her actions. She's probably once again studying the situation to see how she feels about it, a familiar Democrat Party trick to avoid telling the American people what she really believes.
Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he's a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). In addition, he's the new editor for the House Conservatives Fund's weblog. Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty. He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He's also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He's appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com. Kouri's own website is located at http://jimkouri.us


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Carp gets last-minute start on Opening Day
BALTIMORE -- Super sub Mike Carp didn't get his first start with the Red Sox last season until Game No. 14. A year later, he was a surprise starter on Opening Day.
With Shane Victorino placed on the 15-day disabled list with a right hamstring strain Monday, Carp got the nod over Jonny Gomes and No. 3 prospect Jackie Bradley Jr.
Carp was enjoying a steak with teammates Dustin Pedroia and Will Middlebrooks Sunday night when he got the text from manager John Farrell telling he would start Monday's game in left field. Nava moved from left to right.
"First off, I'm bummed for Shane," said Carp. "He's obviously one of my good friends. Starting Opening Day is a big honor. It can't get any better than that. It's an exciting time and I'm excited to get the season going and get our title defense on the way. First of 162 games here today."
Carp batted fifth in Boston's batting order.
"Another left-handed bat in the lineup, and Mike Carp has been swinging the bat very well coming out of camp, so those things and plus it gives us a right-hander on the bench in Jonny in a role that he's accustomed to," said Farrell. "But with Vic out of the lineup, we're going to see a little bit of a rotation with all five outfielders. That's currently where we are."
The Red Sox happen to be their deepest at the positions Carp can play -- first base, designated hitter and the corner-outfield spots. That left him with only 216 at-bats in 2013, despite a solid season that included an .886 OPS.


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Ask Noel: Redraw on home loan for shares?
I hear so much about compounding interest. Do you have an example of how I can start it working for my three young children?
An investment is said to compound when the earnings are left to grow and are not withdrawn as they are paid – this enables you to enjoy interest on interest. For young children the best example might be opening an online interest bearing account with one of the major financial institutions. As the interest is credited monthly they will be able to see for themselves how they are receiving interest each month on the accrued interest from previous months.
Can I use my home loan redraw to invest in shares? Is the interest attributed to that part of the loan tax deductible, and does it affect the CGT free status of my home?
You can certainly draw down on your home loan to invest in shares, and the interest on that separate loan would be tax deductible. It would have no effect on the capital gains tax exemption your residence currently enjoys. However, it's important you do not get your non-deductible debt and your deductible debt intermingled. Therefore, for simplicity, I suggest the new investment loan be a separate loan – it could still be secured by a mortgage over your home.
I am asking about the ability to make concessional contributions up to $25,000 a year, in the year that one retires. Is the $25,000 still applicable or is it pro-rata? For example, $12,500 if you work six months of the financial year before retiring or $6250 if three months.
The limit for concessional contributions is $25,000 per person per year. To be eligible to contribute this amount you have to be under 65, or else pass the work test, which involves working 40 hours in 30 consecutive days in the year you make the contribution. There is no pro rata reduction in the cap if you don't work a full year.
I know the $1.6 million limit affects the superannuation pension account if I am retired. But if I am still working, with a while to go before retirement and I am accumulating super, would the super fund tax the excess at 30 per cent if my super balance exceeds $1.6 million?
When you are in accumulation mode your super fund pays tax at 15 per cent on its income. When you are in pension mode there is zero tax on fund income. There is no penalty tax if your balance exceeds $1.6 million except that you are prohibited from making non-concessional contributions.
My father and mother are in a nursing home. My father has dementia and my mother has Alzheimer's disease. They have separate rooms and dad has a RAD of $500,000 and mum a RAD of $225,000. They have $180,000 in the bank. They both receive a fortnightly pension of $907.60 and their nursing home fees are $50.16 per day plus a means-tested care fee of $1.19 per day.
When my mother passes away, with the RAD of $225,000 being returned to dad's bank account what will this mean to his means-tested care fee?
My co-author and aged care guru Rachel Lane says: ''Unfortunately many people don't think about this until it happens. Their assessment assumes that their assets are split 50 per cent each, irrespective of the legal ownership.
Based on the figures you have provided, with the RADs paid in full, the means-tested care fee should be about $9 a day each. If your mum were to pre-decease your dad the question is where will his RAD be directed by his will? In the case of jointly owned assets, such as the bank account, assets pass based on survivorship. Many married couples have what I call 'I love you' wills whereby the assets of the deceased are automatically left to the surviving partner. But this can have unintended consequences.
If we assume that your dad receives all of your mum's assets the effect will be twofold – his pension will reduce to around $753 per fortnight and his means-tested care fee will increase to $40 a day.''
This scenario is a warning to all senior citizens of the importance of getting good advice sooner rather than later. The fees to a surviving partner may be able to be reduced if part of the deceased assets were bequeathed to the family and not left to the surviving partner. But it's too late to do it once death has occurred.
- Noel Whittaker is the author of Making Money Made Simple and numerous other books on personal finance.


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ONLA Endorses Approach
CINCINNATI, OH - A science-based effort is underway to identify invasive plants from other regions and reduce their impact on natural areas in Ohio, according to the Ohio Invasive Plants Council (OIPC).Common reed grass, garlic mustard, bush honeysuckle and other plants dominate thousands of acres in Ohio's forests, grasslands and wetlands. These invaders crowd out native plants and reduce biodiversity. Utilizing a 22-question assessment protocol developed in 2012 by the OIPC and other stake-holder groups, a five-person assessment team of researchers and botanists will evaluate potential invasive plants and establish a new list of primary offenders.Our mission is to develop a new list of invasive plants for Ohio...Concurrently, the assessment team will provide a list of alternative plants suitable for recommendation to nurseries, garden retailers and homeowners."OIPC is not a regulating group," said University of Cincinnati professor and OIPC Chairperson of the assessment team, Theresa Culley, PhD. "Our mission is to develop a new list of invasive plants for Ohio. We also intend to play a primary role in education, research and early detection.""The nursery industry has already been impacted by unofficial invasive plant lists in Ohio and elsewhere, said Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden Horticulture Director Stephen Foltz. "As soon as we put nursery plants on our official list, these plants will no longer be allowed for use in projects complying with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards. That's why it's so important for us to get this right.""It's exciting to see that Ohio has a protocol and is ready to begin assessments. This will be a useful tool for addressing the problem of invasive plants," said Katherine Howe, coordinator of the Midwest Invasive Plant Network.Under the direction of Culley the assessment team will initially evaluate 27 problematic invasive plants. The team will address a second group of plants within a year, including those produced and sold in Ohio nurseries, such as ornamental pear, Japanese barberry and burning bush.The OIPC worked with the Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association (ONLA), Ohio Department of Resources (ODNR), The Nature Conservancy and other land-management agencies to develop the assessment protocol. John Cardina, professor of horticulture at The Ohio State University, and Richard Munson, manager of the conservatory at Miami University-Hamilton, were selected by ONLA as representatives on the assessment team.ODNR botanist Rick Gardner and Dawes Arboretum botanist David Brandenburg were selected by OIPC on behalf of conservation and land-management entities. Culley, a past president of OIPC, directed efforts to develop the assessment protocol during the past four years.The OPIC represents a coalition of organizations and individuals who have a mutual interest in Ohio's natural ecosystems and the effects of invasive plants. OIPC is a nonprofit organization founded in 2005 working in concert with local, regional and nationwide groups. OIPC assessment documents and other information are available at www.oipc.info.
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Jobs, Steven Paul
Steven Paul Jobs (jŏbz), 1955–2011, American computer-industry executive, b. San Francisco. He dropped out of Reed College (1972), and working with Stephen Wozniak, helped launch the personal-computer revolution by founding (1976) the Apple company and introducing (1977) its first product, the Apple II computer. Jobs later successfully established Apple's line as a sleek, user-friendly, graphically oriented alternative to the IBM-Microsoft personal computer and an important factor in desktop publishing. He resigned in 1985 after losing a corporate power struggle.
In 1985 he founded the NeXT Computer Company and in 1986 bought Pixar Animation Studios, a computer animation firm founded by George Lucas. When Pixar went public in 1995, Jobs became an overnight billionaire. In 2006 Pixar was purchased by the Walt Disney Company, making Jobs the largest shareholder in Disney.
In 1996, Apple acquired NeXT and Jobs returned to the company, serving as chief executive from 1997 (interim CE0, 1997–2000). He played a key role in reviving the financially ailing company, and reconfirmed his reputation as an industry visionary. Jobs oversaw the development of elegantly designed digital music players, smartphones, and computer tablets whose enormous success also led Apple to become a significant music and software vendor. Seriously ill, he stepped down as chief executive in 2011 and was briefly Apple's chairman before he died.
See biography by W. Isaacson (2011); L. Butcher, Accidental Millionaire (1988); J. Young, Steve Jobs (1988); S. Levy, Insanely Great (1994); A. Deutschman, The Second Coming of Steve Jobs (2000); D. A. Price, The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company (2008); B. Schlender and R. Tetzell, Becoming Steve Jobs (2015).


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By Benét J. Wilson, DJTF chair & freelance aviation/travel journalist and blogger
This column is back! Every Friday, I'll list five things for your consideration as you continue your journey on the road to digital journalism. Enjoy!
- Nieman Journalism Lab — Metrics, metrics everywhere: How do we measure the impact of journalism? The Associated Press's Jonathan Stray writes a thoughtful piece on a not-so-new topic.
- 10000 Words — What Are Basic Social Media Skills Journalists Need? The debate rages on, but I do agree with this basic list.
- Mashable — Ethics Basics for Bloggers. As a journalist, I learned the rules in college. But blogging is the wild west for many, so this guide comes in handy.
- Journalism.co.uk — #Podcast – Lessons in long-form video journalism from the Guardian and Vice. As the conversation about the future of long-form journalism continues, this podcast discusses how the Guardian is making it work.
- BlogHer — Blogger Beware: You CAN Get Sued For Using Photos You Don't Own on Your Blog. When I do website portfolio reviews for NABJ students and young journalists, 99% of the have nice photos. And most of them are used without permission. This post explains what can happen if you're caught.


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Backus brothers bring business to Westfield
copyright the Chronicle February 10, 2016
by Tena Starr
WESTFIELD — Not long ago Rebecca Velazquez, who grew up in New Jersey, found herself in this very rural small town near tears, struggling to milk an uncooperative goat.
She was an urban woman, never even had a dog, she said. And there she was in Westfield, population about 400, with two nanny goats that had to be milked and a partner who was out of state visiting his grandfather.
Ms. Velazquez's partner is Merlin Backus, who grew up on a homestead farm in Westfield. As a youngster, he hadn't envisioned himself still living in that small town as a grownup.
But after college in New York City where he studied writing, and some years living there with Rebecca — a couple of those years traveling back and forth between New York and Vermont to care for his sick mother — he's returned home.
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Alumni Adventures
Relive the Scouting experience at a BSA high adventure base! Canoe through boundary waters at Northern Tier or scale the mountains of New Mexico at Philmont Scout Ranch. You can also stay closer to home with local adventures.
You must be a registered member of the BSA to participate in an Alumni Adventure. To register, contact your local council to request an application.
Philmont Scout Ranch
Scale the mountains of New Mexico for the adventure you have been seeking. Backpacking, rock climbing, western lore, living history, and the views from peaks over 10,000 feet tall make memories that last a lifetime.
Training & Education
The Philmont Training Center has provided thousands of Scouters and their families with fun, fellowship, and education. New seminars for Scouting Alumni will show you what Scouts are doing today, and how you can stay active.
Northern Tier
Venture to one of the most beautiful, and remote parts of North America. Canoeing, hiking, fishing, and winter camping around the beautiful lakes of northern Minnesota and southern Canada await.
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Adventures in Your Area
Many local BSA councils have high adventure bases that host Scouting alumni groups. Talk to the base near you to find out what adventures await! Some areas also have camp alumni associations. Contact your local council to learn more.


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OSERS is pleased to make available the attached accessible brochure: Disability Employment 101 For Your Business. This brochure targets small- and medium-sized businesses that may or may not have thought of increasing their hiring pool by hiring employees with disabilities and serves as a companion to the newly revised Disability Employment 101 guide.
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Once the Tungsten Replicator is installed, it can be used to provision all slaves with the master data. The slaves will need enough information in order for the installation to succeed and for Tungsten Replicator to start. The provisioning process requires dumping all data on the master and reloading it back into the master server. This will create a full set of THL entries for the slave replicators to apply. There may be no other applications accessing the master server while this process is running. Every table will be emptied out and repopulated so other applications would get an inconsistent view of the database. If the master is a MySQL slave, then the slave process may be stopped and started to prevent any changes without affecting other servers.
If you are using a MySQL slave as the master, stop the replication thread :
Check Tungsten Replicator status on all servers to make sure it is
ONLINE and that the
appliedLastSeqno values are matching :
trepctl status
Starting the process before all servers are consistent could cause inconsistencies. If you are trying to completely reprovision the server then you may consider running trepctl reset before proceeding. That will reset the replication position and ignore any previous events on the master.
Use mysqldump to output all of the schemas that need to be provisioned :
mysqldump --opt --skip-extended-insert -h
host3 -u
tungsten -P13306 -p \
--databases db1,db2 > ~/dump.sql
Optionally, you can just dump a set of tables to be provisioned :
mysqldump --opt --skip-extended-insert -h
host3 -u
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table1 table2 > ~/dump.sql
If you are using heterogeneous replication all tables on the slave
must be empty before proceeding. The Tungsten Replicator does not
replicate DDL statements such as
TABLE and
TABLE. You may either truncate the tables on the slave or
use ddlscan to recreate them.
Load the dump file back into the master to recreate all data :
cat ~/dump.sql | tpm mysql
The Tungsten Replicator will read the binary log as the dump file is loaded into MySQL. The slaves will automatically apply these statements through normal replication.
If you are using a MySQL slave as the master, restart the replication thread after the dump file as completed loading :
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The planet Earth indeed celebrates (each year) its birthday on July 26th, when our Sun enters the Constellation of Leo.
At this junction, the constellation of Leo aligns with the Pyramid complex at Giza. But that is not all. This only explains the Earth's alignment with our solar Sun. However, there is another major alignment that occurs during this leonine period, that which is of unparalleled importance.
Star planet Sirius is the mother Higher Presence of Earth with Orion its father, or masculine energy parent. Now, Sirius is not just a Star System but is the "Great Central Sun" that serves as the Head Quarter of God's Light; its distribution and course plotting throughout the entire Milky Way Galaxy; of which we are a small part. In this period of July end to August mid, Sirius aligns in a major way with our planet.....
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People born on this date believe in taking control of their physical and spiritual well-being. They often follow the advice of a healer, guru, or spiritual counselor to understand the esoteric nature of life. Being healthy isn't a part-time occupation -- it's a lifetime quest. November 13 individuals often follow a circuitous path to career success.
They may start out in one field, only to be lured into another through circumstances. This appeals to their love of the unexpected. They are careful about money; their careful handling of assets is often born out of a fear that prosperity will not last. November 13 individuals want to achieve success on their terms. They know their talents, but, no matter what they have to offer, they will resist if they cannot do things their way. They strive to achieve a personal best and have no concern for others' opinions. Jill M. Phillips is the author of hundreds of articles on astrology as well as dozens of books.
She has regularly written forecast columns for Astrology: Your Daily Horoscope. November 29 Birthday Astrology. The more you do for your community, the more you'll like it here. Change your normal perspective today by taking a progressive view of your work and relationships. How can you improve your connections with others? How can you make more constructive contributions to projects? It won't hurt to try out a new way of looking at life. You might treat a current obstacles as an interesting, manageable challenge. You're used to receiving both accomplishments and accolades, but don't expect either.
It isn't about collecting trophies, though you wouldn't refuse any if they were offered.
Forget about old school, new school, and too cool for school. None of that matters now. Suddenly you get to be your electric, artistic self. You get to project your larger-than-life personality in unpredictable shadow puppets or light shows. Today there are no rules. That doesn't include your own rules, obviously, which will define and govern this whole explosion of you-ness.http://carfreaksng.com/layouts/enterprise/294.php
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Just remember to be loyal to friends and family even if they don't quite follow you. Without their support, you'd never have this kind of freedom and, if you're lucky, this kind of applause. Your devotion to your work and your loved ones knows no boundaries. When it comes to helping others, you can be as selfless as a saint. Even so, your loving attention might not be required today. What an opportunity! Don't waste time feeling upset that no one needs you. Your unique gifts will be needed. Meanwhile, relearn how to be an individual.
Delight in your own company; get lost in your very own brand of brilliance. If you make yourself laugh with enjoyable thoughts and fantasies, you're finding yourself again. You're a quick thinker, but your thoughts seem alien. Will anyone get your otherworldly logic? Not today. If you want to get allies in your corner, you'll have to bring your ideas down to earth. Of course, things will shift and it won't matter, if you all get along. But for now, it does matter. If you're working on a group project, your coworkers want to know you're all on the same page. Similarly, your friends want to know you're still the same person they know and love.
Try not to be too extreme in your approach. What's wrong with showing respect, anyway? Who says that good manners only conceal the wolves among the sheep? If chivalry is just a nervous habit, you could do much worse. And you're so over that whole school-yard bully dynamic, anyway. Get beyond appearances today and show them that real wolves and real sheep have transcended their storybook roles. People have good and bad sides, and right now being decisive, loyal and, yes, polite will resolve a lot more problems than those behaviors create.
In the end, that resolution is what brings real security. It doesn't matter whether you're under pressure, stretched tight or at loose ends. You could be all revved up or as subdued as a whisper.
Today will find you vague and moody. It'll be harder than usual to fake sincerity if you're not feeling it. Flippant remarks might cut deeper than you intended. Try harder to stay in focus so that you can read the situation better. It's OK to let people know your current limitations, but you have to be kind about it. You'd expect the same courtesy.
At the moment, your heart and mind are quietly untroubled. Today you're as peaceful as a dove and helpful as a child, which means you're content to let others run the show. You have no problem taking direction from someone else, as long as their heart is in the right place. You're demonstrating the power of acquiescence now. This doesn't mean that you've given up control to someone else, though. It's just that passive control can be so much easier.
Not to mention more effective! Something's off. Maybe your mood and energy aren't right. You feel entitled to many things, but you don't quite know what they are. You could be feeling needy or grabby. On the other hand, you might have enough self-control to restrain yourself until you figure out what you're lacking. What matters more is how you fulfill those or soothe those needs. One thing is certain: Good or bad, this will be a brief, surprising period.
You could learn a lot about yourself and the way you operate. Be forewarned: The immaculate condition of your life is about to change. The waters are muddied by messy emotions today. As much as you might prefer life to be neat, clean and efficient at all times, you have to accept the fact that you occasionally need other people. Whatever's going on, consider this a warm welcome back into human society. This is what being alive is all about, so enjoy it. Be glad there's affection in your life.
That's far more than some can say. You've been trying your hardest. You've been wearing the biggest smile you've got and speaking in your sweetest voice. And yet, you just can't seem to win them over. All this toxic niceness is backfiring. It's time to do something decisive to save the situation, or at least yourself.
Today, figure out a way to shake them awake by other means. And don't neglect the benefits of stating your case or your opinion plainly. You tend to avoid being direct with people, but sometimes it's the only way to get through to them. You've been keeping to yourself, haven't you? When the phone rings, you let your voicemail answer. When a friend sends an e-mail, you file it away for later response. And that's okay. Seclusion suits you well right now.
Your focus and energy have turned inward. You're taking sublime inventory of your true, inner self. It's best to keep your own counsel today. That way, you can tighten your focus and establish a solid plan for the moment you'll spring into action.
November 13 Scorpio Personality
And when that happens, well -- watch out, world! You seem careless and quirky, fashionably sloppy yet daring to be different. It's all an act, obviously a very good one, but an act just the same. Deep down, you're seething with conventional anxieties. Welcome to the human race.
Of course, you don't have to dwell on this stuff all the time. Just be yourself today as kind of a check-in. Let real friends offer real help. They actually like you even if you're all living with one foot in the land of illusion. And that's one less reason to complain. Respect what others call holy or authentic, even if your inner voice tells you they're trying to scam you or just deluding themselves. But along with giving them your respect, it wouldn't hurt to look beyond or behind what they say.
Maybe you'll get a better idea about what they're thinking and what unseen forces are at work here. Keep these investigations within the realm of peaceful curiosity, because you're really not trying to make trouble. You can learn a lot about your world today, and maybe then you'll be better qualified to judge, or even see that judgment is meaningless. Today is a good time to connect with your own watery energy.
Let it flow subtly and beautifully by meditating on the movement and quality of water itself -- that free-flowing thing that meanders wherever it can. That's how your thoughts should work. Don't curtail your imagination or impose any expectations of practicality on yourself, especially if you're developing ideas for a project. Let your mind flow. Take notes on where it leads you. Most of all, don't be lured by loud, shiny novelties.
You don't need them. The best stuff comes unannounced. Be ready to respond to anything. Maybe they're saying it's none of your business, but how can any of you be sure about that? Your words will be liquid today, and your actions will be fluid. Your position will be bendable, too. Either you do a lot of yoga, or you've got relaxation down to a science. Some people may call you spineless for all this, but that's only because they're so rigid.
All you're doing is changing with the changes, and that's OK for now. Though it may work against your mood or your very nature, do your best to be patient and pleasant today. You aren't alone in this world, and you need people in your corner, whether you're combining efforts at work or with friends. Keep your motives pure. That way, other people will know they can trust you.
November 13th
Does this really cost you so much? Even if today's reality doesn't line up with your favored fantasies, at least you'll know you're not forcing it. They don't have to tell you what good taste is. You're already way too cool and suave for that kind of advice. You can read situations and minds because people's true intentions are evident to you. Of course, you don't want to creep them out by flaunting your psychic abilities.
Your best bet is to observe and then act accordingly. If you can take the social pulse today, you'll be positioned to improve the spiritual health of friends and strangers alike. Get them to smile and trust each other, and that'll be your first step right there. It's OK if your dreams are big. A healthy fantasy life is important, and who can control what their unconscious mind washes up? But there could be trouble if your hopes are as unrealistic as your dreams. You're flirting with movie stars whose lunch would cost you a week's pay. You're way too loose-lipped with other people's secrets.
Common sense sinks beneath a flood of wannabe one-upmanship. This can't be healthy. Watch your back today. You might be having fun, but somebody else could take this way too personally. Images and intuition come quickly now, overflowing your mind. You know your perceptions are accurate, because they're completely from the heart.
Horoscopes by Jamie Partridge
You're meeting the world on its own terms, which is to say, you've let go of what's logical in favor of what simply is. Be sure to write these dreams and inspirations on the wall, so everyone can have a few days to ponder your vision.
That way, you can all act together. Not now, though. This period is all about letting your thoughts go where they will. You can turn them into something concrete later. You're a bit of a dreamer, especially under today's energy.
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Gran Liceu Theatre
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Rambla de las Flores, 51-59
08002 Barcelona (Catalonia)
Tel.:+34 934859900
Tel.: +34 934859914
One of the symbols of Barcelona
Its origins date from after the War of Succession, when the field marshals of the new king, Philip V, turned to the opera as entertainment for both their troops and the general public.
It was built over the Trinitarian Convent located in the centre of the Ramblas, which was extended in order to accommodate all the activities required by the Liceu. Work began under the orders of Miquel Garriga i Roca in 1845 and the whole project was completed in 1847. The theatre has a ground plan in the shape of a horseshoe arch and when it first opened, it was said to be one of the biggest theatres in Europe at the time. A fire destroyed the auditorium and stage in 1861, but it was rebuilt by Josep Oriol Mestres, this time without the second-floor amphitheatre. The original façade was refurbished in 1875. Another fire destroyed the theatre in 1994, leaving only the entrance and horseshoe arch. The theatre was rebuilt once again, leaving intact the parts unaffected by fire and recreating the auditorium in its original form.
- Construction: Theatre
- Artistic period: Eclectic
- Historic period: 19th century
- Setting: Virreina Palace, Museum of Contemporary Art, Boqueria market, Güell Palace, Royal Square and the Wax Museum.
Practical information
See the official website for more information on hours and rates.
- General: €6
- Reduced: €5
- Children: €0
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After having been without since January 31st, the Department of Revenue is looking for someone to operate the Kingston License Office. Click to hear KMZU's Chelsea Wade speak with Director of Communications Ted Farnen:
Press Release from the Missouri Department of Revenue
JEFFERSON CITY – Interested groups or individuals will have until March 2 to bid to operate the Kingston License Office in northwest Missouri.
The Office of Administration recently issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) asking for bids to manage the license office. The ability for people or groups to bid to run local license offices is part of a reformed competitive process that requires the Missouri Department of Revenue to choose office agents that present the best proposals for customer service and financial efficiency.
The local office has been closed since Jan. 31 after the former agent, Lisa Prater, advised the Department that health reasons would prevent her from continuing to run the office. The RFP notes that the license office must be located within the city limits of Kingston. The former office location was at 49 E. Main St., and bidders can either propose the former location or a new location within the city. People interested in submitting a bid to run the office may take a tour of the former facility at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 15.
During Fiscal Year 2011 (July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011), the Kingston License Office conducted 12,207 transactions and generated about $41,446 in agent processing fees.
Common transactions that take place at local license offices include renewing or applying for a driver license, renewing or applying for registration on motor vehicles, boats and outboard motors, and applying for titles and paying sales taxes on these units.
A copy of the RFP that bidders will use to develop their bids can be viewed at https://www.moolb.mo.gov/. To review an RFP, select "Guest" on the home page, click on "Open Bids By Agency," then scroll through the list of bids until the appropriate bid is located. (The bid number for the Kingston office is B3Z12138.) Additional information regarding the bidding process can be obtained at http://oa.mo.gov/purch/vendorinfo/DORoffices.pdf or by calling the Office of Administration at (573) 751-2387.
There are several other area license offices where City of Kingston and Caldwell County citizens can go to conduct transactions. The offices, their addresses, phone numbers and operating hours are:
Cameron – 217 N. Chestnut St., (816) 632-4830, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon.
Chillicothe – 730 S. Washington St., (660) 646-5418, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Last four business days of the month, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Gallatin – 400 N. Main St., Suite 1 (660) 663-5440, Monday through Friday (except Wednesday), 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Last Saturday of the month, 10 a.m. to noon; Closed every Wednesday, and closed for lunch other weekdays, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Plattsburg – 102 E. Maple St., (816) 539-2006, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to noon.
A list of all license offices is available at http://dor.mo.gov/offloc/.


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Star Wars Insider #117 is touting a table of contents with a small handful of Fett-related content:
- an interview with Jeremy Bulloch
- another with Daniel Logan
- a Boba Fett timeline by Leland Chee, a Lucasfilm official and the person who maintains the Holocron continuity database
- and an interview with Mandalore's Duchess Satine, Anna Graves
StarWars.com also published an excerpt:
How long have you known you'll be returning as Boba Fett, and how hard has it been to keep it secret?
It's been a little over a year now. I was very excited and honored to be asked to come back and play Boba Fett again. It was tough to keep it a secret -- very tough! Whenever people would ask what I was doing and if I had any upcoming projects, I wanted to say "I'll be back as Boba soon! Watch Star Wars: The Clone Wars!"
How has Boba changed since we saw him in Attack of the Clones?
Boba is older, more experienced and driven by the death of his father. In Attack of the Clones, Boba was still a little boy learning from his dad. His father was his whole world. Now he is alone and on a mission.
Was it a challenge to play the character younger than you actually are today? Did you watch Attack of the Clones again to prepare, and what facets of his character did you use?
I watched Attack of the Clones a few times, specifically to pay attention to the voice. Boba is around 12 years old in The Clone Wars, so while I wanted to stay true to the original tone of his voice in the movie, I knew it needed to be a bit lower and more serious.
Unrelated, Sky Movies recently published an interview with Daniel Logan about his role as Young Boba Fett in the animated series, which premieres in just two days.
Boba Fett is no stranger to making the cover of Star Wars Insider. See our database of all magazines featuring the bounty hunter.


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Attack of the Clones originally chronicled much more Fett.
TheForce.net provided a comprehensive Episode II Cut Scene listing [direct link no longer working], which highlights the following references:
- Boba Will Return: Boba Fett flying away from Geonosis, no doubt his heart filled with vengeance for the Jedi, who have just killed his father. The scene I recall reading about was Boba putting on his father's helmet and jetpack and blasting from the arena. (Source: Obiwan_1138)
- More Jango Fighting! Part of the Obi-wan Jango fight has been deleted. I'm not talking about the storyboards, but, when Obi-Wan comes through the doors, he ignites saber, deflects two bolts, and then the fight really jumps to him taking a swing at Jango who takes off. Now, part of the footage that was inbetween those two parts was even in the commercials and the trailer! However even if that had stayed in there was still a jump. They did film it of course, it's seen in the Fett making of documentary. (Source: Tomcat84)
- Boba Fett: Quick Thinker I seem to recall a spoiler a couple of months ago about some deleted Jango/Boba dialogue. After Boba uses the Slave 1 tail guns to run interference and Jango manages to escape, he tells his surrogate son that he did a "Nice job", or "Quick thinking" or something to that effect. This didn't show up in the non-digital cut. (Source: Damn)
- Calm Him Down Mace and Jango on both sides of the Reek trying to get to the dropped lightsaber underneath it. Mace Force-calms the Reek. (Source: lilmacumd)
- Jango Gets Headbutted This scene of a headbutt was removed from the film in all coutries. Jango gets worked by the non-helmeted Obi-Wan. Great stuff, perhaps hard to believe that a regular guy vs. metal is a good fit. Ouch.
The Internet Movie Database notes that the cut is in the UK version. This is because "the distributor (wanted) to secure a PG rating. About 1 second of footage was excised, removing a head butt in the fight scene between Obi-Wan and Jango Fett."
The IMDb also notes an addition, in the Attack of the Clones DVD: "Before Jango Fett is killed by Mace Windu, the sparks coming out of his damaged jetpack are much more visible."
From the forums at Starwars.com, we learn that another scene was cut featuring Jango, Padme, and Dooku:
We see Padme and Anakin walk up to the table as Jango slowly walks behind them around to where Dooku is sitting. At this point Jango is wearing his helmet but when we cut to see Dooku and Jango a moment later Jango doesn't have his helmet on and it's nowhere to be seen. It would have been nice if either:
a) Jango was seen clearly holding his helmet, as he did in the arena grandstand.
b) Jango was shown taking off his helmet as he stood beside Dooku.
I think it would have been cool to see option B only because it would be the only shot in which we actually see Jango taking off his helmet. Would have been nice to see that in Slave I as he and Boba took from Kamino too.
Any other speculation as to additional footage? Visit this site's message board to get a message thread going.


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Arts Calendar
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Upstairs from Clancy's Cantina, at 311 Broadway, near Jack London Square, is the Aqua Lounge, a refugee from the post-Moderne, Scandinavian design period of cocktail joints. A no-nonsense, but easygoing, comfortable kind of place, with no pretensions. -more-
Nero fiddled while Rome burned." An anachronistic line everybody's heard; there's no graceful way to say that he "lyred." Amy Freed picks up on both the imperial aestheticism and the anachronistic sentiment in her play, You, Nero, now onstage at Berkeley Rep. -more-
The Free Sixth Annual Berkeley World Music Festival, with performance venues stretching along and just off Telegraph Ave., in People's Park and in cafes and shops from Bancroft Way, almost to Parker, will celebrate music, song and dance of a wealth of cultures, from noon to 9 p.m. this Saturday. -more-
Kenny [Washington] is the most thrilling singers' singer I have heard in recent years," said Anna De Leon of her headliner this Saturday night at Anna's Jazz Island in downtown Berkeley. "He combines the joyful and effortless musicality of Ella and Sarah with a voice that is comfortable in a more-than-four-octave range. He can sing all across the American spectrum—jazz, show tunes, rhythm and blues, Motown ... all with great passion and great skill." -more-
Young People's Symphony Orchestra, founded in Berkeley in 1935, the oldest youth orchestra in California and second-oldest in the nation, will present its last show of the season (conductor David Ramadanoff's 20th) this Sunday at 7 p. m. with a Pops Concert, music by Berlioz, Hindemith/von Weber, Prokofiev, Gershwin, John Williams, LeRoy Anderson and John Philip Sousa. -more-
Oscar Wilde's wry predecessor to Earnest-ness, Lady Windemere's Fan, is onstage now at the Masquers Playhouse, updated by director Patricia Inabnet to the status-seeking 1950s. 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2:30 p.m. Sundays. 105 Park Place, Point Richmond. $18. 232-4031. www.masquers.org. -more-
An unusually good production of A Streetcar Named Desire goes into its final performances at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday, at Altarena Playhouse. Director Sue Trigg and her cast stage Tennessee Williams' masterwork in the round, and do it justice by making every detail build on the last. The final scenes are indelible. 1409 High St., Alameda. $17-20. 764-9718. www.altarena.org. -more-
It might appear to be over-reaching to attempt a discussion of something that sounds as high-handed as hydrostatic pressure in a lay essay, but if you'll bear with me, you'll quickly see how this is both relevant and conceptually accessible to just about everyone. -more-
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In both Political Science and the Humanities, the old boys network which prevented progress is collapsing, though it is hard for those who have lived in a field without progress to describe this.
Earlier I criticized, Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer for saying that International Relations work capable of progress is "non-paradigmatic"
Indeed, some senior IR scholars now rail against the field's grand theories. In his 2010 ISA presidential address, for example, David Lake described the "isms†as "sects†and "pathologies†that divert attention away from "studying things that matter†(Lake 2011: 471). Thus, it is not surprising that "the percentage of non- paradigmatic research has steadily increased from 30% in 1980 to 50% in 2006†(Maliniak et al 2011: 439). Of course, one could advocate for middle range theories while disparaging grand theories, and indeed Lake does just that. The field is not moving in that direction, however. Nor is it paying more attention to formal or mathematically oriented theories (Bennett et al 2003: 373-74). Instead, it is paying less attention to theories of all kinds and moving toward simplistic hypothesis testing.
But if I am fair, I need to also mention that my friend Jason Heppler of Stanford University made a similar claim, about the Digital Humanities:
Those doing digital humanities tend to agonize over how we define the field (or is it a methodology?). Matt Gold's edited volume Debates in Digital Humanities nicely sums up many of the ways people have tried to define digital humanities and what we mean when we say we do digital humanities. Certainly there are some common characteristics within the broad range of approaches, but the work itself is broad: it's interpretation, coding, building, archives, theorizing.
Why define digital humanities? The enterprise is somewhat pointless. The promise and excitement of digital humanities lies with what we can do with it, not how it's defined. But the queston is inescapable.
I don't believe that the new International Relations work is apardigmatic, or that Digital Humanities is undefined. Rather, like other useful areas, these fields are defined by their tools and methods, not by ancient theoretical battles that can never be won. Chemistry is not the science of phlogiston, it is the science of titration and fission. Likewise, International Relations and Digital Humanities are increasingly defined by the tools they use to make progress, not connections in an old boys network.
This is a good change. Yesterday I mentioned the ghetto of the humanities, those fields whose graduates (a) can't do math, (b) can't conduct useful research, (c) can't stay employed, and (d) can't get paid.
The adoption of useful tools and progressive science is the best way to turn this around. The emerging paradigms of International Relation are embedded within statistics and modeling. The emerging definitions of Digital Humanities are embedded within text mining, semantic networks, and big data. What do these have in common? Useful tools designed to provide answers and enable progress.


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I guess we're all in that?! 😀
At last we know that our birthday and holiday wishes for him, and all the outpours of love are in David's hands! I am so happy I think I want to cry! 😦 🙂
Yay!!! David looks so happy. LOL Trace, you wanna cry out of happiness? Me too but thats cos
David looks so different in that short hair cut 🙂 🙂 🙂
OH my! How wonderful to see that smile. God please continue to hold him in your palm. He tore into that box; someone shoo the fly behind him. Ok, no tears!
No, I think we both are crying for different reasons haha!
I am crying out of happiness seeing him in such a recent pic and that he looks so happy – all mama-style la! 🙂
Hi Anne!
So nice to see you here – do come in more often. 🙂
It took a cute pic of David to bring you out of lurkdom huh. 🙂
There is a fly behind him? You must have really good eye-sight – I don't see it. Does anyone else see it?
What a wonderful way to start 2013, by waking up this morning to see THAT beautiful face!! I wanna hug him so bad! He looks so squishable and adorable 😀 ngawww *sniff* my baby's 22!! But he still doesn't look it. All the better I guess. 🙂
Hello you gorgeous one!! xxx 🙂
(Just wanted to come in this morning to kiss my beloved baby hehehe… 😀 )
Greetings folks! Hope you are having a great new year so far 🙂 So awesome to get a pic from David!!! He looks so fresh faced and happy yay!
ALSO!!! I wanna wish our beautiful TRACE a very very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!
Have an absolutely AMAZING BIRTHDAY and a FANTASTIC AND BLESSED YEAR AHEAD! And may you have MANY MANY more. Here's a special rendition of Happy Birthday from the one who does it best:
Happy Birthday Auntie Trace!! 😀 Be sure to enjoy your David serenade. And may you have many a wondrous dream of kissing your beloved baby haha. Or you can just kiss him when he gets back.
And do check out the newly revealed picture of David from Matt Clayton. Created a ruckus within the archusphere this afternoon. Now how do I bring it here?..
http://www.mattclaytonphotography.com/portraits 😀 Love the tight pants. As always. hehe
Lol! Thank you so much for all those lovely wishes! And that birthday vid from David is priceless! 🙂 I sort of pretended that he was singing it to me hehe…
Thank you for your birthday wishes. I think we'll kiss our beloved together when he comes back haha! 🙂
Oh my oh my!! I just love love that pic by Matt Clayton! Love the tight pants, love the stance, love the way he looks into the camera…..I think that's the way David should be portrayed when he comes back – no more the goofy looks. Bench was a good start. And Matt Clayton had always done great things for him.
Thank you so much liying, for bringing it over! My only regret is we can see only half of him! 😦
Where is the rest of the body?