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Music and Memory
I'm not someone who necessarily looks that deeply into how music is produced or even conceived, although I possibly should bearing in mind that I was studying to be a sound engineer many moons ago. That dream sadly never came to fruition, but being the inquisitive person that I am, I still have a fascination with all things music and am resigned to understanding it as best as I can. I am currently reading the book How Music Works by the brilliant David Byrne and am looking forward to gaining some insight into this world via his prose. In the meantime though, my mind is still actively questioning.
I was recently on a train journey to London and, as always, I was carrying my trusty notebook and pen so I could write down anything that came into my mind as a possible new article. Staring out of the window and seeing the familiar scenery approaching the outskirts of London, I remembered growing up there and had various other memories of days gone by. I then had an idea. So into my notebook I wrote the words **music and memory or association. **I also wrote some other bits and bobs around this and did a bit of googling. It was the start of a train of thought (literally) and the thought was this. Why does music link to memory and what does this mean?
We all have certain songs that are related to events in our lives. For example, when people get married they have a first dance and this song then becomes intrinsically important to their lives from then on. It will always be our song because of that. You may remember that a specific track was playing the first time you saw x across a crowded dance floor and suddenly realised that you wanted to spend the rest of your life with them. It may well be why Saturday Night by Whigfield means so much to you, but who am I to judge?
Anyway, this thought also reminded me of a recent radio show that I had been listening to where the host, Claire, asked folks to get in touch and tell her which song related to various events in your life like your first crush, when you were a teenager or when you left home etc. I had a ponder and ended up joining in. This also got me reminiscing about when I was younger and the various reasons why my songs choices were important to me. Claire had asked for the song that represented your first crush and mine was If I Can't Change Your Mind by Sugar. The reason I picked this song is because it was on a mixtape that my first real crush made for me when I was about 19. It's still a firm favourite with me and I have to say that when I listen to it now I am always reminded of him. It's quite odd really as I haven't seen him in person for nearly 20 years, but when I hear the jangly guitar of this track I can see his face as clear as day. And that's what makes the link between music and association so very interesting.
Also in my notes was a line that said 'Glenn T – cowboy films'. I'm sure this will mean absolutely nothing to you, so let me try to explain my thinking around this bizarre notation. I am a big fan of the band Squeeze and in particular Glenn Tilbrook. Glenn has released some solo albums and also recorded a tour video when he travelled around America in an RV. As I was thinking about memory related to music, I recalled Glenn telling a story on his tour video about how when he was a small child he used to like watching cowboy films. Not very interesting so far, but just bear with me. He said that his memories of the films were linked to the sounds he heard in them rather than the picture he'd seen on the screen. He would hear the sound of metal on metal and place this as a cowboy scraping a spoon across a metal plate while eating beans. He did not recall the colours or what was in the background picture, it was all about the sounds that were being made. I find this fascinating.
I read about Music-related memory on Wikipedia and the opening paragraph says this:
Musical memory refers to the ability to remember music-related information, such as melodic content and other progressions of tones or pitches. The differences found between linguistic memory and musical memory have led researchers to theorize that musical memory is encoded differently from language and may constitute an independent part of the phonological loop. The use of this term is problematic, however, since it implies input from a verbal system, whereas music is in principle nonverbal.
Interesting stuff, but not really what I was aiming for. Looking at savantism or child prodigies who can play 10 instruments at the age of 6 is a bit beyond me. I also read an article on some new psychology studies around the link between memory and music. Again, not quite what I wanted to delve into, but worth a read none the less. Check it out here.
I think what I am more intrigued about is the relationship between music and how it messes with your emotions. Why does hearing certain pieces of music make you happy or sad and why do we feel the need to attach certain feelings to it? I also wonder why I can remember the lyrics to songs I haven't heard in years, but I have no idea what I did last week? It's a strange thing that you can recall all the words to a random song like Snooker Loopy by Chas and Dave and yet I can't remember to pick up milk on the way home. It must perhaps be related to the part of your brain that holds what is basically useless information.
It could be that music is such an emotional tie because it's more important to certain people. I would class everything music related as a hobby of mine so I am always focused on learning about it, be it a new artist, reading about it or a new way of obtaining songs. Perhaps if you don't consider this to be an area of interest to you it wouldn't have such an impact. Although I'm pretty sure that going back to Claire and the song requests on her radio show, that we all have records that mean something to us for whatever reason. It could well be that the bands your grew up with when you first started to take an interest in music have stuck with you throughout your life. I know that I attach my adoration for my hero Neil Finn to the fact that I discovered the music of Crowded House when I was in my teens and at the age where I was looking for something to speak to me about my life. I found that with Neil and his band and he has been something of a constant companion to me ever since.
I used to travel by train a lot in my early twenties and back then I didn't have my beloved iPod with me as they hadn't been invented yet (yes I am that old). Instead, I used to take with me my personal CD player and one of those CD holders where you could just carry the discs in a zipped pouch. The effort of picking only a few discs to take along was torture, but I always seemed to have Ether Song by Turin Brakes each and every time. When I listen to tracks from that album now, I can still sense those old train journeys from London to Liverpool and I remember how it made me feel. That album is my travelling friend and when the first track Blue Hour opens with the drum machine, I associate it with the train pulling out of Euston station and heading up the railway tracks northwards. I haven't made that particular journey for well over 10 years now, but I'm transported back to those days whenever I play that record.
I suppose it's easy to say that this is just human nature or memory working in the usual way. The same thing happens with more or less everything around us such as food we've eaten at specific places or certain books we've read. What makes the link with music so interesting to me though is the feelings that it brings with it. I mean, I can probably recall the first time I tried Chinese food, but it doesn't really bring out any emotion in me. It was no doubt very nice and I still like it now, but does it make my happy thinking about it? Not really, no. When I hear that song by Sugar playing though, now there's a completely different story. I find myself smiling and thinking about the person that made me a tape a very long time ago. And that's the power of music. The images it conjures up and the feelings it brings with it are something wonderful and I really do hope the things I am listening to now will continue to have this effect on me for a very long time to come.
This article originally appeared on Nicola's own blog.


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Class Action – Part 2
The PFOA chemical at the heart of this Class Action lawsuit is Ammonium Perfluorooctanoate, commonly referred to as C8, C-8, or APFO. At this time in history, it is considered to be the PFOA derivative of greatest concern and with the most wide-spread use.
CAS No: 3825-26-1
Molecular Formula: C8-H-F15-O2.H3-N
Molecular structure:
Systematic Names:
Ammonium pentadecafluorooctanoate
Octanoic acid, pentadecafluoro-, ammonium salt
Ammonium perfluorocaprilate, Ammonium perfluorocaprylate, Ammonium perfluorooctanoate, Fluorad FC 143, Pentadecafluoro-1-octanoic acid, ammonium salt, Perfluoroammonium octanoate, Perfluorooctanoic acid, ammonium salt
Analysis of PFOA in the blood of people living near DuPont's West Virginia plant had levels 12 times higher than U.S. background blood levels.
See the Environmental Working Group's Analysis and Letter to US EPA of
November 17, 2004
About the Teflon chemical PFOA
PFOA is not only used to manufacture Teflon, but is also a breakdown product of chemicals used to coat food packaging, including fast food like McDonald's, and stain-resistant coatings for couches, carpets, and clothing. PFOA is broadly toxic. It does not break down in the environment, and is considered to be persistent over geologic time scales. It nearly universally pollutes human blood and has a half-life in the body of more than four years.
Ref: Environmental Working Group
On April 12, 2002, Judge George W. Hill of the Circuit Court of Wood County, West Virginia, granted citizens the right to proceed with a Class Action lawsuit against Dupont for the contamination of their drinking water with Ammonium perfluorooctanoate (C8) originating from DuPont's Washington Works facility; and also against the Little Hocking Water Association for providing drinking water contaminated with C-8 to aproximately 12,000 residences and businesses in Washington County, Ohio.
This Class Action created a drama of Shakesperian proportion. The genesis of the Class Action arose from the allegation that DuPont's dumping of C8 in its Dry Run Landfill in Wood County, West Virginia, was responsible for the "wasting disease" that killed cattle on a farm near the landfill in the 1980s. The information generated from the lawsuit against DuPont for the cattle deaths revealed that local drinking water supplies were contaminated with C8. According to a 2003 newspaper report:
… A mysterious wasting disease killed 280 cattle on the Tennants' farm near the Dry Run Landfill in the 1980s. The cause of the cattle deaths were never conclusively associated with chemical contamination from DuPont, but the company settled with the Tennant family for an undisclosed amount in light of the allegations.
Jim and Della Tennant claim that family members who worked with the herd and lived near the property also began to fall sick with sinus and respiratory problems and skin and other cancers. And, when the Tennants asked their attorneys to look into the cause of the illnesses and pursue action against DuPont, C8 is what they found.
In 1984 they sold an adjoining portion of their land to DuPont and it became the Dry Run Landfill. They moved from the location within seven months, but maintain rental property at the site.
Jim Tennant claims a difference in the land was noticeable within a year of the landfill acquisition.
"Shortly after, there were no minnows in the stream. There were deer carcasses lying around, and things were dying," Jim Tennant said. "There were problems."
But, those weren't the only problems the family would observe. After their herd of cattle began to die off, they claim the family members who worked with the cattle and lived near the farm were also becoming seriously ill.
… After 40 years of successful cattle ranching, they believe it was chemical contamination that devastated the herd within a span of 10 years.
The terms of the Tennants' settlement remain secret, and as a result of that action, they are not eligible as class members in the pending C8 suit.
Ref: Examining the water we drink: Family's lost herd led to revelations about C8.
By Callie Lyons. The Marietta Times (Ohio). September 27, 2003.
One resident in the Class Action spoke of her concerns about her 6-year old daughter:
"We thought her teeth came in without enamel," Cochran said. Lauren had to have her teeth removed after they failed to develop properly. Recently Cochran has discovered that several other families in her area have experienced the same problem…
Ref: September 27, 2003. The Marietta Times (Ohio). Examining the water we drink: Concerns about C8 linger. By Callie Lyons
DuPont and West Virginia regulatory officials admit to destroying documents:
In a letter to the judge, DuPont acknowledged that Gerald R. Kennedy, the company's lead toxicologist on C8 issues, had destroyed "written and electronic documents" about the chemical.
Ref: The Columbus Dispatch (Ohio). May 8, 2003. WEST VIRGINIA RULING. JUDGE: DUPONT CHEMICAL IS TOXIC. By Geoff Dutton.
… During her deposition on June 6 and 7,2002, [WV Department of Environmental Protection Science Advisor] Staats testified that she did not produce some documents in response to the Subpoena because she had destroyed or caused the destruction of certain documents which would otherwise have been subject to the Subpoena. During the hearing on June 12, 2002 counsel for Staats and the WVDEP [West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection] conceded that Staats and the WVDEP have destroyed and otherwise failed to save and preserve various records, documents, including drafts, correspondence, emails and other documents relating to the WVDEP's investigation of C-8 all of which were subject to the Subpoena. Staats and the WVDEP further conceded that such destruction of documents and failure to produce in accordance with the Subpoena was the result of Staats and the WVDEP's standard practice and policy of destroying documents they anticipate might be the subject of a subpoena in this litigation... – see more details below.
Ref: June 25, 2002. INJUNCTION ORDER DIRECTED TO DEE ANN STAATS, PH.D. AND THE
The president of the Environmental Working Group, Kenneth A. Cook, wrote to the Governor of West Virginia about Department of Environmental Protection science adviser Dee Ann Staats stating she "made a career as an expert witness testifying against the concerns of communities fighting chemical and oil company pollution prior to coming to work for the state of West Virginia." Ref: March 13, 2003. Charleston Gazette (West Virginia). C8 Study 'Tainted,' Group Says Governor Urged to Appoint an Independent Panel. By Ken Ward Jr.
DuPont's revolving door for their lawyers on C8 issues. They now work for the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection:
It has come to our attention that Joe Dawley. formerly with the law firm of Spilman
Thomas & Battle in Charleston. West Virginia. accepted the request of WVDEP's [West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection] Secretary, Michael Cailaghan. to become thenew General Counsel for WVDEP… As you are aware. Mr. Dawley was working as one of the attorneys representing E.I. duPont de Nemours and Company ("DuPont") in connection with ongoing C-8 issues and in defense of the claims asserted against DuPont in the referenced lawsuit. In particular, you may recall that Mr. Dawley represented DuPont in at least one meeting between WVDEP and Plaintiffs in the referenced lawsuit to discuss issues relating to WVDEP's compliance with the Wood County's Circuit Court's Order prohibiting WVDEP from destroying any C-8 documents and requiring WVDEP to try to retrieve electronic documents previously deleted from Dr. Dee Ann Staats' files. Mr. Dawley also appears to have had some Ievel of involvement while at Spilman in assisting DuPont in the negotiation and drafting of the November 2001 Consent Order entered between the State and DuPont on C-8 matters ( the "Consent Order"). (See Attachment B) We understand that Mr. Dawley was approached by Secretary Callaghan to become General Counsel for WVDEP while Mr. Dawley was working at Spilman. We further understand that another former Spilman lawyer, Stephanie Timrnermeyer, also
recently left that law tirm to accept the position as Director of WVDEP's Division of Air Quality
after Ms. Timmermeyer also had been working directly for DuPont on C-8 issues and also
apparently had worked for DuPont in negotiating and drafting the Consent Order… We understand that the Director of WVDEP's Division of Water resources. Allyn Turner also is a former Spilman attorney…
Ref: October 25, 2002. Letter from Robert A. Bilott of Taft, Stettinius & Hollster, 425 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202; to Perry D. McDaniel, Esq, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Legal Services, 1356 Hansford Street, Charleston, WV 25301. Re: DuPon/C-8 Issues: Jack W Leach. et al. v. E. I. duPont de Nemours and Company and Lutbeck Public Service District Circuit Court of Wood Ctv, K'V. Civil Action No. 0 1 -C-608.
Note: Timmermeyer and Dawley have both recused themselves from C8 issues at DEP. Ref: March 13, 2003. Charleston Gazette (West Virginia). C8 Study 'Tainted,' Group Says Governor Urged to Appoint an Independent Panel. By Ken Ward Jr.
Regulators protect Dupont with a "safe level" of C8 in drinking water.
The "safe level" standard for C-8 has been a rather fluid number that periodically increases exponentially. Initially, the "safe level" was said to be 1 ppb, which was DuPont's internal Community Exposure Guideline. This number eventually changed after detections of C-8 in the Little Hocking Water Association wells far exceeded it. Later, the U.S. EPA Consent Order with DuPont cited 14 ppb as the interim "action level" for C-8. The Little Hocking Water Association has a monitoring well which has C-8 levels that are more than twice 14 ppb. Now, based on the announced CAT Team findings, the "safe level" is 150 ppb.
Ref. and see for more detail: LITTLE HOCKING WATER COMMENTS. OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY MEETING. COLUMBUS, OHIO. July 24,2002.
Also see analysis by Kristina Thayer, Ph.D. of the Environmental Working Group
Some of DuPont's practices at its West Virginia facility identified for contaminating the area's drinking water supplies:
The Letart Landfill is located just north of the town of Letart in Mason County, West Virginia (Figure 4.0). The landfill covers approximately 17-acres of a 205-acre parcel of land owned by DuPont Washington Works. It was in operation firom the early 1960s to 1995. The landfill was operated and closed under West Virginia Solid Waste /National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit No. WV 0076066. Letart Landfill received waste was from the Fluoropolymcr manufacturing process at the plant that consisted primarily of scrap product, scrap metal, wood pallets and bins, and miscellaneous trash. Approximately 5,000,000 pounds of waste per year were disposed in the landfill. This waste is believed to be the source of C-8 in the historical groundwater and surface water samples collected fiom on-site locations. The Letart Landfill was permanently closed by installing an engineered multi-layer geosynthetic and soil cap (DuPont, 2001).
The Dry Run Landfill is located west of the town of Lubeck, in Wood County, West Virginia (Figure 5.0) and is about eight miles southwest of the Washington Works main plant and the Local Landfill. The Dry Run Landfill covers approximately 17-acres of a 535-acre parcel of land owned by DuPont. The landfill began operation in 1986 and is still active at present. The landfill is operated under West Virginia Solid Waste /National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit No.WV 0076244. The landfill was constructed within the drainage basin of Dry Run, a tributary of the North Fork of Lee Creek, which is a tributary of the Ohio River. The Dry Run Landfill has no compacted or synthetic bottom liners. However, natural soil present under the landfill material is composed of clay and weathered shale. The Dry Run Landfill receives waste from the main plant consisting of non-hazardous waste including scrap product, scrap metal, wood pallets, fly ash and bins, and miscellaneous trash. Approximately 50,000,000 pounds of waste per year have been disposed in the landfill. Currently, the C-8 source is believed to be the sludges from the closure of the main plant anaerobic digestion ponds that were landfilled at Dry Run in 1988. The Dry Run Landfill remaining capacity calculations for 2001 show 4.4 years of remaining life on the existing cell based on a 128,000 yd3/yr net fill volume consumption (DuPont 2000).
Riverbank Landfill: The Riverbank Landfill is about 4,500-feet long and lies along the northern edge of the site near the Ohio River. It was operated between 1948 and the late 1960s and received powerhouse ash, incineration ash, plastics, rubble, and plant trash. After closure, it was covered with 6 to 35 inches of soil. Currently, the Riverbank Landfill is covered with dense vegetation (on the sloped area) or by buildings and pavement in the manufacturing area.
Anacrobic Digestion Ponds: Three former digestion ponds are co-located within a portion of the Riverbank Landfill. One pond dates from the 1950s and two others from the 1970s. The ponds received waste from the fluorocarbon manufacturing process (including C-8) until 1988, when the pond contents and upper few feet of clay liner and pond berm material were removed and disposed of off-site. The pond area was backfilled and capped with topsoil, and the area is currently vegetated with grass.
Polyacetal Waste Incinerators: The former Waste Incinerators consisted of two brick-lined pits in the western portion of the manufacturing area. The Waste Incinerators operated between 1959 and 1990. The Waste Incinerators have been excavated and backfilled with clean soil.
Burning Ground: The Burning Ground is located in the central portion of the manufacturing area and was operated between 1948 and 1965. Since 1990, the Burning Ground has been leveled, backfilled with clean fill and gravel, and covered by buildings and asphalt.
The Local Landfill is located immediately adjacent to the main plant off the southern perimeter. The Local Landfill consists of three separate closed cells located on the heavily wooded 250-acre site. The cells were operated from 1964 to the middle 1380s under West Virginia/National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (WVNPDES) Permit No. 0076538. The permit is currently undergoing renewal and is expected to be effective in January 2002. Materials landfilled included scrap product, scrap metal, wood pallets and bins, and Powerhouse ash. Approximately 144 tons of waste per year were disposed in the landfill. Powerhouse ash comprised about 70 percent of the total waste. The specific source of C-8 in historical groundwater and surface water samples collected from on-site locations has not yet been determined. The cells were closed and covered with approximately two feet of low permeability soil.
Ref: January 2002. DuPont. COMPILATION OF HISTORICAL C-8 DATA.
DUPONT WASHINGTON WORKS MAIN PLANT AND LANDFILLS. Project KO: D6WW7423. (171 pages)
DuPont's description of APFO (C8) Use:
DuPont uses APFO as a reaction aid in the production of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) co-polymers. The process utilized at DuPont's Washington Works for making PTFE and co-polymers consists of polymerizing TFE (and other co-monomers if desired) in an aqueous media with a small amount of APFO to aid in the reaction.
Following the polymerization step, the polymer dispersion is either dried to remove water and APFO or concentrated (removing some of the APFO), stabilized and sold as an aqueous dispersion. The dried polymer contains very little, if any, APFO. The APFO removed from the polymer is recovered for recycle, captured and destroyed off site in an incinerator, captured and sent to an offsite industrial landfill, and/or emitted to air or water at the Washington Works. The stabilized polymer dispersions are sold by DuPont to industrial customers (both in the US and outside the US) for a variety of uses, internally transferred to the DuPont Spruance Plant for the production of Teflon@ fibers and PTFE coated synthetic fibers, or internally transferred to the DuPont Parlin Plant for the production of Teflon@ Finishes. A small amount of non-hazardous waste polymer, water, APFO and other additives generated at Washington Works is treated in a wastewater treatment facility at DuPont's Chambers Works. This material is either emitted in the Chambers Works water discharge or captured on carbon and landfilled in a secure landfill. The internal process at the DuPont Spruance Plant to produce Teflon@ fibers involves, for most of the product, a "sintering" step in which the APFO contained in the product is destroyed by the following reaction: CF3(CF2)6C0O'NH4+ -arrow- CF3(CF2)5CF2H + C02 +NH3
Ref. and see for more detail: Voluntary Use and Exposure Information Profile Ammonium Perfluorooctanoate (APFO) (revised January 2001).


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Russian money launderers are exploiting government bailiffs to transfer dirty cash out of the country.
A legal loophole may have already seen more than 16 billion rubles ($269 million) in surreptitious funds sent abroad, the Kommersant newspaper reported Friday.
The scheme requires a Russian judge to sign off on a debt collection agreement between a Russian citizen or company and a business or individual based outside of the country.
When bailiffs use this court judgement to transfer money from a Russian "debtor" to their "creditor" abroad, Russian banks are unable able to properly scrutinize the deal.
Russia's Central Bank told Kommersant that the subterfuge enjoyed the full protection of the law because Russian banks and the Federal Bailiff service are both legally unable to question court decisions. It now hopes to tackle the problem by allowing banks to refuse any "suspicious" debt repayments.
More than 37 billion rubles ($624 million) were transferred about of Russia as part of debt repayment plans in 2016.
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It's annoying that the biggie bigs and hot shot theater owners have seen a trailer for the adaptation of Ted Chiang's short story Story of Your Life starring Amy Adams & Jeremy Renner. I feel like a little kid wearing one of those souvenir t-shirts grandma and grandpa brought back from their vacation.
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The theater owners went to CinemaCon and all I got are these clips!
Actually, I was happy to see Amy Adams & Jeremy Renner talking about the film, especially to hear what Renner said about wanting to work on a story featuring such a strong female lead. The sci-fi film also stars Forrest Whitaker and is directed by hard-hitting Denis Villenueve (Sicario, Prisoners and the upcoming remake of Blade Runner!!!)
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Just like last week, this week, instead of "Just One Thing" we'll be covering the rest of our reader questions about work and your wardrobe. For a refresher, check out part one and then read on for more answers to your questions!
5. What about my hair? And nails? What is appropriate? Can I rock natural hair? The hottest nail trends?
Just as I mentioned last week, pay attention to those around you for clues as to what is appropriate for hair and nails at the office. Let's start with your hair. Overall, you want your hair to be neat and well-kempt whether your hair is straight, curly, processed, natural, whatever! Natural hair is definitely more accepted in the workplace, so do not be afraid to wear your hair naturally if you are so inclined. Just make sure that it is appropriate – a ginormous 'fro (though beautiful) may not be appropriate for an investment or law firm. Something like twists, curls or braids might be more appropriate. I can't stress enough how important environment is in determining the most appropriate hairstyle for the workplace.
As far as your nails are concerned, I think you have a little more leeway in what you do. While I'm not encouraging you to rock a neon yellow, tiger print nail in the country's most conservative of firms – I am saying that you can step outside of the french manicured box. Generally, it is OK to try a bright color in the summer or have an accent nail. If you're going to do something a bit more creative with your nails (especially in corporate America) there are a few simple guidelines you can follow.
- Keep nails short and squared with soft edges. This looks less severe than the newly popular long, oval shaped nail. It will also hold up with a dark or light polish.
- Avoid too trendy colors. I love all of the blues, greens, pinks and oranges that are hot right now for nails. If you're going to rock one of these shades, opt for a more pastel hue (I'm a fan of "Turquoise and Caicos" by Essie), a softer shade (love "Ballet Slippers" by Essie) or a complimentary tone (think "Cute as a Button" by Essie which is a coral based orange and less severe than a straight up orange).
- Embellish within reason. I love a good sparkle. But ten sparkly nails would be a bit much for the office. Instead, I either opt for a "bling finger" (a sparkly polish painted on one finger on each hand) or my tips with a touch of sparkle (think a French mani with Set in Stones by Essie and not your basic white tips).
6. How can I take my work look from day to night?
This is something I struggle with all the time. How do you take a look that is work-appropriate and make it appropriate for after work. The truth is, it's very simple. One of the easiest and fastest ways to do this is by simply switching your jewelry, shoes and bag and switching out your make-up as Torrey instructed a few weeks ago. To switch your jewelry from day to night try switching out a pearl necklace for a statement necklace, diamond or pearl studs for a sparkly hoop and more delicate rings for stackable or cocktail rings. For your shoe game, toss those black pumps after five and throw on something more fun like a colored peep toe, a suede bootie, or a sequined pump. As far as bags go, ditch your work tote and pull out a sleek envelope clutch or vintage style purse with a chain strap (I'm thinking Chanel or Chanel-inspired as it may be). Finally, change up your make-up following Torrey's easy step and you've transformed your look from day to night in no time at all!
7. Can you be too dressy for work?
A little back story (via Twitter): "Coworker has on pretty lace blk dress. Problem, looks like [it's] for a funeral or cocktail party."
The short answer is yes, you can be too dressy for work. Not just because you're wearing a cocktail dress to the office (which, I've absolutely done and been able to tone down) but because you're over dressing for your industry. I would not expect a production manager for a television show to be in a three-piece suit and wing tips. It's overdressing for the situation and not very practical! So while lace is all the rage right now (I've got a pretty lace embellished top in my closet I'm dying to wear) a full on dress made of it may not be appropriate at the office if your office is corporate. However, it may be entirely appropriate if your office is at Vogue. When dressing for work, you have to know your environment and then dress accordingly.
8. What is the best advice you can give me about my work gear?
The first thing is what I've said all along, pay close attention to what everyone around you is wearing and follow suit. It is OK to slightly over-dress (within reason), but use what everyone else is wearing as your baseline.
The second piece of advice I would say is dress for the job you want, not the job you have – and not just in the office. Style is 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. So, even when I'm not in the office, I dress for what I want to do (which is turn my blog/event planning/styling into an empire – I'm talking world domination here). This doesn't mean I wear suits all day every day. But, it does mean that when I'm in the office, I dress appropriately and stylishly. And on the weekends, I don't default to sweats or basketball shorts. I still dress appropriately and stylishly because I realize that part of getting where I want to be is looking the part.
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Need Valentine's Day gift ideas for your kids? Here are some thoughtful gift ideas that any kid would love to receive!
- Candy and Chocolate: Whether you make something homemade or buy it in a store, kids love edible Valentine's Day gifts. From the heart-shaped boxes full of different types of chocolates to the sweet conversation heart candies with witty sayings on them, you can't go wrong with candy or chocolate gifts for kids this Valentine's Day
- Stuffed Animals: A cute stuffed animal is a great Valentine's Day gift idea for a kid. Does your child have a favorite type of animal? Teddy bears, gorillas, cats, dogs, penguins – you name it! Many of these plush toys can be found with a Valentine theme around this time of year. If you can't find what you are looking for in a store, don't forget to check online!
- Valentine's-inspired Outfit: Many kids like dressing up for the holiday, which is why clothes decked out with hearts in shades of pink and red make great Valentine's Day presents. Think about your child's personality and their age though before you choose this as their gift. Another idea is to get them Valentine's Day pajamas instead so they don't have to worry about being embarrassed to show their cupid spirit at school.
- Jewelry: Jewelry isn't just for adults - kids like jewelry, too. If you want to get a nice Valentine's gift for your little angel this year consider a dainty heart shaped bracelet or charm necklace. A simple piece of jewelry is the perfect gift for a tween or teen who might be outgrowing other Valentine's Day activities for kids.
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Once in a while we come across individuals who inspire us and Kenechukwu Eze is definitely one of them. She is a female barber and haircut stylist who is making waves in Enugu.
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Earle's Shipyard (See Fact 46) was responsible for the construction of the two largest vessel built for the highest navigable lake in the world, Lake Titicaca in Peru/Bolivia.
Showing the position of Lake Titicaca, along way from Hull!
By the late 1800's Peru had got heavily into International date due to wars and natural disaster.s Britain took over the Peruvian Railway system as payment of her debts. There were already some British built kit ships on the Lake, built in 1861 and reassembled in 1870 and 1872. These were only about 100' in length and needed augmenting by 1904. An increase in traffic on the Lake warranted a new ship that was to be twice the size at 220' and the order went to Earle's. The ship was constructed in Hull and all the parts marked. The engines and boilers were built but not fitted into the ship before also broken down and crated. Each crate could weigh no more that 12.5 cwt (0.63 tonnes) and have dimensions less that 10 ft wide and 11 ft high. She left Hull in he boxes in early 1905 having cost £22285. The parts were transported up 12500 ft to the lake by railway and reassembled. She was set to work by mid 1905. 220' long 1809 GRT.
SS. Inca in Puno Bay 1967. She was later broken up and sold for scrap.
Tarde continued to increase and despite the World Depression and the start of motor vehicle transport in earnest trade on the Lake was still increasing to the degree where another vessel was required to keep up with the cargo offered. The railway company again turned to Earle's. The new ship was to be even bigger at 260' long, 950 DWT, 2200 GRT and have a speed of 14.5 kts. powered by four oil fired steam engines. It was to carry 66 1st Class and 20 2nd Class passengers, and 950 tons of cargo.
Construction started at the yard in Hull when the keel was laid in June 1930. As with the INCA the ship was fully assembled using nuts and bolts so that it could all be checked and then properly marked to assist in reassembly. Five months later it was loaded into a PSNCo ship 'La Paz' for transport to Mollendo where it was then taken by railway up to Puno on the Lake.
William R. Smale. Earle's engineer in charge of the reconstruction in Peru at Lake Titicaca in 1931.
To ensure the parts were all put together correctly Earle's sent one of their best engineers with them. William Reginald Smale originated from the West Country but had joined Earle's as an apprentice, he later sailed as an engineer on some of Ellerman Wilson's vessels and during WWII was an essential member of the team that kept Hull going during the heavy bombings of the German Blitz. He had a tough job to do as not only were there no skilled labour for the job, there were no proper tools and there wasn't even a slipway to build the ship on. He set to with a will and soon had the slip completed and the first plate was laid 24th March 1931. He managed to improvise the heavy machinery by adapting that used by the railway company. His original orders were to wait for a group of workers from Britain to come and assist with the launch. However he was supremely confident in his workers and himself that he went ahead an launched on 18th November that same year. The launch party arrived with the ship in the water and it just been fitted out.
On the slip with the shell plating almost complete. (From William Smale's original photograph)
Nearing being ready for launching with the deck plating being close to completion. Note the numbering of the parts of steel work. (From William Smale's original photograph)
SS Ollanta underway on Lake Titicaca soon after completion. (From William Smale's original photograph)
Photo taken on the bridge in 2004
The dining room taken in 2004.
Although the Inca was broken up the Ollanta survives and still employed cruising the lake as although not used by the railways on scheduled runs she is chartered out for the use of tourists.
Ollanta's Earle's builders number was No.679. Only three other ships were built at the yard afterwards as it fell to the Depression. Soon after the yard closed almost all the equipment was sold and transported to Hong Kong for the Kowloon ship yard, including the hammerhead crane.
William Smales remained in Peru for some years working for the Peruvian Railways, before setting off with a Yorkshireman on a horse back adventure to sail home from the Atlantic side of South America. He later worked in India on a major project before returning to Hull during it's hour of need in WWII. He also had a hand in the building of the Mulberry Harbour that helped secure the Normandy Landings and the end of the war in Europe. He died in the 1990's.
Hull has a great maritime history, not just deep sea trawlers, and these days not much is made of the port and the deeds of the past, or the future, but Hull developed and grew due the Humber and access to trade.


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text: Hello I own an Dell Zino HD, which I am trying to convert into a personal cloud running XEN 4.2 + NetBSD Dom0. But after a week of experimenting, I am stuck at the problem that disk io performance seems to be dramatically reduced in NetBSD PV DomU. I've searched the web and the mail list. There seems to be quite a few people having this problem, but none of the followings threads resulted in a solution... http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.ports.xen/7806 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.ports.xen/7016 So here is my machine spec: CPU: AMD Athlon II P360 (2.3G) Memory: 8G Harddrive: ahcisata0 port 0: device present, speed: 3.0Gb/s atabus0 at ahcisata0 channel 0 wd0 at atabus0 drive 0 wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing wd0: 931 GB, 1938021 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 1953525168 sectors wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) wd0(ahcisata0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) (using DMA) I installed a fresh copy of NetBSD-6.1.4 on wd0a (10G), and allocated 512M to wd0b as swap (since I'm planning on running Dom0 with 256M memory). The rest of the hard drive went to wd0e, which was then made into a lvm pv Now here comes the interesting part. I tested hard drive read and write throughput using dd in various situations, and the number I report is average over four independent runs with 4k, 8k, 16k and 32k block size. The commands I used to test write and read speed are dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=<bs> count=<4G/bs> dd if=testfile of=/dev/null bs=<bs> I tried to put conv=fdatasync at the end of the write test, no significant difference was observed. Here are the results: NetBSD Native, wd0a: 111.93 MB/s (write); 113.73 MB/s (read) NetBSD Native, lvm: 114.65 MB/s (write); 118.89 MB/s (read) NetBSD Dom0, wd0a: 111.96 MB/s (write); 116.10 MB/s (read) NetBSD Dom0, lvm: 115.45 MB/s (write); 122.30 MB/s (read) NetBSD lvm based DomU: 16.11 MB/s (write); 116.78 MB/s (read) NetBSD img file based DomU: 15.62 MB/s (write); 116.52 MB/s (read) Ubuntu 14.04 lvm based PV DomU: 122.41 MB/s (write); 124.28 MB/s (read) NetBSD lvm based DomU on Ubuntu Dom0: 8.65 MB/s (write); 118.72 MB/s (read) A few observation from the data: * The hard drive native speed is around 100 MB/s read / write, based on the NetBSD native and NetBSD Dom0 tests. lvm does not incur any penalty. * NetBSD DomU has significant reduced write speed. Read speed remain unaffected. I tried to mount the filesystem without log, or mount with async. None of those helped * Linux DomU does not seem to suffer from the write speed degradation. * NetBSD DomU does not benefit from a Linux Dom0 I also tried to run NetBSD Dom0 directly from a usb drive, and dedicated my entire hard drive to lvm. This did not help either. So at this point I'm lost in terms of how to remedy the DomU write speed loss, since there is little to tinker with in the config file. I'm not ready to give NetBSD up just yet. I stopped running Linux since kernel 2.6.32, and every time I'm forced to run it, I feel dirty and obese. Any help would be greatly appreciated ;) As a addendum, here is my NetBSD DomU config file. I'm using xl toolchain, as per the recommendation of the xentools42 package. The config file is adapted from /usr/pkg/share/examples/xen/xlexample.pvlinux NetBSD: name = "netbsd" #kernel = "/share/xen-pvkernels/nbsd/6.1.4/netbsd-INSTALL_XEN3_DOMU.gz" kernel = "/share/xen-pvkernels/nbsd/6.1.4/netbsd-XEN3_DOMU.gz" memory = 512 vcpus = 1 vif = [ 'bridge=bridge0' ] disk = [ 'phy:/dev/mapper/vg0-netbsd,xvda,rw' ] Linux: name = "ubuntu" # following three lines are for booting the net-install kernel # kernel = "/share/xen-pvkernels/ubuntu/trusty/vmlinuz" # ramdisk = "/share/xen-pvkernels/ubuntu/trusty/initrd.gz" # extra = "debian-installer/exit/always_halt=true -- console=hvc0" bootloader = "pygrub" memory = 512 vcpus = 1 vif = [ 'bridge=bridge0' ] disk = [ 'phy:/dev/mapper/vg0-ubuntu,xvda,w' ]


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HOURGLASS by Crystal Lynn Hilbert
April 12, 2010 Short stories Tags: contest winner, Crystal Lynn Hilbert
The scientist on TV was not nearly as scared as he should have been. He stood on the sterile, makeshift podium surrounded by cameras and armed guards, looking irritated, as if the end of the world was a minor inconvenience that happened each day between missed busses. He glared at crowd and the crowd glared back, some of them weeping, the newscasters standing like statues, microphones welded in their hands. (more…)


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The failure of job creation to keep pace with those willing and able to work is a major threat to American progress. Part of this problem lies in an old story — the continuing mismatch between skills and competencies needed by employers and those possessed by job-seekers. But part of it also stems from misunderstanding what here is termed human resourcefulness (HR).
HR administration is paid lip service particularly in the small and medium enterprises that comprise the backbone of industrialized economies. Even in nonprofit sectors, where more HR emphasis might be expected, HR management seems to be a distributed chore for senior managers. In one survey:
"Eighty-four percent of nonprofit respondents agreed that the HR function is critical to their organization's ability to fulfill its mission, yet few prioritize the HR function within their organizations. The majority of respondent organizations (52 percent) do not [even] have a dedicated HR professional" — [Non-Profit Employment Trends Survey 2011 http://www.nonprofithr.com/?src=gendocs&ref=TrendsSurvey&category=OS]
This peculiar shortcoming in human resources management is confined to the demand side of the HR supply/demand chain, i.e. on how personnel are managed most effectively, usually at a given workplace. Clearly preferable would be greater respect for, and institutional commitment to, administrative and policy priorities for human resources management. Yet there is another, even more crucial, aspect of this chain where relationships between actual, and desired, states are way too weak, and are too often left to chance — disguised as `market forces.'
On the HR `supply' side, the process by which people prepare for, and select, initial occupational preferences, and then conduct their work is increasingly complex, and fraught with obstacles. Shaping, through education/training, the skills, knowledge, experience and behavior necessary to flourish at work is a challenge facing most people at a point in life (youth) when decision-making is still embryonic, when mistakes are common, and when — although strengths are considerable — vulnerability is also endemic. Once a fairly linear, traditionally segmented progress from school to work, this process now tends to be much more complicated and cyclical. Repetitive personal retooling is now the norm, as is greater occupational shifting and agility to adapt to labor force `churning' during a single lifetime.
From a public policy perspective, much of this obstacle course is conducted serendipitously. Little articulation exists between educational levels, or between education and employers, and still less with health sectors. Young people entering the labor force (and increasingly middle-aged and older workers) must somehow navigate the occupational supply/demand channels, often with limited preparation, information or support, again like flailing swimmers at the mercy of swirling labor force currents.
Even those emerging successfully from college may be more likely to have debts than a guaranteed path to prosperity.
These joint crises of unemployment and rapid technological change are giving birth to new theories around human resources development, which look now beyond just skills training, and focus on intersectoral public policy.
Instead of relegating the human resource to simply a factor in production (human capital), or, even less positively, as mere transactional inputs for corporate exploitation, policy decision-making is urged to direct itself more toward defining, promoting and sustaining something called human resourcefulness as a national goal.
This redirection means looking at human resources development as a complex system, expanding, for everyone, the opportunity set for promoting human freedom, resilience to stress and productive ingenuity on both sides of the livelihood domain i.e. preparation (education and training) and implementation (work and livelihood). This would make policies that support this process more transparent, and user-friendly.
Stamford resident John E.S. Lawrence is an adjunct professor at Columbia University's School of International & Public Affairs, and is former principal adviser and deputy director, Social Development Division, of the U.N. Development Program's Bureau of Development Policy.


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History Alive, Fort Lytton
Where is it: Fort Lytton National Park, Lytton Road & South Street, Lytton
What's it all about: History throughout the ages told through re-enactments, displays and memorabilia!
How can I join in: Head along as a spectator or get in touch with the History Alive team to get involved in the event as a volunteer or contributor!
Tell me more: This is an amazingly fun event! In just a few hours in the one location you can see everything from roman gladiators and vikings, through to World War II battle re-enactments and tanks! It's not all about warfare and battles (however this theme is certainly prevalent!) as there are vintage vehicles, olden day games and typical village layouts! It's set on the grounds of Fort Lytton which is worth visiting in it's own right. This heritage listed area contains many buildings and structures established as protection for Brisbane from enemy invaders and also contains an old quarantine station for immigrants! There are events scheduled across the weekend and you are free to wander around as you wish. The cannons are fired off at a few different times over the two days and are definitely worth checking out - if you don't get to see them, you will definitely hear them! You will have a really good time visiting History Alive - it's certainly a highlight event! :
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All of the new Mk4 colours were a single pack cellulose paint, with clear lacquer on top so you will need to order an additional can of lacquer as well. The only exception to this is Crystal White 34K which is also supplied with a specific base coat (hense the additional cost). These colours will also need lacquer.
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T.O.P's condition is finally improving
T.O.P is reported to have gained consciousness for short periods today. His mother spoke to reporters stationed outside the hospital after 1:45pm KST this afternoon, saying "My son's condition has improved a lot…I had eye contact with my son". She also confirmed that he recognised her when making eye contact.
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Yonhap News reports that a "senior police official from T.O.P's police squad" with T.O.P's mother at the hospital said, "He recognised me. It seems he can communicate".
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Hi there, I have another art journal page to share this week in rather Spring like colours as I think we all need a bit of cheering up with the rather wet weather we've had this week.
That's Crafty! Dinky Stencils – Bubble Wrap Background, Floral Background
That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Sets – Fleur & Fern by Donna Gray, Inspirational Quotes Set 1
PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Acrylic Paints – Chartreuse, Sherbet, Lilac, Rose
DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic Paints – Yellow Green Light, Green Gold, Primary Magenta
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Apply paint to the journal page using an old store card – I used the PaperArtsy paints for this step, adding paints randomly until the page was roughly covered.
Use the bubble wrap stencil with the modelling paste to add a random pattern to the page. Allow the paste to dry, then put the stencil back over the raised areas and paint with the magenta DecoArt acrylic.
Paint 3 tags with chartreuse paint and apply a pattern using the darker green paints with the floral stencil. Stamp a quote on one tag with the green Archival ink. Stencil 'live' on another with the magenta paint, When the paint is dry, doodle on the words with the green marker and outline the letters too.
Stamp the flower from the Fleur set and the large leaf design from the Fern set on stamping paper and paint with pink and green paints. Cut the images out and add them to the third tag with foam tape.
Finish off the page by adding the tags tied with baker twine. You'll see that I reversed the central tag to add extra interest (if you want to do this, make sure you turn the tag before adding the flower!)
Have a great weekend and see you next week.
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1 Study the musical alphabet. The musical alphabet is made up of only 7 letters (A, B, C, D, E, F, and G), but it's the basic language that musicians use to write and talk about musical notes. Between these 7 notes there are also 5 other notes that are either sharp or flat. Sharp notes are 1 note higher in pitch than the regular letter that it uses, while flat notes are 1 note lower in pitch.
- For example, the A-sharp note is slightly higher in pitch than a regular A note.
- These notes are always in alphabetical order, going from A to G, on any instrument. When you go past the G note, the next note is just another A note and the entire order is repeated.
- If you play a musical instrument like piano, you can map this alphabet out on your instrument. For instance, memorize where the "C" note is played on the piano and then you'll also know where C-flat, C-sharp, B, D, A, E, and F are on the opposite sides of the C key.
2 Get to know the basic elements of reading sheet music. Sheet music is written on a set of horizontal, parallel lines called the staff. Other small figures and lines are written on or around the staff to indicate things like which notes are played, how long each note is played for, and what rhythm the music should be played in.
- Clefs are various shapes written at the very beginning of a music staff, which tell you what pitches are on what line or space of the staff. The treble clef looks sort of like an ampersand, while the bass clef looks like a backwards C with 2 dots on top of it.
- The key signature appears next to the clef and is composed of 1 or several # (sharp) or b (flat) symbols on individual lines of the staff. These symbols indicate that all notes played on that line should either be played either sharp or flat.
- The notes on the staff lines indicate which notes to play on an instrument and are made up of 3 parts: the note head (a black oval that is either open or closed), the stem (the vertical line attached to the note head), and the flag (the curved stroke at the top of the stem).
- Note that not all notes contain all 3 parts at the same time. Different combinations of open or closed note heads, stems, and flags tell you how long to play an individual note in terms of beats or fractions of beats. For instance, an open note with no stem or flag is played for 4 beats, while a closed note with a stem is played for 1 beat.
3 Learn the difference between scale and pitch. Pitch refers to how high or low on an instrument you play a certain note, such as the "C" note. There are 7 keys of difference between 2 different pitches of the same note (e.g., on a piano, you can play an A note in a higher pitch by moving 7 keys to the right). Conversely, scales are sets of notes that sound particularly good when played sequentially and are thus commonly used in songwriting.
- When you change the pitch of 1 note, you have to also change the pitch of any other note that you play with that first note in a scale.
- There are major scales for each of the 7 notes. There are also minor scales, which are similar to major scales, except the 3rd note in the scale is a half step lower than it is in the major scale.
4 Familiarize yourself with chords. Chords are formed when 3 or more notes of the same pitch are played at the same time. After you've learned the different notes on your instrument, the next thing you should do is learn some of the most common chords played on it.
- For example, the C, E, and G notes are commonly played together across a variety of instruments as a single chord.
5 Make sure you're aware of the importance of rhythm. Rhythm, in terms of music, refers to the consecutive arrangement of notes or beats placed at equal intervals of time. This means that you have to allow for the same amount of silence in between each musical note, or else the flow of the piece can be ruined.
- The rhythm at which a piece of music should be played is indicated on a staff by a time signature, made up of 2 vertically placed numbers next to the clef. The top number indicates how many beats there are in a measure of music, while the bottom number represents the note value which makes 1 beat.
- For example, a ¾ time signature would indicate that each measure in a piece of music contains 3 beats, while each beat contains 4 notes.


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It'll take a couple of day's posts to cover my trip to Las Vegas. Click an image to view full.
Here's the jet my dad and I left town in. While Ketchikan's airport is small when compared to the nation's major airports, it has a 7,500 foot asphalt runway and a 9,500 foot water runway. Over 16,200 aircraft operations and a quarter million passengers go through it each year. That's why we needed a bridge.
Before I knew it we had taken off and were over the Alaska native village of Metlakatla.
Alaska, the land of 3 million lakes; suck on that, Minnesota... Actually, I think this was over Canada, but you get the idea. The landscape looks the same.
We had a few hour layover in Seattle, so we took the opportunity to explore the Sea-Tac airport.
The construction of the windows in the previous photo were interesting.
Abstract art... I suppose that's what this is.
We stayed at the Luxor. We got in after dark, this was taken the next day. For those who didn't know, the Luxor is a giant pyramid with an Egyptian theme.
From the inside, you'd never know it's daytime.
More to come tomorrow.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
«To Las Vegas! (Photo Heavy)»
It'll take a couple of day's posts to cover my trip to Las Vegas. Click an image to view full.
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You have a water runway? How do they land on water, wouldn't the plane sink? Or is it like that one Miracle on the Hudson Sully Sullenburger thing?ReplyDelete
Also, that abstract art looks more like vital organs floating around to me.
The Luxor is nice. I stayed there about ten years ago with some friends I was touring. In the old days, you could get a all you can eat buffet with steak for $2.99. Sadly those days are gone, but there is plenty to do there. I am hoping to get up to Red Rock Canyon sometime.ReplyDelete
@ Vid: There's a lot of floatplanes in this town. During the summer, there's a few outfits that do tours. Also, it's how most people get to the remote logging camps.ReplyDelete
@ Looney: Yes, those days are long gone. Now even McDonald's is overpriced.


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Sustainability and Environmental Awareness
The Haliç Congress Center acts with an awareness of "sustainability" with tremendous economic, environmental and social effect.
Sustainable Catering Services
The restaurant only uses fresh, seasonal products. Any uneaten desserts, sandwiches or similar items leftover from events are delivered to the needy in an honorable fashion at the municipality's social markets. Other uneaten food is also frozen and sent to animal shelters.
Sustainable Technical Services
Lighting systems feature 95-percent compact fluorescence lamps and LED lighting, and the windows throughout the building feature double-glazing for heat insulation. Heat-filtered film and low-flow special fixtures are used in office windows and in all sinks, respectively. Employees are encouraged to drop scrap batteries into "Scrap Battery Boxes." In addition, the venue has recycling boxes for the recyclable waste of the guests. Outdoor lighting fixtures have time clocks, and lighting is scheduled according to summer and winter hours. Electricity consumption is reduced by heating system pumps, booster pumps and frequency inverters on the main air conditioning plants, and garden irrigation is performed by time-adjusted drip irrigation systems.


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Tennis elbow is an overuse injury caused by a repetitive activity. Although common in racquet sports, it can also be seen in workplace injuries, particularly among painters, carpenters, and plumbers. According to research, typical signs and symptoms of tennis elbow include pain and burning on the outside of the elbow and weak grip strength.
Symptoms develop over time and may gradually worsen over weeks or months. Nonsurgical treatment includes:
– rest
– ice
– NSAIDS (such as Advil or Aleve)
– exercise
– ultrasound
– bracing/compression
– steroid injections
The first steps in treating tennis elbow are reducing inflammation and resting the irritated muscles and tendons. Ice and compression may also help reduce inflammation and pain. Once inflammation subsides, you can begin gentle exercises to strengthen the muscles of the forearm and prevent recurrence.
In addition, Tennis Elbow is an injury to the muscles that extend the wrist and fingers. The site of injury is typically the lateral epicondyle, a bony bump on the outside of the elbow where these muscles attach. Tennis Elbow symptoms that have lasted more than 6 weeks are considered to be sub-acute and beyond three months, as chronic tennis elbow.
The symptoms typically when the Tennis Elbow sufferer will experience pain when performing gripping tasks or resisted wrist/finger extension. Pain can also be present when the muscles are stretched. There will be tenderness directly over the bony epicondyle, and there may be trigger points in the wrist muscles.
Some sufferers will also have neck stiffness and tenderness, as well as signs of nerve irritation. Most elbow movements will be pain-free, despite that being the area of pain.
Physiotherapy has been shown to be effective in the short and long-term management of tennis elbow. Vancouver physiotherapy
aims to achieve the following:
– Reduction of elbow pain.
– Facilitation of tissue repair.
– Restoration of the normal joint range of motion and function.
– Restoration of normal muscle length, strength and movement patterns.
– Normalisation of your upper limb neurodynamics.
– Normalisation of cervical joint function.
There are many ways to achieve these and, following a thorough assessment of your elbow, arm and neck, your physiotherapist will discuss the best strategy for you to use based on your symptoms and your lifestyle. Results are typically measured through patient feedback and measurement of pain-free grip strength.
Vancouver Physio treatment can include gentle mobilisation of your neck and elbow joints, electrotherapy, elbow kinesio taping, muscle stretches, neural mobilisations, massage and strengthening. There is also evidence to suggest utilising a tennis elbow brace around the elbow will reduce your symptoms and help you recover quicker.


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Friday, June 16, 2017
lake view
A long time friend commissioned me to paint her two children and dog enjoying the lake. The picture she gave me to work from was great so my job was not too hard. I have learned that you do not have to be married to a photo. Change it for the paintings sake. There was an old dock in the foreground and I painted it in at first. It was preventing your eye from moving into the picture so I asked her permission to delete it. Much better. Do you see the backwards S composition? Or I guess it could be a Z. This is painted on a 30 x 40 x 2" canvas.
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Checking out treats and toys sounds like an wonderful way to spend the day! You must be Rosy's official taste-tester. Did you find one that was your favorite? Going back to check them all out again is an excellent idea. We're all having some tasty tuna water to celebrate #FuzzFriday. Rosy would approve, yes?ReplyDelete


text: Science / food Save the Planet: Eat Bugs Switching from beef to protein-packed bugs could help combat climate change By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff Posted May 31, 2008 9:06 AM CDT Copied German cockroaches have an efficiency of conversion of ingested food to body substance over four times that of cows. ((c) themonnie) See 2 more photos Chowing down on creepy-crawlies is a concept that's likely to nauseate most Americans, but insect eats may be the way of the future, Time reports. The critters are rich in protein and far more efficient to raise than cows or pigs, making them a possible solution to the problem of feeding an increasingly crowded and hungry planet. Dishes like grasshopper gumbo and pasta with crickets may not be crawling onto the menu at your local restaurant any time soon, but backers of bug cuisine say switching from cattle to insect ranching would dramatically lower the world's carbon emissions. With climate change having the potential to collapse the food supply, we may all need to acquire a taste for the small fry. (Read more food stories.) See 2 more photos Report an error


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James Mirtle broke this one a few minutes ago
Can't say this one necessarily comes as a surprise, now can we? I will admit though, it is kinda funny considering Sydor provided some analysis during last night's game from the press box after being a healthy scratch for yet another game.
All in all I have to say this works out for the Pens. Sydor was tired of playing here and I think the fans were tired of seeing him sit. I never saw anything wrong with Sydor's playing abilities and frankly I think the Penguins were better when he was on the ice. Sure, his offensive contributions weren't what you call Norris worthy, but that wasn't his job. When it came to a scrum in the corners, Sydor always came out clean and often with the puck. Not a lot of undersized defenseman can say that's the case.
Either way, Sydor returns from whence he came prior to the Penguins picking him up in 2007.
As for Boucher, it's been rumored that he's been off his game ever since getting banged up last season with a shoulder injury, piled on top a long history of injuries.
As Mirtle puts it:
[Sydor] has a long history with the Stars organization, and that's likely why they make the move, but the Penguins get the best player in this deal.
Both players make $2.5-million this season and will be UFAs in July. Boucher's a year younger at 35 but has battled injuries far more than Sydor in his career.
As far as I'm concerned this is a good move. Sydor was miserable since last season when Therrien kept scratching him from the lineup and continued to do so through the playoffs. I'm sure the promotions of Alex Goligoski and Kris Letang to the top line while Gonchar and Whitney hit the IR didn't do much for morale either. If Boucher is happy with providing depth on the roster then all the better.


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Face it, you're addicted to your cell phone.
Just stop and think for a moment how many times you check it every day. Studies show ON AVERAGE once every 12 minutes...about 80 times a day!
This addiction is making it so people aren't engaging with one another anymore, students are distracted, you're too busy at a concert taking photos or video that you're not just enjoying the event fully.
Graham Dugoni imagined a world where there were 'phone-free' events and people would live an experience in the moment and engage with each other.
So, he decided to do something about it.
He took $15,000 and spent a year and a half perfecting his idea and coming up with a prototype.
When he took his idea and prototype to Silicon Valley investors to get financial backing ...they laughed him out of the room.
So, he turned to family and friends, raised enough money to bring his product to market himself, within six months, his company was turning a profit and getting people talking....literally!
Today, hundreds of thousands of his Yondr bags and unlocking devices are used at more than 600 schools across the country, as well as concerts, sporting events, medical facilities, courthouses and other venues.
And it's not just the U.S., schools and venues in Australia and Europe also use Yondr products.
So... who's laughing now?
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Your life is too busy to cook and or eat healthy? Well, I guess you can say my life is probably too busy too, yet I manage to still eat nothing but whole foods with zero sugar or processed meals, and I faithfully dedicate time for exercise. And guess what, besides being a wellness and fitness author, I am also a full time trucker who delivers construction and industrial supplies through out the state of Kansas. My route is 950 miles with 8 stops and I will deliver between 35,000 to 40, 000 pounds of freight every trip out. I will leave out on the road tonight about midnight and return sometime around 7pm tomorrow evening. Then I will be back out Wednesday night, return Thursday when I will get reloaded to head back out until Friday evening and then I will be right back out on the road Saturday.
Tonight is not a normal run because of the end of the month, so next week it will be the normal Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday runs. Even with this busy schedule I still make time for the gym to lift weights 3 days per week, and I will go out for good brisk walks 2 to 3 days per week. Sometimes, I will walk laps around our terminal grounds while I am waiting on my semi to be reloaded. Also, to add to my busy schedule, I have to study up in order to test and renew my HazMat endorsement when I renew my Class A CDL in a couple weeks. No matter what is going on in my life, I get my exercise in. I treat this as a responsibility with the same importance as my job. No excuses, ever.
This seems almost like it does not need said, but I know there are many who struggle with pre-planning their lives. When we do not plan ahead and prepare for a busy life it only creates unneeded chaos. I hate chaos and refuse to live my life in a chaotic manner. For the rest of the week, I will be somewhat short on time so I have pre-cooked chicken breasts for meals for the week. I understand everyone gets overwhelmed with being busy at times, but let me leave you with this thought;
If you have the time to cook a piece of meat, and you will have to clean up behind yourself of course. Does it not stand to good reason to go ahead and cook ahead for a few days in order to reduce clean up time and time spent cooking later in the week? I have chicken breast cooked now to eat on until the weekend, and I only had to clean one pan and the rest of the week will only involve reheating as needed.
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Interest cover
Interest cover is an affordability test. It compares the profit before tax (PBT) figure to interest charged in the profit and loss account.
If you plan to lend money to someone, you want to know they will be able to pay you back. The interest cover ratio (also known as the debt service ratio) is one way to measure the ability of a company to continue to meet its interest payments on any debt it has incurred.
The interest cover ratio matters to equity investors because shareholders are the last in the queue in terms of claims on assets if a company goes bust. If a company is struggling to repay its debts then any ongoing dividend payments are likely to come under threat as resources are diverted to repay creditors.
To calculate the ratio you simply take earnings before interest and tax (Ebit), or earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda), usually over a year, then divide by the interest costs incurred over the same period. The resulting ratio tells you how many times over a company could afford to pay the interest on its debts. For example, if a company has Ebit of £500,000, and interest costs of £250,000, then the interest cover ratio is two. The higher the ratio, the easier it is for the company to meet its repayments; a low ratio may well be a warning sign.
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So what makes for a good interest cover ratio? A ratio of below one is clearly bad news it means the company's current earnings aren't sufficient to cover its interest payments. Otherwise, as with most financial ratios, it's worth comparing ratios with those of the peer group.
Companies with reliable, consistent cashflows such as utility companies, or big pharmaceutical groups should be able to sustain a higher level of debt because their revenues are more predictable. So a lower ratio might be fine here. Cyclical companies those whose business fluctuates with the fortunes of the economy and other companies with poorer revenue visibility (ie unpredictable sales) might only be able to safely sustain lower debts, so you would be looking for a higher ratio.
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We are LAEF
Established July 2005
The Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance (LAEF) was established in July 2005 to address important questions on growth and fluctuations in national, or aggregate, economies. LAEF is directed by Professor Finn Kydland, Jeffrey Henley Professor of Economics, and is located in a suite of offices in the vicinity of the Economics Department. Five leading macroeconomists from outside UCSB serve as advisors to LAEF, their charge being the identification of timely economic questions, issues and/or anomalies which may be addressed in a conference or workshop setting. In addition to sponsoring conferences and workshops, the Laboratory provides an environment in which to conduct topical research in quantitative aggregate theory by resident and short-term visiting scholars.
What We Do
For each activity under the auspices of LAEF, we aim to maintain a clear focus on a particular question or anomaly or puzzle. That is what will produce new findings and clarify where the profession stands on the respective issues. The activities may include:
- Workshops in which about ten scholars from anywhere in the world spend one-to-two weeks. During that period, the participants make occasional presentations, but the focus will be on working on aspects of the issue at hand while in residence.
- Extremely focused two-to-three-day conferences with five or six presentations per day. The number of outside participants may be 15-20.
- An environment in which two or three researchers (one of whom could be from UCSB) get together for anywhere from a week to a month or more (in some cases, possibly as part of a sabbatical) to work on a particular question or issue.
- Postdocs (and, under some circumstances, possibly even predocs) spending time at LAEF.
- Making modern research findings and approaches accessible in the class room, especially at undergraduate and master's levels. Such efforts may build upon the progress already made in co-operation with the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen. So far, they fully support a closed-economy real-business-cycle model, with ability for students to produce tables of business-cycle statistics for data and model, along with plots of impulse responses. On a more limited basis, they also support an open-economy model, which adds focus on aggregates such as the terms of trade and the trade balance.
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Filed under "Where the hell have you been all my life?" are Churro Ice Cream Sandwiches. Brought to us by Churro Borough in Los Angeles, the ubiquitous churro is rolled into a flat spiral and used to sandwich a scoop of ice cream.
Current flavors include; Horchata with a homemade rice-and-almond-milk ice cream, Mexican hot chocolate, orange creamsicle and berry panna cotta.
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Honda drivers Dan Cammish and Matt Neal are eager to get back behind the wheel of their Halfords Yuasa Racing cars as the 2020 British Touring Car Championship finally gets underway.
Delayed four months by the Covid-19 pandemic, the series will begin on Sunday 2 August at Donington Park in Leicestershire, with the drivers racing again just one week later at Brands Hatch in Kent.
Teams will twice-more face the challenge of racing on successive weekends over the revamped nine-event championship, before the series reaches its climax on 15 November. The finale, again at Brands Hatch, notably more than a month later than teams are used to, will present new challenges racing in the colder conditions of late Autumn.
During the delay, the Halfords Yuasa Racing squad has been working hard to further develop its Honda Civic Type R FK8 race cars. Everyone in the team is aiming to improve on a highly competitive 2019 season, in which Cammish took two race victories and came within a lap of winning the BTCC drivers' title at the final round.
Cammish set competitive times at the BTCC's first official test post lockdown on 7/8 July, despite wet weather affecting much of the track time at Snetterton in Norfolk. Team-mate Neal concentrated on development work – one advantage of the delayed start has been the extra recovery time the three-time BTCC champion has enjoyed following an off-season mountain biking accident that briefly hospitalised him.
Now both Neal and Cammish are raring to go and hunt race wins at Donington.
"It is a weird scenario we find ourselves in," said Neal. "I haven't raced in anger since October but the delay has obviously helped me with my recuperation from my mountain bike accident, and I'm glad to say I'm now fighting fit and can't wait to go racing.
"It is going to be pretty frenetic this season with a number of back-to-back weekends, so the guys have been working really hard on spares packages and fully liveried panels as we'll have limited time to make those changes. But I have to praise BTCC organiser TOCA in managing to pull together a near-full calendar of racing. Mind you it will be a bit chilly come the final rounds in November!"
"With the season delayed I, like a number of other drivers, have turned my attention to the virtual racing world, and boy is that tough and highly competitive, but it's been a great way of keeping my eye in," said Cammish. "I've been doing a lot of training whilst I've been off and really got into my e-biking.
"Our Honda Civic Type R FK8 felt sharp at the official test at Snetterton and we hope to hit the ground running. It's going to be a demanding few months both physically and mentally with the condensed season. But I'm just glad to go racing, it's what I live for, so I'm raring to go…"
Rounds 1-3 of the 2020 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship are due to take place at Donington Park, Leicestershire on 1/2 August.


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A classic, instantly recognisable with it's broad outer elastic band and smooth chunky nubuck-style leather.
This is the pocketable A6 size version.
Incredibly well made (in Germany) and very hard-wearing, we have seen 10-year old Taschenbegleiters, still going strong and looking fantastic. Roterfaden will repair them and offers a replacement service for worn out parts, such as elastics on geriatric Taschenbegleiters.
The clips are the heart of the system:
1 — Lift upper and lower clips.
2 — Insert booklet or loose papers.
3 — Close clips. Done.
Robust: stainless steel made in Germany
Flexibility: can hold ROTERFADEN booklets as well as sketches, brochures, magazines, passports and exercise books to name just a few alternatives.
No need to punch holes in them.
The clips are easy to open (lift) and close (lower) using just your fingertips.
Compatibility: TASCHENBEGLEITER Generous A6 is compatible with the DIN A6 format.
Use clips as bookmarks: just insert them between the right pages.
Space-saving: The clips »disappear« between the pages. This makes much better use of available space compared to conventional ring bound organisers.
The Bestseller can take a lot of contents including tablet computers, notebooks and much more.
See our Youtube channel for how-to videos.
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