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I have been reorganizing the shibuya246.com Site recently and adding a number of new features. Some of you may already have noticed a few of the changes.
I thought it would be worthwhile logging the updates and explaining what is now available as we get to the end of the 2009 year.
You can see a number of new areas to take a look at here.
- Amazon CoolPicks
In the top right hand corner of the site, if you are logged in you can see a featured post from the "Amazon Japan Cool Picks" corner which is being written by shibuya246, kimonobox and others.
- Member Comments
The most recent member comments can be viewed easily on the front page. These comments will refresh every 5 minutes if you leave the page open. You can either click on the members name to see their profile on the shibuya246.com site or click on the comment to go to their comment in the post.
Also to the right of the comments you can see the 246 road sign showing Aoyama-dori. You can find out more about Route 246 here.
- Twitter Updates
Many of you already follow me on Twitter @Shibuya246. This box on the shibuya246.com Site lets you get a quick look at the latest tweets.
- Amazon Japan Cool Picks
The Amazon Japan Cool Picks is written by shibuya246, kimonobox and other friends. Our aim is to share with you some of the cool items on Amazon Japan. If you want to order from Amazon Japan but don't have a Japanese address, we can help you place an order and get delivery overseas.
kimonobox has been working hard to put together some cool discoveries from Amazon which might interest you.
Member Login, Building a community on shibuya246.com
For the last few months you have needed to register as a member in order to leave comments on the Site. This was to cut down on the amount of spam and also to help build a community. It has been great to see 300 people register on the Site and the community exchange of views and interests starting to take off.
The post article may be the initial point of discussion, but it is always gratifying to see members exchanging ideas back and forward with each other in the comments section.
Member Profiles
It is now possible to edit your member profile, adding in details of other social networks you belong to. (#1) Currently included are flickr, youtube, facebook and twitter. What other networks would people like to be able to include?
Once you have registered and updated your profile, your profile page will show a list of those networks so others can easily follow you (#1), your most interesting photos from flickr, via flickriver (#2), your recent tweets on twitter (#3) and a selection of your saved favorite posts and comments (#4) from the shibuya246.com Site.
Your profile page can be accessed by clicking on the avatar from the comments section, or on the top menu bar. You can also directly access your profile page by typing into the address bar http://shibuya246.com/user/xxxxx where xxxxxx is your username on the shibuya246.com Site.
Saving Favorite Posts
At the bottom of each post (#1) there is a place to click if you want to save a post as a Favorite. You can then view your Favorites list on the profile page.
You can also share this post with others on reddit, twitter and facebook through the icons shown in #2 above. I really appreciate those who are helping with this as we are increasing readers everyday by people sharing the content. Thank you, thank you ^_^.
Member Comments
Seeing comments on the Site is one of the most rewarding parts of writing. Being able to keep in touch with regular readers and have a discussion is fantastic.
To give you more ways to express your opinion, I added recently, a function for you to upload your photos within the comments.
It was great to see a few photos of okonomiyaki appearing straight away on the Japan Festival Post, as well as some nice cat photos on the Roppongi Cats post. Does everyone like the photos in the comments? Should I organize an automatic size reducer?
Another function now in the comment section is the ability to subscribe to comments so you can see replies by email. You can also see the other social networks that members are joined to if they save them in their profile (#1). You can see I have my flickr, youtube, facebook and twitter account saved in and clickable (#2,#3).
At the bottom of the comments, you can see some avatars for those who have tweeted the post. Tweets are a great way of helping to share the content with others.
Cookies, Login keeps logging out
Some people, including myself, have had problems staying logged in on the Site. I am trying to resolve the problem with the cookies. If you are experiencing this problem can you let me know so I can try and fix it.
What's Next?
There are many other areas I am still working on in the Site, including the ability to register and login with your Twitter or Facebook account. I hope to have some progress on that early next year.
What other features or content would you like to see on the Site? What can be done to make the viewing experience more enjoyable?


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Branding is the personalising of products to ensure a balance between various economic values. In order to sustain in the market, it is important for the creation of a brand image. Originally referred to a piece of burning wood, it later came to be known as mark to be cast on cattle with a hot rod to place ownership. Over time branding has gone onto build value for the company by providing a visual medium to identify it from its competitors to create consumer loyalty. A brand does not necessarily mean a product or company; it can also mean a service, product or person that has a personality of its own.
Today's global market witnesses a volatile competition. The purpose of branding is to create markers to differentiate from the plethora of brands that have taken over the market. Companies create slogans, mascots, logos, advertisements and jingles to promote their brands and not just their products. These elements are used to create a connect with the target consumer base by giving the company a personality. Branding is an important feature of any business and is a vital part of their marketing strategy. It determines how people perceive the company. Apart from consumers the view of the employees of the organisation towards their company creates a sense of belonging and fulfilment.
Just like evolving trends branding too is unpredictable, as what worked last year, may not necessarily work this year. With the dawn of the Digital age the channel of branding too has changed and has encompassed the social media domain. The millennial consumers value brands that support causes and value what they value and hence are ready to pay more for these brands.
An effective and comprehensive branding strategy helps the product and its company to sustain in the market. It also provides strongest competitive advantage for the manufacturer as well as for the retailer. (www.newportworldresorts.com)
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A one eyed alien is the loneliest alien that you ever knew. Buy these Alien X Ray Markers they need a friend.
- Standard artwork is shown. No Other artwork can be chosen for this set.
- Durable metal casing adds density and improves the image
- Letters are completely embedded in epoxy
- Dimensions: 1 ¼ Round
- With up to 3 Initials. Use a period for Without Initials
- A right marker and a left marker make up a set; However, some sets can be selected as a Right marker doubled or the Left marker doubled to make a set.
- All lead markers are custom made after they are ordered. Returns are not allowed.


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Articles about Falklands
Falklands: European Parliament Confirms No Reason to Remain in EU
by The Editor
Given the intense debate on EU membership in the United Kingdom, one would expect European institutions to make a determined effort to show British voters that it is indeed in their interest to remain part of this organization. However, for the Continental elites, EU membership, and what they grandly call "European integration" is not something on which one may have a rational, democratic debate, in order to freely choose whether to take part. Instead, it is more akin to a cult or religion
The Falklandization of the Senkaku Islands And Britain's Moral Standing In The World
by The Editor
By Alex Calvo. The Falklands may lie in a different ocean, and thousands of miles away, from the Senkaku Islands, but in addition to also being claimed by another country, the latter have recently provided a reminder of what went wrong in the South Atlantic in the decades leading to the 1982 Argentine invasion.


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In my previous article I reviewed the basic concepts of Conservation Arboriculture. Two key points presented in that article were: the duty of care is squarely on the owner of the tree, and the perfect image of a young vigorous growing tree is as flawed as society's obsession with youth. We are finding out that life doesn't end at 40 or 65 and older people are vigorous, , continuing to make significant contributions way beyond mid life! Similarly for certain long lived tree species the benefits they provide to the environment and community increase exponential as they age. Simply put a tree that is twice as old will provide four times the benefits. Here is an site that allows you to calculate the approximate value of the benefits your tree provides each year to you and your community. You will be surprised and don't forget this is just for one tree.
We are all familiar with the figure of the young mature tree with arching branches gracefully reaching to the sky.
This is the picture we usually have in our minds when we think of a tree.
What we are not thinking of is the gnarled trunk and stubby branches of the veteran tree.
The silhouette of a young vigorous tree makes it all to easy to write off an older declining tree as " hazardous" or not worth the risk of keeping it.
I'm an advocate of planting, this is a key part of any tree plan however I have long been a proponent of saving trees. What we need to do is realize that the veteran tree is alive and providing tremendous benefits. Older trees provide habitat for an enormous variety of living beings contributing greatly to the diversity of the forest. Birds, mammals, insects, spiders, plants, fungi and microbes all live and develop webs of inter-connectivity in Veteran Trees.
If you have ever walked in a tree plantation with even aged trees the lack of diversity will be immediately apparent. Tree plantations and working trees have their place and are valuable. They typically are not very biologically diverse environments. Studies have shown an ancient tree in a forest grove may have 90% of the biological diversity in the whole grove.
We need to take a close look at the Veteran Tree with an eye on preservation rather than simply on hazard reduction.
As trees age they begin to die back from the tips, creating stout thick branches and stems with numerous adventitious sprouts that look grizzled and somewhat bizarre. This doesn't mean the tree is beyond hope! Its a natural response to aging.
Take the time to look at Veteran Trees, see how they have adapted and continued to survive. Recognize the beauty of the Veteran Tree. If you have an aged tree, take the time to contact and ISA Certified Arborist who specializes in conservation arboriculture and have them examine your Veteran Tree. You may save and old friend.


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Reviews are about more than just whether a product is good or bad.
They serve another important function: Reviews let existing customers guide new customers to the right product. If people buy the right stuff, you get happier customers and fewer returns.
Sometimes you need more than a 1-to-5 star rating system. Bazaarvoice* and the other review tech providers offer interesting options that focus on issues that are more important to certain customers. Example: Lilly Pulitzer asks customer to "Rate the Fit" of each item.
Figure out what causes your new shoppers to buy the wrong thing and let existing customers help them out.
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Author Gail Gauthier's Reflections On Books, Writing, Humor, And Other Sometimes Random Things
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Come On, Enough With The Eye Rolling.
I've read YA book after YA book with characters rolling their eyes over this and that. It is so intrusive to the story. It stops the narrative flow while the reader goes, "What? Didn't somebody just do that? Is it this guy, again? Or was it that cheerleader? Or the other cheerleader?"
If a writer is going to use a gesture like eye rolling, it should be defining of a character in some way, the way using obscenity should define a character. But if all the characters roll their eyes or say ##@!, no one is defined. And if one character rolls her eyes and shouts ##@! regularly, it becomes less defining and more annoying.
Seriously, has anyone ever seen someone roll his or her eyes? I can't recall it. I don't think I can physically do it. I'm sure someone will argue it is a teenage thing. I don't remember seeing it from any teenager I've known. Okay, some shifting of eyes back and forth, but a real eye roll? What is that, even?
If characters have good enough dialogue, they don't need to be doing anything with their eyes. And if they don't have good enough dialogue, nothing you can do with any part of their faces will save the situation.
So let's give eye rolling a rest. Please.
2 comments:
- Ms. Yingling said...
Students roll their eyes ALL the time! It's looking at the ceiling, then looking sideways. Not that we need to read about it more than once or twice in a book.
- Gail Gauthier said...
Perhaps I have lost my eye flexibility.
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Don't Be So Darn Nice: Why Talking About the Hard Stuff Is Even More Important Than You Thought
Issue 54 — June 15, 2018
Riffing on Dante, my friend Jill and I used to speculate on what our personal levels of hell would be. Pervasive niceness was her deepest level of hellaciousness. She described it as a place where tough or controversial issues were never discussed and she would have to be blandly agreeable at all times. It would be terminally boring, she said; to her, that would be a fate worse than death.
As it turns out, when too much niceness takes the form of avoiding difficult conversations, it's not just boring. It is detrimental to relationships and productivity in the workplace.
Embracing those conversations as a positive tool whose energy powers us forward to better solutions can make the difference between the organization that innovates successfully and one that stagnates in a culture of enforced amiability.
I'm not advocating for people to be deliberately unkind to one another. I am saying that it's not kindness to withhold an honest opinion, or to shy away from sharing facts that could lead to better outcomes in order to avoid conflict.
Language is power.
Styles of language — the way we use it and our choices of what we talk about — are rooted in power.
Nowhere is this more evident than communication between men and women from the bedroom to the boardroom.
20 years ago, Deborah Tannen's work on linguistic gender differences in her book You Just Don't Understand and John Gray's Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus got popular culture buzzing that men and women speak different languages and that causes conflict.
Is that true, and if so, what part of it is implicit bias-driven cultural learning that limits us? And what part is resistance to having the hard conversations across any divides that exist, whether of gender, culture, or life experience?
How have today's #metoo and TimesUp movements challenged us to explore those divides and to tackle questions we've resisted about roles, relationships, race, privilege, power, and — gasp — sex?
And on the other side of the equation, how empowering have those conversations been for those who have experienced harassment or abuse? How have the astringent rays of sunshine purified and healed a long-festering sore? Isn't it a huge relief to put ugly secrets out in the open and have real, authentic conversations about them?
An NBC survey in March found 51% believe that reports about sexual assault have helped address the gender gap. That's significant. And the same dynamics apply to solving any complex problem in a way that creates sustainable change.
The Business Value of Bringing Everyone into the Conversation
Scilla Elworthy calls conflict "transformation": a positive process in which everyone grows.
Writing in Fast Company, Knowlarity CTO Ajay Shrivastava suggests that the management tactic of avoiding hitting the controversy head-on by papering over differences of opinions and seeking compromise instead of the best solutions does a disservice to the company's strategic alignment. It ultimately slows down progress, though it may seem to take more time to work through the differences at the outset.
In a diverse workplace, it can be tempting to avoid confronting differences rather than address gendered communication styles that may deter women in particular from actively engaging in conversations where their voices are not heard. Heaven knows, she might cry or something!
Women of color experience a double burden of being disregarded and undervalued, as Dr. Katherine Giscombe, Vice President and Women of Color Practitioner at Catalyst, shared from her groundbreaking study, "Women of Color in Corporate Management: Opportunities and Challenges" on my Virtual Happy Hour last week.
A report from Murray Edwards College in Cambridge, England on gender differences and behaviors at work concluded: "Women continue to report that they commonly experience behaviors and assumptions from male peers and bosses in the workplace that frustrate them and impede promotion by merit. These behaviors include being interrupted and talked over in meetings and being sidelined from many informal conversations where decisions are often really made."
Take The Lead's editorial director Michele Weldon concludes that engaging in difficult conversations is necessary to shift a workplace culture to one where everyone can contribute their best.
Fierce Conversations is a training company that teaches organizations how to have effective conversations, including the tough ones. They've recently done a survey in which they found that while people are talking with their friends and families about movements such as #BlackLivesMatter and #metoo, they are far less likely to touch on those issues in the workplace. On the positive side, the survey found that younger workers and women were more likely to discuss these topics and that employees, in general, feel more empowered to do so
I had a chance to interview Stacey Engle, Executive Vice President at Fierce, who told me that a common barrier to addressing inequality in the workplace is being "too nice."
She gave the example of a Fierce client, CHRISTUS Health, where executives felt their organization had developed a culture of being too "nice." As a result, their associates were mistaking the company value of compassion with avoiding difficult conversations and constructive feedback.
When CHRISTUS implemented four specific skills: delegation, team conversations, confrontation, and coaching, employees were able to overcome fear and address issues directly instead of avoiding difficult conversations. They were then able to transition away from simply being "nice" to feeling equipped to have meaningful, effective conversations.
In our aforementioned Virtual Happy Hour, my guest Dr. Michael Kimmel, an author, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Stony Brook, and leading expert on men and masculinities, wrapped it up succinctly when he said men need to listen more and women need to speak up more in order to have those productive conversations.
Now wouldn't that be nice?
GLORIA FELDT is the New York Times bestselling author of several books including No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, a sought-after speaker and frequent contributor to major news outlets, and the Co-Founder and President of Take The Lead. People has called her "the voice of experience," and among the many honors she has been given, Vanity Fair called her one of America's "Top 200 Women Legends, Leaders, and Trailblazers," and Glamour chose her as a "Woman of the Year." As co-founder and president of Take The Lead, a leading women's leadership nonprofit, her mission is to achieve gender parity by 2025 through innovative trainingprograms, workshops, a groundbreaking 50 Women Can Change The Worldimmersive, online courses, a free weekly newsletter, and events including a monthly Virtual Happy Hour program and a Take The Lead Day symposium that reached over 400,000 women globally in 2017.


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A&E and the New York TV Festival seeking treatments for original unscripted TV shows
A&E Network and the New York Television Festival are back with the second installment of an innovative program seeking original unscripted television treatments from independent producers and doc production companies. The top 25 treatments will be reviewed by the network; one winner will receive $10,000 and the opportunity to participate in the production of a pilot based on their concept.
To submit:
The A&E network is seeking submissions that focus on big characters in exciting and fresh worlds that are highly entertaining and of the moment. Producers must include:
* A short treatment (1-2 pages) describing their original unscripted format
* A brief video (2-4 minutes) introducing the subject(s).
* 25 semi-finalists will be presented to A&E development executives. All semi-finalists are invited to participate in the 2012 New York Television Festival, Oct 22-27, as Official Artists (details below).
* Five finalists, selected by A&E, will receive notes on their projects and $2,500 to shoot additional tape.
* One winner, selected by A&E, will be awarded $10,000 and the opportunity to participate in pilot production.
Submission Period Opens: Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Final Deadline: Tuesday, April 3, 2012 (noon)
Free to enter.
Visit: http://www.nytvf.com/2012_ae_pipeline.html
Additional opportunities for Semi-Finalists:
Official Semi-Finalists will be invited to participate as Official Artists at the 2012 New York Television Festival in NYC in October, with exclusive access to:
*Participate in NYTVF Pitch, offering guaranteed development deals from:
- Bio Channel
- Hasbro Studios
- Logo
- SevenOne International
- Sundance Channel
- Channel 4
More info here: http://www.nytvf.com/2012_pitch.html
*Network, meet and collaborate with over forty U.S.-based television networks, studios, agencies, fellow TV creators and MORE.
Full details about the NYTVF Artist Experience here: http://www.nytvf.com/artists.html
Want to participate in these exclusive Artist-Only programs? Only NYTVF Official Artists are invited to take part, so submit to one of NYTVF's current initiatives now!
NYTVF is also accepting entries to:
The 8th annual Independent Pilot Competition. Win guaranteed deals from the following US network partners:
- IFC ($25,000 deal for alternative comedy)
- MTV ($10,000 deal for comedy)
- VH1 ($5,000 deal for non-scripted, docu-series, factual, etc)
Submit original indie TV pilots or web series in ANY genre, 4-22 minutes in length
*Final deadline: June 29, 2012
More info here: http://www.nytvf.com/2012_ipc.html
Questions? Email
About the New York Television Festival:
The New York Television Festival was founded in 2005 as the industry's first creative festival for television artists. The NYTVF works in partnership with networks, studios, brands and agencies to more effectively and efficiently deliver the best projects and showcase the most promising artists.


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My approach to conducting an interview is influenced by Playboy. Growing up, I flipped through the men's magazine, occasionally hiding it underneath my pillow, and I liked the magazine's fresh, candid, and intellectual editorial content. During the 2000 presidential campaign, I was asked to interview each candidate for the Philadelphia Inquirer. I've since interviewed many artists, intellectuals, and business leaders, including Sydney Pollack, Dick Cook, Vincent Bugliosi, John McCain, George W. Bush, David Halberstam, and Olivia Newton-John.
Texas Governor George W. Bush (1999)
Published September 26, 1999 in the Los Angeles Daily News
A brief, 15-minute interview has been scheduled, taking place in the middle of a large, empty ballroom with two chairs and a couple of plants, while a team of assorted aides, performing a symphony with cell phones and pagers, watches and listens.
John Stossel of ABC News (1998)
Published May 23, 1998 in the Los Angeles Daily News
ABC News reporter John Stossel, who practices advocacy journalism, established himself as a unique voice in television reporting when he became a correspondent for ABC's 20/20. The former consumer editor for Good Morning America began to anchor a series of popular TV specials in which he challenges widely accepted notions and sacred assumptions on both the right and the left. Stossel, 51, generally presents the relevant facts of an issue before he peppers the viewer with bold questions about work, science, love, sex, happiness and death. Stossel, who has won 19 Emmy Awards, was interviewed at ABC News in New York.
Robert Benton on The Human Stain
Posted November 26, 2003
Army veteran Benton's intense interest in people—their emotions, their thoughts, their actions—is evident in the tremendous scope of his career, from his dramatizations of divorce (the 1979 Oscar-winning Best Picture, Kramer vs. Kramer) and widowhood (Places in the Heart) to his stories of a heavy-drinking grandfather (Nobody's Fool) and his adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's Billy Bathgate.
Robert Benton on Feast of Love
Posted October 7, 2007
At a coastal hotel lobby during a recent visit to southern California, writer and director Robert Benton (Kramer Vs. Kramer, Nobody's Fool, The Human Stain) talked with me about his new picture, the romantic ensemble piece Feast of Love, featuring Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear and Jane Alexander. Mr. Benton, interviewed before the movie opened, discussed certain scenes, the cast and his thoughts on love.
Alexandre Desplat on The King's Speech
Posted January 20, 2011
Composer Alexandre Desplat recently spoke with me from Paris about his new score for The King's Speech. He has scored some of Hollywood's best motion pictures, including Casanova, The Upside of Anger, The Queen, The Painted Veil, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. We talked about them all during our interview.
Robert Osborne on Liza Minnelli
Posted December 9, 2010
The incomparable singer and actress Liza Minnelli, winner of the Oscar®, Emmy®, Grammy®, and four Tony Awards®, sits down with Turner Classic Movies (TCM) host Robert Osborne in one of his best interviews yet for a new Private Screenings special, scheduled to premiere Saturday, Dec. 11, at 10 p.m. (ET/PT). They discuss the lives and careers of Minnelli's legendary parents, Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli. Read more >>
Alan Menken on Disney's Tangled
Posted November 13, 2010
Alan Menken is, as his official biography states, among the Walt Disney Studio's most prolific composers. The New Rochelle, New York native co-wrote Aladdin's romantic "A Whole New World," Pocahontas's sweeping "Colors of the Wind," and dozens of memorable songs for Disney's animated classics The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). Menken recently talked to me about his work for Disney's new animated picture, Tangled, based on the children's story of Rapunzel. Read more >>
Alejandro Amenabar on Agora
Posted May 30, 2010
Director Amenabar, whom I first met and interviewed at the Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard to discuss his haunting, Oscar-winning The Sea Inside in 2004, talked briefly with me about Agora from Spain during an interview by telephone. The South American-born composer, writer and director, who speaks in a thick Spanish accent, talked about Agora's ideas. Read more >>
Alejandro Amenabar on The Sea Inside: The Young Man and the Sea
Posted May 27, 2010
Making an uplifting movie about a man who wants to die was a challenge Alejandro Amenabar couldn't resist. After the fantasies Open Your Eyes (remade as Vanilla Sky) and The Others, the 32-year-old writer, director and composer chose a more intimate—and controversial—subject for his latest picture, The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro in Spanish). He started with the basics.
Chinese CinderellaFalling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
At first glance, Adeline Yen Mah's life would seem perfect; her father was wealthy, she grew up in bustling Hong Kong, and she was sent to live in London when she was admitted into medical school at the age of 14. Later, she married for love, had two children, a successful career in medicine, and she became chief of anesthesia at a California hospital. Read more >>
Robert Mayhew on We the Living
Robert Mayhew, a philosophy professor at Seton Hall University, is the author of Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Republic, The Female in Aristotle's Biology, and Ayn Rand and Song of Russia, and the editor of Ayn Rand's Marginalia, Ayn Rand's The Art of Nonfiction, Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living, Essays on Ayn Rand's Anthem, Ayn Rand Answers, Essays on Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, and Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. His latest book, Plato: Laws 10, was published by Oxford University Press in 2008. Dr. Mayhew earned his PhD in philosophy at Georgetown University in 1991. Read more >>
John Porter
Posted March 25, 2009
John Porter was a U.S. Congressman from Illinois for 21 years, serving on the powerful Appropriations Committee, and as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. All government health agencies and programs, except military and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and all government education agencies and programs were under the jurisdiction of his subcommittee. Before his election to Congress, he served in the Illinois House of Representatives. Today, Mr. Porter, named by a magazine as one of Washington's "top 50 lobbyists", serves as a partner in the Washington, DC, law firm Hogan & Hartson. This interview focuses on John Porter's thoughts about science. Read more >>
Earl Hamner
Posted February 12, 2009
Best known as the creator and producer of the long-running CBS series The Waltons, Earl Hamner's work ranges from his early screenplays for Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone to his script for the 1973 animated musical adaptation of E.B. White's children's novel, Charlotte's Web. The 83-year-old bestselling writer sat down to talk about remaking Charlotte's Web, his new book, and his classic television movie, The Homecoming, at his office in Studio City, California. Read more >>
HSA Bank President Kirk Hoewisch
Posted February 8, 2009
The year was 1901 and someone in Howards Grove, Wisconsin, observed that the first automobile to appear in town was driven by a man from nearby Sheboygan. A century later, the town is making its mark on another new vehicle—which has the potential to revolutionize how one pays for medical treatment. It is the Health Savings Account (HSA)—widely available to most Americans in the growing money-for-medicine movement—and this Midwestern town's bank is playing a prominent, if unlikely, role in advancing the radically free market-oriented idea. Read more >>
Thomas Carter
Posted January 31, 2009
Known for his movies about daring individualists, director Thomas Carter (Coach Carter, Save the Last Dance, Swing Kids) turns to the story of America's first doctor to successfully separate craniopagus (Siamese) twins in a Turner Network Television (TNT) original movie, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story. The movie premieres at 8 p.m., Saturday, February 7. Read more >>
Robert Osborne on Ernest Borgnine
Posted January 23, 2009
Since Turner Classic Movies (TCM) premiered on cable television in 1994, Robert Osborne has been the host and anchor. A writer for the Hollywood Reporter since 1977, Mr. Osborne, author of 80 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards, covers movies, TV and Broadway. His newest interview, an hour with character actor Ernest Borgnine (Marty), airs on Private Screenings at 8 p.m. ET, Monday, January 26.
Robert Osborne on Katharine Hepburn (2007)
Posted January 23, 2009
In honor of the centenary of Katharine Hepburn's birth on May 12, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) host and motion picture historian Robert Osborne talked about the great screen actress, TCM's Star of the Month. Read more >>
Robert Osborne on John Wayne (2007)
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) host and movie historian Robert Osborne talked to me in 2007 about screen legend John Wayne, an actor who represents the iconic American hero.
Turner Classic Movies' Robert Osborne (2006)
Posted January 23, 2009
With Turner Classic Movies' premiere of The Essentials, host Robert Osborne takes over for director Sydney Pollack and, paired with co-host Molly Haskell, will present this season's classic motion pictures. Read more >>
John McCain
Sen. John McCain talked about abortion, altruism and Mother Teresa in my wide-ranging 1999 interview. Read more >>
Walt Disney Pictures Chairman Dick Cook
The Disney studio's top businessman talks about Enchanted, Pirates and Narnia—as well as a fire on the Monorail—in this exclusive interview. Read more >>
Alumni Profile: Amgen's Ed Garnett
This 2000 interview was published as a profile in the alumni magazine for the College of Business Administration & Economics at California State University, Northridge.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Amgen's vice president of human resources Edward F. Garnett attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks and was a member of the last class to graduate from Cal State Northridge's predecessor, San Fernando Valley State College, in 1971. Read more >>
Jack Germond
This 1999 interview was published in the Arizona Republic.
It's easy to spot Jack Germond; most know him as the heavy, liberal columnist whose blunt insights were a regular feature on the lively television program, The McLaughlin Group. Read more >>
Lamar Alexander: Lamar Alexander Emphasizes Individual Liberty
This 1999 interview with Lamar Alexander was published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Los Angeles Daily News, San Jose Mercury News, Arizona Republic, Bangor (Maine) Daily News, and the Casper (Wyoming) Star-Tribune.
Born in Blount County, Tennessee, Lamar Alexander was raised by his schoolteacher parents, who taught in Maryville and sent their son to public schools there. Read more >>
First HSA President William West, M.D.
This 2005 interview was conducted for the non-profit charitable organization Americans for Free Choice in Medicine (AFCM). Mr. Holleran has served as editorial adviser since 1994.
Pennsylvania-based First HSA is a profitable business run by what Ayn Rand called "the forgotten man of socialized medicine": the doctor. Read more >>
Martin Russ
This 2000 article was published in the Hartford Courant, the San Jose Mercury News and Los Angeles Daily News.
Sandwiched between the worldwide upheaval of World War II and the controversial Vietnam War, the Korean War, which lasted from 1950 to 1953, is the forgotten war. Read more >>
Dr. Dean Edell
Variations of this 2001 interview were published in the Hartford Courant, Buffalo News and Los Angeles Daily News.
Before there were Drs. Laura, Ruth, and Drew, there was Dr. Dean—Dr. Dean Edell. At a time when most news networks have a regular stable of on-air doctors—one for every calamity—Edell was a pioneer as one of America's first media doctors. Read more >>
Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio On Pirates of the Caribbean
Originally published by Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo interviews the writers who created Captain Jack Sparrow. Read more >>
Lasse Hallstrom On An Unfinished Life
Originally published by Box Office Mojo
As An Unfinished Lifepremieres on DVD, director Lasse Hallstrom talks about Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez and ABBA. Read more >>
Earl Holliman
Originally published by Box Office Mojo
With Police Woman finally on DVD, Box Office Mojo interviews the 1970s show's co-star, actor Earl Holliman, about his career, his chemistry with Angie Dickinson and the feminist attacks on the sexy show. Read more >>
Christopher Nolan
Originally published by Box Office Mojo
The Batman Begins director discusses comic books, the 1978 Superman and heroism, what makes a blockbuster, James Bond and and watching Mary Poppins with his family.
Chris Van Allsburg Question and Answer with Writer Chris Van Allsburg
Originally published by Box Office Mojo
With Zathura on DVD, the nation's top chidren's book author and illustrator talks about his picture books, including The Polar Express, and the process of making his books into movies. Read more >>
Lasse Hallstrom On What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Originally published by Box Office Mojo
With a new DVD for What's Eating Gilbert Grape starring Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio, director Lasse Hallstrom talks about making the classic small town picture. Read more >>
Michael Paxton Championing the Example of Ayn Rand; Her Sense of Life Inspires Filmmaker
Originally published February 15, 1998 in Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
This month, Ayn Rand appears on the big screen—for the first time since her movie debut. Many people don't know that the author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" arrived in Hollywood as a penniless immigrant from the Soviet Union and was soon cast as an extra in Cecil B. DeMille's 1927 "King of Kings." Read more >>


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G&K Profile
Kenneth N. Ralston
Ken is an associate in both Gallagher & Kennedy's litigation and environmental groups. Ken has substantial litigation experience in complex commercial cases, property disputes, contractual disagreements, and wrongful death and personal injury cases. Ken took the lead on several cases and appeared on behalf of clients in court and mediation at every litigation stage. He strategically assembled crucial motions to dismiss, motions for summary judgment, and motions to exclude opposing experts. Victories on these motions have led to resolutions favorable to his clients, including the exclusion of opposing experts, winning claims on summary judgment, and multi-million dollar settlements in personal injury cases.» Full Bio
- Arizona State University
J.D., summa cum laude, 2017
Order of the Coif
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Patterned Glass
Graphic Glass has a large variety of beautiful patterned and coloured glass to choose from.
Glass Patterns
Each pattern can be coated with opaque, translucent, metallic or pearlescent colours. Metallic and pearlescent finishes especially seem to enhance the patterned effect.
All patterned glass is toughened and in most other aspects patterned glass can be treated the same as plain glass.
Sheet sizes are around 1200 x 2200 mm.
Slump Glass
This is the product of an innovative process to replace traditional architectural glass features such as flat glass, leadlight, glass, glass bricks, timber, plastics and polished metals. Graphic Glass slump glass can be used to enhance or complement modern design materials such as stainless steel, brass and granite.
If toughened it can be used outdoors for instance as an architectural landscape feature. With Slump Glass, Graphic Glass offers possibilities for highly individual design solutions with its unlimited colour range.
Sheet sizes are around 1200 x 2600 mm and 19mm thick. Please note that in certain situations, such as large areas or corners, mutiple strips or sheets may need to be used.


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Domon and the Shuffle Alliance fight Master Asia and the infected Gundam Fighters.
Episode Summary
Domon and Rain meet outside with the Shuffle Alliance among the ruins of Shinjuku. They explain in unison that the Shuffle Alliance is "a group from ancient times whose task is to maintain order in the world of fighting."
A Death Army mobile suit arrives to relay a message from Master Asia to Domon: Go to Tokyo Tower alone and the city's safety will be guaranteed.
Tokyo Tower
Domon heads over to Tokyo Tower and fights Master and the DG cell-infected Gundam Fighters.
The fight escalates and everyone summons their Gundams. The Shuffle Alliance members also join the battle, but find that their attacks have no effect on Chibodee, Argo, George, and Sai Saici. "They are the successors of the Shuffle Alliance," explains Jack of Diamonds.
The Shuffle Alliance members expend their life force to remove the DG cells from their heirs, but at the cost of their lives. Domon attacks Master Gundam with the Shining Finger Sword; Master Asia retreats but Tokyo Tower is destroyed.
I'll start by saying that everything involving the Shuffle Alliance was way, way too contrived. They aren't characters (they don't even have real names!) – they're simply a mechanism to cure Chibodee and the others. Who, by the way, just happen to all be the Shuffle Alliance successors. How does that even work? Is it something they're born with? It's so muddled…and a little bit lazy.
Yet despite these faults, I still enjoy this episode a lot. The word epic gets thrown around a lot these days, but that's how it felt. Domon walking through the long line of Death Army suits is a fantastic visual.
Shout-out to Jack of Diamonds for his classy appearance and the fact that not only is he inseparable from his pipe, but he uses it as a weapon: blowing it makes his mobile suit shoot fire!


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Begonia Lady in Mind
Published Feb 08, 2017Begonia is the solo project of Winnipeg-based singer/songwriter Alexa Dirks. She has been best known as a member of Juno-winning group Chic Gamine, but is quickly generating attention on her own. "Juniper," one of the tracks from her new five-song EP, Lady in Mind, reached number one on CBC Radio 2's Top 20, and other cuts here have similar airplay potential.
Dirks covers wide stylistic terrain here, yet, impressively, the EP never sounds unfocused. "Juniper" is a folk-meets-soul hybrid, while the combination of a sparse arrangement and full-blooded vocals gives "Out of My Head" a neo-gospel feel. The light and jazzy touch of "Lady in Mind" brings Corinne Bailey Rae to mind, while "Hot Dog Stand" is a quieter tune in the folk singer/songwriter vein. Things close out strongly with "I Don't Wanna (Love U)," a bouncy retro-soul cut that again showcases the power of Dirks' voice.
Lyrically, she mines familiar relationship territory, but with enough subtlety to keep things interesting. Sample lyric: "I drink too much, makes me feel like everybody's problems are worse than mine" ("Hot Dog Stand"). If you're seeking out fresh musical voices, keep this lady in mind. (Independent)


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Find Painters & Decorators in Carluke on the Carluke Gazette directory. Get reviews and contact details for each business including phone number, postcode, opening hours and photos.
26 Milton Crescent, Carluke, Lanarkshire, ML8 5AN
31 Beltonfoot Way, Wishaw, Lanarkshire, ML2 0GA
56 Primrose Avenue, Larkhall, Lanarkshire, ML9 1JY
Painters & Decorators -> Painting Contractors
26, Cliveden Drive, Motherwell, ML1 3FU
3 Bartie Gardens, Ashgill, Larkhall, Lanarkshire, ML9 3FB
Unit 1, 42-44 East Main Street, Blackburn, Bathgate, West Lothian, EH47 7QU
43 Barons Road, Motherwell, Lanarkshire, ML1 2NB
15 Main Street, Carnwath, Lanark, Lanarkshire, ML11 8JU
28 Grahamshill Street, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, ML6 7EN
14 Limetree Avenue, Uddingston, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G71 5HE
Flat 4, 26 John Street, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, ML3 7EU
Unit 10 Coatbank Way, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, ML5 3AG
7, Cosy Neuk, Larkhall, ML9 2RH
7 Royellen Avenue, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, ML3 8QH
Flat 6 Bellhaven House 16, Grahamshill St, Airdrie, ML6 7EN
11 Eastwood Drive, Lesmahagow, Lanark, Lanarkshire, ML11 0AG
79 Margaretvale Drive, Larkhall, Lanarkshire, ML9 1EH
91 Bellvue Crescent, Bellshill, Lanarkshire, ML4 3AZ
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- Curfew will remain in effect until 6p tonight (September 11th).
Boil water
- Precautionary boil water advisory issued to customers served by the Bay Lake Estates Water Treatment Plant
- (Monday, September 11, 2017) — Toho Water Authority is issuing a precautionary boil water advisory to customers served by the Bay Lake Estates Water Treatment Plant. The advisory is due to a drop in water pressure. This notice is in effect until rescinded by Toho Water Authority.
- Osceola Schools To Be Closed Monday and Tuesday for Hurricane Irma
- Old Town in Kissimmee is closed Monday Sept 11th & Tuesday Sept. 12th
They will monitor conditions and will reopen when it's safe for everyone.
- Citizen Information Center – 407-742-0000
- Florida Hospital is up and operational as normal.
- Kissimmee utilities has restored over 20,000 customers today and more to come.


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Knitfest 2023 is an exciting weekend Yarn & Fibre Arts Festival held on July 1st – 3rd, 2023, celebrating fibre arts and crafts, embracing the whole community of Maleny. We yarnbomb and decorate the main street of Maleny so the town becomes a centre of art, creativity, yarnbombing, workshops, music, trade stalls and craft markets. It is a magical festival for families to discover new skills, talents and creativity using fibre arts including knitting, crochet, basket weaving, spinning and weaving, felting and lots more.
Knitfest features competitions for community groups, art associations and skilled artisans to decorate trees in our beautiful streetscapes with handmade art installations made of yarn and fibre. There is also several smaller competitions for the Best Beanie, Scarf, Shawls, Tea Cosy etc. There's great prizes too!
This Year's Theme
The theme for this year is "Wild Women".
Please note:
We are Wheelchair and Disability friendly. If you have special needs, please email ahead at email@example.com and we will try to accomodate you.
Although we love our dogs, our venues are government owned buildings and dogs are not allowed in our venues.
About Us
Knitfest is a not For Profit Community Group run by volunteers headed by Festival & Creative Director, Debs Swain. We rely on our wonderful sponsors and Community Grants for funding each year. The Knitfest Yarnbombing Team meet each Tuesday from 10am – 12pm in the Courtyard at the Maleny Neighbourhood Centre, Bicentenary lane, to work on this year's projects to decorate the town during the event. To sponsor the event, donate yarn or knitted/crocheted pieces, please contact email@example.com. There is also a donations box for yarn at the Maleny Credit Union.


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Bench and floor scales
Minebea Intec offers an extensive portfolio of bench and floor scales. Whether you are looking for a scale for simple weighing operations or for applications such as piece counting, filling or checkweighing, you have come to the right place with the leading manufacturer and supplier of weighing and inspection technology. All scales are characterized by precise and fast measuring results, user-friendly operation and high-quality workmanship.
Bench and floor scales product range
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FAQ Bench and Floor Scales
What types of bench and floor scales are available?
Bench and floor scales for industrial use can be divided into different categories: Complete or compact scales contain a display and evaluation unit in addition to the actual load cell or weighing system, on which the weighing results are displayed. Minebea also offers Intec weighing platforms and floor scales, which are used for weighing, but are delivered without a display unit or associated weighing electronics. These can be connected directly to a PC or PLC system via a serial interface. Complete and compact scales can be connected to various peripheral devices or other systems via a variety of serial interfaces, RS 232, RS 485, fieldbus interfaces or Ethernet TCP/IP.
There are also scales that are suitable for special applications, such as the IU pallet scale, which can weigh pallets from 300 to 3,000 kilograms. If particularly precise measurement results are required, Minebea Intec has high-resolution scales in its portfolio, such as the IS (Industry Supreme) weighing platform, with extremely high resolutions of up to 620,000 display steps, thus giving it a greater accuracy and minimising product loss.
Floor scales with large platform areas can either be free-standing on the floor or installed in a pit. With large platform areas, floor scales are particularly suitable for applications where heavy and voluminous loads must be weighed. If the application requires the lowest possible platform height, an IF flat-bed scale is also recommended. These scales can be easily loaded with goods to be weighed, e.g. by means of a lift truck, without the need for pit installation. All bench and floor scales are also available as legal-for-trade versions and/or as versions with Ex approval for use in hazardous areas.
What are the application areas for bench and floor scales?
The areas of application of bench and floor scales usually differ in the place of use and the maximum loads: Tabletop scales are intended for use on counters and tables. In contrast to permanently installed floor scales, they are more flexible and can be used in other places with little effort. Some bench scales are available with an internal rechargeable battery, so that the devices can be used in a different location without a mains power connection.
The table and floor scales from Minebea Intec are an elementary component for a variety of industries. The two most common areas of application for the devices are in the pharmaceutical, food and chemical industries. In the pharmaceutical and food production sector, they are used for weighing, dosing and checking raw materials, individual components during production and finished products. Furthermore, the weighing solutions are used in the chemical, logistics and agricultural industries as well as for construction materials, electronics and recycling.
How do table and floor scales work?
Both bench and floor scales are based on one (or more) load cell(s), which are installed inside the scale. The sample to be weighed is placed on the scale, and the weighing results can then be displayed on the connected weighing electronics (weighing indicator, weighing controller or occasionally weighing transmitters). The load cells are based either on strain gauge or electromagnetic force compensation (EMFC) technology. All devices from Minebea Intec are characterized by short measuring times, accuracy and reliability and flexibility.
The appropriate weighing electronics can be set up regardless of the location of the weighing platform or mounted on a column and connected to peripheral devices or other systems via a variety of available interfaces.
For which tasks are bench and floor scales used?
Typical applications of bench and floor scales are initially basic applications: The simple recording of weight values, counting of pieces (in the field of material management) or classification and control. In addition, scales such as the Signum industrial scale can also be used for checking the contents of finished packaging units. Also possible are operations such as automatic and manual dosing and filling, as well as manual formulation for creating mixtures.
The tabletop and floor scales from Minebea Intec enable high-precision measurement results: The Signum Supreme industrial scale with EMFC weighing system, for example, offers resolutions of up to 620,000 d. The precise measurement results improves the manufacturing accuracy and so reduces scrappage of final product when quality-tested. One scale can be used for small additions to the batch instead of a small scale and a bigger scale, which means less costs in total, less rejected scrap products and thus more profitability.
What features of bench and floor scales are important?
One of the basic important features of any scale is the resolution of the weight evaluation. Depending on the requirements of the particular application, a scale with an appropriate range and scale intervals should also be selected to achieve the expected accuracy of the weighing results. In the pharmaceutical and food industries and in other industrial sectors, models for legal-for-trade applications are in demand, Minebea Intec also offers a wide range of these models.
In addition to the maximum load and division, when floor and bench scales are used, the design, such as material and IP protection class, is an important indicator of the ruggedness of the scale. For example, models from Minebea Intec are also available in full stainless steel design and protection classes such as IP69, which certifies that the product is dustproof and sufficiently protected against high-pressure cleaning with high jet water temperatures.
The seal of approval for Hygienic Design is also important: Especially in the pharmaceutical and food industries, where the purity of the end product or sterility plays a fundamental role, it is important to be able to clean the devices quickly and efficiently without germs forming in gaps. Furthermore, this also enables fast and effective cleaning, which is also reflected in lower cleaning costs due to the shorter cleaning time and less cleaning agent requirement.
White Paper: Which static industrial scale is the right one for your process?
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Karksi-Nuia is a town in Viljandimaa in Southern Estonia. The ruins of a fortress stand on a hill on the northern side of the Karksi-Nuia valley. Amongst those ruins stands a church with a tilted tower. The fortress itself was first mentioned in writing in the 13th century, it was at times under Russian, Swedish and Polish control but was finally destroyed in 1708 during the Great Northern war.
Location: 58°6'16"N 25°33'55"E on: Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, Maa Amet.
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Sai Nava Guruvara Vrat
Sai Brother Srinivas from Africa says: My name is Srinivas, and I am deputed to a remote Country in Africa, on Project work. Though I am living in City, here availability of pooja items etc is not possible. Whatever is there, it is restricted to reading from net, books etc and live with them.
These days, I am passing through very rough patch in my career and financially also. As a result I was continuously praying almighty Baba to give me relief from all these. I read Sai Satcharitra around 4 times from net during last 3 months, but I am not satisfied. Always there is some worry on whether I am praying Babaji rightly or doing some mistake. Recently when I was going through Star Sai another web site, through which only I got this site. I came to know about this Vrat. So on Wednesday, I decided that I will start from yesterday. I bought some candles and some Kismiss (raisins) for offering. No flowers were available here, so I prepared some Akshintalu and was ready in the morning. Since I was running out of time, I decided I will do after I come back in the evening. All these were planned, but I never expressed anything to anybody. I was just thinking whether Baba will accept or not. But to my astonishment 2 things have happened :
- The road I travel into country side doesn't have any live stock on roads like dogs, cows etc. But yesterday, I could see so many dogs at all places practically every 2-3 kms 1-2, which I thought was very auspicious as I felt Baba has come in that manifestation and guiding me.
- As soon as I opened my room I found that my table has been cleaned and made ready for pooja. As in morning only I thought that I have to do cleaning first in the evening, and then place Baba photo on table. Generally my table is filled with all papers and clutter and even the cleaning people also won't clean tables because of papers. I think Baba has arranged all these. I took this as His blessing and completed my first Thursday.
I am praying Baba to make this success and help me to get rid of my problems as soon as possible. Request all others to pray also on my behalf. Sri sachitananda Sat guru Sai Maharaj ki Jai. Om Sai Om Sai Om Sai.
Saw My Baba In Tirupathi
Sai Sister Prema from India says: I am Prema. I have done my engineering and working for more than 5 years. I am now waiting for marriage. Dear Hetal Ji, you are the blessed soul whom Baba sent to this world. Please don't enclose my email id. Where ever you feel, you can edit.
I am not a devotee of Baba. I have heard about Baba, but I never went to Baba temple before. Last year in January 2012, I and my mom with my friend's family went to see Lord Perumal in Tirupathi. We were waiting for more than 12 hours in Godown. That time a saint like Baba (dressed as like Baba) came and sat behind us. I gave him food. He smiled and blessed me with Baba sticker, which he was wearing in his ears. That is the first Baba coming to our home. He sat and had his food. I gave another food packet to him; again he blessed me with another Baba sticker. Mean time, my friend didn't see him. She asked for Baba sticker then he gave her too. Later we both too didn't see him. That time I was in heavy stress, and suffering from severe health problem, so only He came and shown His presence.
I was in love with a guy. We saw our profiles in matrimonial site. We both shared many things in mail and phone. Both our horoscope matches 100%. He called me one evening and said they are coming (formally) to see me on May 5th. Everyone was waiting whole day for his arrival. His mobile was switched off and no response from him. It became very tensed and I couldn't answer anyone. Next day he massaged me for some issue at home. Then he cut me completely. Then only I browsed in net about my Sai Baba. Every time I used to read only about Sai. I started my 9 Thursday Vrat. After finishing my Vrat, he came back on 20 August. He said I don't want to miss a girl, who has mad affection on me. But he said, his mom didn't like this proposal, because on that day while coming to my home, a lorry hit his car, nothing happened to anyone. I thank my Sai ma. Still I am waiting for him. His mom is not accepting for our marriage. I ask every Sai friends to pray for me and my Siva. I kept this problem in my Sai's lotus feet. I like to live with my Siva. I believe let our marriage will happen with the wishes of both our parents and blessings of my Sai Ma. Om Sai Shri Sai Jaya Jaya Sai
Need Help
Anonymous devotee from India says: I am still waiting for reply. I am a simple girl, who had some dreams. I always believe that work hard and have faith in God leads you. I never believe in luck etc even my friends claim me as an atheist, but I told them that I believe in God, but I think that be a good person to others and God will be good to you. Do work hard and God will reward you. I wonder what I said wrong. I have been in great trouble. In fact I had been in it from very early, but things turn into unbearable and this apart from all other disappointing things of my life. I can't sleep properly from last one year. Still I faith in God and kept pray. I always heard and read here too that Baba helps everyone. But now I feel that I am not in His list and might be not deserve for His blessing. I agreed that I can't claim that I never done anything, which could consider as wrong and of course how can I? I am a human only. I am feeling that I am walking in a dark and hope that God don't left me alone. Actually I completed 9 Thursday Vrat and for my surprise I got Sai Baba Vibhuti too, which was totally unexpected and then I filled with joy and thought everything will be going okay now. But after more than a month, I feel things becoming worse and I start regret for my life. I love my parents, but I never make them happy and so now many times thought of suicide floats in my mind. I am feeling so hopeless and waiting for God's reply. What should I do? Will Baba help me? Really Baba helps everyone?


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Bentley Suv - a car that is marketed under the popular worldwide automaker brand Bentley. This car has received 4.5 stars out of 5 in user ratings. The price of Bentley Suv ranges in accordance with its modifications. Our contributor Hound collected and uploaded the top 11 images of Bentley Suv below.
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A proposal to build a permanent floating pool is gaining traction as its designers attempt to raise funds, via Kickstarter, to test filtration methods needed to build the project. Watch their pitch video after the jump.
Brooklyn Eagle: Dong-Ping Wong from the firm Family New York, and Archie Lee Coates IV and Jeffrey Franklin of PlayLab thought of the idea during last year's blazing hot summer. They collaborated with engineering firm Arup New York to design the pool, which they call "+Pool." ….
This is not as easy as it sounds because different cleanliness standards exist — one for natural swimming areas like beaches, and a stricter standard for public swimming pools. +Pool falls into a new, never-before regulated area because it is basically a floating "giant strainer" dropped into the river, Wong said. Water filtration membranes are built into the walls of the pool to filter contaminated river water into clean, swimmable pool water.
As part of the testing phase, the team has launched a Kickstarter (a popular fundraising site) web page to raise the money needed to build and test a model of the filtration method. +Pool's designers are asking the public to pledge $25,000 by Friday, July 15. By last Thursday, roughly 80 backers had kicked in $7,000. Just one day later, more than $10,000 had been raised, donated by 185 backers.
"We're excited at the reception this idea has gotten from the public, engineers and organizations. It's very rare — the pool has generated its own interest from the ground up," Wong said.


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Management can't enforce physical fitness qualification standards for employees—unless they follow the law. It is not hard to wander from the requirements, as the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) did not long ago. That case provides a good overview of how employees and unions can attack certain fitness qualification standards.
FWS required employees be able to bend over and touch their toes. The applicant met that requirement during the pre-employment medical review and got the job, but asked for an accommodation after he was selected. He had two herniated disks in his neck from his time on active duty, making him a disabled employee under the law. The injury affected his major life activities of sitting, reaching, and bending. Specifically, he could not sit on the floor with his legs held straight together, calves remaining on the floor, and reach to extend his fingers beyond his toes. Additionally, about once a year he experienced muscle spasms in his back, which he treated with a prescription muscle relaxant. Consequently, he asked to be allowed to use the agency's physical fitness equipment for one hour three times a week under an agency policy encouraging fitness. In fact, the agency physical fitness coordinator recommended it. But that is where the water got very murky in the FWS ecosystem.
The employee's supervisor refused to let him use the program. When the employee formally asked for the accommodation under the Rehabilitation Act, someone in management took more information from him, but no one ever formally responded—other than to fire him to failure to meet the physical fitness standard.
When the case got before EEOC, it wrote, "The question now is whether the "sit and reach" requirement that Complainant failed is consistent with the requirements of the Rehabilitation Act. If the standard itself fails to meet the 'job-related and consistent with business necessity' requirement, or if the Agency failed to apply the standard in an appropriate way (for example, by failing to determine whether performance could be achieved through reasonable accommodation) Complainant has a valid claim."
Focusing on the first criterion that the standard be job-related and consistent with business necessity, EEOC pointed out that, "We note that not one management official, human resources official, physical fitness official, law enforcement official, or coworker was able to state in the record how a Wildlife Refuge Specialist's ability to reach over his toes while sitting down with his legs outstretched was related to any of the functions of the position. Nowhere in the record did the Agency include a single scenario where a Wildlife Refuge Specialist may need to reach over his toes while sitting down with his legs straight out and against the ground. Instead, all witnesses generally stated that it was required because it was part of the PEB."
Consequently, EEOC ruled the agency failed to meet the first criterion. As for the second one concerning how FWS applied the standard, EEOC found FWS management had, "waived the PEB 'sit and reach' requirements for an individual in a substantially similar law enforcement position. Finally, while Wildlife Refuge Specialists are required to pass the PEB when they are first hired, they are never required to pass the PEB again during their employment."
And that is how an agency's physical fitness standard is essentially ruled null and void in case anyone else needs to push back against one.
These facts came from the EEOC entitled, Elden R., Complainant v. Kevin Haugrud, Department of the Interior (Fish and Wildlife Service), Agency, EEOC No. 0120122672 (2017)


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See this story on SeekingAlpha (which might consider renaming itself SeekingShelter), entitled Goldman Slaps Most Software Stocks.
Excerpt on aggregate spending:
The worst of the IT-spending slowdown likely remains in front of us, as we start the clock on slashed 2009 budgets. We forecast 0 percent revenue growth for our group, below consensus at 5 percent, and 1 percent earnings growth, below Street at 2 percent.
The most interesting point addressed is whether the downturn will drive consumers to open source (i.e., nominally "free") software:
There has been much discussion in the blogosphere about open source software and how it will see a surge of adoption do to its lower cost. Goldman quite rightly says this will not be the case. I have written that CIOs will hunker down and stick with the tried and true (which is not open source in most large-sized enterprises) and Goldman is in agreement, seeing a consolidation of functionality with big, established vendors and a moving away from the concept of seeking best-of-breed point solutions regardless of vendor.
On sectors:
So in terms of non-defense technology companies we are batting two for two: Neither hardware not software will be spared over the next several quarters as the outlook remains dim for both.
Happily for Mark Logic we have a large defense / intelligence business, which I believe will offer shelter from the storm. And, as I've argued before, for non-advertising-driven media companies, I believe that GDP growth (or lack thereof) is a second-order effect relative to seismic changes driven by the Internet and Google to which MarkLogic helps them respond.


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News Release
May 19, 2005
Contact: Carolyn Pennington, 860-679-4864
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Internationally Recognized Urologist Honored by Health Center Board
FARMINGTON, CONN. – Peter Albertsen, M. D., professor and chief of urology in the Department of Surgery, is the recipient of the UConn Health Center Board of Directors Faculty Recognition Award.
A world renowned urologist and researcher, Dr. Albertsen has been at the Health Center for more than 18 years. He has obtained an international reputation for his work on prostate cancer and is the author of numerous publications.
"This award is one that celebrates and rewards demonstrated and universally recognized excellence," said Claire Leonardi, Chair of the Board of Directors. "At a national level, Dr. Albertsen has played a pivotal role in our understanding and treatment of prostate cancer. The Board is both appreciative and proud of his accomplishments and continuing activities."
"The urologists throughout the state of Connecticut have been extraordinarily helpful to allow my research to succeed," said Dr. Albertsen. "I have been blessed with excellent support people and very intelligent collaborators."
Dr. Albertsen is also highly regarded as a compassionate clinician and mentor for medical students interested in the field of Urology. As the director of the Urology Residency Program, he has developed a greatly respected and sought after graduate medical education program. "I have had the opportunity to care for some wonderful patients and to work with some superb medical students and residents," said Dr. Albertsen.
As a recipient of the board's recognition award, Albertsen was presented with a $10,000 prize. His name and photo are on display on a permanent plaque at the Health Center. The award was established in 2003 by the Board of Directors to recognize and celebrate excellence in faculty members.
UConn Health includes the schools of medicine and dental medicine, the UConn Medical Group, University Dentists, and John Dempsey Hospital. Home to Bioscience Connecticut, UConn Health pursues a mission of providing outstanding health care education in an environment of exemplary patient care, research and public service. More information about UConn Health is available at www.uchc.edu.
Note: News professionals are invited to visit the UConn Health Today news page (http://today.uchc.edu) for regularly updated news and feature stories, photos and media stories. News releases are archived at http://today.uchc.edu/newsreleases/2014. UConn Health news and information is also available on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.


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Hi. Please read Plural#Plural_syntax_for_projects_using_the_rails-i18n_framework for correct plural syntax. Thanks.
I'm checking that message, because some translations have translated "Notices" by "Messages" or "Posts".
I've used a translation engine to see if they were no other inaccurate translations and the translation in your language seems not to be accurate. I may be wrong if the tool I've used is wrong. Can you check it?
The translation for Lithuanian is correct. The Lithuanian language is not as rich as the English language so a lot of different English words mean the same in Lithuanian.
Thanks! :)
I was wondering if people were able to see the difference between "notices" (elements that are not as important as what is displayed on the "alerts" panel) and "messages" (group of text messages left on a talk page).
I noticed your contributions here during the Translation Rally, well done! I wanted to let you know about another contest that Wikimedia Sverige is organizing on Wikidata.org. In this contest the aim is to translate words related to food so that we can create multilingual menus that we will use at a food fare in a week to show the value of Open Data. You can read all about it here. We would really appreciate having the menus in your language. Also, there are some handy instruction videos available if you haven't worked on Wikidata before.
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Can you please help translating the ContentTranslation extension? We are enhancing its deployment to the Lithuanian Wikipedia, and I'd love it to be fully translated.
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Hi there :) I just want to let you know that your help would be appreciated to finish translations in Lithuanian for MediaWiki's VisualEditor software. The current progress is 35%, and VE will reach lt.wikipedia in a few weeks (Jan 13th). Also, if you feel like you want to walk an extra mile, please check if this language needs further help with the tasks listed at mw:VisualEditor/TranslationCentral#To_do. Thanks, and happy 2014!
THANK YOU for your work translating Blockly into Lithuanian. The translated puzzle has been up for a long time, and we hope to have all of Blockly available in Lithuanian someday.
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Hi, I just imported a translation of Waymarked Trails to Lithuanian by a friend of mine, which included overwriting some of your translations to make the whole translation consistent. Most of the overwriting I've made fuzzy, so it need to be reviewed before it will be used. I also deleted the "Tags" translation because it is OpenStreetMap terminology that you often should not translate.
I'd be very grateful if you could review the translation. It is still not 100 %, but will probably pass 75 % (and thus be included on waymarkedtrails.org) if the fuzzied messages are cleared.
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Monday, January 15, 2018
NYSBA Offers an Advanced Legal Writing Seminar
The New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) will offer an Advanced Legal Writing seminar with Justice Gerald Lebovits, a New York City judge since 2001 and president of the 300-judge New York State Association of Acting Supreme Court Justices.
Justice Lebovits has been an adjunct professor of law for 32 years, currently at Columbia, Fordham, and NYU. Students at Fordham, New York Law School, and St. John's have each elected him Adjunct Law Professor of the Year. He has authored six books and more than 300 articles and given hundreds of CLEs on legal writing, ethics, criminal practice, and landlord-tenant law for bar associations, government organizations, and the New York State Court System. He will also be known to many New York lawyers because he has authored the Legal Writer Column for the New York State Bar Journal since 2001.
Justice Lebovits will share easy-to remember and simple-to-understand methods of persuasive writing and the essential elements of a winning brief — from cover to conclusion, including storytelling, theme, organization, style, rhetoric, ethics, and legal method.
- Monday, April 23, 2018 | Long Island
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The time is ripe for these nations to build an Atlantic Community. -- Atlantic Congress, Final Declaration, June 10, 1959.
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier ... a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils ... it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security ... Beyond that frontier are uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered pockets of ignorance and prejudice ... The times demand invention, innovation, imagination, decision. I am asking each of you to be pioneers on that new frontier. -- Senator John F. Kennedy accepting the Democratic nomination for President July 15, 1960.
We are ready to go ahead and explore new approaches. We are a society of individuals. Our institutions project outward from the people, not downward to the people. -- Vice President Richard M. Nixon in Life, August 29, 1960.
A period of crisis is always a period of opportunity. ... It may mark the beginning of a period of steady deterioration, ending, so far as human intelligence can foresee, in tragedy. Or it may be the beginning of better things. -- Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, of Great Britain, United Nations Assembly, September 29, 1960.
Something must be done. We cannot ... sit helplessly watching the world drift in a direction which can only end in catastrophe. -- Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India, United Nations Assembly, October 3, 1960.
To my mind, Atlantic Union is an absolute and early necessity ... an excellent idea. And the sooner we move, the better it is. -- Dr. Edward Teller, "father of the H-Bomb," November 12, 1960.
Where once we could unite only in fear, I believe we can now unite in courage and hope to do more noble works than men have ever done before ... We can go beyond allaying fears to fulfilling dreams. -- Vice President-elect Lyndon B. Johnson at the NATO Parliamentarians Conference, Paris, November 22, 1960.
When was the American Revolution effected ... was the blood of thousands spilt, and the hard-earned substance of millions lavished, not that the people of America should enjoy peace, liberty and safety, but that the government of the individual States ... might enjoy a certain extent of power, and be arrayed with certain dignities and attributes of sovereignty? We have heard of the impious doctrine in the Old World, that the people were made for kings, not kings for the people. Is the same doctrine to be revived in the New in another shape -- that the solid happiness of the people is to be sacrificed to ... political institutions of a different form? ... As far as the sovereignty of the States cannot be reconciled to the happiness of the people, the voice of every good citizen must be, Let the former be sacrificed to the latter. -- James Madison, No. 45 of The Federalist, 1788.
If there is a country in the world where the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people can be fairly appreciated ... and where its dangers and advantages may be judged, that country is assuredly America * * * The people reign in the American political world as the Deity does in the universe. They are the cause and the aim of all things; everything comes from them and everything is absorbed in them. -- Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol. 1, chapter IV 1835 (my translation)
We must appeal to the sober sense and patriotism of the people. We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by calmness and moderation; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be the majority after a while, and the revolution which we will accomplish will be none the less radical from being the result of pacific measures. The battle of freedom is to be fought out on principle. -- Abraham Lincoln in his "Lost Speech," May 19, 1856.
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John McAfee: Forget gun control, EMP attack would wipe out 90% of US population within 2 years
On 2 October, President Obama declared: "Here's what you need to do: You have to make sure that anybody that you are voting for is on the right side of this issue." If politicians oppose these measures, he continued, "even if they're great on other stuff, you've got to vote against them." He was talking about gun control.
This is a first in American history. While president Lincoln focused the full measure of the last half of his second term on the passing of the 13<sup>th Amendment, he at no time let his single focus diminish the broad focus of the American people on other issues. Obama's proclamation is startling to say the least.
George Orwell, in his novel of the ultimate dystopian future (1984), describes a world in which intelligence and creativity are eradicated from the minds of the populace by narrowing language and all other avenues of thought. The ultimate goal of the government, which was ruled by Big Brother, was to reduce all language to one word, and all thought to one concept – the concept of love for Big Brother. "Thoughtcrime" was a capital offence against Big Brother.
EMP attack on electronic infrastructure
My first thought upon hearing Obama's proclamation was that I was in the middle of an acid flashback and I had no benzodiazepines to mediate the trip. My second thought was: what possible single issue, in this complex society of ours, would merit a "single issue" status?
I assumed that the single issue would be the tragic issue of our national security. This issue would clearly be the rampant illiteracy of our elected leaders in the science of cyber security. Experts agree that an all out cyber attack, beginning with an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack on our electronic infrastructure, would wipe out 90% of the human population of this country within two years of the attack. That means the death of 270 million people within 24 months after the attack.
Yet our leaders are nearly all ill prepared for this near certain, not-too-distant event. If I were forced to choose a single issue, this would obviously be the issue.
Imagine my shock and horror when I discovered that the single issue is gun control. Frantically searching again for my benzodiazepines, and certain that rabid squirrels would imminently emerge from my wristwatch and form a tribunal accusing me of crimes against humanity, a saving thought flashed into my mind: What if the president is right? Could this simplification be the salvation of this long-suffering nation?
US mass murders prior to 1980
I put on my thinking cap. The impetus for most proclamations surrounding gun control are generally mass murders, some involving guns. As a competent scientist, I needed to know when mass murders became an issue in this country that I have loved for more than 70 years. A little research will uncover the little known fact that mass murders, prior to 1980, were virtually unknown.
This fact disturbed me, since guns have been prominently owned in this society since the founding of our country, and there was no sweeping legislation in 1980, or after, that radically changed gun ownership laws or rates of gun ownership. This, to a scientist, without qualification, removes guns as the source of our problem, unless, of course, guns suddenly achieved the ability to subconsciously tempt their owners to use them in heretofore-unknown ways. If not, then the problem appears to be an increase in violent urgings, stemming from some unknown source deep within the fabric of our society.
What could this source be? There are many possibilities. In the 1980s we saw the first wide scale use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (antidepressants), such as Prozac, Paxil and others. Hundreds of studies have shown that these antidepressants have side effects that include violent thoughts. A few minutes of research will tell us that 8% of the US population is taking antidepressants, yet a known 30% of all mass murderers since 1980 were taking antidepressants, and it is highly suspected that the real number approaches 90% – a statistical anomaly of egregious proportions.
Presidential acid flashback?
But it is much easier to disprove a cause (as we did with guns above) than it is to prove a cause. The antidepressants may merely be an artifact of some deeper cause that is as yet unknown. We do know that governments that turn deceptive and begin spying on their citizens foment unrest, anger and despair. However, given that we do not have citizens carrying signs in the streets and recalling their representatives en masse – outward signs that we would expect from a citizenry that is not afraid of their government, then perhaps that has not happened here in America.
I am left with only one statistic: Since 1982, the Democrat/Republican ratio has been fairly evenly split, measured in terms of years in power. Yet 85% of all mass shootings have happened while Democrats were on watch. This again may be simply an artefact of something deeper, but it bears looking into.
In any case, the President's proposal – that we abandon the complex process of weighing the near infinite issues that are important to us, and to choose a single issue upon which we can direct the entire future of our society, may well, in the confusion of my simple mind, be the Holy Grail of politics. But if it is then surely weighing the possible deaths of 90% of our citizens due to cyber warfare against gun violence which causes fewer deaths per year than traffic accidents, seems that possibly our president is suffering an acid flashback rather than myself.
Who is John McAfee?
John McAfee is one of the most influential commentators on cybersecurity anywhere in the world. His new venture – Future Tense Central – focuses on security and personal privacy-related products. In September 2015, McAfee announced that he will be running for US president in 2016.
McAfee provides regular insight on global hacking scandals and internet surveillance, and has become a hugely controversial figure following his time in Belize, where he claims to have exposed corruption at the highest level before fleeing the country amid accusations of murder (the Belize government is currently not pursuing any accusations against him).
In September 2015, John McAfee was nominated for Technology and Digital Commentator of the Year at the annual Comment Awards for his work for IBTimes UK. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on 24 November.
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MORE D4TA, the group's fourth album, arrives more than six years after its predecessor (2016's III), yet its contents are quintessentially Moderat.
Although the trio's hiatus was absolutely real—exhausted after years of touring, Apparat (a.k.a. Sascha Ring) and Modeselektor (a.k.a. Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary) spent two years away from one another, focusing instead on their own respective projects—once they decided to resume working together, the music (eventually) started flowing again. It wasn't an easy process. It's never been easy for Moderat, an outfit who tellingly titled their debut EP Auf Kosten Der Gesundheit (translation: At the Cost of Health) and then needed seven years to put together a follow-up. Back in those days, the group's members were essentially remixing each other, but over time, they've gradually developed into a proper band, writing together and developing a workflow that's totally distinct from their other projects. (In a band where all three members are artists, producers and mixing engineers, striking that sort of creative balance is trickier than it might seem.) Created largely during a time when touring (and most traveling) was off the table, MORE D4TA is an album that wrestles with feelings of isolation and information overload—issues that have become particularly pronounced over the past two years. Many of its lyrics are rooted in Ring's frequent trips to Berlin's Gemäldegalerie museum (often with his infant daughter in tow), where he'd seek refuge in the great paintings of the past while worrying about the future. MORE D4TA is rooted in that same collaborative spirit, but long before any of its tracks were laid down, Moderat spent months hanging out and getting musically reacquainted, indulging in extended bouts of experimentation and slowly fleshing out ideas as they dove into modular composition, field recordings and other sonic oddities. That said, MORE D4TA is very much a Moderat album. No matter how far the band ventures into music's outer realms, they always wind up back in their own unique soundworld, a place where emotive pop and fluttering electronic soundscapes walk hand in hand. What they make isn't necessarily dance music, but it is something that shines brightest in the dark of night, the group's rich melodies and Ring's ethereal vocals emitting a warm, almost bioluminescent glow. Although the LP's title is an anagram for "Moderat 4," there's more to it than cheeky wordplay. In a time where everyone is constantly bombarded with content, and taking part in the cultural conversation requires engaging with digital platforms more interested in harvesting data than celebrating art, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and disillusioned. MORE D4TA acknowledges that reality, but it also refuses to be cowed by it. Moderat's new album is ultimately just another addition to the content pile—there's no escaping that—but the trio still yearns to create and connect. They're not a conceptual outfit, and never have been: After spending the better part of two decades making music together, they've carved out a sound and aesthetic that are all their own, and MORE D4TA showcases a group that's creatively recharged and fully dedicated to its craft. Maybe bands should take hiatuses—real ones— a little more often.


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The 5G or the fifth generation of the network technology is all geared up to bang on with latest smartphones in 2019. All the A-listed mobile giants have almost locked the deal, and very soon we are going to see the 5G smartphone on the store shelves.
Which brands are making 5G enabled smartphones in 2019?
- OnePlus – OnePlus has declared that they are planning to launch their first 5G Smartphone in 2019 at Mobile World Congress Shanghai. Now there are apprehensions that either OnePlus 7 or OnePlus 7T are going to be equipped with 5G technology.
- Oppo – Oppo is done with the entire quality test with Qualcomm in their Oppo R5 unit and is ready to launch the Oppo 5 Flagship in 2019. The makers of Oppo have always come with something new with their every launch, and the current scenario states the launch will be midway 2019.
- Honor – The president himself has confirmed the news of launching their first 5 G smartphone. It is also predicted that this brand is going to be the first one with 5 G in the market. Though the details are still locked, and there is no information available until now.
- Xiaomi – The news of the launch of Xiaomi's first 5 G smartphone is set, and some details are also shared like it will use the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chipset and 10GB RAM. The image of the upcoming phone has already been shared by the President.
- LG – This brand has also tied up with the Qualcomm to get the support of 5 G and is said to launch the smartphone in 2019 with some great features. Much information has not to be shared yet.
Final words
Seeing the features of the forthcoming 5G Smartphone's this year, we can say that they will surely give a tuff fight altogether regarding hardware and technology. Let us keep our fingers crossed and wait for the launch of the first 5G smartphone in 2019.


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The Moral and Political Philosophy of John Stuart Mill Event
- Date:
- 30 - 31 May 2017
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- Room 1173, Building 65, Avenue Campus, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BF
For more information regarding this event, please email Dr Brian McElwee at email@example.com .
Event details
The workshop brings together UK-based scholars working on various aspects of the work of John Stuart Mill.
Amongst the themes addressed will be:
What can contemporary ethicists learn from a careful reading of Mill?
How well-suited are the central tenets of Mill's political philosophy to addressing contemporary political issues?
How central to Mill's moral and political philosophy are sentiments such as blame and guilt?
With a major new companion to Mill (edited by Christopher Macleod and Dale Miller) just published by Blackwell, this is an ideal time for a re-examination of Mill's moral and political philosophy.
Confirmed Speakers
Professor John Skorupski (University of St Andrews, emeritus)
Dr Christopher Macleod (University of Lancaster)
Dr Helen McCabe (University of Warwick)
Dr Brian McElwee (University of Southampton)
Dr Demelza Hookway (unaffiliated)
Dr Ben Saunders (University of Southampton)
Dr Gerald Lang (University of Leeds)
Dr Matt Kerr (University of Southampton)
This event is sponsored by the Mind Association and the Southampton Ethics Centre.
The event will be free and open to all. To register, please email Dr Brian McElwee.
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