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Here is your short paragraph on my favorite season (summer):
I am a big nature lover. I always admire the changing character of nature every year. It gives a message to the mankind that nothing is permanent in this world; change is the only permanent thing in life.
So we should never be disheartened with the failures of life as it is not permanent. Generally I like all the seasons that nature brings with this but still my favorite season is summer season because of many reasons.
I like summers because of its hot temperature. Many people hate the hotness that summer brings with it but it's the main reason behind my love with the summer. I love the blue clean sky & no rains. Even if it rains it's pleasant and warm. I love walking in the rain because that's the time when I can forget all my worries and relax myself to the fullest.
I like the long summer days because the day becomes too big and we can finish up lot many things in one single day. I love the warm and short summer nights because we get less time to sleep and more time to do the important things in life.
Though the nights are short but the weather allows us to relax and take a sound sleep. I also like summers because it the only season of beautiful flowers & we gets the opportunity to taste the healthy fruits directly from the gardens.
I have a big garden at my grandparents place. It has many trees like the guava tree, banana tree, papaya tree, mango tree and pomegranate tree. Each year I eagerly wait for the summers to arrive early so that I can have those yummy and healthy fruits at my Grandparent's garden.
I like summers also because I have long two months summer vacations each year from June to July. I like to travel to visit new places and spending quality time with friends and family on summer vacations. It's the best time for me to come out of my school's hectic monotonous life. Throughout my summer vacation I sleep and party a lot. Every year I join my basketball classes because I love basketball.
In the night I go out at the big public garden located near my society with my friends and family. I stay at my Grandparent's house and help them with the daily rotational activities. My Grandmother is a very good cook and she teaches many delicious dishes. These are few reasons why I love summer season a lot. The aim reason is that it gives me love and happiness which no other season gives.


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I'm so excited! Today the second episode of In Darkness We Must Abide, entitled Death in the Shadows, is available in most ebook formats at various online stores. It may take a little longer for it to show up on some stores (like iTunes), but you can by the ebook in nearly every format at my website by clicking here.
Episode 2
Death has claimed a Socoli, but the family curse will not allow him to stay dead. Vanora and Alisha must battle the creature that stole their brother's life while fearing the possible resurrection of Roman.
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A perfect partner for StudioLive Series III consoles.
Designed to work seamlessly with PreSonus® StudioLive® Series III console/recorders the PreSonus NSB 16.8 is an 16-in, 8-out stage box that sets up quickly and easily to route signals from stage to mixer over an AVB network. With AVB networking, all signals flow through one lightweight CAT5e or CAT6 Ethernet cable, eliminating the need for a heavy, expensive copper snake—and the signal degradation that goes with long analog cable runs. You can even remote control the NSB 16.8's inputs, preamps, and phantom power from your networked Series III console or from free PreSonus UC Surface touch-control software.
Making connections—lots of them.
A stage box is all about analog connectivity, and the NSB 16.8 gives you all the I/O you need and then some. You get 16 locking combo mic/line inputs equipped with our famous remote-controlled, Class A solid-state XMAX preamps, including gain compensation for shared input scenarios. All line inputs can be controlled from a StudioLive Series III console and from free PreSonus UC Surface software. All eight outputs employ locking XLR jacks. If that's not enough, a built-in 2-port AVB switch lets you daisy-chain multiple units, giving you enough connections for even the largest shows and installations.
A microphone preamplifier is arguably the most important stage of any device that accepts a microphone. A good preamp boosts the level to almost 400 times that of the original signal. A cheap, off-the-shelf, op-amp-type mic preamp delivers thin, noisy, harsh results. But with XMAX preamps, the sonic quality is limited only by the microphone you plug into it.
XMAX preamplifiers are built with three key elements:
- Class A. Class A circuits have no crossover distortion and deliver purer, clearer, and more musical results than the Class AB designs that are found in many preamps.
- High Voltage. The XMAX preamplifier runs on power rails of 30V. Most off-the-shelf, op-amp-based designs run on power rails of 10V to 18V. Higher-voltage power rails deliver more headroom, deeper lows, smoother highs, and a richer overall sound.
- Discrete components—not op-amps. We only use genuine transistors, resistors, and capacitors. Op-amps add noise, coloration, and harshness to a signal. Our discrete design delivers ultra-low noise and transparency.
The net result of the XMAX preamp design is high headroom, low noise, wide dynamic range, extended frequency response, and—most important—musicality and transparency.
The XMAX preamps in NSB-series stage boxes (and in StudioLive Series III consoles and rack mixers) offer another advantage: They are recallable. In 1995, PreSonus patented digital control over analog circuits with our first studio product. Building on this legacy, we created a separate digital volume-control circuit ahead of our analog XMAX preamp design, providing the convenience of digital recall without sacrificing fidelity. As a result, NSB-series XMAX preamps can be remote-controlled with UC Surface software or directly from a StudioLive Series III console.
What is an AVB network?
Audio networking is much more than just a way to connect a digital snake. With an AVB network, you can connect digital audio devices over long distances using CAT5e or CAT6 Ethernet cable and route your audio anywhere on the network with extremely low latency. AVB offers several unique benefits that make it a better choice for audio than other networking protocols. For example, AVB provides a high-precision clock that significantly reduces harmonic distortion and phasing, ensuring your audio stays clear and clean. AVB ensures you always have enough bandwidth to carry your low latency audio—even when your intern starts streaming a movie. These important benefits are an inherent part of AVB; you don't need to do anything special to your devices or AVB switch. And you can only get them with AVB.
AVB (Audio Video Bridging, also known as Time Sensitive Networking, or TSN) is a collection of IEEE 802.1 networking standards that define a single digital network for transmitting audio, video, and other forms of data via "smart" switches that can process AVB traffic without compromising network integrity.
AVB networks employ an AVB switch (such as the PreSonus SW5E) that is an active part of the network, throttling non-AVB traffic to ensure you always have enough bandwidth to carry your audio with extremely low latency. This means you get guaranteed low-latency audio performance regardless of other network traffic.
Finally, AVB uses easily available conventional network CAT5e or CAT6 Ethernet cable and jacks—not proprietary systems.
Tough enough for the most demanding tours.
Even if you baby your equipment, your stage boxes are likely to take a beating, especially on extended tours. But no matter how demanding the conditions, stage box failure is not an option. So we built the NSB 16.8 into a rugged steel chassis designed to survive the rigors of the road, and we equipped it with sturdy handles. Its classic stage box form factor allows the NSB 16.8 to sit well on the stage, or it can be rack mounted with an optional rack-ear kit. The NSB 16.8 also is compatible with stage pockets from Ace Backstage.
Everything you need...
and then some.
"StudioLive" doesn't just mean "digital mixers." StudioLive Series III is all about top-to-bottom, wall-to-wall mix solutions with a lineup now featuring digital consoles, rack mixers, personal monitoring units and stage boxes. And because Series III has AVB at its core, you get to expand your audio network over time to fit your needs.
With Series III, you can track in your home studio on Friday and then mix front of house at a dive bar on Saturday night. You'll still have what you need to run monitors on Sunday morning.
Stay in the Pocket
The ACE Backstage #175SLBK Stage Pocket is designed to be permanently installed in the stage floor and is configured to receive PreSonus Networked Stage Boxes (NSB 8.8, NSB 16.8) for portable onstage use and passive storage.
One PreSonus NSB slides easily in and out of the ACE Stage Pocket Nesting Frame. The NSB is secure while resting inside the Stage Pocket, allowing I/O cables to egress neatly through Hinged Cable Exits in the Lid, and onto the stage floor. Additional room for a single space rack panel inside the Stage Pocket makes it possible to add additional connectivity at the stage floor.


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Inactivité: a Two-legged Chair by Benoit Malta
Designer Benoit Malta has created Inactivité chair to promote physical activity while sitting. In order to maintain balance on the two-legged chair, the user is forced to constantly make slight movements.
Benoit calls the chair's inherent instability a "bearable discomfort"; a middle ground that isn't as unhealthy as sitting all day, but is more comfortable than standing for many hours at a time. The user has to actively engage the core and leg muscles to stay balanced and avoid toppling over.
The aim of this project is to avoid as much as possible stationary postures and promote mobility. My will is to introduce a "bearable discomfort" for our well-being. I decided to work on different typical situations at home in which it would be interesting to insert physical activity. The aim of the project, beyond the idea of promoting mobility, is to raise awareness of people about their bodies.
This chair propose an other way to sit. Its structure built on only two feets allows to stimulate different parts of the body through a passive situation. This bearable discomfort permits to adopt the best posture on the chair.
Born in 1990, Benoit Malta grew up in the south of France where he got a two year Bachelor in mechanical product conception and engineering (BTS) and a second bachelor in product design (BTS) at Jean Perrin school in Marseille. Then he studied at the Ecole Boulle in Paris, french national school from which he graduated with highest honors in Product Design Master degree (DSAA).
This education allowed Benoit to acquire a large set of skills in industrial, artisanal and technological fields and to develop a global reflection about my practice of design with a desire for legitimacy and accuracy in his work.
More about his work here: www.benoitmalta.com
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A simple wire wrapped heart in handcrafted and hammered sterling silver, with a beautifully faceted crystal quartz charm dangling from its center, is a perfect gift for any gal you love. Simple and cute and feminine, this necklace can be dressed up or down, perfect for any occasion.
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L. Neil Smith's
Number 340, October 9, 2005
Tenth Anniversary Edition, Part 2
Not So Shiny Serenity
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After much waiting and a pushed back opening date, the movie continuation of Joss Whedon's great TV show, Firefly was released into theaters. If you haven't seen the TV show, where have you been? Go out immediately and purchase a copy of the DVD set. I had eagerly awaited this movie for some time, and attended the opening showing with glee.
Allow me a breakdown of the generic synopsis of the show and movie.
Man has exfiltrated from earth and settled hundreds of terraformed planets and moons in the galaxy. When the Alliance began to institute a centralized government on all the worlds and planetoids, the outer planets kindly declined their offer of "civilized" life. There was a great war between the Alliance and the Independents, AkA, The Browncoats. The Independents eventually lost the war, and were forced to kowtow to the Alliance.
The TV series takes place several years after the war, and stars Nathan Fillion as Mal Reynolds, captain of a firefly class cargo ship, christened "Serenity," ex-browncoat, and one of the few surviving Independents of The Battle of Serenity Valley.
With him is his first mate: Zoe, played by Gina Torres, and her husband and pilot of the space transport Serenity, Wash, who is played by Alan Tudyk. Also there is the hired muscle, Jayne, played by Adam Baldwin, registered "companion" Inara, played by Morena Baccarin, the "brilliant" mechanic, Kaylee, played by Jewel Staite, Shepherd Book, played by Ron Glass, and the previously mentioned brother and sister Simon and River Tam, played by Sean Mahr and Summer Glau.
With this crew, Mal travels around the galaxy, moving illicit and sometimes stolen cargo, and generally snubbing his nose at the Alliance.
The TV show was brilliant.
The movie... not so much.
The movie starts with the escape of River and Simon from the government instillation that has kept River prisoner and used her as an experiment in psy-ops.
This leads to the introduction of Parliament's Man's, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor. A highly trained, nameless and rank-less assassin that kills without question, but does state that this is an "honorable" and "good" death... as he shoves his foot long sword into your chest. His job? To hunt down and eliminate the threat that River Tam poses.
After killing a few guys, we finally get to the namesake of the movie, Serenity, as she enters "atmo" on an outer planet to rob a security firm's Alliance payout.
Things go well on planet until Reevers, cannibalistic, self desecrating savages that live in space and raid planets for food and sexual release; read "people."
The team gets out by the skin of their teeth, and head off planet to meet up with their fencer.
There is a major dust up between River's brother, Simon, and Mal, which seems to be a major step backward from the TV series when Mal finally accepted that River and Simon were part of his crew, and thus, part of the family.
When they reach their contact in a bar, River goes crazy and starts beating the crap out of everyone in the room. Mal and friends are able to subdue River and skedaddle back to the ship and get offworld. Now River's handcuffed and locked in the pantry. Everyone shouts about how "she'll kill us all" and "we need to get rid of them as fast as possible." This is another step backward from the trust and care that had grown in the crew at the end of the TV series.
From something River said at the bar, the crew begin a hunt for a mysterious "Miranda" that take them all over space.
The fight in the bar comes to the attention of the Parliament's Operative. He at one point uses Inara to flush out Mal, only to have them escape in the end.
When Mal tries to head for safe land to hide out, he finds it razed to the ground. For reasons I will not go into, this steels his resolve to find out what the Parliament's secret is, and then make sure everyone in the galaxy knows as well.
I'm not going to go much further into details; due to the likelihood I'd ruin it for everyone.
Needless to say, the good guys win, the bad guys are vanquished, and love and happiness reign across the land.
The movie, on a whole, was enjoyable. I'm sure that people that have never seen the TV show would like the shiny lights, and gun battles. The movie though, for me was disappointing.
There are several questions that were raised in the TV show that this movie could have answered. The movie though, decided to answer the question that, at least I, never asked.
The writing was well done, though sometimes, when compared to Whedon's other work, seemed to be clunky and unnecessary. When just a look or a gesture would have worked well, he gave us long dispositions.
The acting was ok, but seemed to be short that spark, that lighthearted whimsy the actors had during the TV series.
Humor was one of the greatest facets of the TV series, but was in short supply in the movie. In the TV show, even when under heavy fire, and fellow solders were dying left and right, Mal had some of the funniest lines. Not so in this movie. It seems that getting his show to the big screen didn't make Whedon happy enough to write the snappy, wisecracking dialogue that we have all grown to love from the TV series.
Yes, the funny dialogue is there, it's just in short supply, and makes you chuckle, as opposed to roar with laughter.
The cinematography was excellent, though. The space battle scenes were a rollercoaster ride. The swooping and barrel rolls were great fun. The only thing that I missed from the TV show was the shaky, sometimes jerky "handheld" effect of zooms and pans that were prevalent in the show.
The very end is the thing that bothers me the most. After revealing this huge secret of the Parliament's activities, everyone pats themselves on the back and agrees that the Parliament is going to fall and die with a whimper.
I'm sorry, but after hundreds upon hundreds of years of experience of making sure it's "someone else's fault" and ensuring that everyone else is to blame but them, the likelihood that Parliament will feel any fallout from this revelation is going to be negligible.
Likely, what will happen is the Parliament will create a massive inquiry panel that will investigate itself, and then maybe fire two or three secretaries and adjuncts.
Then, the panel will recess for coffee and golf, and it will be business as usual the following Monday, right after they announce that it was a fake, and blame Mal and his consorts for perpetrating such a lie. The worst part? Everyone will buy it.
The overripe naiveté of the characters at the end made me want to throw something at the screen. That was the greatest problem I had with the entire show.
What ever happened to the Mal that said,
"That's what governments are for, [to] get in a man's way."
I give it 2 Reever raped and eaten government officials out of 5 Reever raped and eaten government officials.
See it, enjoy it, and then leave realizing how much better the TV show is.
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|Apivita Natural Serum - Hydration
I have always been a little reluctant to talk about skincare, because skin is so personal that what works wonders for me might not work, or just do nothing, for somebody else - and vice versa.
But Apivita Natural Serum in Hydration is one product I truly feel everybody's skin would love and would benefit from.
Apivita is a lovely Greek brand, the first natural cosmetics company in Greece.
They say their ispirations are "the honey bee, Greek nature and Hippocrates' holistic approach".
All their products have a natural ingredients content ranging between 80% and 100%, and are free of synthetic ingredients like parabens, silicone, minaral oils and phthalates.
Even their packaging is produced using recycled and recyclable materials!
I discovered Apivita 2 summers ago in Thessaloníki, Greece, and I have been using their skincare products - serums, moisturizers, face masks, face scrubs - you name it, I have it - on a daily basis ever since.
Their Natural Serum in Hydration is the first product I got, and is still to this day my favourite!! <3
It contains aloe and hyaluronic acid, both very well known for their hydrating properties.
Its texture feels very raw and unprocessed and natural.
And its formula is actually made of 98% natural ingredients, amazing right??!
The smell is very fresh and natural too, I love love love its smell.
It absorbs quickly so it won't disturb any make up you put on top, and leaves your skin feeling fresh and hydrated and just overall kissed by some divine natural goodness.
I use it every day morning and/or evening. Sometimes I apply it alone, sometimes I follow with a moisturizer.
I have gone through countless bottles of it and I would definitely recommend it to anyone, regardless of skin type or age.
Have you tried any Apivita products, and if so, what are your favourites?
Please let me know if there are other Apivita products you would like to hear my opinion on. If I have them, I'll be happy to review them for you!!
Thank you for reading, I hope you are having a beautiful day :)
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the Cinnamon season: Patterns Main: Centrifugal by Kira Dulaney
|The spiral design of this hat creates the illusion of centrifugal force pushing outward from the center down to the serrated lower edge. This is a simple pattern with a stunning payoff, and works wonderfully with subtly variegated yarns like the one shown.
Quick-to-stitch and fun to watch as the pattern comes to life as a hat, this is a great design for when you need the perfect accessory in just the right color. It makes a great gift, too.
Pattern comes in 5 sizes: Infant, Child, Small Adult, Medium Adult & Large Adult
150 - 250 yds DK weight wool yarn
3.75mm (US-F/5) standard crochet hook
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Tapestry Needle
The gorgeous O-Classic yarn shown in the photos was hand-dyed by Mary Jane's Attic.


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California gun owners are facing tougher ammunition regulations, they can no longer order from online warehouses and ship to residential addresses.
New laws approved by California voters and lawmakers in 2016 have the states 6-million-plus hunters, recreational shooters and other gun owners bracing for ammunition price increases, shortages and additional headaches in the near future.The ammo regs are part of a flurry of new gun control rules including those enacted as part of Proposition 63 that cover a variety of bases, including how gun owners can store their firearms and to whom they may be borrowed.
One new rule, which takes effect in January 2018, mandates that Californians who purchase ammunition online or through catalogs must ship their ammunition through a licensed dealer not directly to their home or business. State residents must also undergo a background check when buying ammunition, and anyone who sells ammunition will need to obtain an ammunition vendor license.
This new law will drive up the price of ammunition to cover sellers increased costs, said Ryan Bronson, director of conservation and public policy for Vista Outdoor, which is the parent company of Federal Premium Ammunition. It will also essentially ban internet and mail-order ammo sales, since everyone will need to do in-store background checks to take possession.


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Charlie Manuel Joins New Balance FamilyPosted: June 15, 2011 in Baseball, Uncategorized
Tags: Baseball, Charlie Manuel, Cleats, David Herndon, Phillies
Celebrating Opening Day with New Balance BaseballPosted: March 31, 2011 in Baseball
Tags: Baseball, Cleats, David Herndon, Dustin Pedroia, Kevin Youkilis, Phillies
Today is the opening of the MLB season and I couldn't be more pumped. So to celebrate, today's post is all about baseball…and New Balance of course. At least it will begin with New Balance and be loosely tied to New Balance and the ballplayers that wear their products.
Yesterday, New Balance announced an endorsement partnership with Boston Red Sox All-Star Kevin Youkilis. Youkilis joins fellow Red Sox All-Star Dustin Pedroia and Colorado Rockies All-Star pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez as the faces of New Balance Baseball. That's very cool…its exciting for New Balance, Youk, the Red Sox and their fans.
However, at New Balance Philadelphia we're not exactly big fans of the Red Sox. When it comes to rooting for players who sport New Balance cleats, our loyalty lies with the Phillies David Herndon. Yes, David Herndon is currently the only Phillie wearing New Balance cleats this season. Obviously everyone at New Balance Philadelphia was definitely excited to hear the news that the former Rule 5 player made this season's Opening Day roster.
While Herndon saw limited action last season with the Phils, mostly in long relief and mop-up work he remained on the major league roster all season. The Phils options were limited with Herndon since as a Rule 5 Player he had to remain on the major league roster or be offered back to the club from which he was selected. This year he has added a slider to his repertoire to compliment his hard sinker. Throughout his young career Herndon has been a pitch to contact type pitcher, which most hurlers with a good sinker are. While working on the slider in spring training though Herndon has seen the pitch result in more strikeouts. In his first 9 2/3 innings of the spring he recorded 8 K's. Hopefully Herndon will continue to develop and be able to contribute more to the Phils this season.
While this years New Balance roster features only one current Phillie, the rest of the roster is a who's who of former Phils. Some of their contributions may have been minor, even forgetable…okay some of these guys only the biggest Phillies fans would remember. Regardless we're gonna a take a look back at their time with the Phillies in the spirit of Opening Day.
Gregg Dobbs – Dobbs is not only a World Series Champion, but also was a member of each of the last four Phillies teams that have captured four straight Division titles. His contributions to those teams has definitely been varied though. In 2007, he led the majors with 18 pinch-hit RBI's and in 2008 he led the majors with 22 pinch-hits, a .355 average and was second with 16 RBI's. Since 2008 he struggled to replicate those numbers, and was designated for assignment by the Phils last season. He cleared waivers, reported to Triple-A Lehigh Valley and was recalled in September. In the off-season he signed a minor league deal with a spring training invite with the Marlins. On March 30th the Marlins announced he made the opening day roster. As a member of the 2008 World Champions he will probably always be remembered in Philly. His face will probably also long be recognized as despite the fact he saw limited time as a bench player, Dobbs always took advantage of any opportunity he had to get his face on camera.
Fabio Castro – Appeared in only 26 games with the Phils in 06′ & o7′, but will be better remembered as the "player to be named later" in the deal that landed the Phils 2008 NLCS hero Matt Stairs.
Ronny Paulino – Traded to the Phils in December of 2009, Ronny technically only spent a spring training with the Phils. As the Phils broke camp that spring Ronny was not invited to head north with the club and was subsequently traded twice on March 27th. The Phils first sent him to San Francisco, who then turned around and flipped him to the Florida Marlins. If it wasn't for the high demand that a player of Paulino's stature commanded though, the Phils would have never been able to acquire Jack Taschner.
Jack Taschner – You may remember Jack from the MLB Network reality show "The Pen" which followed around the 2009 Phillies bullpen. Why? Because I think he got more face time on that show then he actually spent on the field. After giving up 34 hits and 16 earned runs in 27 innings through July 1st, Taschner was sent to Triple -A for most of the remainder of the 2009 season. He was summoned back to the big club when rosters expanded in September, but only appeared in two games the rest of the year. Not surprisingly he was left of the post-season roster, although I'd like to think his teammates voted him a share of their National League Championship money…if you did actually watch "The Pen" he did seem like a nice guy.
Matt Maloney – Maloney never pitched for the Phils, but spent time in their minor league system, before becoming yet another important trade piece that allowed the Phils to aquire Kyle Lohse for the stretch run of the 07′ season. Lohse went 2-0, with many no-decisions during the Phils run to the first of four straight National League East titles. Scheduled to start game 4 of the NLDS that year against the Colorado Rockies, Lohse was was forced into action in game 2 after starter Kyle Kendrick loaded the bases with two outs in the 4th inning. Lohse went ahead and served up a grand slam to the first batter he faced, Kaz Matsui…yes, KAZ Matsui.
Freddy Garcia – Garcia was a former all-star and had over 100 wins to his name in 2006 when the Phils decided to trade prospects Gavin Floyd and Gio Gonzalez to the White Sox for his services. Garcia went on to a 1-5 record with an ERA of 5.90 in just 11 starts with the Phils. Floyd on the other hand has won 39 games for the White Sox and Gonzalez has since moved on to the Athletics. Gonzalez looked promising in his first full season in the big leagues in 2009, going 15-9 with a 3.23 ERA in 33 starts while striking out 177.
Nelson Figueroa – The first of two pitchers on this list that were acquired from the Diamondbacks in the deal which sent Curt Schilling to Arizona, Figueroa has had two stints with the Phillies. The first in 2001 showcased Nelson for only 19 games. He bounced around until being claimed off waivers by the Phils in 2010 from the Mets. Figueroa proved to be a serviceable long man out of the bullpen in a fill-in roll before once again finding himself on waivers. Former Phillies GM Ed Wade quickly snapped Figueroa up, adding him to a roster that already included former Phillies, Jason Michaels, Brett Myers, Michael Bourn, Pedro Feliz, and JA Happ.
Vincente Padilla – Like Nelson Figueroa, Padilla was a piece in the Curt Schilling blockbuster that also netted the Phils Travis Lee and Omar Daal. Padilla proved to be the player that contributed the most to the club from that haul of talent, spending 6 seasons with the Phils going 49-49 with a 3.98 ERA. The pinnacle of his time in Philly would probably be his appearance in the mid-season classic in 2002, which would be the only time in his career he would be named an all-star. The Phillies traded Padilla to the Texas Rangers in 2005. In 2009, he faced the Phillies in the NLCS as member of the Dodgers. He started Game 2 of the series and pitched well, allowing only one run in 7.1 innings in a Dodger win. However, he gave up 6 earned runs in 3 innings of work in Game 5, which the Phillies won to clinch their second straight trip to the World Series. Now, infamous for his "lack of control" in certain situations, Padilla's throwing at and hitting batters has started more then a few brawls during his career. Despite that reputation he holds a respectable career record of 104-90, over 12 seasons in the big leagues.
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Election reform is expected to be one of the major themes in Mayor Bill de Blaiso's State of the City address Tuesday night.
During his weekly appearance on Inside City Hall, he said it's time for public money to fund political campaigns, not private donations.
Mayor de Blasio is also pushing for New York to adopt same-day voter registration and early voting.
He says both changes would make it easier for people to have their voices heard.
"If you have early voting, and you see it all over the country, people get to go in different times that work for them, they vote sometimes weeks in advance, it encourages a lot more participation. Same with vote by mail. There are states that have extraordinarily positive results with vote by mail. We've got none of it. We are literally one of the most backward states in the country when it comes to election reform," De Blasio said.
NY1 will carry the mayor's State of the City speech live from the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn at 7 p.m.


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During an interview with Colorado Springs TV at his Black Sheep performance during his Hostile Takeover Tour, Tech revealed the announcement that he's already started working on his next album. Other than mentioning that there will be eighteen instrumentals on it, saying "I'm just getting beat for it now, I've got like eighteen beats to choose, I think. I kinda lost track."
Tech also mentioned the album 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' by Kanye West, he says that Kanye's music reconfirmed his belief of music being a canvas and proving that music has no limits. "That Kanye album… made me know that there are no limitations ; you can do anything to the beat," he said. "To have a song and have instrumentals going and then Rick Ross just pops up at the end of the song and busts a clean-ass verse, that let me know that you can do anything on your canvas. I was just so proud of that, man. Like, f*ck everybody, I dig Kanye. He just takes chances and that's what I love…fuck everybody, do music."
I'm not a big fan of Kanye, can't say I've really felt his music like others have. But I can sure as hell say I'm excited for Tech N9ne's new album; he has never disappointed me yet. His music always succeeds to impress me and he's just one of my most favorite rappers out today, he's a great inspiration.
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Golden Gate
The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge
Kevin Starr
Bloomsbury Press: 216 pp., $23
Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century
Michael Hiltzik
Free Press: 498 pp., $30
The Golden Gate Bridge and Hoover Dam are more than just icons of American engineering. They are Depression-era monuments that transformed not only California's physical landscape, but its social one as well. The bridge linked San Francisco to rural Marin County, hastening the consolidation of the Bay Area into a huge metropolis. The dam brought reliable irrigation to Imperial Valley farms, as well as drinking water and hydroelectric power to Los Angeles and other Southwestern cities, fostering their explosive growth.


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Tomás Saraceno: Microscale, Macroscale, and Beyond: Large-Scale Implications of Small-Scale Experiments / MATRIX 224
November 18, 2007 - February 17, 2008
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Tomás Saraceno looks to the sky and sees possibilities for rethinking how we live in relation to one another—for reshaping notions about nationality and property, and revising our ideas about the fixity of the built environment and the organization of cities. Air-Port-City, Saraceno's ongoing project, envisions networks of habitable platforms that float in the air. The freedom of their airborne location allows for sections of living space to join together like clouds, creating aerial cities in constant physical transformation. As he explains, "Like continental drift at the beginning of the world, the new cities will search for their positions in the air in order to find their place in the universe . . . [this structure is] capable of imagining more elastic and dynamic border rules (political, geographical, etc.) for a new space/cyberspace."
Saraceno's suspended environments give physical form to this conceptual framework, and anticipate at small scale the reality of his large-scale vision. Other works such as the photographic series Cumulus use the natural environment to poetically suggest this skyscape of the future. Solar de Uyuni in the Bolivian Andes, where these images were shot, is the largest salt lake in the world, and its glassy surface reflects the sky, producing the illusion of a plane of existence suspended among the clouds. But Saraceno's work transcends quixotic ambition by applying practical principles from engineering, physics, chemistry, aeronautics, and architecture to experiment and model logistical solutions for airborne habitation. In periodic collaboration with the Buckminster Fuller Virtual Institute he has realized the largest solar-powered geodesic balloon ever built. He has also worked with a new material called Aerogel, a sponge-like insulating substance developed for use in the aerospace industry. Its incredibly light weight (only three times that of air itself), coupled with its strong structural properties, affords a host of possibilities for future construction and engineering of airborne vehicles.
Like visionary architects of the past (Buckminster Fuller and Archigram, among others), Saraceno intends to reshape social space and human behavior as much as physical space through his futuristic speculation. Traveling on passive energy collected from the wind and sun, his mile-long geodesic balloon foregrounds ecological sustainability, and does not rely on impositions upon or obliterations of the natural landscape to exist. His Flying Garden works imagine parallel agricultural modules, at present housing species of Spanish moss that receive necessary nutrition from the atmosphere—they are "air-sufficient," an apt metaphor for the human self-sufficiency that his project hopes to engender. The operative concept at the heart of Air-Port-City is one of dynamic balance, with an idea of "cities and civilizations encouraging a continuous mobility" that supercedes traditional notions of earthbound national, racial, and social boundaries between people. In their permanent nomadism, these modules for living generate alternate structures of social organization, with implications for shifts in economic and political structures as well. "Utopia exists until it is created . . . the idea of utopia is in constant mutation and changes according to the era," and Saraceno's material, formal, and conceptual investigations advance his proposition for a possible untethered future in the sky.
Saraceno's MATRIX exhibition, his first solo museum exhibition in the United States, will extend outside the MATRIX Gallery, making use of the Berkeley Art Museum's unique architecture with a new suspended sculpture for the museum's entrance atrium.
Saraceno's work has been featured in solo presentations at Towada Art Center, Japan; Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona; Barbican Art Gallery, London; and Portikus, Frankfurt. He has participated in exhibitions at venues such as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Lyon Biennial; Sharjah Biennial 8, United Arab Emirates; Büro Friedrich, Berlin; de Appel, Amsterdam; São Paulo Bienal; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Museum Boijmans van Bueningen; Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art; 50th Biennale di Venezia; and Kunstverein, Frankfurt. Saraceno studied architecture at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, then continued postgraduate studies in art and architecture at Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Ernesto de la Carcova, Buenos Aires, and Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Frankfurt.
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Phyllis Wattis MATRIX Curator
The MATRIX Program at the UC Berkeley Art Museum is made possible by a generous endowment gift from Phyllis C. Wattis.
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Metro – "expanding fare payment to chip-enabled credit cards, federal government ID cards, and mobile phones"
Photo by PoPville flickr user ep_jhu
From WMATA:
"Metro announced that the Authority will begin testing a new electronic payment program after awarding Accenture (NYSE: ACN) the contract to replace the existing fare collection systems for Metrorail, Metro-operated parking facilities, Metrobus and MetroAccess services.
The $184 million contract was awarded on a best value basis, following a competitive procurement process that included an examination of the technical capabilities of the shortlisted companies and their proposals, historical performance, and value for money.
The new system will be designed to provide a state of the art system for Metro customers that enables them to continue to use SmarTrip cards, while expanding fare payment to chip-enabled credit cards, federal government ID cards, and mobile phones using near field communications (NFC).
"While Metro pioneered the tap and go system we currently use, by today's standards that system is cumbersome and the technology is not sustainable," said Metro General Manager and CEO Richard Sarles. "The new technology will provide more flexibility for accounts, better reliability for riders, and real choices for customers to use bank-issued payment cards, credit cards, ID cards, or mobile phones to pay their Metro fares."
Washington Metro will be among the first transit systems in the United States to use this advanced technology to enhance reliability, and make travel more convenient for riders. Accenture will help deliver the electronic fare management system by combining its transit experience with industry and functional management consulting expertise in mobility, analytics, customer service, payments, financial services, retail and marketing science. Accenture has successfully implemented similar technology in Canada and the Netherlands.
"Consumers want to see new payment approaches that enable choice and are easy for them to adopt, whether it be contactless payment cards, mobile phone or even today's SmarTrip card," said Paul Loftus, Senior Managing Director with Accenture. "We are pleased to be helping Metro meet customers' current and future fare management needs."
The system will be built using the Accenture Fare Management Solution, based on commercially off-the- shelf software products. It will use an open architecture that supports a range of payment options and includes the flexibility for future evolution in payment technology.
Later this year, Accenture will provide a pilot program to test the new system in 10 Metrorail stations, aboard 50 branded-route Metrobuses, and in two parking lots. Additionally, 2,000 Metro riders will be selected to participate in the pilot program to test the performance and reliability of the new system.
"We are pleased to be working with an experienced company to bring our customers the same level of technology that we've all seen in the airlines and banking industries for payments," said Metro Deputy General Manager of Administration and Chief Financial Officer Carol Kissal. "Over the next several years, customers will see new stainless steel faregates with clamshell-like barriers and large, bright, intuitive displays to ease their entries and exits. We believe this new system will enhance the Metro experience for commuters and visitors alike."
Similarly, fare vending machines will have large, intuitive, multilingual displays and be fully ADA-compliant. Onboard Metrobus, there will be a new target for customers to tap and MetroAccess customers will be able to validate their trips using the driver's smartphone and the customer's ID card.
Metro anticipates lower ongoing maintenance costs as a result of the more modern, component-based technology. Travel transactions and fare calculations will be performed by a central data system which is easier to maintain and manage. In addition, a sophisticated equipment monitoring system to manage maintenance and repair functions will support higher equipment up-time for customers.
When fully deployed, customers will see approximately 1,000 faregates including ADA faregates, 450 fare vending machines, approximately 1,500 bus payment targets, approximately 160 new payment targets at parking exit lanes, and approximately 600 NEPP-compatible smartphones for MetroAccess operators. The new system will not accept paper tickets and Metro will continue the gradual phasing out of paper fare media. Today, less than one in ten Metrorail riders pay for their trip with a paper farecard."


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New Delhi: Declaring that leaders should not shy away from dialogue on Kashmir, separatist leader Shabir Shah has said negotiations would help in putting an end to gun culture and create a congenial atmosphere for return of normalcy. The Kashmiri leader at his meeting with Defence Minister George Fernandes on Sunday night, highly placed sources said, also called for immediate return of Kashmiri Pandits to the Valley. Asserting there was no more place for violence in Jammu and Kashmir, Shah told Fernandes that all sides should redouble their efforts to make sure that guns were removed from the state. The separatist leader also said that Centre should come out with some concrete gestures on Kashmir including releasing large number of detenues being held without trial in the jails.
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About The Poet
Euphrates Arnaut Moss has been writing since age 3 and he is the premier poet to be published by publishing company riverrun Quark (logo above). He has published various sketches in the Jibsheet, a newspaper published on Bellevue Community College campus. He graduated Bellevue Community College with an A.A. Degree in Spring 2007 and Seattle University with a B.A. in English/Creative Writing in 2011. Don't hold that against him, though. He's been published in Always Looking, Love's Chance, Poet's Espresso, The Stray Branch, Straylight, Soul Fountain, Languageandculture.net, Litsnack, Expressions, Eskimo Pie, Blink Ink, Conceit, Amulet, Open Minds Quarterly, Pale Horse Review, The Neglected Ratio, Ink Monkey, Vintage Poetry, Poetic Matrix Press (poeticmatrix.com), The Weekenders, Collective Exile, Je Ne Sais Quois, The Blue Hour, Yellow Chair Review, The Write Place At The Write Time, Section 8, Northern Stars, Corvus, and Bitterzoet magazines, The Issaquah Press newspaper, unFold (http://unfoldmag.wordpress.com/), Nickle Beer Night (http://nickelbeernightpoetry.blogspot.com/), The Sheltered Poet (http://theshelteredpoet.blogspot.com/), The Private Acre (http://privateacre.blogspot.com/), Clutching at Straws, Calliope Nerve, and (A) Record Magazine blogs.
He is currently working on the publication of his magnum opus, Telos and Other Psychographs. Stay tuned.


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The Movie Unlocker was developed for Grolsch by app developers Heads and Hands, using Bluetooth technology to simplify the process of having to enter a promotional cap under a bottle cap. With the Movie Unlocker, it's as simple as grabbing a bottle of Grolsch and bringing it in close proximity to any device for movie-watching and instantly, you're able to pick a movie of your choosing to view. Each cap's beacon code is completely unique, so that you've got to buy more beer in order to get access to more movies.
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We are sooo ready to go home and see family! We love to have the chance to see our son develop and grow up but we want our family to be apart of that experience. Going home will be bitter sweet since we know we will be leaving after 2 weeks. We just have to keep telling ourselves that we will be home soon enough... for good:)


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This Beautiful Letter By A Grandfather To His Newborn Grandson Will Put A Smile On Your Face
How do we welcome a baby in this world? Grand celebrations, tears of joy, thanking the Gods through pooja, distributing sweets to the loved ones….
But do we ever think what is welcoming in there for the baby in it? This video unfolds a heart touching yet amusing letter by a grandfather to his newly born grandson that will make you smile and look at the world in a completely different light. Now this is how you introduce a baby to this beautiful world.
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Wessex at Xerocon 2016!
Louise Rickhuss and Marianne Wharton spent a couple of days at Xerocon 2016 this month, picking up on the latest thinking, add-ons and the hottest tips for Xero users so it can all be shared at our series of Xero Surgeries in the South West. Here's a little of what they've been up to!


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I guess you haven't missed blog posts of this lovely place, the studio, at the Gothenburg interior store Artilleriet? Almost every swedish blogger has made a visit and also of course blogged about it. I was just as excited and couldn't therefore resist capturing some angels with my mobile. Unfortunately this place will close october 30. See more pictures at Johanna Bradfords blog and at Artilleriet.
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Congratulations to Daniel who won the high score of 96,597 on Pinball Shuffle at the Boston Comiccon. A pinball enthusiast himself, Daniel enjoyed playing on our video pinball table."It felt really great getting the high score," says Daniel. "Pinball Shuffle for me was slightly challenging, but I made that high score, on my first try too!"
For his victory, we are sending Daniel this Stabb Gunner poster. Try to beat Daniel's score! Visit our booth at Otakon this July 27-29 in Baltimore. All you must do is acquire the highest score for the weekend on our video pinball table for chances to win more awesome prizes!
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In a flurry of management restructuring, Walt Disney Company has shuffled its senior ranks both at home and abroad. In North America, Anne Sweeney takes over as president of Disney/ABC Cable Networks, while on the international scene, David Hubert becomes senior VP and managing director for European broadcasting at Walt Disney Television International, and David Snyder becomes senior VP, programming and creative development for European broadcasting. In addition, Mike Watts has left his post as managing director of World Productions to become VP and managing director of Buena Vista Productions-Europe.
The new international team has outlined its ambition to establish long-term joint ventures with respected producers outside the U.S. Already, Disney has broken new ground by joining forces with the BBC on a 13-part kids drama called Microsoap. Snyder also revealed that Disney is making another 13-part drama co-pro with the Australian Children's Television Foundation for Channel 7 Australia called The Crash Zone. According to Snyder, the plan is for Disney to find partners that are willing to thrash out the parameters for production over the long term, then let the creatives find the right projects to fit those requirements. He has high hopes for continued work with the BBC, and has developed a similar arrangement with the CBC in Canada. In the longer term, there are plans to find French and German partners.
Watts, who joined BVP last month, stressed that working with independent producers is also a big part of the company's plans. He highlighted Disney's work with U.K.-based Media Merchants on distributing the format for ITV's hit kids show Art Attack across Europe. Watts says, 'My aim is to increase the scale and scope of BVP-Europe, working with our team of locally-based producers and further developing relationships with co-production partners. In addition to the above shows, WDTI also outlined its plan to launch Eddie Murphy's foamation series The PJs and the teen comedy Zoe Beans at MIPCOM.


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The Basic Rights Institute (BRI) was at a crossroads. Despite its achievements—the 25-year-old advocacy organization has won countless legal victories for social and economic rights—staff morale was dangerously low, and a strategic plan was gathering dust.
BRI came to MAG seeking a wide range of organization-strengthening interventions: senior team-building and leadership development; implementation of its strategic plan; and a "cultural diversity" effort to help create and manage a more inclusive organization.
But our initial assessment interviews revealed a deeper set of concerns. Staff complained of disrespect from managers, inadequate supervision and feedback, high levels of interpersonal and interdepartmental conflict, and poor interdepartmental coordination. Further inquiry revealed two deep-rooted problems. First, leadership was adrift: the management team lacked clarity about roles and priorities, and included several members with serious deficits in management and leadership capacity. Second, the organization's strategic plan lacked specificity and relevance; few employees felt ownership of the plan or used it to guide their work.
Accordingly, MAG proceeded along two distinct, but related, tracks. To address leadership problems and staff morale, we helped BRI change its organizational culture through management coaching and conflict resolution training. And, to reinvigorate the organization's sense of purpose, we worked to design a strategic planning process that fully engaged the creativity of staff at all levels, ensuring their ongoing ownership of the work.
Changing the culture
Our immediate task was to build a high-functioning management team and foster a culture where communication and collaboration is the norm. To that end, we held all-staff trainings in conflict resolution, conducted workshops for management teams and coached individual managers. These interventions enabled BRI to:
- Clarify collective and individual roles
- Improve communication and coordination
- Rethink staffing of key managerial positions, replacing chronically underperforming managers
- Attend to the human impact of transitions, managerial processes, and decisions
- Create more transparency and mutuality in organizational communications
A shared strategy
These initial interventions were essential to stabilize the situation, but inadequate on their own to address the deeper organizational problems surfaced in the assessment. MAG firmly believed that BRI would only get back on track by engaging staff to co-create the organization's goals and strategies. To achieve this, MAG worked with a joint board/staff planning group to design a strategic planning process that included:
- Assessment interviews with staff, board, funders, collaborating organizations, and content experts
- Interdisciplinary working groups tasked with developing innovative yet realistic ways to pursue BRI's long-term goals, while ensuring the flexibility to adapt to rapidly shifting circumstances
Strength in diversity
Initially, MAG was asked to address diversity in a standalone effort, unrelated to strategic planning and general management. But we see diversity as integral to building a strong organization. That's why MAG worked to integrate diversity concerns into all stages of the strategic planning process, by:
- Including diversity metrics in the qualitative and quantitative tools used in the strategy assessment
- Creating a strategy working group focused on diversity, whose membership overlapped with that of all of the other working groups--ensuring that every long-term goal was considered through a "diversity lens"
- Developing a staff-generated vision of inclusiveness and diversity that generated enormous excitement and opened people's minds to the importance of partnering across many kinds of difference
- Integrating a detailed diversity plan, with timed steps and measures of success, into the overall BRI strategic plan
- Assigning a highly regarded VP-level staff member to address diversity, ensuring continued commitment of resources and follow-through
Back on track
These interventions proved transformational for BRI. The management/staff trainings produced a strong leadership team and a culture of mutual respect and collaboration. The planning process served to lift up new leaders throughout the organization, and broke down interdepartmental barriers, catalyzing new partnerships and approaches. Because staff were fully involved in the planning process, they developed a deep sense of ownership of the final product. And, by thoroughly integrating diversity into the strategic plan, we helped create an inclusive organization that can fully engage the talents of all.
Moreover, the strategy produced by this innovative planning process—which brings new thinking to bear on old and intractable problems—has generated enough excitement that the organization was able to raise over three million dollars in three months to fund major portions of the new work. On the strength of its new direction and energy, BRI also successfully recruited a world-renowned expert to head up its largest program department—putting BRI on track to regain its place as an effective, cutting-edge advocate for basic rights.


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Chateau Pichon Longueville
We visited Chateau Pichon Longueville in Pauillac. As you can (just about) see, it is flanked by two buildings in the style of Egyptian tombs which won architectural awards in the 1990s. We went in the one on the right of the photo. The walkway sloped gently downwards. Electric doors swished open to let us through and carved sphinxes glared at us from the furniture of the ante-rooms. We felt as if we were in a James Bond film. At last we reached the main chamber, far below ground level. It was vast and circular, twenty-eight massive stainless steel vats standing around a large flagstone floor with two manholes in it, leading into a 1500 hectolitre vat below.
The vineyard is owned by Axa and the style of wine making is completely different from the family owned chateaux which we'd visited. The families all said that they vary the Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot ratio year by year depending on the quality of the Merlot harvest. Pichon Longueville scoffs at this. "Our customers like our wine because they know it is dependable: it's always 60% Cabernet and 40% Merlot. We just put Cabernet into some of the vats, Merlot in the others and when the time comes, we pump 60% Cabernet and 40% Merlot into the manholes under the floor, stir it about and pump the blend out the other end."


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Love this shoot from Black Magazine #16. Dreamy but urban.
It has a bit of a Nick Knight/SHOWstudio quality to it, don't you think?
The styling has a really sculptural and tactile feel to it, but each piece is also totally wearable - a rare combination in fashion shoots.
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This is the true story of three Georgia Tech students, who become stranded on Cumberland Island, GA in 1971 and have to live off the land for ten days until rescued. The central plot of the book is preceded and followed by fascinating descriptions of life during the Viet Nam War Era. Probably the most interesting scene is when the author is playing Allman Brothers and Lynnard Skynard records with Gov. Jimmy Carter, when a very young Senator Joe Biden knocks unexpectedly at the apartment door. He subsequently asks Jimmy to run for President of the United States. The 144 pages include 88 original color photographs of Cumberland Island or Georgia in 1971 - the year of the expedition.
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Lemens WaterCare was started in neighboring Casco in 1963 by Robert "Red" Weidner. Leonard and Janice Lemens purchased the business in 1986 and relocated to Luxemburg. In 1991, large filtration systems and water softener salt were added to the inventory, along with point of use small filter systems.
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In September 1994, Jim Simonar was hired as a full time employee. Two years later Lemens WaterCare moved to our Center Drive location. Jim and his wife Beth purchased the business from Len and Janice in 2003.
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I'm back with the 2nd post of the day!!!
Its Big Day,so there are lots of creations.
I've two Casual Fridays Stamp cards to share with you all....
First up is a lovely thank you card for a very Dear Friend of mine.
I used CFS-Lotsa Links to create a fun background with some fab Hero Arts inks.
The sentiment is from CFS-Frankly set.
Next up is a bunch of quick note cards.....
I needed quite a few notecards...so I made this design in multiples.
I used flower from CFS-Wonderful Words set and the sentiment from CFS-Loving Thoughts set.
Simply colored the flowers with Copics and added a bit of Black enamel accents in the center.
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Bank of England governor Mark Carney will remain in his role until June 2019.
His announcement follows speculation that Mr Carney would step down from the role in 2018.
But he has confirmed that he will stay in charge for an extra year to help smooth Britain's departure from the EU.
In a letter to Chancellor Philip Hammond, he wrote: 'I would be honoured to extend my time of service as Governor for an additional year to the end of June 2019," Carney said in a letter to finance minister Philip Hammond which was published by the BoE.
'By taking my term in office beyond the expected period of the Article 50 process (for Britain to leave the EU), this should help contribute to securing an orderly transition to the UK's new relationship with Europe.'
Mr Carney had the option of staying in the post until 2021.
The announcement is expected to give a boost to the pound, which has taken a dive in value since the EU referendum.
His decision has been welcomed by both the chancellor and prime minister.
A spokeswoman for Theresa May said: 'The prime minister welcomes the governor's decision to stay on beyond his initial five-year term," the spokeswoman said.
'This is good news for the UK. It will provide continuity and stability at the Bank of England as we negotiate our exit from the European Union and look to take advantage of the opportunities that Brexit will present.'
Replying to the governor's letter, Mr Hammond said: 'This will enable you to continue your highly effective leadership of the bank through a critical period for the British economy as we negotiate our exit from the European Union.
'I am grateful for your contribution to both monetary and financial stability to date, and I look forward to your continuing contribution in the future.'


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Watch how to make this recipe.
Bring two pots of water to a boil.
Skin the yams and taro, then place each in separate pots of boiling water and cook until soft, 20 to 25 minutes. When cooked, drain the water and combine the vegetables. Slowly add the milk to the mixture and blend until pureed. Add the sugar and continue to blend. When thoroughly blended, place in freezer-safe container and freeze. Scrape the frozen mixture into cups to serve.
When blending hot liquids, first let cool for 5 minutes or so, then transfer to a blender, filling only halfway. Put the lid on, leaving one corner open; this will prevent the vacuum effect that creates heat explosions. Cover the lid with a kitchen towel to catch splatters and pulse until smooth.
When blending hot liquid, first let it cool for five minutes or so, then transfer it to a blender, filling only halfway. Put the lid on, leaving one corner open. Cover the lid with a kitchen towel to catch splatters, and pulse until smooth.
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Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley
Townes Fellowship in Experimental Astrophysics and Space Physics
The Charles H. Townes Fellowship is a Prize Fellowship in Experimental Astrophysics and Space Physics at the Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley. The fellowship offers recent Ph.D. recipients the opportunity to pursue independent research projects, in part by being granted Principal Investigator status at UC Berkeley for the duration of their fellowship.
It is expected, however, that the recipient will work closely with one of the established experimental research groups at UC Berkeley, taking advantage of existing facilities and resources. Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the research group with which they are likely to be associated. While the focus of the Townes Fellowship is primarily instrumental, strong observational components to the proposed research program are encouraged. Fellowships are awarded for two years, with a possible renewal for a third year.
The annual salary is commensurate with postgraduate salaries in the field with an additional research fund of $10,000 per year. Health benefits are included for Fellows and their dependents. The applicant must have the support of a sponsoring research group. Financial support for the Fellowship will divided equally between the Space Sciences Laboratory and the sponsoring research group.
Past Townes Fellows
- Nils Halverson (2003)
Experimental Cosmology
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- Trixi Wunderer (2003)
- Daniel Harbeck (2004)
- Nat Butler (2005)
Observational Astrophysics, Astronomy and SSL, U. C. Berkeley
- Matthew Muterspaugh (2006)
- Andrew Howard (2007)
- Nicolas Barrière and Aaron Parsons (2008)
- Bennett Maruca (2012)
- Darcy Barron (2015; NSF Fellow & Townes Fellow)
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The techniques used include dry and heat embossing, watercoloring and stamping on vellum.
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Exultant heads Cruz trio in Hong Kong Classic Cup assault
Exultant will lead trainer Tony Cruz's three-horse assault on Sunday's (18 February) HK$10 million Hong Kong Classic Cup (1800m) at Sha Tin Racecourse, with the handler seeking a second win in the race, 11 years on from Floral Pegasus.
The Golden Age and Doctor Geoff are slated to join their stablemate in the second leg of the Four-Year-Old Classic Series at the Chinese New Year's race day, having side-stepped last month's Hong Kong Classic Mile. Exultant was a running-on fourth behind the impressive Nothingilikemore in that first generational test.
"Exultant is the pick of them, for sure. All three are in good form, though, and this Sunday's race will hopefully take them into the Hong Kong Derby (2000m) with big chances," Cruz said.
The handler does not have to worry about a stamina doubt at the weekend. Exultant proved his merit over a trip with an impressive Class 2 win at 2000m immediately prior to his Classic Mile effort.
"Everything is going according to plan and he is in better shape for this race than he was last time. His fitness is good and he's learnt from his races," Cruz said of Zac Purton's mount.
"This distance will be better for him than the mile last time. He's definitely going to be more suited to the 1800 metres and in time we will see him racing over 2400 metres, that won't be a problem."
The Golden Age and Doctor Geoff will bring fresh blood into the Classic Series. The former has carved a niche this term as a smart performer at Happy Valley, notching front-running wins at 1650m and 1800m before placing second to Eagle Way in the G3 January Cup (1800m) last month. The chestnut was a solid fourth behind subsequent G3 winner Dinozzo in a 1650m Class 2 at the city venue last time out.
"This distance is perfect for The Golden Age," Cruz said. "I don't see Sha Tin as being a negative, he's been running really well at Happy Valley but he's a talented horse and I think he can show his best here, too."
Jockey Matthew Chadwick echoed that view: "His last couple of runs, he's been beaten by black type horses and both of those are entered for the Group 1 race next week, so the form is good. You can't knock him, even though it's been at Happy Valley.
"He feels like he's more of a stayer now, he's built up his strength and he should be able to go the 1800 at a stronger gallop. His form puts him right in the frame on Sunday, and while he loves Happy Valley, coming back to Sha Tin is just about whether he has the ability, and if he has, then the track won't matter."
Doctor Geoff is the dark horse in the Cruz contingent. The Irish import rattled off a fast closing sectional to finish a half-length second to the talented Pingwu Spark on debut in November. After a sub-par second run, the Fast Company gelding kept on for a wayward yet smart third in a 1600m Class 2 in early January – subsequent Classic Mile fifth Rivet was one place behind him.
"Doctor Geoff wasn't quite ready for the Classic Mile and he'll be more suited to this distance, so he comes into this race now ready after three runs. He's got a big finish and he'll show it at the right distance – I think the 1800 is his right distance," Cruz said.
"Last time, he veered out to the stands' rail but Karis (Teetan) should have pulled the whip through, so you can't blame the horse for the way he drifted across the track that day."
The John Size-trained Nothingilikemore is likely to start a warm favourite to follow-up his impressive victory in the Hong Kong Classic Mile.
Also among the 13 entries are the Classic Mile place-getters, runner-up Singapore Sling from the Tony Millard yard and third-placed Morethanlucky, trained by Frankie Lor.
The John Moore stable could field G1 winners Rivet and Ruthven, as well as Beauty Miles and Grand Chancellor, while the Richard Gibson duo of Rattan and Goldfield, and the David Ferraris-trained Patriot Hero complete the entries.
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Aww, I LOVE this recap! It really looks like you've been spending some super quality time with ones you love :-) That's the best. Oh, and all the food looks pretty darn incredible as well!ReplyDelete
XO - Marion
PS - love the little snow coming down!
Great pictures. I love the look into your life and what all you've been doing - in the nicest possible way. Was that snow edible?ReplyDelete
Thanks for the sweet comment. I like greys too(:ReplyDelete
Oh how i love legos. Seriously tho:) And that food looks delish. Looks like alot of fun!!!
I like your instagrams pics! I'm on a instagram high and obsessed with taking everything i see!ReplyDelete
what a sweet family you have! and is your hair really that long?! it's gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Aww, so many beautiful pictures! Looks like you had an amazing time! Love the family and food photos, they make me quite nostalgic!ReplyDelete
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I see your Color Me Beautiful Necklace from Mary and Dyer in one of those pictures!! Looks great on you!! Hope you are doing well, love! xoxReplyDelete
LOVE all the pictures. Looks like you've been having so much fun!ReplyDelete
Scattegories is a favorite of mine, even though I'm HORRIBLE at it... haha!
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Some notes for the research are collected/written here:
Data processing
Waveform simulation
English writing
To-buy list
Data processing
- Filter中參數p的特性
- A useful SAC commend: cuterr fillz (used to fill up zeros if there is no data point to cut in demanded time period)
- IRIS web notes about common rotations in seismology
- The SAC command interpolate for down-sampling is clearly aliasing once the sampling rate is less than 100 Hz, so the command decimate is always preferred.
- The unit of the seismograms extracted from seed file is usually in meter, and that downloaded from STP with gain on is in centimeter (count is provided with gain off).
- NetCDF user's guides [1][2][3]
Waveform simulation
- The unit of displacement data downloaded from BATS is meter, which is the same with that of SEM synthetics but different from that of FK synthetics. The unit of FK synthetics is centimeter.
- Since FK uses impulse function instead of step function as moment function, the output of FK is actually velocity seismograms/Green's functions, not displacement.
- Useful noise comparison plots
- The flat-response frequency band of Palert MEMS sensor ranges 0.05-15 Hz (ca. 0.1-10 conservatively).
- Lagrage multiplier (拉格朗乘數)
- Integration by parts (分部積分)
- Mean and Variance of Sample Mean
- 連續隨機變數的期望值
- 微積分公式
- The basics of Fourier transform
- Frequency domain representation of the time delay
- Geographic Distance and Azimuth Calculations [1][2]
- A cool illustration of numerical optimization
- An Intuitive (and Short) Explanation of Bayes' Theorem
- Interpolation methods
- Introduction to splines
- PCA vs. ICA [1][2][3]
English writing
- 英文論文寫作時態 [1][2]
- To + V or To + Ving
- While & When
- For the reason - as/because; For this reason - therefore, thus
- "Due to" is used as an adjective, and "because of" is used as an adverb.
- Comparable commands between Windows and Linux
- Unix 重新導向跟 2>&1
- Difference between calling by value, by address, and by reference in C/C++
- The Hitchhiker's guide to Python
- Some useful Fortran tricks
- 遠端連線時Screen的用法
- Install Torque on Centos 6
- Install CentOS Extras repository
- 簡易Cluster架設 by鳥哥
- Linux動態&靜態函式庫說明
- Using the SAC library in Fortran/C codes
- Default block size of binary files is different for ifort (4 bytes) and gfortran (1 byte), therefore using recl=1 for ifort is equivalent to uisng recl=4 for gfortran compiler
- MPI vs OpenMP
- The wave-guided effect of subducted plate (with high-frequency content and sustained coda) observed in Taiwan region mainly takes place in a frequency band >3 Hz. (Chen et al., 2013)
- The evocative "super-eruption" is an informal term referring to volcanic events in which at least 300 km^3 of magma are explosively evacuated from a subsurface magma chamber (Sparks et al. 2005). Any volcanic system that has produced a super-eruption is consequently dubbed a "super-volcano".
- Temperature of magmas (in Celsius): Basaltic magma - 1000-1200, Andesitic magma - 800-1000, rhyolitic magma - 650-800.
- Terminology aliases between solid Earth (left) and exploration (right) seismology:
source time function | source wavelet
epicentral distance | offset
seismogram | trace
station | receiver
seismic event | source
phase | event
- Slowness u(s/deg) ~ u(s/km) * 111.91
- Rule of Thumb: building natural frequency (s) ~ 1/10 *number of storey
- Migration in practice
To-buy list
- Structural geology algorithms: Vectors and tensors
- An Introduction to the Theory of Seismology (2nd Edn)
- The Earth's Inner Core: Revealed by Observational Seismology
- Deformation of Earth Materials: An Introduction to the Rheology of Solid Earth
- The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting (3rd Edn)


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The five starters for Long Beach State's men's basketball team have probably spent more time together on a court than the nine members of the Supreme Court have spent in their judicial chambers.
Casper Ware, T.J. Robinson, Greg Plater and Larry Anderson each played 33 minutes-plus a game this season and Eugene Phelps almost 29 per. They were five of the of the six regulars last season, too. So there haven't been many times over the course of two seasons when at least one, and probably two, were go-to guys for any particular game.
Until Saturday. With a NCAA Tournament bid on the line, a 22-win team lost its shooting ability, and its confidence in each other, at the same time. They could no more make a close-range shot than Edward Scissorhands could – 19-for-66 from the field – and were dull even without a hand in their face (14-for-25 in free throws).
The result was a frustrating 64-56 loss to UC Santa Barbara in the Big West Tournament title game at Honda Center. The Gauchos, a team the 49ers beat by 16 and 18 during the regular season, get the NCAA bid while the 49ers prepare for the ultimate consolation of a NIT bid.
Dan Monson spent the last two minutes of the game with his chin on his hand. There's never been a coach who can make a team's shots go down, especially when most of them came from fish-in-a-barrell range.
"I told the coaches, `I don't know how to help them,"' Monson said afterward. "You just keep trying. It's my job to help them. I told them before the game that if we rebounded and played defense, they'd win the game. I just never envisioned struggling that much on offense. I think they all wanted it so bad that they never relaxed."
Casper Ware, usually the most consistent player on the court, had his second off-key game in a row, going 5-for-17. UCSB put Justin Joyner on him all game and also brought a tall defender out on him to stop his drives to the basket before he could start them.
Eugene Phelps (2-for-8), T.J. Robinson (3-for-12) and Larry Anderson (4-for-12) would get shots in the paint but they had all the touch of a bowling ball. Senior Greg Plater, who had a great game against UC Riverside in the semifinals, was 3-for-8 and had three 3-point shots rim in-and-out.
"It became a virus," Monson said. "They began to worry about it too much."
"It was frustrating because we expected to win a game like this," the senior Plater said. "Everybody tried to do it themselves. We didn't depend on each other. We were going too fast at times. We'd get shots, but they were rushed."
UC Santa Barbara, meanwhile, played a disciplined game on offense and banged the 49ers around in the paint to throw off their aim and confidence.
"We gave help on the baseline when we could and made them put the ball on the floor," UCSB coach Bob Williams said, "make their life a little difficult."
Even when the 49ers used a 10-0 run to take a 26-25 lead late in the first half, it was a disjointed run. UCSB's 10-0 run in the second half, that turned a 36-35 deficit to a 45-36 lead, was a display of patience.


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