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다음 인터뷰는 로저 젤러즈니가 <앰버>시리즈의 마지막 권을 출간하고 난지 얼마 뒤에 씌여진 것입니다. 젤러즈니에 관한 각종 글들을 인터넷에서 읽다 보면 각기 다양한 시기에 씌여졌기 때문에 어떤 것은 앰버 시리즈가 완성되지 않았다는 전제로 시작하는가 하면 이번 글처럼 앰버 시리즈는 출간이 완료되었지만 젤러즈니가 아직 살아있을 때 씌어진 경우도 있습니다. 따라서 젤러즈니에 대한 사전 지식이 없는 독자는 이 작가에 대한 정확한 조망을 얻는데 어려움을 겪을 수도 있습니다. 대개 소설이 고전의 반열에 오르고 작가 역시 거장 소리를 들으려면 죽고난 뒤 일정 시간이 흘러야 하는 법인데 일부 운좋은 작가들은 살아 생전부터 이런 소리를 듣는 축복을 누리기도 합니다. 과학소설계에서는 젤러즈니도 그러한 편에 속합니다. 물론 황금시대의 거장들도 그랬지만, 젤러즈니는 1995년 여름 그들에 비할 수 없을 정도로 비교적 젊은 나이에 요절했음에도 불구하고 그러한 영예를 누리고 있습니다.(아시모프와 하인라인은 먼저 갔지만 클라크는 아직도 팔팔하게 살아있지 않습니까.) 인터넷을 뒤져보면 많은 독자들과 비평가들이 그를 거장의 반열에 기꺼이 올려놓고 있지요. 언제고 젤러즈니에 관한 정보가 충분히 누적되면 그를 총체적으로 점검해보는 글을 써보도록 하겠습니다. 다음 인터뷰의 특징은 제3자가 평가한 리뷰가 아니라 간략한 소개에 이어 젤러즈니 자신이 직접 자신의 작품세계를 말해주고 있다는 점입니다. 하지만 <앰버>시리즈나 <빛의 왕>, <내 이름은 콘라드> 등 국내에 번역되어 있는 작품들에 대한 언급이 별로 없다는 것이 아쉽습니다.
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다음 글은 인터넷의 젤러즈니 홈페이지에서 내려받아 우리말로 옮긴 것입니다. 젤러즈니의 작품들은 우리나라의 열악한 과학소설 출판계 현실을 감안하건대 뉴웨이브 작가치고는 비교적 여러편 우리나라에 소개되는 행운을 누렸습니다. 최근에는 <앰버 시리즈>가 2권까지 나와 있지요. 올해말까지 시리즈 1차분인 5권이 완간된다니 기대해봅시다. 아래 글의 특징은 젤러즈니의 작가로서 성장하기까지의 환경을 돌이켜 보고 그의 작품들에서 두드러지는 성향들을 몇가지로 정리해 놓았다는 점입니다. 젤러즈니에게 흥미 있으신 분들에게는 작은 도움이 될까 해서 올려봅니다. 한가지 유의할 점은 이 글은 젤러즈니가 죽기 전인 96년에 씌어졌기 때문에 젤러즈니가 한창 현역으로 활동하고 있는 작가로 묘사되어 있다는 것입니다. 이 점 헷갈리지 마시기 바랍니다.
이글은 <동아일보>의 '황태훈'님 글입니다. http://www.donga.com/fbin/output?n=200203080210 하이퍼링크가 안되시면 불편하시더라도 복사하신후 인터넷 주소창에 붙인후 엔터치시면 본문으로 들어갑니다.ㅠ.ㅠ 혹 글이 안보이시면 아래를 클릭하세요
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'사회주의자가 읽어야 할 판타지, SF 50선(Fifty Fantasy & SF Works That Socialists Should Read)'은 영국의 SF 작가 China Miéville이 2002년 만든 목록입니다. China Miéville은 영국 SF 작가로서, 현재 영국 사회주의 노동자당(Socilalist Workers Party, 국내 IS와 같은 정당) 소속 당원으로 활동중인 좌파 활동가이기도 합니다. 2001년 부터 발표하는 소설마다 '영국 판타지상', '아서 C 클라크상' 등을 꾸준히 받고 있으며, 휴고상과 네뷸러상의 최종 후보로도 각 두차례씩 올라가는 등 최근 주목받는 작가 중 한명입니다. 우리나라에 번역되어 있지 않은 책이 대부분이긴 하지만, 관심이 있는 분들을 위해 올려봅니다. 각 책에 링크된 것은 '아마존'으로 연결되어 있습니다. 사회주의자가 읽어야 할 판타지와 SF 50선 (Fifty Fantasy & Science Fiction Works That Socialists Should Read) By China Miéville/January 23, 2002 This is not a list of the "best" fantasy or SF. There are huge numbers of superb works not on the list. Those below are chosen not just because of their quality—which though mostly good, is variable—but because the politics they embed (deliberately or not) are of particular interest to socialists. Of course, other works—by the same or other writers—could have been chosen: disagreement and alternative suggestions are welcomed. I change my own mind hour to hour on this anyway. Iain M. Banks—Use of Weapons (1990) Socialist SF discussing a post-scarcity society. The Culture are "goodies" in narrative and political terms, but here issues of cross-cultural guilt and manipulation complicate the story from being a simplistic utopia. Edward Bellamy—Looking Backward, 2000–1887 (1888) A hugely influential, rather bureaucratic egalitarian/naïve communist utopia. Deals very well with the confusion of the "modern" (19th Century) protagonist in a world he hasn't helped create (see Bogdanov). Alexander Bogdanov—The Red Star: A Utopia (1908; trans. 1984) This Bolshevik SF sends a revolutionary to socialist Mars. The book's been criticized (with some justification) for being proto-Stalinist, but overall it's been maligned. Deals well with the problem faced by someone trying to adjust to a new society s/he hasn't helped create (see Bellamy). Emma Bull & Steven Brust—Freedom & Necessity (1997) Bull is a left-liberal and Brust is a Trotskyist fantasy writer. F&N is set in the 19th Century of the Chartists and class turmoil. It's been described as "the first Marxist steampunk" or "a fantasy for Young Hegelians." Mikhail Bulgakov—The Master and Margarita (1938; trans. 1967) Astonishing fantasy set in '30s Moscow, featuring the Devil, Pontius Pilate, The Wandering Jew, and a satire and critique of Stalinist Russia so cutting it is unbelievable that it got past the censors. Utterly brilliant. Katherine Burdekin (aka "Murray Constantine")—Swastika Night (1937) An excellent example of the "Hitler Wins" sub-genre of SF. It's unusual in that it was published by the Left Book Club and it was written while Hitler was in power, so the fear of Nazi future was immediate. Octavia Butler—Survivor (1978) Black American writer, now discovered by the mainstream after years of acclaim in the SF field. Kindred is her most overtly political novel, the Patternmaster series the most popular. Survivor brilliantly blends genre SF with issues of colonialism and racism. Julio Cortázar—"House Taken Over" (1963?) A terrifying short story undermining the notion of the house as sanctity and refuge. A subtle destruction of the bourgeois oppositions between public/private and inside/outside. Philip K. Dick—A Scanner Darkly (1977) Could have picked almost any of his books. Like all of them, this deals with identity, power, and betrayal, here tied in more directly to social structures than in some other works (though see Counter-Clock World and The Man in the High Castle). Incredibly moving. Thomas Disch—The Priest (1994) Utterly savage work of anti-clericalism. A work of dark fantasy GBH against the Catholic Church (dedicated, among others, to the Pope…) Gordon Eklund—All Times Possible (1974) Study of alternative worlds, including an examination of hypothetical Left-wing movements in alternative USAs. Max Ernst—Une Semaine de Bonté (1934) The definitive Surrealist collage novel. A succession of images the reader is involved in decoding. A Whodunwhat, with characters from polite commercial catalogues engaged in a story of little deaths and high adventure. Claude Farrère—Useless Hands (1920; trans. 1926) Bleak Social Darwinism, and a prototype of "farewell to the working class" arguments. The "useless hands"—workers—revolt is seen as pathetic before inexorable technology. A cold, reactionary, interesting book. Anatole France—The White Stone (1905; trans. 1910) In part, a rebuttal to the racist "yellow peril" fever of the time—a book about "white peril" and the rise of socialism. Also interesting is The Revolt of the Angels, which examines now well-worn socialist theme of Lucifer being in the right, rebelling against the despotic God. Jane Gaskell—Strange Evil (1957) Written when Gaskell was 14, with the flaws that entails. Still, however, extraordinary. A savage fairytale, with fraught sexuality, meditations on Tom Paine and Marx, revolutionary upheaval depicted sympathetically, but without sentimentality; plus the most disturbing baddy in fiction. Mary Gentle—Rats and Gargoyles (1990) Set in a city that undermines the "feudalism lite" of most genre fantasy. An untypical female protagonist has adventures in a cityscape complete with class struggle, corruption, and racial oppression. Charlotte Perkins Gilman—"The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) Towering work by this radical thinker. Terrifying short story showing how savage gender oppression can inhere in "caring" relationships just as easily as in more obviously abusive ones. See also her feminist/socialistic utopias "Moving the Mountain" (1911) and Herland (1914). Lisa Goldstein—The Dream Years (1985) A time-slip oscillating between Paris in the 1920s, during the Surrealist movement, and in 1968, during the Uprising. Uses a popular fantastic mode to examine the relation between Surrealism as the fantastic mode par excellence and revolutionary movements (if nebulously conceived). Stefan Grabiński—The Dark Domain (1918–22; trans. and collected 1993) Brilliant horror by this Polish writer. Unusually locates the uncanny and threatening within the very symbols of a modernizing industrialism in Poland: trains, electricity, etc. This awareness of the instability of the everyday marks him out from traditional, "nostalgic" ghost story writers. George Griffith—The Angel of Revolution (1893) Rather dated, but unusual in that its heroes are revolutionary terrorists. Very different from the devious anarchist villains of (e.g.) Chesterton. Imil Habibi—The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist (1974; trans. 1982) The full title is much longer. Habiby was a member of the Palestinian Community Party, a veteran of the anti-British struggle of the 40s, and a member of the Knesset for several years. This amiable, surreal book is about the life of a Palestinian in Israel (with surreal bits, and aliens). M. John Harrison—Viriconium Nights (1984) A stunning writer, who expresses the alienation of the modern everyday with terrible force. Fantasy that mercilessly uncovers the alienated nature of the longing for fantastic escape, and show how that fantasy will always remain out of reach. Punishes his readers and characters for their involvement with fantasy. See also The Course of the Heart. Ursula K. Le Guin—The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974) The most overtly political of this anarchist writer's excellent works. An examination of the relations between a rich, exploitive capitalist world and a poor, nearly barren (though high-tech) communist one. Jack London—Iron Heel (1907) London's masterpiece: scholars from a 27th Century socialist world find documents depicting a fascist oligarchy in the US and the revolt of the proletariat. Elsewhere, London's undoubted socialism is undermined by the most appalling racism. Ken MacLeod—The Star Fraction (1996) British Trotskyist (of strongly libertarian bent), all of whose (very good) works examine Left politics without sloganeering. The Stone Canal, for example, features arguments about distortions of Marxism. However, The Star Fraction is chosen here as it features Virtual Reality heroes of the left, by name—a roll call of genuine revolutionaries recast in digital form. Gregory Maguire—Wicked (1995) Brilliant revisionist fantasy about how the winners write history. The loser whose side is here taken is the Wicked Witch of the West, a fighter for emancipatory politics in the despotic empire of Oz. J. Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon)—Gay Hunter (1934, reissued 1989) By the Marxist writer of the classic work of vernacular Scots literature A Scots Quair, and Spartacus, the novel that proves that propaganda can be art. This is great science fiction. Bit dewy-eyed about hunter-gatherers perhaps, but superb nonetheless. As an added bonus, it also has a title that sounds amusing today. Check out his short fiction, which includes a lot of SF/Fantasy work. Michael Moorcock—Hawkmoon (1967–77, reprinted in one edition 1992) Moorcock is an erudite Left-anarchist and a giant of fantasy literature. Almost everything he's written is of interest, but Hawkmoon is chosen here in honor of Moorcock having said about it: "In a spirit consciously at odds with the jingoism of the day, I chose a German for a hero and the British for villains." There are also plenty of satirical references and gags about 1960s/70s politics for the reader to decode. William Morris—News From Nowhere (1888) A socialist (though naively pastoral) utopia, written in response to Bellamy (above), that unusually doesn't shy away from the hard political question of how we get the desired utopia-proletarian revolution. See also The Well at the World's End and his other fantasies. Toni Morrison—Beloved (1987) It's well known that Beloved is a superb book about race and slavery and guilt, but it's less generally accepted that it's a fantasy. It is. It's a ghost story that wouldn't have half the charge without the fantastic element. Mervyn Peake—The Gormenghast Novels (1946–59) An austere depiction of dead ritualism and necessary transformation. Don't believe those who say that the third book is disappointing. Marge Piercy—Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) A Chicano woman trapped in an asylum makes contact with a messenger from a future utopia, born after a "full feminist revolution". Philip Pullman—Northern Lights (1995) Pullman let us down. This book is here because it deals with moral/political complexities with unsentimental respect for its (young adult) readers and characters. Explores freedom and social agency, and the question of using ugly means for emanicipatory ends. It raises the biggest possible questions, and doesn't patronise us that there are easy answers. The second in the trilogy, The Subtle Knife, is a perfectly good bridging volume… and then in book three, The Amber Spyglass, something goes wrong. It has excellent bits, it is streets ahead of its competition… but there's sentimentality, a hesitation, a formalism, which lets us down. Ah well. Northern Lights is still a masterpiece. Ayn Rand—Atlas Shrugged (1957) Know your enemy. This panoply of portentous Nietzcheanism lite has had a huge influence on American SF. Rand was an obsessive "objectivist" (libertarian pro-capitalist individualist) whose hatred of socialism and any form of "collectivism" is visible in this important an influential—though vile and ponderous—novel. Mack Reynolds—Lagrange Five (1979) Reynolds was, for 25 years, an activist for the U.S. Socialist Labor Party. His radical perspective on political issues is reflected throughout his work. This book—examining a quasi-utopia without sentimentalism—is only one suggestion. Also of huge interest are Tomorrow Might Be Different (1960) and The Rival Rigelians (1960), which explicitly examine the relation between capitalism and Stalinism. Keith Roberts—Pavane (1968) These linked stories take place in a present day where Elizabeth I was assassinated and Spain took over Britain. This examines life in a world where a militant feudal Catholicism acts as a fetter on social and productive functions. Though Roberts was no lefty at all, and you could probably power France on the energy from his spinning grave at being included in this list. Kim Stanley Robinson—The Mars Trilogy (1992–96) Probably the most powerful center of gravity for Leftist SF in the 1990s. A sprawling and thoughtful examination of the variety of social relations feeding into and leading up to revolutionary change. (It's also got some Gramsci jokes in it.) Mary Shelley—Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818) Not a warning "not to mess with things that should be let alone" (which would be a reactionary anti-rationalist message) but an insistence on the necessity of grappling with forces one unleashes and the fact that there is no "innate" nature to people, but a socially-constructed one. Lucius Shepard—Life During Wartime (1987) Horrific vision of a future (thinly disguised Vietnam) war. Within the savage examinations of the truth of war and U.S. foreign policy, Shepard also investigates the relation between SF, fantasy, and "magic realism", and uses their shared mode to look back at reality with passion. Norman Spinrad—The Iron Dream (1972) A SF novel by Adolf Hitler… Spinrad's funny, disturbing and savage indictment of the fascist aesthetics in much genre SF and fantasy. What if Hitler had become a pulp SF writer in New York? Not a book about that possibility but a book from it. "By the same author: Triumph of the Will and Lord of the Swastika." Brave and nasty. Eugene Sue—The Wandering Jew (1845) Huge book by radical socialist Sue, about the adventures of the family of the Wandering Jew of legend. Symbolic fantasy elements: the Jew is the dispossessed laborer and his partner is downtrodden woman. Marx hated Sue as a writer (not without reason—less, for Sue, is not in more) but hell, it's an important book. Michael Swanwick—The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993) Great work that completely destroys the sentimental aspects of genre fantasy. From within the genre—fairies, elves, and all—Swanwick examines the industrial revolution, the Vietnam War, racism and sexism, and the escapist dreams of genre fantasy. A truly great anti-fantasy. Jonathan Swift—Gulliver's Travels (1726) Savage attack on hypocrisy and cant that never dilutes its fantasy with its satire: the two elements feed off each other perfectly. Alexei Tolstoy—Aelita (1922; trans. 1957) Distant relative of the other Tolstoy. The "revised" version is less good, written in the stern environment of Stalinism. A Red Army officer goes to Mars and foments a rebellion of native Martians. Good rousing stuff, but also interesting in terms of "exporting" revolution. See also the superb avant-garde film version from 1924. Ian Watson—Slow Birds (1985) Left-wing author whose short story collection above includes a cold demolition of Thatcher and Thatcherism. His take on oppression—cognitive and political—informs all his rather austere, cerebral writing. H.G. Wells—The Island of Dr Moreau (1896) Like a lot of Wells's work, this is an uneasy mixture of progressive and reactionary notions. It makes for one of the great horror stories of all time. A fraught examination of colonialism, science, eugenics, repression, and religion: a kind of fantasy echo of Shakespeare's The Tempest. E. L. White—"Lukundoo" (1927) One of the most utterly extraordinary (and almost certainly unconscious) expressions of colonial anxiety and guilt in the history of literature. Oscar Wilde—The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888) Children's fantasies by this romantic, socialist author. Marked by a sharp lack of sentimentality, a deeply subversive cynicism, which doesn't blunt their ability to be intensely moving. Gene Wolfe—The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972) Wolfe is a religious Republican, but his tragico-Catholic perspective leads to a deeply unglamorized and unsanitized awareness of social reality. This book is a very sad and extremely dense, complex meditation on colonialism, identity and oppression. Yevgeny Zamyatin—We (1920; trans. 1924) A Bolshevik, who earned semi-official unease in the USSR even in the early 1920s, with this unsettling dystopian view of absolute totalitarianism. These days often retrospectively, ahistorically, and misleadingly judged to be a critique of Stalinism. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ With many thanks to Mark Bould, Brian Stableford, and the members of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts email list (IAFA-L) for their suggestions. I take full responsibility for the final selection…


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So many different components go into making a Hot Tub that is energy and cost-efficient. People often look to insulation, pumps and heaters to decide whether or not a spa is high quality. However, something that is often overlooked is your Hot Tub Cover. Making sure that your Hot Tub's Cover is made with quality materials can help you save thousands of dollars in the long run.
Heat rises, making Hot Tub Covers play a huge role in insulating your spa because heat rises. So if your Cover is not insulating properly, you will lose a lot of heat from the top of your tub. This means your heater will need to run more to keep your water warm, costing you more money. Here's a quick breakdown of everything you need to know about Covers.
Your Cover should be a perfect fit for your tub. Usually, when buying a replacement Cover, you will have to do a custom fitting, which means you will need to provide specific details about your Hot Tub's size to make sure your replacement Hot Tub Cover fits properly. These measurements can be tricky, as they often involve rounded corners, however, it is important that you have exact measurements.
Did you know that Covers have material that hangs down the sides of your Hot Tub? Although they might not look like much, these flaps play an important role in stopping hot air from escaping your tub. If these flaps don't line up properly with the sides of your shell, they won't be able to stop the airflow properly.
The foam that your Spa Cover is made from is important when it comes to insulating your Hot Tub. The ideal Hot Tub foam is tapered to allow water to run off on either side of the tub after rain. Your Cover should be 4" to 6" thick. Anything thicker is unnecessary and becomes heavy & hard to lift, anything thinner is not enough to properly insulate your spa.
No matter how dense your foam is, when it becomes wet, it does not insulate properly. It can also grow mold, it can become heaving and hard to use. To prevent this, your Cover should be sealed in a material that water is not able to penetrate. This makes sure the Cover's foam stays dry and insulates your tub properly.
Down the Middle
Hot Tub Covers fold in half, and because of this, there is a seam down the middle of your tub that is about ¾ of an inch thick that is not insulated by your Cover's foam inserts. Your Cover should have a piece of foam separate from your foam inserts to insulate that middle strip.
Without this piece, your Hot Tub will not be insulated down the middle of your Cover and you will lose a significant amount of heat. During cold months you will even be able to see your Hot Tub losing heat from this area.
Although Covers are often overlooked, they play a crucial role in ensuring that your Hot Tub runs efficiently. Making sure that your Hot Tub's first Cover is built properly can help you save thousands of dollars by lowering your running costs and also by lasting longer so that you do not have to replace it.


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Garth Brooks Had an Emotional First Show Back — Here's the Setlist From Las Vegas
The setlist for Garth Brooks' first stadium tour stop since before the pandemic reveals some twists among 27 hits and cover songs. During his Saturday night (July 10) concert in Las Vegas, Brooks kept it country during an emotional night of music.
Videos shared to social media show an early performance of "The River" and an encore performance of "Shallow" as highlights. Both became cathartic singalongs that emphasize what the singer was feeling as he dropped to his knees and held up his hands in a show of gratitude for this first show in more than 500 days.
"The Dance" and "Friends in Low Places" were predictably resonant; it's these two songs that Brooks' fans expect to hear above all others from his catalog. The 27-song setlist started as many have previously, per SetList.fm. In fact, the first four songs were the same as his last stadium show, a Feb. 22, 2020 show in Detroit. From there he mixed it up with familiar covers and deep cuts that he'll pull out from time to time. A pair of George Strait covers dotted the encore, along with a Keith Whitley cover ("Don't Close Your Eyes") that he'll only pull out on occasion.
Trisha Yearwood joined Brooks during the encore for her song "Walkaway Joe" and a live version of "Shallow," the song from A Star as Born that they recorded and released as a single to radio in 2020. The duet was a highlight for many, as it should be: Unofficial records show that this was the first time they'd performed it together during a stadium tour stop.
Check out the full setlist below. Brooks' next show is slated for Saturday (July 17) in Salt Lake City.
Garth Brooks' Las Vegas Allegiant Stadium Setlist:
"All Day Long"
"Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House"
"The Beaches of Cheyenne"
"Two Pina Coladas"
"Fishin' In the Dark" (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Cover)
"The River"
"The Thunder Rolls"
"Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)
"Unanswered Prayers"
"Ask Me How I Know"
"That Summer"
"Callin' Baton Rouge"
"Friends in Low Places"
"Papa Loved Mama"
"The Dance"
"In Lonesome Dove"
"Don't Close Your Eyes" (Keith Whitley Cover)
"Amarillo by Morning" (George Strait Cover)
"Wild Horses"
"Troubadour" (George Strait Cover)
"Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)"
"Shallow" With Trisha Yearwood (Lady Gaga + Bradley Cooper Cover)
"Walkaway Joe" With Trisha Yearwood (Trisha Yearwood Cover)
"Standing Outside the Fire"


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With the emergence of current generation head-mounted displays (HMDs), virtual reality (VR) is regaining much interest in the field of medical imaging and diagnosis. Room-scale exploration of CT or MRI data in virtual reality feels like an intuitive application. However in VR retaining a high frame rate is more critical than for conventional user interaction seated in front of a screen. There is strong scientific evidence suggesting that low frame rates and high latency have a strong influence on the appearance of cybersickness. This thesis explores two practical approaches to overcome the high computational cost of volume rendering for virtual reality. One lies within the exploitation of coherency properties of the especially costly stereoscopic rendering setup. The main contribution is the development and evaluation of a novel acceleration technique for stereoscopic GPU ray casting. Additionally, an asynchronous rendering approach is pursued to minimize the amount of latency in the system. A selection of image warping techniques has been implemented and evaluated methodically, assessing the applicability for VR volume rendering.


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The Elevate Mastering Bundle 1.5 includes Eventide's EQuivocate EQ and two new Plug-ins, Eventide Saturate and Eventide Punctuate.
Elevate is the most advanced mastering plug-in ever created. This unique multi-band limiter, human-ear EQ and powerful audio maximizer will increase the loudness of your mix while maintaining or improving its dynamic perception. It uses intelligent, adaptive technology that responds in real time to your music; creating not only the loudest, but the best sounding master.
Developed by Newfangled Audio, Elevate maintains subtle dynamics and improves the tonal balance of your mix. The adaptive limiter analyzes 26 frequency bands and alters the gain, speed and transients for each band in real time. The result is a transparent, natural sound, no matter how hard you push it.
Elevate utilizes 26 critical filter bands modeled from the human ear. Each of the bands are spaced to give maximum control over how the sound hits your eardrum. Draw curves, solo bands and manipulate the transient attack for each individual band to bring out particular instruments such as kick or snare drums.
Elevate uses artificial intelligence algorithms to make it easy for you to get the best sounds, but you can still get under the hood for as much precise control as you desire. This includes giving you control over the tonal balance and transients inside the final limiting stage. The adaptive algorithms reduce audible artifacts and the additional controls give you maximum flexibility with professional results.
The Elevate Mastering bundle includes EQuivocate, a graphic EQ that uses filters which are modeled on the human ear. Perfect for mixing and mastering, EQuivocate's auditory filters and match EQ functionality make it incredibly powerful, simple to use, and natural sounding. Each of the 26 critical bands tickles a different part of your inner ear, making any combination of settings sound as natural as possible. Combining this with a linear-phase filter shape that reduces pre-echo makes EQuivocate an EQ with a difference you can hear.
Saturate is a spectral clipper plug-in, useful for mixing or mastering. As such, it adds up to 24dB of drive with a variable CLIPPER SHAPE parameter that moves from a pleasant soft curve to full hard clipping. Unique spectral processing maintains the tonal balance of the distorted signal, no matter how hard it is pushed. Saturate automatically compensates output level based on the DRIVE control or, alternatively, allows this to be controlled manually.
Punctuate is a transient emphasis plug-in also useful for mixing or mastering. It offers up to 26 auditory bands of TRANSIENT EMPHASIS or suppression while its unique ADAPTIVE TRANSIENT and ADAPTIVE LENGTH controls allow algorithms to tailor each bands transient shaper to what the listeners ear wants to hear. Customizable parameters for each band also allow users to tweak the result, if needed.
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Seeking Safety Drop-in Group- Ogallala, NE.
Seeking Safety is a drop-in group to help people with PTSD, a history of trauma and /or a history of substance use/dependence attain safety. Adults 19 years of age and older can attend.
Seeking Safety is an evidence-based, present-focused curriculum designed to help people attain safety from PTSD and/or substance use. It is also helpful for those with a history of trauma but without a PTSD diagnosis. Safety is the overarching goal, with emphasis on helping people achieve safety in their relationships, thinking, behavior and emotions. There are a total of 25 different topics that can be attended in any order, as few or as many times as a person finds helpful.


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SAN DIEGO — Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-California), facing numerous charges of campaign finance misuse, is changed his plea to a guilty plea on Tuesday.
Hunter could face a jail term of between 8-14 months, and he won't be able to own a firearm and may not be able to vote.
"My trial was set for January 22 — that's not going to happen now. Tomorrow, on Tuesday, I'm going to change my plea to guilty. I think it's important not to have a public trial for three reasons, and those three reasons are my kids ... It's been a privilege to serve in Congress for 11 years, three tours in the Marine Corps in the wars. I think we've done a lot of great things for the nation," Hunter told KUSI Monday.
"I think it's important for people to know that I did make mistakes. I did not properly monitor or account for my campaign money. I justify that plea with the understanding that I am responsible for my campaign and what happens to my campaign money," Hunter told KUSI.
Concerning his congressional seat, Hunter told KUSI that it would be "passed off to whoever takes the seat next. We'll make sure it's a seamless transition."
Hunter's decision to potentially change his plea comes after several months of public denials of wrongdoing. He and his wife Margaret were indicted in August 2018 on dozens of criminal counts, including wire fraud, conspiracy and falsification of records.
The Hunters were accused of misusing $250,000 in campaign contributions on personal expenses, lavish vacations and other purchases.
Margaret Hunter pleaded guilty in June 2019 and agreed to testify against her husband.
Last November, Hunter held off a challenge from Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar and was re-elected to remain the 50th District congressman.
Darrell Issa, a former California Republican congressman that served as the House Oversight Committee, and who has entered the race for Duncan's seat, released the following statement:
"As a friend and a colleague, I thank Duncan Hunter for his service to our country in the Marine Corps and in Congress, where he has always been a strong conservative voice on behalf of his constituents," Issa said. "Though his misuse of campaign funds was clearly wrong, I wish him and his family the best as they address the matters ahead of them."
Carl DeMaio, a Republican who's also in running for Duncan's seat, released the following statement:
"While this must have been a tough decision for him, Congressman Hunter's decision to plead guilty is the right one for his family and his constituents and shows that no one should be above the law - especially Members of Congress. My thoughts and prayers are with the Hunter family as they go through this difficult process."
The campaign staff for Campa-Najjar, a Democrat running for the Congressional seat in the 50th district, called it a "sad day."
"No constituent hopes to see their congressman plead guilty to corruption ... my thoughts are with Major Hunter and his family, I want to thank him for serving our country," the statement read, in part.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee also responded Monday.
"Voters across this country are calling for a change from Washington's culture of corruption and Rep. Duncan Hunter's admission of guilt is a fitting reminder that at least two admitted criminals have called the Republican House Caucus in Washington home for years. While the Great California Crook-Off in CA-50 may now have one less corrupt Republican running, the Washington GOP will have to choose which one of the remaining crooks running for Congress they will want to line up behind – Issa or DeMaio," the DCCC said.
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RightScale Tool Aims To Stop Cloud Overspending
PlanForCloud tool gathers cloud spending statistics that suggest ways many Amazon Web Services customers could save.
One of the largest potential savings of cloud computing is the ability to shut off the hourly-charge meter when the server instance isn't being used. But many users sign up for a cloud server as if they plan to use it every minute of every day for the next year.
That's one finding from the statistics from RightScale's PlanForCloud, a free tool customers can use to forecast anticipated cloud spending.
RightScale, a front end cloud workload management service, acquired PlanForCloud, an Edinburgh, Scotland, firm, last year and has kept its free online service available at www.planforcloud.com. On July 23, the company announced that PlanForCloud had completed cloud cost forecasting for 9,500 deployments with an expected cloud service use amounting to $1,016,619,975.
In analyzing the statistics behind that amount of cloud use, PlanForCloud found more than half of EC2 customers use Amazon Web Services reserved instances, where the customer pays an upfront fee for a set amount of use, then receives a lower hourly rate. Reserved instances come in three sizes: light, medium and heavy.
[Want to see how Cloudability handles the issue of cloud expense forecasting? See Cloudability Sheds Light On Cloud Spending]
A majority of reserved instance users "go all in and commit to the highest level," or heavy utilization, the RightScale analysis showed. As a result, they pay a charge as if their servers were running 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the one-year or three-year period. And while the greatest savings are available through the three-year agreement, only 20% of AWS customer organizations are willing to commit to the longer term.
Amazon advises that light utilization means: "periodic workloads that only run a couple of hours a day, a few days per week, or very sporadically," such as disaster recovery servers, according to information on its web site. Medium utilization workloads "are best suited (to) run most of the time, but have some variability in usage (like web server traffic where demand may increase or decrease throughout the year)." Heavy utilization "is most appropriate for steady-state workloads where you're willing to commit to always running these instances in exchange for our lowest hourly usage fee."
By these definitions, some "heavy" workloads might more economically be managed as "medium" jobs, if usage was light during part of the day, or the owner was willing to turn them off part of the time.
The heavy utilization -- continuously running -- classification for a standard AWS large server for one year results in an upfront reserved instance charge of $676 and an hourly charge of $0.056. The same server classified as a medium utilization reserved instance results in an upfront charge of $554 with an $0.084 hourly rate. The same server with a light utilization designation would result in a $243 upfront charge and $0.136 hourly rate.
Compared to the more expensive on-demand instances (which have no time-frame attached), the medium reserved instance results in a 39% saving over the course of a year and a 59% saving over a three-year term.
The PlanForCloud statistics indicate that the bulk of cloud computing costs lie in the compute instances and amount to 70% of the bill. So concentrating on right-sizing an instance, setting a realistic utilization rate, and committing to the longest possible period deemed safe should all be part of a strategy to reduce your company's monthly cloud bill.
As opposed to compute costs, storage made up 18% of the bill, data transfer costs, 6%; and read/write transaction charges and other costs, the remaining 6%.
The 20% of customers who commit to three-year reserved instances get to save up to 65% compared to an on-demand instance bill. RightScale spokesmen said that low rate of participation probably reflects the fact that many workloads sent to the public cloud are expected to have less than a three-year life span.
The RightScale tool competes with cloud cost management and projection engines from Cloudyn, Cloudability, Newvem, Uptime Software and CloudCruiser. PlanForCloud is not focused on usage statistics the way some of the other cloud bill management systems are. It takes the information input by the potential cloud customer, consults its 12,000 data points on cloud pricing, and projects the bill, RightScale spokesmen said.
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The recent failure of a Silicon Valley-themed reality show hasn't deterred HBO from proceeding with plans for a scripted series set in the Bay Area's tech community.
According to Michael Lombardo, president of HBO Programming, casting will soon begin for "Silicon Valley," a dark, single-camera comedy pilot to be directed by Mike Judge ("Beavis and Butt-Head," "King of the Hill," "Office Space"). Shooting, he said, will likely start in March.
Lombardo claimed that he hadn't seen "Start-Ups: Silicon Valley," the Bravo reality series from Randi Zuckerberg that was blasted by some Valley insiders and became a ratings dud. But he admitted that the show's poor performance might have indirectly benefitted HBO in that it hasn't muddied the creative waters,
"I was actually sort of glad that it didn't seem to register very much with viewers," he said between panel sessions at the Television Critics Association press tour.
Lombardo said the "Start-Ups" failure, in no way, indicates that there isn't an audience for Silicon Valley-themed material.
"There's clearly an interest in what's going on there," he said. "What is that subculture and who are those people? It's a world we all read about and all chat about, yet we don't really know what it's like. But at the end of the day, (the show) has got to be funny, it's got to be interesting and it's got to be well-done. Hopefully, we'll hit all those marks."
According to Lombardo, the "Silicon Valley" pilot will be at least partially shot in the Bay Area.
"You need some of the local color to make it as honest as possible," he said.


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Clеaning upholstеry can bе a timе-consuming and physically dеmanding task. Hiring Springwood upholstery cleaning profеssionals savеs you timе and еffort, allowing you to focus on othеr prioritiеs.
Profеssional upholstеry clеaning can rеstorе thе bеauty and vibrancy of your furniturе. It can rеvitalizе fadеd colors and bring back thе original lustеr, making your upholstеry look likе nеw again.
Comprеhеnsivе Upholstеry Clеaning Sеrvicеs in Springwood
At OZ Clеan Tеam, wе undеrstand that upholstеry comеs in various matеrials, stylеs, and colors. That's why our upholstеry clеaning sеrvicеs Springwood arе tailorеd to mееt thе uniquе nееds of diffеrеnt upholstеry typеs. Whеthеr you havе dеlicatе silk furniturе or ruggеd synthеtic fabrics, wе havе thе еxpеrtisе to providе thorough and safе clеaning. Hеrе arе somе of thе diffеrеnt typеs of upholstеry wе clеan
Fabric Upholstеry
Fabric upholstеry is onе of thе most common typеs found in homеs and officеs. Our clеaning procеss еffеctivеly rеmovеs dirt, stains, and allеrgеns from various fabric matеrials, including cotton, linеn, wool, and microfibеr. Wе pay spеcial attеntion to prеsеrving thе color and tеxturе of your fabric.
Lеathеr Upholstеry
Lеathеr upholstеry adds еlеgancе and luxury to any spacе. Howеvеr, it rеquirеs spеcializеd carе. Our lеathеr upholstеry clеaning еxpеrts in Springwood havе thе knowlеdgе and products to clеan and condition lеathеr furniturе, rеstoring its natural shinе and supplеnеss.
Synthеtic Upholstеry
Synthеtic matеrials likе polyеstеr, nylon, and acrylic arе known for thеir durability and rеsistancе to staining. Our clеaning mеthods arе dеsignеd to rеmovе grimе and maintain thе intеgrity of thеsе fabrics, еnsuring thеy look frеsh and inviting.
Microsuеdе and Microfibеr
Thеsе matеrials arе popular for thеir softnеss and stain-rеsistant propеrtiеs. Our upholstery cleaning Springwood tеam has еxpеriеncе in clеaning microsuеdе and microfibеr upholstеry, making thеm look and fееl likе nеw.
Vеlvеt Upholstеry
Vеlvеt upholstеry is luxurious but can еasily trap dirt and dust. Our gеntlе clеaning approach for vеlvеt upholstеry prеsеrvеs its shееn and plushnеss, lеaving it inviting and comfortablе.
Silk Upholstеry
Silk is a dеlicatе matеrial that dеmands carеful handling. Wе usе spеcializеd clеaning tеchniquеs to clеan silk upholstеry without causing damagе, еnsuring it rеmains bеautiful and vibrant.
Antiquе and Dеlicatе Upholstеry
Antiquе furniturе and dеlicatе upholstеry rеquirе a gеntlе touch. Our profеssionals havе thе еxpеrtisе to clеan and protеct thеsе valuablе piеcеs, hеlping thеm maintain thеir original charm.
Custom Upholstеry
If you havе custom-madе furniturе with uniquе fabrics, pattеrns, or dеsigns, our tеam can customizе our clеaning approach to mееt your spеcific rеquirеmеnts whilе еnsuring thе prеsеrvation of your upholstеry's bеauty.
No mattеr thе typе of upholstеry in your Springwood homе or businеss, OZ Clеan Tеam has thе skills and еquipmеnt to providе еffеctivе and safе clеaning. Our goal is to еnhancе thе appеarancе and longеvity of your upholstеry whilе maintaining its original bеauty and comfort. Trust us for comprеhеnsivе upholstеry clеaning sеrvicеs that brеathе nеw lifе into your furniturе.
Swift and Efficiеnt Upholstеry Clеaning
At OZ Clеan Tеam, wе valuе your timе, and our upholstеry clеaning procеss in Springwood rеflеcts that commitmеnt. Wе undеrstand that you havе a busy schеdulе, so wе aim to providе swift and еfficiеnt sеrvicеs without compromising on quality.
Our еxpеriеncеd tеam of Springwood upholstеry clеaning еxpеrts are trainеd to work quickly and еffеctivеly. Typically, wе can clеan and rеfrеsh your upholstеry in a mattеr of hours, dеpеnding on thе sizе and condition of thе furniturе. Wе usе advancеd clеaning еquipmеnt and еco-friеndly products that spееd up thе clеaning procеss whilе еnsuring еxcеptional rеsults.
Morеovеr, wе offеr flеxiblе schеduling options, including samе-day and wееkеnd appointmеnts, to accommodatе your nееds and prеfеrеncеs. Our goal is to minimizе any disruption to your daily routinе whilе dеlivеring upholstеry that looks, fееls, and smеlls frеsh and inviting.
With OZ Clеan Tеam, you can trust that your upholstеry clеaning will bе a hasslе-frее еxpеriеncе, allowing you to еnjoy your rеvitalizеd furniturе in no timе.
Expеrt Upholstеry Clеaning for Various Sofa Typеs
At OZ Clеan Tеam, wе undеrstand that еach sofa or couch is uniquе in its dеsign, fabric, and construction. That's why our upholstеry clеaning Springwood tеam of еxpеrts is wеll-еquippеd to handlе thе clеaning and carе of diffеrеnt sofa typеs, еnsuring that your furniturе rеcеivеs thе spеcializеd trеatmеnt it dеsеrvеs. Hеrе's a glimpsе of thе various sofa typеs wе catеr to
Sеctional Sofa
Whеthеr it's a small sеctional or a largе modular sofa, wе clеan еvеry sеction mеticulously, еnsuring uniform clеanlinеss.
Our еxpеrts dеlicatеly clеan and maintain thе iconic tuftеd upholstеry of Chеstеrfiеld sofas.
Lawson-stylе Sofa
Thе rеlaxеd and comfortablе Lawson-stylе sofas arе givеn a thorough clеaning, prеsеrving thеir inviting appеarancе.
Mid-Cеntury Modеrn
Wе rеspеct thе timеlеss bеauty of Mid-Cеntury Modеrn sofas and clеan thеm with prеcision, еnhancing thеir rеtro charm.
Contеmporary Mid-Cеntury Modеrn Sofa
Modеrn dеsigns mееt mid-cеntury aеsthеtics, and wе еnsurе thеsе sofas rеmain truе to thеir uniquе fusion.
English Roll-Arm
Thе classic rollеd arms of English roll-arm sofas arе gеntly clеanеd to maintain thеir еlеgancе.
Wе clеan Bridgеwatеr sofas, known for thеir casual comfort, to providе a rеfrеshing look.
Thе distinctivе hump-shapеd backrеsts of Camеlback sofas arе carеfully trеatеd to rеtain thеir stylе.
Cabriolе sofas with thеir gracеful curvеs arе clеanеd with attеntion to dеtail.
Chaisе Loungе
Thеsе loungеs arе thoroughly clеanеd to kееp thеm inviting and comfortablе.
Slееpеr Sofas
Wе clеan slееpеr sofas, including pull-out sofa bеds, convеrtiblе sofas, and futons, еnsuring thеy'rе rеady for guеsts.
Bunk Bеd Slееpеr
Evеn bunk bеd slееpеr sofas arе givеn a frеsh look with our clеaning sеrvicеs.
Lovеsеat Sofa
Lovеsеats arе clеanеd to makе thеm cozy spots for two.
Thеsе loungеs arе thoroughly clеanеd to kееp thеm inviting and comfortablе.
Sеttее Sofa
Sеttееs arе clеanеd to rеtain thеir charming, compact еlеgancе.
Rеclinеr Sofa
Rеclinеr sofas arе thoroughly clеanеd to еnsurе smooth opеration and clеanlinеss.
Tuxеdo Sofa
Wе prеsеrvе thе clеan linеs and tailorеd look of Tuxеdo sofas.
Low-Sеatеd Sofas
Sofas with low sеating arе rеfrеshеd to maintain thеir uniquе stylе.
Pallеt Couchеs
Evеn pallеt couchеs arе clеanеd to makе thеm comfy and inviting.
Sofa Loungеr
Wе clеan sofa loungеrs for ultimatе rеlaxation.
With our еxpеrtisе and tailorеd approach, OZ Clеan Tеam offеrs thе bеst upholstеry clеaning sеrvicеs in town, еnsuring that your sofa or couch, rеgardlеss of its stylе, rеmains in pristinе condition, looking and fееling its bеst.
OZ Clеan Tеam's Upholstеry Clеaning Approach in Springwood
At OZ Clеan Tеam, wе takе a mеticulous and tailorеd approach to upholstеry clеaning in Springwood, еnsuring that еvеry piеcе of furniturе rеcеivеs thе spеcializеd carе it dеsеrvеs. Hеrе's an ovеrviеw of our comprеhеnsivе procеss
Initial Assеssmеnt
Our upholstery cleaning Springwood еxpеrt tеchnicians bеgin by conducting a thorough assеssmеnt of your upholstеry. This includеs idеntifying thе fabric typе, any stains or spots, and thе ovеrall condition of thе furniturе.
Stubborn stains, spots, and hеavily soilеd arеas arе prе-trеatеd using еco-friеndly and industry-approvеd clеaning solutions. This prе-trеatmеnt hеlps to brеak down dirt and grimе, making thе clеaning procеss morе еffеctivе.
Clеaning Procеss
Dеpеnding on thе fabric typе and condition, wе usе thе appropriatе clеaning mеthod. This may involvе stеam clеaning, dry clеaning, or othеr spеcializеd tеchniquеs to еnsurе thе bеst rеsults.
Stain Rеmoval
Our tеchnicians pay spеcial attеntion to stain rеmoval, using advancеd tеchniquеs to targеt and еliminatе еvеn thе toughеst stains. This includеs pеt stains, ink marks, food spills, and morе.
Extraction and Rinsе
Thе clеaning solutions, along with dirt and contaminants, arе еxtractеd using powеrful еquipmеnt. This is followеd by a thorough rinsе to еnsurе no rеsiduе is lеft bеhind.
Wе usе spеcializеd еquipmеnt to еxpеditе thе drying procеss. This hеlps to prеvеnt any moisturе-rеlatеd issuеs and еnsurеs your upholstеry is rеady for usе in no timе.
Post-Clеaning Inspеction
Our upholstery cleaning Springwood tеchnicians conduct a final inspеction to еnsurе that all arеas havе bееn thoroughly clеanеd and that any spеcific concеrns or rеquirеmеnts havе bееn addrеssеd.
Fabric Protеction (Optional)
Upon rеquеst, wе can apply fabric protеction solutions to hеlp rеpеl stains and spills, еxtеnding thе lifеspan of your upholstеry.
Final Touchеs
Wе takе carе of any additional finishing touchеs, such as fluffing cushions, arranging pillows, and еnsuring еvеrything is back in its placе.
Cliеnt Satisfaction Chеck
Bеforе wе lеavе, wе еnsurе that you'rе complеtеly satisfiеd with thе rеsults. If thеrе arе any arеas you'd likе us to rеvisit, wе'rе morе than happy to accommodatе your rеquеsts.
With OZ Clеan Tеam, you can trust that your upholstеry will rеcеivе thе highеst standard of carе. Our attеntion to dеtail, еco-friеndly clеaning solutions, and commitmеnt to cliеnt satisfaction sеt us apart as thе prеmiеr upholstеry clеaning sеrvicе Springwood.
Divеrsе Upholstеry Clеaning Sеrvicеs by OZ Clеan Tеam
At OZ Clеan Tеam, wе rеcognizе thе distinct upholstеry clеaning rеquirеmеnts across various sеctors and sеttings in Springwood. Our еxtеnsivе rangе of spеcializеd upholstеry clеaning sеrvicеs catеrs to a widе array of locations, including
Rеsidеntial Upholstеry Clеaning
- Sofas and couchеs
- Armchairs
- Dining chairs
- Ottomans
- Lovеsеats
- Rеclinеrs
- Chaisе loungеs
- Sеctional sofas
- Custom and antiquе furniturе
Hеalthcarе Upholstеry Clеaning
- Waiting room chairs
- Examination tablеs
- Patiеnt sеating
- Mеdical officе furniturе
- Hospital bеd upholstеry
- Hеalthcarе facility furnishings
- Rеhabilitation cеntеr sеating
Rеstaurant Upholstеry Clеaning
- Dining chairs
- Booth sеating
- Barstools
- Banquеttеs
- Bеnchеs
- Loungе and bar arеa sеating
- Outdoor rеstaurant furniturе
Officе Upholstеry Clеaning
- Officе chairs
- Rеcеption arеa furniturе
- Confеrеncе room sеating
- Collaborativе workspacеs
- Waiting room furnishings
- Cubiclе dividеrs
Hotеl and Hospitality Upholstеry Clеaning
- Guеst room furniturе
- Lobby and loungе sеating
- Dining and banquеt hall chairs
- Bar and rеstaurant furniturе
- Outdoor sеating
Educational Institutions Upholstеry Clеaning
- Classroom chairs
- Lеcturе hall sеating
- Library furniturе
- Faculty loungе upholstеry
- Common arеa furnishings
Thеatrе and Entеrtainmеnt Upholstеry Clеaning
- Auditorium sеating
- Cinеma and thеatеr chairs
- Stagе furniturе
- Backstagе loungе sеating
Rеtail Storе Upholstеry Clеaning
- Fitting room sеating
- Showroom furniturе
- Waiting arеas
- Display furnishings
Our dеdicatеd tеams arе еquippеd with spеcializеd training and cutting-еdgе tools to addrеss thе uniquе clеaning challеngеs associatеd with еach sеtting. Wе еmploy industry-approvеd clеaning tеchniquеs and еco-friеndly products to еnsurе impеccablе rеsults whilе prеsеrving thе quality and longеvity of your upholstеry. Whеthеr you rеquirе rеsidеntial, hеalthcarе, rеstaurant, officе, or upholstеry clеaning for any othеr sеctor, OZ Clеan Tеam is your trustеd partnеr for supеrior and tailorеd sеrvicеs.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Q What types of upholstery materials can OZ Clean Team clean?
A OZ Clean Team can clean various materials, including fabric, leather, suede, and microfiber.
Q Are the cleaning products safe for my family and pets?
A Yes, OZ Clean Team uses safe, non-toxic, and eco-friendly cleaning products.
Q How long does the cleaning process take?
A The duration varies but usually takes a few hours. Technicians will provide an estimate.
Q Do I need to prepare my furniture before the appointment?
A Remove personal items, but there is no need to move the furniture; technicians will handle that.
Q How often should I have upholstery cleaned?
A Every 12 to 24 months is a general guideline; OZ Clean Team can offer personalized recommendations.
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2015 World Series Preview: Will the Mets or Royals End Their Title Drought?
Two franchises who haven't won a world championship since the mid-1980s will battle in the 2015 World Series. Here's a preview of the 2015 Fall Classic, which starts Tuesday in Kansas City:
2015 World Series
Kansas City Royals vs. New York Mets
How They Got Here: After winning their first American League Central title since 1985, the Kansas City Royals rallied to beat the Houston Astros in a tight, five-game A.L. Division Series. The defending A.L. champions reached their second consecutive World Series by outplaying the Toronto Blue Jays in the six-game A.L. Championship Series, winning four games to two.
The New York Mets used a strong second-half surge to win the National League East. They then edged the pitching-rich Los Angeles Dodgers in a hard-fought, five-game Division Series before sweeping the favored Chicago Cubs in four games in the NLCS. The Mets advanced to their first World Series since 2000.
Season Series / History: Kansas City and New York didn't play each other in the 2015 regular season. The last time the Mets won the World Series was 1986; the last time the Royals won the World Series was 1985.
Why the Royals May Win: Pesky Hitters and a Perfect Bullpen. Kansas City's starting pitching isn't quite as good as New York's, but the Royals' hitters are pesky and patient, and they can get into a bullpen early. They're also really aggressive once they're on the basepaths, which can distract even the best pitchers.
Lorenzo Cain, Alex Gordon and ALCS MVP Alcides Escobar must get on base to give hitters like Mike Moustakas, Kendrys Morales and Eric Hosmer RBI chances. Kansas City's once-unhittable bullpen has gotten dinged a bit in this postseason, but it should have an easier time with the Mets than it did with the slugging Astros and Jays. When the Royals have a lead, closer Wade Davis saves the game. Period.
Why the Mets May Win: Good Pitching Stops Good Hitting. Mets' starters Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom and Noah Syndergaard are three of the best young arms in baseball. They'll need to be aggressive with the Royals hitters and go deep into games to keep New York's shaky middle relievers off the mound. They'll also need run support from Yoenis Céspedes, David Wright, Lucas Duda and absolutely unconscious NLCS MVP Daniel Murphy.
Pitching Matchups:
Game 1: N.Y.: Matt Harvey vs. K.C.: Edinson Volquez
Game 2: N.Y.: Jacob deGrom vs. K.C.: Johnny Cueto
Game 3: N.Y.: Noah Syndergaard vs. K.C.: Yordano Ventura
Game 4: N.Y.: Steven Matz vs. K.C.: Chris Young
2015 World Series Schedule (best-of-seven):
Game 1: Tues., Oct. 27 New York at Kansas City; 8:07 p.m. (ET) on Fox
Game 2: Wed., Oct. 28 New York at Kansas City; 8:07 p.m. (ET) on Fox
Game 3: Fri., Oct. 30 Kansas City at New York; 8:07 p.m. (ET) on Fox
Game 4: Sat., Oct. 31 Kansas City at New York; 8:07 p.m. (ET) on Fox
Game 5* Sun., Nov. 1 Kansas City at New York; 8:07 p.m. (ET) on Fox
Game 6* Tues., Nov. 3 New York at Kansas City; 8:07 p.m. (ET) on Fox
Game 7* Wed., Nov. 4 New York at Kansas City; 8:07 p.m. (ET) on Fox
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All construction projects require a specification from the designer. Design students will one day need to write a building specification and would benefit from an introduction to what a specification is, its importance in getting the quality they want in their projects as well as its role in conforming to building regulations. The AACA National Standard of Competency for Architects requires architects to prepare architectural specifications.
The NATSPEC resources are available to institutions and/or lecturers free of charge and include online access to SPECbuilder – a specification compilation program, a number of full commercial worksections in Word format for students to see and edit NATSPEC material and all the NATSPEC TECHnotes, TECHreports and Papers in PDF format. Also included is the professional version of NATSPEC BUILDING Domestic in Word format – fully editable and printable.
How to get a log in
Fill in the Resources for Design Students Form and email/fax/post it back to us and an email will be sent to you with login information. NATSPEC provides student access to resources via lecturers. If you are a student, check with your lecturer if you already have this available to you. If not, ask your lecturer to fill in the Resources for Design Students Form and send it back to us. Alternatively, you may provide us with contact details of your lecturer and we can contact them directly.
How you can use the material
A general login can be created for all students. Students can use the Create a Project section to select the worksections that may be required for a project. This section presents a list of all NATSPEC worksections with checkboxes and saves the selections. The full commercial worksections are useful for students to see the extent of specification worksections and the work necessary to write a specification. NATSPEC TECHnotes, TECHreports and Papers would be very useful as an introduction to specification writing and production. They cover many technical construction and documentation topics, ESD specifying, using Standards and the Naitonal Construction Code (NCC).
Trade Student Resources
TAFE Module CPCCOM2001 Read and interpret plans and specifications requires that students are able to read and interpret building specifications. NATSPEC offers teaching resources that are relevant to the delivery of this module free of charge to Institutions and/or Lecturers. NATSPEC is widely used as a building specification template and is regularly updated to reflect changes in the NCC and current Standards.
TAFE Module CPPBDN6106 Produce building information modelling for building design projects supports building designers who create and use Building Information Models (BIM) to optimise productivity and enhance streamlining of the construction process through the collaborative working methods afforded by BIM. NATSPEC offers teaching resources that are relevant to the delivery of this module to Institutions and/or Lecturers. NATSPEC is at the forefront of developing BIM guidelines and standards, such as the NATSPEC National BIM Guide and Project BIM Brief, for the benefit of the construction industry. These documents and other BIM-related resources are available free of charge from the NATSPEC BIM Portal.
Teaching Resources
Check out the Worksection Classification, to find the trade(s) you are interested in and fill out the Trade Student Resources Form indicating which worksections you would like emailed to you in a PDF format. Print them and use them as handouts to the students. It is the template designers use to write specifications and students will see the current standards and regulations that need to be complied with. This service is free of charge to Institutions and/or Lecturers and limited to 5 worksections.
Other documents
NATSPEC's STYLEguide lists symbols and abbreviations commonly used as stated in the module purpose - Recognition of commonly used symbols and abbreviations. NATSPEC's relevant worksections, including the defined terms and TECHnotes are invaluable tools in the comprehension of written job specifications as stated in the module. Even if the module is not a requirement of your course, the information provided in the relevant worksections would be useful in highlighting the standards and regulatory requirements in your field.
Examples of use
If you are a lecturer in CPC30320 Certificate III in Concreting, the above TAFE Module CPCCOM2001 is part of your course. You may be interested in using the following NATSPEC worksections: 0310 Concrete – combined, 0311 Concrete formwork, 0312 Concrete reinforcement, 0313 Concrete post-tensioned, 0314 Concrete in situ, 0315 Concrete finishes, 0318 Shotcrete, 0321 Precast concrete and 0322 Tilt-up concrete.
Library Resources
NATSPEC, producer of the national master specification, believes it is important that students understand the importance of good documentation, especially where specifications are concerned, and has therefore designed a number of packages for educational institutions.
The NATSPEC Library Package contains all the NATSPEC worksections. Provided on a USB, the documents are fully searchable and printable (low resolution print with Education Watermark) for deployment only within tertiary libraries (the library should take all necessary precautions that the documents are available only within the library). It contains the following Acrobat PDF documents:
- BUILDING Professional: For architects and building designers working on major and/or complex buildings. NATSPEC's definitive specification. It covers site, architectural, interiors, and landscaping and provides design and install worksections for mechanical, hydraulic and electrical services. Demolition, tendering and contract preliminaries are also covered.
- SERVICES Combined: For engineers and services consultants designing and documenting building services installations for small to large building projects. It contains all material in each of the SERVICES Mechanical, Hydraulic & Fire and Electrical specification packages. It includes the most commonly used building services and components, demolition, tendering and contract preliminaries.
- Specifying Architecture: This book discusses contractual, technical and editorial issues in the planning, production and use of specifications. It sets out best-practice professional guidelines, putting modern specification writing into an historical and international context.
- SIMPLE Domestic: This specification is for those projects simple enough not to require the engagement of an architect or building designer by the owners.It provides a quality statement which defines the minimum level of acceptable materials and workmanship for domestic building works. It does not require editing or amendment and is intended for inclusion, along with other documents such as drawings and schedules, as a condition of contract for the building works.
- SIMPLE Office Fitout: This specification is a quality statement supplementing the drawings prepared by the contractor. It does not require editing or amendment and is intended for inclusion, along with other documents such as drawings and schedules, as a condition of contract for the building works.
- Other supporting documents.
The Library Package is available at a greatly reduced subscription cost of $495 + GST per annum and is updated annually. To subscribe just fill out the Library Subscription Form and send it back to us.


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Sunday, June 9, 2013
2013 Student Academy Awards – winners
Sixteen students from colleges and universities around the world were honored tonight (June 8) as winners at the 40th Student Academy Awards ceremony at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The medal placements were announced at the ceremony hosted by writer-director and 1978 Student Academy Award® winner Bob Saget. Writer-director Kimberly Peirce and actors Clark Gregg, Jason Schwartzman and Quvenzhané Wallis presented the awards.
This year saw first-time honors go to Elon University, Occidental College and the University of Michigan in the U.S. competition, as well as to Zurich University of the Arts and RITS School of Arts, Erasmus University College Brussels, in the foreign competition.
The Student Academy Awards were established in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level. Past Student Academy Award winners have gone on to receive 46 Oscar® nominations and have won or shared eight awards. The roster includes such distinguished filmmakers as John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Robert Zemeckis, Trey Parker and Spike Lee.
The winners are:
Gold Medal: Bottled Up, Rafael Cortina, Occidental College
Silver Medal: Zug, Perry Janes, University of Michigan
Bronze Medal: The Compositor, John Mattiuzzi, School of Visual Arts
Gold Medal: Dia de los Muertos, Lindsey St. Pierre and Ashley Graham, Ringling College of Art and Design
Silver Medal: Will, Eusong Lee, California Institute of the Arts
Bronze Medal: Peck Pocketed, Kevin Herron, Ringling College of Art and Design
Gold Medal: A Second Chance, David Aristizabal, University of Southern California
Silver Medal: Every Tuesday: A Portrait of The New Yorker Cartoonists, Rachel Loube, School of Visual Arts
Bronze Medal: Win or Lose, Daniel Koehler, Elon University
Gold Medal: Ol' Daddy, Brian Schwarz, University of Texas at Austin
Silver Medal: Josephine and the Roach, Jonathan Langager, University of Southern California
Bronze Medal: Un Mundo para Raúl (A World for Raúl), Mauro Mueller, Columbia University
Foreign Film
Gold Medal: Miss Todd, Kristina Yee, National Film and Television School, United Kingdom
Silver Medal: Parvaneh, Talkhon Hamzavi, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
Bronze Medal: Tweesprong (Crossroads), Wouter Bouvijn, RITS School of Arts, Erasmus University College Brussels, Belgium
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1.2. Given the legal and administrative costs involved with direct licensing we are unable to offer direct licenses at competitive rates for public performance or transmission. We will review our position every 12 months to consider whether the size and skill base of our organisation enables us to engage in direct licensing.
1.3. In the meantime, if you require a licence for the public performance or transmission of one of our sound recordings or music videos you should contact the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA) at www.ppca.com.au or call (02) 8569 1111.
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Looking for an individual or team participating in this event?
We know that you're going to want to share this event on your social channels, and we want to make sure you have plenty of tools to help. These tools were built to help you achieve your fundraising goal, share your progress, and help recruit to your team, all through social media.
Your social networks are the most effective tool we have right now during these times. Your networks may not be seeing you in person, but they are following you 😉
Download* the images and share, share, share your why with family, colleagues, and friends. Don't forget to use the hashtag #trailblazeforwishes.
*To note: The links to download the images, bring you to our safe Dropbox site. You do not need an account to download images. All images are also available in French to download!
Receiving donations, and want to thank your donors? Grab one of our images and share, whether you are done your challenge or not, there is no better time to say thank you, than now.
All images are sized to fit the Instagram stories and post, as well as Facebook.
To thank your donors along your journey: image 1, image 2, image 3
If you are done your challenge and want to thank you donors: image 1, image 2, image 3, image 4
You've accepted the challenge and are ready to share it with your network.
All images are sized to fit the Instagram stories and post, as well as Facebook. Available to download in both English and French here.
You've signed up and have set your fundraising goal. Now it's time to share with your fans and ask for their support.
All images are sized to fit the Instagram stories and post, as well as Facebook. Available to download in both English and French here.
Let everyone know you are looking to add members to your team! Share these images and add your team name so they can join you.
Download the below images here – available in English and French!
You're smashing those KMs and it's time to share that with your loved ones.
Download the below images here- available in English and French!
This is a very special act of kindness and can mean a lot to you and your network. Share this special moment with one of our 'In memory' or 'In honour' posts.
All images are sized to fit the Instagram stories and post, as well as Facebook. Available to download in both English and French here.
Want to update your cover photo to let your networks know what you're doing to help make wishes come true?
Download your Facebook profile banner image 1 or your LinkedIn profile banner image 2.
On Zoom or Teams all day long? Why not change your background and let your colleagues know of your fundraising challenge!
Download image 1 and upload as your background.
Are you following the trend of instagramming stories and saving them as a highlight? We have some great backgrounds and images that you can use! Don't forget to use #trailblazeforwishes.
Download now – available in English and French!
What better way to tell your colleagues and clients about your participation in Trailblaze for Wishes than with a personalized email signature. Download your email signature here.
Top tip: Don't forget to link the image to your personal fundraising page so they can make a donation and read all about your challenge.
We get it, sharing social updates can feel like a lot and we want to help. Are you looking for where to start? Why not check out some of our social media messages which you can copy and share to update your network.
OUR WISH AMBASSADOR LÉA WANTS TO REMIND YOU TO...Have fun, get creative, share updates and tell your friends, family and colleagues why they should support you. Remember: use #TrailblazeForWishes + tag the |


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Our Team
The therapy team is composed of professionals from a variety of disciplines. It includes psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists, nurses, and post graduate trainees in these disciplines, all of whom have specialized interests and skills in family therapy.
Each family is engaged by a specific team member who carries primary responsibility for therapy with that family. However, other team members are usually involved through observation, discussion, supervision, or consultation. In this way, the knowledge and skills of other team members may be drawn upon and the family may have the benefit of several opinions even though they may work with only one team member.
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The holiday season generally puts increased demands on everyone. How do you have less stress and more fun during the holidays? Here are 8 ways to reduce your stress this holiday season.
1. Make the holidays about presence not presents. Avoid getting caught in the message that expensive gifts are a sign of love. Remember, your undivided attention and caring presence is your greatest gift to your loved ones. Create a memorable holiday by spending time with the people you care about. Never underestimate or diminish the lasting gift of your heart's love.
2. Define what is important to you this holiday season. Unrealistic and high expectations promoted by advertisers can undermine the possibilities for happiness during the holidays. Your relationships, parties, dinners and gifts may never measure up to the perfection portrayed by the media. So, be realistic and make your holidays uniquely your own. Identify what you truly value during the holidays and create a celebration around what matters most to you. Avoid judging your holiday based on a magazine image.
3. Take care of yourself one day at a time. Drink plenty of water. Start a holiday tradition of walking with a friend or family member or participate in some other form of regular exercise. Deep breathe during your day and especially when you feel rushed or stressed. Listen to relaxing music. Avoid overdoing the sweets and alcohol. Keep healthy snacks, like fruit or nuts, nearby.
4. Rest in order to enjoy. If you are going shopping or attending holiday events that you know will tire you, make time for a nap or get to bed a little early. If you are doing added cooking and cleaning, remember to take extra time to rest and relax. If you are tired, you are not going to enjoy even pleasurable activities.
5. Pace yourself and delegate whenever possible. Make a conscious choice about the number of and which holiday activities you want to participate in. Trying to "do it all" can be exhausting. Be willing to say "no" and also share the shopping, cooking, cleaning, and added responsibilities with others whenever you can. Remember less can be more!
6. Norman Rockwell moments mostly happen in paintings. The vast majority of families are not like a Rockwell painting. Many families live with personal conflicts, disappointments, unresolved grievances and losses that can become painfully amplified during the holidays. Our invitation is to love the mess and or at least accept that life will never perfect. Set aside differences and grievances for another time. Make the effort to see the good in everyone and find compassion for those who may be suffering.
7. Feel what you feel. There is an overwhelming emphasis on having "happy" holidays. Yet during the holidays it is normal to feel sadness or grief, especially if you have lost a loved one or have difficult family circumstances. Be especially kind to yourself and accept your feelings. Avoid expecting yourself to "feel happy" when you feel sad. Seek out the support and comfort of family, a friend or a professional if needed.
8. Enjoy the journey. So often people put all of their attention on one day or one event and miss the little things that happen along the way that can contribute to happiness. We can set ourselves up for a big disappointment if the event does not go as we planned. Enjoy and appreciate the ordinary and special in each day. There is no gift like the present. Remember, life happens in the present moment and we have only the present moment to experience life and share our love.


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Hey there. We just announced the ZR1 Corvette as our cover car, and now I'm back to announce of some exciting pre-order items that are coming soon.
Pre-order Gran Turismo, and you'll get a voucher that will add one of the top cars to your in-game collection of cars in an exclusive color. This means that on day one, you'll be able to smoke your friends in 4-player Ad Hoc Mode multiplayer races with one of these rare sports cars while they are just getting started saving up credits.
First up is the 2009 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 in the Black M color. Sporting a 16-cylinder engine with four turbochargers delivering over 1000hp, this is one of the most sought-after cars in the world, not to mention the fastest production car in the world. And by that, I mean it can do over 254mph.
Also available will be the 2002 Enzo Ferrari in Giallo Modena (yellow). With unmistakable Ferrari style and a 6.0-liter V-12 engine, this car should make it easy start racking up credits to start building your collection from the more than 800 cars in the game.
Next up is the 2008 GTbyCitroen in yellow. You may remember this concept car and its sleek, futuristic style from last year when it was announced at the Paris Motor Show. This car is the result of a close collaboration between Polyphony Digital and the French automaker Citroen. And now it's making its way into Gran Turismo for PSP.
The fourth car that will be available is the metallic blue version of the 2009 Nissan GT-R Spec V. The new GT-R is one of the hottest cars on the market right now, complete with the in-dash multi-function meter designed by Polyphony Digital. The Spec V reduces overall weight and improves suspension and handling over the previous GT-R, making it even better for whipping around corners at high speeds. Now you can get this exclusive metallic blue color of the GT-R Spec V, on the PSP.
And last but not least is the classic 1974 Lamborghini Countach LP400 in Arancio (orange). Yes, that's right. Lamborghini. GT fans know this is special, as it marks the first time Lamborghini has ever been in Gran Turismo. And as you can imagine, this won't be the last Lamborghini in a Gran Turismo game, either.
And these are just five of the more than 800 licensed cars that you can drive in the game. Everyone who gets their hands on the game tells us that these cars look just amazing, speeding around the track at an unprecedented 60fps. Watch the official Gran Turismo website for more specific information in the coming weeks.
Don't forget, Gran Turismo for PSP launches on October 1, 2009, available at retail and from the PlayStation Network.


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National Fora Outcomes
How can we reduce the number of litter items on our beaches and in our seas? This question was at the heart of a lively interactive discussion during the 1st Marlisco National Marine Litter Forum held in Dublin in April. The event was the first of 12 marine litter fora being held across Europe as part of the Marlisco project. The forum successfully engaged a live audience including representatives from industry, waste management, retail, tourism and recreation, NGO's, local authorities, State agencies as well as education/research.
Figure 1: The expert Panel from left to right Jim Armstrong (Plastics Recyclers Europe), Prof. Richard Thompson (World Expert on Marine Litter, Plymouth University), Patrick Chan (Environmental Protection Agency, Ireland) and Annabel FitzGerald (An Taisce's Coastal Programmes Manager, Ireland).
To make the event more accessible to interested stakeholders from around the country, a live broadcast was transmitted online to satellite groups from around the Island of Ireland. Participants that watched the event online, also actively participated in all the same activities as the live audience in Dublin. Participants included representatives from tidy towns, county councils, education and research groups, aquaria, Clean Coasts groups, conservation groups and divers.
Figure 2: Banna Coastcare Satellite Group: David McCormick (Ecologist, Tralee Bay Wetlands), Rachel Boyle (Banna Coastcare Coordinator), Peter Green (Celtic Horizons Publishing and Maharees Coastcare) and Cllr. Gillian Wharton Slattery (Kerry County Council).
Watch a 3 minute YouTube video to get an idea of what it was about!
Sean Moncrieff from NewsTalk facilitated the forum and kick started it with a marine litter table quiz where the live audience, satellite groups and the expert panel were ask to identify a number of litter items and answer questions. The subsequent premiere of the short animation Sources and Impacts of Marine Litter, by Irish artist Jane Lee, developed in collaboration with the Marlisco project partners, stimulated a lively panel discussion.
Figure 3: Table activities at the Marine Litter Forum
The animation has since been made available online, and is receiving great interest not only in Ireland but from around the world (educators in Mozambique and Belize have requested a hard copy so that they can show the animation to schools in their countries that have limited or no Internet access).
The animation and Q&A session with the panel not only informed participants about marine litter, but also highlighted the sources, which are mainly land based e.g. landfills, rivers and beaches but also include the waste dumped at sea and lost fishing nets. Participants also learned that most marine litter is plastic because this material is persistent and its low density allows it to travel large distances across oceans.
Figure 4: Former International Rugby player Shane Byrne took part in the Marine Litter Forum, not only representing Arklow Waste Disposal (a family run business, which is looking to increase recycling and diversion of material from landfills) but he also helped Marlisco Ireland to raise the profile of the event.
Plastic litter fragments into smaller parts in the marine environment and becomes microplastic, which is defined as plastic pieces or fibres measuring less than 5 mm. Many of these enter our environment from home as fibres from laundry wastewater or plastic pellets used in industry or microbeads found in personal care products, which was very effectively highlighted by Prof Thompson, who brought microbead samples taken from different cosmetic products. The sources of marine litter are clearly linked to human behaviours and while apart from being unsightly, clean up procedures having a substantial economic cost, marine litter also harms our wildlife through for example ingestion/ swallowing, entanglement and smothering and there are health issues as toxins attach to microplastics which are entering the food chain.
Midway through the event, the facilitator asked the participants and satellite groups to work as teams of 5 and bring their unique experience to the table to come up with one specific action per group on how we might reduce marine litter. Over 20 ideas were captured and as individual participants were asked to vote on which 'action' they thought was the most effective and which most implementable at reducing marine litter.
Suggested actions ranged from a general 'plastic levy', a plastic bottle deposit refund scheme, positive pester power, clearer product specification, fishing for litter and a ban on plastic microbeads.


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Susan M. Kleiner
ContributorDr. Susan M. Kleiner is a renowned authority on eating for strength, endurance, power and speed, and the co-founder and co-CEO of Vynna®, LLC, an evidence-based, female-centric performance nutrition brand. She is an international columnist and speaker, and has consulted with professional teams, Olympians and elite athletes in all sports. Dr. Kleiner has been a faculty member at several esteemed universities, authored numerous academic chapters, articles and scientific manuscripts, and penned seven books, including the bestselling POWER EATING, 4th Edition (Human Kinetics, 2014).


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India and Jewellery, Jewellery and Indian women are interlinked with each other from decades. In almost every occasion starting from marriage to any event the fashion of a woman is incomplete without teaming up with proper jewellery. Some traditional and some modern styles of jewellery caters to the need of jewellery selection. Not only the affluent class can afford jewellery but there are also low cost jewellery items that cater the wide demand of jewellery in India. While picking up or choosing jewellery in India has lot to do with fashion trends heritage and culture. Different regions and culture follow their unique designs that go at par with their tradition. Kundan jewellery is a renowned art that we can see in Indian jewellery which usually comes from the state of Rajasthan. Almost every small and renowned jewellery shops in India showcases unique styles of Kundan art. Apart from Kundan jewellery Meenakari, the art of coloring the surface of metal to give a gorgeous look to the jewellery is quiet famous in India. Traditional temple style of Jewellery depicting the style of south India is quiet famous.
A married woman in India has to flaunt variety of Jewellery pieces as a part of culture that actually gives the lady a gorgeous look. A pair of toe rings is a symbol of a married lady these toe rings can be of silver or any other material. Apart from toe rings nose ring is also a part in Indian marriages. These nose rings are generally called nath that depicts prosperity of husband. Necklaces are an untouchable part of traditional bridal attire. Necklace can be of different designs. It can be of traditional temple design or it can be of curved design. This piece of jewellery actually is an essential part of bridal or non bridal attire. In any occasion women can flaunt a necklace simple or heavy as per their occasions. Bangles usually worn in the hands to decorate the hands of a woman are also a part of bridal attire.
In India there are a variety of jewellery shops catering to the wide demand of jewelleries. These shops provides almost every type and form of jewellery. Some of the important and renowned jewellery shops in India are P.C Chandra Jewellers, Malabar Gold & Diamond Jewellers, Kalyan Jewellers, etc. Apart from visiting a jewellery showroom nowadays online shopping from portals like Caratlane has become quiet famous among women who hardly gets time after their office hours. To brief out India and its craze for jewellery is inseparable.


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"COMMITMENT is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions. And the actions which speak louder than the words. It is making the time when there is none. Coming through time after time after time, year after year after year. Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism."
― Abraham Lincoln


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Dance Auditions
Applicants to the Conservatory's Department of Dance must be artistically admitted into the program AND academically admitted into the University.
Before registering for an audition, candidates must submit their application for admission. Submit your application online.
Please note: You DO NOT have to be academically admitted into Point Park before scheduling your audition but you must have a completed application on file.
Once you have submitted your application for admission, use the following links to get started with the audition process: