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DMIT Franchise in Uttarakhand is a business opportunity to become a partner as DMIT Franchise in Uttarakhand with minimum investment. Hence, you can start your own venture as DMIT Franchise in Uttarakhand. DMIT is an excellent tool to understand an individual and guide them accordingly. It can help you cater to various target segments. This includes students for career counselling in Uttarakhand and academic counselling. It also includes individuals for behaviour counselling in Uttarakhand and personal counselling in Uttarakhand. Furthermore, it also includes employees for corporate counselling and couples for relationship counselling. You can start this business as a part-time or full-time opportunity and that too working from home.
DMIT Franchise in Uttarakhand has gained ground and there is a lot of demand for DMIT Franchise in Uttarakhand today with lot of companies offering DMIT Franchise in Uttarakhand. The market for DMIT Franchise in Uttarakhand was in nascent stage till 2010 and has been in expansion stage in the World since then. Today also, there is lot of scope for penetration as people are still not aware of it in our vicinity. Moreover, the acceptance towards counselling is increasing in the minds of Indians. This is leading to further increase in demand for DMIT Franchise in Uttarakhand. Over past 10 years, as the word is spreading amongst people, the demand and acceptability is ever increasing. Moreover, the reliability of DMIT test in Uttarakhand is much more than other assessments available in market today. This leads to an added advantage and motivation to run DMIT Franchise business in Uttarakhand.
DMIT stands for Dermatoglyphics Multiple Intelligence Test. It is an inborn intelligence test based on Science of Dermatoglyphics and Theory of Multiple Intelligence by Dr. Howard Gardner. The science behind DMIT assessment is that there are 5 Lobes in human brain – Pre-Frontal, Frontal, Parietal, Temporal and Occipital. These lobes consist of 2 parts each, based on Left Brain and Right Brain. So, in total, there are 10 parts in human brain with pre-defined functions and there are 10 fingers. Each finger represents left or right part of a particular lobe of brain and hence a particular function. With help of DMIT test, we map that functionality with behaviour, personality, career etc. to reveal the strengths and limitations of an individual and hence counsellor can guide them accordingly.
• We offer customized DMIT Software in Uttarakhand and you can get a unique design in your own brand. We offer customization in both front-end and back-end including introduction of new pages/functionality in the system as per your requirement.
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• We also offer Mobile App to capture fingerprints without using a laptop. We can attach the scanning device to mobile phone through OTG connector. The fingerprint access is through password and we can use franchise management system.
What you typically look for in a business opportunity is best Return on Investment (ROI), Breakeven time, Client Satisfaction, Flexibility and Ease of doing business, Minimum Investment and Low Risk on Investment.
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The ICR participants presented on their assigned projects. Jim McCusker, caIntegrator Community Contribution of Code, discussed his implementation experience and future recommendations. Dennis Thomas , Extending the Use of the NanoParticle Ontology, addressed challenges for using NPO with nano-TAB and caNanoLab NPO for data annotation, semantic integration of data, unambiguous interpretation and data sharing. Mukesh Sharma , HL7 Clinical Genomics WG, discussed "Considering changing mission and charter to reflect changing technology" and "Mission to include bridging semantics between clinical and research domains." Nathan Baker reviewed the updates and future goals of the Nanotechnology Working Group. In addition, Bob Freimuth , Information Representation Working Group, reviewed the activities and future recommendations for the period. |
Alex Kanous from the DSIC Knowledge Center provided a presentation on the electronic Data Use Agreement tool. The tool may be used for generating DUAs for outgoing data based on a catalog of standardized, modular contract clauses, each of which corresponds to one of the E-DSSF's sensitivity ratings. Joshua Phillips and Ravi Madduri discussed the prototyping activities on workflows for caGrid 2.0. They described use cases and requirements for workflows, defining metadata needed for discovery, composition, and execution of workflows and their consideration of how best to use W3C technologies (e.g. RDF, SPARQL, SA-WSDL, inference). They also provided a demo of a workflow engine prototype based on SADI and Taverna. Ken Quinn spoke about the Roswell Park deployment of caGrid technology and use of caB2B to do federated queries across disparate, decentralized heterogeneous databases and clinical systems to support non-interventional clinical research. He described the process and challenges including: gathering senior leadership support, understanding the myriad research databases, gaining technical expertise, lack of common vocabularies and the excellent collaboration and support provided by the caB2B knowledge center. |
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Following my post on Elves and Dwarfs in my Adventurer's Tale game. I figured I might as well look at the other side of the coin. While I mostly wanted my monsters to be monsters rather than anything too fleshed out there are three monsters I see as particularly core to a game like this.
The three monster races I consider most analogous to Humans, Elves and Dwarfs are Orcs, Goblins and Trolls respectively and I wanted to present a mostly vanilla version of each while focusing in on what I really think makes each type of monster tick. I didn't want the three races to be opponents of varying toughness. I wanted each to have a unique feel. There are mechanics to back this up but mostly I focused on Goblins as otherworldly vermin, Orcs as an amoral mob and Trolls as stupid creatures with power in their very blood.
All varieties of goblin make their homes anywhere there is a safe hiding place, often in Otherworlds that they know are secret. Although they rarely attack their neighbours outright they are known to enjoy the thrill of stealing, playing cruel jokes and generally tormenting other species. They have an unusual affection for trolls, ogres and giants, though this attention is often an annoyance for the big, dumb creatures. Their love of big folk is equalled by their hatred for other small beings such as dwarfs, kobolds and even cats and dogs, all of which they try to harm as much as possible. They are notorious survivors and can be found in environments all across the world, and even in Otherworlds. Typically the lone goblin is much more concerned about itself than the good of its peers, so they make poor guards or soldiers. Visually they vary greatly but are generally up to three feet tall with grotesque features and skin that can be any sickly colour from orange to yellow or green, often with tufts of different coloured fur, some being completely covered in the stuff.
Rowdy mobs of orcs often raid unprotected villages with packs of warhounds. Sometimes they even form huge armies with archers and war machines but this is usually under the guidance of an evil human, devil or exceptional Orc chief. They are driven by a love of the simple pleasures of eating, stealing and fighting as well as a total lack of morals or care for other beings. Those that live underground sometimes use Goblins or Dwarfs as slaves. Some scholars claim Orcs were once good creatures, but their blood has been tainted with that of demons, or that they were bred into their current form for use as soldiers. Orcs are easily caught up in mob mentality, meaning an army of rowdy orcs are near unshakable in their confidence. Their appearance and colouration varies wildly, some groups having extended lower tusks, pig-like snouts or a more apish appearance. The only things they all have in common are their ugly appearance, amoral behaviour and love of an angry crowd of orcs beside them.
Strong but slow-minded, Trolls live solitary lives wandering their swamp or cave. They are often captured and used as dungeon guards because of their survivability, but they are never truly committed to such a cause. The blood of a troll can be sold to a wizard or alchemist for 10gp or turned into a Healing Potion by succeeding at both a DN10 Craft roll and DN10 Wisdom roll. Troll blood is commonly mixed with the stock of other species by Dark Wizards, usually Orcs or Humans, to create servants. These troll-blooded creatures combine the toughness of a troll with the more alert mind of another species, making much better soldiers.


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With a roast beef dinner one of the first sides that I think about is almost always potatoes. Potatoes are so versatile and you can do so many things with them but my favorite way to serve them is mashed. There is just something that is so addictively good about simple creamy and buttery mashed potatoes. Mashed potatoes never get boring and they are like a open palate just waiting to have flavours added to them. A while ago I had tried some white cheddar and garlic mashed potatoes and I really liked how the cheese worked in the mashed potatoes and this time I was thinking about using some goat cheese.
Mashed potatoes are pretty easy to make; you simply boil the potatoes until they are nice and tender and then you mash them. One good thing about mashed potatoes is that they are done on the stove top so you don't have to worry about trying to fit the potatoes in the oven with the roast. The goat cheese mashed potatoes turned out great! They were so nice and creamy and the goat cheese added an amazing tanginess that kept me coming back for more. I served the goat cheese mashed potatoes smothered in the coffee gravy made with the drippings from the roast beef and they went really well together!
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Star Wars Coins Minted on South Pacific Island – And They're Real, Spendable Money
The force is strong with big spenders. Niue, a Pacific nation northeast of New Zealand has minted Star Wars coins adorned with images of classic characters from the trilogy including Luke Skywalker, Yoda, Darth Vader and Princess Leia.
Not only are they limiting production to 50,000 of each coin, but they're only available to the 2,000 residents of the small island. Although they are legal tender at about NZ$2 (about $1.66 in US currency) each, the silver-plated coins are more likely to become collectors items than actual currency since the silver they are made out of is worth much more. More clever than Yoda now that is.
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The NHL said f*ck you and dumped us, knowing we'll take it back later Who needs the NHL? The Marlies are back and with their new jerseys look more like the Leafs than ever before.
The Marlies drop the puck on their 2012-13 campaign at 5 p.m. this afternoon. Joe Bowen and the gang will be calling the game on Sportsnet One. Their opponent is the Rochester Americans, who are playing their second game in under 24 hours after beating the Syracuse Crunch 6-5 last night. The defending Western Conference champions should be fired up for their home opener, hopefully giving us an edge heading into this one.
Ten things to look out for this Marlies season, starting tonight (+ the lineup after the jump)…
1) Will the additions of Gardiner and Kostka help the Marlies turn their powerplay around this season?
2) Will the Marlies' PK, led by Jerry D'Amigo and Ben Scrivens, continue to be gangbusters?
3) Will we begin to see evidence of Eakins adopting the "Carlyle defensive system?" (Might be best to stick with whatever system kept the Marlies near the top in goals against, but in terms of organizational continuity..)
4) Can a healthy Joe Colborne get his 2012 back on track after a great end to 2011? Will Colborne, Kadri and, with some time and patience once he returns, Frattin dominate and prove they're in the wrong league?
5) How do the rookies in McKegg and Ross fare in their transition to the pro game?
6) How is Kadri's speed, strength and conditioning? Can we see his body fat percentage through his equipment?
7) Who becomes number three on the Leafs' goaltending depth chart (Owuya or Rynnas)?
8) Where do Holzer, Ranger and Kostka stack up on the D depth chart? Who might be in line for some big league appearances when the NHL comes back?
9) When Jamie Devane plays, can he do more than smash face? (To his credit, he does this well). How does #87 Leo Komarov look as an agitator and player?
10) Just how consistently perfect is Eakins' hair?
We'll begin to answer all that and more starting this evening. Let's go Marlies.
Your lineup:
Ashton — Aucoin — Kadri
Komarov — Colborne — Deschamps
Hamilton — Zigomanis — McKegg
D—Amigo — Acton — Scott
Gardiner — Kostka
Fraser — Holzer
Ranger — Blacker
Starting Goalie: Ben Scrivens
We should see Dallas Eakins roll his four lines as all are more than capable of a regular shift. One last note: Carter Ashton (didn't mention him in the 10 Qs) will get a nice opportunity playing alongside Kadri and Aucoin. We'll see if he can bring some physicality and net presence to that unit.


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SALT LAKE CITY – Landon Drew scored 14 of his career-high 19 points in the second half to help Cal State Northridge rally from 19 points down and stun Utah, 76-71, on Friday night.
Stephan Hicks had 19 points and nine rebounds as the Matadors (8-3) scored 19 points of Utah's 15 turnovers and held the Utes (7-3) to 22 percent shooting in the second half.
Josh Greene added 13 points, including two technical free throws to clinch the game with 5.7 seconds remaining.
The Utes, who were led by Jordan Loveridge's 24 points, had a chance to tie the game, but Jarred DuBois stumbled on the ground after collecting a loose ball and instinctively called a timeout. The Utes had already used their allotment.
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A complex series of agreements govern the distribution of water throughout the state. Along the Colorado River, farms, cities & towns, and the recreation industry are all big players. But everyone takes a backseat to a tiny hydroelectric plant that's over one hundred years old. It's the Shoshone Generating Station, and it plays a critical role on the Upper Colorado.
A few miles east of Glenwood Springs is a popular launch site for rafters. It's right beneath Interstate 70, and sits in front of an old tan brick building, set back into the canyon wall. Chances are, highway drivers might not even see this place. But it's the reason the rafting is so good here all the time.
The plant has two nine-foot tall turbines, which were manufactured and installed in 1906 and are still humming along today. It's called the Shoshone Hydro Plant, and was built to harness Colorado River water and turn it into 15 megawatts of electricity. It's the lynchpin of the river, according to Jim Pokrandt, Education and Outreach Specialist with the Colorado River District.
"Not because of producing electricity," said Pokrandt. "But because it takes water to produce that electricity, and that water is supplied via a 1902 water right for 1250 CFS. That's the biggest, oldest water right on the river."
1250 CFS, or cubic feet per second, is a lot of water. It's labeled "non-consumptive use," which means the water is not taken out of the river to grow food or flush toilets. It flows onto the turbines and right back out—sustaining an important part of the local economy: rafting, kayaking and fishing. Maintaining that primary water right is critical to keeping flow levels adequate for the turbines, and to help create rapids.
Pokrandt says Shoshone also helps towns that draw water from the river-- because the high flows the plant requires helps keep the water cleaner.
"Silt, Rifle, Parachute and Clifton are all taking drinking water out of the Colorado River," said Pokrandt. "The greater the flow, the less intensive you have to treat the water. "
Agriculture in the Grand Valley also benefits from Shoshone's water right.
Mel Rettig is a vegetable and fruit farmer in Palisade, about 80 miles southwest of the Shoshone plant. Rettig says the higher flows due to Shoshone help keep salinity levels low.
"It just puts water in the river. Salt's not good for our crops. With a lot of the salt coming out of the Glenwood Springs area with the natural salt water springs," said Rettig, "the more water we have coming down the river and the more dilution we have and better water quality then."
Some West Slope water irrigators who depend on Shoshone would love to buy the plant and its water right to protect the interests of the Grand Valley. A 15-megawatt output is small by today's standards—modern power plants produce hundreds of megawatts. But Xcel continues to invest millions in maintenance at the plant and the utility says they have no plans to sell Shoshone or its water rights.
The Colorado River District's Jim Pokrandt says that means Shoshone will continue to occupy a critical and unique place in Western Slope water.
"This little, old, two turbine, 15-megawatt 1905 vintage power plant in Glenwood Canyon," said Pokrandt. "It doesn't look like much but it's a big dog on the river."
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Star Wars: Age of Rebellion: Lead by Example
If it weren't for Commanders who were willing and able to take up the mantle of leadership, those hungry to liberate the galaxy from Imperial rule might never have come together to form the Rebellion. But command, whether it entails shaping military strategy, training new recruits, or being a recognizable face of the Rebel Alliance, is not easy. Lead by Example, a sourcebook for the Star Wars®: Age of Rebellion roleplaying game, offers Commanders the talents and other tools they need to succeed.
Inside the 96 pages of this career supplement, players and Game Masters will find three new Command specializations – Figurehead, Instructor, and Strategist – as well as new playable species, gear designed to support Commanders in the field, and vehicles ready to take on Imperial fleets. The book also features detailed guidelines for situating PCs within large-scale, cinematic mass combat scenes and suggestions for crafting engaging, high-stakes, military campaigns.


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The islands that make up the British Virgin Islands include Tortola, Anegada, Jost Van Dyke and Virgin Gorda. Tortola is the most popular and largest island and is the starting point of most cruises along the British Virgin Islands. The islands of British Virgin Islands offer different landscape and various options for adventure. Most of the islands possess a landscape that varies from volcanic areas to bays. The islands also offer peculiarities. The peculiarities of Anegada, for example, is that it is a fishing hotspot.
One of the most famous tourist attraction in the British Virgin Island is The Baths National Park in Virgin Gorda. This park which was declared a national heritage in 1990 provides grounds for adventurous activities such as snorkeling. It is also an anchorage for yacht charters that explore the area.
White Bay in Jost Van Dyke is another well-known tourist attraction in the British Virgin Islands. This beach is a great relaxation spot as the water is clean and ideal for activities such as swimming and snorkeling. A boat trip exploring the area is also a great holiday activity. Yacht charters in the British Virgin Islands also explore this beach and surrounding areas.
The British Virgin Islands is a destination that is frequented by cruises and is a favorite destination for sailing trips. From unspoiled beaches to areas that receive a lot of tourist attention yearly, there are several tourist attractions that can be included in yacht charters in the British Virgin Islands.
Norman Island is one of those placed that can be explored as part of a cruising trip. This island is largely uninhabited with caves which make it a great location for snorkeling. Boat rentals are also available to this island and other surrounding islands from Tortola.
Virgin Gorda is another island that should be explored as part of during a sailing trip. A visit to The Baths, which is probably the most famous natural endowment of this island, is a worth stopping by Virgin Gorda. This combination of rocks and boulders in the midst of a serene environment give this location a picturesque appeal. Hiking trips can also be planned for Virgin Gorda as its landscape is perfect for adventure.
Sailboat rentals are available from Tortola to any of the I islands of the British Virgin Islands giving tourists ample opportunity to explore as much of the islands as they wish.


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Reading the book has prompted me to revisit my one-time love of AA's music. I was a fan of Adam and the Ants in the late 1970s, before his rise to phenomenal fame in 1980, in which he really did see off all the competition. I first saw the band on a bill at Soho's Vortex Club in mid-1977, supporting my other fave band of the time, Siouxsie and the Banshees. I was blown away by the energy of the performance, and the manic, slightly dangerous edge it brought to the atmosphere. The first line-up I saw featured Adam singing and playing guitar occasionally, Andy Warren on bass (a thin, gaunt figure described in Ants publicity as being called Winkle and Watson, for some reason), the handsome Dave Barbe on drums and a guy called Johnny Bivouac on guitar. What was it about Johnny Bivuouac I didn't like? His hair was all wrong, I thought, sort of freeze-dried-looking, and he wore a cap-sleeved t-shirt, which was so sort of last-year disco. Was I shallow, or what? (Yes, I was.) Good guitar player, though.
Adam was beautiful, no other word for it. His hair wasn't very punk, either, all Romany curls, and at least one of his eyes was often slathered in eyeliner – or he wore clear-framed National Health specs – his lips lipsticked black. He looked like a manic mannequin, a crazed escapee from the Commedia dell-Arte – you know, Pierrot, Harlequin, Columbine, medieval Italian Punch and Judy show. He was a New Romantic a few years before the movement he would later despise came into being. But I guess what made him beautiful, ultimately, was his sense of don't-give-a-fuck-ness: that is always something fantastic to behold. On a more basic level, I also loved his skanky leather trousers, his strappy boots from Sex, or Seditionaries, as Westwood and McLaren had rechristened the shop, loved his bare torso when he got half his kit off, with its tattoos, scratches and bruises, its hint of puppy fat at one gig, his ribs showing starkly at the next.
I made a recording of this line-up from a gig at Oxford Street's 100 Club, a ton-weight cassette player secreted round my waist, and the recording came out brilliantly; I was able to learn all the songs, obsessively working them out on my guitar in the right keys. This was to be important to me a year or so later, when Johnny Bivouac left (or was dumped, actually - Adam already had a history of getting rid of band members on a whim, though I didn't know that at the time) and, after seeing an ad in Melody Maker, just by chance, I went to audition as a replacement. Because I'd been listening to the tape, I was able to turn up andjust play the tunes. Adam asked me, "Do you know B-Side Baby?" and I went straight into the guitar intro as he was about to recite the chords, and also led the band into their ode to mädchen-in-uniform Deutscher Girls. They were impressed. But they were more impressed by 17-year-old Matthew Ashman, who got the job instead of me, so there I went, back into obscurity for a few decades... Was I too ugly, too spotty, not punk enough, or maybe too punk – was my Rickenbacker guitar just not cool enough? Was it my hair, not enough gel, or too much? Or was I just a bit too porky for the stripey teeshirt I wore to the audition? (Not everybody can get away with horizontal stripes, but it was very similar to the one I now wear sometimes in the Trans-Siberian March Band.) No, none of those things, I hope. It was Matthew Ashman; he was pure class on a guitar, pure rock n roll, and I just wasn't.
With the phenomenally talented, precocious Matthew, the Ants went on to a different phase, and a whole load of different songs, that culminated in the album, out on independent Do-It Records, Dirk Wears White Sox. None of the songs they played at the early gigs made their way onto that album; they only turned up later on bootlegs, or were revamped occasionally on slicked-up versions on the b-sides of some of the hit singles, once Adam was a star. Those early songs featured themes of S&M, sex in general, murder and Nazis, basically, though there was the rather sweet Send a Letter to Jordan (about Adam's obsessive letter-writing to one Pamela Rooke, who worked in Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's King's Road shop Sex), a cover of Perry Como's Catch a Falling Star and the gentle French music hall pastiche of Young Parisians. Deutscher Girls, Nietzsche Baby and Dirk Wears White Sox (which ghosted only as a title on the Do-It album) all worked through fetishised pictures of Nazism; they poked fun at it, though this wasn't always clear to the music press, who dismissed the Ants as a Nazi band at one point, despite their having a black drummer in Dave Barbe, and Adam being a descendant of British Roma. Il Duce described Mussolini as a 'fatty fasciste – they call him the fat boy' and had a derisory chorus of Santa Lucia in the middle
of it, so it was sometimes difficult for Antpeople (as Adam dubbed us fans) to see how it could be taken as anything other than black comedy. The S&M songs included Beat My Guest, Whip in My Valise, Ligotage, You're So Physical and Bathroom Function. There were other tunes, such as the subtle, slow Song for Ruth Ellis, which had the hook 'Violence in Hampstead', and a frenetic tune just called Hampstead, 'a place for fairs and not for revolution - you're deprived of being deprived'. There was Lou, mainly known to fans as Andy Warhol Video from one of the few coherent lines in the chorus, a song about Lou Reed, apparently, the verses of which were screeched out by band manager at the time, Jordan – that same Pamela Rooke, from McLaren and Westwood's Sex/Seditionaries boutique, and a big face on the early punk scene. There was also the comic, smutty Juanito the Bandito - 'he'd even make love to a dog' - and the rather grim Light Up a Beacon on a Puerto Rican, which dealt with racism, albeit in a rather repugnant and aggressive manner which could easily be, and was, taken for racism in itself. A lot of people also missed the pure music hall-type humour of songs like Friends, basically a list of claimed friendship with famous people from all eras punchlined with the whined line 'If I come on the night, can I get in free?'
In Derek Jarman's film Jubilee, along with Deutscher
Girls (shown briefly, on a background TV), the full version of the Ants' gig-opening tune Plastic Surgery features. The film was a bit of a mess, but was worth seeing for this sequence alone, in which Adam threw himself into the performance - literally - with such zest that he dislocated his knee.
I must add that the tunes on Dirk Wears White Sox , with
Matthew Ashman on guitar, are pretty good – I don't want to give the impression that I didn't like them at all. Animals
and Men is surely the only tune ever written about Italian Futurism; Car Trouble Part 1 and Family of Noise arrived at punk-funk-disco years before the Red Hot Chillis. The Day I Met God (and was impressed 'at the size of His knob' –tch, really, Adam) is a sublime piece of on-the-road observation: 'We was coming back in the van, from Milan, and I saw God, right there'. Like you do. Catholic Day, again, is a first, as far as I know, a song about JFK, his 'sporty young hairstyle', his brain falling on Jackie's knee on that day in Dallas. Never Trust a Man with Egg on His Face is a menacing piece of sci-fi. All good, some of it great. But not the Ants I'd known, followed, recorded, learned, looked forward to. Serious twenty-something post-punk types like me, with our floppy fringes and long overcoats, were a pretty hard-to-please bunch, I guess.
A lot of the early tunes are now available to hear on YouTube, accompanied mostly by still pictures, and often from dodgy live recordings, and consequently they're often very scrunchy, but they give a real flavour of the barrage of sound, and the
innovative, and often chaotic, nature of early Ants performance, at a time when most 1977 bands were trying to be secondhand Sex Pistols, and intoning crap tunes about boredom, or being boringly 'political, maaan', in bad imitations of the Clash. Adam and his Ants were never as rock n roll as the Pistols, were never as doctrinaire as the Clash, were not as earnest as the Banshees, nor as arty as Wire – I thought the Ants got it exactly right in having a decent mix of all those elements.
Andy Warren went on to join The Monochrome Set – one of my favourite bands from the same period - while Dave Barbe and Matthew Ashman were stolen by the scheming Malcolm McLaren to back the 14 year-old Annabella Lu Win in his new project Bow Wow Wow. Adam had paid McLaren a grand for advice on the next phase of his career – "Do cowboys, Adam," mockney Malkie said out of the corner of his mouth, "do Indians, mate, do pirates, swash your buckle, bit of flash, bit of brash, become prince charming…" – so Adam did, and didn't come too badly out of the deal in the end.
Bow Wow Wow ploughed a similar furrow, sporting Vivienne Westwood's new off-the-peg pirate look, with Dave Barbe stripped of his sharp and punky name and restored to his real name (according to Malcolm) Dave Barbarossa – that of the legendary Redbeard the Pirate. They played Burundi drums and Duane Eddy guitars, speedy fifteen-fingered basslines, tunes about Don Juan corsairs and other planets, the Eiffel Tower as a phallic symbol. They released an album on a cassette, had Annabella photographed in the nude. They were great, but never quite the business, despite being talented, photogenic, controversial and newsworthy. What went wrong with them? For the mass market, the formula just didn't work as well as Adam's: he had it, and they didn't.
Adam hooked up with Marco Pirroni, another man with a great pedigree on the punk scene, who'd been there from the beginning, wearing the shirts, playing the guitar, po-faced and workmanlike, canny enough to tell the shite from the shine. Marco was (and still is) a rare talent, and the best thing that happened to Adam – I'm sorry to hear they don't talk these days. I didn't mind some of the tunes they had massive hits with - I liked some of the Kings of the Wild Frontier album, resigned myself to be exasperated and then amused to see that the line 'Dirk Wears White Socks' had gone from an entire song about comedy Nazis and slapstick Berlin decadence in 1977, to the somewhat meaningless (to all but original Antpeople, who were still rather mystified by it) title of a 1979 album, to an even more cryptic line in the chorus of an unmemorable 1980 non-tune, the piss-weak Don't Be Square be There. By the time Adam was standing and delivering and doing the Prince Charming two-step with Diana Dors, shaking hands with royalty and appearing on Jim'll Fix It I thought it had all become a bit too cartoony. (In fact, several children's mags did indeed feature cartoons in which Adam was the hero, totally messing up my metaphor here.) I can see that he never would have made it with the early tunes -Princess Margaret and her sis probably wouldn't have tapped their feet along to any tune that went 'Tie me up
and beat me with a stick, beat me, beat me' - and that Adam did what he had to do to become the world-famous song and dance man he craved to be, and turned into. I'm glad he made it, glad he became a name and a face, a look and a haircut and a style of his own: I'm glad he 'sold out' – as we Antpeople sniped for an inordinately long while – and got the fame he deserved for the hard work he put in. He paid a massive price for it in the end, unfortunately. I'm also glad his hidden legacy of early tunes is now around and available though, just as it ever was, you need to seek it out, though I'm too much of an ole fart these days to want to listen to the songs TOO often.
Punk 77is an exhaustive site about the bands of the time, and has a lot on the Ants –great interviews with one-time guitarist Mark Ryan, and with Marco Pirroni.
Adam-Ant.Net and Ant Spotting have the latest AA-related news.
Ant Lady has an excellent site with all the lyrics, cross-referenced expertly by album/period, etc.
Here's one of the many pages on which you'll find early Ants tunes on YouTube.


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Your brain on -- and off -- caffeine
Ever miss your daily cup of coffee and subsequently get a pounding headache? According to reports from consumers of coffee and other caffeinated products, caffeine withdrawal is often characterized by a headache, fatigue, feeling less alert, less energetic and experiencing difficulty concentrating.
Researchers from the University of Vermont College of Medicine and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine sought to investigate the biological mechanisms of caffeine withdrawal in a paper published recently in the online edition of the scientific journal Psychopharmacology. They looked at brain electrical activity and blood flow during caffeine withdrawal to examine what was taking place physiologically during acute caffeine abstinence, including the likely mechanism underlying the common "caffeine withdrawal headache."
The group examined caffeine's effects in a double-blind study, which involved the administration of caffeine and placebo capsules. Each participant's response to the caffeine or placebo was measured using three different measures — brain electrical activity via electroencephalogram (EEG); blood flow velocity in the brain via ultrasound; and participants' self-reports of subjective effects via questionnaires.
The team demonstrated that stopping daily caffeine consumption produces changes in cerebral blood flow velocity and quantitative EEG that are likely related to the classic caffeine withdrawal symptoms of headache, drowsiness and decreased alertness. More specifically, acute caffeine abstinence increased brain blood flow, an effect that may account for commonly reported withdrawal headaches. Acute caffeine abstinence also produced changes in EEG (increased theta rhythm) that has previously been linked to the common withdrawal symptom of fatigue. Consistent with this, volunteers reported increases in measures of "tired," "fatigue," "sluggish" and "weary." Overall, these findings provide the most rigorous demonstration to date of physiological effects of caffeine withdrawal.
The researchers also discovered a provocative and somewhat unexpected finding — that there were no net benefits associated with chronic caffeine administration.
"In addition to looking at caffeine withdrawal, this rigorous design also permitted comparison of chronic caffeine maintenance with chronic placebo maintenance, which provides unique information about the extent to which there are net beneficial effects of daily caffeine administration," said Stacey Sigmon, Ph.D., research associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Vermont and first author on the study. "In contrast to what most of us coffee lovers would think, our study showed no difference between when the participant was maintained on chronic placebo and when the participant was stabilized on chronic caffeine administration. What this means is that consuming caffeine regularly does not appear to produce any net beneficial effects, based on the measures we examined."
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Mobile phones not only contain our personal details and information about everyone we know; they are used to verify our identities and unlock access to our financial accounts.
Now scammers are using a process called a "port-out" to hack into our phones to change our passwords, steal our personal data and even empty our bank accounts.
Basics of the port-out scam
A port-out scam starts by manipulating the legitimate process you can use to move your mobile phone number from one carrier to another. A scammer calls a carrier and impersonates you to request that your mobile phone number and SIM card data be transferred to a new carrier and device owned by the scammer.
Once the scammer successfully ports out your number in this way, they are often able to use that as leverage to gain access to all your online accounts. That's because like other online accounts, banks will respond to requests to change your password by sending the new password or a PIN to your phone.
Once the scammer uses a ported-out phone to change your passwords, not only are you locked out from accessing your accounts, but the scammer can now begin emptying them.
How to protect yourself
The key security vulnerability of the port-out scam is with the mobile phone carrier. When a customer calls to request changing their phone number to another carrier and device, the carrier will ask them to provide a PIN number. For some U.S. carriers including T-Mobile, the default PIN has been the last four digits of the customer's Social Security number, unless they changed it to something else.
If you recall, last year the credit reporting agency Equifax disclosed that more than 143 million Americans – more than half the country – had their data exposed in a hacking security breach. The information exposed included names linked with phone numbers and Social Security numbers – in other words, everything a hacker would need to try a port-out scam.
Recently, T-Mobile sent text messages to customers warning them to change their PINs. It also set up a port-out protection page: https://www.t-mobile.com/customers/secure
No matter what carrier you use, it's worthwhile updating your security information and PIN. It can take only minutes and it may avoid the devastating consequences of this scam. Make sure that the new PIN you choose is different from your carrier account password.
Here are the PIN protection links for the other three major U.S. carriers:
- AT&T: http://about.att.com/sites/cybersecurity/ni/blog/porting
- Sprint: https://shop2.sprint.com/en/legal/PIN_intro_popup.shtml
Verizon: https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/account-pin-faqs/


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In this video I explain how to do a behind the back, right hand skid with clock. This is an against the spin move that adds the extra restriction of pulling the disc behind the back before performing the against the spin pull.
To perform this trick, basically throw or set the disc on an angle at your left hip. Step forward with your left foot, reach behind your back and hook the rim with your nail. Now swing down and then back up. As you swing the disc up turn to your right.
Extra credit points if you can go from this move to another against the spin move.


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LOS ANGELES — California is facing its highest chance of blackouts this year as a brutal heat wave continues to blanket the state with triple-digit temperatures. State energy officials said the electrical load Tuesday afternoon could top 51,000 megawatts, the highest demand the state has ever seen.
As people crank up their air conditioners, the state forecasted record levels of energy use, said Elliot Mainzer, president of California Independent System Operators, which runs the state's electrical grid. The state has additional energy capacity at the moment "but blackouts, rolling, rotating outages are a possibility," Mainzer said, calling additional conservation "absolutely essential."
The CAISO site Tuesday morning showed California could fall more than 5,000 megawatts short of its power supply at peak demand, forecasted for 5:30 p.m.
The danger of wildfires was extreme as scorching heat and low humidity turned brush to tinder. Four deaths were reported over the Labor Day weekend as some 4,400 firefighters battled 14 large fires around the state, with 45 new blazes on Sunday alone, said Anale Burlew, a deputy chief with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
In Southern California, two people were killed and one injured by the Fairview Fire, which started Monday near the city of Hemet, the Riverside County Fire Department said. Roughly 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles, the fire had quickly spread to more than 2,000 acres by 11 p.m., prompting evacuations, and was only 5% contained. Multiple residential structures burned.
California's energy grid runs on a mix of mostly solar and natural gas during the day, along with some imports of power from other states. But solar power begins to fall off during the late afternoon and into the evening, which is the hottest time of day in some parts of the state. And some of the aging natural gas plants California relies on for backup power aren't as reliable in hot weather.
At CAISO's request on Monday, four temporary emergency power generators deployed by the Department of Water Resources in Roseville and Yuba City were activated for the first time since they were installed last year, providing up to 120 megawatts, enough electricity for 120,000 homes.
CAISO also has issued a Flex Alert call for voluntary conservation between 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday, making seven alerts in as many days. Consumers were urged to keep air conditioners at 78 degrees (25.5 degrees C) or higher during the period and avoiding using major appliances such as ovens and dishwashers.
The efforts have worked to keep the lights on "but we have now entered the most intense phase of this heat wave" that could last into the week, and two to three times the level of conservation will be needed from people and businesses, Mainzer said.
CAISO also issued a Stage 2 Energy Emergency Alert from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday. The second of three emergency alert stages means taking emergency energy-saving measures "such as tapping backup generators, buying more power from other states and using so-called demand response programs," according to a CAISO website. Stage 3 would be rolling blackouts.
Several hundred thousand Californians lost power in rolling blackouts in August 2020 amid hot weather, but the state avoided a similar scenario last summer. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Friday that could allow the state's last remaining nuclear plant to stay open beyond its planned 2025 closure, to ensure more power.
The National Weather Service predicted highs between 100 and 115 degrees (37.7 C and 46.1 C) across inland California, with 80s to 90s (above 26.6 C and below 37.2 C) closer to the coast. Nighttime won't bring much relief, with many places seeing lows in the 80s or even 90s (above 26.6 C and below 37.2 C).
Ironically, unsettled weather also brought the chance of thunderstorms over Southern California and into the Sierra Nevada, with a few isolated areas of rain but nothing widespread. The storms also could produce lightning, forecasters said, which can spark wildfires.
South of the Oregon state line, the Mill Fire was 55% contained Tuesday morning after killing two people, injuring others and destroying at least 88 homes and other buildings since it erupted last week, CalFire said. The bodies of the two women, 66 and 73, were found in the city of Weed on Friday, the Siskyou County Sheriff's Office announced Monday. Details weren't immediately released.
A few miles away, the Mountain Fire grew to nearly 18 square miles (29 square kilometers) square miles and only 20% contained, with winds threatening to renew its eastward spread in steep terrain, fire officials said.
Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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Brands That Made Cool Comebacks
10 Brand Comebacks That Will Inspire You To Never Give Up
It's always possible to reinvent yourself.
Remember how Dr. Martens boots were worn by an edgier, punk rock crowd? The iconic boots are now more mainstream than ever — hugging the feet of festivalgoers and fashionistas of all kinds. Or think about Apple's return — one of the greatest comeback stories of all time.
Perhaps you'd be surprised to know that some of your favorite brands are only successful today because they stuck it out through hard times — making extensive rebranding efforts and sometimes even overcoming bankruptcy.
Let the ten brand comeback stories below remind you to never give up.
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"That silhouette was universally considered ugly," said Vogue.com contributor Katherine Bernard in this 2013 article. The German orthopedic sandal experienced a style renaissance in the past few years — getting adopted by fashion insiders and style-conscious people across the world.
And just like that, Birkenstocks became trendy. Maybe the brand's longevity (it's over 200 years old) proves that despite fashion trends coming and going, comfort will always be in style.
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It would've made sense for Polaroid to bite the dust as soon as the first digital cameras started taking over the market.
According to TIME, the company did go through almost a decade of legal battles and bankruptcy proceedings before making a comeback as a lifestyle brand.
In 2015, Polaroid launched four playful gadgets: the Cube and the Zip — a mini camera and a mobile printer — and the iZone and Socialmatic smart cameras. The brand made famous by the iconic OneStep camera repositioned itself as a company that offers cool tech toys to enhance your photo-taking experience in the digital age.
Pabst Blue Ribbon
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Hipsters revived Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.
In 2001, the Milwaukee brand brought in Benetton exec Brian Kovalchuk as CEO and then-27-year-old Neal Stewart as brand manager in an effort to increase plummeting sales, according to Fast Company.
Appealing to the younger crowd with cheap prices and no-frills branding turned out to be a successful move for P.B.R : National sales have increased by 165 percent since 2001.
In 2014, after 14 years of absence, the French luxury eyewear brand returned to the U.S. by relaunching its classic Vuarnet 002 style — the one worn by famous skiier Jean Vuarnet when he won the gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics.
And James Bond donning a pair of Vuarnet Glacier vintage shades in Spectre certainly didn't hurt the brand's comeback on American soil.
This list would not be complete without the mention of Apple.
In 1985, Steve Jobs was fired from the company he founded. He returned to Apple in 1997. In the years that followed, Jobs proceeded to resurrect the brand: He accepted an infusion of $150 million from rival Microsoft in order to make Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer available on the Macintosh, expanded product offerings beyond computers and opened Apple stores. The rest is history.
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Old Spice owes its comeback success to the 2010 "Smell Like A Man campaign", a series of humorous ads starring former NFL player Isaiah Mustafa.
Thanks to this genius campaign, the red bottle that was once associated with a grandfather's bathroom cabinet became appealing to younger men.
Even if you didn't grow up reading comics, you probably got enthusiastic about blockbuster hits such as The Avengers or Guardians of the Galaxy. Marvel has become a pop culture mainstay, but the company once had to dig itself out of financial trouble.
In the mid '90s, Marvel resorted to selling the movie rights to some of its biggest characters in order to survive in a dying comic book market, according to Entrepreneur magazine. The brand had no choice but to focus on movies to become profitable again, but it also had to rely on lesser-known characters to turn the films into a success. Captain America, Iron Man and the Hulk were some of the characters that saved Marvel from this setback.
You forgot all about your Game Boy once the first PlayStation came along. And once the PS2 and the Xbox were released, the Nintendo brand seemed to be destined for doom.
Until Nintendo released the quirky Wii console and sold over 100 million units worldwide. Here's a lesson to learn from Nintendo's comeback : Always embrace your individuality instead of trying to imitate others.
Before Facebook, there was Myspace. The social media platform is making a comeback as a social music sharing service.
According to CBS News, Myspace actually has more users than Vine and Snapchat. How did the dying brand manage to pull that off? By completely changing the design and aesthetic of its interface. "When the site was being redesigned, the goal was to create a platform where artists — not only musicians — could showcase their art on a platform that enhances and amplifies their work," Myspace's general manager Ron Nielsen told CBS News.
In this new platform, users can stream music but also connect with musicians and artists on a more personal level.
In 2011, Netflix almost died. That's right, the streaming service that is now producing hit series — the one that has become ingrained in our vocabulary through the expression "Netflix and chill" — almost disappeared.
According to Entrepreneur magazine, the brand learned the hard way not to increase the prices on its subscribers. By focusing on listening to its customers and providing them with simplicity, accessibility and original programming, Netflix became a power player in the content streaming industry.
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There are ways to lower property taxes by challenging property tax assessments when they are found to be inequitable or erroneous. Although the assessor has no hand in budget spending within a taxing district, they do determine the assessed value of all real property, and in some states personal property.
Property tax bills are generated to support city/county services to taxpayers. Basically, the bill is generated by multiplying the assessed value of a property times the tax rate for the district where the property is located.
Taxpayers who can demonstrate that the assessed value on a given property is too high can possibly lower the tax bill for that property.
Detailed below are six simple, but effective actions taxpayers can take in order to make a successful argument to lower the assessed value on their property:
Documentation of your case before an appeal board should include photographs of the property in question and a complete explanation of any detrimental factors affecting the property value.
You should contact your local assessment office for rules and procedures governing the assessed valuation appeal.


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Here's an editorial in Nature, which bills itself as an international journal but is basically British, so it's probably best understood as a view from across the pond. From any distance, really, the United States right now is looking like the Land That Time Forgot, specifically in about, oh, 1372 or thereabouts. The proximate cause of the editors' growing contempt for our once great country is the Republican's witch hunt hearings on climate science of earlier this month, occasioned by an effort to prohibit the EPA from regulating emissions of greenhouse gases:
[T]he [proposed] legislation is fundamentally anti-science, just as the rhetoric that supports it is grounded in willful ignorance. One lawmaker last week described scientists as "elitist" and "arrogant" creatures who hide behind "discredited" institutions. Another propagated the myth that in the 1970s the scientific community warned of an imminent ice age. . . It is hard to escape the conclusion that the U.S. Congress has entered the intellectual wilderness. . . .
That's all fine, but then they just have to say this:
Fred Upton, the Michigan Republican who chairs the full Energy and Commerce Committee, once endorsed climate science, but last month said . . . that he is not convinced that greenhouse-gas emissions contribute to global warming. It was yet another blow to the shrinking minority of moderate centrists in both parties.
Is there something in the water? Or is there legislation I haven't heard about, that forbids anyone to criticize the delusional far right that has taken over one of the two major parties in the U.S. without pretending that somehow the Democratic Party has become a far-left mirror reflection? What would constitute "moderate centrism" on this issue? Agreeing that greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global warming, but only half as much as scientists say they do? And by the way, who exactly are those "moderate centrists" in the Republican party in the first place? Not a single Republican Senator -- not one -- will publicly state that human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases are causing dangerous climate change.
On the other hand, there are plenty of Democrats who are global warming skeptics, or who don't want to do anything about the problem. Update: Plenty of them. Presumably they aren't "moderate centrists," so what exactly are they?
Listen up, Nature editors. When one side is right on the facts, and the other side is wrong, there isn't any "moderate center." There is only truth and falsehood. Can we please, please, for all time abandon this idiotic fetish of "balance." It's killing us.


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Hello! This beautiful moonflower greeted me late this afternoon. I planted seeds along with the morning glories, but have only seen one bloom before today.
Another flower mid bloom.
Phillip has been out of town this week and finally got home today. I made a big pot of chili and baked a batch of pumpkin cookies.
I doubled the recipe, adding white chocolate chips to half the dough and butterscotch chips to the other half.
Pumpkin Butterscotch Cookies
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup pumpkin
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. cloves
1 1/2 cups butterscotch, white chocolate or chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350.F Cream the butter and sugars. Add pumpkin and vanilla. In separate bowl, stir together dry ingredients. Add to butter mixture and stir. Add butterscotch chips. Drop by teaspoons onto a greased cookie sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned around the edges. Allow to cool on sheet for several minute, then remove to cooling rack.


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Sackstein Sackstein & Lee, LLP recovered $700,000 for a 43-year-old Asian male sign installer in a settlement prior to trial. The sign installer fell from a 16-foot extension ladder at a renovation site while he was removing a 20-foot-long sign from the building. He suffered from a fractured ankle and required surgery.
New York Labor Law 240 states the following:
"All contractors and owners and their agents, except owners of one and two-family dwellings who contract for but do not direct or control the work, in the erection, demolition, repairing, altering, painting, cleaning or pointing of a building or structure shall furnish or erect, or cause to be furnished or erected for the performance of such labor, scaffolding, hoists, stays, ladders, slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys, braces, irons, ropes, and other devices which shall be so constructed, placed and operated as to give proper protection to a person so employed."
Prior to filing the lawsuit, our construction accident attorneys attempted to negotiate a settlement with the tenant, who had acted as the owner's agent; however, the tenant refused to settle. Our firm entered a motion for Summary Judgment based on the fact that the tenant violated New York Labor law by failing to provide the proper equipment for our client. A summary judgment motion is an argument that the other party has no case and requests that the court decide the case based on the facts submitted. The court decided in favor of the Summary Judgment, and the case was settled through mediation, which awarded our client $700,000 in compensation for losses.
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