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A University of Texas student claims to have beaten the all-time high score for Rock Band 2, setting a Guinness World Record after successfully completing all 84 songs in the video game in one sitting. It took Matt Smith, a civil engineering junior, seven hours to play through all the songs on expert level as his friends cheered him on, accumulating a total of 14,727,919 points, Rocks Off's old training grounds The Daily Texan reported Monday. Smith, playing drums, broke the previous record on song No. 58, The Who's "Pinball Wizard," when he passed the mark of 10,719,466 points set last May by Robert Paz, the Texan said. Instead of paying $5,000 to have a Guinness official present, he recorded his entire Rock Band session and recruited a department manager from an Austin Fry's Electronics store for the required expert testimony. Perhaps more impressively, he did not let his pursuit of the record affect his studies. Smith told the Texan he practiced for 45 minutes to an hour every day - after finishing his homework - since deciding to break the record last October. Not everyone was impressed, though. While Smith's marathon Rock Band session was in progress, someone yelled out "When are you going to let someone else play?" And a few commenters on the Texan's Web site took the opportunity to haul out a few drummer jokes.
John Glosson: "Imagine if he'd practiced real drums with that amount of dedication. He might not have set a world record but he might have gotten laid." Peter Green: "Hey this guys no Frank Beard, so stop all your blubbering over him, he's a novice amateur like most of you snotty nosed kids who have posted here, I know Frank Beard, I jammed with Frank Beard, Frank Beard is a friend of mine, you sir are no Frank Beard!"
To be fair, Smith had his fair share of defenders too. Read the article and the comments here.
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Thanks for logging onto me and reading my first blog!
Now my 13 year old is great at these but let me see how I go!
Thought I would do the first one about me really and why I am a Personal Trainer….
It started 10 years ago now when I really got into the gym after having my first daughter Eleanor – Imanaged to get down to a size 10/12 after always being somewhere between a size 12 or 14 for many years and around 16 years ago I was a size 16. I have always, and always will enjoy food and dining out in general. I like a glass of wine and socialising and having lots of fun! So to do all of this and maintain a good weight has always been hard for me.
Going to the gym and finding a class I really enjoyed helped me immensely – I found new friends that also enjoyed the classes and it soon became a permanent fixture in my life. So much so that just before I fell pregnant with my youngest I decided to take my exercise to music course and becomean instructor! Then I found out while training that I was 8 weeks pregnant – that was all fine but meant actually setting up a business and taking classes each week would not be possible for a while.
Anyway after putting this on hold for a bit I decided that perhaps the Personal Trainer route was the one to go down. For one this did not include trying to teach people to music which I found out is not my thing! I have never found my weight an easy thing to control but with exercise I have the ability to control it better. Things happen in life which can make us go off the boil as such but like my clients I am not always "good" I enjoy my life and take the good with the bad in terms of managing my weight. Mainly I try and focus on healthy clean eating – getting plenty of exercise and good sleep and enjoyable time with friends and family. As far as I am concerned it's not about being skinny/thin etc but healthy fit and comfortable with my body shape. This is what I try and bring across to my clients.
So Personal Trainer I became. Life changed and I got divorced and was caring, for the majority of the time my two girls, moving home and starting up a new business… it was busy to say the least!
Life has calmed down a bit…. After a year or so of moving around to parks or clients houses and gardens I built (or should I say had built) a wooden construction in the garden known as my gym! Its great fun and means I can look after my girls and still work. I now have a great regular following of clients and like the fact that I can give them one to one attention in an environment that they do not feel uncomfortable in. Many women come to me because big gyms are one expensive but also there are lots of other people watching them. In my gym it's just me and you and the mirrors..sorry!
Also after becoming a trainer became a boxercise instructor which I love. I use this a lot in my one to one lessons but take a couple of classes a week of this. Its fun but the contact with others makes it varied and each person you pad or punch gives a different dynamic to the sport. Classes are fun andI have made some great friends through this.
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'm sitting in the lobby of the Smyth Hotel in downtown Manhattan waiting for Roberto Durán, the man they call El Cholo, when I get a phone call from his assistant. "We're on our way," he says. "Just to warn you, he's a little agitated." This is expected. Since May, Durán has been on a global press tour for Hands of Stone, a new biopic about the boxer's life and relationship with mentor Ray Arcel by Venezuelan director Jonathan Jakubowicz, which premiered at the Cannes film festival and had its New York premiere earlier this week. He is here with his wife of more than 45 years, Felicidad 'Fula' Iglesias, and his children and grandchildren.
Minutes after he arrives Durán pleads with his assistant for some water. "I'm sorry, just give me one moment," he says in Spanish as he sits down. "I've been on my feet since last night." It's been a hectic ride for the 65-year-old retired fighter who speaks very little English, contending with the demands of a press junket alongside Robert De Niro, Usher and Édgar Ramírez, the Venezuelan actor who plays him in the movie. Once he finally settles, Durán's attention diverts once again as he keeps greeting his friends and family passing through the hotel lobby. His biggest concern is now an iPod he lost in his hotel room. "All my music is in that thing! We can't leave until I find it. It has 3,500 songs."
Just as I'm thinking the interview might take all day, it occurs to me that, even as a journalist, in order to get what you want from him you have to match his energy. You have to go in the ring with him. At this precise moment it becomes clear: he's never truly out of it. Durán is always fighting something.
For Latinos, Durán is more than just an athlete or even a sporting legend. He is a mythological figure, a symbol who persists in Latin folklore decades after his fighting career because he represented the will and determination of a community who was fighting the social injustices of the times they were facing. Much like Ali stood up for the civil rights of the African-American movement in a segregated America, Durán was doing the same thing for the poor and underprivileged in Panama. The film, which alternates between Spanish and English, represents one of the rare chances where an American audience can witness a Hollywood movie where a Latino protagonist is not a crime lord or a drug kingpin. "This is an opportunity to change the Latino stereotype – we live in a world where you can call Latinos drug dealers and rapists and criminals and still have a chance at being president of the United States," said Jakubowicz at the New York premiere. "Those are the stereotypes you see in American movies and TV shows, but now you're going to see a true legend: a Latino boxer who overcame all his demons and became an inspiration for an entire people."
Roberto Durán Samaniego was born on 16 June 1951 in Guararé, a four-hour drive south of Panama City, but was raised in El Chorrillo, a poor neighborhood on the water's edge in the capital and walking distance to the mouth to the Panama Canal. During Durán's childhood, tensions between the US and Panama were so hostile that authorities decided to build a wall – sound familiar? – between the Canal Zone and the capital in order to alleviate the tumultuous relationship between Panamanian residents and Americans who lived and worked inside the zonal area. Durán, a poor kid from the streets, remembers having to break into the prohibited zone in order to get mangoes from the trees so he could sell them and feed his family. "The best fruit was on the other side, so I would use a pair of pliers, cut the fence and climb up the trees to get the mangoes." American soldiers, after noticing the eight-year-old breaking in, would fire shots of warning in the air to scare him away. "They knew we were kids so would only shoot blanks just to scare us."
His mother, Clara, raised him and his siblings as his father, Margarito, a Mexican-American GI from Arizona who was stationed in Panama, left the family and returned to the states in 1954. After living almost his entire childhood without a father, it wasn't until 1976 in California when they would reunite. In a 1980 interview with the Evening Independent, Margarito Durán recalls the meeting. "We embraced," said Margarito. "We sat in a room at a hotel and it was no problem." Durán confirms the meeting and agrees it was an amicable encounter, but when I try to get him to talk more about his estranged father there is a sense of restraint, as if there is still a lot of resentment and pain still unresolved. He takes a photograph out of his wallet and shows it to me. It's a black and white image of a young Durán with his father from that hotel meeting. In the image, both men are hugging and smiling, as if all was forgotten in one frozen memory. "The only good thing that my father ever did," he says to me, "was that he once picked up a magazine and recognized who I was."
Perhaps this is where the fighter was born. Not in the streets where he had to clean shoes, or sell newspapers, or even at Neco de La Guardia gymnasium where he learned how to box thanks to Nestor 'Plomo' Espinosa, and later joined by the legendary Arcel, who made him world champion in four different weight classes. These are all vital pieces of the puzzle that created the fighter inside the ring, but the inner rage and the bull-like aggression he possessed, that is something that cannot be taught. It can only be experienced, and for Durán, it all began with his father.
Durán is perhaps best known for the infamous "No Más" rematch with Sugar Ray Leonard in 1980 after he'd won their first meeting. Near the end of the eighth round Durán, clearly losing the fight, turns around and allegedly mutters the words, "no more" to the referee. There have been many pieces on the subject including a 30 for 30 documentary and our own investigation, and Durán himself, as he mentions in the ESPN doc, denies he ever said those words, but instead it was the ref, Octavio Meyran, who muttered them after Durán put his hands up and refused to fight. Either way, it was Manos de Piedra who was mentally beaten and stopped the fight, regardless whether the words were said or not. The movie also goes into detail, including the fact that he was in poor physical condition, had little time to make weight due to his ferocious appetite and that the fight was poorly scheduled between Don King and his promoter, the millionaire Carlos Eleta.
Perhaps something that is more important and is often forgotten in the memory of the boxing fan is the close bond that Durán and Leonard have built since their bouts and how they became close friends. There was a beautiful moment at the New York premiere when right before the screening, Durán and Leonard embraced each other and the entire audience stood up and applauded. "This is something that people forget," says Durán. "I never said 'no más' and me and Sugar are great friends."
Durán wanted me to know that he was extremely proud of the film as it's a testament to how much people validate what he has done for the sport, but there are certain parts which he was less keen on. "I'm very happy with the movie and Edgar Ramirez did a fantastic job. He's a great actor," he says. "But I didn't always like the way they made me and my wife (powerfully played by Cuban-Spanish actress, Ana de Armas) look sometimes. There are scenes when she is smoking and drinking and she doesn't do either, she never has. Also, they often made me look like a womanizer and that I insulted Sugar's wife in front of her before our first fight. None of that happened."
I asked the director Jonathan Jakubowicz about these concerns. "First of all, there are stories about Jake La Motta and how he hated Raging Bull after seeing it for the first time, so if Durán's biggest problem with the movie is that Fula was smoking and drinking, I'll take it," jokes the 38-year-old director. "But to address the point, this movie is not just about Roberto Durán, it also examines Fula's story, specifically after that fight in New Orleans and how she had to deal with a depressed man, someone who didn't want to leave the house for three months or do anything. So it wasn't just Durán who was broken, it was also his wife. So for us, the smoking and drinking was a creative choice that was made because it showed the distance and depressed state that she was in at the time."
Regarding the insults aimed at Leonard's wife which Durán categorically denies, Jakubowicz stands firm. "Listen, I want people to know that aside from a filmmaker I am also an investigative journalist and I interviewed Sugar Ray Leonard on this very subject. We talked about it on more than one occasion and every time he tells me this story you can see the anger building within him. I also talked to Angelo Dundee (Leonard's renowned trainer, who died in 2012) a few months before he sadly passed away and he also confirmed the story. I think Durán is perhaps repenting what happened and wishes to forget about it as it can't be easy to see your entire life – the good and the bad – on the big screen."
We may never know the exact details of what happened nor we may truly be able to fully understand the complexities of a fighter who has been through so much both inside and out of the ring. One thing is for sure, Roberto Durán, the kid from the slums of Panama who became the greatest lightweight on the planet, has never been perfect as his temperament has always represented a double-edged sword, both his greatest ally and most dangerous enemy. "Durán is a man made of flesh and bones," says Jakubowicz. "And all his demons are part of what made him a great boxer and in beating them is what specifically makes him a human being and a hero. And this is what Latin Americans need, we need someone who's made of flesh and bones, a hero who knows what it's like to also be imperfect. We need real heroes just like him."
Just as we finish talking, Durán enters the room, elated because he has just found the famous iPod with 3,500 songs. 'You have no idea how happy I am to have found this," he tells us. "Do you know how many songs it holds?" he asks.
I do know, but I still want him to tell me.


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FRANKFORT, Ky. (May 18, 2017) – On Wednesday, both Taylor and Adair counties were the recipients of two workforce bonds from the Work Ready Skills Initiative Advisory Committee.
Taylor County Schools was awarded $2,375,000, which will be used to renovate and upgrade infrastructure on an existing facility, as well as purchase upgraded equipment. The project will train 577 students and 180 adults annually, with a focus on healthcare, advanced manufacturing, transportation, and business and technology sectors.
The Adair County Board of Education was awarded $238,000 to purchase upgraded healthcare training equipment, and will train 340 students and 45 adults annually, with a focus on the healthcare sector.
"I commend all of the officials in both Taylor and Adair counties who are responsible for these tremendous awards, which will dramatically improve our workforce development efforts," said Rep. Bam Carney, R-Campbellsville. "As we work to grow jobs in Kentucky, we have to simultaneously focus on equipping our workers with the skills to perform at a high level, and for generations to come."
Taylor County Public Schools and the Adair County Board of Education are two of just 15 winners, out of an original 41 applicants. The current $33.1 million is the second round of grants distributed. The total amount of grants awarded is just shy of $100 million, including $64.4 million in the first round.
The Work Ready Skills Initiative was created by Gov. Matt Bevin in 2016, and supported by the legislature. It is aimed to support the core mission to make Kentucky the leader for engineering and manufacturing in the United States.
For more information on the Kentucky Work Ready Skills Initiative, visit www.KentuckyWorkReady.com.


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This is a list of a few of the books that have made their way onto my TBR shelves this summer. Can you identify them just by the few letters I've given you? Just like those contestants on The Wheel of Fortune 🙂 Leave a comment with the # and answer.
1. The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand – Debbie
2. The Widow's Season by Laura Brodie – Heather
3. The Innocent Man by John Grisham
4. The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler – Heather & Michael
5. April & Oliver by Tess Callahan – Kathy
6. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
7. Off Season by Anne River Siddons – Heather
8. The Memory Keeper's Daughter byKim Edwards – Thoughts of Joy
9. The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger – Nikola
10. Digging To America by Anne Tyler – jb


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The United Methodist Financial Credit Union is offering "Ministry Relief Loans" to local churches, active clergy and spouses as well as church staff. These loans will be made at very favorable rates for the purpose of income replacement and the first payment will be deferred for 90 days.
Please contact our office for more information at 800.373.1059 or reach out to us via email at service [at] umethodist.com.


text: Facebook lets you kevery time you make a new friend on the social network, but it doesnt tell you when you lose one. The new Facebook Timeline feature lets you figure that out. Update: Facebook has disabled this new feature, which was clearly not supposed to be there. Its been fixed now, a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. The original article is below. Currently, Facebook does not notify you when someone unfriends you on the social network. That may soon change with the upcoming Facebook Timeline feature, which will be replacing your current Facebook profile. Unless Facebook changes this, you can actually see who has unfriended you during any point in time youve been on the social network. ZDN


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Truth has died
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- Author Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
- Title Truth has died
- Timeline 1810-1814, published in 1863
- Technique Aquafortis and burnisher
The political significance Goya wished to give the last prints of the series is evident: the defence of liberalism and opposition to the absolutism of King Ferdinand VII and the privileges of class, both of the nobility and the clergy. This scene has a clear political interpretation. A young woman with bare breasts, dressed in white and emanating light, lies dead on the floor. She is Truth, and also an allegory of the 1812 Constitution as the youth is crowned with a laurel wreath. On a gloomy night a group of friars and other clergy, presided by a bishop, prepare to bury her with hoes and spades. They are happy to inter such a dangerous lady who had done away with their privileges and had enacted the disenfranchisement of ecclesiastic property during the time the Constitution of Cadiz was in force. In contrast, a young woman seated on the right and holding scales weeps inconsolably for the death of Truth; she represents Justice, gagged and obstructed by absolutism.


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I have been with Facebook for the last year and a half, I confess I am a major addict ! Need to open fb and know who's saying what about my pics or who's feeling whatever. One thing peculiar I found here is strangely enough, most people, are almost always, trying to discover or rediscover themselves. Hence these quizes, what stone are you, what flower are you, what music are you, what !@!@# are you…………. If you go to the quiz section, you will be surprised by the types of quizes they have. But I think its becoz they have tapped into human phsycology. Not only are we keen to know ourselves better but we also want someone or something to tell us that we "good", "liked", "Charming" or whatever positive adjective can be used there !
The other day, I posted Jeremy's article which stated that people talk more on or to the computer than to people do to eachother. I felt I needed to add to that. Internet is a "mostly secure" world. A large proportion of the users dont leave their identity or contact details, they have an alias. Most of us dont even have our pics posted, for fear of being misused. In such a case, it is so easy to talk to people, pass comments on people, discuss problems without being judged, becoz your just a username. Thats who we become .. another username. A blog becomes our daily diary and we can pen type all our feelings without the fear of being "Judged" We talk to the computer becoz unfriendly comments can be unapproved easily with/without confrontations, unlike how it happens in the real world. Internet has turned into a safe haven coz its a real world within an unreal world.
We yearn for acceptance .. Theres plenty here. The 'disapprovals' go in the " junk box "
Life is not like that. People we meet and are friends with are not like that. They may have something to say that does leave an impact on how or what we feel. We dont really have the option of sending it to the junk box. We learn to take it with a pinch of salt. AND THEN,,,, we write a long post about it on our blog.


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In this parishe, books disappeared faster than peanuts. The fifth edition of the Pustaka Parishe, organised by Basavanagudi-based Srushti Ventures, in association with the Kannada Book Authority and other government organisations, was bigger and better as promised, with as many as 10 lakh books beckoning thousands of people.
Both book lovers and those who were being introduced to the world of words were seen swarming the National College Grounds in Bangalore on Sunday. Some 50,000 book found new owners by afternoon, as the ritual of giving every visitor a free book took off.
From what started as an initiative to promote Kannada literature, the event has branched out to including books of various genres and languages including Hindi and English, literary and academic, spiritual and self-help.
Inaugurating the expo, Deputy Chief Minister R. Ashok equated the event to the Kannada Sahitya Sammelan. "It seems like there is a cultural pollution. Our acts are increasingly going against what our culture stands for. Pustaka Parishe reminds me of the sahitya sammelan, which proved that people are still attached to our culture and literature," he said.
In districts soon
Encouraged by its success, Nagaraj Navunda of Srushti said there were plans to organise the event at the district level next year. "Donors have only increased each year, which is why the genres have expanded," he added.
The Kannada Book Authority lent a considerably large number of books this year. "From our end, we are ready to support a district-level parishe," said KBA chairperson Siddalingaiah.
Centenarian lexicographer G. Venkatasubbaiah was also present to see a collage, 'G.V. Shataka', in his tribute, being released.
The young and the old were seen helping themselves to the wide array of books. Satyamohan M.V. said events like the parishe make visitors go back with an inclination to read.
Textbooks for a steal
Students were seen seizing the opportunity and pick up textbooks. Umesh, a commerce student from Vijaya College, said students like him were looking for that one pricey textbook that they could save big bucks on. Dimple D., a Class 8 student, was picking out guides for her subjects.
The organisers had a difficult time telling the visitors that they could take only one book home, as most were under the impression that they could take as many as they wanted.
Apart from the book fair, the parishe this time featured various cultural programmes as well.


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I have been thinking a lot this week about nurse community – Sunday being International Nurses Day WeNurses are hosting a Nursing History Twitter Share-a-thon and photos showing our proud nursing history and blogs telling our own nursing stories are being shared already. I have been so very touched by everything being shared that I felt that I needed to do something to collate what was coming in, so I created this film:
nursing pride from @WeNurses on Vimeo.
The pictures in this film depicts scenes from times gone by, of the nurses we once were and the nurses our parents and grandparents were. Nurses who nursed in my grandmothers era (the "call the midwife" era) lived together, had their friendships under one roof, ate together, learnt together, and shared experiences, and expertise together … they were a community. And then the world started to change, society and nursing grew further apart from each other and more remote .. not just physically but socially and psychologically. Neighbours no longer knew each other, nurses rushed home to live out their busy lives and the boundaries between the personal and professional became very defined, and this is how it has remained.
But this is not the end of this story as two magical things have happened in recent years, firstly the Facebook, Twitter and YouTube fairies waved their wands and created social media – allowing for people to make connections and build communities in digital spaces and secondly the very clever boffins made huge advancements in mobile technology – allowing us to have those connections and communities in the palm of our hands. Because of these remarkable, wonderful and magical events nursing is no longer remote, or isolated, we are able to develop friendships, share ideas, experiences and expertise and learn from one another again.
I do not have a crystal ball and I do not know whether social media as we know it today will exist in the future but I do know that it is something we cannot ignore and should not ignore. As the world moves on and our digitally native children mature and start to make decisions and choices the world will become a very different place. Nurses coming up behind us will be (and indeed are already) in this space from a young age and we need to be there too – guiding, supporting, role modelling, sharing our support and expertise. Nurses are inherently driven to connect and be with people and be part of communities … it's our job, it's what we do, and we are pretty darned good at it. So we need to embrace this new online social media community so we can continue to share, to learn from and support each other in the way we have done in the past.
I have been truly moved over the last week at the nursing pride that is shining through the Twitter nursing community …. The #NurseCommunity has certainly empowered me and made me feel part of something bigger, it has made me hold my head up high and say "I am a nurse"
I for one will be sharing my nursing history pictures at 8pm on Sunday and tweeting loudly and proudly for International Nurses Day.


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Learn the superb print on the back of your ticket or the confirmation e-mail you received for those who purchased e-tickets. As it's, we followed the subsequent steps listed underneath 's FAQs, which was to name the airline, and the lady named Pamela advised us we had been fine and good to go. For this reason the airline is at fault. Additionally, I ought to level out that airways usually have a restrict of canine allowed on the airplane (I've heard 4), so it's good to inform the airline early to order your canine a spot. If you do not have a photocopy of the airline ticket or no record of the ticket number, present particulars of your flight. It could rely upon the airline and the airport/nation but irrespective of how you purchase the ticket, the following large step is what's known as checking in". By staying in one among their many high quality lodges, you may get tickets to anywhere in in the park or even get discount passes that are good for three or four days. Most of these are so filled with inaccuricies that we airline personel even find them amusing.
It had been suspended beforehand, resulting from an unpaid ticket, however I would paid the ticket and just gotten it reinstated. The most affordable method to purchase an airline ticket is to make use of an opaque purchasing website reminiscent of Priceline or Hotwire. For example, if you have already got your tickets booked, you may go over all the sections on shopping for tickets.
Thursday three cops showed up and took him, where he spent 1 week in county jail being held till the Military got him a airplane ticket and sent him to Fort Knox. It's also a very good deal for United as a result of it sold a seat that may in any other case have gone unused with out cannibalizing its full-worth retail ticket gross sales. While the term is commonly utilized to any carrier with low ticket costs and limited companies, no matter their operating models, low-value carriers should not be confused with regional airlines that function brief flights without service, or with full-service airlines offering some lowered fares. Simply reserving our tickets saved us from worrying about the big price of aircraft tickets if we purchased them before our visa was accepted. Tickets for occasions might be offered; most airline tickets are not transferable.
It's not primarily based on a wonderful , i was acquired a ticket for pettytheft in june however earlier than this incident happenend i have been making adjustments to maneuver to IN. i've written a letter to the decide with all my correct information and arrange one other courtroom date. Errors on a ticket are okay, as long as none of those mistakes trigger any of those situations not to be met.
The only option to proceed is to pay the difference between the quantity you paid for your round-journey ticket and what's now a one-approach ticket, plus a $one hundred fifty change charge. When you're packing the carry ons in your little one or toddler, do not forget to convey something to occupy them within the terminal and on the airplane. As a result of he turned himself in they got him a ticket and he has no felony fees against him and no warrant. With fewer planes, much less competitors, and higher capability, airways can charge a lot more for tickets. The remainder of it will likely be handed on to consumers in decrease ticket prices or to pilot unions" in search of larger pay in contract talks. Keep together with your child until he or she heads for safety with an assigned airline employee. If it is advisable change the ticket date before you depart, you have to contact a journey agent or an airline agent, whoever issued your ticket.


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The National Weather Association is offering a free ?Weather Theory for Pilots? interactive course on its website. The course covers basic atmospheric theory, including moisture, vertical motion and stability, and is designed for new or low-time pilots. This course compliments other online courses already offered by the NWA that address flying when thunderstorms are present or forecast and winter weather flying.
The NWA is a nonprofit professional organization made up of more than 3,000 meteorologists and students who work in broadcasting, research and operational forecasting. To access the course go to the NWA website at nwas.org.


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These Vinci 2.0 Smart Headphones are So Over-the-Top
We've seen our fair share of "smart headphones" over the past few years of doing product reviews and regular every day coverage for Dealerscope. But I can assure you that we've seen nothing close to the likes of the Vinci 2.0 Standalone Smart Headphone, which recently launched on Indiegogo and far surpassed its goal of $20,000—it's currently sitting just north of $888,000 as of this posting.
The Vinci 2.0 headphones combine the skills of your favorite pair of sport headphones with your go-to fitness tracker, a smartphone, and even sprinkles in a little intelligent smart speaker on top. Available for preorder now through the Indiegogo campaign, consumers can opt for one of three different versions of the Vinci 2.0 headphones: the Vinci Lite, the Vinci 2.0 Pro, and the Vinci 2.0 Super. All three models ship with 3G/WiFi/Bluetooth capabilities, access to 15,000+ Amazon Alexa skills, an AKM4376 HiFi DAC, and have an integrated 1.1-inch OLED display on the side of the neckband.
From there, the differences come down to the internal storage size (8, 16, and 32GB from Lite to Super), smart noise cancellation (available in the Pro and Smart models), and a bone conduction microphone (Smart edition). Accordingly, pricing will range from $199, to $289, to $299 for the different models of the Vinci 2.0—though all are listed for step discounts during the Indiegogo campaign.
Rob Stott is corporate communications manager, Nationwide Marketing Group


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Bus takes 3 hours longer than advertised (as expected) but journey not bad as Jet Li was entertaining us in a very strange kungfo film that disturbingly contained a small boys willy. Crossed the border with a load of Chinese Tourists all wearing blue hats and did the most pointless walk with our bags over the boarder just for the bus to drive after us and put us all back on again?!?!?
Enter hcmc! scooter slalom begins. checked into nice triple room (with large window-very important for the view of the wall) as we have decided we can't live without Gordon for the time being and visa versa.
Explored the city at night for a while and decided it is crazy but cool. Had a relatively ropey dinner (our fault for ordering western food, will stick to Vietnamese in future). Couple of beers and retreated back to our cozy room for some bedtime reading.


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Culinary Chats: Meet Chef Ruelas of Hyatt Ziva Los Cabos
Originally from the State of Mexico, Ruben Ruelas joined Hyatt Ziva Los Cabos as Executive Chef in December 2016.
Two weeks ago, our annual sales meeting was hosted at Hyatt Ziva Los Cabos and the number one thing that stood out, aside from the impeccable service, was the exceptional dining experiences.
Each course was unique, each dish memorable.
Following dinner one evening, I had an opportunity to sit down with Chef Ruben and chat about his passion for cooking and how Hyatt Ziva Los Cabos has turned into a foodie heaven.
With Hyatt Ziva Los Cabos now focusing more on experiential dining, what would you say is the favorite dish you have created so far?
"Cuitlacoche," it's a cappuccino with goat cheese foam and a reduction of white wine.
What is the first thing you take into consideration when creating a new menu?
Definitely the ingredients. The ingredients are something very important, you have to consider the freshness and quality of each one of them. But above all else, I take into consideration the traditions of our ancestors.
What is your favorite cuisine to cook?
I would have to say my favorites are Mexican and Mediterranean cuisines.
READ MORE Resort Recipe: Hyatt Ziva Los Cabos Mango Margaritas
Why did you choose to become a chef?
Because, ever since I was a child, when I was with my family, especially with my grandmother I was always in contact with the smell and textures of the food. It was what always brought us all together and from that moment on it captivated my attention.
What is an accomplishment that you are most proud of in your career?
I have had several accomplishments, but I believe that belonging to this company, Hyatt Ziva, has been one of the most important achievements of my career.
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"It is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible" — Henry Tilney, from Austen's Northanger Abbey
Stage 2: yesterday, Saturday, Dec 8th, tree brought home from nearby garden place (complete with stand), placed on credenza, and Izzy removing the last of the netting
Stage 2: Just the read and silver garland
Un arbre fini — it smells sweet as yet, fresh branches, it is still drinking the water in the stand
Friends and readers,
This is Izzy and my 6th winter solstice without Jim. This past Thursday (a balmy afternoon), I climbed down from our attic with Colin, our Christmas Penguin: I remember how Jim sang some version of this song when my neighbor gave Colin to me as a gift from Target when I told her I had seen him, and not been able to persuade Jim to buy him with the enthusiasm I felt:
— "Colin, the glittering penguin, had a very shiny sleigh, and if you ever saw him, you could even say he's gay. All of the other penguins used to laugh and call him names; they never let poor Colin join in any penguin games … then one foggy Christmas eve, Santa came to say, Colin with your sleigh so bright … won't you lead our line tonight …. " —
This year I first had him facing me and the pussycats in the sun-room; then I thought he is meant to be shared, so I put him before a window yesterday. I can't put him outdoors because I fear someone will steal him. Would someone in this neighborhood do such a thing? yes. Years ago my next door neighbor's partner, put out a full sled and reindeer and overnight he found it vanished. He was shocked. Also how cold poor Colin would be.
Last year I added a friend for him and my pussycats this silvery and white and greyish squirrel — if you could look close you see the little sparks which in life are silvery, shine out lightly and make the rest feel snowy. He sits by the tree.
Ian aka Snuffy, imitating Demelza's word for her son from the Poldark books I call him "my lover" — when he hops on my lap, presses his body against my chest, his front legs (arms) around my head and rubs my head with his, what else is he doing?
Being without Jim doesn't get any easier … how much living I've done in the last six years and how much I now feel I should have helped him to do …. how much experience we could have had together, how many possible memories we've lost — how much I should have to tell him of all this somehow interim time since. I like to think that had he lived I might have found these OLLIs and gotten him to go — he might've liked them. When we came into the money he was waiting for we would have traveled — he never saw Venice.
I am so just loving the Outlander films and even enjoyed listening to Drums of Autumn where in this fourth volume the homophobia, racism, and even egregious violence has dropped. Diana Gabaldon takes the humane sides each time: Jamie and Claire take refuge in America — of course upper class white style; but they will not own people and they do all they can to make friends with the native Americans. Davina Porter conveys how the narrator now often is Gabaldon herself somehow presenting her characters and then Claire again. But what I love is the central relationship. I watch the first season one-by-one at midnight whenever I am not too tired (I often am so have not gotten to where Claire tells Jamie where she came from) and twice a week each of the episodes of this fourth season. I do love how they ended up in a log cabin alone together — however improbable. Last night the last scene was of them love-making, he bathing her in a hip bath covered with a white cloth first. I know to me it's a substitute for Jim and my relationship in dreams.
Caitriona Balfe as Claire last night — of course it's her I identity with, her conception of this character — that involved me with these films and books from the first — she was nominated for a Golden Globe once again so someone besides myself recognizes how deeply appealing she is as this character
Pissarro, Seine: From a Louvre bridge: Ships in Snow
I don't find the season of winter depressing. (What is happening in our public worlds is another matter.) To me it has a beauty of its own, but this year I find I am less able to cope with the cold than ever before. The chill air seemed to lace itself into my skin and bones and I shiver and hurry back in to escape the bitterness of the air. So what is better to share than one of Horace's Odes about winter, I:X, which I found in a better translation than Dryden's (though I still don't like the antepenultimate and penultimate lines — why do men think women enjoy (!?) hiding from them, being elusive but that they mistake wariness and rejection for a come-on), but having just returned from a very happy time out with my friend, Panorea, at the Kennedy Center seeing a Nutcracker performance, and then going to a nearby unassuming Asian restaurant, quiet inside, one tree decorated, good food (I've been there before with Laura and Izzy and had the same eggplant and garlic sauce with brown rice chased down by Merlot), and with her much good companionable talk, Horace's outlook is one I offer tonight against the dark:
See how Soracte stands glistening with snowfall,
and the labouring woods bend under the weight:
see how the mountain streams are frozen,
cased in the ice by the shuddering cold?
Drive away bitterness, and pile on the logs,
bury the hearthstones, and, with generous heart,
out of the four-year old Sabine jars,
O Thaliarchus, bring on the true wine.
Leave the rest to the gods: when they've stilled the winds
that struggle, far away, over raging seas,
you'll see that neither the cypress trees
nor the old ash will be able to stir.
Don't ask what tomorrow brings, call them your gain
whatever days Fortune gives, don't spurn sweet love,
my child, and don't you be neglectful
of the choir of love, or the dancing feet,
while life is still green, and your white-haired old age
is far away with all its moroseness. Now,
find the Campus again, and the squares,
soft whispers at night, at the hour agreed,
and the pleasing laugh that betrays her, the girl
who's hiding away in the darkest corner,
and the pledge that's retrieved from her arm,
or from a lightly resisting finger.
That is, as long as we don't forget others not as lucky as we and try to help them somehow. I give money to the Southern Poverty Law Center and other organizations working to improve the lot of everyone on earth using law, custom, humane principles. Poverty is utterly unnecessary in our world (it's not just a distribution problem) is hard. so here is an accompanying image: a painting from 1959 by Peter Cook: Bitter Cold, Chapel Street …. the woman must put her clothes out in the street in hopes the wind will dry them. Frozen stiff. I have in my time hung clothes out on a line in very old dry weather. Consider the fortitude of the woman who did that.
And those inside. I know I don't do enough by giving money to organizations working to change the economic order, to shore up what laws we have to protect against the deadly predatory class in power across this world.
Achilles delivering Briseis to Agamemnon's heralds; sentimental bas-relief by Antonio Canova, circa 1787–1790
I bought and actually hope to read Pat Baker's much truer take in her Silence of the Girls which you can read about in this strong review by Patricia Storace (NYRB)
This past week was taken up by parties, luncheons for the two OLLIs at Mason and AU and one last class for my Enlightenment: At Risk course and the superb film course on morality, politics, and history in 10 soundly selected films. I can now share what we read and said in my Enlightenment course through four blogs I've written:
Voltaire's Candide & Bernstein's 20th century musical Candide:
On teaching Diderot's La Religieuse & its 2 film adaptations, & Rameau's Nephew &c
Samuel Johnson: Journey to the Western Islands, Scotland, & his other writing
Marie-Jeanne Phlipon Roland (1754-93): a great souled author of her own life
This week I shall write an essay for the Intelligencer about teaching the 18th century at the OLLIs (that includes Tom Jones).
For the film course I sincerely hope to write a few more blogs on these great and today perhaps forgotten films: since my last citation of the list I've seen Alan J. Pakula's All the President's Men, Oliver Stone's Heaven and Earth — I had forgotten how haunting that scene in the garage; the monstrousness and cruelty of wars is unforgettable in Stone's film
I've gone on with Winston Graham whose suspense and spy novels between 1940 and 1943 impressed me as at their best anticipating LeCarre, reminiscent of Graham Greene and I add to No Exit (set in Prague the day Hitler's armies invaded), Night Journey, the first version (1941, a very rare text, the 1966 one much inferior). And for my Anomaly essays (perhaps if I should live long a book) I have become enthusiastic over Frances Power Cobbe from her own writings (a novel told from the consciousness of a homeless beloved dog, The Confessions of a Lost Dog) and a superb study, Susan Hamilton's Francis Power Cobbe & Victorian Feminism, and I am at least considering Anne Jameson from a biography by Clara Thomas, Love and Work Enough; I have read Jameson's delightful Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada however many years ago.
Frances Power Cobbe with her dog, Hajjin (pilgrim), in a series of lectures dubbed "The abberation" (in Wales)
It is heartening how many serial dramas on TV today are feminist: I recently mentioned the 2018 Woman in White as strongly feminist when scripted by Fiona Seres and featuring Jessie Buckley as Marion Halscomb; add to this the 8 part film adaptation of the first novel of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet (as it has come to be called), My Brilliant Friend: an Italian TV film by Antonio Costanza and (by email) Ferrante herself, it's airing on HBO. This realization has brought to live much in the first novel I had not adequately responded to before. Don't miss it. Told of it on https://groups.io/g/WomenWriters
Inadequate and at times snarky over intelligent girls as Emily Nussbaum's review for the New Yorker is, she does provide background, a general summary and some good comments. I've been writing a summary and evaluation for every two episodes. On firstname.lastname@example.com, I have tirelessly maintained the earlier slender novels are better than this mainstream book but am now changing my mind; however you can't understand this big mainstream unless you've read Days of Abandonment; The lost daughter, the nightmare on the beach (marketed absurdly as a child'd book) and know Ferrante is the translator Christa Wolf, she of Cassandra fame (a feminist take on the Iliad, deeply anti-war too). There is no sign Nussbaum has read the other books by Ferrante — for they are not about intellectuality but mother-daughter relationships, the macho male culture that suppresses and twists women, are nightmares of self-destruction (using dolls as one metaphor).
So setting all that aside, she does cover the series and says some interesting things. It is like a complex novel; it is the 'faithful" type of adaptation. I did not realize from the two times I was able to watch the first hour that Costanza and Ferrante had picked from Little women just those passages where Jo reads aloud her book to Meg and family! I knew there was no such dialogue in the book — I looked and couldn't find it at any rate. It's about the two girls, about class-jumping, has wonderful dream-like sequences, goes into the ugly sexual aggressiveness of males in teenage years and how girls they don't attack collude to despise those they do.
But there is so much more to say I was also disappointed — I feel she has not paid attention enough to episodes 5 (Shoes) and 6 (The island, aka Ischia)– nor the young men emerging (Nino, the highly intelligent young man; Pasquale, appealing coarser features projecting integrity and decency and Lila's brother, Rino). Nussbamd (given her stance) neglects the central role of Lenu's kind teacher in keeping her in school and the other women — the mothers who lives are so circumscribed and are angry or the women who puts up with male promiscuity because the man behaves better to them when around. The colors of the series at Ischia. I find so much in it reminds me of my experience of life in the southeast Bronx, circa 1950. Hour after hour there is some scene I've experienced — and not just reading Little Women.
Raffaella or Lila (Gaia Girace) and Lenu or Elena (Margherita Mazzucco)
By contrast, an excellent review by Alan Hollinghurst of A Very English Scandal: Class as central as sex and gender — the attempted and its motives reminded me of the actual murder in Dreiser's An American Tragedy. Far too much sympathy was given to Jeremy Thorpe (Hugh Grant with a granite face): I suppose because only in that way could the drama be made complex and interesting. My heart was on Norman Scott's side (Ben Wishaw) much of the time — the speech that Norman Scott manages to make about his being one of those "thrown away" (according to Alan Hollinghurst not at all what Scott said — Scott went to pieces on the stand and cried) would fit the statement Scott made early on about his fixation over his National Insurance Card. Scott believes one needs an employer (in effect) to vouch for one's "good character" in order to get another job or eventually collect one's pension. We are even supposed to feel sorry for Thorpe's best buddy (played by Alex Jennings) whom he betrays and humiliates through the lethal attorney (Adrian Scarborough just inimitable). The man sent to murder Scott murders his dog first (and then runs out of ammunition) Rinka, the dog, shot dead. Wishaw is first seen hugging a small beloved dog, Mrs Tish; last seen from afar, still alive
Ben Wishaw and the real Norman Scott – he kept loneliness at bay by caring for dogs
Oh, we got into quite a dialogue on translation on https://groups.io/g/TrollopeAndHisContemporaries with me as usual defending them as creative art on their own, occasionally better than the original text. But I've gone on too long already and said this all before. And it's exhausting — when you can make no inroads into deeply entrenched prejudice — who wants to admit you didn't read Tolstoy but rather reveled in Louise & Aylmer Maude, with a little help from Amy Mandelker, & (!) Elisabeth Guertik (I read Tolsoy in a wonderful English version with a French version underneath and the French was just superb)? There's a lot more at stake than these translators of course: copyright, intangible private property, centuries of thinking otherwise, a fetish I share of concentrating on an individual "behind" the book, amour-propre … I read translation studies too you see.
How I wish I could listen to more than one novel at a time in my car: I am listening to the brilliant reading of Trollope's extraordinarily strong novel, The Way We Live Now, as our group of friends on Trollope&Peers are now reading this novel.
I am gaining weight now — my body more like a grandmother's but it's eat or conk out, and I cannot survive without my car. That's partly why so few pictures of me: I am old and cannot face my face: dry looking, wrinkled, colorless in the photos, tired. I do exercise now 15 minutes a day in my sun-room, listening to Pete Seeger or Nanci Giffith radio (Pandora).
This week I hit a bad patch on the road, and two of the hubcabs on my tires went bouncing and flying high away, I got a flat, and a rim of one of the wheels is permanently somewhat bent. I phoned Toyota and when I saw they would do nothing, I walked a block and a half down and up a steep steep hill to a Midas where a kind man for some $500 replaces the tires, mended the bent as best he could, put on generic hubcabs and I was in business again. I have to spend — Izzy and I cannot survive without beautifully working computers attached to the Internet and all that takes. Comfortable rooms and our cats in good health. I'd adopt a dog if Izzy would agree (she won't) — see my motto above.
A very intense Clarycat — who might not take kindly to another species of rival
Gentle reader, I hope you are doing something fulfilling during this cold and dark time; something you consider good work, keeping in touch with friends, staying well. Trying to make your surroundings pleasant to your eyes. Seek that contentment available to you. Keep loneliness at bay. I echo Garrison Keillor's old three-part salute.


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Executive Order On Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain: Steps You Need to Take
On May 15, 2019, President Trump issued Executive Order 13873 entitled "Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain." The Executive Order declares a national emergency regarding telecommunications equipment that could pose a national security threat. It also prohibits U.S. companies from acquiring, exporting, importing, transferring, installing, or using any telecommunications equipment that the Department of Commerce declares to be a national security risk. As a result, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security ("BIS") published a final rule effective May 16, 2019, adding several foreign companies to the Entity List ("EL"). Suppliers should read the final rule to determine if their customers are on the EL.
Suppliers who provide telecommunications products, subject to the Export Administration Regulations ("EAR"), to EL companies must obtain a license from the BIS or face steep civil and/or criminal penalties. Items are subject to the EAR if they are (1) physically located in the United States, (2) of U.S. origin, wherever located, (3) manufactured outside the U.S. but incorporating more than de minimis levels of controlled U.S. content (i.e., more than 25% for most countries including China, and more than 10% for sanctioned territories), and (4) some foreign direct products of certain national security controlled U.S. technology or software.
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Canterbury United Pride 2
Auckland Football 3
after extra time
National Women's League Final
Sunday 10 December 2017
English Park, Christchurch
A sweltering Canterbury day for the end of the 2017 National Women's League. The nor'wester blew down the park and would give a small advantage to whichever team had it at their backs.
With warm weather in Wellington during the week, I had jokingly suggested it was like a Christchurch summer—but when I arrived in Christchurch, it was higher level of heat. The artificial turf at English Park would have added to the temperature.
This was the Pride's fifth consecutive Final, while Auckland hadn't qualified for the playoffs since 2012. Pride were hosts by finishing top of the single-round league. Auckland finished second and played Southern United the previous week (winning 3-1) to earn the right to participate in the occasion.
There was a noisy crowd at English Park supporting the home team. I'm told it could be well heard on the Sky TV coverage, being picked up by the effects microphones.
Auckland were without the suspended Nicole Mettam on the field. Megan Robertson, Ally Toilala, Liz Anton, and Kate Carlton took up the defensive duties for them. Anton often playing in front of the other 3.
Canterbury were without Aimee Phillips and Meikayla Moore (trialling at an overseas club). Annie Gilchrist came into the right-of-centre in the backline with Rebecca Lake in the middle and Chloe Jones on the left. Cody Taylor partnered Mel Cameron up-front.
The Pride's defence needed some time to adjust and were missing Moore's organisational capability and international experience. Auckland were pushing their possession wide on the left with Carlton, but when it was fed through to their forwards early on, they were having trouble getting meaningful shots away.
Pride were doing better at closing down Auckland than when I saw Auckland earlier this season—when Central gave them too much time on the ball. The Pride were also putting in some stern physical challenges, with Whitney Hepburn and Lake making some crunching, well-timed tackles.
In the 44th minute, Annalie Longo had a fierce shot blocked and the ball went for a corner. From that corner, the ball popped out to Longo who powered a shot into the net to give the Pride a 1-0 lead. There was still enough stoppage time for Auckland to mount an attack and a push on Tayla O'Brien saw Auckland awarded a penalty. Steph Skilton took the shot. Vic Esson dived low to her right to save the ball onto the post and collect the rebound, ensuring the Pride held the 1-0 lead at half-time.
I thought during the break that Auckland would try to make statement at the start of the second half and that they would press relentlessly in the first ten minutes, attempting to score a couple of goals; then relax a bit and make the Pride do the running in the heat.
Auckland sure shot out of the blocks apace, and scored in the first two minutes. Grace Jale was adjudged to have put the ball across the goal line despite the scrambling of the Pride defence and gave the visitors an early equaliser.
Jale was involved in another talking point of the half in a late challenge on Jones which left the Pride defender writhing in pain and Jale facing a card the shade of yellow rather than the red demanded by the Pride supporters. Fortunately, there appeared to be no lasting damage, and Jones will have time to recover from her bruising with this being the final game of the year.
Britney-Lee Nicholson came on as a sub for the Pride right on the 90th minute and in stoppage time tried an audacious shot which curled just wide of the post.
In extra-time, O'Brien had a shot with the wind behind her and Esson again saved via the post.
Hepburn gave the Pride the lead at the end of the first half of extra time, when she used her chest to force the ball into the net from corner.
The possibility that this becomes a two-round league in 2018-19 will help players such as Mel Cameron, who had a chance in extra time to score for the Pride (which would have put them 3-1 up) but put her shot straight at Nadia Olla in goal for Auckland after an excellent turn. Against a Mainland Premier League team such as Waimak or Universities, Cameron would have picked out her spot to place it and score for Coastal Spirit from that position. But at this level, she isn't used to the lack of time and space to be able to do that. With more games at that level, Cameron's goalscoring instincts and reflexes would develop and she would become a better player for it. Many other players throughout the League could also benefit from such and extended run of matches at this higher level.
In the last seven minutes of the match, a long clearance from Olla (and the Pride failing to deal with a cross) saw Hannah Blake head the equaliser at the far-post. Five minutes later, a Pride goal-kick went straight to an Auckland player and it was eventually worked to Britney Cunningham-Lee (who was a sub at halftime in extra time) to score to win the match and gain a hold of the trophy.
The scenes at the final whistle with Auckland winning 3-2 were the contrast of emotions one expects, but were amplified with the Canterbury United Pride players all immediately dropping to the ground in exhaustion having given their all on this sizzling-hot day, while Auckland still had the adrenaline burst of two late goals and were celebrating.
Other perspectives
- Stuff match report
- NZ Football match report
- Auckland FF match report
- Ultimate NZ Soccer report | Ultimate NZ Soccer photos
- Match highlights on YouTube:
- Photosport photos via NZ Football (Facebook):
Categories: NZ Women's National League
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Phil Clayton's feet are registered with Brooklyn Northern United but—despite having moved back to Wellington from Christchurch in 2011—his heart is still bonded with Coastal Spirit FC.


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Week 49: 19th – 25th August
Learning more about the history of paper and its predecessors has led me to consider more about the ritualistic uses of these materials, in particular the uses and production of Amatl, a form of paper which has been manufactured in Mexico since pre-Hispanic times.
The word Amatl derives from the Aztec language of Nahuatl, but is now more commonly known by the Spanish, Amate. This form of paper, made from the pulp of fig and mulberry bark was, and continues to be, manufactured by the Otomi Indians of San Pablito, Mexico. Despite Spanish colonisation and the introduction of the Christian religion, the Otomi continued to produce amatl paper for ritual purposes.
Due to their reliance on agriculture, many of the Otomi's religious beliefs and practices centre around spirits of the earth, rain and sun. Although these spirits had a literal relation to the growth of crops, they also functioned as metaphors to mediate ideas around kinship, culture, nature and fertility.
Otomi spirits
Images of these spirits are created by folding amatl paper in half and cutting out an intricate design which, when opened, creates a symmetrical figure. These figures are used by shamans within rituals in order to maintain the values and health of the community. Positive spirits, such as 'Dios de Mazorca' (The Spirit of Maize) is part of the series of fertility figures which ensure good crops, whereas intermediary figures, such as 'Pajarito de Dos Cabezas' (Little Bird with Two Heads), act as spirit messengers who watch over the Otomi and keep them safe.
However, as well as the positive spirits, the Otomi also believe in a number of negative spirits, who serve to act as a warning to members of the community who go against established societal values. For example, figures such as 'Trompa de Toro que no Respeta' (Bull Snout that does not respect) represents the figure of a man who died for not respecting his parents, and the violence that this can cause within the kinship system, while 'El Presidente del Infierno' (The President of Hell) is one of a number of anti-culture figures, which are spirits that go against the values and beliefs of the Otomi.
Papel Picado
Although paper cutting has strong religious and ritual connections in Mexican tradition, it has also developed into a decorative and celebratory past time, through the introduction of Papel picado. Translated as 'perforated paper', papel picado is a form of cut paper decoration which is produced by stacking layers of tissue paper and chiseling a design using a transparent template which is laid on top of the paper stack.
After the Spanish invasion of the Americas, they introduced their culture, language, religion, tools, and designs. Trade routes between Spanish colonies and China therefore introduced new goods into the Mexican economy, many of which were wrapped in 'papel de China (tissue paper). The paper was often decorated with stencilled designs for ceramics or embroideries which became integrated into the papel picado designs. designs was used for various types of crafts including papel picado banners. The process of creating papel picado banners continues today and is used to make decorations for festivals such as Day of the Dead, Our Lady of Guadalupe and Christmas.
Although papel picado banners are now available in more sturdier plastic, the traditional process of making paper banners begins by drawing a design, which is then placed over multiple layers of tissue paper. The artist then uses a mallet and chisels to remove sections of the paper stack, so that the image still hangs together after cutting. By removing the negative spaces of the image, the design is revealed, and when finished, the paper is separated to reveal individual identical sheets. This process can take around 30 hours.
Further Reading:
The Paper Art of Mexico: http://lal.tulane.edu/programs/exhibits/paperart
Otomi Cutout Figurines: http://anthromuseum.missouri.edu/minigalleries/otomi/intro.shtml
The Endurance of Mexican Amate Paper: http://www.itc.nl/library/papers_2003/phd_theses/lopez_binnquist.pdf
Mexico's traditional papel picado: Classic art for a Mexican fiesta: http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/1567-mexico-s-traditional-papel-picado-classic-art-for-a-mexican-fiesta


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At some point, you may find that you have chipped a tooth. In this case, a chipped tooth is defined as a tooth where a small piece appears to have broken off.
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While crime rates are steadily decreasing nationwide—even in the tri-state area—multifamily dwellings are often more difficult to 'police' due to the number of residents, visitors, delivery personnel and third party workers such as contractors constantly coming and going at all hours. As a result, determining how and when people are accessing your condo or co-op building becomes a top priority for board members and management companies.
"Under the application of the Business Judgment Rule (generally known as the BCL), the courts generally defer to the decisions of the boards of co-ops and condominiums to decide among other things, the operation of the property," says Dennis H. Greenstein, an attorney and partner at the New York-based law firm of Seyfarth Shaw. "Boards have authority to enact rules and regulations (in condos) and house rules (in co-ops). Unless the courts find that the board or board members were discriminating or acting in bad faith, they defer to the provisions of the governing documents of the condos and co-ops, which grant the board's authority to decide issues like access of unit owners, guests, workmen and others."
With direction from the BCL, board members have a touchstone as to how to handle protocol in their own community, but frequently the municipality will weigh in as well. For example, "The city or town may dictate that every apartment house a certain number of families and above must have a voice intercom with front door release to every unit," says Matthew Arnold, president of the College Point, New York-based Academy Mailbox Co., Inc. "Many co-ops require that the front door stays locked—no door release—at all times, and that every resident has to physically leave their unit to let a visitor or delivery person in."
Arnold also points to a recently adopted law in Boston that requires every building with 10 or more units to require a video intercom. While it is yet to be a common requirement, he says the initiative is "very progressive."
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Jilin Laoyeling Agricultural Group Co., Ltd. is located in the beautiful smog capital. It is a modern agricultural product processing enterprise integrating agricultural, sideline product planting, research and development, production and sales. The company is engaged in grain production and processing for more than ten years, and all products sold are from the company base. The company focuses on the modern agricultural line based on rural areas and oriented by science and technology agriculture, and builds the company into a modern, private enterprise of science and technology, innovation and service. Pushing the "Lao Ling Ling" brand agricultural chickpea packing machine to a higher standard stage.
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People born outside of Ireland now living in Tipperary are invited to take part in consultations to see what the main challenges facing their communities are.
Tipperary Volunteer Centre in partnership with Tipperary County Council are launching the 'Diverse Tipperary' initiative. They will be holding focus groups in November across the five municipal districts to gather information on the challenges facing minority groups.
Those currently resident in Tipperary but born outside of Ireland are asked to participate in their nearest focus group to discuss their own experience of integration and community life in Tipperary.
Derek Fanning, manager of Tipperary Volunteering Centre said: 'Tipperary certainly has a richness of diversity and culture. The 2016 Census highlighted that there are over 20,000 people living across county Tipperary who were born outside of Ireland. This diverse group accounts for 13% of the county's total population.
The focus groups will be a good opportunity to express honest views on what living in Tipperary as a person born outside of Ireland is really like. Whether you are an individual or representative of a group your opinions matter. The only boundary condition for attendance is that you currently live in County Tipperary but were not born in Ireland' said Derek.
The next step of the Diverse Tipperary initiative after the focus groups is to enlist the support of the target groups to help organise events to showcase their unique cultures locally in Tipperary. A small budget may be available to groups to assist with the costs of organising the events.
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Some films set in the future paint a world we can only hope will arrive soon. I'm thinking particularly of Woody Allen's Sleeper, in which Allen plays the manager of a Greenwich Village health food store who awakens in the future only to discover that everything he knew about nutrition was wrong: seems scientists have determined that the really healthy stuff is deep fat, steak, cream pies and hot fudge. Now there's a future I look forward to!
But of course most movies about the future paint it as a less happy place, and those dystopias are what I would hate to see come to pass. Take the recent reporting on the creation of a global seed bank in Norway, where seeds from as many as 3 millions food plants will be stored. Like various national seed banks, the idea is to have a way to replenish the world's food supply in the event of a catastrophe of global proportions, like a collision with an asteroid.
This reminds me of the 1972 movie Silent Running, a movie that isn't as well known as it deserves to be. It takes place in a future in which all plant life has disappeared from Earth. The only remnants survive on 2000 meter freighters orbiting Saturn. The only crewman who cares about their mission is botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern). When the order comes to jettison the forests and return to Earth, Freeman has to find a way to save them in the face of mankind's indifference.
Of course, the difference is that the global seed bank shows an effort to retain plant diversity. Still, the very premise of collecting all of the Earth's plant life could, in some worst-case scenario, become the first step toward removing it under the argument that it can be brought back at a "better time."
There's a good in-depth description of Silent Running at Wikepedia. The film was directed by Douglas Trumbull, the special effects mastermind behind 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Blade Runner. John Dykstra (Star Wars) also worked on the film. The script is by Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter) and Steven Bochco, and the music is by, of all people, Peter Schickele (aka P. D. Q. Bach).Read More


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Did you know that you can get a free license of Clearspace X if you are a non-commercial open source project or developer group? This is one of the cool parts of my of my job ⦠I get to give people free software licenses!
Our Clearspace X product just won the Best Community Platform award from InfoWorld, so we're giving you some great community software! You can read the full review on the InfoWorld site. This award is no surprise to me. We power the 2 communities that I manage, Jivespace and Ignite Realtime, on Clearspace X.
One group taking advantage of this free license program is the Open Management Consortium. Last week, they just released a beta version of their new site based entirely on Clearspace X. They managed to get the entire site up and running with the old data moved into the new site mostly over a weekend. The OMC was formed with the goal being to "advance the promotion, adoption, development and integration of open source systems /network management software." They are using Clearspace X to power the community where the members of this group collaborate, discuss ideas, and get organized about how to accomplish this goal.
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Rare early photographs of China by the Chinese photographer Lai Fong, from the Loewentheil Photography of China Collection, are exhibited for the first time at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University. 黎芳 Lai Fong (c.1839–1890): Photographer of China runs from 6 February 2020 to 14 June 2020. The landmark exhibition, 黎芳 Lai Fong (c.1839–1890): Photographer of China presents nearly 50 Lai Fong photographs made in the 1870s and 1880s of China. The photographs have been selected from the renowned Loewentheil Collection, which includes more than 21,000 early photographs of China. The exhibition features magnificent views of a rapidly growing Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Fuzhou, and Xiamen, and important early portraits of...
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A set time to pray
A man told me once he just prayed as God led him. I know something about that man: He doesn't pray. Doing something when you feel like it is not how the world functions. We don't go to work when we feel like it. We don't get up when we feel like it. We don't


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So over the weekend EGX Rezzed was held at the NEC in Birmingham and i was lucky enough to be able to get myself down to it on the Friday. For those who are unaware of what Rezzed is the way i describe it is like a more indie based Eurogamer, although this year for the first time they did showcase some more 'Mainstream' console games, I thought as a little summary of the event i'd talk about a few games that impressed me, and just my general impressions of the event.
The first game that i got to see in action was Hotline Miami 2, a game which is very hard to describe, in it's most basic form it is a retro shooter which sees you going into buildings and flushing out the bad guys, and by flushing out i mean killing. There were a couple of things that made this game stand out a lot for me, firstly how simple the game was, it's nice to know that the days of basic gaming aren't over, there is nothing complicated here, just move around and attack, that's all there really is to it. The next thing that i liked was the games 'vibe' they really have nailed the retro feel and the music matches this, i really did feel like i could have been in an arcade from 25 years ago, and that's a good thing! The last thing that stood out to me was the unforgiving nature of the game, one shot and you're dead, although this can be a bit frustrating it's part of the games charm, and it means that when you do clear a zone it feels very satisfying. After the show when i got home i actually downloaded the first Hotline Miami and i can say that it also has all these qualities, if you're looking for some old school, fun gaming this may well be a good shout.
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I had a disk failure on my RAID5 recently while I was on holidays with no spare time to dedicate to that issue. The array was logically in degraded mode from that moment but was still running fine with 3 disks until a second event occured yesterday :
I don't really understand why I received this message as this device is OK, the HP Gen 8 RAID controller does not detect any error on it and SMART tests are good. At this time I turned off the server and physically unplugged the first drive which was faulty then I restarted it but now my RAID5 is marked as inactive and is no more visible by OMV although the three remaining physical disks are present in the GUI.
/dev/sdb: UUID="394b8163-356b-6262-52f6-72d24c3bc33f" UUID_SUB="57584ed1-3398-6977-2e38-530ef2b968e2" LABEL="XPENOLOGY:2" TYPE="linux_raid_member"
/dev/sdc1: UUID="e2ec8542-ea1a-e93a-3017-a5a8c86610be" TYPE="linux_raid_member" PARTUUID="3daedda2-ab78-4a06-b185-c980acdfe091"
/dev/sdc2: UUID="d5d5bcfe-89b5-e8c4-2cf3-e5bf6a1edd70" TYPE="linux_raid_member" PARTUUID="42e1c209-98ba-48ee-9afc-247152902ac1"
/dev/sdc5: UUID="394b8163-356b-6262-52f6-72d24c3bc33f" UUID_SUB="fe533fdf-afea-192c-5fd5-11c6102a15ca" LABEL="XPENOLOGY:2" TYPE="linux_raid_member" PARTUUID="dec4d9c2-d2ec-4513-b951-1bb8771fc52f"
/dev/sr0: UUID="2015-06-29-06-52-36-00" LABEL="OpenMediaVault" TYPE="iso9660" PTUUID="78a03a04" PTTYPE="dos"
ARRAY /dev/md/XPENOLOGY:2 metadata=1.2 spares=0 name=XPENOLOGY:2 UUID=394b8163:356b6262:52f672d2:4c3bc33f
My configuration :
My RAID5 contains 4 6To drives, 1 of them is faulty and has been removed physically (formerly /dev/sde)
What I've tried to do until now :
I thought the force mode would do the trick, especially with this little difference on the events counter (26486 vs 26567) but no luck with that.
What's the next step then ? I've read some stuff about assume-clean switch that could work but I'm not sure about that. Could it be a good idea to do a mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdb ?
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