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Do you have blog for your brand? I know, you've got a lot to do. But blogging is really important for reasons ranging from SEO to customers relationships. When it comes to choosing a a platform for your blog, you may want to go with WordPress, which definitely has it's advantages. Or you may be considering tumblr.
A lot of brands ask about the benefits and "is tumblr a good blogging platform for a MY brand?" Here's one way to look at it.
- Do you want a blog that people are excited to engage with?
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If you said yes to even a couple of the above questions, then tumblr may be the blogging platform for your brand.
tumblr is not just a blog, but an online community of people who are creating, curating, consuming, and sharing content every minute of every day. Consumers are there for one reason – to find and consume content they are interested in. So why not be where your consumers already are?
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Hope & Possibility Through Trauma by Don Shetterly. Reviewed by Gabriel Constans.
This is an insightful collection of essays, combined with a workbook and discussion guide, of how to live with hope and possibility after experiencing trauma. The trauma that Mr. Shetterly experienced was sexual, physical, and verbal abuse from his father and brother as a child. This trauma is spoken of briefly at the beginning of the book, but is not the focus of this work. It is primarily, and gratefully so, concerned with how we can heal, understand, and care for ourselves after having experienced such events.
"It is not a book with scientific facts and research," states the author. "This book is about life and the struggles we face. It is also about the healing, hope, and possibilities that exist within us." Some of the chapters included in this recipe for insight, and growth, are: "Self Acceptance", "Rewiring the Brain", "Personal Growth", "Our body Connections", "In the Moment', and "Listening". There are clear explanations of different issues that arise when we decide to stop running, or numbing, the pain of abuse, and a clear path on how to make it out of the valley of darkness and despair.
"Life is a series of events, choices, reactions, and growth. While one event can impact our future, it does not mean that it will control our future." To take the step of acknowledging what has happened, can be terrifying, and the reality of not acknowledging what has happened, can fill one's life with constant fear, anxiety, anger, and confusion. The author also speaks about healing the body, emotions and mind, by including body work, music, and affirmations. Some of the sections I found especially helpful were those that involved a guided relaxation exercise (body scan), how to calm one's self, be mindful, and focus on the breath.
There is a lot of personal resonance with this book, and the author's words. I have nine foster sisters that were all sexually abused in their biological families. Our adopted daughter experienced a variety of traumatic events with her birth family. I have written extensively about grief, loss, and trauma, and worked as a bereavement and trauma counselor with hospice, in hospitals, mental health facilities, prisons, and overseas with survivor's of multiple traumas. Hope & Possibility Through Trauma, by Don Shetterly, is a welcome addition to the resources now available for those most in need of such sustenance, insight, and inspiration. Do not hesitate to get a copy for yourself or another.


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Credit scores have gotten more attention this week thanks to the news of a data breach at Equifax potentially impacting about 44% of the U.S. population. To rein in the damage from this incident, Equifax is offering a free notification service that is essentially a complimentary credit monitoring tool.
With such services otherwise costing about $10 monthly, the benefits of signing up for Equifax's notifications far outweigh any of the drawbacks.
(The only drawback is something buried in the fine print: by enrolling release Equifax from liability, meaning you waive the right to participate in any class action lawsuits that might be coming. However, when you compare the typical payout in a suits of this size — it ends up being tiny, assunming the plaintiffs win — with the value of the free credit monitoring — it normallly sells for $10 a month — well, you get potentialy comparable fvalue faster and with more certainty by enrolling in notifications than waiting years for a lawsuit to reach completion.)
Here are the actions taken after the breach. And if you need more convincing before doing so — since the here are a few reasons why you should care about your credit score.
1. Get Better Insurance
You may not know this, but insurance companies rely on your credit rating to help determine how much your premiums will be. This is very common for auto insurance. If you're a young person, you know that you'll already be at a disadvantage because your insurance rates will be higher.
With a good credit score, you may be able to cut that monthly cost down. Also, your credit can come in handy when getting homeowner's insurance. According to a 2014 WalletHub study, someone with fair credit pays 29% more for homeowner's insurance than someone with excellent credit.
2. Get Hired
When I heard that some employers run a credit check on candidates before hiring them, I couldn't believe it. Personally, I'm not in a job field that does this but I know some people who are. I heard of a woman being denied a promotion at her job because her credit was so bad.
Why does credit play a role at your workplace? It allows some employers to witness your reputation with handling money first hand. A credit check can assess your trustworthiness or even expose any theft or embezzlement history that the employer would want to avoid.
3. Get a Better Mortgage
Probably one of the most important reasons to care about your credit and maintain a good score is so you can receive a low interest rate if you take out a mortgage.
If you're looking to buy a house and can't afford to pay for it in cash. You'll need a mortgage. A mortgage is probably the only type of debt I'm willing to take on because homes are so expensive and it's a huge purchase.
If you don't have any credit or a have a low credit score, you can expect to pay a higher interest rate on your mortgage. This is something that shouldn't be taken lightly either. A higher interest rate on a 15 to 30-year mortgage can cost you tens of thousands of dollars over the life of your loan.
4. Pay Lower Interest Rates
This is where credit naysayers would object, but with a good credit score, it becomes easier to score the best interest rates on everything from credit cards, personal loans, etc.
This doesn't mean you should run off and borrow a bunch of money you can't afford to pay back. It does, however, mean that when you need to take advantage of the perks of having good credit, you can.
It's definitely better to have a fully funded emergency fund than to rely on a loan to cover unexpected expenses, but if you're ever low on options and need more money than you have for a one-time emergency, being able to score a low or even 0% interest rate can be very helpful. In the case that you need a new car but can't afford to pay for one in cash, you can use your good credit to score a low interest rate.
5. Earn More Rewards
This is one of my favorite perks of caring enough about my credit to maintain a high credit score. Earning credit card rewards isn't for everyone, but it's a great way to save money on everyday expenses and even afford expensive travel opportunities.
My husband and I used credit cards rewards to spend a week in the Caribbean for our honeymoon for next to nothing. We also went to Disney World this year and scored a discounted hotel stay and a free flight for my son thanks to credit card rewards. If you're going to use a credit card to earn rewards, make sure you pay off all your balances in full each month.
Earning rewards isn't worth getting into debt and if you carry a balance on your card will just cancel out the benefits.
6. Help Your Kids
A final reason why you should care about your credit is because your kids or loved ones may need your help. If you have kids, when they get older, they may need a cosigner for their student loans or a car loan for example.
I never had anyone in my family who could cosign for me when I was trying to build my credit so I always got stuck with a ridiculously high interest rate in the beginning stages.
Pay More Attention to Your Credit Score
If you care about any of these things, you should probably care about your credit score to some degree. It's not the most important part of your financial profile, but it does make a difference and can even help you save money sometimes. Just be careful not to go overboard when it comes to overspending and realize that you don't need to get deep into debt to build your credit.
Jackie Cohen is an award winning financial journalist turned turned financial advisor obsessed with climate change risk, data and business. Jackie holds a B.A. Degree from Macalester College and an M.A. in English from Claremont Graduate University.


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It is estimated that nearly 50 million Americans are affected by severe headaches and/or migraines on a regular basis. Migraines alone affect approximately 10 percent of the U.S. population and result in $1 billion a year in medical costs. However, there are ways to alleviate and treat these attacks. Here are some secrets to migraine headache relief.
1. Acupuncture–This treatment option involves the use of thin needles that are inserted under the skin to realign the body's "qi" or energy flow. This form of therapy can be expensive with treatments ranging from $60 to $120 per session. Several studies have found acupuncture could be as beneficial in preventing acute migraines as drug treatments and with fewer adverse side effects. Moreover, evidence also suggests that acupuncture could help people with frequent chronic or frequent tension and/or stress-related headaches.
2. Conventional Pain Relief–Many headache sufferers will resort to conventional pain relievers such as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (e.g. Motrin, Aleve, etc.), especially in the case of transient or infrequent headache attacks. Meanwhile, migraine sufferers may take antidepressants or beta blockers prescribed by a doctor to prevent headaches and/or triptans, such as Imitrex or Relpax, once headache symptoms start to curtail or shorten the intensity and duration of the attack.
3. Stretching–Many stretches can be beneficial in alleviating muscle tension that often leads to pain. When a person feels a headache attack coming on, try a few stretching exercises to curtail the attack or simply add them to an existing workout routine. Neck exercises and shoulder shrugs are especially effective in keeping those muscles limber and trigger points calm.
4. Biofeedback–This headache relief technique uses electronic sensors to monitor body functions such as heart rate, blood pressure, muscle tension, and skin temperature. Data is relayed to the patient via audio responses or computer images. The purpose of this behavior-based treatment is to teach people how to control their bodily responses in order to prevent headache attacks.
5. Massage–This short-term treatment approach involves rubbing the affected and associated areas (e.g. massaging the temples, back, neck, shoulders, or head). It has been proven effective but is a temporary fix. Massage is a form of treatment which requires repeat applications and weekly sessions over an extended period of time.
6. Yoga–This secret to relieving migraine headaches combines meditation, breathing exercises, and physical posturing to balance the body, mind, and spirit, as well as promote relaxation and healing. This treatment option varies in intensity and application. There are classes held at the YMCA, gyms, fitness centers, yoga studios, or a variety of home-based DVDs available. For those with injuries or disabilities, do not fear–there are many adaptive yoga exercises and programs available.
7. Botox–This treatment method involves injections that are now approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for chronic headache sufferers. However, this treatment approach is quite expensive, with a price tag of $350 per injection site, and requires multiple sessions for efficacy. Some insurance companies will cover the cost of botox for chronic headache sufferers who have failed to get effective relief from other methods.
8. Hot and/or Cold Compresses–This is a treatment approach that involves little fuss and can be applicable to any pain sufferer. If muscle tightness is involved, heat is generally recommended. For headaches, cold compresses can be effective.
9. Relaxation Exercises–This treatment approach could involve a combination of relaxation methods such as massage, yoga, tai chi, etc. Moreover, headache sufferers can also use mental imagery, visualization, relaxation, and/or deep breathing techniques to relax and relieve tension, which could trigger a headache or migraine attacks.
10. Limit Caffeine Consumption–This secret to relieving migraine headaches involves a more natural approach. If a person consumes large quantities of caffeine-fueled beverages, they might be prone to withdrawal headaches, which can stimulate the brain's migraine center and result in severe headaches or migraines. Some people could be more vulnerable to these attacks than others. If an individual believes that caffeine could be a trigger, they should try limiting their intake to 200 mg or one 8-ounce cup of coffee a day.
There are many treatment options for the 50 million Americans who are affected by severe headaches and/or migraines on a regular basis. With 10 percent of the U.S. population and $1 billion a year in medical costs from migraine sufferers alone, exploring ways to alleviate and treat these attacks is essential. There are many potential secrets to relieving migraine headaches.
Written and Edited By Leigh Haugh
Health–13 Ways to Fight Headache Pain
WebMD–Migraines & Headaches Health Center
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Americans are obsessed with protein. How to get it, where to get it, what are the best (and worst) sources, and are we getting enough?
Protein preserves muscle mass and plays a role in many beneficial health outcomes, such as weight management and reducing diabetes risk. It provides amino acids needed for growth and development.
Protein is added to hundreds of products to make them "healthier" but misconceptions are abundant. Thirty years from now will we find out we were wrong to give it this much attention?
Through decades of research, a few things are certain: not all proteins are equal, the amounts we need vary throughout life and you're probably getting enough — or even too much — of it.
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1. The type of protein matters.
If you look at people around the globe who live the longest, such as the people of Sardinia, Italy, their protein usually comes from plants.
Despite this, research indicates that Americans get most of their protein from animal sources. A 2016 study in JAMA Internal Medicine that included over 30 years of data in over 100,000 individuals found that a high consumption of animal protein from processed and non-processed red meat and pork shortened life in obese or inactive individuals. Plant-based protein decreased mortality, according to the study.
Similarly, a 2017 study found plant-based sources helped in preventing type 2 diabetes, while animal-based red meat increased the risk. While the research doesn't show the same negativity with protein from fish or poultry, it is very clear that plants may be the perfect source.
2. Plants are a good source of protein.
While it may be easier to obtain protein from animal sources, you can get plenty from plants as well.
Top plant-based sources of protein:
- quinoa
- beans and legumes
- seeds and nuts
- whole soy sources
- algae
The key is to get these foods in their whole form, as opposed to an energy bar with soy isolate or a processed vegetable burger with 50 ingredients.
If you avoid animal protein, newer evidence suggests it's not necessary to combine grains with proteins to form a "complete" protein — the gold standard that contains all 9 essential amino acids. Instead, simply having a variety of proteins and grains will do the job.
3. Consider fish as your protein of choice.
Plant-based proteins are wonderful but I often suggest 2-3 servings of fish every week as well.
Low mercury, fatty fish like salmon and sardines have numerous health benefits, especially in improving brain and heart health. One 5-ounce serving provides a whopping 25 grams of protein for a 4-ounce filet.
4. More is not better.
Protein needs vary by age, gender, activity level and health. For example, a 75-year-old man and a teenage girl may need more protein than a 45-year-old woman.
A recent report suggests that the recommendation daily allowance of .8 grams of protein per kilogram (2.2 pounds) of body weight may be too low for the average American — but that doesn't mean we need to quadruple our intake.
In general, for someone with normal kidney function, a one-day protein binge of 200 grams or more won't be harmful. But eating lots of protein long-term can tax the kidneys and possibly increase risk of some cancers, according to research.
Perhaps the best way to quantify protein needs is through a percentage of total calories.
The Institute of Medicine recommends protein consumption to be 10-35 percent of total calories.
Another tip — space out protein through the day instead of loading up all of it in a big steak dinner. The key is, frequent consumption does not have to be paired with extra large servings.
For breakfast:
- sprouted whole grain toast with nut butter for breakfast
For lunch:
- ½ cup of cubed tofu on salad greens at lunch
For dinner:
- 4-ounce piece of grilled salmon over quinoa
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Projects Luedtke represents include:
- Flower Mound Town Center – Flower Mound
- Flower Mound Town Crossing – Flower Mound
- Timber Prairie Plaza – Flower Mound
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- Addison Town Center - Addison
- Trinity Plaza - Carrollton
- Irving Towne Center - Irving
- Grande Center - Irving
- Park Place - Grapevine
- Brooks Crossing - Watauga
- Shops of Southlake – Southlake
- Village at Timarron - Southlake
Luedtke is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers and the North Texas Commercial Association of Realtors.
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There seems to be plenty of blame to go around in the Tea Party scandal, but no one has stepped forward to accept responsibility. Now it's been revealed that the supervisor in the Cincinnati office accused of wrongdoings by Lois Lerner, former head of the IRS Exempt Organizations (EO) division, took umbrage when the finger was pointed her way.
Cindy Thomas, director of the Cincinnati EO office in 2010 when conservative groups were targeted for extra scrutiny, has remained mum publicly since the scandal broke in May. But she had lots to say in an internal e-mail with the subject line of "Low-Level Workers thrown under the Bus." The e-mail was uncovered by the House Ways and Means committee investigating the matter.
"Cincinnati wasn't publicly 'thrown under the bus' (but) instead was hit by a convoy of Mack trucks", Thomas wrote on May 10 just hours after Lerner passed the buck at an American Bar Association (ABA) conference. Lerner told the ABA attendees that lower-level staffers had singled out certain applications based on terms like "Tea Party" and "patriot." She also claimed that the actions weren't motivated by political bias.
"They didn't have the appropriate level of sensitivity about how this might appear to others and it was just wrong", said Lerner. In doing so, she was trying to deflect criticism based on a report from the Treasury Inspector General of Tax Administration (TIGTA), issued a few days earlier that concluded the IRS had acted inappropriately.
Lerner's speech triggered a quick response from Thomas." As you can imagine, employees and managers (in the Cincinnati tax-exempt division) are furious", she e-mailed Lerner. "Was it also communicated at that conference in Washington that the low-level workers in Cincinnati asked the Washington office for assistance and the Washington office took no action to provide guidance to the low-level workers?" (For emphasis, the term "low-level" was underlined and boldfaced.)
"How am I supposed to keep the low-level workers motivated when the public believes they are nothing more than low-level and now will have no respect for how they are working cases?" continued Thomas. "The attitude/morale of employees is at the lowest it has ever been."
The e-mail chain, which was obtained by the Gannett Washington Bureau, doesn't indicate if Lerner responded. Since then, the embattled head of the EO division has pleaded the Fifth in a hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and resigned her post. Ironically, Thomas is now serving as a senior technical adviser to Ken Corbin, Lerner's replacement in the EO division.
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TONY EASTLEY: After six years of study and exams medical students around the country will today begin receiving their first round offers for internships.
But it's emerged that there aren't enough training positions available to meet a record number of graduates.
This year more than 3,500 students will graduate from medicine. That's an increase of more than 500 from last year.
An article in today's Medical Journal of Australia says a new approach to medical training is needed so that medical graduates can take the next step towards becoming a doctor.
Lindy Kerin reports.
LINDY KERIN: It's a big day for many of the country's medical students. It's the first round of offers for internships at public hospitals.
But Monash University associate professor Catherine Joyce says there's simply not enough positions available.
CATHERINE JOYCE: The number of graduates from Australian universities has basically doubled since the year 2000 and we're expecting a increase of a further 50 per cent in that number by 2016.
So what we're seeing is a very rapid increase in the number of medical graduates and the number of internship places available is just not matching that.
LINDY KERIN: In today's Medical Journal of Australia associate professor Joyce says the approach to medical training must change.
CATHERINE JOYCE: The solution that we need to explore is a wider range of settings in which these internships take place.
Now that would include private hospitals. It might include smaller hospitals in regional or rural areas. It might also include some private practice settings such as general practice clinics.
LINDY KERIN: That's an idea welcomed by Catholic Health Australia which provides 10 per cent of the country's hospital beds.
Martin Laverty is the chief executive.
MARTIN LAVERTY: Well the Catholic hospital network runs public hospitals today who have decades of experience in training young doctors.
What we're now saying is that catholic private hospitals also might have the capacity, if governments are able to enter into partnerships to speed up the accreditation of private hospitals so that they can provide medical internships, to guarantee that the funding will be in place for medical internships to be provided.
LINDY KERIN: The AMA's national president Dr Steve Hambleton says the shortfall in training positions for graduates is concerning.
STEVE HAMBLETON: Here we are in 2012/ 2013 with an excess of students that we can't train. It makes no sense. We must train people who've gone through our universities and give them the opportunity to stay here because we've got a significant shortage of doctors that we need to deal with now.
LINDY KERIN: The Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council's chair Kim Snowball says the shortfall won't be known until August when each state has completed its final round of offers.
He says the council is working hard to make sure all students get an internship. But he says it will be difficult to guarantee spots for international and domestic fee paying students.
KIM SNOWBALL: We do our best to try and accommodate them within our Australian hospitals. But of course this is on top of significant growth in the number of graduates through our Australian medical schools. So we're trying to cope with two things at the same time here and trying to do our best over the next month or so.
LINDY KERIN: Kim Snowball says once the shortfall is known the Commonwealth and State Governments will move quickly to expand the number of intern places.
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TONY EASTLEY: After six years of study and exams medical students around the country will today begin receiving their first round offers for internships.


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Mayor and Council of Reynolds held a Meeting/Work Session at City Hall. The meeting was called to order at 6:30 p.m. on March 26, 2018.
MEMBERS PRESENT: Libby Bond, Chris Mason, Walker Moore and Brittany Wainwright
MEMBERS ABSENT: Danny Perkins and Erie Barker
BUSINESS Caleb Posey, of the Reynolds Volunteer Fire Department presented the Fire Department's proposed budget for the FY 2018-2019. Council discussed all requests and agreed to allow the Fire Department to make purchases from the FY 2017-2018 budget. Libby Bond made a motion for the Fire Department to purchase the deck gun for the new fire truck out of the 2011 SPLOST funds. Chris Mason seconded the motion. Walker Moore and Brittany Wainwright voted in favor. The motion passed.
ADJOURNMENT The meeting adjourned at 8:45.


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James Besser reports in the New York Jewish Week about the launch of a new political action committee aimed at supporting dovish congressional candidates – and, in Britain's Prospect magazine, Gershom Gorenberg says that's a good thing.
Dubbed the J-Street Project "K Street" has become a cipher for Washington's lobbying establishment and "J Street," missing from Washington's downtown grid, has become a local "in" joke the new project kicks off with a hush-hush fundraiser next Monday hosted by former Clinton administration official Jeremy Ben Ami and Daniel Levy, director of the Prospects for Peace Initiative of the Century Foundation. The group will be publicly launched around the middle of April; organizers said they will not speak publicly about the group until then.
"For too long, the loudest American voices in political and policy debates have been those on the far right often Republican neoconservatives or extreme Christian Zionists," according to the invitation. "J Street aims to change that. We are the first and only lobby and PAC (political action committee) dedicated to ensuring Israel's security, changing the direction of American policy in the Middle East and opening up American political debate about Israel and the Middle East."
While sources say the structure and initial goals of the new group are still in flux, it is expected to raise money for congressional candidates who advocate a stronger U.S. leadership role in ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and multilateral solutions to the region's problems.
The group will be headed by Ben-Ami, who served as deputy domestic policy adviser in the Clinton administration and later as a media consultant. Ben-Ami has worked with several Jewish peace groups, including the Center for Middle East Peace and the Geneva Initiative-North America.
So the first priority of a real pro-Israel lobby should be pushing for the most active possible US role in brokering a two-state solution. As Israeli strategic analyst Yossi Alpher has pointed out, the US has succeeded in advancing Arab-Israeli peace only when an emissary representing "the full prestige of the American president" has come to the region for extended negotiations, as Henry Kissinger, secretary of state, did after the 1973 war.
The negotiator has to propose compromises and then push hard for them. The US must also provide incentives. It should offer funds to resettle Palestinian refugees in the Palestinian state and to relocate Israeli settlers within Israel. But the offers should have tough conditions: for the Palestinians, giving up on resettling refugees within Israel; for Israel, evacuating settlements that it has heretofore insisted it has to keep. The liberal Israel lobby should work on Capitol Hill to support such funding for peace.
Diplomacy also means effective pressure on both sides and on the relevant Arab states. The US should insist that the Palestinian authority in the West Bank disarm all armed factions that remain in its territory. But the US will need to lean on Israel too. Right now, the Israeli public has no idea how much the state spends on settlement. American insistence on financial transparency as a condition for current aid levels would serve Israeli democracy and increase domestic backing for a settlement freeze. AB Yehoshua is right that the US should finally show real displeasure that outposts have not been taken down. That's an example of how Washington can help an Israeli government do what it knows it should, helping to beat domestic pressures.
Realistically, even a liberal Israel lobby will be more timid than progressive Israelis. Few US Jews will feel comfortable asking for American pressure on Israel. Publicly, the lobby's task will be to increase support for diplomacy and a two-state solution. But it will also allow more politiciansparticularly liberal onesto say what they really think about Israel/Palestine, safe in the knowledge that there is an alternative lobby to back them with money and votes. Quietly, it should counterbalance lobbying by Aipac for congress to tie the president's hands in negotiations. If a peace process really does get moving, expect an Aipac-backed congressional resolution on the need to keep Jerusalem united as the capital of Israelan American position that would undermine the talks. The liberal lobby's task would be to push the pragmatic stance that the future of the Holy City must be agreed by both sides.
But a real pro-Israel policy extends beyond the Palestinian issue. Renewed peace talks between Israel and Syria are in both Israeli and American interests. If the talks succeed, they would lead to a cold peacewhich is much better than the current cold war, in which Damascus uses Hamas and Hizbullah as proxies to bleed Israel. Alon Lielthe ex-director general of Israel's foreign ministry, who last year revealed that he had conducted unofficial back-channel talks with Syriasays that part of any peace deal would be Syria realigning itself with the west. That would weaken Iran's position in the region, and be a clear American victory. A liberal lobby would promote US backing for such negotiations.
Even on Iran, a liberal lobby could encourage a shift. An Iranian bomb is certainly a serious danger to Israel. But US refusal to negotiate with Tehran means giving up in advance on means to reduce the threat. There are hard-nosed strategic analysts in Israel who advocate a quid pro quo: US acceptance of the Iranian regime in return for an end to uranium enrichment and support for terror groups.
Ultimately, Israel's goal is to be part of the middle east, not to be a garrison state in conflict with it. To support the most bellicose possible Israeli or US policies is to damage both countries. A liberal voice is needed in Washington to press that message. Perhaps this is another form of hope for a deus ex machina. If so, the winged figure is long overdue.


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Archive for April 16th, 2009
Just Trying to Keep Up2009 Apr 16
Something's Brewing2009 Apr 16
Thanks largely to that swell dude John Harper (check out Ghost/Echo and Lady Blackbird if you haven't), there's a new design trend that may soon become a movement. He gives me credit for starting it (via Geiger Counter and my love of hacking), but the intellectual historian in me gives credit to the first Game Chef competition, game contests since then, the Forge Birthday Forum threads where people request games from other designers, the Ashcan Front, "roleplaying poems" inspired by Nordic trends, the anti-publishing undercurrent (frex: Clinton), and stuff like Ben's XXXXtreme Street Luge and Vincent's Poison'd, Storming the Wizard's Tower, and Apocalypse World. I'm a part of all that somewhere, but it's hard for me to say exactly where.
If I had to sketch out the basic principles of the trend, it would go like this:
- design small, fast, and light, spending less than a week on the initial design work and then tweaking as you play;
- design for real people that you plan to play with;
- hack together existing material that you dig;
- make it pretty;
- enjoy playing it, because why bother otherwise;
- share it freely;
- ignore formal publication as long as possible (maybe forever), and
- move on once you're sated, because there's always something new and getting stuck on one thing can kill your passion.
Somewhat ironically, my sense is that this is the kind of game design that more "traditional" folks engage in all the time (frex: Brand), but don't tend to share or necessarily even write down formally. But because these games and hacks are emerging from the indie scene, they're going to look a bit different and share a certain body of background thought.
Personally, I'm excited as hell about this. Honestly, this is the kind of community of practice that I've always wanted roleplaying to be (partially due to my strong passion for design, low attention span, social socket, and overgrown sense of aesthetics). And now it seems like it might be coming together. Rock.
Claremont Academy Class Rankings2009 Apr 16
Blame John Harper and Robert Ahrens, who have me thinking about a Mouse Guard / Nobilis hack for running New Mutants.
1 Spark
2 Candleflame
3 Torchbearer
4 Hearthfire
5 Bonfire
6 Conflagration
7 Wildfire
9 Starfire


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For Petty, signs of vindication
By Patrick Berkery
The Philadelphia Inquirer - July 26, 2006
Finally starting to 'get' Petty
Dependability has its downside. Just look at Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
For 30 years they've been a model of consistency and integrity.
Classic albums like Wildflowers, Full Moon Fever (technically, solo Petty discs), and Damn the Torpedoes weren't return-to-form follow-ups after putrid flops, but part of a succession of good-to-great records.
You've never heard "Runnin' Down a Dream" in a Chevy ad - Petty refuses to license his music for commercials. Lest we forget, Hard Promises from 1981 was almost called $8.98 because Petty's label tried to jack up the suggested retail price from $8.98 to $9.98 (it caved).
Despite all this, and resume-builders like induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers simply don't get their due as one of the all-time great rock-and-roll institutions.
"That's the drawback to being consistent," Petty says with a laugh, on the phone from his home in Southern California between legs of his 30th-anniversary tour (which will hit the Tweeter Center on Aug. 18).
"Sometimes, I feel as though we've been taken for granted. We've always been there and always did what [the fans] thought we should do. We've had such a great deal of success it's hard to complain. Now, if the records had failed or no one came to see us, then it would bother me.
"I'm kind of happy this year because I do feel that people are finally starting to get it. They're starting to reevaluate what we've done, and are starting to realize that this is one of the great rock-and-roll bands."
To hear Petty's languid drawl over the phone is to be reminded of a voice that sang to you as a child, a voice that was the soundtrack to teenage kicks, and has helped you through adulthood's more trying days.
Millions probably cite a similar relationship with Petty, now 55, and his enduring songs like "Breakdown," "Refugee," "The Waiting," and "You Don't Know How It Feels" (to name but a few). They've outlasted every next big thing, from disco to rap-rock.
And they've influenced modern rockers like the Strokes, who appropriated the sprightly jangle of "American Girl" for "Last Nite," and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, whose recent single "Dani California" shares some DNA with "Mary Jane's Last Dance," a likeness Petty just shrugs off.
"Ah, so it sounds a little similar, bless 'em," he says.
That those whippersnappers would cop from songs that are 30 and 13 years old, respectively, underscores the timelessness of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' sound. The clarion tone of Rickenbacker guitars, two-lane-blacktop riffs, an occasional slow-burn groove, sun-blessed harmonies, and lyrical truisms like "The waiting is the hardest part" - it's as deeply woven into the fabric of American rock as the band's chief influences: Elvis, the Beach Boys, Dylan and the Byrds.
Credit the expert textures of the Heartbreakers - original members Mike Campbell on guitar and Benmont Tench on keyboards, 12-year vet Steve Ferrone on drums, 17-year vet and multi-instrumentalist Scott Thurston, and original bassist Ron Blair, who returned in 2002. They're a crack unit whose musical lexicon embraces country, rock, blues, surf, soul, folk, lengthy jams and tight pop.
Discussing the Heartbreakers' underrated place in rock - particularly, that his versatile band often takes a backseat to Bruce Springsteen's more lauded, though arguably more one-dimensional, E Street Band - Petty slyly dances around the issue.
"Better for you to say that than me," he says, again laughing. "I'd say, put anybody up against them and you'll really see what's going on there, you know? The Heartbreakers, it's a multifaceted thing. You've got the hits, the albums, and a whole different personality as a live group. There's a lot of music in those boys."
Though he holds the Heartbreakers in high regard, Petty sensed early that his brilliant new album, Highway Companion (out yesterday), was shaping up to be a mellow affair and needed to be an intimate solo project. He'd play most of the instruments, rely on Campbell for his trademark lead and slide guitar lines, and tap Full Moon Fever coproducer and fellow former Traveling Wilbury Jeff Lynne to produce.
"I knew as the songs were being written that this was going to be a more delicate sort of record," Petty says of the album, which was initially being recorded simultaneously with a new Heartbreakers disc. "I wanted to use the space to my advantage and let the words do the work. And the band was cool about it, because they know we've got this other (album] that's going to be great."
When that new Heartbreakers record appears (Petty says it will include live favorites from recent tours such as the Southern-gothic epic "Melinda" and the breakneck garage-rocker "Black Leather Woman"), expect to see Petty out there promoting it. He disputes assertions recently in Rolling Stone that he's swearing off interviews and touring.
"You can quash that rumor. All I meant was that we're going to take some time off. A lot of projects have accumulated that I want to get done. And I can't get them done if I keep stopping and putting half the year into touring. I just want to finish this tour and get these things done. Give us a year or two; we'll come back."
Past 'Breakdown,' The Essential Petty
Ten Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers songs you won't hear on WMGK-FM:
1. "Runaway Trains" from Let Me Up (I've Had Enough), 1987. So very "Boys of Summer"-ish, so very forgotten single from the mid-'80s.
2. "Counting on You" (Echo, 1999). The Heartbreakers posing as Memphis soul men on a standout track from an unjustly overlooked album.
3. "Something Big" (Hard Promises, 1981). Cinematic dime-store mystery set in a dry, no-horse town.
4. "Honey Bee" (Wildflowers, 1994). Heavy dose of caveman blues-rock in the midst of a very pretty album.
5. "Fooled Again (I Don't Like It)" (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, 1976). Angry young Petty gets done wrong and screams, "I Don't Like It."
6. "When the Time Comes" (You're Gonna Get It, 1978). Their Byrds-y jangle was finely honed by the time of their sophomore album.
7. "Two Gunslingers" (Into the Great Wide Open, 1991). Breezy song inspired by the Gulf War, still pertinent today.
8. "Echo" (Echo, 1999). Stunning melancholy from a dark time in Petty's personal life.
9. "Southern Accents" (Southern Accents, 1985). A poignant song about Petty's Dixie roots, with orchestration from Jack Nitzsche.
10. "Like a Diamond" (The Last DJ, 2002). A beautiful, harmony-filled ballad from a song cycle about the corporate tainting of America.


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The 2011 Clem Labine Award: Ray Gindroz
By Kim A. O'Connell
In the six years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, a torrent of words has been written on how to rebuild after the disaster. Every possibility has been considered: preserve, tear down, build modern, build green. Some of the most civilized and beautifully wrought solutions, however, can be found in Louisiana Speaks: Pattern Book. "As we walk through these streets, or remember the places now gone," the book states, "it is the graceful porches, the windows that go to the floor, the ornamentation on the frame around the door…that tell us where we are – and who we are."
The book, which contains architectural patterns and techniques rooted in Louisiana traditions, was developed by Pittsburgh-based Urban Design Associates (UDA), led by Raymond L. Gindroz, FAIA. Gindroz has devoted his long career to rebuilding and renewing communities in need and fostering an appreciation for traditional design among laypeople and in the academy. For these and other achievements, Gindroz is the winner of the third annual Clem Labine Award.
Founded in 2009, The Clem Labine Award honors a person who has made a long-term commitment to creating public places that foster community, civility and traditional design. The award is named for longtime publisher, author and traditionalist Clem Labine, who founded this magazine, among others. According to Labine, the winner of the award may be an architect, artist, craftsman, community leader or some other professional, as long as that person is leading "a life with a purpose" and has vocational and avocational lives that are intertwined. The first two recipients were Alvin Holm, AIA, and Steven W. Semes. In naming Gindroz to this illustrious roster, Labine hailed his work as an urban planner, architect and philanthropist.
Gindroz began his architecture career as a student at Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned both a bachelor of architecture degree and a master of architecture in urban design, each with honors. In 1964, while still in graduate school, Gindroz was invited by David Lewis to co-found Urban Design Associates. Lewis, who established the urban design program at Carnegie Mellon, was exiled from South Africa in 1946 for his anti-apartheid activism. In the 47 years since its founding, UDA has received more than 100 awards for its work in building and rebuilding neighborhoods, including national AIA Honor Awards, Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) Charter Awards and Palladio Awards.
According to Gindroz, UDA's goal is to design not just buildings, but communities, and to empower citizens through pattern books, charrettes and other outreach programs. Gindroz has led urban design projects in many U.S. cities including Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Louisville, Norfolk, Richmond and New Orleans, as well as others in France, Scotland and England. The firm has developed urban design and architectural designs for more than 25 Hope VI projects since 1994. This federal program replaced some of the nation's most distressed public housing with mixed-income neighborhoods. UDA's designs in many cities have been built as new neighborhoods, connected to adjacent neighborhoods and assimilated into their communities instead of standing apart.
"Early in our career, after trying to design neighborhoods with some of our Modernist vocabularies," says Gindroz, "we quickly learned that people in communities that had character were very concerned about keeping that character. We also learned that the design of dwellings and neighborhoods can play a very positive role in the social sustainability of a neighborhood. For example, when the character of a barracks-style public housing project was transformed into a typical neighborhood through the addition of porches and traditional elements, children began doing better in school. According to their teachers, this was because of an improved self-image. They were no longer kids from the project, but rather from a neighborhood."
Among other achievements, Gindroz has taught at his alma mater, Carnegie Mellon, as well as at Yale's Graduate School of Architecture, and in a series of short courses at McGill University, Hampton University and the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment in London, where he is a senior fellow. He is a past chair of the AIA's National Committee on Design, the CNU and the Seaside Institute, and serves on the board of several foundations. Gindroz' drawings and plans have been featured in more than a dozen notable exhibitions and he has written several books, including The Place of Dwelling, published by the Prince's Foundation. He was the principal author, along with others at UDA, of The Architectural Pattern Book: A Tool for Building Great Neighborhoods and The Urban Design Handbook: Techniques and Working Methods (published by W. W. Norton & Company).
Patterns for Living
Gindroz remembers a time in the mid-1980s when he and a photographer visited a traditional development in Richmond that the firm had designed. As they walked around taking pictures, a resident walked up to them and asked what they were doing. When Gindroz explained his role as the architect and talked about the development's traditional design principles, the resident brought the discussion down to the most fundamental terms. "This is a neighborhood. Can't you see that?" the man said, with full understanding. "There are families here."
Gindroz quickly noticed that whenever the firm went out into neighborhoods, talking with the people who actually lived in them, they responded most readily to traditional concepts. One of the firm's earliest commissions, for example, was to develop historic district guidelines for the city of York, PA, which at that point had the largest historic neighborhood on the National Register of Historic Places. "We carefully analyzed the block of Victorian-era houses," says Gindroz. "We were astonished at how simple they were from a building standpoint – how correct they were. They were always extremely attractive, whatever the mix of styles and building types. The whole was very harmonious."
Putting those concepts into architectural pattern books for modern times was a natural progression for the firm and has become an important part of its identity. Pattern books date to ancient Roman times and were in continual use in the U.S. through the postwar period. Yet they had fallen out of favor with the rise of Modernist, isolating buildings and sprawl-inducing development. "We began writing these guidelines and gradually called what we were doing 'pattern books,'" says Gindroz. "We did more and more research into how they were done in the past and thought about how we could do them in the 21st century. The breakthrough came with Celebration [the New Urbanist development in Florida]. We started out doing design guidelines, but it turned into a full pattern book. Design guidelines are usually a source of warfare between developers and architects. Pattern books are non-confrontational. The more we studied neighborhoods, we realized that by working with the traditional architectural vocabulary you could introduce new things in new ways that were comfortable for people."
With a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Surdna Foundation and the Fannie Mae Foundation, UDA developed A Pattern Book for Neighborly Houses, a joint project for Habitat for Humanity and the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. Clearly written and beautifully illustrated, the book could be read and understood by building professionals and laypeople alike. After an overview that includes the definition of a so-called "neighborly house" – one that is set back from the street and aligned with other houses, with a front yard or possibly a front porch and well-placed parking – the pattern book offers an instructive look at neighborhood patterns, housing patterns and housing types. The overview of American architectural styles provides dimensions and details, and a guide to sustainable design is perfectly compatible with the traditional concepts illustrated elsewhere in the book.
The Louisiana Speaks: Pattern Book, which was prepared for the foundation-funded Center for Planning Excellence in Baton Rouge, was the result of a series of workshops and charrettes in which residents identified what was essential to them after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Participants were almost universally worried and angry that so much of the state's traditional and vernacular character had been lost, and they hoped to restore and rebuild in ways that preserved their history and culture.
To this end, the pattern book outlines residential building types and architectural styles that are consistent with Louisiana traditions. This work continued when the firm was asked by Providence Homes and Enterprise Homes to lead the design team for the rebuilding of the Lafitte Public Housing Project in New Orleans after Katrina. Now called Faubourg Lafitte, this new, traditional New Orleans neighborhood is being built in phases, with the first 150 units occupied. By applying the traditional urban and architectural patterns of the adjacent Treme neighborhood, its new houses and apartments create a seamless extension of the traditional city.
The pattern book, which was given away at local Lowe's home improvement stores, has already gone through two printings.
Building a Foundation
When Gindroz is not running a charrette, writing a pattern book or designing a neighborhood, chances are he's drawing. Over the years, Gindroz' evocative ink line drawings of buildings and towns, vaulted ceilings and other Classical details proved to be so popular that people often asked Gindroz if he would sell them, but he was never interested. One day, his wife Marilyn suggested that he could sell them for a good cause, and the Marilyn and Ray Gindroz Foundation was born.
Through the sale of Gindroz' original drawings and printed sketchbooks (available online), as well as contributions, the foundation funds an annual study travel prize for music and architecture students at Carnegie Mellon. It also provides financial, logistical and teaching support for the Hampton University Architecture Department's study abroad program. For the past four years the Gindrozes have worked with faculty members on programs in Italy and France. The students draw and analyze traditional urban spaces and meet with traditional architects, including Pier Carlo Bontempi, Leon Krier, and Ariel Balmassiere, as well as local officials and other architects.
Gindroz says he is honored to receive the Clem Labine Award and is especially pleased that his foundation work played a key role in the jury's selection. "Our foundation is dedicated to promoting ideas about humane urbanism, both through the drawings and the study-abroad programs," he says. "We do believe that exposure to other cultures is a truly a life-changing experience, and we want to provide those experiences for the next generation of architects."


text: From: "Robert Borski" <firstname.lastname@example.com> Subject: (urth) Death of the Navigator Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 03:25:17 From SWIMMING WITH THE UNDINES, my latest on-going project, Chapter 16: After Severian and Jonas are arrested on the grounds of the House Absolute, they're confined in an underground antechamber, where a large remnant prison population already exists. Unlike themselves, however, many of their fellow inmates have never known a single day of freedom. Quite a few, in fact, appear to have been born there, as have their ancestors before them, perhaps even as far back as fourteen generations. Consequently--and small surprise, given such long-term isolation--prisoners' perspectives about the outside world tend toward the skewed, ludicrous side. Bees--"animals that made their own sugar"--carried "poisoned swords" and "were the size of rabbits." So reports cyborg Jonas at one point, having in addition to say this about the oral, passed-on nature of such misapprehensions. "Family memories, I suppose, you could call them. Traditions from the outside world that have been handed to them, generation to generation, from the original prisoners from whom they are descended. They don't know what some of the words mean any longer, but they cling to the traditions, to the stories, because those are all they have; the stories and their names." Another one of these stories is later relaid to Severian by a little girl whose name is never given, but which we later learn in URTH is Oringa. Asked why he wears black clothes, Severian attempts to explain, prompting this response from Oringa: "Burying people wear black. Do you bury people? When the navigator was buried there were black wagons and people in black clothes walking. Have you ever seen a burying like that?" Severian, quite honestly for his experience, tells her that no one wears fuligin clothes at funerals because it would mark the wearer--and scandalously so for the deceased--as a torturer. He then attempts to change the subject. But we as readers are still left with several questions. Is there, first of all, any relevence to this tale of the navigator? Who, for example, might this mysterious figure be that details about his funeral have been transmitted down through the ages, from one generation of prisoners to the next? Is he a true navigator in the denotative sense? Or is 'navigator' one of those words that the prisoners have lost all sense of, except perhaps metaphorically? Initially, given Jonas's history--he's the patched survivor of a spaceship crash--it's tempting to see the navigator as part and parcel of the same crash, only as a casualty. But how likely is it that the survivors of such a mishap could organize a funeral cortege like the one described, especially since it appears they've landed in extremis, not only in the future, but subject apparently to life-long arrest by the autarch's representatives? And why does Wolfe seem to place such special emphasis on not only the blackness of the wagon, but the fact that people walked behind it? The answer is not that difficult if you think about it. Gene Wolfe, after all, is a staunch Catholic. And the Book of New Sun is filled with indelible memories. So it's seems only fair that author Wolfe be allowed to include one of his own--especially since it also comprises one of this nation's most searing. Ergo, for those of you not yet born, or too young to remember, let me reprise the circumstances of that dark weekend (while those of you who were of age try, try, not to recall where you were when you heard the horrible news). On November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, Catholic President John Fitzgerald Kennedy--he who attempted to steer us through the perilous straits of the ' 60s--was shot dead by an assassin's bullet. Three days later, in Washington, DC, Kennedy's coffin was transported to Saint Matthew's Cathedral atop a black horse-drawn caisson, followed by the rest of the funeral entourage on foot, because the widow of the slain president refused to ride in a "fat, black cadillac." JFK as navigator. Assassinated to be sure, but never forgotten, even after untold milennia. Especially by present-day, Catholic sf writers. But now then, you say--how is it possible that people from our times--the original generation that passed on the tale of the navigator--wound up aboard the universe-crossing ship of the Hierodules? I believe Wolfe attempts to address this in URTH. Gunnie, at one point, is discussing apports, the creatures occasionally caught in the ship's massive specular sails. "Not all apports are animals," she says, "though there's a lot more of those than anything else. Sometimes they're people, and sometimes they live long enough to get inside the ship where there's air. You know, the others on their home worlds must wonder where they went when they were apported. Especially when it's somebody important." So perhaps Wolfe's suggesting these people have been apported from our time to the ship--along with possibly such famous missing personages as Amelia Earhart, Judge Crater and Jimmy Hoffa! Robert Borski *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/


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Padmaavat: Set in 1303 AD medieval India, Padmaavat is the narrative of appreciate, valor and fixation. Ruler Padmavati is thought for her outstanding excellence alongside a strong feeling of fairness and is the spouse of Maharawal Ratan Singh and pleasure of the Kingdom of Chittor, a wealthy state in the north west of India. The legend of her magnificence achieves the authoritative sultan of Hindustan – Allaudin Khilji. The sultan who is a dictator, is focused with desiring whatever that is of superb excellence for himself. He lays assault at the relaxed put up of Chittorgarh.
Padman: Lakshmi is a these days hitched welder who drums up a few excitement in his East Indian city while he attempts to reform the assembling of sterile napkins for women.
Hichki: After some conferences and diverse dismissals, a woman who has Tourette's ailment handles a vocation as an instructor at a primary elegance faculty. She soon tries to do anything she will be able to to make her defiant and troublemaking understudies understand their maximum potential.
Baaghi 2: Baaghi 2 is an up and coming Indian activity movie introduced by means of Sajid Nadiadwala under his general Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment and coordinated through Ahmed Khan. The movie highlights Tiger Shroff and Disha Patani in lead parts.
Robot 2.0: Robot 2.Zero is an up and coming Indian sci-fi movie composed and coordinated with the aid of S. Shankar, co-composed with the aid of B. Jeyamohan, and created by Subaskaran Allirajah, originator of Lyca Productions This is first Indian movie this is in particular shot in 3-d.
Raid: Raid is an up and coming Indian wrongdoing dramatization film composed by using Ritesh Shah and coordinated by means of Raj Kumar Gupta. It highlights Ajay Devgn, Ileana D'Cruz, Saanand Verma and Saurabh Shukla.
Vodka Diaries: Vodka Diaries is a 2018 Indian spine chiller film co-introduced and coordinated by Kushal Srivastava. Set in modern-day Manali, the story spins around a club referred to as Vodka Diaries, where a few homicides take place and their examination.
Total Dhamaal: Total Dhamaal is a coming near near Indian parody film, coordinated with the aid of Indra Kumar. It is the continuation of 2011 movie Double Dhamaal and the 1/3 part of the Dhamaal film arrangement.
Students of the year 2: Student of the Year 2 is an up and coming Indian film coordinated with the aid of Punit Malhotra. It is a continuation of the 2012 movie, Student of the Year.


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The command prompt (CMD) is a very useful Windows tool. This command interpreter or command line can help us configure how the files look in your folders, move directories, know our IP, or run batch programs. But where is this command prompt?
Has the time come to say goodbye to PCs?
Many computers do not have direct access to the command prompt. This means we have to look for it, and there are different ways to access it from hotkeys to searching directly in the Windows Start search bar. So we can open the command prompt or CMD.
How To Open The Command Prompt From Run
"Run" is a quick way to open Windows programs or folders. And, of course, we can also open the command prompt by following the steps below:
- On the PC, press Windows and R. That is, the Windows key and the letter R, at the same time. The Execute program will open.
- In the writing bar, we type "cmd" and press Enter or Accept.
- The Command Prompt will open.
How To Open The Command Prompt Or CMD
This method works on all versions of Windows, although the image above belongs to Windows 10.
How To Open The Command Prompt From Start
The start is a visual interface of Windows that shows some of the most used programs, folders of interest and programs anchored for Windows 10. In Windows 8, this visual may appear by default covering the entire screen. For these two operating systems, the command prompt is opened following the instructions:
Press the Windows key. The Start tab will open.
Without entering any program or clicking anywhere on the screen, we type one of two options:
- «Cmd»
- « Command Prompt «
The drop-down list will show the command we are looking for at the top.
If we want to open it as an administrator, right-click and choose Run as administrator.
How To Open The Command Prompt Or CMD
If we have computers with Windows 7 or older, we can also open the command prompt from Start by this route:
- Press the Windows button.
- In Search programs and files (below), we write Cmd.
- Press Enter.
- The command prompt will open.
How To Open Command Prompt From Files
File Explorer is the folder system that Windows uses to sort and display information. If you are inside a folder, you are inside this browser. Here we can also access the command prompt:
- We open any Windows folder.
- We delete the address bar and copy the following path: «C: \ Windows \ System32 \ cmd.exe».
- Press Enter.
- The command prompt will open.
Know Our IP, A CMD Utility
Knowing the IP of a computer is one of the most frequent uses of cmd. Once the command prompt is started, we will only have to type "IPCONFIG" and press Enter. In a blink, the screen will be filled with numbers and figures, and there will be the IP of our team.
But, without a doubt, the most versatile command (in addition to "HELP") is "SYSTEMINFO". If we type the latter in the cmd and press Enter, we will see dozens of data on our PC, such as the operating system, the compilation version, the type of system (x32 or x64), or the amount of actual physical memory available.
The latter is very interesting if we just bought the PC, and we want to know when the original Windows was installed or if the hardware announced by the manufacturer is the one that has arrived. A command prompt is a tool that is worth knowing if we are Microsoft users.


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Torrance, CA/Eatontown, NJ—Partner Engineering and Science, Inc., a national environmental and engineering consulting firm headquartered in Torrance, CA with a regional headquarters in Eatontown, New Jersey, has a significant hire in the Land Development Group of its New Jersey engineering, design and consulting practice – which expanded significantly with the firm's recent acquisition of the assets of Birdsall Services Group.
The selection of Adam M. Alexander, LLA, ASLA, as Project Manager of Landscape Architecture will greatly enhance the firm's services in Land Development Engineering – a practice crucial to meeting the needs of New Jersey and the Northeast Region.
The team will work with private and public entities on a variety of development projects, with a special focus on engineering solutions for urban land and coastal ecosystems prevalent in New Jersey and the Northeast.
"Adam's vast experience in major development projects makes him an important addition to our team in New Jersey," said Joseph Derhake, PE, president of Partner. "We are thrilled to bring him on board during our firm's continued expansion into the Northeast region, and particularly as we grow the services of our engineering, design and consulting team."
As Project Manager and a Licensed Landscape Architect, Alexander will focus on Landscape Architecture projects from concept design through construction administration, including project management, proposal development, preparation of programs, conceptual solutions, illustrative drawings, cost estimates, and final design production.
Alexander has a broad range of private and public sector experience in over 15 years of practice, collaborating in the design, planning, and project management of hundreds of public facility projects in the N.J., N.Y. and P.A. region. His diverse experience includes the design of athletic and synthetic field facilities, streetscapes, urban parks, and playgrounds, brown field redevelopment, and commercial, corporate and institutional site development projects. A few highlights of Alexander's experience include providing professional design services for Branch Brook Park in Newark, N.J., which include the iconic Cherry Tree Demonstration and historic architectural features; serving as Landscape Architect for waterfront revitalization in Asbury Park, N.J.; and the redevelopment of approximately 100 acres of a Brownfield, including pedestrian trails, an integral bike path network, a light rail extension, plaza nodes, and a boardwalk, along the waterfront in Jersey City, N.J.
"It's rewarding to see our communities benefit from landscapes and spaces that are innovative, sustainable and environmental responsible," said Alexander. "I'm excited to add my experience to the Partner team."
Alexander is a graduate of West Virginia University, with a bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture. He most recently worked as a Senior Landscape Architect and Lead Designer for an international engineering firm, CHA in Parsippany, N.J.
Alexander previously worked at Schoor DePalma/CMX, portions of which were later acquired by the former Birdsall Services Group. As such, they already have a longstanding working relationship with many of the current personnel at Partner.


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Video materials have already been widely used in teaching environment and playing an active role in delivering lecture information to learners. However, most of the existing video delivery systems generally aim to improve the process of teacher's one-way information delivery to the learners but fail to support interactive participation of both teacher and students. Thanks to the continuous increase of network brand width, this situation may be changed by applying a distributed architecture which provides an environment in which the teachers and students can comment and manipulate video materials simultaneously.
To construct a good performance video system, exploring what the teachers and students want for such system is a great help. For teachers, authoring video materials is always a time-consuming work, especially for those who have not professional computer skills, mastering the professional authoring tools such as Adobe Premiere is still a challenging task. The professional software generally provides a series of video authoring functions such as fade in/out video effect or video transitions, however, these functions may not meet the special education needs in class. In general, an ideal video system in teachers' expectation should be: (1) Easy to make comments on video materials (2) Easy to change video play sequence. For students, they are more interested in how to express their opinions or their attitude on the video. Generally, they want a video system in which they can freely add annotations and share them with their classmates and teachers. And after class when they want to trace back what they annotated in class, the system should easily locate that position.
Our system aims to provide (1) A distributed architecture which support collaborative operations in different geological locations(2) An interactive environment provided to teachers with the ability of organizing video clips effectively and conveniently; (3) A method enabling teachers to impose extra information into the video content freely; (4) An interactive communication mode between teachers and students during teaching process which support group's collaborative work on the video materials. In this paper, we present a distributed architecture and a sketch based interface for facilitating the interactively instructional video organizing and viewing with integrating sketching annotations into video clips. Sketching annotation are collaboratively added into video clips based on different video-related context, such as panorama or situation of video objects, which addresses the needs of teachers and students who teach or learn better through natural and flexible interactive methods. Our system is mainly used in the following application scenarios:
Collaborative video annotation. Teachers and students collaboratively add annotation in the video and by exchanging their annotation they can have an experience similar to the classic classroom discussions
Organizing archived video. Teachers apply our system to prepare for their lecture materials
Dynamic modification of the viewing sequence of organized video clips. As the lecture delivery is an interactive process which may vary a lot according to different feedback from students.
There has been a lot of research work related with video organizing and viewing. Zhang (2002) proposed a hierarchy structure and a process scheme for organizing video data to facilitate the indexing. Zhu (2004) introduced InsightVideo, a video analysis and retrieval system, which joined video content hierarchy, hierarchical browsing and retrieval for efficient video access (Zhu, 2004). In order to improve the efficiency and interaction of the traditional video viewing process, a number of projects related to interactive video have been provided. Since early development of hypertext systems, videos have been taken as part of hypertext research in projects such as Aspen Movie Map described by Lippman (1980). And Sawhney (1997) introduced a generic framework to structure and dynamically present a new form of video- and text-based media called hypervideo. Shipman (2008) proposed a hypervideo system called Hyper-Hitchcock, which dealt with so-called detail-on-demand video, namely only one link at any given time. All the projects above focus on the linkability of video clips, but concern little about providing an efficient and intuitive way to build these links.


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It takes an awful lot of guts to release a song against homophobia on a Christian label:
I was in eighth grade
It takes even more to follow that up with a song condemning Christian escapism and isolationism:
The radio is preaching the candy coated goo
These two songs serve as
a pattern of sorts for the rest of All the Hype That Money Can Buy,
Denver, Colorado natives Five Iron Frenzy's fifth album, including one
nine-song EP and one live album. All the Hype
comes across
as extremely harsh, with chief lyricist/lead vocalist Reese Roper attacking
everything from capitalism ("Giants") to people who use music as an outlet
for their inflated egos ("All the Hype"). And while Roper and his
zany crew have denounced various practices on their previous records (see
"Old West" from Upbeats and Beatdowns, "Handbook For the Sellout"
from Our Newest Album Ever!, or "The Untimely Death of Brad" from
is Job 1), never before have they been so direct in their assaults
(or so catchy in
Amongst all this aggression, however, there are more than a few songs on which Roper points his critical eye within. Take "Ugly Day," which finds him crooning like Reverend Al Green:
Something snapped deep inside me
I would lie down on the street
Tender worship songs like "Hurricanes" and "World Without End" are destined to become this album's versions of "Dandelions" and "Every New Day," while "A New Hope" (sounding considerably better than it did on last year's live record Proof That the Youth Are Revolting) explores the reasons behind the massacre at Littleton High School. There are even a few of the band's signature silly songs, the most notable of which is "The Phantom Mullet," a butt-rock ode to that "virus" of a haircut sported by Billy Ray Cyrus and pro wrestlers across the country.
Musically, there's more variety on this album than on any of its predecessors, from the reggae-romp of "Solidarity" (featuring guest vocalist Randy Stonehill) to the quiet, percussion-driven "Hurricanes" to the infectious uniqueness of "Giants." It's a stretch calling some of these songs ska (and the band probably wouldn't have it any other way), but certainly a few of the songs ("Me Oh My," "Four Fifty One") were influenced by the genre.
To put it simply, All the Hype That Money Can Buy is unbelievable. It's almost certainly destined to become the band's magnum opus, and could well go down in history as one of the greatest Christian albums of all time.
Michial Farmer 04/29/2000


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WIFI - always online with enno
Whether you want to read important e-mails or visit your friends on facebook – enno is always online. And so are you, thanks to free WIFI in every train.
Once you are in one of my trains, just look out for the WIFI network "enno", accept the conditions of use and start surfing the web.
When you get on an enno train the next time, the WIFI network will recognize you and you can start surfing immediately.
Please note:
The WIFI bandwidth is limited. Facebook, e-mails, "normal" websites etc. load quickly and easily, even if many passengers are online at the same time. Please note that streaming films or music is not possible, because we want to offer enough bandwidth to all of our passengers simultaneously.
The free and omnipresent WIFI in enno trains is new and totally unique in German local traffic. In case of minor errors or a bad connection in the beginning, please give enno some time to become more experienced and to optimize the system step by step. Thank you!