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NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. and NEW YORK — May 11, 2011 — SAP America, Inc., a subsidiary of SAP AG (NYSE: SAP), and Verizon (NYSE, NASDAQ:VZ) expanded their agreement to jointly market and sell key components of Verizon's Managed Mobility portfolio (Mobile Device Management and Security and Mobile Services Enablement Platform) so that customers can easily access their on-premise and cloud-based SAP® applications virtually anytime, anywhere via Verizon's business-class cloud.
The updated agreement makes Verizon the first SAP partner to provide end-to-end enterprise cloud and mobility offerings. As a result, enterprises can simplify and speed the delivery of mobile applications from SAP to smartphones — and now, tablets — so that mobile workers can work just as effectively while away from the office.
In separate news, Verizon today announced enhancements to its Managed Mobility portfolio that will enable stronger security features and enhanced capabilities for SAP and Verizon customers, including support for industry-leading iOS and Android OS-based tablets. These new enhancements feature the Afaria® mobile device management solution, and provide enterprise-to-edge security and back-office application extension capabilities such as security policy enforcement, application delivery and device management profiles.
"SAP is consistently looking for simplified and secure ways for customers to use our solutions, while increasing agility and also reducing total cost of ownership," said Kaj van de Loo, senior vice president, Technology Strategy, SAP. "Verizon provides a secure, high-performance cloud infrastructure that's ideal for the delivery of mobile applications from SAP, and this agreement and co-sell arrangement further accelerate the value companies can gain from our offerings while controlling costs for an immediate business benefit."
Through Verizon's leading cloud platform, Computing as a Service (CaaS), enterprises can tap into the benefits of mobile applications delivered from the cloud to make the virtual office even more functional. CaaS offers clients the ability to manage and control their computing environments via a secure Web portal. Also, enterprises can add additional security and resiliency features to maintain a robust environment for the delivery of mobile applications.
"Companies today are increasingly utilizing the cloud to provide speed and access to business information in order to gain a competitive edge," said Kerry Bailey, group president of cloud strategy and services, Verizon. "By working with SAP to provide the business-class cloud platform for mobile application delivery, enterprises can transform their business by truly enabling the productivity of mobile employees so they don't miss a beat."
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By extending its relationship with Verizon, SAP is helping global enterprises transform their organizations by arming them with the latest mobility and cloud offerings that are designed to work together over Verizon's enterprise-class cloud platform, CaaS. SAP recently announced the delivery of the SAP® Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) rapid-deployment solution to enterprise workers through Verizon's CaaS offering, including the Sybase® Mobile Sales application for SAP CRM and the Sybase® Mobile Workflow application for SAP Business Suite (see "Verizon, SAP Team Up on Cloud Enterprise Application Delivery"). Verizon is the first certified global provider for SAP cloud-based services.
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Five years after a state parks crisis threatened to shutter open spaces in Marin, a $3.1 billion park bond measure might end up on the November ballot.
The state bond proposal that is now working its way through the Legislature was the subject of a hearing convened by Assemblyman Marc Levine, D-San Rafael, at the Albert J. Boro Community Center in the Canal neighborhood on Friday.
Levine — chairman of the state Assembly's Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee — who moderated the event attended by about 60 people, said the bond would boost state parks and other open spaces in Marin and around the state.
"Our parks were threatened with closure only a few years ago," Levine said, noting communities came together to help keep them open by raising money. "But we know we still have many unfunded park and resource protection needs in the North Bay and throughout the state."
State parks have $5 billion in needs and there is an 8-to-1 ratio of grant applications versus available grant dollars from the Statewide Parks Program. The state-formed Parks Forward Commission — which convened in San Rafael in 2013 — has also highlighted the need to protect natural and cultural resources for future generations, expand access to parks for poor communities and to address state park deferred maintenance needs.
"The bond would help tackle this huge backlog of deferred maintenance, as the parks are really falling apart," said Steve Deering, vice chairman of the nonprofit Friends of China Camp. "The other big part is we need new parks, more urban parks to make them relevant to a new generation of parks users. It also includes making existing parks more attractive."
The bill authorizing the bond was approved by the Assembly on June 23 and is now in the Senate Appropriations Committee.
In its present state, the bond would create neighborhood parks in park-poor communities; address local and regional parks, with funds to be distributed both on a per capita basis; help state parks, with a focus on deferred maintenance in existing parks; improve trails and waterfront access; and boost habitat, including wildlife corridors.
"It has been quite some time, 14 years, since there has been a direct investment to the park system," said Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia, D-Coachella, who is sponsoring the bond bill.
The state park system got a major scare in May 2011 when 70 of 278 parks were slated to be closed to help the state save $22 million. In Marin, China Camp, Samuel P. Taylor, Olompali and Tomales Bay state parks were set to close under the plan.
In July 2011 it was revealed more than $50 million in money that could be used for parks had been found in hidden accounts. That prompted legislation led by former assemblyman and now U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, to put a freeze on the closures and develop a plan to provide matching funds to support local operating agreements.
Thanks to local efforts, deals with federal officials — which operate adjacent lands — kept Samuel P. Taylor and Tomales Bay state parks open, and arrangements also were made to keep service at China Camp and Olompali.
In the past several years, China Camp has seen new fencing, campgrounds cleared of fallen trees and branches and improved trails. Much of that work was done by hundreds of volunteers through the California State Parks Foundation's Park Champions program, which holds volunteer work days in state parks across the state.
Four electronic kiosks have been set up in the park to accept payments for parking, as well as walking, running, biking or riding horseback.
"We have added value to the park and it is seen as a community asset," said Deering, whose China Camp group has an agreement to help operate the park through 2017. "But we are not on Easy Street. The bond would help."
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Egypt is located in the northeast of Africa and has a desert climate. This means hot summers and cool winters. In Egypt, you can visit the pyramids, sail the Nile, stroll the streets of Cairo, visit the seemingly endless Arabian desert or dive and see the coral reefs in the Red Sea near the historic port of Hurghada. Whatever you plan to do, you will need to protect yourself well against possible diseases, the fierce sun and dengue mosquitoes. There is no malaria in Egypt. Our skilled nurses gladly provide advice regarding a healthy stay in Egypt and are happy to tell you which immunisations and vaccinations you require. Click here to make an appointment with a KLM Health Services nurse. Travel carefree and return home at ease.
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Moonlight: Haunted
Song: Haunted
Artist: Evanescence
"Sometimes, the past doesn't just catch up with you. It haunts you."
I know, Evanescence is one of those bands that have been vidded to death, and yap, even from me. Still couldn't resist using one of their songs again and make my 4th vid using one of their songs.
This once again is one of my Alternative Universe vids. It has a story, yap, but I can't really say what it's about without giving away plot spoilers. I guess you just have to watch!
This video was originally intended to premiere at East Coast Moonlight Con in September '08 but alas, they forgot the disc and it wasn't shown. I decided to sit on this for a little while and then entered this in the Mix and Match contest at Driver Picks The Music. Since that contest is finally over, the vid is ready to be shown to the public!
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New Jersey's Rachel Taylor flew to Wisconsin to the Ripley's Believe It or Not! Odditorium, touched Ripley's world famous Fertility Statues and shortly thereafter became pregnant, after being told numerous times by her doctor that it was not possible. Little Maxwell Taylor celebrates his first birthday on July 31 at Ripley's Believe It or Not! Odditorium in Atlantic City.
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- Ralf tells us all about a new Guinness World Record for skinny dipping.
- Edward relates how fun (and bizarre) the filming was for a new video that will be played in all Ripley's Odditoriums.
- Tom Willis, born with no arms or hands has a major goal. He wants to throw out the first pitch at all 30 of the Major League Baseball stadiums in the U.S. He's approaching the half way mark now.
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South Africa penalised for ball-tampering
South Africa were penalised five runs for ball-tampering and the team was the subject of a hearing after play on the third day
South Africa were penalised five runs for ball-tampering on the third day of the second Test against Pakistan in Dubai. Faf du Plessis was the player in the centre of the controversy and the ICC said its ruling on the incident will be announced tomorrow.
The ICC confirmed that the five-run penalty and the change of ball after 30 overs was due to ball-tampering. "As per 42.1 of the ICC playing conditions, the umpires replaced the ball and fined South Africa team five penalty runs for ball-tampering," an ICC spokesperson said.
The incident took place at the start of the 31st over of Pakistan's innings, two overs after tea, when umpires Ian Gould and Rod Tucker called South African captain Graeme Smith for a chat. The fourth umpire, Shozab Raza, brought a box of balls onto the field and a new one was selected for use.
No individual player has been charged yet but television images showed du Plessis rubbing the ball allegedly on the zipper of his trouser pocket.
The playing conditions (see sidebar) dealing with ball-tampering were changed recently, coming into effect only from October 1. Any player found guilty of ball-tampering, which is a Level Two offence, will be fined 50 to 100% of his match fee and/or get a ban of one Test or two ODIs or two Twenty20s, whichever come first.
South Africa were well in control of the Test, having taken a commanding 418-run first-innings lead, when the incident occurred.
The only other time a team was handed a five-run penalty for ball-tampering was in the infamous Oval Test in 2006, in which Pakistan refused to take the field after the umpires deemed that the seam on the ball had been raised.
Firdose Moonda is ESPNcricinfo's South Africa correspondent


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One of the UK's best known asset managers, which is also a shareholder in Cineworld, has condemned a proposed £2.7bn deal for the cinema chain to acquire US rival Regal.
Jupiter Asset Management, which owns 0.3 per cent of London-listed Cineworld, believes the business has gone beyond its remit with the proposed purchase of Regal which would involve a hefty new rights issue.
It has raised concerns that the chain would bite off more than it could chew by entering the US markets, which it sees as a massive unknown.
Read more: Picturehouse Cinemas narrows losses while staff approve fresh strike action
"We invested in a business that was growing nicely in the UK and Europe, investing in new locations, new products and refurbishing existing sites. There was an expectation that there were more bolt-ons or larger acquisitions in new European markets," said Jupiter equities fund manager Alastair Gunn.
"Most shareholders would have been up for a £300m to £500m deal. We had options on mergers and acquisitions, buybacks, dividends and growth. This deal will completely change the balance sheet, and will fall on existing shareholders."
In contrast to Gunn's negativity, analysts were generally supportive of the deal when it was announced last week.
Read more: Cineworld shares plummet on prospect of takeover-related rights issue: Here's how analysts are reacting
"To strike now, when AMC (the US Number One and biggest global cinema operator) is suffering so much, is a brilliant move by Cineworld, in our view, as it reverses the tables and would push it into the challenger position in the world's largest cinema market," said Canaccord Genuity's Nigel Parson.
Cineworld said it was in "advanced discussions" to complete the deal, and that any rights issue would have a "commitment to full subscription" from its largest shareholder Global City Holdings.


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Emergency response training has several shortcomings that affect its effectiveness. Full-scale exercises are effective, but expensive, cumbersome and time consuming to plan and conduct. Discussion based trainings are much more cost effective and easy to plan, but the retention rate is lower on covered material. It is important to get the most out of limited training budgets by finding a way to be both efficient and effective with time and money. In this case study, the problems of the 2002 New Mexico Public Health ICS training are analyzed. This training provides good examples of how traditional training tools, style and impact were not used for the best outcome on retention of how to manage response in the event of an emergency. Methods of addressing these issues by other industries are reviewed and considered for application in the field of emergency response training. This suggests that using software simulation, it would be possible to harness the experiential learning of a full scale exercise with a more individually tailored and efficient training system. This would result in the ability to train people with greater flexibility than current methods allow, with far better results.
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Artbots is really more of a gizmo/gadget project with some scientific reasoning and problem-solving thrown in the mix. With a few simple items from the dollar store plus a little tenacity (not everything goes as planned in a project like this!), we designed with our own hands some nifty "robots" that created art (and even some "music" thanks to the creativity of some of my scientists)! There are many sites that actually provide instructions for how to create versions of artbots, so feel free to test a few models to see what works best for you (and your budget). My Artbots 2.0 are even easier to complete than the original version we did over a year ago thanks to an unexpected change in available supplies. I love when changes actually make things easier for us 🙂
- Electric toothbrushes + some spares (I purchased the GB brand battery-operated brushes sold at Dollar Tree; I found it VERY handy to have a few spares on hand). NOTE: Our previous Artbots were made with the Luminant brand of electric toothbrush. While you can still find Luminants in Dollar Tree stores, the GB brushes are much more common at this time (and actually make for much easier Artbot adaptations)!
- Needle-nose pliers
- Box cutter (to cut the pool noodles down to size before the program, though scissors work great as well)
- Electrical tape + scissors (though masking tape or duct tape work just as well)
- Styrofoam pool noodles (I found these at Dollar Tree as well)
- Rubber bands of various sizes
- Markers or pens (thin or thick – makes no difference!)
- AA Batteries (which I also purchased at Dollar Tree on the cheap). NOTE: The Luminant brand brushes actually came with a battery (which sometimes didn't work, so I had spare batteries for emergencies). The GB brand does NOT come with the necessary AA battery, so you will need to supply them (and it's still a good idea to have spares on hand for the occasional dud).
- Paper to test the Artbots on – I actually had a giant roll of white paper that I used to fully cover the surfaces of our work tables, so my scientists could just test their bots whenever they felt like it without having to worry about finding scrap paper, or keeping their bot confined to a small piece of paper.
- Any other supplies you want to use for decorating. I pulled out everything of interest I could find in our craft supply closet: beads, pipe cleaners, pompoms, buttons, google eyes, jingle bells, colored craft sticks, etc.
STEP ONE: Take apart the GB Toothbrush
Here is where the GB brand completely trumps the Luminant brand for ease of modification. The GB brush very simply pulls apart into 4 pieces, as seen in the images below. The motor is already a part of the battery casement with the on/off button, so once you have pulled apart the toothbrush, you simply need to put a single AA battery into the battery casement and test it by pressing the on/off button! My motto is "always be prepared for anything," and sure enough, about 1/3 of my scientists had toothbrushes that were a little finicky about fully separating. I bopped around the room with my needle nose pliers and helped yank out the battery casement for the scientists experiencing some trouble. And there were a few cases of over-exuberant separating where the scientists actually pulled the motor and a bent metal base out of the battery casement (in most cases we were able to reassemble on the fly) – and a few cases where the motor just didn't turn on despite testing multiple batteries. And THAT is why I always have extra brushes on hand. When you're buying electric toothbrushes from a dollar store, you really do have to be prepared for a few duds in the mix.
Once all of my scientists had separate battery casements with motors attached, and all motors had been tested, it was time for our next big challenge…
STEP TWO: Houston, we have a problem! Fitting the motor and battery casement into the pool noodle pieces…
With the Luminant brand brushes, the cobbled together battery casement and motor fit nice and snuggly inside the hollow center of our pool noodle pieces. I discovered during my own personal testing prior to the program that the battery casement from the GB brushes was a bit thinner and actually slips straight through the hollow center of the pool noodle. I suspected that fixing that would probably be as simple as using some rubber bands or duct tape to fill out the space, but I wanted to involve my scientists in the problem-solving. So I demonstrated our problem to the group and asked them to help me find a solution. Most of the scientists quickly figured out that you could use duct tape or masking tape to prevent the motor from falling out of the bottom of the pool noodle piece. HOWEVER, as many discovered, you also had to make the battery casement/motor SNUG inside the pool noodle. If the battery casement was still loose inside the pool noodle, the motor was unable to properly vibrate the noodle and move it around the table. Some scientists filled the gaps with pipe cleaners; others used rubber bands. Both solutions worked well.
With that problem solved, all that remained was the fun and freedom to design the individual bots!…
FINAL STEP: Decorate!
I provided our scientists with pipe cleaners, google eyes, feathers, fun buttons, etc. (pretty much any fun supplies I could find in our crafting storage). Some artbots can be made using plastic cups and the like, but the beauty of the styrofoam pool noodle pieces is that decorating is a snap! For most supplies, all you need to do is push materials directly into the styrofoam – no glue or tape required. I did provide wet glue for items like pompoms, but most scientists quickly realized that waiting for glue to dry was no fun – it was so much easier to poke materials into the pool noodle. I personally find that pipe cleaners are invaluable – you can weave them through button holes, wrap them around pompoms – and as my super creative scientists discovered, you can even string tiny bells onto them! And the ends of pipe cleaners very easily poke straight into the pool noodles.
In an interesting and unexpected turn of events, my scientists got so inspired by the act of creating their bots that they even took apart about a dozen of my pens on the supply table so they could make use of the springs and plastic pen shells! [I totally didn't see that one coming 🙂 ]
I actually covered our usual program tables with paper so my scientists didn't even have to worry about scrap paper (as you can see in the video above). Once the artbots were assembled and decorated, my scientists had free reign of table surfaces to create their art. At some point, of course, the battery will likely wear out and you will need to pull the motor assembly out of the pool noodle to replace the battery. But that's a simple price to pay for such a fun gadget!


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Today's team book review is from Cathy, she blogs at http://betweenthelinesbookblog.wordpress.com
Cathy chose to read and review White Horizon by Jan Ruth
Daniel and Tina decide to cement their on-off relationship of twenty-five years with a marriage ceremony in the town they grew up in, near Snowdonia in North Wales. They start their married life living in the hotel Daniel is renovating. Things between the newly weds begin to crumble after just a few months. Tina is keeping an overwhelming secret and doing her best to deal with it in the only way she feels she can. Their old school friends, who haven't seen each other for years, Victoria and Linda and their respective husbands, Max and Mike, are drawn into the resulting fall out which will affect not only those involved but their families as well.
Linda and Victoria are experiencing their own marital problems and all three couples find themselves in difficult circumstances and with friendships at breaking point. Their lives can never again be the same and each of them will face a future they couldn't have imagined. The terrible culmination of Victoria and Max's relationship breakdown is horrifying and dramatic, resulting in destruction and death which devastates everyone in the community.
The dynamics between the couples and their interwoven stories are written so well it's impossible not to have a vivid picture of them, and be drawn in as they are ever more deeply involved in the developing story. Jan Ruth just seems to be able to get right inside the characters and make them totally real and believable, with well-developed and credible personalities. Their problems and emotions are handled sensitively and with honesty during the major life changes that affect them all. Serious issues, including spousal abuse and debilitating illness, are dealt with tactfully.
A really good mix of characters, Daniel stood out for me and Victoria, who was the most damaged by her awful experiences. Great writing and precise attention to details – such an enjoyable read. The scenic descriptions are beautiful and bring the area to life adding an extra element to the story. Mainly, though, this is about how the strength of love and forgiveness, having friends and family win out in the end.
Find a copy here from Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com


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University of Washington Huskies (4-2 Pac-12, 6-3 overall) head coach Chris Petersen met with the media Monday for his weekly press conference and reviewed the teams loss to the California Golden Bears ( 2-3, 5-3) on Saturday and looked ahead to Saturday's game against the Standford Cardinal ( 3-2, 5-3) at Husky Stadium ( 6p.m., Pac- Networks).
Opening statement
On his decision to pull Jake Brown for Jake Haener.
( On why the offense is plodding?)
"I don't know. We go down on a 17-play drive, and those are painful. That's pretty impressive, 17 plays, and then you score. You'd like to get some explosives in there where guys break tackles and make some things happen and that's really hard to do. But that seems to be a little bit of who we are right now. We're working hard to change that. For whatever reason, we have little margin for error."
(What did you think Haener was going to bring in that moment?)
"He plays well. He does some very good things in practice every week. Jake Browning is our quarterback, but Jake Haener does some different things. He does. I was just trying to create that spark for our offense. It's good for other guys to get reps in real-life situations and I know people are saying that's a tough situation to put a guy…he was itching for it. There was no hesitation. He made a bad, kind of a missed throw where he could have come off a little bit, the receiver didn't help him on where he was route-wise, talking about that interception. But we'll all learn from it."
(How easy of a call was it to kick the field goal on fourth-and-10?)
"Yeah, pretty easy. Yeah. It really was. You're playing those things by how it's kind of going in the game and what your offense is doing. Time left in the game and all those kind of things."
Does Browning look like a better QB than he was a year ago?)
"I don't know about better. I think he does some things better. I thinks sometimes the numbers can be a little bit deceiving when you got a new coordinator and you put some spins on those type of things. Jake makes a lot of plays. And he makes a lot of good plays. He made a lot of plays and some big-time throws in that game. We just need to figure out how to help him and this offense score more points."
(On the team moving on and getting ready for Stanford)
(On Stanford's Bryce Love
"I think last week he was looking like the Bryce Love I knew last year. I hadn't really seen Stanford up until this week. I haven't looked at much of anything. But I know he's one of those guys who has breakaway speed but he's deceptively strong. He just breaks tackles. I saw that again in that Stanford game. He can change the game."
(On Stanford's defense) "Their defense I think they have some realy good players. There are some guys that really flash. It's different than it was last year. They have some younger guys in there that flash quite a bit and I think those guys are on an upward trend for sure. I know those Stanford teams, how they play. They're tough, their hard-nosed, they get better, they compete their tail off and I know how this game will be. It will be a tough fight for sure."
( On Myles Gaskin and Hunter Bryant injury update?)
"Close. They're close."


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On Nasim Aghdam, You Tube and the Hypersubject
David Cronenberg, in his 1999 Hypermodern masterpiece, Existenz, saw it coming. At the film's conclusion, a virtual reality game designer named Yevgeny Nourish, together with his female assistant, are confronted by a pair of test subjects–played by Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jude Law–who have just participated in his game. The character known as Ted Pikul (Law) confronts Yevgeny with these words:
"Don't you think that the world's greatest game artist ought to be punished for the most effective deforming of reality?"
Then both he and the character named Allegra Geller (Leigh) withdraw handguns from their hiding place in the coat of the mangy dog they carry between them and shout:
"Death to the demon Yevgeny Nourish!"
"Death to Pilgrimage! Death to Transcendenz!"
Then they shoot both the virtual reality game designer and his assistant to death.
In other words, the creation of virtual phantoms and ghosts will eventually lead to thymotic reactions of anger and frustration from the limbic brain as the confused and tricked frontal lobes are manipulated by phantoms triggering energetic responses that are evolutionarily programmed into human / hominid biology. If these phantoms confuse the neocortex, the emotionally-charged thymotic centers of the mammalian brain will respond with violence, whether the objects of that violence are real or not.
And so now, the case of one Nasim Aghdam, an Iranian-born woman living in San Diego, aged 39, who has spent the past few years creating her own Hypersubject as an avataric extension of herself into cyberspace. She was a militant vegan and body-builder who created a series of YouTube videos projecting herself as a bizarre dancing entity against multi-colored backdrops and accompanied on occasion by dancing human figures wearing animal-headed masks, all in protest of the killing and eating of animals.
Ms. Aghdam claimed in her videos and on her website that YouTube had recently demonetized her and restricted some of her videos–in which she is shown doing stretching exercises–as age restricted so that she got fewer views. Apparently, demonetizing her videos, she claimed, cut off the only income she had.
So she armed herself with a Smith & Wesson 9mm. handgun and drove from San Diego to the offices of YouTube.com in San Bernardino, and on April 3 at 12:46 pm got out of her car and walked to a patio area in front of the building where some YouTube workers were having lunch, and opened fire, injuring three people before turning the gun on herself and committing suicide.
In his commentary on the ontological characteristics of the subject in the digital age, the Korean born German theoretician Byung-chul Han writes in his essay on the culture of the "outraged" which is being produced under the conditions of complete digitization:
"The outraged do not form a stable we who are displaying concern for society as a whole. Enraged citizens, even though they are citizens, do not demonstrate concern for the social body so much as for themselves…Today's fits of outrage are extremely fleeting and scattered. Outrage lacks the mass–the gravitation–that is necessary for action. It generates no future."
Which is the point I made exactly in my essay "On Hypermodernity." The Hypermodern Subject, perfectly illustrated here in the actions of Nasim Aghdam, is a deworlded subjectivity, carved out from all social formations and projected and amplified into the avataric conditions of hyperspace as a lone subjectivity with his / her own private sign regime and its preferential concerns. The concerns of "society," "ideology," or social utopias need not apply. Under the conditions of Hypermodernity, all ideologies are dead. We are instead dealing with a new universe of excessive individualities running rampant across social media. (Donald Trump is the first Hypermodern president: neither Left nor truly Right, he is a pure phantom of raging Tweets and personal preferences connected to no particular ideology who Tweeted his way into the presidency).
These Hypersubjects–a.k.a. avatars–we are now discovering, can be hurt, deformed, warped or otherwise mangled as pain is inflicted upon them. When YouTube demonetized Nasim Aghdam's account, it actually mangled her avatar and sent pain waves rippling backward through hyperspace to their point of origin in the very loose and liquid subjectivity known as Nasim Aghdam located in physical space in a suburban home in San Diego. In order to cause harm and do battle with YouTube, however, today's hapless individual has recourse only to resort to a handgun attack on real, physical individuals working at YouTube headquarters in San Bernadino. Individuals there can be shot, hurt or otherwise maimed at the point of origin of their attacks on Ms. Aghdam's avatar.
In other words, today's warriors are not ideologically driven Marxists who are members of underground groups organizing themselves for assault on Capitalist society. Those days are gone. Today's warriors are lone Hypersubjects who exist in cyberspace where they come equipped with their own suits of light and their own private sign regimes of personal preferences. These are deworlded individuals who have come unglued from any local horizons and are let loose in hypermodern cyberspace, where they are unstable, liquid, morphing, shifting entities who appear harmless on the surface.
But that is the realm of the hypercapitalist imaginary. On the plane of the Real, these subjectivities can, and will, do physical harm to the originators of other avatars and other sign regimes which come into conflict with their own.
In my own case, YouTube demonetized my Channel a long time ago, for no clearly given reason. Then, in 2016, they locked me out of access to my John David Channel, where I have over 500 videos, that are extremely popular, with tens of thousands of views. I do not make a cent from any of those videos which YouTube is using to make money from. They simply went in and changed my password without notifying me and now there's no way in, as I discovered after talking over the phone to a YouTube representative who explained to me, "there no way back way in."
Really? I kinda find that hard to believe. YouTube has over 1700 hundred employees at its offices in San Bernardino, and you're telling me not one of those "geniuses" knows of a back way for me to get back into my account? I simply don't believe that. They just have no motivation to help me out. After all, who am I but just another avatar in their digital apparatus of capture?
So I've had to create a new channel and have been trying to build an audience for that back up. Meanwhile, I cannot monetize my new channel until it has over 4000 hours of continuous watching over the last 12 months.
So I know exactly what Nasim Aghdam was feeling when she got into the car and made the drive, together with her 9 mm. handgun, to the offices of YouTube.
YouTube, apparently, can do as they please, with no accountability and no consequences for whatever arbitrary decisions they want to make, completely heedless of their effects on other peoples' lives. After all, those people aren't even real, are they?
I think I see more weapons glinting in the sunlight coming over the horizon.


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Maybe we've already arrived in a post-spread era. What I mean by that is that the freshness has worn off. Defenses are beginning to adapt; conservative coaches like Tuberville have embraced what is clearly becoming a mature strategy.
So I get what Gary Danielson is trying to say here.
"I know that the (Tim) Tebow spread works," Danielson said. "I'm still not sure any other spread will work in this conference. They cannot have John Brantley getting hit 12 15 times per game. He's too valuable. It will be a different spread. We will see how it unfolds."
"It was tough for (Tebow) to take the punishment of this conference," Danielson said. "This conference is more and more simulating the NFL, with sophistiated (sic) defenses to put hits on people."
That echoes something said by a guy who makes a career out of film study for NFL Films, talking about evolving offensive strategies in the NFL:
What major schematic trend do you see teams doing offensively?
"The game has evolved into a chess match between spread concepts on offense and pressure concepts on defense, which is why it is so important to come up with pressure concepts that rely on fewer defenders rushing, not more defenders rushing. The poster-child for that is Rex Ryan and the New York Jets. The whole idea is to rush as few as possible while still getting someone free to the quarterback.
"I think because of the emphasis on pressure with fewer people and a lot of times smaller people, the trend will be on lighter and quicker offensive linemen who can adjust to the movement."
What do I take from this? Two things:
- Defenses are beginning to see that there are two sides to the spread philosophy of opening up the field to get isolation for playmakers; there are playmakers in the defensive front seven, too. With enough speed, getting those guys open can be deadly to an offense.
- I can see why someone running a spread offense would counter this trend with greater mobility on the offensive line, but I also think that going small on defense to counter spread attacks plays into the hands of teams that run traditional (if it's still worth using that word in this context) power offensive schemes, like Georgia.
As an intriguing aside, read this about Tebow from the Danielson piece…
Florida will likely tweak the spread to incorporate two quarterbacks, perhaps a mirror of the 2006 national title season with Chris Leak and Tebow. But there's no guarantee Florida can command the same power running game it had with Tebow's bruising style…
and this about Tebow from the film guru:
… in college he did not throw with timing or anticipation because the offense that he was in did not require it. In the NFL, there are certain throws in certain situations that necessitate that the ball is delivered before his receiver makes his break. He wasn't asked to do that at Florida. Thirdly, pocket movement in the NFL is far more important than running. Pocket movement is the ability to move within the confines of an area about the size of a boxing ring while at the same time maintaining your downfield focus so you can deliver the football. Tebow did not exhibit that trait in college, probably because he was a runner…
Tebow's great value was in giving Meyer a power runner and a passer in his offensive scheme in one package. So with people acknowledging that's no longer the case, it's worth asking how much are they going to have to change the Florida offense this season?


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Over the weekend, Mangia Italiano's Twitter account tweeted a link to an interesting survey, which (among other things) asked patrons about the restaurant/venue and the smoking ban.
When Robin Wheeler recently talked to executive chef David Timney about the future growth of the restaurant, their conversation segued into the topic of smoking. Anyone who's been to the South Grand staple -- even casually, whether for a show or to eat - knows about Mangia's smoky reputation. According to Wheeler's interview, Timney said:
We've discussed [going non-smoking] in the last couple of weeks. Online, we have feedback and the biggest complaint is the smoking. So we're thinking maybe introducing non-smoking sooner. We don't want to disappoint the smokers who come here and have been coming here for years. It's kind of a touchy subject. You want both parties to be happy. What we're looking for in the future is to take the dining and focus a little bit more on it, but not neglect the bar and the music. That does very well, but it's its own thing and it's held its own. Now we want to take the food and step it up.
When he expanded on this to Wheeler, the purpose of the survey became very clear.
The restaurant has a lot of locals, and we want to expand that to a sector of the population that maybe doesn't think of it as often as we'd like. But the locals do very well and they support us very well, and we're appreciative of that. There's always been issues that people think of it as a nightclub because of the bar and they don't realize that, 'Oh wow, you're actually an Italian restaurant that does some really interesting things.'
With the smoking law that takes effect next January, we'll be able to go non-smoking and hopefully have an outdoor patio so the smokers will have their place to go. But we'll focus more on the dining part of the restaurant. There have always been issues with the smoke carrying over to the non-smoking -- you can have a non-smoking section in restaurants, but people are so sensitive to smoke that the slightest bit will turn them off. And I think there are people who don't come in here for that specific reason.
The idea of the venue going non-smoking early is likely going to polarize a lot of people. It'll be interesting to see how this develops.


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Last years book haul….
Last years book haul….
Peter Rozovsky of Detectives Beyond Borders is an all round fabulous guy who is a genuine delight to be around. This is what happens when you give this crime fiction loving art aficionado lots of gin and a picture frame.
Strike a pose!
Re-creating Carravaggio
Re-creating Andy Warhol
Re-creating Salvador Dali
Re-creating Michaelangelo
Re-creating The Scream – Edvard Munch
Re-creating Gustav Klimt
Enough already!!!
David Mark, the man behind DS Aector McAvoy, does the zombie.
Paul Finch, one writer who truly has it in for his lead DS Mark 'Heck' Heckenburg
Lucy Cameron, who's debut novel Night is Watching is out later this year.
Two of *the* most amazing authors out there, check out Sarah Pinborough's 13 Minutes & The Death House, and look out for Kevin Wignall's A Death In Sweden & The Traitor's Story
Pretty in purple, Leigh Russell, one of the hardest working women in crime fiction. I don't think she ever stops…
Aspiring author Andrew Hill who talked to LifeOfCri.me about CrimeFest back in 2014, and pulling faces in the corner, Chris Simms, the man behind DI Jon Spicer
Quentin Bates, writer of the fantastic Detective Gunnhildur of the Reykjavik police force, and translator of Ragnar Jonasson's Dark Iceland series.
The Icelandic Queen of crime Yrsa Sigurdardottir (you have no idea how many attempts it took to spell that right!)
James Hilton sees the release of his debut Gunn Brothers novel, Search and Destroy, this month.
The fount of all knowledge when it comes to Brit Noir and Nordic Noir, the formidable Barry Forshaw
Everyone's favourite cheeky chap and the man behind the excellent Tom Thorne novels, as well as his current stand alone Die Of Shame
William Sutton, creator of Victorian Policeman Campbell Lawless
Steve Mosby, this man knows how to mess with your head, prepare for a book hangover. Black Flowers and The Nightmare Place, are my particular favourites.
Winner of the 2015 Theakston's Old peculier Crime Novel of the Year, DI Marnie Rome's creator, Sarah Hilary
Zoe Sharp, the woman behind Charlie Fox, looking far too gleeful at the opportunity to strangle my fiance.
A grinch-esqe Tom Wood, not sure what Victor the Assassin would make of that!
Mr Crime Fiction Festival himself, Ali Karim, Assistant Editor at Shots e-zine. Simply all shades of awesome. If you get the chance to sit and chat with him, do,
Ragnar Jonasson, his Dark Iceland series is gripping, and claustrophobic. Perfect for being snuggled up on the sofa with coffee/wine/gin, on a wet and grey Sunday afternoon.
Chris Ewan, The man behind The Good Thief's Guides, along with a series of standalone novels, including his latest release Long Time Lost
Who would have thought he'd spent all weekend drinking?! – The Final Minute (did you see what I did there?) Sunday morning shot of race against time thriller writer Simon Kernick
Don't worry crime fans, the festival season isn't over yet!
CSI Southampton drops in next month and looks like a fantastic one day event for all enthusiasts of the genre. Well priced with some big names this looks like a brilliant way of ensuring your Autumn crime fiction fix.
As part of Southampton's So To Speak Festival, here's what they have to say about the event….
Where:- Northguild Lecture Theatre, Central Library, Civic Centre, S014 7LW
When:- Sat 24th October 10:00am – 5.00pm
Price: £18.00 (including £4 reduction in the price of a book) plus booking fee
Join us for CSI Southampton where the cream of crime fiction writers meet real life crime experts. The morning session kicks off with a panel where crime authors Pauline Rowson and Natasha Cooper will be debating with crime scene experts from Hampshire Police, Carolyn Lovell and Jane Aston just how crime fiction differs from crime fact. There will also be the chance for you to ask your questions of the panel and to have your fingerprints taken!
In the afternoon Peter Lovesey will discuss how a decent law abiding man can think up 200 ways of murdering people, followed by Jessie Keane and Sue Wilkins in discussion with Penny Legg on how they create their crime novels. There'll be book signings and the chance to mingle with both crime authors and crime experts.
Create a crime novel in just 100 words for the chance to win a signed copy of the latest novel from one of the distinguished authors appearing at Deal Noir.
The winner will be announced at the Deal Noir Conference on 28th March 2015.
The Rules
The closing date for entries is 20th March 2015. Only one entry per person. Submissions must be publishable and written in English. The decision of the judges is final.
Submit your entries on the Deal Noir website.
Deal Noir takes place at The Landmark Centre, Deal on 28th March. Tickets are available here.
Iceland Noir takes a break in 2015, and moves over to Shetland for the year.
Shetland Arts and Promote Shetland are delighted to announce that Shetland Noir, in association with Iceland Noir, will take place at Mareel from Friday 13 November until Sunday 15 November 2015.
The Crime Fiction Festival will be the first of its kind ever to be held in Shetland and the headliners will be: Denise Mina, Stuart MacBride and Alex Gray from Scotland, and Arne Dahl, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir and Hakan Nesser, representing the Nordic countries. Further writers will be announced in 2015.
The festival will be centred in Mareel, and a festival ticket, on sale now via Shetland Box Office, will ensure access to all of the panel events, and to a choice of fringe activities which will include specialist bus tours and other activities, to be announced in 2015. Further information about Shetland Noir, in association with Iceland Noir, is available on the festival website www.shetlandnoir.com and festival tickets can be purchased from Shetland Box Office in Mareel & Islesburgh, over the phone on 01595 745 555, and online at mareel.org and shetlandboxoffice.org.


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There's still a lot of meets to get through before the 2014 FINA World Cup Series begins in Doha, Qatar at the end of August, but Dubai (the series' second stop) is already announcing four big stars who are expected to enter.
FINA Swimming World Cup 2014
|August 27-28
|Doha (QAT)
|August 31 – September 1
|Dubai (UAE)
|September 29-30
|Hong Kong (HKG)
|October 4-5
|Moscow (RUS)
|October 24-25
|Beijing (CHN)
|October 28-29
|Tokyo (JPN)
|November 1-2
|Singapore (SIN)
Running from August 31st-September 1st, this will be the 3rd-straight year, and 4th-time overall, that Dubai will host a stop of this series, and the stars are getting more-and-more comfortable attending.
According to meet organizers, last year's series champions Katinka Hosszu and Chad le Clos are both planning to swim in Dubai, as are the women's runner-up Alia Atkinson from Jamaica and last year's men's 4th-place finisher Roland Schoeman of South Africa.
Last year, Schoeman swept the 50 breaststroke across eight stops in the series, and won a total of 13 events. Hosszu swept the 200 IM's and won an astonishing 32 events. Atkinson won 11 events, and le Clos swept the 200 fly and won 24 events.
Equally as important as the medals, these four swimmers amassed huge piles of cash from their success even just by showing up and competing at all 8 events. FINA boosted this series' profile last year by rolling it right off of the European-based World Championships, meaning it was an easy trip for the world's elites to compete in the first two stops in the Netherlands and Germany.
This year, the series will have to stand more on its own, and at least for those who last year were able to earn a year's wage across four months of competing, the World Cup has turned that corner. These are four stars who can compete for medals at any stage, and who have already committed to starting the series in 2014. It's a safe assumption that they'll also be in Doha before Dubai, which provides the further benefit of allowing a preview for the 2014 World Short Course Championships.


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Points to consider before going to the service shop
| Detroit
While no motorist has to go back to the dealer from whom he bought his car, there is a basis for a relationship there, says Lee R. Miskowski, national service development manager for the Ford Motor Company. ``A dealer can understand that if you are potentially loyal, you will come back again and again to buy another car,'' he adds.
OK. So it's time to take your car in for service. How should a customer approach a car dealer with a repair problem?
``A person should go through the manual and try to understand what the problem is,'' Mr. Miskowski says.
``Also, he should think ahead of time, even while waiting in line at the service desk, how to best describe the symptom or car problem to the service writer.''
While the service writer may say no, the motorist might even ask to speak to the mechanic who will work on his car.
Most dealerships don't like a customer to go back into the shop and talk with the technicians, and yet at most of the other facilities where you can have your vehicle serviced, the mechanic is generally available to the motorist. Why not at a new-car dealership?
``I think we are making a big mistake'' by not allowing customers to speak to the mechanics, insists Joseph A. Kordick, head of the Ford parts and service division. Miskowski agrees, adding: ``I think you should have the right to speak to the technician, particularly if you've had some work done there before.''
If the dealership provides a lifetime service guarantee, say that you understand you will not have to pay again for the same work if something goes wrong with the repair. You can say to them, ``Once I cover it once, it's covered forever, right?''
Some problems are intermittent and hard to describe or duplicate. More and more, however, the components today have a memory, so that you can plug into a computer and find out what is wrong. More effective instruments are on the way.
``In a few years -- and we have a whole separate group working on this companywide -- we'll have a very effective plug-in system for diagnosis with its keep-alive memory and the solution will come through automatically,'' says Miskowski.
Get a clear indication of when the car will be ready. Insist on being called back if there is a delay or a different diagnosis than you have been given earlier and which will result in a higher cost for repair.
``I think any motorist has to be businesslike,'' Miskowski advises. That's important, he says. Treat your visit to the service shop as you would any other business transaction.
Car-owner satisfaction is generally a little higher at a small-sized dealership than in a large metropolitan facility.
Motorists, of course, bear some responsibility in caring for their cars. This is a gas-and-go society and too many motorists don't take the time to perform the few frequent checks that might forestall a later problem on the road.
Is there any excuse for ignoring the oil level, forgetting the spark plugs, or not checking the tire pressure from time to time? At least 16 percent of all motorists do, however, perform much of the service and repair work themselves.
Second of two articles on dealership car repair. Charles E. Dole is the Monitor's automotive editor.


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Florida's small P/C insurers have withstood losses from Hurricane Irma and a legal environment that's dubbed a "judicial hellhole" by the American Tort Reform Association, a recent article in S&P Global Market Intelligence reports.
The financial ratings firm Demotech affirmed the financial strength of over 50 companies in late March, a decision found "encouraging" by the CEO of the state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp, Barry Gilway.
Gilway said that Demotech's March actions is evidence of the resilience that smaller carriers showed during a year in which Hurricane Irma caused insured losses of about $8.61 billion, according to the latest Florida Office of Insurance Regulation tally.
Florida insurers face both weather-related risk and costs stemming from litigation on non-weather-related water-loss claims with an assignment of benefits (AOB) and other legal matters. To combat the AOB problem, Citizens has drawn-up changes in policy language, increased efforts to fight fraud and grew its managed repair program. In January, Citizens said it expects AOB and litigation costs would account for about 23 percent of its 2018 operating expenses, up from 16 percent in 2017 – an increase of $17 million.
The frequency and severity of water-loss claims over the past 2.5 years shows "extremely negative trends," and that deteriorating trends have begun to spread northward within the state, said Gilway.
Citizens is reopening approximately 37 percent of claims related to Hurricane Irma as part of its ongoing work to help its policyholders, who have been frustrated by a shortage of contractors, the Insurance Journal reported. A spokesperson for Citizens said that it's common for claims to be reopened, and that the majority of those reopened are non-AOB Irma claims.


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Bitcoin is in consolidation mode after one of its largest quarterly gains on record. All signs suggest that there's still more upside left in this bull run, but according to a fractal found during the last major market cycle, a sudden sweep of lows is possible before bulls regain control.
Here's what to expect for price action if this ultimately bullish fractal is a valid roadmap of what's to come.
Be Ready To Buy The Dip If Fractal Forming Is Accurate
Bitcoin price is still trading $10,000 below its highest peak in 2021, yet since last night's daily close bulls have suddenly begun to make a comeback.
But before new highs are set, a sudden and sharp sweep of lows could clear out long positions taken over the last several weeks. The warning stems from a fractal found during Bitcoin's last major bull run, in 2017.
Related Reading | A Dangerous Technical Pattern In Bitcoin Is Back, And It Is Breaking Down
The shakeout move arrived after a new all-time high was set and long in the rear view, just like the current setup. It also proceeded the historic rally from under $2,000 to nearly $20,000 per coin.
A similar response after the lows are swept, would take the price per BTC to as high as $200,000 – meaning that this is potentially the most lucrative "dip" to buy before the next peak and bear market.
Visually, the price action is strikingly similar | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView.com
Comparing The Bitcoin Fractal Before "The Point Of No Return"
Comparing the fractal with current price action side by side, the similarities are easily visible. A large, sharper peak starts the downward price action, and subsequent peaks form each decreasing in size. After the fourth attempt, bears pull out the heavy artillery and push price action down through support.
The move would clear the market of over-eager traders that got into position too soon, taking advantage of the exuberance in the market.
Related Reading | Evening Star: Reversal Pattern Could Sunset Bitcoin Price Action For Weeks
And just as sentiment turns to extreme fear, leaving investors wondering how deep the violent drop will go, a V-shaped recovery takes Bitcoin to only one more major correction before the "top" of the cycle is in and bear market starts.
The fractal seems to appear at the "point of no return" for Bitcoin, right before the final push to the peak. The most direct-matching fractal is found during the 2017 rally, but even the 2013 mid-point matches the pattern, albeit a far more volatile structure.
Is this the last major shakeout before $200K BTC? | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView.com
If the volatility in each of these patterns gets lessened each time, this latest instance of the fractal might not produce such violent results.
Whatever the case may be, buying the dip wherever the bottom of this current correction is, could produce life-changing wealth.


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Thai chicken curry with aubergine and green beans is a quick, easy and impressive recipe that you can make in under half an hour. This recipe is made with ginger, cumin and red chillies, and because everyone loves differing levels of heat, you can scale up or scale down, depending on what you can handle. If you can't get your hands on baby aubergines, you can easily make this recipe with a regular aubergine cut into chunks. You can even throw in some tenderstem broccoli if you've got some in the fridge.
For the curry paste:
- 2 shallots, chopped
- 3 red chillies, chopped (keep the seeds if you like it hot)
- 5cm piece ginger, peeled and chopped
- 1tsp each ground cumin and coriander
- 3 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1 stick of lemongrass, outer leaves removed, chopped
- 2tbsp fish sauce
- zest of 1 lime
- 1tbsp sunflower oil
For the curry:
- 2tbsp sunflower oil
- 540g boneless chicken thighs, cut into chunks
- 400g baby aubergine, cut in half or quarters if large
- 400ml tin coconut milk
- 150g green beans, trimmed
- Fish sauce, to taste
For the garnish:
- Small bunch coriander, chopped
- 1 small red onion, sliced
- 2 limes, cut into wedges
- 50g peanuts, chopped
- To make this chicken curry recipe (opens in new tab), whizz all the paste ingredients together with a hand-held blender or in a small food processor.
- For the curry, heat 1tbsp oil in a wok or large sauté pan and fry the chicken until golden brown all over. Remove to a plate, add the remaining oil to the pan and fry the aubergine until browned. Remove to the plate with the chicken.
- Add the paste to the pan and fry for a couple of mins. Add the chicken and aubergine and stir well to coat in the paste. Pour in the coconut milk and add the green beans; cook for 5 mins until the meat and vegetables are tender. Add the fish sauce and lime juice and serve topped with the remaining ingredients as a garnish.
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IT will be remembered that in 1841 Courbet painted a "Classical Walpurgis Night." When the jury was so far rejuvenated as to allow the artist to exhibit the picture in 1848 it provoked this prophetic saying of Champfleury: "I say it now and bid you bear it in mind! This man, this unknown man who has painted the ' Nuit ' will be a great painter."
We shall have plenty of opportunity for remarking on Courbet's sturdy confidence in his talent and he himself has authorized us to do so (in an unutterable conversation with M. de Nieuwerkerque), " the proudest man in France!" We must therefore observe in this instance that, in spite of Champfleury's eulogy, the very first, apparently, to appear in print, the artist set so little store by the picture that he painted it out one day in order to use the same canvas for another.
This picture was "Les Lutteurs " (in the Léon Hirsch collection at Chenonceaux). It was exhibited just above the "Baigneuses" in the Menu- Plaisir gallery, where the Salon was opened in May, 1853 (having previously been held in the Louvre and in the Palais Royal).
This strange picture is interesting and valuable inasmuch as it tells us how uncertain was the realist doctrine at that time. The top of the Arc de 1'Etoile, just seen above the fence of the Hippodrome, tells us that the picture is intended to be modern. But against his open air setting, painted in recklessly with " insolent crudity " and relegated to the background, on a conventional piece of turf which seems to give very little support to the two wrestlers, the painter has built up two extremely academic figures, under the purely factitious light of the studio. The shadows, according to "L'Artiste," are of a tone to delight the dealers in yellow cameos.
However the hand of a master is shown in the magnificent handling of the paint, the supple drawing, the bold foreshortening. But these qualities were not enough to redeem the picture. Delacroix, who did not care for "Les Baigneuses," found in "Les Lutteurs " the same lack of harmony between the central figures and the back-ground, which " kills them, and ought to be cut away all round fully three feet." "Why look out for the ignoble ? " cried Boyeldieu d'Auvigny. "A repulsive picture," said Horsin-Déon " the presence of which in the Salon is inexplicable! "


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Cracked tooth syndrome is a term we use to describe the recurring discomfort, sensitivity, or pain that is caused by an incomplete fracture or crack in a tooth. You may have cracked tooth syndrome if you experience any of these symptoms: You find yourself chewing on only one side of your mouth because it is uncomfortable to chew on the other side. Your teeth are sensitive to hot or cold temperatures, or to sweet or sour foods. You feel a sharp pain when you chew. The pain is intermittent rather than constant.
To diagnose cracked tooth syndrome, we perform a thorough examination of your mouth and teeth. Since tooth fractures are almost always invisible to the naked eye, the exam typically includes x-rays. However, it is possible that the x-rays may not reveal the crack, so we may also analyze your bite to isolate the problem.
Once we have identified the fractured portion of your tooth, the treatment depends on the location and direction of the crack, as well as the extent of the damage.
If the crack affects only the outer enamel layer of your tooth, we remove the affected portion and restore the tooth with a crown or onlay to stabilize it and protect it from further damage. If the crack affects the underlying dentin or pulp layers, however, the tooth will need root canal therapy before we can place a crown.
In rare cases, the crack extends all the way through the tooth and under the jawbone. In these cases, there is no way to restore the tooth, and we must remove it. Fortunately, with early diagnosis and treatment, most cracked teeth can be saved and your healthy smile restored.


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Product Name:BRUTE FORCE 360PTX
series:Functional Trainer Arm Jammer
The NEW 360PTX succeeds the 360PTA and has all the same features plus MORE. The main addition is the dynamic 'Jammer Arm' system turning this already very functional machine into the most versatile unit available in the market place. The weight stack shrouds/sheilds have been increased, 'Track your Workout' black board added and extra positions for resistance band pegs. 360PTX not only offers substantially more training options but also with the new colour scheme Black frame and Copper trim it is taken to a new level in appearance.
During the past 10 years the 360PT has constantly evolved and now is undoubtedly the ULTIMATE Functional Trainer. This latest model has all the features of the previous models and more.
BRUTEFORCE Australia has developed the 360PTX Functional Trainer into the complete package for your own home gym, Personal Training Studio, Health Club or work gym … it's now got even MORE.
Why the 360PTX is superior to all other functional trainer,
IMPORTANT NEW FEATURE: The 360PTX is the only functional trainer on the market with SIX (6) foot supports. The two extra feet positioned under the weight stacks eliminates the sagging of the two bottom frames which causes the smith machine to jam. This problem is very common with all models featuring only four (4) feet supports.
1.Two weight plate 'horns'. These are easily fitted to the top of the pin select weight plate stacks to allow you to increase the
weight stack to over 200kg each stack. The extra weight is often needed when doing lat pull downs and seated rows.
2.Improved design and easy to fit leg press plate (an optional extra on previous models) now standard.
3.Improved/upgraded linear bearings in the Smith machine giving a smoother travel, also a superior locking system.
4.The 'U' shape inside footprint has been widened to offer a more spacious work area. Previously depth of work area: 800mm, new
version's work area increased to 1050mm but with same over-all foot print of 1400mm.
5.The weight stacks are laser cut to ensure precise position of weight plate selector pin and so eliminating jamming.
6.Superior Welds, Powder coat and over-all finish.
7.Superior upgraded Pulleys and cables.
8.Improved Pulley slider design, offering smoother and single hand adjustment.
9.All bolt heads have nylon covers for a more professional finish.
10.Packing consists of two wooden crates for extra protection while in transit.
BRUTEforce 360PTX Functional Trainer Features at a glance.
.NEW: the Jammer Arm system transforms this machine and will transform your training program to a new level.
.NEW: the increased height of the weight stack shrouds/sheilds for added protection and visual appearance.
.NEW: 'Track Your Workout' board allows you to record PB's, Reps, Sets or anything else.
.NEW: Extra positions for resistance band pegs.
.Two precision cut steel 100kg pin select weight stacks.
.Two weight stack 'horns' for extra weight plate loading.
.Commercial Smith Machine with linier bearings.
.Heavy Duty Power Rack.
.Commercial grade J Hooks and Spotting/safety arm.
.Extreme Core Trainer (Fits Olympic and Regular size bars).
.Five-way multi Grip Chin Up Bar.
.Adjustable/removable dipping handles.
.Weight Bar Storage Holders.
.Weight Plate Storage Rods.
.Attachment Storage Holders.
.Rubber band resistance/assistance pegs.
.Fixing ring for TRX etc.
.Includes 13 bars, handles and harness attachments.
.Compact footprint: 1865mm (width) x 1660mm (Depth) x 2160mm (height).
.The Leg Press plate is included at no extra cost on this version.
BRUTEFORCE 360PTX Functional Trainer in more detail.
Cross over pulley/cable system, has 2 x 100kg precision cut steel weight stacks with 5kg increments, Commercial Grade aircraft cable (rated 1000kg) and pop pin for quick and easy weight selection. Fitted with full commercial grade pulleys with sealed bearings for a smooth motion.
Commercial Smith Machine, superior design and engineering ensure a safer and more natural range of movement when the body is in action. We only use the best 25mm self-aligning linear bearings. Also stainless steel safety pins, hardened chrome finish for all main moving ware parts and 8mm super strong stainless steel carabiners. The Smith Machine bar has an increased 35mm diameter improving the weight rating by an extra 100kgs. To allow you to work to your max the Functional Trainer Smith machine 360PTX has rubber resistance/assistance band pegs positioned and extending out along the front foot bar for extra training intensity.
Heavy Duty Power Rack fitted with "spotting arms" (safeties) and commercial grade J-Hooks which are quick and easy to remove and adjust. Both J-Hooks and "Spotting" arms have 8mm thick nylon stripes to prevent metal-to-metal contact and complete with safety pins.
Extreme Core Trainer, fits both Olympic and regular size bars. This is a great way for the personal fitness trainer or elite sports persons to train the core with Power, Anti Rotation and Rotation movements.
Multi Grip Chin Up Bar has 5 handgrips to suit long and short arm spans and to give a variety of grips.
Weight Plate Storage horns, the 2 horns are made from High-grade nylon and placed at the rear of the unit to hold your weight plates when not in use.
Attachment Storage for handles, harness, dipping grips and spotter arms all of which are included with our Functional Trainer Commercial 360PTX.
Fixing Ring for TRX etc is front and centre and offers a great fixing point for a variety of training tools.
Compact Footprint. Even with all of its features and all the functions it can achieve, it still only occupies; 1865mm (width) x 1560m (Depth) x 2160mm (height).
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This weekend brings the next installment in the National Symphony Orchestra's current NEW MOVES: symphony + dance festival. I enjoyed researching this material to write the program essays for all three programs, which are being conducted by the Omaha Symphony's Thomas Wilkins. Each program pairs classic American rep with music by living composers.
This second of the three programs features the Timpani Concerto No. 1 ("The Olympian") by James Oliverio. Here's a bit of my intro to his work:
The composer, educator, and new media producer James Oliverio (now based in Florida) has been redefining what it means to be a creative artist in the 21st century. "As composer there are two main 'instruments' that I work with: the symphony orchestra and the digital media studio," he says, envisioning a music of the future that bridges the gap between traditional acoustic instruments and our rapidly evolving digital world. "Ultimately I want to unite them — to remove the distinction between my digital and orchestral endeavors," adds Oliverio, an acclaimed pioneer of globally synchronized performing arts collaborations. (The rest can be found here.)
More on the amazing Jauvon Gilliam, principal timpanist of the NSO, from Andrew Lindemann Malone's blog post. Writes Malone:
Not everyone who attends orchestral concerts knows that the timpani is not a fixed-pitch instrument; drummers tune them through the use of a foot pedal. So to play the right notes, you have to have both your hands and your feet in the right spot. With the typical orchestral complement of four timpani, this is challenging enough; as Gilliam says, "it's like a choreographed dance. You can overshoot it, you can undershoot it, it's just like if you do a pirouette." To really master the instrument, "you almost have to have four different brains or have your brain in four different compartments."
It's an unusual role for an instrument that normally sits in the back and makes everything sound fuller and more forceful, but Gilliam doesn't mind the change. "My job is to support people. I really enjoy that, that's what I love about my job," he says, but performing a solo is a "different way of doing things, and it allows me to expand my talent. It allows me to be a better musician."
The concerto is also, he says, "the hardest thing I've ever played" — a challenge worthy of the title "The Olympian," and a summit only scalable for a man who's sure on his feet.
Here's Jauvon Gilliam's own blog post on "The Olympian."
And here's a radio interview WETA's Nicole LaCroix conducted with Wilkins (beginning), Gilliam (6:15), and Oliverio (at 9:15).
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What could be the cause of an abnormal postcoital test?
- Was it done at the right time? A PCT can only be done around the time of ovulation. Without ovulation, the reading of the PCT is unreliable.
- Abnormal cervical mucus quality: High-viscosity and/or low-volume mucus can block sperm.
- Infection in either partner (indicated by white blood cells in the mucus).
- Sperm antibodies can cause the sperm to die, to agglutinate (clump together), and/or to shake.
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Bear Card
A coating of slightly thinned white glue will keep glitter and other small decorations from falling off your project!
In the instructions for this project I suggest gluing a heart shape to the bear's paws, but really you could change that little piece of paper and make this card suit other occasions. For a baby shower, make the card in blue, pink, yellow, and green. Then let the bear hold a pair of baby booties. For a birthday, he could have one of those pointed party hats and a present to hold. As a christmas card, he could wear a Santa hat and hold a candy cane. The possiblities are endless...
- Colored Construction Paper
- Printout of Bear Card Instructions
- Crayons, Felts, or Pencil Crayons
- Glue
- Scissors
1. First you will need to print up the pieces. Then cut out the bear parts and color them.
2. Using the long skinny piece as a pattern, cut out 8 strips of paper (four light brown, four dark brown) to be made into the arms and legs. Fold the paper strips together as shown in the folded thingy instructions.
3. Take a piece of construction paper and fold it in half. Glue the body of the bear to the card front. Next glue the folded thingies (the arms and legs) onto the bear. Glue the feet onto the ends of the legs and the heart onto the front feet. Thats it. Now all you need to do is put your special message inside and give it to someone you love.


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Adessa Group becomes SAP Qualtrics Experience Management Partner
New offering to provide SAP Qualtrics Experience Management integration and support services to SAP HCM and SAP SuccessFactors customers across Europe
BRUSSELS (06 September 2019) – Adessa Group, a pan-European provider of business process and strategic solutions for SAP ERP HCM and SAP SuccessFactors, announced today that it has signed a partnership agreement to offer Qualtrics Experience Management solutions and services to customers across Europe. With this agreement, Adessa becomes one of the first SAP partners focused on the mid-market to obtain SAP, SAP SuccessFactors, and SAP Qualtrics partner certifications.
SAP completed its acquisition of Qualtrics in January 2019. Combining data and capabilities from SAP SuccessFactors and Qualtrics, Employee Experience Management is the process of monitoring how employees feel about their work through interactions and feedback, in order to discover and implement opportunities for improvement. The result is a combination of operational data (O) and experience data (X) that provides customers with a complete view of relevant events that impact their employees.
"As a pan-European partner with deep SAP HCM and SAP SuccessFactors expertise, Adessa Group is uniquely qualified to work with customers to provide SAP Qualtrics Experience Management integration and support services," said Luc Bossaert, Adessa Group Partner.
"With Qualtrics Experience Management, Adessa Group can help its customers improve employee experiences in ways that can reduce attrition, retain and develop talent, increase engagement, and optimise productivity," added Luc Bossaert.
"We are delighted to have Adessa Group as a partner in the Employee Experience space. As a long-time SAP HCM and SuccessFactors partner, they have a holistic understanding of the context of HR processes and Digital HR are ideally placed for the combination of Experience data (X-data) and Operational data (O-data)", said Jan Sonnenschein, Partner Ecosystems Manager at Qualtrics.
About Adessa Group
Adessa Group is an SAP ERP HCM, SAP SuccessFactors, and Qualtrics partner and services provider with offices in Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, France and Spain. Since its inception in 2005, the Adessa Group has developed a strong reputation across Europe for continuous innovation and expert delivery of SAP-based HR services and solutions. Learn more at www.adessagroup.com.
About Qualtrics Experience Management
Qualtrics is the technology platform that organisations use to collect, manage, and act on experience data, also called X-data™. The Qualtrics XM Platform™ is a system of action, used by teams, departments, and entire organisations to manage the four core experiences of business—customer, product, employee and brand—on one platform. Over 10,000 enterprises worldwide, including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 100 and 99 of the top 100 U.S. business schools, rely on Qualtrics to consistently build products that people love, create more loyal customers, develop a phenomenal employee culture, and build iconic brands. To learn more, and for a free account, please visit www.qualtrics.com.
This press release was originally posted on PRWeb.