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Brighten Your Spirits at these fine retailers and bars
District Retailers
Ace Beverage, Cathedral Heights
Bread Furst, Van Ness
Central Liquors, Judiciary Square
The Cookery – A Culinary Marketplace, Cathedral Commons
Cork Market, 14th Street NW
D'Vines, Columbia Heights
Gallagher & Graham Fine Spirits, U Street, DC
Glen's Garden Market, Dupont
Grand Cata, Shaw
Hudson and Crane, Adams Morgan
Little Red Fox, Chevy Chase
Modern Liquors, Shaw
Odd Provisions, Columbia Heights
One Eight Distilling, Ivy City
Salt and Sundry, Logan Circle
Salt and Sundry, Union Market
Schneider's of Capitol Hill, Capitol Hill
Shop Made in DC, Dupont
Souk, Barracks Row
Steadfast Supply, Navy Yard
Streets Market, 14th Street
TasteMakers, Brookland
Union Kitchen Grocery, Capitol Hill
Union Kitchen Grocery, Shaw
Wagshal's Delicatessen , Spring Valley
Wardman Wines, Brookland
Watergate Vintners & Spirits, Foggy Bottom
Yes! Organic Market, Petworth
Yes! Organic Market, Capitol Hill
Maryland Retailers
Blackwater Distilling, Kent Island
Chester River Wine & Cheese Co., Chestertown
Chuck's Trading Post, Hampden, Baltimore
Cranberry Liquors, Westminster
Culinary Architecture, Pig Town, Baltimore
Franklin's General Store, Hyattsville
From the Farmer, Beltsville
Juniper Culinary Apothecary, Mt. Vernon, Baltimore
Lyon Distilling Tasting Room, St. Michaels
Market Tavern, Sykesville
Mill's Fine Wine & Spirits, Annapolis, MD
Old Line Fine Wine, Spirits & Bistro, Beltsville
Perfect Pour, Elkridge
Rooster + Hen, Catonsville
Sunny's Fine Wines & Liquors, Sykesville
The Emerald Door, Silver Spring
Total Wine and More, Laurel
Trohv Home & Gift, Hampden, Baltimore
Urban Cellars, Downtown, Baltimore
The Wine Bin, Ellicott City
Wells Discount Liquors, Cedarcroft, Baltimore
Virginia Retailers
Blue Wing Frog, Front Royal
Catoctin Creek Distillery, Purcellville
The Cookery – A Culinary Marketplace, Arlington
Department of Beer and Wine, Alexandria
Gift & Gather, Occoquan
Redwood & Co., Staunton
Taste – Bayville Farms, Virginia Beach
Taste – City Center, Newport News
Taste – Greenbrier, Chesapeake
Taste – Ghent, Norfolk
Taste – Harbour View, Suffolk
Taste – Hilltop, Virginia Beach
Taste – Larchmont, Norfolk
Taste – Oceanfront, Virginia Beach
The Organic Butcher of McLean, McLean
Other Retailers
Art in the Age, Old Town, Philadelphia, PA
Boerne Epicure Gourmet Market, Boerne, TX
Di Bruno Bros., Ardmore, PA
Di Bruno Bros., Rittenhouse, Philadelphia, PA
Di Bruno Bros., Italian Market, Philadelphia, PA
The Greene Grape, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY
Mercer Supply Co., Baton Rouge, LA
NOLA Boards, Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA
Northern Grade, Seaport, Manhattan, NY
S.A.L.T. Provisions, Bethany Beach, DE
The Savory Pantry, Hot Springs, AR
The Savory Pantry, Saratoga Springs, NY
Bars and Restaurants
Agern, Grand Central Station, Manhattan, New York City, NY
Bar Elena, H Street NE, DC
Benjamin's on Franklin, Brookland, DC
Brasserie Saison, Charlottesville, VA
Colony Club, Park View, DC
B&O Modern Brasserie, Downtown, Baltimore, MD
Bookmakers Cocktail Club, Federal Hill, Baltimore, MD
Boundary Stone, Bloomingdale, DC
CUSBAH, H Street NE/Atlas District, DC
Denson DC, Chinatown, DC
Dino's Grotto, Shaw, DC
District Distilling Co., U Street
El Chucho Cocina Superior, Columbia Heights, DC
Ella's Wood Fired Pizza, Penn Quarter, DC
Free State Atlantic Bar, Chinatown, DC
Funk Brewing, Emmaus + Elizabethtown, PA
Game of Thrones PUB, Shaw, DC
Himitsu, Petworth, DC
Ida B's Table, Downtown, Baltimore, MD
La Jambe, Shaw, DC
Left Door, Logan Circle, DC
Lupo Verde, 14th Street, DC
Manor Hill Tavern, Ellicott City, MD
McFaul's Iron Horse Tavern, Parkville, MD
Modern Cook Shop, Fell's Point, Baltimore, MD
Monks BBQ, Purcellville
NOPA Kitchen + Bar, Chinatown, DC
One Eight Distilling, Ivy City
Ouzo Bay Greek Kouzina, Harbor East, Baltimore, MD
Pour Wine and Cocktail Bar, Petoskey, MI
Pronghorn Resort, Bend, OR
Provision Coffee Bar, Chandler, AZ
R Bar, Baltimore, MD
Red's Table, Reston, VA
Timber Pizza Co., Petworth, DC
Tin Roof, Baltimore, MD
Triple Sun Spirits Tasting Room, Emmaus, PA
Tsunami, Annapolis, MD
The Troubadour, CBD, New Orleans, LA
Twelve Mile Limit, Mid City, New Orleans, LA
White Rabbit Gastropub, Frederick, MD
Wicked Bloom Social Club, Bloomingdale, DC
Online Retailers
Craft Wine and Spirits, DC, MD, DE
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Arlington Farmers Market, Courthouse, Arlington, VA – Saturdays (April 21 – Dec. 29), 8am – 12pm
Columbia Heights Farmers Market, Civic Plaza, Columbia Heights, DC – Saturdays (April 21 – Dec 8), 9am – 1pm and Wednesdays 4pm – 7pm (May 31 – Oct 10)
Georgetown University Farmers Market, Red Square, Georgetown, DC – Wednesdays (March 14 – May 16), 12pm – 5pm
FreshFarm Rosslyn, Central Pl Plaza, Rosslyn, VA – 1800 N. Lynn Street, Wednesdays (May 9 – Oct 31) 2:30pm – 6:30pm
Petworth Community Market, Petworth, DC – Every other Saturday, 9am – 1pm, May 5 – November 17
USDA Farmers Market, Independence Ave. and 12th St, SW, Fridays, 9am – 2pm, May 4 – October 26


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Andrew Dandridge, one of England's leading landscape exponents, is holding his 24th one-man exhibition from March 19 to 24 at the Arts @ The Crypt gallery in Seaford.
"Arts @ the Crypt" is one of the gems of Seaford, a much-desired venue for contemporary arts with a unique 13th Century Medieval Crypt, believed to have been part of a rich Seaford wool merchant's house when Seaford was a cinque port.
The unveiling of his new collection on March 19 will reveal many months and countless hours of painstaking work from the hand of a true perfectionist.
Mr Dandridge strives each year to bring something new and exciting to his growing audience, walking, sailing and cycling many miles searching out new subjects to paint, thinking nothing of wading waist deep through snow drifts to find that most spectacular of views. His evocative winter landscapes and enchanting bluebell woods are perfect examples of his dedication and skills.
Andrew's studio enjoys a dramatic vista over the sea as well as the eastern aspect of the new South Downs National Park, providing him with an endless source of inspiration for his much loved watercolour paintings.
A successful artist with sales approaching 4,000 original paintings, Andrew remains modest and unassuming, clearly driven by his passion for the English countryside and all things marine, and a genuine desire to share his achievements with the growing number of his followers.
Full details of the exhibition can be found at www.andrewdandridge.co.uk and www.thecryptgallery.com .
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Holiday Celebrations Around the World
Presented by Institute of Texan Cultures at Institute of Texan Cultures
December 10, 2017
The UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures offers a variety of festive activities and charitable efforts for December's Free Second Sunday.
International students participating in the AYUSA Global Exchange program will have displays depicting major holidays in their home countries. Dressed in their native attire, they will be available to discuss holiday traditions and other aspects of life at home and their experiences in the U.S.
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church will perform a traditional Pastorela play, a morality tale about shepherds going to visit the Holy Family in Bethlehem and the snares the Devil uses in attempts to dissuade them.
The San Antonio Children's Ballet will have two performances, with suites from their recent rendition of The Nutcracker.
The San Antonio Food Bank will be accepting non-perishable food items to assist in this increased time of need. Additionally, the first 100 guests will receive cookbooks from the San Antonio Foodbank. The institute will also accept blankets for Communities in Schools SA.
801 E. Cesar Chavez Blvd.
San Antonio, TX 78205
Admission Info:
Free - Second Sunday
General Day and Time Info:
Noon – 4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 10 Ballet performances: 1 and 3 p.m. Los Pastores: 2 – 3 p.m.
Phone: 210-458-2300
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Noosa ratepayers $100 better off
NOOSA ratepayers are now nearly $100 a year better off than their Sunshine Coast "city" counterparts.
And it's a big acknowledgement of the more than 80 per cent of Noosa residents who wisely chose to vote for council de-amalgamation, which saw our shire once again be in charge of its municipal destiny.
Despite a big scare campaign during the de-amalgamation debate, where 'experts' and cynics suggested Noosa's rates would go up by as much as $260 in the first year, and $142 each year thereafter, it never happened.
As anticipated, Noosa Shire Council last Friday adopted its 2018/19 budget, with a 1.9 per cent overall increase to the minimum general rate, plus a $15 increase in waste charges, thus keeping the rate rise close to the CPI.
Residents on the minimum general rate in Noosa will pay a total of $1532 in fees and charges, up $36 on 2017/18 - but the equivalent property on the minimum general rate in the Sunshine Coast Council region will pay a total of $1624, or $94 more than Noosa, and the trend is likely to continue.
Mayor Tony Wellington said almost two-thirds of Noosa properties are on the minimum general rate.
"Adding that 1.9 per cent rate rise plus the additional $15 waste charge will see their overall increase on last year hit 2.4 per cent," Cr Wellington said.
"A property on the minimum general rate that paid $1496 for all rates, levies and waste charges last year will pay $1532 in 2018/19.
"That means $36 more than last year. This equates to an increase of 70 cents per week for around 66 per cent of Noosa home-owners.
"If they pay their rates on time, they will get a further discount of five per cent on the minimum general rate."
No levies have been increased this year, and council has also managed to flatten out what were high land value increases in many parts of the shire for minimal impact.
It's an ongoing irony that Noosa is seen as a rich region, while in reality it's coping with high land values at the same time as having lower average household incomes than most of the state.
"There were a number of factors on our collective minds [in preparing the budget]," Cr Wellington said.
"The first was that Noosa Shire experienced a very significant land valuation increase from the valuer-general. Land values in the shire jumped from a total of $8billion to $8.9billion. In effect, this meant that the average increase across the shire was 11.3 per cent.
"The other factor weighing heavily on our minds was that there would be an inevitable increase in waste charges, primarily flowing from China's virtual ban on importing recyclables. Staff have done a terrific job negotiating with our recycling contractor, Visy, and have managed to keep the waste increase to just $15 per household."
With the possible impacts of the new waste charges and land valuations, council wanted to ensure that Noosa ratepayers were not overly burdened, the mayor said.
"Whilst there are no doubt locals for whom a rate rise is no great impost, there are plenty of other residents in our shire that need to keep a close eye on their household budgets," he said.
"With these folk firmly in mind, we have managed to find savings across the organisation and still introduce some new initiatives."
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To make matters I was spending more than I was earning and every time I paid it off I still went back and used it up all over again, this is a vicious cycle which can drown you before your very own eyes.
One day I sat down with my mum and had one of them long African talks that you parents give you which come out as advice but are actually WARNINGS advice, lol. After that chat, I went and wrote down every company and person I owned money (boo excluded) and wrote down how much I earn and how much I can afford to pay each after all the essential bills like rent, transport, house bills etc are taken out.
After that I contacted each company and told them how much I could have to pay back monthly they were understanding because it was either that or nothing. I then calculated how much I owned to people I know then started paying back slowly but surely. It's been 6 months and I am half way through paying back people (almost done) and companies, it feels good to actually go to work pay bills and have money left over for me to spend on my family and myself. One major thing that I did is changed banks, removed OD facility and canceled all credit cards and/or store cards.
So now if I don't have it I don't spend it that's my new rule no more pay later high purchase kinda situation because I am done. I am enjoying our money after everything needed is out, I can go shop and save towards our goals without feeling guilty and stained with sleepless nights.


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Being detained under the Mental Health Act
Sometimes, when people with a mental health problem or learning disability are unwell they can pose a risk to themselves or to others. Under these circumstances they may be detained in a hospital and treated under the Mental Health Act.
Health and social care professionals should consider and discuss things with you and your family and carer to consider other options first; these may include:
- a review of any medication you are taking
- respite care (for example, social services accommodation where you can stay overnight)
- treatment at home or a crisis house (safe accommodation for people in crisis)
More information about being detained under the Mental Health Act:
- What should happen if I am treated under the Mental Health Act? – National Institute of Health and Care Excellence
- Information for people detained in hospital – Care Quality Commission
- Information about detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 - Rethink Mental Illness Advice Service
- Being sectioned (in England and Wales) - Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Information and videos on the powers, roles and responsibilities and the safeguards for service users who are subject to the Mental Health Act – Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust


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Launch Activity
It was summer and Topshop had just arrived on Aussie shores. To celebrate Topshop for 6 weeks offered Melbournians a ride to various local hotspots for 6 whole weeks. St Kilda Beach, Federation Square, Chapel Street, Australian Open, Fitzroy Pools and all the way around again.
Those who hopped on board received a Topshop mag and an Oyster Card which was their ticket to ride as well as their chance to win up to $500 to spend at Topshop or Laneway festival Tickets!


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How We Get Here Part 1
This is a rough and unrefined condensation of some of what I'm reading. I don't claim to have answers but I will write without tenuousness. I'm not entirely sure of all the concepts and am not seeking debate. I'm just looking to sort it out for myself here.
I am going to die someday. Sooner or later, fast or slow, it will happen. I was raised in a religion that depicted heaven, purgatory, and hell, and I felt fear. I left that religion and in my early 30s was bound up in it again, until the absolutism of the dogma and some epiphanies in graduate school prompted me to part ways entirely. I've been inarticulate about dying and what happens since then.
I used to wonder what I was before I was born. An atheist will simply say that we just did not exist, and after we die, we just won't exist. Aside from the terror my ego feels (how can I not exist? what happens to me?), I know there is something else beyond this life. But before I can get to that understanding for myself, I need to understand how I came to be where, what, and who I am now.
We start out within the Ground of Being. We are part of it. The Ground of Being is life, and it is non-life. It is consciousness and not-consciousness. It is energy, it is matter. As Douglas Adams titled his book, it is Life, the Universe, and Everything. Before we are born we are part of it. This is a pre-ego state, a state of preconsciousness, a state of undifferentiation and no individuation. We are raw material.
So how to we get to where we are, with identities and attachments and all that this life entails?
In Singh's book, she writes:
As we emerge out of the Ground of Being and into the physical world as a separate life-in-form, "trailing clouds of glory," we are in a preegoic, prepersonal state. At birth we are only minimally differentiated from the Ground of Being. Inner and outer realities remain somewhat fused initially, and all awareness lies inarticulate, still partially embedded in the Ground of Being.
We start out this way, and at first we are all body: hunger, fatigue, touch, instinct. If you've ever been with an infant you know this. Then the remarkable changes happen as the infant's brain grows, as concept and words develop. We develop a sense of self: me, mine, and of other, not-me. Babies start out unaware of separation and then become a aware. The First Dualism emerges on the journey to the ego.
We develop a sense of space and what is and is not ours. We realize where we end and another begins, the gap between subject and object. Then the Second Dualism develops: the sense of time, an awareness of past, present, and future, life and death.
The First Dualism, the first boundary, separates us from the experience of wholeness. Anxiety appears, as does repression and defensiveness.
Primal repression is a psychological as well as physical posture that, inwardly, begins to seal off or repress pure, inpouring Energy, the animating power of the Ground of Being. The Ground of Being, with its enchantment and ability to engulf, begins to be perceived as threatening.
Thus in our early childhood we close off our connection to the Source from which we came. We continue to split ourselves in early to middle childhood by forging a distinction between mind and body, the Third Dualism. "We lose our deep integrity, the unity of body and mind, which is the unity of feeling and attention — the ability to be present." Our mind is given more authority as a judge or filter of reality. And then the Fourth Dualism arises: The split between persona and shadow, that is, between the person we believe we are, that we accept, that we show the world, and all the other parts of us that we disown, dislike, judge, fear, and hide from ourselves and others.
And this, according to the Christian theology I grew up with, completes our ejection from the Garden of Eden. We are part of the garden (Ground of Being), we are born, then we taste knowledge (the Dualisms, development of ego), which separates us from unity with the Ground of Being. I just don't buy the crap about Eve (woman) being the one who fell to the temptation first (does it really matter?), and I don't think of the "fall" as really All That Bad. It is just what is, and it is part of our evolution, our journey, through the experience we are having in this form and function, in this physical world.
And now my child is calling from her nap, and I must dash.Explore posts in the same categories: Buddhism, Community, Education, Humanities, Journal, Meditation, Motherhood


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Interlevin Refrigeration
Formed in 1967, Interlevin import and wholesale a range of more than 850 professional commercial refrigeration and catering products though its network of distributors in the UK and Ireland. Interlevin has a large range of products with various specifications, they came to us because they needed an online shop that was easy to use, edit and manage. As you can see below, each product page had to display a lot of vital information. To keep the pages looking clean we implemented drop down sections allowing the customer to view only the information they need.
We started working with QBD in 2015 after choosing them as our website partner. They designed and built a truly effective site that integrates completely with our Sage system and product database. It has transformed how our customers obtain technical information and how they place orders with us. Our whole order system is slicker and it reduces greatly the chances of users making an error on order entry. QBD have been excellent at helping us continue to develop the site.
- Justin Alfree / Marketing Manager


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And functioning
August 7, 2010 | It has taken a while, but the "data center" is finally organized and functioning. I brought the wire shelves and support arms with me from the old house, but had to install new mounting strips.
Because of the weight, I wanted to make sure everything was mounted onto a stud, not just screwed into wallboard. I had a stud finder, but it kept giving me ambiguous readings. I went and invested in a top-of-the-line model — it gave me even more ambiguous readings. I'm sorry, but when you try the demo models of these things in the store, they work like a charm; in real life, not so much.
This closet is wider than the old one, which actually works out well. I still have to put cable and electrical outlets into the closet, and it gives me space to work without having to dismantle all the equipment. And there'll be room for more stuff, which we know breeds prolifically.
The one real problem that I still have to solve is extending the range of the wi-fi to include the patio. I can get a signal out there, but just barely. I've bought a repeater, but the instructions for how to set it up to work the way I think it should work are woefully inadequate. I really dread making that call to tech support.
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A Gmail excerpt from Grad Student and Goosie Mama:
Grad Student: Oh wait, did I buy us tickets? (subject line)The important things to take away from this conversation. 1. We have gotten rid of normal letter/email etiquette and sentence structure entirely. 2. We are going to see John and Hank Green in January because that is what friends who love books do together.
post/35847766215/john-and- hank-green-an-evening-of- awesome-at-carnegieYes, yes I did.
Goosie Mama: Wait - seriously????!!!! OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!
GM: I use this term sparingly so you know when I use it, it means something: AMAZEBALLS!!!!!!!
In the words of Mark Twain "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." (HA! M.T. so sassy). That pretty well sums up our feelings about this blog and each other (and book blogs in general.) Hope everyone has time to enjoy and appreciate the holidays. Happy Thanksgiving!


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Email Address: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: (401) 575-3641
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Grace Diaz (D) has represented the people of District 11 in Providence since first being elected in November 2004. She was named the Democratic Caucus Chair in January 2015, which makes her a member of the House Leadership Team. She is the first vice chairwoman of the House Committee on Special Legislation, and she is a member of the House Committee on Finance, the House Committee on Municipal Government, the House Committee on Conduct and the House Committee on Rules.
Highest among Representative Diaz's priorities has been an overhauling of the Rhode Island Child Care Assistance Program, which helps low-income working families pay for child care. The child care assistance rates in Rhode Island were well below the recommended levels to ensure equal access to high-quality child care. Representative Diaz had submitted legislation for to establish a tiered child care reimbursement rate system. In 2018, it was included in the state budget and signed into law.
During that same session, she introduced a law requiring insurers to treat behavioral health counseling and medication maintenance visits the same as primary health care visits when determining patient cost-sharing. The legislation is aimed at better achieving parity between mental health coverage and primary health coverage for Rhode Islanders.
In 2017, the General Assembly passed a law she introduced that requires physicians to discuss the potential of addiction with patients before prescribing opioids. She also successfully introduced the All Students Count Act, which requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to use separate collection categories and tabulations for specified Asian ethnic groups in every demographic report on ancestry or ethnic origins of residents.
In 2016, she introduced legislation that to seeks to curtail racial disparities in school discipline. The new law directs all school superintendents to review discipline data for their school districts, to decide whether there is an unequal impact on students based on race, ethnicity, or disability status, and to respond to any disparity.
Always an advocate for children, Representative Diaz sponsored legislation in 2015 that creates a non-discriminatory clause in the Children's Bill of Rights for all children under the care of DCYF. The law prevents any discrimination against children based on race, color, religion, ancestry, gender or other factors.
One of her most important pieces of legislation, which was enacted in 2014, put a spotlight on adult education so the state could make it easier and less costly for Rhode Islanders to find employment. The law requires the state Board of Education to consider several factors, including cost, in determining which high school equivalency tests will be recognized by the state.
Prior legislative accomplishments also include a law preventing children from receiving out-of-school suspensions for attendance issues and legislation aimed at raising awareness about lupus, a chronic illness causing the immune system to attack normal body tissues.
For several years, every Nov. 14, Representative Diaz has hosted the World Diabetes Day celebration at the State House to spread the word about how to take control of the disease. As the chairwoman of the Permanent Legislative Commission on Child Care, she has also hosted the State House's Child Care Awareness Day annually for several years.
The Guatemalan Center of New England honored Representative Diaz with the Quetzal Award in 2018 for her contributions to the Latino community throughout the state and her historic achievement as the first Dominican American woman elected to public office in the United States.
Representative Diaz holds both bachelor and master's degrees from Springfield College, which she earned in 2008 and 2010 respectively. A native of the Dominican Republic, she graduated from Los Angeles Custodios High School in 1977.
Representative Diaz is a Senior Adviser on Community Relations in the city of Providence.
Representative Diaz is also a member of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO), Women in Government, National Hispanic State Legislators and the Rhode Island Black and Latino Caucus.
Rep. Diaz has five children: Maria, Gisselle, Ruben, Felix and Cristian, and three grandchildren: Nehemiah, Kariana and Xavier.


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Fields: Knowledge Extraction, Digital Libraries, Ontology Design.
Research Focus: This research line is an application of the fundamental theory and practice of human-centered information systems as developed in the fundamental research line. It handles (unstructured) text documents and their related (structured) meta-data in the context of digital libraries. In this scenario, the relevant meta-data which would be required to perform human-centric queries is unavailable. Therefore, that missing information again needs to be extracted from both external sources like user judgements, but also from the actual textual document itself. Thus, the focus of this research line is on the domain-specific knowledge extraction and linking techniques required to realize the vision of human-centered information systems for digital libraries.
Domain-Specific Pitch: Academic publications are a central repository of human-knowledge, and are at the core of scientific advancements both in academia itself, but also of industrial progress. However, tapping into this vast repository of knowledge is a daunting and challenging task, as the number of available publications is growing with tremendous speed. Without proper support, it is often hard or even impossible to find relevant publications related to a given problem in a timely fashion. Providing this support has always been the domain of libraries. However, the near exponential growth of con-tent in the recent years together with the shift to digital resources invalidated many well-proven workflows, demanding new solutions suitable for the current age and time. Efforts to make highly specialized academic knowledge accessible need to go beyond simple bibliographic metadata, the current state of the art. Instead, most information search of human users is inherently entity-centric, being in the most central aspect of publications people perceive as relevant. Some domains like medicine and chemistry have realized this trend early on, and invested heavily into annotating scientific publications with their most relevant entities to support more meaningful search and exploration like genes and proteins, chemical structures and molecules, or drug names. However, the efforts are very costly as they still rely heavily on manual curation and semi-manual workflows, and are thus pro-hibitive for many domains which lack the resources for such measures. Thus, in many domains the query capabilities and meta-data availability is insufficient to cope with the user's information demand. Therefore, in this line of work, I propose to design, develop, and evaluate novel techniques for extracting entity, centric-meta from research publications for human-centered queries in a mostly automatic fashion, and showcase the effectiveness of our approaches in domains which currently lack support of rich semantic academic metadata. Beyond the obvious contributions like providing entity-centric search, offering facetted browsing capabilities, and realizing semantically meaningful recommendation and exploration of content, I can also use the extracted metadata for contributions to the digital library domain itself by tracking trends or the change of topics in a visual-ly appealing and comprehensive fashion.
Outlined contributions are as follows:


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I bought this nifty little makeup holder for a couple of dollars on eBay so I'd have something specific to hold my weekly makeup. I've also decided to use only one palette this week, as it's one I bought on eBay months ago and have never used, nor even swatched. I also have chosen a tinted moisturiser and a powder that are almost finished, so I have some back ups of those in case I run out during the week.
- MAC MSF Natural in Medium
- Wet n Wild Color Icon Bronzer SPF15 in Reserve Your Cabana (actually a subtle highlighter rather than a bronzer)
- Jordana Blush Powder in 27 Sunlit Bronze
- Jordana Blush Powder in 32 Rose Silk
Back ups:
- Maybelline Dream Pure BB Cream in Medium
- Rimmel Stay Matte Pressed Powder in 005 Silky Beige
- 88 Color Palette in Metal
- Coastal Scents Shadow Worx Eyeshadow Primer
- Milani Shadow Eyez 12 HR Wear Eyeshadow in 10 Almond Cream
- Rimmel Scandaleyes Waterproof Kohl Kajal Pencil in 004 Taupe
- Milani Liquif'eye Metallic Eye Liner Pencil in 05 Brown
- Maybelline Master Liner in Black
- Rimmel Glam'eyes Mascara in 001 Black
- NYX Retractable Lip Liner in 18 Peony
- Jordana Easyliner for Lips in Rock'n Rose
- Rimmel Apocalips in 201 Solstice
- NYX Mega Shine Lip Gloss in 164 Nude Pink
- Wet n Wild Megalast Salon Nail Color in On A Trip


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The effort is being sparked by a Teacher Incentive Fund grant from the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching. Known as TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Achievement, it is a comprehensive school improvement model that focuses on placing effective educators in every classroom.
As a way to keep the conversation going and get as many people involved as possible you'll see a lot of #transformstjohn this school year.
"Students will know and be able to articulate their school's vision and the goals of their school. They will also be highly aware of their own progress," said Jenna Chiasson, supervisor of school improvement for the district. "Parents may see an increase in communication about their child's individual goals and their progress toward them through the year."
While many reforms focus on a particular area, such as professional development or loan forgiveness as incentives for teachers, TAP provides comprehensive opportunities in four key areas. There are multiple career paths for educators as career, mentor and master teachers; ongoing applied professional growth through weekly cluster meetings, follow-up support in the classroom and coaching; instructionally-focused accountability through multiple classroom observations and evaluations utilizing a research-based instrument and rubric that identified effective teaching practices; performance-based compensation based on multiple measures of performance, including student achievement gains and teachers' instructional practices.
"We have an unwavering commitment to growing teachers and students," Chiasson said. "We believe this student-first mentality will help us transform into a district that will accelerate our growth even beyond what we have already done."
The past year has been one of preparation, spent recruiting and hiring highly skilled teachers. Twenty master teachers will oversee 41 TAP mentor teachers, who in turn will mentor fellow classroom teachers. Jennifer Brock, a Louisiana Teacher of the Year semi-finalist, is a TAP master teacher at Lake Pontchartrain Elementary.
"TAP will allow St. John the Baptist Parish Public Schools to apply and evaluate student progress data to individualize student learning needs," she said. "Also TAP will give individualized strategic support for ALL teachers in the district. The support is tailored from the district to administration to teachers and to the students."
This summer, all school and district leaders participated in rigorous training to prepare for the actual TAP implementation in the 2017-18 school year.
"I am extremely excited about the TAP initiative in St. John the Baptist Parish," Lake Pontchartrain Elementary School Principal Jason Beber said. "I am most impressed with the way the process supports teachers and students. Providing better support and opportunities for our teachers to grow in their profession is truly what is best for kids. The mindset that we grow every student and every teacher is a formula for success. We are excited to offer our teachers and students a process that encourages all to grow to their full potential."
West St. John High School Principal Claude Hill said the multi-level approach will help educators at every level improve.
"I am excited that the process provides a tremendous amount of support and assistance for everyone involved in education," he said. "Parents and students should also be excited because this system will create a situation that will increase learning outcomes for our children."


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I feel everyday that I am learning new things about Sam, figuring out what he's about, who he is, what he stands for. He has an incredible knowledge for almost anything, he soaks up information like no one I have ever known, he has he own type of creativity and experimental nature, his sense of humour is the best, his crazy high pitched laugh that he does on occasion is a joy to my ears, his desire to love people & see the best make me want to be more like him, his willingness to serve is inspiring, his heart for God makes my heart explode with pride.
I often have moments where I'm like "wow, this is the person I chose to live my whole life with". It's funny to look back at my immature, younger self and remember when I first started dating Sam at the age of 16 (my first boyfriend) not even thinking of 'forever'. How lucky did I get?! We have been together for nearly 8 years and I still feel like I'm getting to know him.
I feel even when we're old and grey I will still be discovering things about him. Everyday I am learning - I think that is one of the most beautiful things about marriage. It's made me a better person, a better partner.
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San Francisco's reinvigorated political watchdog agency is taking on the notorious pay-to-play culture at City Hall with proposed sweeping reforms.
The Ethics Commission's proposed "2017 San Francisco Anti-Corruption and Accountability Ordinance" is intended to crack down on pay-to-play politics or the appearance of it. But some of the provisions have drawn the ire of nonprofits that warn it will deal a significant blow to their fundraising.
Those concerns prompted the commission to postpone its vote on the proposal last week.
The crackdown on pay-to-play comes after public corruption shook City Hall as a result of a sweeping FBI probe that brought down Chinatown gangster Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow.
As part of that federal investigation, a former city commissioner, Nazly Mohajer, and a former city employee, Zula Jones, are facing charges of bribery and money laundering. In wiretapped conversations, they allegedly solicited $20,000 in bribes from an undercover FBI agent posing as a businessman to retire Mayor Ed Lee's campaign debt in exchange for political favors and would use straw donors to break up money to get around the $500-per-contributor limit.
One provision being discussed in the reform package takes a page out of Los Angeles' law. That provision would prohibit city commissioners from helping to raise political contributions for candidates, which would have outright banned Mohajer from fundraising for Lee's campaign in the first place.
Mohajer and Jones even brainstormed fundraising strategies in emails obtained and previously reported on by the San Francisco Examiner about a campaign fundraising event tied to the mayor's 60th birthday on May 5, 2012. Los Angeles says that restriction is "to avoid any appearance that city decisions are tied to political fundraising."
The proposed restrictions also come as deep-pocketed tech moguls are pouring money into San Francisco's politics like never before while they seek to do business in the town and as The City is in the throes of a development boom.
While the Ethics Commission was expected to vote on the proposal last week — the fourth hearing the commission has held on the proposal — many nonprofit leaders blasted a portion of the sweeping reforms that would restrict behested payments, contributions made to groups or causes at the request of elected officials.
Following the more than three-hour meeting, the opposition prompted a postponement of a vote until Sept. 25. If the commission ultimately approves the proposal, the Board of Supervisors would next decide whether to make it law.
Behested payments are targeted because they "are a common method for skirting contribution limits," according to the Aug. 24 memo by Kyle Kundert, the Ethics Commission's senior policy analyst.
To try and gain favor from an official a person can give to a cause upon the official's request, which often promotes that official's political career. "Behested payments have become a channel for political payments that is immune from traditional contribution limits," the memo reads.
The Ethics Commission seeks to prohibit those behested payments by those with city contracts, those with pending land use matters and those seeking other public benefits.
For example, for those with pending land use decisions, "persons would be prohibited from making contributions to (or making payments at the behest of) the mayor, a member of the Board of Supervisors, the city attorney, or a candidate for any of these offices," the memo reads.
"Contributions to a committee controlled by any of these officials or candidates would likewise be prohibited." The ban would remain in place until 12 months after a final decision was rendered.
Nonprofits that contract with The City said the restrictions would decimate their fundraising abilities. Elected officials would lose their power to fundraise for them, such as at annual fundraising, by "making it illegal for a wide sector of our community to respond and contribute," according to an Aug. 23 letter from the San Francisco Human Services Network and other nonprofit groups.
One example cited in the letter is that the restriction would "bar tech companies that provide IT support to the library from contributing software to the schools if members of the school board appealed for support."
Debbi Lerman, an administrator of the San Francisco Human Services Network, a group of 80 health and human services nonprofits, told the commission last week that the proposal "goes too far."
"There is not a corruption boogeyman around every single corner," Lerman said.
She added, "The City would basically be cutting off an arm from our nonprofit sector."
But Ethics Commission Chair Peter Keane defended the proposal, arguing "it addresses corruption" and the "kind of quid pro quos that mayors" get when people seek favors.
Ethics Commissioner Quentin Kopp added, "It's one of the oldest games in The City, and I've seen it for over 50 years, of nonprofits being able to bet on the winner in a race for elected office."
On Friday, Keane said that nonprofits were misinterpreting the intent of the proposal, but he intended to work on the language to address their concerns.
"We got to sharpen it up and give comfort to the nonprofits," Keane said. He added that he wouldn't want their opposition to derail the total package of comprehensive reforms "addressing corruption in San Francisco."
Peter Cohen, co-director of the Council of Community Housing Organizations, a group of nonprofit affordable housing developers, said Friday he would continue to argue for a nonprofit exemption or reliance on disclosure.
Kathie Lowry, formerly of Larkin Street Youth Services, said last week that prohibiting those with city contracts from responding to calls from elected officials to contribute at a fundraiser event could mean the loss of "hundreds of thousands of dollars."
The proposal would require more disclosure for requested contributions to ballot measures. When a contributor makes behested payments to a ballot measure or an independent expenditure committee, the contributor would have to report to the Ethics Commission who made the behest.
Under current reporting requirements, there were 21 disclosed contributions made at the behest of elected officials reported to the Ethics Commission so far this year.
Sixteen of those payments, totaling $135,000, were reported for Supervisor Mark Farrell's Shared Schoolyards effort in partnership with the San Francisco Parks Alliance, which keeps open school yards after school hours for residents to use. Contributors included tech investor Ron Conway, the San Francisco Association of Realtors, Pacific Gas & Electric Company and lobbyist Lighthouse Public Affairs.
A $5,000 payment at the behest of Mayor Ed Lee was made by the Municipal Executives Association, a union representing city managers, to the pro-development think-tank nonprofit SPUR for a "Good Government" awards event for city managers.
Developer Maximus, which is behind the "Monster in the Mission" project at 16th and Mission streets, made a $5,000 contribution at the behest of Supervisor Norman Yee to the Greater West Portal Neighborhood Association for a movie night.
PG&E made a $5,000 contribution at the behest of Supervisor Malia Cohen to Economic Development on Third, a group promoting business on Third Street in the Bayview, as part of the Pride parade weekend.
There are a number of other reform provisions being discussed, such as a private right of action clause to encourage residents to file lawsuits for suspected violation of campaign finance laws.
Another provision proposed is a new campaign disclosure requiring reporting by those persons who "bundle" contributions for a candidate.
These new restrictions could become effective in time for the November 2018 election, when five seats on the Board of Supervisors are up for election, and the November 2019 mayor's race.
Keane said Friday that if the board doesn't approve the proposal he would ask the commission to vote to put it on the ballot. The next scheduled election is June 2018.
"The public likes ethical legislation," Keane said.
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A poet strives to reinvent himself following an accident in which he lost his old self.
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
The Robin
Today I made yet another trip down to the idyllic Moulin Huet Tea Room. Whilst I was there I was inspired to pen a short poem about one of the garden's residents, who was intent on letting everyone know that he owned the joint. He also graciously allowed me to take his photo.
I hope you enjoy the poem.
The Robin
The Robin owns this place
it's clear for all to see
if he isn't on the bench
he's perched up in a tree.
He hops and jumps and glides about
to search the leafy shade
for morsels of his favourite food
a banquet ready-made.
His pips betray his presence
before you see him clear,
with fiery flash, his Scarlett bib
announces; 'I am here.'
Then the little fellow pips
with voice both loud and true,
as if to say; 'well ok;
I'll share my place with you'.
John Carré Buchanan
02 July 2014
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COMPASS Group October 2013
2013 Taichung Festival Artists Spotlight
French jazz diva Anne Ducros
set to charm local audiences
Words by Douglas Habecker
Translated by Angel Pu
As is often the case with great artistic achievers, French diva Anne Ducros appears to have discovered her talent for and love of jazz in a roundabout fashion. For this native of Pas-de-Calais, early musical and vocal foundations in France were classical in nature, with further refinement of her vocal skills taking place while she was studying law at the University of Lille. Instead of jazz, though, her focus at that point was at the other end of the musical spectrum, exploring Baroque artists like Bach, Couperin and Rameau.
Her first exposure to vocal jazz came in 1986. This in turn led to the creation of her first jazz quartet, with which she joined a number of international competitions. It wasn't long before she was earning prizes for her performances at various festivals--encouragement that launched a full-fledged jazz career, including a growing number of concerts and her first vocal jazz album, "Don't You Take a Chance" in 1989.
This release was followed by an eruption of jazz-related endeavors, from touring, performing and collaborations with a variety of artists to becoming a jazz educator herself, teaching vocal jazz in Paris, holding master-classes and, starting in 1994, managing Prelude, the first school of vocal jazz in the French capital.
The past two decades have seen further recordings, such as "Purple Song" in 2001, "Close Your Eyes" in 2003, her 2005 U.S. debut "Piano...piano", or her fifth album, the American-flavored "Urban Tribe", recorded in New York in 2007 and released to critical acclaim and commercial success with her interpretations of songs like The Beatles' "Sexy Sadie" and the Otis Redding classic, "Dock of the Bay". Many of these albums have seen her collaborating with fellow jazz greats like harmonica player Toots Thielemans and pianists Chick Corea, Jacky Terrasson, Enrico Pieranunzi and Rene Urtreger. Along the way, she has also won numerous awards, including several "best vocal artist" prizes.
Throughout her career, Ducros has proven herself to be a versatile vocalist, mixing jazz standards, pop songs or classical compositions, as well as mastering scat to the point that she has been hailed as a "white Ella Fitzgerald" in Europe. This formidable talent, combined with a wonderfully sensuous stage presence and good sense of humor, promises that Anne Ducros will deliver a tremendous performance for her audience in Taichung.
Anne Ducros will perform at the Taichung Jazz Festival on Saturday, October 19 at 8:30 p.m. on the Main Stage. For more information about the 2013 Taichung Jazz Festival, please visit the official Chinese-English website, www.taichungjazzfestival.com.tw
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Let's face it: Madeleine McCann is gone forever
Does that mean we should give up on justice?
Absolutely not. There are many things investigators can be doing in both Portugal and the UK, instead of focusing on this fool's errand of looking for a child that has been intentionally hidden from the world.
For starters, it's time to make Kate and Gerry McCann official suspects in Madeleine's disappearance. It's been made clear, time and time again, that the evidence has always put them in the light of suspicion. There is a reason they were declared "arguidos" by Portuguese authorities in the past. It's time for this charade to end.
At the least, it's time to charge Kate and Gerry with child negligence for leaving their three young children alone the night Madeleine went missing. If these parents weren't directly responsible for her disappearance, they are at the very least to blame for making the disappearance possible. They left their children alone for several hours. A three-year-old girl cannot babysit two infants, but these three children were all left alone to fend for themselves, while the adults went out and enjoyed drinks.
Enough is enough.
Madeleine McCann will likely never be found. If she was kidnapped, she was hidden so well that a decade has passed with no results in the search. If she was killed, her remains were disposed of in a way that they may never be found. What we have is plenty of evidence to prove that a crime was committed, but no justice.
It's time to stop focusing on the search for a child that will never be found, and start focusing on bringing people to justice.


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Carrier stock prices hit hard by stock market selloff.
In the stock market's mini-meltdown last week, some of the biggest share price drops were delivered to freight carriers, particularly those with a worldwide scope.
Logistics and transportation companies fell sharply in the global stock market rout, with investors worrying that a downturn in China and other large economies would hurt companies that move goods around the world, reported the Wall Street Journal. Shares of FedEx were down about 9% in morning trading before mounting a partial recovery Monday afternoon. Other global carriers, including United Parcel Service and Deutsche Post saw declines, with UPS off 3.7% and the DHL parent ending down 4%. The slide underscores how much logistics companies stand to lose if global economic growth and trade continue to slow. These companies have seen revenues soar 48% in the last five years, as companies have increasingly looked abroad to source and sell their products and supply chains have grown more complex.
FedEx and UPS have been banking on international growth to boost their core domestic businesses, including more shipping of cross-border e-commerce, as well as acquisitions and investment abroad. However, logistics and transportation companies have seen steep declines in share prices this year as they have fallen short of growth expectations.
Shipping lines, many already on shaky ground, saw particularly steep losses, reflecting growing concern about their ability to cope with a glut of capacity during a period of slowing growth. Weak demand comes as companies have invested in boosting capacity by introducing giant new container ships. Danish conglomerate A.P. Møller-Maersk A/S, which holds the world's biggest container-shipping capacity, ended down 6.5%, its lowest close since January. U.S. trucking companies, which tend to reflect conditions in the domestic economy, also sold off. YRC Worldwide Inc., one of the country's biggest trucking companies, was down to $16.40, about 25% below its high for the year set three weeks ago.
With growth slowing, carrier conglomerates have taken their hoards of cash and gone shopping. This is at least a partial explanation for the recent string of acquisitions by logistics companies, which are finding it more difficult to grow organically. But acquisitions can be difficult to execute as companies using multiple technology systems are having trouble integrating their operations, and freight carriers have been struggling to turn a recent rash of acquisitions into profits.
Or, they can just do it the old-fashioned way, raising rates and squeezing more revenue out of their customer base.
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PC Gaming Show Recap – E3 2018
PC Gaming Show packed a lot into their conference this year, announcing a wide variety of games that should cater to most folk. Let's dive right in.
Release Date: TBA, closed alpha on satisfactorygame.com
Coffee Stain Studios' latest sci-fi game has a unique, almost cell-shaded aesthetic. It seems to be a survival game which incorporates a lot of the anticipated landscape destruction and modification we expected from similar titles. The heavy emphasis on manufacturing and landscape transformation reminds one of Factorio. Putting a planet on a conveyor belt, one resource and critter at a time.
Release Date: TBA
From the brand new studio Chance Industry, neo-cab is an explorative look at a dying breed of independent workers. You shouldn't let it's colourful cyber-punk aesthetic fool you, it's themed are quite sad and isolating. Many of your pickups have never seen a human driver before. Being rated by all these passengers in an attempt to locate a missing friend will determine your success. It's an interesting spin on the investigative genre.
Mavericks Proving Grounds
Release Date:
Automaton Game's Mavericks PG will allow up to 1000 concurrent players. They're also pushing a five-man squad mode.
Mavericks is another Battle Royale, with a similar aesthetic to PUBG. From the trailer, however, we're looking at environmental destruction and a bit of a cyberpunk aesthetic. The whole thing seems to be set Fires start dynamically with player destruction, and walls are destroyed to expose others.
The Forgotten City
Release Date: TBA
A re-imagining of a classic mod, the Forgotten city is a horrifying foray into an ancient underground city. The concept is interesting if even one person commits a sin, everyone in the city dies. Every time this apocalyptic end occurs, you come back to the beginning. This allows you to gradually gain citizen's
Star Control Origin
Release Date: Available for pre-order to play early today.
Stardock has a new interstellar action RPG. Follows the story of the lexites, born of the singularity. Star-control is an international space station tasked with the exploration of space and the protection of the earth. The aesthetic of the game is hit or miss and is quite comical. The game promises thousands of planets for exploration, being quite reminiscent of Mario Galaxy.
Hunt: Showdown – Latest update
A vintage Crossbow added to the game, as well as throwing knives and a hand crossbow. Sticky bombs are making their way into the game, allowing for some creative flushing out of enemies.
Archangel Hellfire
Release Date: July 17, 2018
3 maps, 6 different mechs and destructive environments sound exciting? It's a team-deathmatch game based on free-roaming pvp, and it's coming July 17.
The Sinking City
Release Date: TBA
Frogwares' The Sinking City has been on our radar for a bit. The open-world investigation game inspired by the lore of Lovecraft sounds SUPER exciting. Investigations, as the creative director confirmed, is at the core of the game.
What does that look like? There is no clear handholding. It is up to the player to take notes on evidence, as it looks like the game gives you none in an automatic journal. Finding the clues will help you change the course of the world itself.
Sega port recap
Release Date: Through 2018 and 2019. Yakuza 0 available for pre-order now, releasing in early August.
Sega has a lot in store for PC gamers this year. Vanquish and Bayonetta having made their way to PC, Sega now turns to bring Shenmue 1 and 2, as well as Shining Resonance: Refrain. To that list, they are adding Yakuza 0 and Valkyria Chronicles 4.
The Summer Sideshow: Treacherous Skies
Release Date: Today
This newly revealed update for Killing Floor 2 by Tripwire is centred on a dystopian vision of the future, and a heavy steampunk aesthetic. It's a team-based defence game where you'll be taking on clowns and robots. Weapons available for players are all pleasingly over-the-top.
Release Date: TBA
Blindside's newly announced game is a looker, being published by Tripwire! The game allows you to take on the role of a Shark on a vacation resort. You. Are. The. Shark. An open world action RPG. This is going to be great. There are shark skill trees and a full single-player campaign.
Go to maneatergame.com for more information.
Bravery Network Online
Release Date: TBA
This lovely hand-drawn battle game is very reminiscent of Scott Pilgrim v. the world. It's a cross between RPG side-battling and a rap battle, which we all need in our lives.
Release Date: June 11th, 2018
Untitled Publishers Game's simplistic Metroidvania is centred on gunplay seems interesting to say the least. You seem to seek out crystals which summon boss enemies and have a limited amount of tries to take down bosses.
Jurassic World Evolution
Release Date: June 12th, 2018
The long-awaited game is almost here. Wanted to build your own dinosaur trap for tourists? You'll be able to soon. The building goes beyond simply park management, extending to the research and development of the park.
Release Date: TBA
Insomniac's latest VR game attempts to bridge the gap with open-world gameplay. You play as a friendly robot attempting to preserve the wildlife when he's mercilessly gunned down. Rebooting despite yourself, you attempt to put yourself back together and learn more about the world on which you live. The variety of environments seems staggering, and there's a lot of traversals which relies on VR. How this will work in the end is still hard to tell, but it seems to rely a lot on where the player puts their hands, allowing you to glide down mountains at will.
Insomniac has also hinted at multiplayer exploration.
Night Call
Release Date: TBA
The noir game by Raw Fury which takes place in Paris goes very well with the dark synth playing in the trailer. What little information we know about the game seems to center on taxi driving and investigation.
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The open-world exploration game published by Raw Fury has a simplistic but appealing art-style, seemingly pulled from traditional comics like Tintin. On a glider, you explore a world of destruction and the temples which adorn it. This temple exploration seems to revolve around puzzle solving and little combat.
Star Citizen
Release Date: Alpha 3.2 coming soon. The full game, we still have no idea.
Well, it's been a hell of a ride, and we have a new Star Citizen trailer on our hands. As many before it, it centers on the variety of worlds to explore and the seamless transfer from a space station, to ship, to a planet. It's impressive, but the footage has been for a while now.
What we get this year is a heavier focus on segments that would fit into a campaign, introducing powerful factions and putting maverick forces on display.
Genesis: Alpha One
Release Date: 9.04.19
This new sci-fi game seems to center on wave-based combat within a space station. You expand your ship and explore planets for resources and to experiment with alien DNA and abilities. It looks like a hell of a good time.
Don't Starve: Hamlet
Release Date: December 2018
The latest in the series seems centred on ruins and dangerous traps. The pigs have become civilized and formed cute little villages where you can shop and be robbed! If Wilson was suddenly Hemingway, we'd get this game.
Overkill's The Walking Dead and Telltale's Final Season
Release Date: November 6th, 2018 (Overkill), TBA 2018.
505 Games had a big surprise for us this year, based on an apocalyptic vision of the future that is the Walking Dead. Heavy emphasis on team-play.
Telltale talks about their last season, where Clementine finds an abandoned school where no adults are allowed. The threats are multiple, from zombies to adults who want to breach the walls.
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Hitman 2
Release Date: November 13, 2018
The conference ended on a good note, showcasing new content from Hitman 2. Take on a Grand Prix event where both a manager and driver must die. The variety of costumes and weapons put on display was simply fascinating.
The game director was also on display to give more details on the game. They talked about escalation events, as well as challenges and illusion targets. You have one shot, make it count.
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Thursday, March 22, 2018
I am glad the CDF and Pope Francis have drawn our attention to the new Gnostics and Pelagians in the Church today.
It has helped many to understand that some of the theology of the modern liturgists since the new liturgical movement of the 20th century were both. I would say Bishop Bugnini and his cohorts were the preeminent ones imbued with a new gnosticism and Pelagianism.
Why is that, you may ask?
Think about the reforms of the Mass after Vatican II that didn't exactly follow what Vatican II actually suggested. The first ideology was to make the Mass more ecumenically pleasing to Protestants. Aren't they the Gnostics of the Reformation period? Aren't they the ones who did away with all the inspirational aspects of the liturgy and in fact did away with the sacraments? Aren't they the ones who insisted on comprehensibility, the Word as information more important than the mystical aspects of the Liturgy? Didn't they have new insights as to what the Church should be hidden from the pope and bishops in union with him at the time?
Thus, if you couldn't understand the Mass (gnosis) and it wasn't comprehensible, (gnosis) and it was too mystical (no gnosis) and if it was too physical, sacraments and signs, (Gnostic) and you weren't the one doing all the work to attain an salvation, (Pelegianism) then the elements of hocus pocus had to be eliminated because these implied that you didn't did need to use your mind and your body to be able to comprehend and assimilate on your own what you needed to know to experience God's grace. It wasn't up to you, but up to God and that had to be corrected by the Protestant reformers and the post-Vatican II reformers in cahoots with them.
Thus the revised Mass, more ecumenical and allowing for more gnosis and Pelagianism, became more cerebral so that each participant could understand otherwise they couldn't receive the graces because their understanding of things is what allowed them the graces. It was up to them to understand and if they couldn't no grace was there.
For example, there are some in the Ordinary Form who think a deaf and dumb person who is blind receives no graces from simply being at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass because they can't comprehend one single thing that takes place. No comprehension, no grace!
Of course that is balderdash! In the EF Mass, with its high Christology, mystical experiences, Latin language, silent Canon and the priest duplicating genuflections and Signs of the Cross all over the place, it isn't the cerebral (Gnosticism) or the Pelagianism, (I transform myself by my understanding and assimilation of the things that I understand).
Thus a return to the theology of the EF Mass is the sure and certain way to over come the new Gnosticism and Palegianism of the Ordinary Form of the Mass pseudo-theology.
And thus an astute commenter on another post unwittingly uncovered for us the theology of the new gnostics and Pelagians in the introduction to the Penitential Act of the Ordinary Form:
Brethren (brothers and sisters), let us acknowledge our sins, and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries. (NEO-Pelagian) no?
EF theology applied to an OF innovation:
Brethren (brothers and sisters), by the grace of God and His purifying love, may our sins be made known to us and imbued with the grace of sorrow, let us ask God to prepare us to celebrate the Sacred Mysteries.
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yes, next question.
- March 22, 2018 at 9:42 AM
- James Ignatius McAuley said...
Father, the problem is deeper than that. By confusing the need for proper catechesis with the reception of certain sacraments, the Roman church self creates the problem of Pelegianism and Gnosticism. Pius X's great document Sacra Tridentina allowed for the frequent and daily reception of Holy Communion. No age is mentioned, just the need for "careful preparation." My Grandfather, born 1905, thus received his Holy Communion at the Age of 7 in 1912, my father the same in 1945 and myself in 1976. NOTE THIS - Pius X did not say this, but at some point the decision was made (the practical interpretation of Pius X's order) that the reception of Holy Communion was made dependent on catechesis (that is how they interpreted "careful preparation") as well as the concept that the age of seven (second grade) was the age of reason and therefore a child could UNDERSTAND what they were doing at the reception of Holy Communion. We do not have this silliness of "understanding" or "age of reason" in the Byzantine Rite. You get your first communion after baptism and chrismation (confirmation) all on the same day as an infant.
Now, it has gotten worse. In the Diocese of Buffalo, Rochester, and Erie First Communion has been moved to Third Grade, the Age of eight. My poor nephew failed his exam by one point and was denied his First Communion until Fourth Grade. He has a learning disability, but for the Diocese of Erie, understanding and knowledge are the rule, not faith or love. I have witnessed this in other parishes. The justification for the delay is to allow for further "catechesis" and that the age of seven is no longer adequate as children are too intellectually immature at that age. In other words knowledge and understanding will be used to deny the faithful grace.
Confirmation should be by the age of 12 to give the child the graces necessary for all of the demons who start to hound them at puberty. When I was confirmed, there were individuals who were seniors (I was in 10th grade at the time) who were being confirmed. Three of my siblings were confirmed as seniors, and it was clear that the process was dragged out for the convenience of the Bishop's schedule, as well as the idea of trying to keep them in Church School/Church as long as possible.
Preparation for the sacrament of marriage should begin in High School, not when they go to receive the sacrament.
In any event, delay of confirmation and communion is often too late for much spiritual damage has been done that could be healed or prevented by the grace of the sacramennts.
- March 22, 2018 at 9:46 AM
- Henry said...
How it was, before those "modern liturgists" did their hatchet job:
"You were born in 1938. You grew up in a parish where multiple Sunday Masses were packed with Catholics. Some of your earliest memories are of the hats and veils the ladies wore as the final touch on their Sunday best, the men's dapper suits and polished shoes. You learned your catechism in Q&A form—and to the present you can recall whole sections of it. You fasted as best you could throughout Lent and always ate fish on Fridays. There was no question about going to communion without having gone to confession. Your time as an altar boy in the late forties taught you discipline, observation, and reverence. You felt a sense of humility mingled with pride in being able to enter the awesome sanctuary alongside the priest and watch him close up as he whispered the strange words of the Mass. You have striking memories of the quiet church early in the morning with sun streaming through the east window; you see the golden stitchwork on the chasuble, you feel the hard, smooth surface of the biretta that Father handed to you."
And then, in 1955, the meltdown began. Read on here, if you can stand to relive it.
- March 22, 2018 at 11:04 AM
The Pelagianism and Gnosticism is really the philosophical Modernism that characterised the 20th century liturgical reforms. This Modernism was based on the Enlightenment`s worship of the goddess Reason, which rejected the past in favour of future progress through Reason alone. The Liturgical Movement of the last century was through and through Modernist. You see its influence even in Sacrosanctum Concilium (SC), mainly a disciplinary document on the liturgy, in its praise of active participation through "understanding" for the reception of God's grace in the liturgy.
The PrayTellians may not think SC as disciplinary, but how else would you explain its contradictions with the liturgical anathemas of Trent, and moreover, placing the clamourous worshiping assembly rather than the individual worshiper's communion with God as the primary focus of the liturgy?
- March 22, 2018 at 11:28 AM
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Static IPs in AppScale
One feature that's been heavily requested in AppScale fairly recently is the ability to acquire a static IP address from your favorite cloud provider and have traffic go through it, instead of whatever IP address or fully-qualified domain name they give you. So for AppScale 1.13.0, we've added support for Elastic IPs in Amazon Web Services as well as Static IP support in Google Compute Engine! Let's talk about how you can use it, and what we do behind the scenes to hook it all up for you.
Using Elastic IPs in Amazon Web Services
To use an Elastic IP when running in AWS, begin by acquiring an Elastic IP in the usual fashion:
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appscale up as usual! When you do that, we will perform the following steps to get your Elastic IP in place:
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The code for Step 1 is pretty straightforward. Using boto, it looks like this:
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Using Static IPs in Google Compute Engine
Conceptually, using a static IP in Google Compute Engine is very similar to Amazon Web Services, although a lot of the implementation-level details are different. Begin by acquiring a static IP in the usual fashion (substituting in whatever name you like for 'cgbtest10' below):
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static_ip parameter to your AppScalefile in the same way we did for AWS:
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appscale up as usual to start up AppScale with your static IP. When you do that, we'll do the following to use your static IP:
- Validate that the static IP you entered actually exists and belongs to you
- Boot up the first instance in your AppScale deployment
- Remove the public IP address from your instance
- Add the static IP address you gave us as the new public IP address for your instance
To make sure that your static IP exists, we use the
addresses().list() call in the GCE API. We originally tried to use
addresses().get(), with the IP you give us, but that doesn't work, since it wants the name you chose (which doesn't get passed in to us). Therefore, the code looks like the following, using the Google API Client:
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Releasing Your Static IPs
And that's it! Remember that you get billed for Elastic IPs in Amazon and static IPs in Google even if you're not using them, since the IPv4 address space is pretty sparse, so be sure to delete them when you no longer need them. In Amazon, it's as simple as:
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