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Charlotte 714 Recap
Posted in Leadership by Benham Brothers | May 13th, 2014
On September 2, 2012 over 9,000 Christians from the Charlotte area gathered for a day of prayer, fasting, and repentance. The solemn assembly was the culmination of a 40-day fast and months of prayer meetings for the world, for the nation, but mostly for the city's churches.
Charlotte 714 took its name from 2 Chronicles 7:14:
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land."

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Raza, Shahid and Voigt, Thiemo and Slabbert, Adriaan and Landernäs, Krister (ABB Corporate Research) (2009) Design and Implementation of a Security Manager for WirelessHART Networks. In: 5th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Sensor Networks Security (WSN'S 2009), 12-15 Oct 2009, Macau SAR, P.R.C..
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WirelessHART is the first open standard for Wireless Sensor Networks designed specifically for industrial process automation and control systems. WirelessHART is a secure protocol; however, it relies on a Security Manager for the management of the security keys and the authentication of new devices. The WirelessHART standard does not provide specifications and design of the Security Manager. Also, the security specifications in the standard are not well organized and are dispersed throughout the standard. The lack of Security Manager design and ambiguous security specifications impede implementation of the standard since it requires close knowledge of all the core specifications on the part of the developer. In this paper we provide the detailed specifications, design, and implementation of the Security Manager for the WirelessHART standard. We evaluate our Security Manager against different cryptographic algorithms and measure the latency between the Network Manager and the Security Manager. Our evaluation shows that the proposed Security Manager meets the WirelessHART requirements. Our analysis shows that the provided Security Manager is capable of securing both the wireless and wired part of the WirelessHART network.
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Andrew L. Coveler, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Oncology
Mailing Address
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
825 Eastlake Ave E, G4830
Seattle, WA 98109
Admin Contact
Lillianne Lui
Specialty / Expertise
GI (Gastrointestinal) Oncology
Research Interests
Early phase clinical trials
Current Research Projects
Dr. Coveler received his B.A. and M.D. from Northwestern University, Chicago, IL. He completed his internship at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas and his Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. He is currently in the Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Program at the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.
Selected Publications
Coveler AL, Bates N, and Disis ML. Progress in the development of a therapeutic vaccine for breast cancer. Breast Cancer: Targets and Therapy, 2010; In Press.
Coveler AL, Goodel V, Webster DJ, Salazar LG, Fintak PA, Childs JS, Higgins DM, and Disis ML. Common Adjuvant Breast Cancer Therapies do not Inhibit Cancer Vaccine Induced T Cell Immunity. Breast Cancer Res Treat, 2009; 113(1):95-100*
Coveler AL and Disis ML. Immunologic Biomarkers to Predict Vaccine Efficacy. AACR Education Book, 2009(1): 125.
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This week Michael Feingold goes our of the past, revisiting three plays form the World War One era. Feingold sees echoes of our current conflicts in the art of earlier generations. He surrenders to R.C. Sheffield's Journey's End, its revival directed by David Grindley. He has wispier praise for the J.M. Barrie ghost story Mary Rose and a revival of Harley Granville Barker's The Madras House at the Mint.
In the Sightlines section, John Beer squeezes into Yoji Sakate's The Attic, pronouncing it "witty, bizarre, and intensely moving." Katie Baker investigates The Girl Detective, a stage adaptation of Kelly link's short story, with excellent results. Arrivals, a play discussing government encroachment on civil liberties, encroaches on Andy Propst's time.
I took in two plays featuring girls gone not exactly wild, but certainly somewhat astray. Julian Sheppard's Los Angeles is a star map to ingénue Audrey's psyche. In Anna Ziegler's BFF, a young woman finds herself borne back ceaselessly, and somewhat shallowly, into the past.
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It's a simple question.
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We combine proven scientific methodology with executive business strategy to help teams and individuals achieve their full potential.
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appiness has the power to drive success; in a way more profound than most of us realise. We began our individual journeys in the same place as most people, pursuing the goals that we thought would lead us to happiness. Things like career advancement, pay rises, relationships, luxury holidays or, in Saleem's case, the latest Apple gadget.
What we both discovered along the way is that while those fleeting moments of achievement gave us the spikes of pleasure we'd been reaching for, long term happiness was a different beast entirely.
Pleasure and happiness aren't the same and success doesn't drive happiness. It's the other way around. Happiness drives success.
The foundation of a business
Our shared realisation, reached through two very distinct paths, led us to an awareness of what could be achieved when we operated with a positive and engaged mind. When we became our best. Our desire to be our best, to be successful, to thrive in our work and relationships, is at the heart of everything we do.
Who wants to be average?
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Fiona's passion for positive psychology was the driving force in her acquiring a masters degree in Clinical Psychology. Having experienced first hand the impact that positivity can have in living a more effective life, she combines scientific methodology with her experience developing and implementing over 250 conferences to create awareness and engagement in the power of happiness to fundamentally change lives.
Fun facts
Always a winner, Fiona once won a body-plank competition with a 5m32s hold for six months worth of food delivery vouchers (which she's still living off), proving, once again, that she'll do anything for free food!
She loves:
- Doing: Yoga
- Watching: Friends re-runs
- Eating: Ice cream
Saleem Ali
The other side of the coin, Saleem's focus lies in the impact that happiness and well-being can have on performance. He's committed to bridging the gap between conventional business theory and positive psychology, bringing the two together to create more motivated, higher performing businesses that operate at peak efficiency.
Business Thinking
Developing an almost obsessive relationship with business performance and efficiency, Saleem's career took him into the world of executive leadership, with a focus in marketing.
Over 15-years experience in driving commercial performance across four continents has taught him the importance of mindset and motivation in developing a competitive advantage; a lesson that he's integrated into The Hub's services.
Fun Facts
Saleem has a completely rational phobia where Wombles are concerned (don't ask!).
He loves:
- Doing: Adventure sports
- Watching: Star Wars
- Eating: Steak
The Happiness Hub
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TREES by Christine
Early posting of Header Challenge as we are away, but still posting a Treemendos Header and post of TREES for your Delight
Age old Trees told by Stumpy Tree
Hello folks -While Mac is away - let me Show n Tell you the story of us Age Old Trees
Mac's Header
A large and very old Aged Tree.
Aged old Tree with Sculptured Friends.
Age old tree giving an age old Wall a cuddle
Age Old tree beginning to stoop.
Age Old Tree in its twilight Years.
Age Old tree stumbles and Falls
Age Old tree begins to rot away back into the Earth
Age Old Tree - Just a shadow of life
Age Old Tree.
Age Old Tree in Tree-Heaven with all its Friends
Well Folks, thats yer-Lot -- as Mac would say.
Now go see his side Bar, near his shield, where he has all his Headbanger Friends and see what they have posted about Trees by Christine
Mac will be back in full swing next week, I've enjoyed posting to you good folk, hope you have enjoyed my tale of Age Old Trees.
Just a little message for all Mac's Friends
All the very best to you all
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The Director of Marketing is the functional leader, responsible for driving market share growth by formulating and executing an effective strategic sales and marketing plan, maximizing new product introductions, and enhancing key customer relationships across Europe. As the member of the leadership team, he/she will report directly to the Managing Director Interventional Spine (lVS), Europe.
The Director will be based in our European Regional Headquarter and responsible for centrally planning, organizing, and leading all marketing activities of their business unit across Europe- including organizational structure and talent development, strategy, budgeting, and divisional collaboration with the US.
Additionally, the Director will be responsible for leading and developing the IVS brand and education managers' team. Collaboration and driving engagement with key stakeholders whilst empowering salesforce across the organization will be required to ensure delivery of initiatives and proper internal and external messaging.
Your key responsibilities
- Lead marketing planning process- defining overall strategy and business performance objectives. Implement effective and consistent processes for product launch, market intelligence, PLCM, pricing of commercialized products and other marketing tactics
- Foster alignment with global teams to maximize product launches, education, best practice sharing, and PLCM activities.
- Create 5-year strategic plan and mentor team on development of annual Marketing and customer excellence plans to drive growth and market share gains.
- Lead the development of Marketing's best practices to develop effective value propositions and sales tools that are practical to use and aligned to division and regional specific requirements; ensure full alignment with the Sales organization.
- Identify KOLs and strategic customers, create plans to convert or maintain KOLs on product lines, execute strategies to force increase through reference centers, teaching facilities, or "podium presence".
- Lead efforts to increase organizational capability- including across functions- necessary to execute current and future customer excellence strategy.
- Define Medical Education strategy, ensuring equipment needs are met for IVS courses whilst maintaining best-in-class internal and external education programs.
- Proactively identify, analyze, and manage business improvement opportunities and mitigate business risks.
- Ensure strong partnerships with supporting services like Procare whilst ensuring effective message and access control to IVS channel.
- Develop, engage and inspire the marketing and education team members whilst setting clear expectations and effectively evaluating performance.
- Assess talents and work closely with HR to continuously enhance the productivity and effectiveness of the business unit with respect to people, development, retention, succession planning and employee engagement.
What are we looking for?
- Bachelor's degree and an MBA/Business Masters is desirable
- Proven track record in International marketing and/or sales management/leadership in a multinational medical device company. A combination of marketing and P&L experience is ideal.
- Proven experience from implementing initiatives resulting in significant market share growth and delivery on financial commitments.
- Demonstrated experience in establishing programs to evaluate market characteristics and trends, and position and differentiate products/services in new and existing markets.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills; strong cross-functional influencing skills; plus the ability to relate well to colleagues & surgeons from varied divisions, markets & cultures.
- Strategic – A strong strategy based thinker looks at the short and long term impact of decisions made
- High achiever – Is creative & seeks at all times to deliver the best in an agreed time frame
- Develops Talent – Builds the best teams and maximizes their development and impact. He/she values different backgrounds and thought to reach one's potential, seeks feedback and accepts accountability to develop and grow
- Embody trust, integrity and ethics inside and outside the company
- Delivers results – A driven player/coach who sets high goals for personal achievement and organizational success. He/she measures success against the best internal and external benchmarks.


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The antitrust laws of the United States and the various states prohibit agreements, combinations and conspiracies in restraint of trade. Because the CACM Association ("CACM") and other trade and professional associations are, by definition, combinations of competitors, one element of a possible antitrust violation is generally present, and only some action by the association that unreasonably restrains trade generally needs to occur for there to be an antitrust violation. Consequently, associations are common targets of antitrust plaintiffs and prosecutors.
The consequences for violating the antitrust laws can be severe. A conviction can carry stiff fines for the association and its offending leaders, jail sentences for individuals who participated in the violation, and a court order dissolving the association or seriously curtailing its activities.
The antitrust laws can be enforced against associations, association members, and the association's employees by both government agencies and private parties (such as competitors and consumers) through treble (triple) damage actions. As the principal federal antitrust law is a criminal conspiracy statute, an executive who attends a meeting at which competitors engage in illegal discussions may be held criminally responsible, even if he or she says nothing at the meeting. The executive's attendance at the meeting may be sufficient to imply acquiescence in the discussion, making him or her liable to as great a penalty as those who actively participated in the illegal agreement.
The antitrust laws prohibit competitors from engaging in actions that could result in an unreasonable restraint of trade. Above all else, association members should be free to make business decisions based on the dictates of the market – not the dictates of the association.
Some activities by competitors are deemed so pernicious and harmful that they are considered per se violations – it does not matter whether or not the activities actually have a harmful effect on competition; the effect is presumed.
These generally include price fixing, allocation of customers, markets or territories, bid-rigging, and some forms of boycotts. In addition, there are many features that factor into price; agreements as to warranty duration, freight terms, or other factors that can directly impact price also are proscribed.
Other actions such as standards development, certification programs, and relationships between distributors and suppliers generally are evaluated under a rule of reason – there is a balancing between the pro-competitive and anti-competitive aspects of the activities; the pro-competitive effects must outweigh the anti-competitive ones. These areas also should be approached with caution and legal guidance.


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Movement III: Distracted begins confused and indecisive. With so much going on in technology, we are conditioning our children to attempt to pay attention to everything at once while comprehension and the realization of the importance of human interaction and face-to-face communication goes by the wayside. This movement, however, evolves to come out triumphant over this evil that is inherent in technology because I maintain hope: hope that our children are not completely lost to this technological zombification; hope that a balance can be struck between humanity and technology; hope that we will not be the victims of our own carelessness but in the end come out better for the progress we have made and the creativity we have inspired. Although the evils are ever present, it is up to us to make the decision to rise above the temptation and take the control back from technology.
Children With Smart Phones – III: Distracted – PDF Download
Premiere performance in Whitmore Recital hall at the University of Missouri-Columbia by the Mizzou New Music Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Stefan Freund.


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January 15, 2009
Promoting Greater Access to Justice for the Poor, Judicial Salary Reform, Equal Rights for Same-Sex Couples, Enhancing Support for the Legal Profession
As the State Legislature begins its 2009 legislative session this month, the State Bar urges lawmakers to provide greater access to the justice system for the poor, ensure equal rights for same-sex couples, increase judicial salaries, and enhance support for the legal profession, according to President Bernice K. Leber (Arent Fox LLP). Each of these items represents key legislative priorities that have been adopted by the State Bar's Executive Committee.
"Now, more than ever, as we face a new year with the financial markets still in crisis and the economy in a downward spiral, it is imperative that we work together to improve the justice system so that every citizen has an equal opportunity to receive quality legal representation and services," said Leber. "If enacted into law, the State Bar's legislative priorities will strengthen the integrity of our courts, reward the best and brightest legal minds for their service to the judiciary, and enhance the public's trust and confidence in our justice system."
The State Bar's legislative priorities include:
1. Access to the Justice System. "Access to justice" is a primary focus of the Association's legislative priorities. The concept "Justice for All" distinguishes and defines us as a nation where freedoms flourish under the rule of law. Yet, studies show that the essential legal needs of up to 85% of low-income New Yorkers are not met. The State Bar urges these reforms:
• Funding for Civil Legal Services for the Poor. The mortgage foreclosure crisis affects not only the poor but also, the middle class. With nearly 40,000 foreclosure filings statewide in 2008, representing a more than 20 percent increase in filings from 2007, the proper funding has become urgent, because the middle class and poor require ancillary services such as consumer debt. Despite the many pro bono hours attorneys provide to the indigent each year, funding is necessary to ensure access for them to the justice system. Last year, despite the hard-fought restoration of millions of dollars that had been eliminated from the proposed Executive Budget, state-supported funding for civil legal services for the most vulnerable remains inadequate. Adequate funding provided by a dedicated revenue stream is necessary and prudent. Protecting our needy citizens will save countless dollars that will otherwise be required to be spent by government for social services, housing, consumer debt, and other programs.
• Independent Indigent Defense Commission. Due to limited funding and the lack of statewide standards for handling criminal cases, the current indigent defense system is in crisis. Because of the concern that constitutional standards are not being met in all circumstances, an independent Indigent Defense Commission should be established, with broad powers to adopt standards, evaluate existing programs and service providers, and generally supervise the operation of New York's public defense system.
2. Judicial Salary Reform for Judges of the State of New York. The salaries of New York judges were last adjusted in 1999, when they were brought into parity with salaries of federal district court judges. Since then, New York judicial salaries have fallen far behind those of federal judges, judges in other states and even behind the salaries of first-year associates in many large law firms. It is vitally important to have salaries that do not impose financial limits that might deter highly-qualified individuals from seeking judicial office, and to ensure that judges are fairly compensated on an ongoing basis.
3. Equal Legal Rights for Same-Sex Couples. Under current state law, there are significant differences in the legal treatment of marital relationships and committed same-sex relationships in a wide range of matters such as property rights, financial support, responsibilities to children, health care, social security, long-term care, domestic violence, access to the court system, and other issues. The Association recommends enacting legislation affording same-sex couples the ability to obtain the comprehensive set of rights and responsibilities now available to opposite-sex couples through a domestic partnership registry, civil unions, or an amendment to the statutory definition of marriage, with the selection of the appropriate option by the State Legislature.
4. Support for the Legal Profession. A core mission of the New York State Bar Association is to represent the interests of the legal profession. Some actions and proposals unfairly target or burden lawyers. The Association will oppose any such efforts and will work to ensure that attorneys are able to protect their clients' interests and effectively engage in the practice of law. In that regard, the Association will work to protect the independence of the judiciary and promote affirmative legislative proposals that benefit the profession.
5. The Compact for Long-Term Care. The proposal would provide a fair and equitable way to finance long-term care for elderly and disabled persons in New York by
promoting personal responsibility on the part of the elderly and chronically disabled for a fair share of their long-term care costs. This initiative is designed to increase use of private funds for long-term care, but still maintain the safety net that Medicaid was intended to provide.
6. Uniform Mediation Act. The Uniform Mediation Act (UMA) establishes a standard process for mediation. Under the UMA, mediation would remain voluntary. Most important, the UMA would resolve any question regarding the confidentiality of mediation and, therefore, the protection of attorney-client confidentiality. The increased use of mediation would reduce the costs of disputes for individuals and businesses in New York, as well as demands upon the courts.
The 76,000-member New York State Bar Association is the largest voluntary state bar association in the nation. Founded in 1876, the Association's programs and activities have continuously served the public and improved the justice system for more than 130 years.


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Sean Hanley strikes begin and conclude Playford's fightback.
Byron Stretton went close with an early chance, his attempted lob was pushed up and away by the onrushing goalkeeper. But only moments later Trinity take the lead, breaking away and taking advantage Playford's high midfield.
The Playford midfield were starting to get some rhythm. Nice play found Broadhurst on the right and his cross was deep to the back post. Vince collected the ball, beat two players but his shot was saved and then cleared off the line.
After 20 minutes another nice build up results in a low cross from Vince on the left, his cross arrives too close to the 'keeper who catches despite close attention from Stretton.
Trinity break down the Playford left, the defence backs off allowing a shot that fortunately goes wide. It was probably covered by Sexton in the Playford goal. However it is another warning for Playford.
Lee Andrews crosses from the right, it is cleared but only as far as Barrett, but his long range effort goes over.
Trinity break again, but the danger seems over when Ewer takes possession of the ball. His back pass is under hit and intercepted. The striker makes no mistake past Sexton.
Two minutes later and Playford have the ball in the net. Good build up again and a cross from the left is met at the back post. But both Playford players are in an offside position.
Stretton completes a surging run across field and finds Vince on the left, his low cross is met by Hanley who steers the ball past the 'keeper. The goal comes just at the right time, with only three minutes of the half remaining. Playford's tails are up and although the defence is almost immediately caught 3-on-3, the danger is cleared by Bartlett. His clearance is picked up by Andrews, who plays Hanley in on , sadly his shot is not hard enough to trouble the 'keeper. Trinity go in at the break 2-1 ahead.
Andrews was proving busy in the Trinity half in the early period. He has shot that goes wide after finding himself with space in the box. Then he climbs highest to get his head to a corner butit goes just over.
A clearance comes forward and is flicked on by Broadhurst, Bartlett finds himself one-on-one with the 'keeper. He waits an uncomfortable amount of time before slipping a shot past the goalkeeper to level the scores.
A minute later, Andrews crosses for Bartlett who shoots just over.
On 65 minutes Godbold replaces Broadhurst and within two minutes is in the action. Stretton has a shot saved by the 'keeper and Godbold is on hand to knock in the rebound and give Playford the lead.
Jones replaces Andrews as Trinity start fighting back. Fortune smiles on Playford though, when a Trinity attacks breaks down, Ewer clears the ball to Hanley who does the rest. Collecting the ball half way inside the Trinity half, he played a quick one-two with Stretton, keeping the offside Bartlett out of the play, before running at the defence and shooting past the 'keeper. Stretton, whilst celebratingwith Hanley commented at least one of my passes made it back to you today
Despite the first half set-back Playford's extra quality comes through to take all three points, bringing them level with Chantry Phoenix at the top of the table.


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Listen to everyone
Listen to those who love you and those who don't;
to those who bore you; even your enemies. It works
a small miracle, and perhaps a great one.
Listen to what hasn't been said.
Listen to what has been said, and especially to the unspoken-therin
lie nuggets of truth and beauty.
Listen to your inner self.
Learn to listen to the whispers of your heart and soul; of what's right and what's not. You know so much more than you give yourself credit for.
Listen more than you speak.
The less we speak, the more we listen. The more we listen, the more we learn.
Listen without interrupting.
It takes courage to stand up and speak, even more courage to sit down and listen.
Listen with absolute patience.
Words don't come easily to everyone. yet each person has something to say. So keep on listening and be rewarded with words of wisdom.
Listen with your hands.
When you take note, you experience everything twice, and understand it a thousand times better.
Listen with your mind.
Even after a conversation, it pays to think about it. Indeed listening without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Listen with your eyes.
There is a road from the eye to the heart and mind that does not go through ears.
Listen with 100% attention.
When you focus all your senses to the task of listening, you'll be able to pick up little nuances that can make all the difference in the world.
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Trending Topics
The consequences of global warming are quite evident this year as winter disappeared early and summer kicked in earlier than usual in a number of countries.
As our climate continues to change and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions keep climbing, scientists and world leaders alike fear that the chances of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius is dwindling fast. Now, climate officials have announced that it's highly unlikely we'll meet that goal due to the concentration of greenhouse gases.


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cthia wrote:I find it really rather arrogant that you 14 % are against the overwhelming collective consciousness. Statistically. And, well, statistics is a part of the very science that your wobbly legs stand on.
Well, I see you've settled on argumentum ad populum this time — appeal to popular opinion, the most frequently used fallacious argument. The common delusion that facts are decided not by evidence, logic and reason but by how many people believe them.
Many times in history, the vast majority of people have believed things which were subsequently proven to be wrong. Before the discovery of microorganisms, people believed that a wide variety of things caused diseases. Before the discovery of plate tectonics, they believed the Earth's geography was permanent and unchangeable. They believed the Earth was the center of the universe. Today we know that all of them were wrong.
I don't give a rat's ass how many people believe something; I only care whether it is true or not. If every single person in the world believed that identical electrostatic charges attract, would that make it true?
A substantial majority of the world's population do not believe in your god. Statistically. So, by your own argument you must be wrong to do so.
I used to live on a farm. I know what bullshit smells like.


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How does the old saying go again: the more things change, the more they stay the same?
I couldn't help but be reminded of that pearl of wisdom during Trump's latest catastrophic efforts at diplomacy.
A friend of mine, while cleaning out a relative's house, discovered a 50-year-old copy of The Observer under one of the old carpets and the headline is a doozy – 'Has the Kremlin elected America's next President?'
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In an age of madness, common sense is a radical position
Ian O'Doherty Did you ever think you would see the day when nearly 10,000 Irish people would turn up at a concert venue just to look at a bunch of 'racists, bigots and Nazis' expound their toxic world view?
If you're offended by 'Love Island', you need help
Ian O'Doherty It's a sad day indeed when you have to use a reality TV show to point out the absurdities of modern life. It's an even sadder day when the people watching the show are actually more awful…
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Image via WikipediaOn Monday, December 7th, the Environmental Protection Agency officially declared that greenhouse gases pose a danger to human health and the environment. So, what does this have to do with your Retirefund?
Well, this otherwise simple, common sense statement, will have a big impact on the Green Energy movement, and has a whole lot to do with your Retirefunds and "all" investments in the USA (and around the world) for the foreseeable future. Here's why!
As President Obama prepares to attend the Copenhagen Summit, Cop15, with other world leaders, he will not be hampered in his promise of green house gas reduction in the U.S. by having to submit those proposed limits to Congress. Because of the EPA declaration, legal changes can now be made to reduce carbon dioxide and other green house gases mentioned in the declaration as they are now considered a threat to the health of Americans and therefore can be addressed merely by EPA regulations. Congress won't like it much, but the environmental movement will and so will your green energy investments like wind, solar and fuel cells. Call it an addition to the Obama Effect.
Now, when Obama visits Copenhagen, other countries looking for excuses, won't have the excuse that he can't get his promises past the U.S. Congress, because he doesn't have to. It is a catalyst for those other procrastinators (like Canada, China, India and Russia) to get on board the Green energy bandwagon.
Canada, however, may have more to worry about than most other countries. You see, when you sleep with an elephant, and the elephant roles over, you get squashed. I am speaking about "Cap and Trade" which is sneaking into the American lexicon as a mid term solution to Global warming. It is President Obama's mid term answer to the problem and American business may be more receptive to it than allowing the EPA a free hand in setting limits. It may well be that Cap and Trade is merely another attempt at American protectionism only this time, dressed in Green. Canada could be a big loser if Cap and Trade is adopted in the U.S. as Canadian suppliers of raw materials and energy end up paying carbon credits to American companies they are selling to or dealing with. More on this later.
For now, the sun is rising over a new Green Energy agreement in Copenhagen. An agreement, any agreement, will have a major affect on your investments in oil, coal, wind, solar, nuclear and fuel cell power. Chose wisely, but choose now.
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Baltimore, Md. (PRWEB) January 15, 2014
Hosted by George Takei and led by Principal Pops Conductor Jack Everly, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) presents Sci-Fi Spectacular!, Thursday, February 20 at 8 p.m. at the Music Center at Strathmore, and Friday, February 21 and Saturday, February 22 at 8p.m. and Sunday, February 23 at 3p.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.
George Takei, best known for his role as Mr. Sulu in the acclaimed television and film series Star Trek, has become a social media phenomenon in recent years, with nearly 5.7 million Facebook "likes" and more than 900,000 followers on Twitter. Last performed for Baltimore audiences in 2008, the Sci-Fi Spectacular! features musical selections from science fiction's best films and television programs, including Star Wars, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial and Star Trek.
George Takei, narrator and host
Actor, author, social media mega-power and social justice activist. George Takei has risen from internment camp inmate to one of the most recognizable voices in America, calling for equal rights and social change.
Born George Hosato Takei in April 1937, George was born in Los Angeles and lived the first few years of his life there. During World War II, however, George and his family were imprisoned in an internment camp named Rohwer in the swamps of southeast Arkansas, then later were relocated to a camp in the desolate, harsh region of Northern California called Tule Lake. George moved back to L.A. after the war, graduating from Los Angeles High School in 1956. He earned a B.A. from University of California, Berkeley in 1960 and an M.A. in 1964.
George began his acting career in the late 1950s, but his breakthrough role came in 1965 as Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek. George starred in three seasons of Star Trek and, beginning in 1979, reprised his iconic role in six Star Trek movies.
In the 2000s, George increasingly became a symbol for and an outspoken advocate of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. As an openly gay man, he became a spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign's "Coming Out" project and in 2006, embarked upon a nationwide speaking tour called Equality Trek, where he talked about his life, his relationship with his now-husband Brad Takei and encouraging others to share their own personal stories. As the unofficial "King of Facebook," George now has nearly 5.7 million Facebook "likes" (and more than 900,000 Twitter followers), and uses his reach to continue to call for equal rights for the LGBT community, among other social justice issues.
Educating the public about the Japanese American internment during World War II is also a passion for George. In 2012, at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, he starred in the musical Allegiance, a ground-breaking musical about the Japanese American internment. George calls Allegiance his legacy project and the musical is bound for Broadway in 2014.
Jack Everly, conductor
Jack Everly is the principal pops conductor of the Baltimore and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras, Naples Philharmonic Orchestra and National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa), and the music director of the National Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol Fourth on PBS. He has been on stage with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall and appears regularly with The Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Center. His frequent guest conducting engagements include the orchestras of Pittsburgh, Edmonton, Oklahoma City and this season with The Philadelphia Orchestra at The Mann Center.
Everly is the music director of Yuletide Celebration, now a 26-year tradition. These theatrical symphonic holiday concerts are presented annually in December in Indianapolis and are seen by more than 40,000 concert-goers. He led the ISO in its first Pops recording, Yuletide Celebration, Volume One, that included three of his own arrangements.
Originally appointed by Mikhail Baryshnikov, Everly was conductor of the American Ballet Theatre for 14 years, where he served as music director. In addition to his ABT tenure, he teamed with Marvin Hamlisch in Broadway shows that Mr. Hamlisch scored including, The Goodbye Girl, They're Playing Our Song and A Chorus Line. He conducted Carol Channing hundreds of times in Hello, Dolly! in two separate Broadway productions.
Everly has conducted the songs for Disney's animated classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame and led the Czech Philharmonic on the recordings In the Presence, featuring tenor Daniel Rodriguez and Sandi Patty's 2011 release Broadway Stories. He also conducted the critically-praised Everything's Coming Up Roses: The Complete Overtures of Broadway's Jule Styne, and was music director for numerous Broadway cast recordings.
In 1998, Everly created the Symphonic Pops Consortium, serving as music director. The Consortium, based in Indianapolis, produces new theatrical pops programs, and in the past 13 years, more than 250 performances of SPC programs have taken place across the U.S. and Canada.
Maestro Everly holds an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Franklin College in his home state of Indiana.
Kristin Plumley, vocalist
Connecticut native Kristen Plumley brings her joy of being on stage to every role she performs. Lauded as "sensationally note-perfect" (St. Petersburg Times), "a roguish comedienne" (The Middletown) and "Met-worthy" (The Dallas Morning News), Ms. Plumley has portrayed Adina (L'Elisir d'Amore) and Gilda (Rigoletto) with Greensboro Opera Company, Musetta (La bohème) with Amarillo Opera, Norina (Don Pasquale) and Zerlina (Don Giovanni) with Virginia Opera, Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro) with New York City Opera, Despina (Così fan Tutte) with Lyric Opera of Cleveland, the Sultan of Egypt (Glück's Les Pelerins de la Mecque) with L'Opéra Français de New York, Yum-Yum (The Mikado) with Opera Memphis and Josephine (H.M.S. Pinafore) with Nevada Opera.
On the concert stage, Ms. Plumley has performed a broad spectrum of works, including Mozart's Coronation Mass and Requiem, Haydn's Mass in Time of War and Handel's Sing Unto God with the New England Symphonic Ensemble at Carnegie Hall. Additionally, she has sung Mozart's Mass in C minor, Elgar's For the Fallen, Respighi's Laud to the Nativity and Bach's Cantata No. 1 across the U.S., as well as Jack Everly's Sci-Fi Spectacular with the Cleveland, Indianapolis and Seattle Symphonies.
Enthusiastic about contemporary works, she has been active in many new operas at Canada's prestigious Banff Centre for the Arts and in companies throughout New York.
Ms. Plumley received an artist diploma in opera from the Hartt School of Music and a bachelor of arts in psychology and music from Holy Cross College. Twice a winner in the Connecticut Opera Guild Scholarship Competition, she is also a recipient of the Richard F. Gold Career Grant (Shoshana Foundation).
Sci-Fi Spectacular!
Thursday, February 20, 2014 at 8p.m. – The Music Center at Strathmore
Friday, February 21, 2014 at 8p.m. – Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall (JMSH)
Saturday, February 22, 2014 at 8p.m. – JMSH
Sunday, February 23, 2014 at 3p.m. – JMSH
Jack Everly, conductor
George Takei, narrator and host
Kristin Plumley, vocalist
The Sci-Fi-Ettes, vocal ensemble
Tickets range from $29 to $94 and are available through the BSO Ticket Office, 410.783.8000 or BSOmusic.org.


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We were expecting some new processors at CES 2014, but this CES turned out to be mostly disappointing, and the vast majority of reporters present at the conference, do not seem interested in covering Chinese SoC vendors. Some information however surfaced on several foreign languages blogs and news sites about Rockchip RK3288. First, RK3288 is indeed based on ARM Cortex A12 as initially announced, and not some mysterious ARM Cortex A17 cores, but somebody at Rockchip likely made an embarrassing mistake, and Edward Weinert reported it was corrected at Rockchip booth with pieces of paper as shown below.
So Rockchip RK3288 has four of these Cortex A12 core, a 4L2K H.265 / HEVC video decoder, and an high-end Mali
T764 T624 GPU supporting OpenGL ES3.0 and OpenCL 1.1 that vastly outperforms Mali-400 MP4 found in RK3188, and is even significantly faster than Adreno 330 GPU found in Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 SoC in Kindle Fire HDX.
The first column is probably AMLogic M802 with Mali-450MP6. If you upgrade from RK3188 to RK3288, you'll get 4 to nearly 6 times more 3D graphics performance based on GFXBench benchmarks. The company did not include the CPU performance, as Snapdragon 800 will clearly have an edge in this area.
The maximum frequency for RK3188 is 1.6GHz (despite being told it would go up to 1.8 GHz at launch), whereas RK3288 can be clocked up to 1.8 GHz, and moving from Cortex A9 to Cortex A12 improves performance from 2.5 DMIPS/Mhz to 3.3 DMIPS/MHz, meaning RK3288 is nearly 50% faster, in theory, compared to RK3188 when it comes to CPU performance.
We'll have to get more benchmark results to get a complete picture of the performance, but we already know CPU performance should be pretty decent, and GPU performance be top of the class.
RK3288 is said to cost about $40 for now, with the price probably coming down to $35 in the second quarter. One of the first devices with RK3288 SoC will be allegedly be Yuandao M12 tablet.


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the gift of music, worth more than money can buy
"Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory …. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me." – Jean Genet, Prisoner of Love, Part I
"What is amazing is that commissioning does not cost very much money. And you can really make something happen." – Kathryn Gould, venture capitalist and commissioner of music
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The idea begins with you; the music comes from the composer. Third Ear's role is to help the idea and the music fit together.
What do we mean by an idea?
Your idea will most likely focus on a special context or individual – a wedding, a celebration, a commemoration, or personal interest. You may also wish to specify the musical situation, such as a text to set, or writing for a new piano.
It could be a gift for a relative, a piece for your child to play, sonic architecture for the garden of a new house, a wedding anthem, a memorial, or for a special gathering of friends… Music has a role to play in so many parts of life, and a specially-commissioned work can make it unique to you.
Music and sonic art come in all shapes and sizes. You could propose music for solo guitar, for a choir or a hundred kazoos. A sonic piece could be made for a small wooden box, for your mobile phone, or for the public address system of a railway station.
The idea is yours to dream in the first instance, and then to be shared with an artist. The crucial point to note is that the idea has to allow space for the music to breathe. Like all artists, musicians need to create in their own way: music can't be printed on demand.
"One of the things that I really like is conversation and not working in a vacuum. I enjoy the process of having an extended relationship with a person or a place that I wouldn't normally have access to and the surprising connections you make…. Sometimes those people surprise you and let you go further than you originally anticipated they would." – Anya Gallaccio, artist
Where does the music come from?
Composers come in all shapes and sizes, and their music is just as varied. Third Ear will help you to find a composer suited to your idea, either by direct recommendation from a shortlist, or by offering a process to help you choose.
We don't represent any composers, though we have worked with and know a great many from those early in their careers to more established figures both in the UK and internationally. In short, we don't have conflicts of interest or a fixed roster of people. Our aim is to find the right composer for your idea.
We can guide you with sound files of composers' works and information about their experience. The thing to remember is that you will always be commissioning the next work, which inevitably involves some creative risk. That's why the key to successful commissioning is in your relationship with the artist. Fortunately, this is also the most exciting aspect, and where the true value of the process lies.
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The process is best thought of as an exchange of gifts. The worth of a gift increases through its movement between the one who gives and the one who receives.
It's with good reason that creativity is described as a gift. Whilst artistic skill and technique are essential, it's the composer's imagination that brings music to life, as if it's given to the composer. And a gift is not a gift unless it is shared.
"Music was not invented by the composer, but found." – Nadia Boulanger, in Reflections of Boulanger, by Don Campbell
We all know from experience that the best gifts are not necessarily the most expensive, but those that are most personal. To give or to receive such a gift requires mutual trust, respect and admiration. These qualities are essential in commissioning if the idea and the music are to fit together.
Just as the cash value of a present is not the same as its worth, the fee a composer receives is not simply compensation for her time. Creative artists don't charge by the hour, or leave the meter running like a taxi. They need to earn a living, but a commission fee is more like an honorarium or gift. The value of a piece of music cannot be weighed on scales or measured by the number of notes.
"It is when art acts as an agent of transformation that we may correctly speak of it as a gift." – Lewis Hyde, The Gift
Music cannot be 'owned'; only its rights can be attributed, and these always stay with the composer. In this exchange, however, the composer can still offer a return gift. Over the last 50 years, documenting the process of creating has for many artists become as important as any 'finished' article. Whether a diary, a set of sketches or an object made through the process of composing, the musician you work with may offer this as a reciprocal gift as an expression of your creative relationship, respect and understanding.
"One of the biggest advantages is the contact with the artist and their process. It's an amazing journey, very educational and rewarding. When the commission is complete, you have more than an artwork; the relationship between your history and the work's history…it makes [the work] more alive." – Anita Zabludowicz, collector (quoted in Louisa Buck & Daniel McClean, Commissioning Contemporary Art)
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Commissioning music can be complicated. Third Ear's role is to guide the process and keep it as straightforward as possible.
What's unique about < greater than > is that the process begins with you and your idea. We'll offer advice and help to shape this as an outline brief for a composer.
We'll then help you to find a composer to work with, either proposing a shortlist or by devising a process to help you select, and then approach them on your behalf. Getting to know the rich variety of music and sound being made today can be stimulating in itself, and Third Ear is exceptionally well placed to assist with this.
Once we've made an introduction, we'll agree the process for making the work including: timeframe; how you'll get to know each other; the fee; the final form of the work; and any reciprocal gift. We'll then formalise this in a contract.
In most cases, we expect the commission fee can be handled tax efficiently through the Gift Aid scheme. If you're a UK taxpayer, a gift of £2,000 will be worth £2,500 once charitable gift aid has been recovered; if you pay tax at 40%, you will be able to reclaim £500 making the total cost of your gift only £1,500.
We'll oversee and guide your relationship with the composer from first meeting to finished work, and if that requires professional performance then we can arrange this too. We can also support the publishing, recording, documentation and promotion of the given work.
"Third Ear helped make the commissioning process easy helping me identify a worthy recipient as well as guiding me through the process from there on. I recommend their services to anyone considering making a commission." Anthony Bolton, Senior Advisor, Fidelity Worldwide Investment
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"be sure you choose your patron wisely," …that is the gist of the whole matter. For a book is always written for somebody to read, and, since the patron is not merely the paymaster, but also in a very subtle way the instigator and inspirer of what is written, it is of the utmost importance that he should be a desirable man. ….
"The patron we want, then, is one who will help us to preserve our flowers from decay. But as his qualities change from age to age, … this business of patron-finding is one of the tests and trials of authorship. To know whom to write for is to know how to write." – Virginia Woolf, 'The Patron and the Crocus'
Third Ear's experience of commissioning
We have written on commissioning for the BBC Performing Arts Fund, run a symposium about commissioning at London's Southbank Centre, managed commissions for a major music publisher, advised the London Symphony Orchestra on their Soundhub programme for early career composers, and sit on the Board of NMC Recordings. We are the only organisation to have received support for commissions for both the Cultural Olympiad New Music 20×12 and the New Music Biennial programmes. We have an extensive network covering the range of new music.
As Third Ear is independent, we are able to help individuals and organizations to commission music for just about any circumstance – whether a string quartet, a community choir, for air guitars or a piece for 100 kazoos. And as a producing organization, we can guide people through commissioning 'from seed to plate', from the idea through to its realization in performance and documentation.


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I almost forgot that this movie even had its release but Marlon Wayans A Haunted House a spoof take off of supernatural movies is making its way to DVD and Bluray.
A Haunted House will be available on Blu-ray™ Combo Pack with UltraViolet™, on DVD and On Demand on April 23, 2013 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. Also available on Digital Download beginning April 9, 2013.
When a young couple moves in to their dream place, they soon discover they're not alone. Now, Malcolm will go to hilarious extremes – including hiring a priest, a psychic, and a team of modern-day Ghostbusters to get his place and his sex life back to normal.
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Los Angeles is home to many attractions, some more well-known than others. And while I've lived here for five years, I've still not seen all the LA attractions I want to see. There are a few places that I quickly checked off my Los Angeles Bucket List, but there's plenty more sightseeing to do. Many of the places I first visited are the same places I take friends and family when visiting Los Angeles. These aren't necessarily the best LA attractions, but they're a rite of passage that anyone visiting LA should see at least once. Here are the 11 attractions everyone should see while visiting Los Angeles for the first time.
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Hollywood Sign
If there's one thing that's synonymous with Los Angeles, it's got to be the Hollywood Sign. And while the sign is visible throughout the city, there's one spot you need to go to get the quintessential Hollywood Sign selfie: Lake Hollywood Park.
Located amidst a residential area of the Hollywood Hills, Lake Hollywood Park offers visitors the most unobstructed view of the sign. You'll also have excellent views of the Hollywood Reservoir.
The park itself is quite lovely and has a pleasant walking path where you can stretch your legs. But the real star is further up the hill at the Lake Hollywood Drive overlook. So practice your best pose and head up the hill to get that much-needed pic of you and the sign.
Pro Tip: If you want to combine two attractions, then book a ride on the Hollywood Sign Tour which leaves from Hollywood & Vine on Hollywood Blvd (listed below).
Griffith Park
Sometimes called the Central Park of LA, Griffith Park occupies over 4,000 acres in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles. Home to the Griffith Observatory, the park is one of the most iconic LA attractions. It's an absolute MUST for anyone visiting Los Angeles for the first time. The park offers pristine hiking coupled with spectacular views and challenging trails. A few of the most popular trails include the Hollywood Sign hike, Amir's Garden, and the Griffith Observatory Loop.
Other attractions located in the park include the Bronson Caves, otherwise known as the "Bat Cave," the LA Zoo and the Griffith Observatory. It's also the home of the Greek Theater, a favorite open-air theater. "The Greek" is where you can see the most popular acts in music and more. By far the best part of any visit to Griffith Park would be the views of the LA basin. Head up to the park in time for sunset to get a stellar shot of the city blanketed in street lights below.
Looking ahead to 2017 is exciting. I can't wait to lay 2016 to rest. It's been a challenging year full of ups and downs. I've been working through my personal and professional goals in preparation for my course launch next week. What are you hoping to accomplish in the #NewYear? What do you see ahead in your future? I'm hoping for better health, more #traveltime and bigger blogging successes!
Santa Monica Pier
The Santa Monica Pier has long drawn visitors to the shore as the official end of the famous Route 66. It features a theme park and several restaurants, so it's perfect for families and date night. Plus you can access the beautiful Santa Monica State Beach right from the pier.
Three miles of pristine beaches stretch out from the Pier, giving you plenty of room to roam. Rent a bike and ride along The Strand. This 26-mile beachfront bike path that runs from the Pacific Palisades to Torrance.
When you're done at the beach head back up to the 3rd St Promenade, an outdoor shopping experience that screams California. With many nearby restaurants and bars, this is one of the hippest places to be after dark. Be prepared for crowds and to pay for parking, but otherwise, this is another LA must.
Venice Beach Boardwalk
No visit to Los Angeles is complete without a visit to the infamous Venice Beach Boardwalk. Go soak up the sun while watching skaters sail at the skate park. Or swing by Muscle Beach to get a sneak peek at the bodybuilders modeling a by-gone era of California living.
You can buy souvenirs from the many stalls and vendors that litter the boardwalk. Some vendors earn only enough to find a place to stay for the night. And you'll find plenty to eat and drink at the many bars, walk-up windows, and sit-down restaurants. Taste Venice Beach on a street food tour or opt for a private surf lesson and catch your very own wave.
No matter your age or interests, visiting Venice Beach is another MUST while visiting Los Angeles for the first time. Be sure to grab a pair of roller blades and boombox before hitting the boardwalk. Now you're having an authentic Los Angeles experience.
Getty Center
LA has many great museums including the famous Getty Center. Perched atop a hill overlooking West LA, the Getty Center is one of the MUST-SEE museums in Los Angeles.
The Center is home to many of the best examples of 20th Century paintings, a stellar collection of decorative arts and more. Ride the funicular up the hillside to access the museum. There you'll take in sweeping vistas looking out over West Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean.
The museum's architecture is another big draw. All the structures were designed by renowned architect Richard Meier. Travertine, glass, and steel give the museum an ultra-contemporary look.
But the gardens are the best part in my opinion. Designed by Richard Irwin, the amazing landscaping of the Getty Center is just as lovely as the art inside. Bring a picnic and stay for sunset after exploring the museum for an authentic LA experience.
Another fun way to enjoy the Getty is to embark on a scavenger hunt. Search for clues while learning more about the art, the architecture and the gardens of this amazing museum. What a fun way to keep the kiddos happy while the adults ogle the art!
Rodeo Drive
Most people envision Beverly Hills when they think of Los Angeles. But LA is so much more than reality stars and super expensive shops. Still, many people want to experience Rodeo Drive when visiting Los Angeles for the first time.
Palm trees, luxury retailers, and quaint dining line Rodeo. Visitors flock to the shopping mecca, some only able to afford to window shop in the fine retailers like Gucci, Prada and Tiffany's. The area is also known as one of the go-to places for celebrity spotting. Who knows? You may even spot a celebrity in an expensive sports car!
Established in the 1930's, Chinatown was once the epicenter of Chinese culture in the Los Angeles area. Now, the San Gabriel Valley holds that title. But Chinatown still retains the character and charm that those visiting Los Angeles for the first time seek.
The historic Chinatown gate is one of many attractions on a Beginnings of Los Angeles tour. Built in 1938, the East Gate on Broadway Ave is now a Los Angeles Historic & Cultural Monument.
Seen in epic Los Angeles films like Chinatown and Gangster Squad, Chinatown plays host to many mom & pop shops, restaurants, and grocers. Explore Chinese culture, drink boba tea, eat dim sum and search stores for fun Asian trinkets to take home.
The Grove & The Original Farmers Market
This outdoor shopping center is another big draw for first-time Los Angeles visitors. Situated next to the historic Original Farmer's Market, The Grove hosts several major retailers. The shops share space with a lovely fountain and manicured landscaping. The Grove is especially beautiful during the holidays. A gigantic Christmas tree shines while carols play overhead.
The Original Farmers Market is the main draw here, though. With over 100 different vendors, the Farmers Market offers visitors the best of California living in one place.
Opened originally in the 1930s, the Farmers Market became an official Los Angeles Historic & Cultural Monument in 1991. Built atop a former dairy farm and oil field, the Farmers Market has been drawing visitors for nearly a century. Take a tasty tour under the swaying palms for an authentic California experience.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Another fantastic museum lies in the heart of Los Angeles in the middle of the Miracle Mile. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA for short, is the largest museum in the Western US. It's home to an extensive collection of arts and artifacts. LACMA also has one of the largest collection of Mezo-American arts in the world.
Some of the larger installations, such as Urban Light and Levitated Mass, sometimes steal the show. But the real gems lie inside among the many amazing works of artists throughout the centuries.
Prepare to spend an entire day meandering through the halls of this expansive museum. Plus you'll want to walk next door to see the La Brea Tar Pits and the George C. Page Museum which feature fossils of prehistoric creatures native to the area.
Hollywood Blvd
By far the most touristy site of all, Hollywood Blvd is probably the most visited site in the city. Everyone wants to see the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, and Dolby Theatre. These attractions draw many first-time Los Angeles visitors. They look forward to the chance to snap selfies and find souvenirs.
Many of the cities tours also start here including the Hollywood sign tour and Starline Hop-On Hop-Off Double Decker Bus Tours. Other nearby attractions include the El Capitan Theatre, Madam Tussaud's and the Hollywood Wax Museum.
The Hollywood & Vine shopping mall is a one-stop-shop. It offers visitors a chance to shop, dine, and watch films. There are stellar views of the Hollywood Sign from the upper levels of the mall, so be sure to bring your camera.
Olvera Street
No trip to Los Angeles is complete without a visit to the "First Street," Olvera Street. Founded in 1781 as part of the original settlement of Los Angeles, Olvera Street is now part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument. The Plaza is one of many sights featured in the historic Los Angeles.
The monument hosts a traditional Mexican market along the Plaza streets. Each of the narrow "streets" contains stalls, shops, and restaurants dedicated to preserving the Hispanic heritage of the city. Shop for hand-crafted souvenirs, enjoy authentic Mexican street food and listen to Mariachi music as you stroll through "the birthplace of Los Angeles."
Need More Los Angeles Suggestions?
Well, there you have it! My suggestions for visiting Los Angeles for the first time will surely fill a 3-5 day itinerary.
But if you need more ideas check out my list of unusual things to do in LA or my list of resources for finding things to do in LA. If you have time and a rental car, be sure to enjoy a scenic Los Angeles drive. Or visit any one of the great homes of Los Angeles to see some of California's architecture history. Be sure to spend some time in Downtown Los Angeles. And don't miss the amazing Los Angeles street art!
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cannot download Twitter videos?Views : 53117 Replies : 4 Likes : 0 2015-02-06 09:01 #1Reply
Recently, i opened a Twitter account. It's so funny to post tweets there. I shared many Vine video clips on Twitter, and those clips become popular among friends. Well, i found out that some Twitter videos can be saved easily, but others cannot. Can somebody offer a best a best solution?
VideoGrabberKeymasterModeratorThreads : 1Replies : 122016-09-30 02:36 #2Reply
As an online social network service, Twitter was launched in 2006, which has gained more 500 million users and over 340 million tweets been posted per day. Since it has been founded, Twitter has always been improving its services for users. In 2010, "New Twitter" was rolled out, which enables users to share pictures and videos, supported sites include YouTube, Flickr and Vine. And Vine is a video clip company, which was acquired by Twitter in October 5, 2012.
Since Vine joined Twitter, its 6-second video clips have been widely shared among users. Some most favorite clips even have been shared thousands of times. Users may want to download Twitter videos to their PC for later playback or save them as favorites. Well, if you tried that, you might have find out that some can be saved easily, while others may not be allowed. To make a comprehensive understanding, ways to download videos from Twitter have been shared here. Keep on reading. Focus on three different kinds of videos shared on Twitter, three related methods have been provided.
Method 1.Right click to Save Twitter videos directly
Short video clips are becoming welcomed, because for most people, they are busy with their works without much time enjoying a full length movie, but they are eager to share best moments with friends. Vine's 6-second clips have been shared very fast since Vine joined into Twitter. Vine users now can share their short clips in Twitter circle of friends.
You may want to download Twitter videos free to your PC for offline viewing or take as personal likes. Luckily, part Twitter videos clips can be downloaded directly on the page. Just right click it and select "save video as", the clip can be easily kept to your pointed folder.
However, other part video clips shared on Twitter cannot be downloaded directly on the page, including the videos shared from YouTube and Vine. Follows are the methods to download those videos from Twitter. Keep on reading to get the details.
Method 2.Free grab YouTube videos shared on Twitter
As it is known to all, some video clips from YouTube are embedded on Twitter. But those videos cannot be fast saved in right-click menu, because they belong to the third part video source of YouTube. There, you need another application that allows downloading YouTube videos.
Video Grabber is such a highly recommended online video download service provider, which is a very handy method to download videos from YouTube, Vevo, Dailymotion and many other video sharing sites. Now, it can also download Twitter videos online. Follow the main steps below.
- Right click the YouTube video shared on Twitter and choose "copy the link ".
- Visit the videograbber.net through browsers and paste the URL in the search box.
- If you are the first-time user, you are required to install the launcher for only once. Then simply click "Download" tab.
- Select the format and save it to your PC.
Method 3.Way to download encrypted Twitter videos
Some Twitter videos are encrypted by providers or Twitter users, which also are not allowed to be downloaded directly there, including many Vine clips. To save those videos to your computer, you may turn to the help of another download tool. If you don't have a reliable one, this Twitter video downloader would satisfy your needs most.
Video Download Capture is a professional video download program which could download videos from almost any sites. It can successfully download videos in three ways- auto-detect video URL and download, enter video URL to download and download RTMP video with advanced video recorder.
For all Twitter video, there's an option to "View on web", click it, it will lead you to the video source page. Now copy the link address of the video, with the help of this video downloader, the protected Twitter videos can be fast downloaded. Follow the three main steps below.
1. Click "View on web" and copy the Twitter video URL from the original page. 2. Launch the video download program. 3. Hit the " Paste URL" button and then the video will be added to the download queue automatically.
Actually this is a best Twitter video downloader, as it mentioned above, this video downloader can successfully download online videos in three methods. Enable its auto detector, it can automatically detect and download those loop viewed video clips on Twitter while the YouTube and encrypted Vine videos can be directly downloaded through the URL method.
Marina2017-05-30 15:32 #3Reply
I know easy way to download videos form twitter – Catch Tube – Free Online Video Downloader
- Boran Jeff : Actually this is a best Twitter video downloader, as it mentioned above, this video downloader can successfully download online videos in three methods. Enable its au
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Tokia Joshu2017-06-11 04:53 #4Reply
VideoGrabber is a good option. I use it a lot when I want to download Twitter videos. Just grab the tweet url, head over VideoGrabber and paste it here. Its just that easy. On iPhone or iPad, it's a bit more complex, you can take a look at this post.


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As part of our series of announcements at the recent Hadoop Summit, Cloudera released two of its previously internal projects into open source. One of those was the HUE user interface environment, which we'll be saying a bit more about later this week. The other was our data movement platform Flume. We've been working on Flume for many months, and it's really exciting to be able to share the details of what we've been doing. In this blog post I'd like to introduce Flume to the world, and say a little about how it might help problems with data collection that you might be facing right now.
What is Flume?
We've seen our customers have great success using Hadoop for processing their data, but the question of how to get the data there to process in the first place was often significantly more challenging. Many customers had produced ad-hoc solutions with complicated shell scripts and periodically running batch copies. Such solutions, while minimally effective, don't allow the user any insight into how they were running, whether or not they were succeeding and whether or not any data were being lost. Changing or reconfiguring the scripts to collect more or different data was hard. They were, at best, 'hit and hope' solutions.
At the same time, we observed that much more data are being produced than most organisations have the software infrastructure to collect. We are very keen to allow our users to take advantage of all the data that their cluster is generating. Looking around, we saw no solutions that supported all the features that we wanted to provide to our customers, incuding reliable delivery of data and an easy configuration system that didn't involve logging in to a hundred machines to restart a process, as well a powerful extensibility solution for easy integration with a wide variety of data sources.
As a result, we designed and built Flume. Flume is a distributed service that makes it very easy to collect and aggregate your data into a persistent store such as HDFS. Flume can read data from almost any source – log files, Syslog packets, the standard output of any Unix process – and can deliver it to a batch processing system like Hadoop or a real-time data store like HBase. All this can be configured dynamically from a single, central location – no more tedious configuration file editing and process restarting. Flume will collect the data from wherever existing applications are storing it, and whisk it away for further analysis and processing.
Four design goals
We designed Flume with four main goals for data collection in mind.
- Reliability – We recognise that failures regularly occur in clusters – machines crash, networks fail, cables get unplugged – and we designed Flume to be robust to that possibility. We also recognise that different kinds of data have different levels of importance, and therefore designed Flume to have fine-grained tunable reliability guarantees that dictate how much effort Flume goes to to ensure that your data are delivered when those failures happen.
- Scalability – Flume is designed to capture a lot of data from a wide variety of sources. As such we want to be able to run Flume on hundreds of machines with no scalability bottleneck. Flume is horizontally scalable, which broadly means that performance is roughly proportional to the number of machines on which it is deployed.
- Manageability – Flume is designed to be managed centrally. A medium sized Flume deployment is too large to configure machine-by-machine. We want Flume to enable flexible data collection, and that means making it easy to make changes.
- Extensibility – We want Flume to be able to collect all your data. We've written a number of different 'sources' and 'sinks' for Flume ourselves, but in the spirit of teaching a man to fish we've made sure that the API for doing so is extremely simple. That way, anyone can prototype and build new connectors for Flume to almost any data source very quickly indeed.
Flume's architecture
Flume's architecture is very simple. Data passes through a simple network of logical nodes, which are lightweight entities that know how to do exactly one thing: read data from some source and send it on to a sink. A source might be a file, process output or any other of the many sources that Flume supports – or it might be another Flume logical node. Similarly, a sink might be another Flume logical node, or it might be HDFS, S3 or even IRC or an e-mail.
We can link logical nodes together into a chain, or flow. At the beginning of a flow is the original source of the data, and the sink of the final logical node in the chain defines where the data will eventually be delivered. We call the first logical node in a flow the agent, and the last logical node the collector. The intermediate nodes are called processors, and their job is to do some light transformation and filtering on the events as they come through in order to get them ready for storage.
A single Flume process can house many logical nodes. This makes it very easy to configure, create, delete and restart individual logical nodes without having to restart the Flume process.
All of this configuration is controlled by the Flume master, which is a separate distributed service which takes care of monitoring and updating all the logical nodes in a Flume deployment. Users can make configuration changes, such as changing a logical node's source or creating a brand new logical node, through the Flume master, either by using the shell that we've provided or by using the simple web-based administration interface.
An example flow
The diagram above shows the layout of a simple flow for capturing web server logs. Three logical nodes are involved, each with different source and sink configurations.
- The agent is continually watching the tail of an Apache HTTP server log file. Flume's tail source correctly deals with log rotation, so you don't have to change your logging policy to integrate with Flume. Each line of the log is captured as one event, and then sent downstream to…
- The processor receives individual events from the agent, and uses regular expressions to identify and extract the name of the user's browser (such as 'Firefox' or 'Internet Explorer') from the log event. This metadata is then attached to the event so that it's available for later processing by…
- The collector receives the annotated events from the processor, and writes them to a path in HDFS that is determined by the browser string that was extracted earlier. Flume's HDFS sink uses a simple template language to figure out where to write events. In this case, all logs from users using Firefox are saved to /weblogs/Firefox/ in HDFS.
This simple example shows how Flume is easily able to capture your data, and to perform some non-trivial processing on it. This entire flow can be constructed and configured from the Flume Master, without any need to log on to the individual machines involved.
For more information
Download and get started with Flume here.
Flume is open source! Grab the source code from Cloudera's Github page here.
The Flume User Guide is a one-stop resource for a lot more detail on Flume's architecture, usage and internals.
There have recently been some good conversations on the Flume user list comparing Flume to a message queue, to Chukwa and to Scribe.
We have a series of technical blog posts on using Flume planned for the near future. Stay tuned for much more Flume!


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Almost from the instant I became capable of coherent thought, I have felt an alien in this world. As if I was accidentally sent to this planet as a result of an administrative error made by some temp angel who could not care less about the consequence of his efforts. I really must have a chat with this chum if ever I will meet him. This alienated mindset applies to all occurrences in my life in which I am involved. That of course includes my efforts to achieve a decent level of creating airbrush art. One of the things I never felt drawn to, is to spray portraits of perfect, flawless faces, that exist only in imagination. I made several exceptions to that.
|The stunningly beautiful and smart MM
The first is a portrait of Marylin Monroe, the outlandishly beautiful and smart model and actress who reached celebrity status mostly by her looks. But most overlook the mind behind the beauty, that was probably overshadowed by her stunning appearance. Her looks and above average perception lead her into circles where dangerous men live and sadly that ultimately cost her her life. She also wrote poetry that could not be conceived by a 'dumb blonde' that envious people liked to call her.
The second exception is Tina Turner, who survived long lasting domestic abuse and fought her way to a high place on the public stage with her talent. It says a lot about the power of her mind and the extent of her artistic talent. The men that were in her circles often had dubious characters - Ike Turner who beat her up and producer Phil Spector who was suspected to have killed actress Lana Clarkson. The fact that she managed to escape the realm of violent spirits and went on to share her talent with the world, is a major achievement that deserves respect, even though my personal musical taste is quite different from her repertoire.
|The talented Tina Turner
Apart from those the portraits I made were of real people, i.e. not molded by the movie- or music industry. The portrait of JFK was one of the only US president who actually cared for the people over whom he was given responsibility. This unique frame of mind among politicians, contributed to his assassination. The portrait of Gorbachev was a mistake influenced by the corrupt reports spawned by lamestream media that made me misinterpret his true personality.
|The president who cared for his people
Other things I hate to airbrush are the proverbial skulls and flames, that many airbrush artists love to spray. I can do it, but I hate to do it. I prefer to apply the talent graciously extended to me to airbrushing people who have the intention to make their stay in this dimension comply with the talents graced unto them in a positive way that helps the human race advance in the direction to its determined destiny.
|Test of Inspire urethane paints
It was the first and last time that I ever sprayed a skull and flames. I must admit it was nice to do, but that feeling mostly came from the excellent handling of the Inspire paints. Urethane paints are beyond compare to other type of paint. This was a test on paper to familiarize myself more with its particular conduct. It handles quite similar to HOK, and coverage is even better. The downside is that they are not particularly beneficial to the artist's health if safety precautions are not taken. Other than that, Inspire is a brilliant paint.
Skulls and flames are no challenge; they don't have to resemble anyone or anything. Just loosely spray where the image continues to look real and you're done. It is nowhere near the art of airbrushing portraits, where when a line or area is one millimeter off target, the likeness is gone. In addition, skilled airbrush artists can interpret a portrait and by subtle changes (compared to the reference) enhance the subject's essence, thereby taking airbrushing beyond the act of simple copying.


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we keep telling each other to think about those days in the future when we get be so sick of each other
so that we can better savor these days apart.
though i can't imagine that ever happening.
but we're realistic people so we know those days will come.
we also know that we're not perfect people or even the perfect couple.
but by God's grace we found each other.
and we're perfect for each other.
that i know.
and i'm beyond grateful for that.
much love.
[happy thursday, friend.]
p.s. don't forget shawni's sweet giveaway happening here today!
we're talking a $20 Sephora gift card. holla!


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Evidently, I celebrate Friday when they come around. I'm sitting at our charter school while my younger boys are taking their elective classes, now having finished up registration for next year's classes. In a few minutes I've got to run over to the high school and drop off forms for Michael's file. The charter and homeschool related admin that hits me at this time of year is unreal.
But then this hits me harder: Michael will be starting high school, and Andrew junior high. How?!
I am proud of each of them. So very happy to see them accomplishing and becoming. It's so good to look back and to consider all the progress and effort, difficulties overcome, growth. I have to remind myself not to always look at today, but to lift my gaze up and to look all around. Backward, forward, up.
God has brought change in my life and promises to bring more change ahead. It's good to look back and remember, and to look forward with hope. In the same way, I look at my kids with such pleasure, proud of where they are and hopeful about the future.
I woke up this morning in pain. It was late, and my lateness meant that everyone was now running behind. I dragged myself to the shower and began running hot water, all the while thinking that the day was looking pretty rotten from the get-go. I stood there in the stream of water as nausea flooded me and overwhelmed me. Hair half wet, I wrapped my towel around myself, went back to my side of the bed, and used all the mental tricks I learned from months (years, if you add them up) of horrid morning sickness. This was not how I had planned the day to go.
As soon as I could, I made my way downstairs, still only in a towel, to tell the others they'd need to take care of the morning routine on their own.
I showered and joined them later, where I found things humming along nicely. I was surrounded by eager helpers, some taking the initiative to do what needed to be done without being asked. There was no obligation, no grumbling, only cooperation. I felt loved.
Looking to mother's day this weekend, the events of this morning were such a gift to me. In a round about kind of way, I saw the gift I have in my kids. I love who they are, the people they are becoming, and I'm so thankful to be living life with them.
Playoffs start tonight. We have four games scheduled, and as I glance at the clock I can see that I need to get my game plan figured out. Two games have been rescheduled, so four is more manageable than six. Still, I need to have people at different locations since warm-up times and games overlap for my various players. The most frustrating thing is when I spend an equal amount of time driving and searching for parking as I do cheering for my boys. It's alright, though. And the boys love it.
... So I'm off. Game on!


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For almost the entire history of the environment movement, its opponents framed the debate as "Environment vs. Jobs." Now, Robert Borosage optimistically asks if we'll soon see "a 21st-century Green New Deal" effectively connecting the environment and job growth as the The Apollo Alliance coalition of environmentalists, unions and businesses has long advocated.
There is reason to be optimistic. The false choice between environment and jobs has not entered the presidential race.
Read the final ad in our series for "a debate worthy of a great nation in crisis" and join the discussion.
In the second presidential debate, both Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain responded to the opening question about getting the economy back on track by citing energy independence. Later in the debate, both argued that we could create millions of green-collar jobs generating clean energy and energy-efficiency.
The two disagree significantly on the degree of public investment needed to achieve the goal. Obama supports investing $15 billion a year for 10 years "to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future." McCain supports some tax incentives and a "$300 million prize" for whoever first develop a battery package that can power "commercially available plug-in hybrids or electric cars." (The Apollo Alliance supports a $30 billion a year investment over 10 years.)
But both support the rudimentary principle that government involvement is needed to move us to a clean energy economy, which would be good for the economy.
Does that mean that a Green New Deal is firmly in hand? No; the details of environment and energy policy always spark fierce legislative fights that will require smart and sustained engagement.
But it does mean that conservative attempts to dismiss a Green New Deal as akin to Nazi Germany can be easily marginalized. Because the parameters of the debate have been set.
This is no longer about environment vs. jobs. This is no longer about if our government should get involved in clean energy policy (as it already is with fossil fuel policy and nuclear policy).
The mandate for government action is clear. The remaining debate is how best to direct our government to build a clean energy economy.