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Ok, yeah, if you want to be an actual film director, you'd have to go to film school. But, for those of you who just want to make cool videos as a side hobby, here are some quick tips! (People making videos for their Idea Farming innovation projects, I'm looking at you!)
I'm a kid. A teenager. I'm 17. I like to make videos. The thing is, I've never gone to film school (I'm still in high school) and the only training I've had is from a couple months of being in a digital video production class at my school. Yet, I've had to film and edit everything from football season highlight films to baseball and basketball season intro videos to commercials and event promotions. How is it possible for me to do things I've never done before? Easy.
1. Do your research.
Before my senior year, the only thing I knew about football was "TOUCHDOWN" is a good thing and "QUARTERBACK" is usually a good-looking guy. (Granted, I don't know that much more now, but I've improved.) Still, I volunteered to cover football for my school because I wanted a new experience. I knew I didn't know anything, so I had to learn. I did the unthinkable — instead of studying, I spent hours on the couch watching football on TV like a true American. I watched football videos on YouTube. I studied the different camera angles, the editing style, and the types of graphics that were used. Somewhere along the way, I also learned how the game of football was played and even rooted for a team in the Super Bowl.
2. Storyboard.
Yeah, I know what you're thinking. "Storyboard? Like draw it out? I can't draw to save my life." Lucky for you, storyboarding isn't just drawing. In fact, I do a lot of my storyboards on a Google doc with screenshots or images of things I want to capture. Storyboarding is useful because it gives you an idea of what you want to do and lets you freely put your thoughts down. Planning is
one of the most important THE MOST IMPORTANT part of creating a successful video. If you don't plan ahead, you won't know what to do when you're out filming, you won't be prepared, and you won't get the shots you want.
3. Just do it.
I'm a 5'3″ Asian nerd girl who's never strayed from the comforts of a classroom before. Imagine me on a football field standing next to 6'0″ tall football players on the sideline. Actually, you don't even have to imagine it, because here's a video of me getting tackled while filming on the sideline.
Anyway, don't be afraid. Get out there and just do it because there's a first time for everything. If you don't get it right the first time, at least you'll have gained some experience. Get all the shots you planned while storyboarding. Make sure to get extra footage because it's better to have too much than too little. Have fun.
4. Edit.
It's all about the editing. Trust me. Editing can make bad footage look like good footage (don't rely on that too much, though). Editing is what creates the final product that viewers will see. Good editing can make all the difference between an amazing video that people will remember and a so-so video that people will forget about the moment it ends. Remember that music choice is key. It sets the mood and atmosphere of your video. Here's an example of how you shouldn't underestimate the effectiveness of piano instrumentals:
Another good thing to remember is if you're uploading your video to YouTube or Vimeo, don't — I repeat — DON'T choose copyrighted music. That means no Lady GaGa, no Justin Bieber, none of the super popular artists. Why? Because YouTube has extremely strict copyright restrictions. If they detect too much of a copyrighted song in your video, or any at all, they will block it from certain countries or block it from YouTube in general and force you to remove it or your account will receive a strike. Receive one too many strikes and your account will be banned/deleted. Some people avoid getting flagged for copyright by pitching their music higher/lower, using remixes, or using lower quality music. This is not a surefire way to not get caught. To be on the safe side, use Creative Commons-licensed music and properly attribute the creator in your description. If you're not sure whether you'll get flagged, upload your video to YouTube and change the privacy settings to "private." Once it is finished uploading, YouTube will tell you whether your video contains third party content and is blocked.
Honestly, I don't know how I got away with the music in this video.
A safer alternative is using Creative Commons-licensed music. YouTube even offers some for free, accessible here.
5. Share.
Congratulations, you're done! You've planned, directed, filmed, and edited your very own film. All that's left to do now is share it with the world. For the best results, upload it to YouTube and share the link on every social media account you have. Ask others to share it. Collect feedback from people, improve your skills, and bask in the satisfaction of a job well done.
Good luck!


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When is Wales vs England taking place? Saturday 23rd February, 16:45
Where is Wales vs England taking place? Principality Stadium
What is the expected weather at Wales vs England? Cloudy with a chance of showers, 8c
What channel is Wales vs England on? BBC 1
Where can I stream Wales vs England? Wales vs England can be steamed via the BBC iPlayer
Where can I get tickets for Wales vs England? SOLD OUT
England beat Wales 12-6
This match at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff is now the most important for Eddie Jones' England, who have already faced their biggest test and conquered it, by beating the reigning champions Ireland on the opening weekend of the tournament. You feel that a Calcutta Cup tie against Scotland, at Twickenham in the final round, may be the perfect Grand Slam set-up, and so this last away tie in Wales is crucial. Wales are currently two points behind, having beaten both Italy and France without securing vital bonus points, but they will have the benefit of a rested squad and the home crowd. However, in this World Cup year the momentum is with England, as well as the history, as they have won both of their last two in Cardiff by a score of 21-16.

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text: By Vida Li SikA panel of medical experts in Johannesburg yesterday agreed that exercise is a "vital sign" of a person's overall health.Four key indicators of your health are your pulse, body temperature, breathing rate and blood pressure and all doctors would take these measurements as part of their assessment.But consider this: If you visit your doctor for a minor medical complaint and you get a prescription to get more physically-active, would you consider the consultation money well-spent? People expect to leave their doctor's room with a prescription for medicine or tests, Dr Craig Nossel, Head of Vitality Wellness said. "Very little time is spent on assessing the level of fitness of patients," he said.It is easier to prescribe medication to improve a patient's health than to prescribe an exercise programme, said Dr David Jankelow, Cardiologist and President of the Johannesburg Branch of the SA Heart Foundation.It's time to get movingMovement is key to healing, he said. "Years ago cardiac patients or heart attack patients were kept immobile for an extended period," Dr Jankelow explained. "Today we know that getting these patients active is probably the most important thing we can do. We need to show them they need not fear exercise simply because they have experienced an adverse health event. The same goes for ICU patients."All of this would be based on the patient's individual needs, of course, and is not a blanket prescription to everyone.While few people would question the benefits of exercise, persuading people to get some exercise is the problem, Professor Martin Schwellnus, Director for Sport, Exercise Medicine and Lifestyle Research at the University of Pretoria said."We're genetically programmed to do some exercise every day and there is evidence that the incidence of all chronic diseases can be reduced by 50% if people build exercise into their daily lives," Schwellnus said.Why you shouldStill not convinced? Maybe some statistics will help. In South Africa, obesity is one of the top five risk factors for early death and the country is ranked highest for obesity in sub-Saharan Africa. A recent Stats SA paper reported that Non-Communicable Diseases like cancer, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes are now the leading causes of death in the country.How to startIt's easy for doctors to tell patients what to do, but do they "practice what they preach?" Dr Elijah Nkosi is a GP in Soweto and he has 10 Comrades and 12 Two Oceans Marathons under his belt and the medals to prove it. He said he has seen positive outcomes when exercise is incorporated into a patient's individual needs."Some people who've being taking anti-depressants are now doing marathons. I tell patients that exercise is do-able. The key is to start slowly and to ease into exercise, increasing the amount and level of exercise you do," he added.There you have it. Getting healthier is a matter of making the time to exercise.


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This is my first chest freezer– now I don't know how I would do without it.
Keeping track of contents
I tried to find a big dry-erase board for the top, but couldn't, so I just took the wipe-off markers and started writing the contents on the top. Its a battered freezer in a dingy basement, so functional is what its about. I list bread, muffins, pork chops, pizza, leftover sauces, stews etc with a little blank line to fill in how many I have. before I go shopping I pop down and check out what I need to restock.
Saving Money
With the extra space, I can buy items on sale and store them. Bread, muffins, meat, etc. My friend, who's daughter has dairy allergies, also buys soy milk on sale and stores it in her second freezer which saves her lots of money. If I save $1 per loaf of bread, and at least 50 cents on English muffins, I reckon we save at least $125 a year on those 2 items alone. You can take advantage of buy one-get one free sales on meats etc since you have the space.
Last minute meal planning
If I haven't gotten my act together with meal planning, I can usually find something in the freezer to base a meal around– some leftover pulled pork, frozen pizza, stew, rolls to go along with jarred spaghetti-sauce and noodles...
It also leaves more room in my regular freezer so that I can actually see what is in the back corner, unlike in my previous house.


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Bitcoin and Blockchain
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When Bitcoin broke into?public consciousness?in 2013, it couldn't have been sexier: a digital currency being used to buy everything from drugs to cupcakes.?Bitcoin's wild price ride — soaring up in late 2017 only to fall steadily back down this year — was also pretty exciting, even if the swings made its use as an everyday currency seem less plausible. Another aspect of Bitcoin that's a bit less scintillating has generated almost as much enthusiasm: public online ledgers.?Blockchain?— the technology used for verifying and recording transactions that's at the heart of Bitcoin — is seen as having the potential to reshape the global financial system and possibly other industries.?Yet five years after Bitcoin's emergence, blockchain remains more of a tantalizing concept than a tool that's actually used — kind of like Bitcoin. ?
The total value of Bitcoin, which neared $300 billion in late 2017, stood at $112 billion in late October. Some in the industry thought the introduction of Bitcoin futures contracts?by Cboe Global Markets,?CME Group Inc. and Nasdaq?in late 2017 would help build legitimacy, but trading on both exchanges was minimal. Bitcoin's rollercoaster ride was replicated by a raft of new cryptocurrencies that have raised more than $21.5 billion through?initial coin offerings. Their?explosive growth drew warnings from regulators around the globe even before?hackers stole almost $500 million worth of a digital token called NEM from a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange. The vast majority of ICOs lost substantial value in 2018.?Blockchain also had a number of setbacks, as several high-profile initiatives were dropped or put on hold, including?a plan by Australia's stock exchange to start using the technology to process equity transactions.?But Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced in September that starting in 2019, it will require suppliers of fresh, leafy greens to track their products using a digital ledger developed by International Business Machines Corp., which has spent heavily on developing blockchain tools for business.
Virtual currencies aren't new — online fantasy games have long used them — but the development of a secure digital currency without a central issuer rightly turned heads. The?person or people?who created the Bitcoin system under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto solved a problem central to any currency — preventing counterfeiting — and did it without relying on a government's authority. The software?also solved one specific hurdle for digital money — how to stop users from spending the same unit of currency twice. The breakthrough?idea?was blockchain, a publicly visible, anonymous online ledger that records every single Bitcoin transaction. It's maintained by a network of "miners" whose computers perform the calculations that validate each transaction, preventing double-spending. They earn a reward of newly issued Bitcoin. The pace of creation is limited, and no more than?21 million?will ever be issued.?For all its technical sophistication, Bitcoin's early reputation was as a tool for selling drugs and laundering money online.
Prominent economist Nouriel Roubini has joined investor Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon, the chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., in questioning whether Bitcoin?is simply hype. Buffett said the currency was "probably rat poison squared"?and Dimon called it?a "fraud,"?though he later said he regretted making the comment and that blockchain was a real technology. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. have both?expressed?openness to working with cryptocurrencies, and Fidelity Investments is offering to manage digital assets for clients.?Regulators are paying attention, too. Different branches of the U.S. government have opened investigations into?possible criminal manipulation of cryptocurrency trading and possible fraud in other parts of the market. A growing number of entrepreneurs in the field are lobbying for regulation to help Bitcoin shed its lawless image and become an established asset class. In the world of blockchain, a split has opened between those focused on creating specific tools for business and those pursuing the decentralized ideal?of Bitcoin's early days — freeing money from the control of governments and established financial institutions. Some critics say both kinds of blockchain amount?to no more than a new kind of database.
A Bloomberg Businessweek article looking at how interest in blockchain is surpassing that in Bitcoin. Bloomberg Markets?traced the interest of Silicon Valley investors in Bitcoin. CoinDesk has a Bitcoin price index;?Bitcoincharts.com has a range of data. Two explainers, one aimed at kindergarteners and the other a you-too-can-mine-Bitcoin project, plus an exploration of the double-spending problem. The New Yorker looks at Dark Wallet, a project meant to speed the spread of Bitcoin, from the law student who invented the printable gun.


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AP Language March 13-17, 2017
Planning Your Week:
M 3/13—Research Annotated Sources check
T &W 3/14 & 15—Bring 5 Steps to a 5 to class
F 3/17—Research Analysis Notes due
S 3/19—Membean
Monday, March 13
a. complete the OPTIC handout with Upfront magazine
b. complete the World View political cartoon questions from Upfront magazine
c. complete the Visual Rhetoric brainstorm sheet for the research paper. (Visual rhetoric for research due T 3/21. See packet p. 16.)
Homework: Bring 5 Steps to a 5 tomorrow.
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This sweet and simple drawstring bag is perfect for holding small gifts and treats. Tuck them into an Easter basket or hide them in the yard as part of an egg hunt. And after the holiday is over, use them in backpacks and lunchboxes to corral small things like art supplies and treats. Did someone say treat? We're all ears!! Finished size is 5" x 7" x 2".
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This washi features Xie Xie (Thank you) and Ni Hao (How are you). The green lines in this washi are character learning grids for kids to learn Chinese characters, which usually show up in kid's workbook. With the slightly off-centered Xie Xie on the kid's workbook gives, this washi turns a Thank you note into a special cute message. Use it for jazzing up your planner, notebook, albums, scrapbooks, gifts, cards, letters, invitations and more. It's also perfect for decorating your craft projects.
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Happiness: No Purchase Necessary, Says StudyPosted: April 25, 2010 Filed under: Food and it's Impact on Our Health Leave a comment
Another great post from Treehugger
by Stephen Messenger, Porto Alegre, Brazil
It turns out, in this age of consumerism and gadgetry, that all this stuff we buy isn't really making us any happier–in fact, it's kind of bumming us out. According to the latest research, the key to finding happiness is something far more accessible than what product advertisements would like you to believe–simply enough, it's in having new experiences. Whether it be in traveling to new places, taking a hike with some friends, or even participating in some green activism, investing in experiences delivers more bang for your buck than consumer products–which is good news considering that so much of the stuff we buy ends up as waste.
The study, which was conducted by psychologists at Cornell University, found that 'experiences' are more rewarding than 'things' because of the way people tend to evaluate their happiness by comparing themselves with others. For example, it is easier to feel crummy about some possession of yours if you learn that someone else has a superior version of it. "Experiences are inherently less comparative," says one researcher, which means they tend to bring happiness regardless of other's.
Thomas Gilovich, one of study authors, tells the BBC Brasil:
Imagine you buy a flat screen TV, and you're happy with it. But then you come to my house and I have a TV with a larger and better picture. That will disappoint and annoy you. But if you go on a vacation to the Caribbean and I also, you have your memories – your personal connection with the Caribbean – which no one else has and that made the holiday special.
According to the study, experiences are so effective at making us happy because we truly 'own' them in that they become integrated into our characters and help shape our personalities. Material goods, on the other hand, can really only be 'possessed' and rarely become a part of us in any meaningful way. Also, things we buy are subject to material degradation and devaluation, not to mention a gradual lessening in our appreciation for them. In contrast, experiences are transformed into memories, and even bad ones can be appreciated later on down the line.
"If you go on a hiking trip, and the weather is terrible, you might not view it as a pleasurable experience in the here and now. Instead, you may view it as a challenge, and over time remember the positive aspects of the experience more than the negative aspects," says Gilovich, via The Med Guru. "With material things you can't do this, because they are what they are."
So, in our quest to find happiness in a day and age where so many are offering it in the form of stuff they're selling, it turns out that being happy is a 'no purchase necessary' emotion. Not only does that mean we are happier producing less waste, but actively helping our planet could be one such experience that makes us even more so.


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Merger with America West
Our attorneys represented US Airways in its merger with America West, a merger that created the first nationwide full service low-cost airline. The merger was announced publicly on May 19, 2005 and received a wide range of international coverage.
The transaction was financed with approximately $1.5 billion of new capital from $350 million of committed new equity plus a planned rights offering; more than $675 million from partners and suppliers; $250 million or more from aircraft-related financings; and a release of $200-$300 million in cash reserves. The combination formed one of the industry's most financially stable airlines with $10 billion in annual revenues, approximately $2 billion in total cash and among the lowest debt levels of all major airlines.
The merger was subject to approval by the US Bankruptcy Court overseeing US Airways' pending Chapter 11 case and other regulatory approvals. The merged airlines now operate under the US Airways brand under the leadership of then America West CEO Doug Parker.
The firm has been the lead counsel to US Airways in its bankruptcy proceedings since April 2004.


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Lithium Demand Set to Grow as Electric Vehicles Market Continues to Expand
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NEW YORK, May 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --
According to data provided by Market Research Engine, the global Lithium-ion Battery Market is expected to exceed more than US$ 77 billion by 2024 and will grow at a CAGR of more than 11%. Lithium-ion batteries are part of the rechargeable battery group. The report indicates that the batteries provide excessive storage capacity, better efficiency and long lifecycle than other batteries. The demand for those batteries is growing thanks to the wide array of applications in which they can be used, which include potable electronics, and recently electric vehicles (EVs). MGX Minerals Inc. (OTC: MGXMF), Tesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA), Panasonic Corporation (OTC: PCRFY), Nemaska Lithium Inc. (OTC: NMKEF), Lithium Americas Corp. (NYSE: LAC)
Producers of processed lithium, which is used for batteries used in EVs, are changing business strategies to prepare for the higher demand expected from the adoption of EVs. According to Reuters, Tom Schneberger, global business director at U.S.-listed FMC Lithium, explained: "We've established the timeline for our own expansion based on the commitments our customers are making with us… Our first priority will be to provide the adequate supply of the high quality products upon which (our strategic customers) rely."
MGX Minerals Inc. (OTC: MGXMF) also listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the Ticker (CSE: XMG). Just earlier today the company announced breaking news that it, "is pleased to report that its 100% wholly-owned subsidiary ZincNyx Energy Solutions, Inc. ("ZincNyx") has quadrupled the capacity of its fuel cell modules (stacks)."
System Architecture - The ZincNyx zinc-air flow battery is comprised of three main modules - a regenerator module that uses electricity to charge particles of zinc, a fuel tank where the zinc particles are stored until needed, and a fuel cell module that uses zinc particles to generate electricity.
Fuel Cell Module - The fuel cell module is comprised of a stack of identical cells. In the original implementation of the stack, each cell was capable of generating 100 Amps at approximately 1 Volt. A stack of 12 cells connected in series was thus able to generate 100 Amps at 12 volts, or approximately 1.25 kW.
The latest development of this technology doubles the area of each cell and enables up to 24 cells to be connected in series, thereby quadrupling the output capacity of a stack to 5 kW (200 Amps at 24 Volts nominal). An additional improvement incorporated in this iteration of the design is a streamlined electrolyte path that reduces load on the fuel pump. The new stack is designed for injection molding and die-casting from the outset, thereby reducing the cost to manufacture the unit.
"This development is a further illustration of the flexibility of the ZincNyx system," said ZincNyx President and CEO Suresh Singh. "Advances can be made to each component of the system without requiring simultaneous changes to the other components. In this case, the power generation capacity is increased without requiring simultaneous changes to the power regeneration capacity or the energy storage capacity."
Background - ZincNyx has developed a patented regenerative zinc-air flow battery that efficiently stores energy in the form of zinc particles and contains none of the traditional high cost battery commodities such as lithium, vanadium, or cobalt. The technology allows for low-cost mass storage of energy and can be deployed into a wide range of applications.
Unlike conventional batteries, which have a fixed energy/power ratio, ZincNyx's technology uses a fuel tank system that offers flexible energy/power ratios and scalability. The storage capacity is directly tied to the size of the fuel tank and the quantity of recharged zinc fuel, making scalability a major advantage of the flow battery system. In addition, a further major advantage of the zinc-air flow battery is the ability to charge and discharge simultaneously and at different maximum charge or discharge rates since each of the charge and discharge circuits is separate and independent. Other types of standard and flow batteries are limited to a maximum charge and discharge by the total number of cells as there is no separation of the charge, discharge and storage components. To watch a short video outlining this operation, please visit: http://www.zincnyx.com/technology/
About ZincNyx Energy Solutions - ZincNyx Energy Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of MGX, has assembled an experienced team to execute the development and commercialization of a dependable renewable energy source. With both environmental and efficiency factors in mind, ZincNyx's mission is to provide the lowest cost, longest duration and most reliable energy storage system for markets involving renewables firming, peak shaving, diesel generator replacement, telecom facility back-up, electrification of ferries and tug boats, and electric vehicle charging support. MGX intends to publicly list ZincNyx and pay a partial share dividend to MGX shareholders of record (see press release dated April 3, 2018).
Tesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) and Panasonic Corporation signed an agreement that lays out their cooperation on the construction of a large-scale battery manufacturing plant in the United States, known as the Gigafactory. According to the agreement, Tesla will prepare, provide and manage the land, buildings and utilities. Panasonic will manufacture and supply cylindrical lithium-ion cells and invest in the associated equipment, machinery, and other manufacturing tools based on their mutual approval. A network of supplier partners is planned to produce the required precursor materials. Tesla will take the cells and other components to assemble battery modules and packs. According to a blog in 2017, Tesla and Panasonic begin mass production of lithium-ion battery cells, which will be used in Tesla's energy storage products and Model 3.
Panasonic Corporation (OTC: PCRFY) is a worldwide leader in the development of diverse electronics technologies and solutions for customers in the consumer electronics, housing, automotive, and B2B businesses. On May 13, 2018, the company has begun mass production of prismatic-type automotive lithium-ion batteries at its factory in Dalian, China, and held a ceremony to mark the first shipment. The market for eco-conscious vehicles, including hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and electric vehicles, is growing every year thanks to the increase in environmental awareness in recent years. To respond to the market demand, Panasonic has been gearing up to start production at this factory, which is its first production site for prismatic-type automotive lithium-ion batteries in China. Amidst expectations of expanding demand for automotive lithium-ion batteries, Panasonic manufactures the high-capacity and high-safety prismatic-type batteries at this factory and ships them to the North American and Chinese markets. Shipments will be expanded in the future to reach more destinations, helping to drive the spread of eco-conscious vehicles.
Nemaska Lithium Inc. (OTC: NMKEF) is a developing chemical company whose activities will be vertically integrated, from spodumene mining to the commercialization of high-purity lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate. These lithium salts are mainly destined for the fast-growing lithium-ion battery market, which is driven by the increasing demand for electric vehicles and energy storage worldwide. On April 27, 2018, the company announced the signature of an agreement in principle providing for the supply by the Corporation to Northvolt of battery grade lithium hydroxide. Under this agreement in principle, Nemaska Lithium agreed to supply, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Nemaska Lithium Shawinigan Transformation Inc., and Northvolt agreed to purchase, on a take-or-pay basis, up to 5,000 but not less than 3,500 metric tonnes per year of lithium hydroxide produced at the Corporation's commercial plant in Shawinigan, for a 5-year supply period commencing upon the start of commercial production at both the Shawinigan Plant and Northvolt's projected Skellefteå factory in Sweden.
Lithium Americas Corp. (NYSE: LAC), together with SQM, is developing the Cauchari-Olaroz lithium project, located in Jujuy, Argentina, through its 50% interest in Minera Exar. In addition, Lithium Americas owns 100% of the Lithium Nevada project, and RheoMinerals Inc., a supplier of rheology modifiers for oil-based drilling fluids, coatings, and specialty chemicals. On April 5, 2018, the company provided an updated mineral resource estimate on the Thacker Pass deposit of the Lithium Nevada Project located in the McDermitt Caldera, Nevada, USA. The Resource Estimate was prepared pursuant to National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. At a cut-off of 2,000 parts per million lithium ("ppm Li"), the updated Resource Estimate consists of a Measured and Indicated Resource of 385 million tonnes grading 2,917 ppm Li for 6.0 million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent ("LCE") and an Inferred Resource of 147 million tonnes grading 2,932 ppm Li for 2.3 million tonnes of LCE.
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My instantaneous thought when reading of the Syrian Golan-1000 multiple-rocket-launcher was the German World War Two "Karl" siege mortar. Karl having a bore of 24 inches [600 mm] and firing a round of prodigious size.
"'Karl-Gerät' . . . was a World War II German self-propelled siege mortar designed and built by Rheinmetall. Its heaviest munition was a 60 cm (24 in) diameter, 2,170 kg (4,780 lb) shell, and the range for its lightest shell of 1,250 kg (2,760 lb) was just over 10 km (6.2 mi). Each gun had to be accompanied by a crane, a heavy transport trailer, and several modified tanks to carry shells."
See this You Tube video of a Karl as being fired in combat at the Siege of Sevastopol, WW2.
"Seven guns were built, six of which saw combat between 1941 and 1945. It was used in attacking the Soviet fortresses of Brest-Litovsk and Sevastopol, bombarded Polish resistance fighters in Warsaw, participated in the Battle of the Bulge, and was used to try to destroy the Ludendorff Bridge during the Battle of Remagen."
Read from the wiki that instance of "Karl" as was used by the German during the Battle of Warsaw, 1944. Damage as done perhaps quite similar to the destructiveness of Golan-1000? A whole city block of an urban area reduced to absolute rubble with a single shot. Golan using a thermobaric detonation as opposed to the "Karl" high-explosive but the result more or less the same.


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KD Cannon's scintillating performance Tuesday night turned out to be his final act on the collegiate stage.
On his Twitter account Wednesday afternoon, the Baylor wide receiver confirmed that he will forego his remaining eligibility and make himself available for the 2017 NFL draft. "Thank you, BAYLOR NATION, for always standing strong behind me and never giving up on this wonderful football program," a portion of Cannon's social media missive rad. "We have endured so much during the last couple of seasons and I am proud to say that my brothers and I kept our heads held high."
Thank You Baylor Nation For Everything. pic.twitter.com/mWECgipEGN
— 9_MKC (@IAmTheOne_9) December 28, 2016
Cannon set career highs this season in receptions (87), receiving yards (1,215) and receiving touchdowns (13). 14 of those receptions, 226 of the yards and two of the scores came in Baylor's upset of Boise State in the Cactus Bowl last night.
For his three-year Bears career, Cannon finished with 195 catches for 3,113 yards and 27 touchdowns.


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I spent 2 weeks in hospital because my body had a enough and was put on MORPHINE MST{ a strong pain killer for chronic pain} it helped a lot by this time I was on 20 -25 tablets a day plus ORMORPH.
RSD blog by Gill Pyrah. The RSD (CRPS) was caused by an accident whilst running in July 2004. This now has be come a chronic, painful condition which I have to live with each and every day. Updated regularly, so please feel free to add to your favourites and visit often!


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Oklahoma's Electric Cooperatives Electrify Remote Guatemalan Village
December 11, 2017
OKLAHOMA CITY – This Christmas, 65 families in a rural, isolated Guatemalan village will enjoy the gift of electricity for the first time. Thanks to Oklahoma's electric cooperatives, the village of Chiis in the department (state) of Alta Verapaz, northwest Guatemala, is fully electrified.
In a cooperative effort to increase access to electricity in developing nations, the Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives (OAEC) has partnered with NRECA International, the philanthropic arm for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), to electrify this poverty-stricken village in rural Guatemala. In October, a team of 13 co-op linemen, electricians and engineers spent three weeks building powerlines and wiring homes for first-time electricity.
"Bringing electricity to remote areas in developing countries takes electric cooperatives back to their roots," says OAEC General Managers Chris Meyers. "It reinforces our commitment to improve the quality of life for local communities at home and abroad."
The village of Chiis sits atop a mountain at 2,700 feet in altitude. The project consisted of wiring more than 50 poles in challenging terrain and wiring 65 homes in the span of approximately 2 miles of primary line and 1.2 miles of secondary line. The volunteers stayed at a training center near the village. The village of Chiis is isolated and economically vulnerable. Residents mainly produce beans, spices and corn for self-consumption. Most villagers speak a Mayan-based dialect, Kekchi. A local utility, ADECORK, generates power to the village of Chiis by way of a small hydroelectric plant. The utility will also maintain the powerlines built by Oklahoma co-op linemen.
The following volunteers served on this project: Jason Blalock (Cookson Hills Electric Cooperative, Stigler-Okla.), Jason Childress (East Central Oklahoma Electric Cooperative, Okmulgee-Okla.), Jake Collier (Northwestern Electric Cooperative, Woodward-Okla.), Daniel Franco (Canadian Valley Electric Cooperative, Seminole-Okla.), Darren Frazier (Choctaw Electric Cooperative, Hugo-Okla.), Heath Gossen (CKenergy Electric Cooperative, Binger-Okla.), Team Leader Damon Lester (Indian Electric Cooperative, Cleveland-Okla.), Tim Jenlink (Alfalfa Electric Cooperative, Cherokee-Okla.), Rodney Johnson (Cimarron Electric Cooperative, Kingfisher-Okla.), Clint Mobley (Oklahoma Electric Cooperative, Norman-Okla.), Andrew Pool (Central Electric Cooperative, Stillwater-Okla.), Matt Montgomery (Northeast Oklahoma Electric Cooperative, Vinita-Okla.), and Jeremy Shaffer (Kiamichi Electric Cooperative, Wilburton-Okla.)
"We are grateful for the overwhelming response of Oklahoma co-op linemen who left their homes for an extended period of time to empower far-away communities," says OAEC International Committee Chairman Jimmy Taylor. "Access to electricity will bring economic empowerment, better access to health care and enhanced safety for these villagers. It's a life-changing gift."
Electric cooperatives have a long-standing tradition of bringing lights where there are none. Co-ops were the driver for rural electrification in America's countryside, including rural Oklahoma, in the 1930s and 1940s. Today, however, there are still 1.1 billion people – or 15 percent of the world population – who live without access to electricity, according to the Energy International Agency.
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The Casual Gardener: Thrift will have you in the pink, especially beside the sea
Thrift is a native plant that can withstand drought, poor soil and high winds. I recommend it and its close relatives for coastal gardens
I LIVE close to the coast so it's only right that my garden reflects its location. I'm not out to create a replica of the shoreline in the area around the house but it makes sense both from an aesthetic and horticultural point of view that many of the plants feel at home beside the sea. It's the same with the materials.
Most of the inanimate objects that decorate my garden are salvaged from along the coast – the driftwood stumps, the lobster creels, the buoys, and the barely recognisable rusted remains of a tractor wheel, brought home across Ireland from the Atlantic seaboard. A formal rose garden or bedding in symmetrical patterns would look incongruous in such maritime-tinged surroundings.
One plant that fits perfectly into the parched, minimal landscape of the shoreline is thrift (Ameria maritima) – aka sea pink or rábhan, as Gaeilge.
Its robust habit reflects the extreme conditions it prefers – a low-growing carpet of tough tufted grass with pink papery flowers floating six inches above. Even the strongest gale won't trouble it, merely prompting the huddled cluster of lollipop flowers to dance all the more eagerly between May and September.
The native thrift is a common sight along my nearest stretch of Co Down coast, which is more rocky shoreline than beach and dunes. It likes alpine conditions – poor or little soil and plenty of sun. Bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects are drawn to its nectar.
Zoe Devlin's invaluable Wildflowers of Ireland (Collins Press) tells us that thrift is common right around the Irish coast and in some mountain locations. The book notes how the thrift flower appeared on the old English 12-sided threepenny bit that was introduced in 1937 – subliminally urging pre-war self-imposed austerity?
The late film-maker Derek Jarman, who created a quirky coastal garden on the shingle at Dungeness in Kent close to the power station, had a fondness for thrift. Having bought a plant at wild flower nursery he recalled: "My one plant, with its bobbing pink heads, is now 50. It's going to leap about, soon it will across the road."
As Jarman discovered, if it likes your conditions, thrift will spread – though only to nuisance rather than invasive levels. Its preferred habitat mimics the shingle and rocks of the shoreline, hence it's good for gravel gardens and rockeries. Ordinarily, the Irish would regard drought tolerant gardening as something people do on the Continent but the dry weather recent over weeks may have awakened an appreciation of all things arid. You can use the native thrift in your garden alongside other drought-tolerant plants like lavender, blue fescue grass and Lychnis coronaria.
There are also a range of culativars – cultivated varieties – that will fulfil a similar role as the native sea pink.
Armeria maritima 'Alba' is a white variety that flowers from late spring through summer. The neat and compact Armeria juniperifolia 'Bevan's Variety' is related to the common thrift. From late spring, it boasts groups of rosy-pink flowers that sit close to the carpet of foliage. Deemed worthy of the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit (AGM), it also goes by the name of Armeria caespitosa. Also recommended to be used in combination for a 'patchwork' effect are the dark red 'Bloodstone' and the light pink 'Vindictive', another AGM holder.


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Films about politick
Using the 1992 presidential election as his springboard, film-maker Brian Springer captures the behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings of politicians and newscasters in the early 1990s. Pat Robertson banters about "homos," Al Gore learns how to avoid abortion questions, George Bush talks to Larry King about halcyon and other drugs—all presuming they're off-air. Composed of 100% unauthorised satellite footage, Spin is a surreal expose of media-constructed reality, posing larger questions about the functioning of not only corporate media, but the political systems in which they support and how this in-turn plays to the media-constructed reality and so on.
John Pilger and David Munro look behind political rhetoric to discover the hidden world of international arms dealing…
John Pilger travels to Cambodia to investigate how the United Nations has allowed the Khmer Rouge regime to grow stronger. Why has Pol Pot's organisation grown stronger and more menacing since the arrival of the UN? Cambodia — Return To Year Zero looks behind the façade of the so-called 'peace process' and asks: Has the unthinkable for Cambodia at last been made acceptable for the rest of the world?
Pandora's Box — A fable from the age of science, is a six part series examining the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism, tying together communism in the Soviet Union, systems analysis and game theory during the Cold War, economy in the United Kingdom during the 1970s, the insecticide DDT, Kwame Nkrumah's leadership in Ghana during the 1950s and 1960s and the history of nuclear power.
Cambodia — The Betrayal is the fourth follow-up to John Pilger and David Munro's series on Cambodia, the film Year Ten from 1989, which examined the hypocrisy of western geopolitics by looking at the way in which the United Nations pressured Cambodia to accept the Khmer Rouge regime as part of the United Nations peace plan.
In 1979, the people of Nicaragua successfully put an end to decades of the corrupt Somoza dictatorship whose family had been in power for more than 40 years, put there by the United States marines. Four years later, this film travels to Nicaragua to question: How can a country survive when its jungle borders hold 4000 hostile troops?
Street Of Joy looks at how product marketing methods and advertising techniques are applied to politics by specifically following the campaigns around the election of Jimmy Carter in the United States during 1976. In these times, the techniques of today are seen in their early years, especially the use of carefully crafted images for use on television…
In Australia takes a candid look at the highs and lows of Australian society, circa 1976. The film ties together the workings of media manipulation in its early days, along with the removal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam by Governor-General coup d'état—Kerr's Cur—to demonstrate the common apathetic side of popular culture in the 'lucky country.' The film also touches on the subtlety of remnant class structures remaining from English heritage by revealing the workings of the 'Occa'—a prudish stereotype of the common person portrayed and exploited by mainstream media, revealing views on immigration and racism in a country, ironically, colonised by immigrants.
Underground is a film about the Weather Underground Organisation—a group founded as a militant faction of the civil rights and anti-war movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The film combines interviews with members of the group after they went underground who explain how they became radicalised amongst the political happenings in the United States at the time, as well as the revolutionary struggles in Cuba, Russia and China, and the history of struggles over Native American rights and labour issues. Also detailed is the group's analysis of American society, addressing those who have inspired them, and further explaining the reasons behind their militancy, while also introducing the issue of tactics. We see the use of property destruction as a way to bring about change and destabilise the current political order. Underground takes an intimate look at the inner workings of the Weather Underground and their strong internal collective identity, providing a record of how a bunch of middle-class Americans became self-styled militant revolutionaries, raising questions not only about the merits of their struggle, but also about past and future radical actions.
Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy covers the absurdity of the supposed logic behind "Mutual Assured Destruction" or MAD—a doctrine of military strategy and the national security policy of the United States during the cold war. During this time, MAD is supposedly disassembled, but replaced with a strategy called "Counterforce." This film investigates the propositions of "Counterforce," questioning the rhetoric of executing a "flexible, acceptable nuclear war."
From 1974, Hearts and Minds documents the events of the Vietnam War using news clips as well as directly captured footage showing actions and other happenings on the ground by the United States military during the war. The film also follows Vietnamese people themselves as to how the war affects them and why they fight back. Hearts And Minds reveals a racist and self-righteous militarism of the west, ironically in stark similarity to recent happenings in Iraq and elsewhere.


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TBS character assasination of Governor IshiharaJanuary 25th, 2007 . by Matt
Part of the comic Kenkanryu described how the Japanese media often distorts issues, and gave an example of TBS (a Japanese TV station) manipulating the voice of Governor Ishihara to make it seem like he said the opposite of what he really said. In the video clip below Ishihara seems to say "I want to 100% justify the annexation of Korea". TBS then devoted a whole segment to his "problematic remarks". They even go as far as to look for ethnic Korean groups in Japan to comment on it, including the North Korean front organisation, Chosen Soren.
What he actually said is "I do not want to 100% justify the annexation of Korea", the opposite of what the TV program had him saying. TBS was sued by Ishihara and made a low key apology, but most people just remember what he supposedly said. The lawsuit was unsuccessful, and TBS claimed it was an "error".
In fact, there are many such Ishihara quotes out there. Personally, I choose not to give any credence to them unless I see them on video, or hear them in the original Japanese.


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How to Live Well on a Low Earning
Living on a low earning can be very stressful and tiring. But you can make it easy to live well on a low earning by proper budgeting and seeking aid when necessary. Following them will make it surprisingly easy for you to survive on small amount of money. Such low income earners can also avail various aids offered by the federal, state, and local governments. Combining the aids with other cost saving measures will make it easy for you to easily stretch your income and make all your ends meet.
Start Living Below Your Means
If you have started saving early for your retirement and you can afford to live a comfortable life through retirement then you are on the right track. But if not then it's time to get started with your saving plan. By living below your means you can easily start saving. Living on at least 20 percent less than your monthly income will enable you to save enough money for any sort of unexpected situation, be it a medical problem, home renovation or any sort of unexpected expenses.
Manage Your Budget
Having a budget is important. If you are living below means and on a fixed income, you should first prioritize your expenses and then cut back on your spending. If the monthly total expenses are not 20 to 25 percent below your monthly income you should start making a list of all your expense and cut all your discretionary costs until and unless you have enough cash in your savings account.
Avoid Adding New Debt
The best way to live on a low earning is to avoid adding new debt and expenses. If you in trouble due to bad financial decisions and impulse buying made in the past, you need to be careful and stay away from such decisions that can lead to overspending. Having more debts that you can afford to repay back will lower your standard of living gradually. Therefore, try to practice controlled splurging and avoid buying anything that is non-essential and you can live without.
Downsizing To A Smaller Place
If you are living in a home that cost you rent more than 20 percent of your monthly income then consider moving into a small or less expensive place. By doing so you will have to give away less and you can invest more and save. A small house will also cost you less maintenance. If you own a home, you can easily refinance your mortgage at an affordable rate. Doing so will help you to free up some money that you can put towards your investments or savings. If you have extra room or you are single, you can rent out the room or take in a roommate or two. This will make it easy for you to save money on housing costs. You can then use that money straight into investments.
Start Taking Up Extra Jobs Or Earn Extra Money From Home
If your earning is low and you are unable to meet your expenses then you can start taking up extra jobs or work overtime. Living in such fixed and low income demands adjustment. But having a second income will make it easy for you to live well and also save for emergency needs and retirement as well.
Go For Planned Shopping
Plan your shopping ahead and avoid spending money on things that are non-essential. Using a written budget can be very helpful for you to keep your shopping within your income. It will also help you to avoid overspending as you will have already allotted the money for each category.


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Sounds are a necessary part of many interactive and entertainment projects. They increase the level of immersion and add feedback to the interactions. Also, sounds play a central role in sound art projects. In this chapter you will learn how to play sound samples, synthesize new sounds, and get sounds from the microphone. Also, you will learn how to get information from sound using its spectrum and use it for controlling visualization parameters:
- Playing sound samples
- Generating sounds
- Using a microphone
- Getting spectral data from sound
Codes and executables for Windows, openFrameworks 0.074, Visual Studio Express 2010 C++: Download
Bouncing Ball
Consider a ball bouncing on the floor. Let the ball jump in the left or right direction after each bounce and let's play a sound sample at each bounce, with the speed (and hence a tone) of the sample depending on the ball position. Over time, some random sequences of samples with different tones will be played. It is a piece of computer-generated music, based on physical modeling.
Singing Voices
This example plays several looped samples, slowly changing its volumes.
The volume changing is implemented using Perlin noise.
PWM Synth
This example synthesizes PWM-sound. The mouse position change parameters: x – frequency, y – PWM-value.
Image to Sound
This example transcodes central horizontal of the image grabbed by webcamera to sound.
Loop Sampler
This example records and plays short sound sample. Press "1" for recording, and press "2" for playing.
Dancing Cloud
This example draws points cloud and plays music track. Also it analyzes music spectrum and use this data for controlling the radius and shuffle of the cloud.
Music track "surface.wav" by Ilya Orange (soundcloud.com/ilyaorange)


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Wow! This issue is our 2nd anniversary for Cycle Connections, and I just want to thank all our readers for their support, comments and article suggestions. It is through our readers that others hear about the magazine, and we thank you for your interest.
Have you ever thought about what it would be like to ride a motorcycle without putting your feet down at a stop? Or having to balance the bike in stop-and-go traffic? And don't all of us get a little tense on a long stretch of gravel? Do you have injuries that keep you from riding? Well, there is a solution if you have found riding two wheels is no longer comfortable for you. Trike your bike! Be free on three!
Trikes are becoming more popular with motorcyclists; we see them at rallies, in parades, in group rides and even in the parking lot of grocery stores. Hey, I wouldn't mind having a trunk to haul my shopping bags in or just the extra room to pack more threads for a trip! And, with the outrageous fuel increase, it would be cost/fuel efficient to run all your errands on a trike. I'm sure there are a lot of trike owners doing just that.
Let's take a look at why women convert their bikes to trikes, the costs involved, the various kits that are available, advantages and disadvantages, and some advice from diva trike owners.
Basically, a trike is a motorcycle with the rear wheel removed. It is replaced by two automotive wheels attached to the rear differential with shaft drive and wrapped in a fiberglass body. Trikes are not new; Harley-Davidson sold its Servicar 45 ci trike from around 1932 until 1972. Of course none of our readers are old enough to remember the earlier years, but they were recognized as police bikes and ice cream wagons.
When it comes to choices for conversion kits there are a multitude to research. The most popular one that I have heard of is Lehman Trikes, Inc. They are usually at all the major rallies and claim to be the world leader in trike conversion. They offer 150 dealers throughout North America, and you can choose from a wide range of styles to fit Harleys, Harley police bikes, Honda, BMW and Suzuki models. Only an authorized Lehman dealer can sell the kits, and the mechanic must be licensed by Lehman. The Trike Shop, located in Minnesota and Daytona Beach, does conversion for Harley-Davidson, Honda Gold Wing and Valkyrie, or will build you a VW powered trike! Tri-Wing Industries developed the first "bolt-on" conversion kit for Gold Wings and has since developed this style of kit for the Yamaha Venture Royale. Leola Motor Trike is one of the largest Motor Trike dealers, located in Leola, Pennsylvania. There is also an alternative to the standard trike called The Voyager. They advertise "from 2 wheels to 4 wheels in 5 minutes." "Easy on- Easy off" motto.
Mystery Designs specializes in innovative trike conversion kits and is the home of the Tiltster- tilting mechanism. According to their website they are the world's first independent suspension kit for motorcycles. Conversion kits from the companies listed above range in price from $6,000 to $15,000. The high end includes add-on accessories. And of course that price does not include the bike.
Carmen Esler of Platte City, Missouri has been riding for four years. She started on a Harley-Davidson Sportster that her husband bought her for Christmas. She rode the back roads of Platte County the first year, but never felt comfortable riding in a group or on the highways.
The next year when her husband decided to get a new bike, Carmen decided to keep his Harley-Davidson Road King Classic and trike it out. She looked at the Voyager, but after watching them on the road she didn't like the way they handled. She ordered the Lehman Conversion Kit from Central Harley-Davidson, and they also performed the installation. Carmen said the service from Central has been nothing but the best.
She has about $35,000 invested in her trike, which includes the original cost of the bike, chrome, the conversion kit and extras like wire wheels, tour pack and a new seat.
Carmen has a 5-gallon tank and can usually get 30-35 miles per gallon. Her trike does not have a reserve so when she reaches 160 miles, she is running on fumes! She does not have a reverse; that would run about $1,600 to add on, and she said, " I can do a lot of pushing for that kind of money!" A few weeks later when it was completed she pulled into my driveway in a candy apple red trike—did I mention expensive trike?!! Carmen made the comment, "I have more money in this trike than some people have in their houses!!" Well, if you ride enough it could be your "second home" if that makes you feel better. See photo below of Carmen riding in the End of the Trail parade in Platte City a few weeks ago.
When I asked what the most challenging part of riding a trike was, she said, " I try not to get myself in a situation where I can't get out. If I have to park in an awkward position, I make sure there are people with me to help back the trike out. Also, cornering is not as big of a deal as people talk about. You do have to slow down some, but once you get into the corner, you gas it and get the hell out."
The big selling point for Carmen to convert to a trike was the safety. She said, "I feel safe on my trike; knowing there are three wheels makes me more confident. And since I have so much trouble with my hands and feet, I don't think I could ever ride a 2-wheeler again."
Carmen's advice to anyone interested in a trike is, "It's a great ride, the only downfall is the trunk is not big enough for those shopping trips!"
On the recent Biker's for Habitat charity ride, I met Susan Matthews who was riding a fire engine red Harley-Davidson V-Rod Trike. She also rode on two wheels first on a bike her husband bought her for their 10th wedding anniversary. She took the MSF classes and rode a little, but not a great deal. She said she never felt very comfortable. Then a year later they traded that bike in on a V-Rod for two reasons. "Since I wasn't riding very much we thought that would be a bike both her husband and she could ride. And if I wanted to ride alone, he still had his bike." "This spring, we started discussing getting me a trike. We first looked for trikes already built, but there are not many around. My husband started researching the different kits and manufactures." "He found a dealer in Miami, Oklahoma, Nutting Custom Trikes that would convert my V-Rod into a trike."
"Thinking safety first, they used the Motor Trike kit, which is what my husband wanted for me because it had the direct drive transmission and the air ride suspension." "I preferred the Motor Trike because of the look, so we had it done! I love it!" Susan says she is riding more than she ever thought she would (2,000 miles this summer). She rode to Sturgis and is riding all over Kansas City now. Susan said, "The bike handles great, steers perfectly and is very stable." She would highly recommend it to anyone wanting to enjoy the feel of riding a motorcycle, but apprehensive with two wheels (see photo below).
Joyce Shook is the Missouri State Ambassador for Women on Wheels and has been around motorcycles since the age of 17. She said she was introduced to the three-wheelers around 1997 when it became apparent that because of bad knees she was either going to have to stop riding her 1982 Honda Silver Wing or find something else.
Joyce said her husband Jerry suggested she look into a Gold Wing trike, so she started the research process. She went straight to the Internet and searched for articles about the different trike kits and talked to numerous dealers who handled Lehman, CSC, and Motor Trike.
Joyce's first trike was the "White Elephant," a 1990 Pearl White Honda Gold Wing SE (1500 cc). Her main ride now is a 2003 candy red, Honda Gold Wing (1800 cc) with a Lehman conversion. Joyce's comments on her trike, "The ride is smooth and steady, it hugs curves like a magnet, and the speed and response are magnificent, not to mention all the whistles and bells. I have ridden both trikes through the curves in Arkansas, up through Bear Tooth Pass, down through Needles Highway and the Big Horn Mountains, across the beaches of Florida, down Highway '666,' and hugged the big curves on 'The Dragon' in Deal's Gap. It's hard to explain how going around those curves on a trike can be just as fun and enjoyable as on two wheels, but the feeling is there." "Am I glad I ride a trike? Well, I wouldn't say I don't miss the lean of two wheels, but I sure do love my trike."
Her advice to others who are interested in purchasing a trike would be, "The best thing to do is test ride as many as you can. If you talk to individuals that ride a trike, chances are that is the one they will tell you is the best. And, if you do choose to ride a trike, get used to being popular. People will come up to you to talk about your trike. I never pull into a gas station, restaurant, or national park anymore without having someone come over to me and ask numerous questions about the trike." See photo below with Joyce and her Dragon in Canada.
Recently on a Saturday afternoon at F.O.G. Cycles, the Boss Hoss demo rides were available to anyone interested in riding the monster bikes and trikes. There were approximately 8-10 trikes and just as many 2-wheel bikes. They were absolutely beautiful (see photos below). Boss Hoss trikes get about 24-30 miles per gallon with a 300-mile range on a nine-gallon tank. They do have a reserve of two gallons, and it takes five quarts of oil. The transmission is a 3-speed automatic with reverse and park. They weigh approximately 1500 pounds and the frame width is 60 inches. The engine is a V-8 Chevy 350, with horsepower of 355-502. Prices vary from $35,000 to $45,000.
A friend of ours, Steve Hanchette, rode both and said the trike handled like a dream. He was impressed with the power and how easy it was to accelerate. I understand Frank Hicks, owner of F.O.G., is now a dealer for Boss Hoss, so you may want to stop in and talk to him, compare prices, etc. They are definitely head-turners and conversation pieces!
After talking to the girls on their riding experiences, here are some tips on riding a trike:
Spend time getting familiar with steering and evasive maneuvers.
Train yourself to steer, not counter steer.
Don't try to put your foot down when you stop, or the rear wheel may run over it.
You need to compensate when you pull into a gasoline island, or toll station.
Steady pressure is required in tight turns or decreasing radius turns on entrance and exit ramps.
Don't assume that since you have been riding motorcycles that you already know how to ride a trike. It's not as easy as it looks.
I hope this article gives you some insight on trikes and helps in your decision-making if you are considering the change.
In closing, as we witness the horror and tragedy caused by Hurricane Katrina, the devastation and human loss is heartbreaking. Many have not only lost family, but also their homes, businesses, pets and all their worldly possessions…even their motorcycles.
They are all in our thoughts, and I hope all our readers will reach out to contribute in some way to help them whether it be in the form of money, supplies, bedding linens, or pet food. Every bit helps heal a broken city.
We have been to New Orleans three times and attended the Steel Pony Express Rally last October. It's shocking to see what is left of the party town we so fondly remember. Riding our bikes around Lake Pontchartrain, down St. Charles, through the Garden District and finally finding our way to the French Quarter makes it seem impossible that something of this magnitude has happened. I fear it will be several years before the Steel Pony rebounds, but knowing the way the great American people have come forward to help, it may be sooner than we expect. I hope so.
Goldie Arnold
"Never ride faster than your angle can fly"
TIP OF THE MONTH: Never, never trust the turn signals of oncoming vehicles when pulling out. WAIT until you know for sure they are making the turn.


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Guys, the time has finally come. Heinz Mayochup is available in the United States, and you'll be able to purchase a bottle (or five) at your local grocery store when it stocks up on the goods. I repeat: HEINZ MAYOCHUP IS HAS BEEN RELEASED. Sound the alarms, make room in your fridge, and order some fries. After months of anticipating the condiment's U.S. debut, Heinz began distributing it on Monday, Sept. 17. The product will be fully rolled out by the end of the month — but thanks to the Heinz Mayochup food truck takeover, one lucky U.S. city will be able to try it first.
Since Heinz Mayochup will be rolling out through September, there is no nationwide release date for the condiment, per Heinz. As I previously mentioned, people will start seeing the product hit the shelves on Sept. 17 — but the release for each major store will depend on the retailer. With that being said, Heinz wants to treat one city to a Mayochup food truck takeover. That way, those living in the area won't have to wait for the beloved condiment to hit the shelves near them. According to a press release, the takeover will bring free samples of Heinz Mayochup to the city so those living there can get a first taste of the product. Heinz's food truck takeover will also provide everyone with fries, because people are gonna need to dip something into their Mayochup.
However, Heinz won't be picking the lucky city it visits — you will. Starting on Sept. 17, you will have 48 hours to vote for the U.S. city you want Heinz to come to. In order to vote, visit Heinz's Twitter page and submit your city's name. If your area ends up winning, the Heinz Mayochup food truck takeover will come to your town. Then, you'll get to try Heinz Mayochup before it becomes totally available nationwide. Don't be too bummed if your city isn't chosen, though, because the condiment will hit the shelves in your area eventually.
Again, how stoked are you that Heinz Mayochup is finally available stateside? I can barely contain my excitement.
One person that might be even more excited than you is Nicole Kulwicki, the Director of Marketing for Heinz. She talked about the U.S. Mayochup rollout in a press release, and said,
After seeing the unprecedented passion surrounding this product, including the nearly one million votes on social media and 500,000 votes in favor of bringing it stateside, launching Mayochup in the U.S. was a no-brainer. We're excited to officially welcome Heinz Mayochup sauce to the Heinz family of products, including ketchup, mustard, BBQ sauce and our most recent addition, Heinz mayonnaise.
If you're planning on stocking up on Heinz Mayochup when it becomes available at a store near you in September, you're going to want to know a few more details about the release. Each 16.5-ounce bottle will be sold for a suggested retail price of $3.49, so put some cash aside. If you can't find it at the store, you can also try buying a bottle or two online at Walmart.com and Amazon.com.
What are you waiting for? Go vote for your city and cross your fingers that a store near you will stock up on Heinz Mayochup ASAP.


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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Into the Deep
As a kid, I read mostly nonfiction, Boxcar Children books, and collections of Peanuts comic strips. I knew the biography section well, but I don't recall having too many picture books that were biographies. Now, it's hard to find the time to read all of the really good ones that have been published just this year.
David Sheldon's Into the Deep, is a biography of naturalist William Beebe. Beebe searched remote areas around the world to find rare species of animals and to teach others about the need for conservation. He, along with Otis Barton, invented the Bathysphere which allowed him to search the unexplored depths of the ocean.
Into the Deep is full of bright and exotic illustrations that illuminate why William Beebe loved nature. I would add this book to my biography collection and also use it to discuss conservation issues. Sheldon's text is full of vivid verbs so you could also read it for a writing mini-lesson.
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Exciting times
The fourth industrial revolution or Industry 4.0 is upon us. This current trend in the manufacturing evolutionary cycle of the human race talks about hyper-connected systems that will enable smarter decisions and seamless information flow. I cherry pick my favorites from the trending technology pool below:
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning : Allowing machines to learn from us first and then make autonomous decisions
- Natural Language Processing: Allowing machines to break down sentences into meaningful and actionable information
- Voice Recognition: Enabling devices to 'transcribe' speech to sentences
- Gesture Recognition: Enabling machines to map out hand and finger geometries and movements
- Internet of Things: Sensors that can translate hardware functioning to usable signals
I have been fascinated with the possibilities of these technologies for a while now. Since I have worked with Salesforce for around 7 years, I naturally tend to think of quirky and exciting use cases.
The next section lists some of these possibilities which I would like to implement and use in the near future.
Use Cases
Use Case
Possible Solution
|An IT manager would like to send information from Salesforce to an external system via gesture recognition
|A gesture recognition device would differentiate between the various types of hand/finger movements to facilitate this
|Leap Motion provides a Javascript API which can be incorporated into a Lightning Component to realise a Jarvis-like interface
|A Sales user would like to work on records seamlessly by using his/her thoughts
|A specific thought, for instance, 'Save the record', emits a different frequency signal v/s another thought, 'Delete the record'.
These signals can be mapped to the intent to enable thought to drive our navigation
|An EEG device (which captures brain signals) can be hooked up to a computer and turbocharged with IBM Watson's Machine Learning Algorithms
|The Customer Service department would like to announce critical milestones, issues or accomplishments automatically on their announcement system
|A 'High' priority case is created for a medical company which manufactures Pace makers for private use. This needs to be announced to the entire Customer Service department
|Alexa's API's can be integrated with Salesforce to push audio notifications to an Amazon Alexa speaker connected to the department's announcement system
|A real estate developer would like visitors to be able to engage with surroundings in their future home
|A VR headset in combination with gesture recognition is used to allow each individual to customise the interiors of the house and see the changes in real time- while walking around the property
|An Oculus sensor can be used for the virtual rendering with certain details customised based on the individual's Lead record pulled from Salesforce
And with that, I leave you with (hopefully) a skip in your step and excitement as you imagine the futuristic, 'Saas-y' world of Salesforce. We, at Nextview, pride ourselves in keeping Design Thinking at the forefront of our Salesforce implementations.
Please feel free to share your thoughts and other use cases you can think of with me at email@example.com!


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Chelsea, Michigan
Passed away May 15, 2018 after a short illness. Born February 14, 1933 in Louellen,
Kentucky to Nathan and Willie Mae (McClendon) Carr, the eldest of five children.
He is survived by his wife, Janice; children, Marshall Jr., Marsa W. Garcia, and Mary G. Davis; two sisters,
Genene Meeks and Mary Frances (Harold) Hall, and a host of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.
Cremation has taken place.
Family and friends are invited to share memories and reminiscences at a Celebration of Life gathering followed by lunch on Sunday, August 19, 2018 from 1 to 4pm at the Comfort Inn, 1645 Commerce Park Dr. Chelsea, MI.
Memorial contributions may be made to the charity of your choice.


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Many schools experience a fall in overseas applicants, especially for two-year courses
Jonathan Moules MAY 28, 2018
Moving to the US to attend business school is something of a family tradition for Srinivasan Masti. His cousin relocated from Bangalore to Columbia Business School five years ago. His uncle had already made a similar move and now teaches at New York University's Stern School of Business.
But after weighing up the options of job opportunities versus course costs — and hearing warnings about the challenges of securing the necessary H-1B work visa, Mr. Masti chose Germany's ESMT Berlin. "For many years in India, there was a fascination with going to the US to get an MBA," Mr. Masti says. "But that has diminished."
Falling demand for the traditional two-year MBA is a big concern for US schools, many of which suffered a decline in applications between 2014 and last year, according to data compiled by the Graduate Management Admission Council, the business school entrance exam administrator.
Given that applications have been rising at the same time for rival one-year MBAs offered by many European business schools, the suggestion by GMAC is that US schools are suffering because of their longer course length. The cost of tuition fees at top US schools, which have risen faster than salary increases achieved by students after graduation, is another concern for applicants.
Quality is another factor: US schools at the top of rankings have record numbers of applications, while the majority further down must work harder to recruit students.
However, research by the FT among a selection of US schools on its Global MBA Ranking found that, for many suffering declining applications, it is overseas students like Mr. Masti who are losing interest in the American MBA.
Eight of the 17 US schools in the FT list approached for detailed admissions data said that application numbers were down. At all but one of these, applications from US citizens have increased in the past year, while interest from overseas applicants has fallen.
The number of Americans applying for the two-year MBA degree at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, for instance, increased by 5 percent in the current admissions cycle. But overall demand for the course was down 9.8 percent because applications from overseas dropped 16.8 percent.
Tepper's dean, Bob Dammon, blames a growing reluctance among US employers to hire foreign nationals. "The job options for international students in the US [are] declining," he says. "However, these are exactly the people who we want to keep in the US as part of our workforce."
At the University of San Diego School of Business Administration, a 2 percent increase in applications from US residents this year contrasted with a 31 percent drop in applications from other countries. This matters because 59 percent of the school's MBA class is from outside the US.
China and India are the two largest sources of overseas students on San Diego's MBA course, but applications from the two countries were down 34 percent and 4 percent respectively.
Kacy Hayes, the school's assistant dean of graduate programmes, says some students may be put off by a perception that the US is less welcoming to foreign nationals. But there are other factors behind the drop, she says. For instance, many admissions teams in US schools now use technology to detect applications from China that make fraudulent claims.
The growth in reputation and capacity of Asian schools has meant students from that region may be less inclined to study overseas, according to Ms. Hayes.
Aditi Sharma, a former consultant at Cognizant Technology Solutions, near Delhi, did plan to study abroad for her MBA, and was offered a place at Hult International Business School's San Francisco campus and also at the UK's Durham University Business School.
She opted for the latter, and the reputation of the UK education system, Durham in particular, was the important factor in choosing its course, says Ms. Sharma. Her fees are £23,000 ($31,000) after deductions from scholarship funding: substantially less than the $75,000 she would have paid at Hult.
Work visas are still a problem. In the UK, overseas students have only four months to find work after graduation, while if she had chosen to study in the US, Ms Sharma would have been able to stay for a year after graduating under the Optional Practical Training programme.
For many students, choosing a place at a business school outside the US is a positive choice.
Masti, for example, chose a German MBA over a US course primarily because of the benefits of moving to Europe's largest economy, and the option to work in other EU countries without having to apply for separate visas every time he moves.
"The economy here is booming," he says. "And the jobs are good quality."
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Tips & tricks¶
Using multiple channels¶
It is quite common to install a package from conda-forge and, when trying to use it, see an error like (OS X example):
ImportError: dlopen(.../site-packages/rpy2/rinterface/_rinterface.so, 2): Library not loaded: @rpath/libicuuc.54.dylib
Referenced from: .../site-packages/rpy2/rinterface/_rinterface.so
Reason: image not found
That happens because either the correct version of
or any other package in the error,
is not present or the package is missing altogether.
Once you can confirm by issuing the command
conda list and searching for the package in question.
Why does that happen?¶
conda-forge and
defaults are not 100% compatible.
In the example above it is known that
defaults uses
icu 54.* while
conda-forge relies on
icu 56.*,
that mismatch can lead to errors when the install environment is mixing packages from multiple channels.
Note: All of conda-forge software pinning can be found at: https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-pinning-feedstock/blob/master/recipe/conda_build_config.yaml
How to fix it?¶
conda versions (>=4.6) introduced a strict channel priority feature.
conda config --describe channel_priority for more information.
The solution is to add the
conda-forge channel on top of
defaults in your
.condarc file when using
conda-forge packages
and activate the strict channel priority with:
$ conda config --set channel_priority strict
This will ensure that all the dependencies will come from the
conda-forge channel unless they exist only on
Here is how a
.condarc file would look like:
$ cat .condarc
channel_priority: strict
- conda-forge
- defaults
In addition to the channel priority, we recommend to always install your packages inside a new environment instead of the root environment from anaconda/miniconda. Using envs make it easier to debug problems with packages and ensure the stability of your root env.
In the past
conda-forge used to vendorize some of
defaults dependencies that were not built in our infrastructure,
like compilers run-times, to avoid the mixing channel problem.
However, with the
strict option, we no longer have to vendorize those (this led to its own set of problems),
instead, we removed everything that is not built in
conda-forge and let
strict pull those from
TL;DR if you are experiencing missing compilers run-times like
that is probably because you removed
just re-add it and activate
strict for a smooth and stable experience when installing packages.


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EDINBURG — During his first season as UTRGV men's basketball coach last year, Lew Hill was intent on instilling his culture at any cost. Looking back, he admits he was stubborn with regard to in-game adjustments, unwilling to waver from his ideal formula.
In Year 2, his approach is different.
"We used to keep bumping our heads. Last year, we would do that," Hill said. "But we had to send a message to the guys that you have to work hard. I think that was the difference. This year, we want to work hard, and be able to make in-game changes."
This year, Hill said "playing to win" is one of the team's mottos. Though the goal may sound obvious, the mentality marks a departure from last season, when implementing a certain style of play mattered more than wins and losses.
The new focus on the bottom line has produced results in 2017-18. UTRGV's 15 wins is the most in a season since the 2012-13 team went 16-16, and the Vaqueros' 6-8 conference record marks the highest win total out of the program's five WAC campaigns. After finishing seventh in the conference standings last year, UTRGV is the No. 5 seed in the WAC Tournament entering a quarterfinal matchup against No. 4 seed Seattle at 10:30 tonight at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas.
"Last year, I had a mindset of just introducing my culture here," Hill said. "Now, I'll change the game plan in the middle of the game. I'll do whatever it takes to win. I'll sit whoever. I'll play whoever. That's what I mean."
UTRGV rarely abandoned its man-to-man defense in 2016-17, while the 2017-18 group has played mostly zone for entire games if Hill thought the matchup made sense.
Hill has also put players in positions to succeed rather than trying to mold them to his system. In January, Hill said he was allowing center Dan Kimasa to play more around the basket this season. Last year, Hill often tasked Kimasa with guarding and trapping on the perimeter.
"I just learned more patience," Hill said. "Understanding the guys better, and how to make changes on the move better. So I work hard at it, too. Like I tell the guys, my way of learning is listening. Watching a bunch of film and asking a bunch of questions to coaches that have done it before me."
Sophomore Xavier McDaniel Jr. said he's seen an increased intensity from Hill this season. McDaniel added that UTRGV's defense has changed significantly from last year, with a greater focus on opposing personnel. As the win total has increased, confidence has also skyrocketed.
"The main difference is the fact that we still want to be here," McDaniel Jr. said. "Last year, people were ready to go home and stuff. This year, everybody seems to be checked in. Everybody is here."
McDaniel said UTRGV's spread offense creates space for each player to play to his strengths. While last year's team regularly spotted up from beyond the arc, the 2017-18 offense has been built around driving and getting to the free-throw line, mirroring the strengths of leading scorer Nick Dixon. On the year, UTRGV ranks first in the nation by scoring 25.2 percent of its points at the free-throw line, according to KenPom.com. Dixon averages 20.5 points per game and ranks third in Division I by drawing 8.5 fouls per 40 minutes.
"We're more focused this year. Last year, it was just a whole new experience for everybody," Dixon said. "This year, we improved as a team, and we're excited. … We know what coach wants from us. Now, it's just about executing the game plan. Whatever it takes to win. We're still learning, but we can eliminate the learning process."
Dixon is in his final year with UTRGV, but he said the program will have a bright future after he departs.
Hill said the improvement from 10-22 last year to 15-16 this season is an obvious step forward. He credited the change to bringing in better players while developing and becoming more familiar with the returners.
McDaniel Jr. believes the positive trend should be expected to continue next year during his junior season.
"It's definitely going up from here," McDaniel said. "Last year, I don't know, it was just ugly. It was an ugly year last year. Why lie? But going forward, I can say that I feel confident in the teams coming up next year, and the year after that. I feel confident."


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