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, but is very far from being similar to the 3DS Mii simulation game. Instead, it relies on users answering questions to spur conversations with their friends.There are three core parts to Miitomo; answering questions and reacting to friends' answers, customizing your Mii, and decorating and creating images in Miifoto. The life of Miitomo comes through these simple questions.
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Let Me Ask You a QuestionIn the demo, I was asked questions about what was I just doing, and my favorite pop culture trend. After answering, I could see who had answered the same questions, which answers I'd already seen, and which I had not. This is the basic flow of Miitomo. Your Mii, or a friend's Mii, asks you questions that are collected and saved to your profile. You can edit your answers, so you're not tied to an answer or opinion that could change in the future.
These feel like they'll be fun tests on how well you know your friends' interests.When a friendly Mii enters your room, you'll be able to see how they answered questions, like their answer, and respond to their answer. Occasionally, Miis will ask you a question about a friend that's kept private from others. For example, a Mii on my friends list was asked to guess my celebrity crush, and then I had the opportunity to respond to his silly answer. These feel like they'll be fun tests for how well you know your friends' interests.
Adding friends is simple, but limited. There are no usernames. You add friends based on who you're connected with on Facebook and Twitter. There are no region limitations, so you can be friends with anyone around the world. If you're not on social media, you can add Miitomo friends in person through a simple process of clicking shapes in the app at the same time.
Knowing Nintendo, it's understandable that the friend processes is a little tighter to protect the identities of the people using it. Users have to be at least 13 to sign up, so it makes sense that those people will be old enough to have social media accounts. But what about our friends and family who choose not to participate in social media, but want to be a part of the Miitomo community? My twin sister lives in another state, so until we see each other again, we won't be able to connect in Miitomo. She's the one I'll probably use this app most with, so I hope that another method of finding friends is added in the future.
Tapping on a friend Mii — whether they're in your apartment or you are viewing theirs — will allow you to see their clothes (and buy them if you wish), levels, and which questions they've answered, and other information. If you haven't heard the answer to a question, you can buy it with candy, one of three currencies in Miitomo. These candies cannot be purchased with real money.
As a social app, Miitomo relies heavily on how often you and your friends answer these questions and are willing to start discussions from them. Nintendo confirmed that there will be more questions added in the future.
New Day, New StyleThe Mii creator almost identical to Tomodachi Life. You'll customize your Mii's appearance, voice, personality, and set a changeable nickname. Alternatively, you can import existing Miis through QR code. My favorite way to create Miis, though, was the use the camera. Unlike Tomodachi Life's Mii creator, the camera tracks your face and makes a barrage of Miis for you to choose from.
Miis in Miitomo look great, especially after you've dressed them up in some stylish clothes. I was impressed with Miitomo's extensive catalogue, and it did a good job of covering all types of fashion. There was an adorable Lolita dress, school uniforms, formal wear, casual wear, and a ton of great accessories. Cat ears, anyone? I did notice a few pieces from Tomodachi Life, but a majority of the clothes were new, cute, and had multiple color schemes.
The shop itself is a lot of fun too. There are about six items that change out daily in addition to Miitomo's already large catalogue, so you'll mostly likely find something new when you log on. You can try on items and then share your look through social media. Then, when you go to checkout, you review each item in your cart on a list.
This is where the money comes in. Miitomo coins are used to buy clothes. The coins can be earned through in game activities, such as answering questions, and through daily login bonuses. Answering questions don't yield many coins, though. At only 15 coins per question, earn coins is slow if you're solely relying on questions. Bottoms can cost anywhere from a few hundred coins to well over a thousand. Full outfit sets are easily a few thousand coins. Still, most things you do will help you earn coins, so it's not impossible to save up for that dream pirate outfit you first fell in love with when you opened the store.
There's also incentives for buying more clothes. The more you have, the higher your style level. Similarly, the more friends you have and the more you interact with their answers, the higher your popularity level. Gaining levels gives you bonuses, but it's not quite clear what those bonuses will be.
Some Miitomo items aren't purchasable, however. They're winnable. Special clothes are available through the Miitomo Drop. This is currently the only game you can play in Miitomo.
...the reactions of the Miis as they tumble down the board to your lucky item are hilarious.To play, you have to use Miitomo coins or, the third and final currency, game tickets. Game tickets cannot be purchased, but can be earned through in-game bonuses. Miitomo drop is sort of like Plinko, except there are different barriers between you and the various levels of prizes. There are several boards with different themed items that are only available for a limited time. Playing a board doesn't take much time, as all you really do is drop a Mii at your chose spot and watch it fall. The reactions of the Miis as they tumble down the board to your lucky item are hilarious.
There's one thing that I felt was missing from the Miitomo store: items for your room. Your Mii's room is determined by your personality, and while you can change the personality at any time, you can't change the composition or the decorations in your room. Finding the perfect themes for my Miis in Tomodachi Life was one of the things that made visiting each of them so exciting, and it's a shame that we can't do the same for our Miis in Miitomo.
Photo OpMiifoto puts your Mii, your Mii friends, and whatever Miis you make in a toolbox to decorate and create photos. There are tons of silly poses — running, laying around, jumping, dancing — and expressions to choose to make your Miis just right for the image. Miis are animated, so the poses feel much more lively before you save the shot. You can also slow down the animation if you're looking for the perfect stance.
The Miis are also incredibly easy pose. Turning them to fit the right spot is simple, as is adjusting their sizes. There's also an option to just use the Mii's head, so if you want to add your Mii's face to replace Luigi's to sneak yourself into a special celebration, you can do that. While creating original images in Miitomo is possible, it's definitely more fun if you're editing an image from your camera roll.
In addition to the Miis, there are also stamps for word bubbles and other art. I could easily see someone making a short comic with their Miis by stringing the images together in a post online. There aren't any filters or brushes, but that sort of editing is easy to do in another app once you're done in Miifoto.
Miifoto does not have any purchasable items. You won't be offered any more stamps or poses, but what's available already feels like plenty. The stars of Miifoto are obviously the Miis, and when you can create, decorate, and resize them yourself, Miifoto doesn't feel like it needs anymore.
And Finally, the LogisticsMiitomo coins are priced at an estimated 1,000 coins for $0.99 with bonus Miitomo coins for the bigger bundles you buy. Nintendo said this was subject to change before launch, but this seems about standard for free-to-play games.
Also similar to others, there are bonuses for inviting friends. One fun thing, though, is that you can make your friend a Mii and then send it to them. That feels like a nicer, more personal touch for an invite, though I'm sure you can still spam your friends' inboxes with invitations for the game.Social media etiquette aside, the other way for users to earn bonuses is by connecting Miitomo to their My Nintendo account. Doing so unlocks basic quests that, when done, reward users with special Nintendo character goods for you Mii, game tickets, and more.
Nintendo's first of five apps has a lot of potential. It definitely misses opportunities with the lack of room customization, but the clothing options are pleasing. I'm most excited to see what kind of fun and creative images come out of Miifoto, and what sort of funny questions my friends will answer about me.
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The research, published in the British Journal of Sociology, was carried out by Dr Vikki Boliver, from the Department of Social Sciences at Bath Spa University, and Dr Adam Swift, from the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford.
The researchers analysed data from the National Child Development Survey, which tracks all children born in Britain in a particular week in 1958. Some of these children were among the first comprehensive school pupils, during the transition away from a selective system.
Unlike previous researchers Boliver and Swift not only compared the social mobility of children who attended comprehensives with those from grammar schools, but also included secondary modern schools in their analysis. They looked at children from all social backgrounds, rather than just those from working- class or low-income families, and they compared children of similar measured ability at age 11.
The study measured children's subsequent progress in terms of income and class and found that overall the selective schools gave no advantage in social mobility. Going to a grammar school rather than a comprehensive did not make children from poorer backgrounds more likely to be upwardly mobile. Moreover, any mobility advantage provided by grammar schools was cancelled out by the disadvantage suffered by those who attended secondary moderns. Looking at the total cohort of children, the findings suggest that comprehensive schools were as good for social mobility as the selective schools they replaced.
Lead author Dr Vikki Boliver explained: 'Whereas much media discussion focuses exclusively on grammar school pupils, with many bemoaning the introduction of the comprehensive school as depriving academically able children of a crucial ladder of opportunity, our analysis provides a more rounded approach.'Dr Adam Swift added: 'We must compare school systems, not merely individual types of school within them. Looking at the full picture rather than grammar schools alone, we find little to support the idea that comprehensive schools had a negative effect on their pupils' mobility chances.'
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Date of Observation: April 20, 2019 11:00 AM
Location of Observation: Tuckerman Ravine Trail
Almost an inch of rain on the summit since the the precipitation began Friday evening. It's been a good run for the Little Headwall this season, but it's now open with lots of water moving though at 11:00 today.
Snowpack observations are one part of the complex puzzle which is your decision to enter avalanche terrain. Some observations may include stability tests. It's important to understand that the results of a stability tests are seldom conclusive anywhere, but particularly in snow climates and terrain like ours where the primary driver of instabilities is wind drifted snow. Many stability tests exist and each works best with specific avalanche problem types. Stability test results should never be used alone as an indication that a slope or conditions are safe particularly when more obvious red flags are present. Please use this page as part of your information gathering process, but don't make decisions based on a single piece of information. A good article that summarizes some of the issues associated with snow and avalanche observations can be found here.
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Hayford Alile was an Apostle of God and an apostle of the Nigerian Stock Exchange where he played a pioneering role in setting it up.
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Came back from vacation to read that the old man is gone home. Gone finally. Gone the way of all men. We had interviewed him not too long ago for the book 50 NIGERIAN BOARDROOM LEADERS: Lessons in Corporate Governance and Strategy. Me and my young, co-author Jibril Musa.
It's one massive book that fills me with so much joy and pride. A book I conceptualized in memory of my late friend Dimgba Igwe who would have loved this book. The idea was to demystify and illuminate the boardroom: a sacred room where the best of the best come together as equals, under the chairmanship of an appointed leader who is primus inter pares, where they come to think, dream, talk, strategize, ask questions and perform oversight functions, all to ensure that companies deliver value and make profit to the delight of the shareholders and stakeholders.
The trouble with Nigerian businesses is that they die with the owners. The Nigerian graveyard is littered with business titans who died with the business they founded. They died without leaving behind a board to oversee, to structure, to shape their businesses and ensure corporate governance holds sway. They died without leaving behind a book that unlocks the secrets of their business wizardry. This is the gap I spotted in the Nigerian business ecosystem and decided to fill by writing books: books of interviews with business leaders who want to but have no time to tell their stories, who keep procrastinating, saying "I will write, I will write," until one day death strikes and they die with their dreams and legacies.
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Talking about books, I have just completed one massive book in the "Giants of Africa series" titled Eye- witness Biography of The Guru, Mike Adenuga. It is not yet for public release. Maybe sometime next year when the Guru must have read it. The second book slated for release next year is the Boardroom Leadership book featuring such business giants and boardroom gurus like Dr. Michael Omolayole (Lever Brothers), Dr. Christopher Kolade (Cadbury), Prof. Joe Irukwu (Father of Insurance), Arthur Mbanefo (UAC, CitiBank), Chief Olusegun Osunkeye (Nestle), Biodun Shobanjo (Troyka), Adedotun Sulaiman (Accenture), Felix Ohiwerei (Nigerian Breweries), Mrs. Ibukun Awosika (First Bank), Mrs. Mosun Bello-Olusoga (Access Bank), Mrs. Osaretin Demuren (GTBank), Steve Omojafor (Zenith Bank, Chris Ogbechie (Diamond) Dr. Okechukwu Enelamah (African Capital Alliance), Gbenga Oyebode (Access Bank), Asue Ighodalo (Sterling Bank, Dangote Flour), Emmanuel Ikazoboh (Ecobank, Dangote Cement), Obi of Onitsha Nnaemeka Achebe (Diamond Bank, Unilever), Dr. Chris Eze (Fidelity), Ernest Ebi (Fidelity) Udo Udoma (Union Bank) Ephraim Faloughi (Sovereign Trust), Sam Ohuabunwa (Pfizer), Ajibola Ogunshola (Punch), Dele Fajemirokun (AIICO). I could go on and on. Of course, Apostle Hayford Alile, the man who inspired today's column.
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Alile was a fulfilled man who served God and man faithfully. He was an Apostle of God and an apostle of the Nigerian Stock Exchange where he played a pioneering role in setting it up. Along this line, we asked him: Is there any correlation between the composition of a company's board and the health of its stock at the exchange? "Yes, indeed," he replied. "For a number of years investors never took seriously the quality of a director or a board but in the last few years they are beginning to take it seriously. They are beginning to ask, who are the directors? Are they there in the interest of the company, shareholders and the nation? In other words, a company should go to the stock exchange with a board of directors with reputable character. That raises another question: How important is integrity to membership of a board? Very. very important. The motto of the stock exchange is integrity and it applies to every area of business."
READ ALSO: Buhari, others condole with Hayford Alile's family
Beyond his foundational work at the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Alile had been chairman on the boards of Unilever, UTC Nigeria Plc, Oceanic Bank, and Afrivest (West Africa) Ltd. He had also served as a director on the boards of Industrial and General Insurance (IGI), Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company and the Central Bank among others. We asked him, among other things, what it takes to lead the board and he gave us this portrait:
The choice of a chairman of a board is very important. He is usually outstanding by his behaviour, not necessarily by his speeches, because behaviour speaks louder than speeches. Those who are going to choose the chairman of a board consider what they know about the individual. Who is this man? What makes him what he is? They try to look at organisations or setups that he has chaired in the past. These things are very important when considering an individual for the post of a chairman.
The chairman should not be someone who talks too much. His duty is to listen to members of the board and see how they can perform in their collective directive of the company. The best way for the chairman to succeed at his duty is to do more of listening. He can lead with the questions, but he should do more of listening so that he can summarize as much as possible the discussions.
The chairman is to set example for members of the board and the management, and to know the direction to move the company with minimal mistakes and excuses.
He should be a good example. One of the examples is not going behind to get a contract from the company he chairs, or getting his company to execute the contract, or promising it to some other interests and subsequently manipulates the discussion to make sure those vested interests (his candidates) win the contract. In this regard, the chairman has to be very careful. The easiest way for a board to fail is to allow self-interest to dominate discussions and decisions.
The chairman never knows it all but there are opportunities for him to go and sit in classes where other chairmen also learn, either self-financed or sponsored by the company, in order to prepare him for the position. Also, the chairman should be somebody who is prepared to learn, somebody who is prepared to read books written by experienced corporate executives or corporate directors. He should be somebody who can read books relevant to the company that he is chairing or leading. His role includes listening to what management says and in the process agrees with them or corrects them. He should listen to the executives when they are analyzing the strategy they use in running the company, or where there are errors and they call for a review in some necessary areas.
You can't know everything. What you don't know, ask people or find out from others who have succeeded in that line. This is my advice to chairmen.
Generally, board meetings come up quarterly. There is hardly enough time to properly treat the affairs of an organisation. As chairman, your integrity becomes a casualty if anything happens to the company whose board meeting you chair four times a year. That situation is made riskier because you will have to rely on facts and figures as documented by management. Therefore, it is important for me to ensure that when a meeting is held and decisions are taken, one or two persons are delegated to chase after those decisions. I keep calling them to know how far they have gone in effecting those decisions. Secondly, the chief executive must always be online with me. This is very important. In case of obstacles in terms of regulatory, operations or management-related issues, all he needed to do is to tell me where he is having the difficulty and the board would expedite action to try to find out who or what those obstacles are and subsequently find a way to have them removed.


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I have been South bank with my classmates.
Because we were doing Jumping, like a trampoline. It's name of Jumping castle. It was very interesting and very exhorted. But I spent a grate time. I remembered When I was a child I did it a lots of time.
However I had back and muscular pain.
Maybe we could do just 5 minutes but really really tired and fun. I thought a child has energy.
I can't do anymore.
And then, we were moving.
My friend take to the pub. She recommended it. So it was quite lovely also atmosphere and music is nice.
A lot of people were drinking and chatting there. I thought there are popular.
I drank a one pint of beer. If I didn't drink alcohol, I could fun with someone. But doesn't mutter. I was really enjoying it.
I made a new friend. She is from Switzerland. She said she really liked me at the toilet. kkk I was very happy because I'm almost same feeling. I don't know exactly why. Probably she personality is very good. I know she had sence of houma. I want to make a good friendship with her.
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"That's a Wrap" is my new Monthly wrap up post. I will be linking up the Sunday post.
The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It's a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.
Long time to see, eh?
A few weeks ago, I did a quick update on what has been going on around the home front – and why I have been scarce this month. I was hoping once we got back into the swing of things, I could get back into my schedule and things would be perfect.
School starts next week (can you even believe it!?) so we have been trying to figure out our dreaded daycare situation. Since my oldest will be heading off to middle school – and he gets out almost two afters after the elementary – it's a stressful situation. It's coming together, just slowly. Work too, has been a mad house scramble. I don't want to bore you with the details, but I usually end my day pissy and even more stressed.
My oldest will be turning 11 in a few days! I can't believe it. I feel so OLD.
On another note, my Avon business is starting to pick up. This was supposed to be a small, side thing to earn extra money, but it is growing and a little bit more time-consuming then it was 7 years ago when I did it. Anyway, if you love Avon or want to try some of their products, be sure to shop my site. There is direct delivery, so you can order anytime and have it shipped to you! 🙂
Oh, and I bought a car.
On the blog – obviously things were slow and I haven't made many posts. With the new blog too. Like I said, things will get back to normal soon. In the mean time, my commenting may be minimal and my reviews too.
The Books for a Cause auction is still going! There are MANY items still available to bid on, so make sure you head over and place yours!
Wrapping it up! Here's what went down in July!
- [3 Jul] I Am the Weapon by Allen Zadoff
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- [5 Jul] That's a Wrap- June Edition
- [7 Jul] The Half Life of Molly Pierce by Katrina Leno
- [10 Jul] Sunshine by Nikki Rae
- [11 Jul] Traceless by Joanne Clancy
- [16 Jul] Where have I been?
- [22 Jul] #BooksforaCause Auction
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Unraveling Collective Forms
Los Angeles Filmforum presents
Unraveling Collective Forms: Films by Arshia Haq, Jeannette Ehlers, Sky Hopinka, and Cecilia Vicuña
Sunday, April 28, 2019, 7:30 pm
At the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028
Filmmaker Jeannette Ehlers, and exhibition curator Daniela Lieja Quintanar in person!
In conjunction with the exhibition Unraveling Collective Forms at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Filmforum co-presents digital films by artists Cecilia Vicuña, Jeannette Ehlers, Arshia Haq and Sky Hopinka whose works are on display in the show.
The artists approach processes of cultural erasure through visual strategies that document fainting, magnifying the details to revive a death ocean, myths, languages and peoples histories. The diverse strategies that Vicuña, Ehlers, Haq and Hopinka weave on the films are spiritual and rebellious, outside and against Western Aesthetics.
Pre-screening reception at LACE, 6522 Hollywood Blvd., from 5:30pm to 6:30pm, just two blocks away from the Egyptian Theater.
The exhibition Unraveling Collective Forms runs from April 3 May 26, 2019, curated by Daniela Lieja Quintanar. For more, see https://welcometolace.org/event/unravelling-collective-forms/
Tickets: $10 general; $6 students (with ID)/seniors; free for Filmforum Members. Available in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at [__insert link__] or at the door.
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Jeannette Ehlers is a video, photo and performance artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Experimental imagery characterizes her multi disciplinary work and for years she has created artwork that engages with resistance towards coloniality. On these changeable terms, meaning and identity are explored in both a sophisticated and immediate way. Jeannette Ehlerss performative and cinematic universes delve into ethnicity and identity inspired by her own Danish and Caribbean background. Her pieces revolve around big questions and difficult issues, such as Denmark's role as a slave nationa part of the Danish cultural heritage, which often gets overlooked in the general historiography. http://www.jeannetteehlers.dk/
Daniela Lieja Quinatar (Mexico City, 1984) is a curator at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) and works between Los Angeles and Mexico, emphasizing contemporary art and curatorial practices that explore the politics and social issues of everyday life. She is part of the curatorial team of MexiCali Biennial 2018-19, and was recently awarded the Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Fellowship.
(Re)collections, by Arshia Haq
USA, 2005. color, sound, 19:23 min
A film about the intersections of personal and historical memory, collecting and archives, and the death of a language. https://arshiahaq.com
Black Magic at the White House, by Jeannette Ehlers
Denmark, 2009, color, sound, 3:36 min
Music: Fanamfe af / by Francis Ko Aziat; Camera: Nikolaj Recke; Special effects: Dj Design
BLACK MAGIC AT THE WHITE HOUSE revolves around Marienborg, a country seat at Sorgenfri north of Copenhagen, today serving as the official residence of the Danish Prime Minister. Marienborg was originally built in the 18th century as a summer residence by Olfert Fas Fischer, naval officer and director of the large trading company Asiatisk Kompagni.
BLACK MAGIC AT THE WHITE HOUSE ties Marienborgs present function as the place from which the Prime Ministers New Years speech is transmitted and international heads of state are received to its less known past. Over the years, some of its owners possessed fortunes than can partly be attributed to the running of plantations in the Danish West Indies, and enslaved Africans are believed to have lived at Marienborg for a while.
In the video, Jeannette Ehlers dances like a ghost through the grand halls of Marienborg. She wiggles, kisses the floor and performs a so-called vévé a vodou ritual in which the priest draws certain patterns on the ground in the hope of invoking the gods of health, reconciliation, and protection against evil spirits.
The title of this work may even induce one to think of another famous white house, one in which a seemingly almost magical political change took place at the time when Ehlers was creating her work as Americas first black president was elected. In that sense BLACK MAGIC AT THE WHITE HOUSE may well address the expulsion of past sins while also taking on current obsessions, conceptions, and representations.
Fainting Spells, by Sky Hopinka
USA, 2018, color, sound, 10:45 min.
Los Angeles premiere!
Told through recollections of youth, learning, lore, and departure, this is an imagined myth for the Xwska, or the Indian Pipe Plant - used by the Ho-Chunk to revive those who have fainted. http://www.skyhopinka.com
Kon Kon, by Cecilia Vicuña
Chile, 2010, SD video, color, sound, 54 min.
Los Angeles premiere!
In this documentary poem, Cecilia Vicuña returns to Con Con, the birthplace of her art in Chile, where the sea is dying and an ancient tradition is being destroyed.
Con Con is located at the mouth of the Aconcagua River whose source is the glacier of Aconcagua, the tallest mountain the Western Hemisphere. Named for the oldest deity of the Andes, the god Kon, it may have been a sacred oracle site for millennia, associated with the most renowned oracle site in the Americas: Pachacamac, located on the coast of Peru.
The word Con (Kon) alludes to the sanctity of the cycle of water from glacier to ocean to cloud a circularity intensified by the repetition: Con Con. In the sacred Valle del Aconcagua, the bailes chinos created a powerful mystical sound: the sonido rajado (torn sound), a multiphonic music of the pre-Columbian Andres. Based on dissonance, the bailes chinos are ritual dances dedicated to increasing the life-force. Continuously performed throughout colonial times, the dance is now dying along with the sea.
Exploring the forgotten meaning of the ancient names, the artist recovers an erased cultural memory. In this hybrid work, part poem, part documentary, Cecilia Vicuña creates new bridges between the ancestral and the avant-garde. http://www.konkon.cl/
Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, artist, filmmaker and activist. Her work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization. Born and raised in Santiago de Chile, she has been in exile since the early 1970s, after the military coup against elected president Salvador Allende. Vicuña began creating "precarious works" and quipus in the mid 1960s in Chile, as a way of "hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard." Her multi-dimensional works begin as a poem, an image that morphs into a film, a song, a sculpture, or a collective performance. These ephemeral, site-specific installations in nature, streets, and museums combine ritual and assemblage. She calls this impermanent, participatory work lo precario (the precarious): transformative acts that bridge the gap between art and life, the ancestral and the avant-garde. Her paintings of early 1970s de-colonized the art of the conquerors and the "saints" inherited from the Catholic Church, to create irreverent images of the heroes of the revolution. http://www.ceciliavicuna.com
Los Angeles Filmforum screenings are supported by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles. We also depend on our members, ticket buyers, and individual donors.
Los Angeles Filmforum is the citys longest-running organization dedicated to weekly screenings of experimental film, documentaries, video art, and experimental animation. 2019 is our 44th year.
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May 2 - Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA presents Kevin Jerome Everson, at MOCA Grand Avenue
May 5 - Kevin Jerome Everson: More New Films, at the Spielberg Theatre
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Celebrity Big Brother's Paul Danan screams at Jemma Lucy after she mentions his young son during furious row
Paul had to be held back during another blazing row with Jemma after she started talking about his son
PAUL Danan had to be held back by Sandi Bogle as he screamed at his Celebrity Big Brother housemate Jemma Lucy.
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Jemma watched him walked through the doors before calling out to him.
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She said: "Look at the state of you," which caused Paul to run back out of the doors and into the garden.
He shouted: "You what! Go and drink your f***ing drink! You f***ing p***head!"
Jemma yelled back: "Yeah I am, thank you very much! At least I can handle it."
As their argument appears to subside, Paul came rushing out of the house again and started up the war of words again.
Paul said: "I have got nothing to handle. I haven't had anything."
The pair then started to circle one another, with Paul yelling: "Why are you going so low? What have I ever done to you?"
As Sandi Bogle pushes him away from Jemma, Paul appeared to be shaking with rage.
Big Brother then intervened and summoned Paul to the diary room, as Jemma yelled after him: "Bring it!"
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The majority of The City's population lives below the great plates of Topside, in the cramped space called the Shadows. To know the Shadows is to know your allies and your rivals.
Each neighborhood is its own town.
The Market
(In the Shadows. Dirty, packed, everything for sale)
The Maze
Everyone used to be part of a Family until the Arba'a took over. All the other families are part of the Nikan - "those without family."
Getting around the Shadows is difficult. The most common modes of transport are motorcycles and minibusses. Streets at walking level are often cramped with pedestrians, and the higher levels are strung with clothing and electrical wiring. It's difficult to get through quickly. A few skilled operators know the shortcuts - ancient disused transit tunnels, pipelines long gone dry, secret tunnels through walls and sometimes even living rooms, the Shadow Highway.
Nikan Culture:
- The Nikan call people "Process." This is because everyone in the City is processed at birth, their code checked to see if they're actually a child of the Arba'a. Nikan use this word for both Nikan and Arba'a, though not around the Families (who consider it insulting).
- The MPC and its various subroutines are sentient creatures worthy of respect and veneration.
- Keep your rep up if you're going to be around the Arba'a - don't let them control you. Otherwise, stay fast and know the Maze well.
- Your family is just as good as their Family. Just don't let them know that.
- Music and art are all the Families let us have. They are the heart of our people.
- Nightclubs, art galleries, arcades, games houses, and all manner of nighttime activity are common, since no one sleeps.
- Manga and zines are everywhere.
- Finely painted Mahjong sets, tarot decks, etc. are commonly handed down from parent to child.
- The Maze is constantly being repainted with murals.
- Cover for one another in front of the Arba'a. Don't give them a reason to hurt us.
- Respect your elders.
- The study of weaponry is outlawed - but there are some underground clubs anyway.
- Ghosts should be respected and listened to.


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In São Domingos, it was organized a parade with the presence of parents and people in charge of children education. Children from Ribeirão Chiqueiro School participated and the animation was performed by third military region.
In CV Assomada the creativity was also noticed.
In order to celebrate the 60º anniversary of our organization in the world in general and the 25th anniversary in Cape Verde in particular, it was organized a parade in which participated around 300 children from SOS Kindergarten São Domingos, Assomada Juvenile Centre and Preschool from almost all Santa Catarina Municipality. It could not be chosen a better option for the parade vehicle: an anniversary cake symbolizing the 25 anniversaries of SOS Children's villages in Cape Verde and as well anniversary of SOS Children's Village Assomada.
The carnival did not pass disregarded in São Vicente Social Centre. On February 20th children and youth, internals and semi internals made carnival dominos with board paper, pencil and treasure. Each one uses his colour and creativity.
On February 23rd, official carnival eve it was celebrated the SOS 2009 in the centre. Imagination, colours, creativities did not escape on our beneficiaries behalf.
Thanks to a volunteer animator, it was taken the opportunity to pass educative messages linked to environment and through theatrical pieces. There were a lot of spontaneous laughter shouts and good participation from the public side.
There were awards for the three best dresses. After a lot of frolic, dances with carnival's music, the party ended with a lunch for socialization between the beneficiaries and social centre technical. The public could appreciate with satisfaction the parties of momo organized by SOS Children's Village what is a motivation to all SOS family.


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EMS Alert: 29 Children Injured in Minibus Accident
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The Western Cape Government Health's Emergency Medical Services responded to the scene of a minibus accident.
At 14:27 at Observatory Railway station, 29 children, all under the age of 12, were injured after the minibus they were travelling in went through the barrier and crashed onto the railway tracks.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - A sharp rise in geothermal power production has reduced electricity costs and cut Kenya's reliance on expensive diesel generators, the country's main power producer KenGen said on Monday.
KenGen completed the construction of the second phase of its geothermal plant last December, adding 280 megawatts (MW) to the grid and helping drive up geothermal's share of Kenya's power production in January to 51 percent from 19 percent a year ago.
Kenya was the first African country to tap geothermal power. It has potential to produce 7,000 MW and is targeting production of at least 5,000 MW by 2030.
Kenya's current geothermal capacity is still behind that of hydro dams. However, poor rains have hindered hydro power production and the closure of some diesel generation plants has seen Kenya's reliance on geothermal power increase.
"This generation has gone a long way to displacing heavy fuels and is obviously helping the economy in terms of saving of foreign exchange," Albert Mugo, KenGen's CEO, told a news conference.
Kenya has been relying on diesel generators in Nairobi and Mombasa to shore up supply from several hydro dams that have dominated power generation for decades.
Mugo said additional power from geothermal, which comes from wells drilled deep into the Rift Valley, would save the country 25 billion shillings ($273 million) required to run thermal power stations every year.
It has also cut the fuel premium on consumers' monthly energy bills to 2.21 shillings per kilowatt hour (kWh), from a peak of 7.22 shillings last year, lowering total costs.
Overall, Kenya wants to halve electricity bills in the next three or four years from present levels of between $0.17 and $0.18 per kWh.
Diesel generation costs about $0.35 per kWh, while the cost of geothermal ranges from $0.08 to $0.09 per kWh, according to the government.
($1 = 91.4500 Kenyan shillings)
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12 ounces marinated artichoke hearts
1 medium onion, coarsely chopped
5 large eggs
3/4 teaspoon salt
fresh ground black pepper to taste
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6 ounces Cheddar, grated
1 ounce Parmesan, grated
Drain off 1/4 cup of oil from the artichoke hearts and heat in a large skillet or shallow casserole.
Sauté the onions until they begin to color.
Thickly slice the artichokes or quarter them.
Beat the eggs with the salt, pepper, and the flour until the mixture is perfectly smooth.
Stir in the grated cheeses.
Add the artichoke hearts to the onions and stir them around a little, then distribute the vegetables evenly over the area of the skillet or casserole.
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Scraping the International Finance Corporation's database with R16 minutes read
This post is again concerned with web scraping a database using R, similarly to my post about the EBRD's database. At least currently, this scraper is still functional as the webpage has not changed.
The International Finance Corporation offers a database that contains the projects it helped to finance. The data that should be extracted for every project are:
- Project number
- Region
- The dates at which the project was signed and approved
- Cost, risk management, guarantee, loan
- Information about the project's sponsor
- The main location of the involved enterprise
The main challenge scraping the IFC's database is the messy way in which the project data was entered and differing page layouts. For example, the latest projects like RCBC Bond
have tabs at the end of the page that contain some of the important information like cost and contact data. The aforementioned project only has the project cost given as running text which will be returned as is, because it would be extremely hard to automatically evaluate the text's meaning. The same applies for the "project sponsor and major shareholders" section. Additionally, some of the later projects have a table in the cost tab that contains risk management, guarantee, loan and equity values, see e.g. Ineco SME 2015.
Extracting the main location of the enterprise is a bit tricky. This piece of information will be gathered from the first entry in the "contact" tab. The scraper will have to be able to recognize the country name. For this purpose the countrycode package can be used that contains a data frame of the world's country names so that the scraper can search for occurrences of these names.


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The largest waterfall of Tyrol is located in Umhausen, close to Längenfeld in North Tyrol.
Image gallery: Stuiben Waterfall
The Stuiben Waterfall (Stuibenfall, in German) in Umhausen in the Oetztal valley is the largest waterfall in Tyrol, featuring a length of 159 m and two cascades. The history of this waterfall dates back about 8,000 years, when a huge rock avalanche changed the natural course of the river and also made emerge the 159 m high Stuiben Waterfall, which represents an impressive natural phenomenon for adults and children! The Horlachbach river rises at the foot of the Zwieselbach, Larstig and Grastal glaciers and empties into the Oetztaler Ache river. Its course is really impressive and it can be explored in a exciting walk.
The Stuiben Waterfall Round Tour (Stuibenfall Rundwanderweg) starts at the Bischoffsplatz parking space and takes visitors in approx. 30 minutes - overcoming 700 steps - to the impressive waterfall. This path leads also past a pending bridge and has been awarded with the Tyrolean seal of quality "Tiroler Bergwege-Gütesiegel". The Stuibenfallhütte mountain hut, located some 150 metres higher, can be reached in a 50-minutes walk. However, those who are really daring can try the 450 metres long family-frienly fixed rope route near the waterfall.
In winter the Stuiben Waterfall, which is beautifully illuminated on Wednesdays all year round, is completely frozen. By the way: studies of the Paracelsus Private University of Salzburg prove that the pulmonary function of people suffering from sports asthma can be increased up to 58% if they spend 1 hour for 2-3 weeks close to the waterfall.
Where: Umhausen, Oetztal valley
Characteristics: the largest and most impressive waterfall of Tyrol
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The Strypes return with maturity beyond their years on 'Spitting Image'
2015's Little Victories was a strange effort, and when it was good, it was very good. However at times there was an inescapable feeling that the band were attempting to force a sense of musical maturity. Thankfully that issue has been comprehensively addressed within 30 seconds of intro track 'Behind Closed Doors'
Guitarist Josh McClorey was culpable of over-indulging at times on past efforts, but the simplistic and melodic riff of the opening number sets a marker for the rest of the album.
Produced by Ethan Johns, (son of Rolling Stones/Beatles studio giant, Glyn) the record has a consummately vintage feel. Reverberated vocals and guitars soaked in chorus create a bold new sound for the Cavan four piece. 'Spitting Image' has taken the bands wonderfully unkempt rawness and added a layer of sheen, thankfully without smothering the explosiveness.
'Consequences' and 'Grin and Bear it' further ingrain the idea that this is like no other Strypes effort. The rhythm section of Pete O'Hanlon and Evan Walsh contributed far more on this record than its predecessors, and it shows. The tracks featured have a effervescent sense of new life about them, bassist O'Hanlon expressed how the writing process was distinctly different "there's been a big change with the sound, in that myself and Evan have written half of it. We have a little demo facility at home, which we were holed up in for a few months, and just knocked out 20 or 30 songs, just worked off each other's ideas."
The instrumentation featured on single 'Great Expectations' is stellar. The inclusion of an acoustic guitar and keys is yet again another first for the band, this coupled with an uber radio friendly chorus leads to a finely poised and balanced song. It may be the highlight of the record. And it has a sax solo, a fucking sax solo. Bravo lads.
The exploration of new musical avenues continues on the murky 'Garden of Eden'. A dark 5 minutes complete with seedy sampled sirens and menacing guitar/bass doubling is another stand out track, 'Turnin' My Back' is your classic Strypes song, punchy, upbeat, and melodic with an arresting chorus. Rather surprisingly, the boys have included a thoroughly enjoyable acoustic track towards the albums finale, 'Mama Give Me Order' is a great track and one that would've stood out like a sore thumb on the two previous records, however this affable change of pace on 'Spitting Image' allows the groups wonderful musicianship to flourish in more ways than one.
Guitarist McClorey recently featured on Paul Weller's new album 'A Kind Revolution', a fact that is rather interesting when listening through these 13 tracks. There is a distinctly vintage air permeating through the sonic formation of 'Spitting Image' – there is a clear and welcome influence taken from the likes of The Jam and other late 70's groups. The Strypes have always been a revival of a lost art in a way, and this album is continuing the trend. This is an organic musical coming of age, and in spectacular fashion.
'Spitting Image' is available now, both online and in all good record shops.


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As I travel around the country I am always amazed of the beauty in our natural world. One of my favorite animals to observe is the Red Tail Fox. He is curious, and 'plays with his food". In this show I teach about his characteristics, tracking ability, and as usual, a few stories from my experiences with the red tail fox.
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Today, May 23, is the birthday of Sean Williams, Aussie speculative fiction writer:
and the wonderful British children's/YA novelist Susan Cooper:
Both of them are massive bestsellers and both deserve it!
|Publicity pic, seanwilliams.com
|Profile pic from Goodreads
I must admit, I discovered Susan Cooper a long time before I had heard of Sean Williams. I stumbled on the first couple of novels in a series that became known as The Dark Is Rising, based on the title of the second book in the series, in which the young hero, Will Stanton, the seventh son of a seventh son, finds out on his eleventh birthday that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to fight for the Light against the Dark, at the side of a Professor Merriman Lyon (yeah, he's Merlin). The sheer power and beauty of this novel has made it a classic. The author was already living in the US when she wrote it, but it's very British, based on the Buckinghamshire she remembered. Unfortunately, someone decided to make a dreadful movie out of it and I wasted a whole morning and $17 on seeing it. When it came out on DVD I refused to buy it even discounted. But the book and the series were amazing and you wouldn't think she could continue to write wonderful books, but she has - The Boggart(a Canadian family bring home a desk from a Scottish castle and there's a boggart asleep in a drawer, poor thing!), King Of Shadows(American boy actor finds himself in Shakespeare's London), most recently Ghost Hawk, set in the part of the US where the author now lives, historical fiction and fantasy combined in a gorgeous story.
I remember writing her a fan letter, back in the days when you could do that by looking through a book of modern children's writers, which had postal addresses, and getting a reply. But when she came out here for a library conference in Hobart, I found myself tongue-tied, like the other teacher-librarians there - a bunch of fan-girls we all were!
I have read and loved some of Sean Williams' short speculative fiction over the years, but more recently, I've had a chance to read his Trouble-Twisters series for children, written with Garth Nix, and great fun they are too, with children who have special powers that aren't always convenient. It's interesting to see how many SF writers have become very good children's and YA novelists in recent years. Sean Williams is an international bestseller who, like many other Australian writers, doesn't mind writing for local small press, which has published entire books of his short fiction over the years, and he had a story in an early issue of ASIM.
Anyway, happy birthday, Sean and Susan! May your pens never dry up!


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The 'biggest cyber attack in history', which has been slowing down internet services for millions across the world, may have affected thousands of mobile banking customers.
Business and personal mobile banking customers for Natwest, RBS, and Ulster Bank are today experiencing problems accessing online accounts – although it has not yet been confirmed whether this is linked to the attack.
It comes after a bitter feud between two online companies – a group which aims to block unwanted emails known as 'spam' and a firm accused of sending them – erupted.
Spam-fighting organization Spamhaus says it's being subjected to a massive cyber-attack, apparently from groups angry at being blacklisted by the Geneva-based group.
Millions of web users have already experienced disruption to popular services such as film and TV site Netflix, along with longer than usual delays in loading websites.
And yesterday experts warned the assault could soon impact on banking and personal email accounts.
The problems began when spam-fighting company Spamhaus – a not-for-profit group that aims to help block unwanted junk emails – black-listed Dutch company Cyberbunker earlier this month.
Cyberbunker is what is known as a hosting company, meaning it allows organisations to make their websites accessible on the internet by providing space on a server.
The company's website says it will host anything 'except child porn and anything related to terrorism'.
Spamhaus, which has offices in London and Geneva, keeps a database of web servers which are known to be used for malicious purposes, such as sending spam mail for bogus products – such as fake weight-loss pills or Viagra – and earlier this month added Cyberbunker.
Spamhaus claims Cyberbunker has launched a huge 'denial of service' (DDoS) attack in retaliation by flooding its servers with internet traffic.
This is like jamming a mailbox with hundreds of letters at the same time.
Professor Alan Woodward, a cyber security expert at the University of Surrey, explained: 'If you imagine it as a motorway, attacks try to put enough traffic on there to clog up the on and off ramps.
'With this attack, there's so much traffic it's clogging up the motorway itself.'
Matthew Prince, chief executive of internet security firm CloudFare, likened the move to a 'nuclear bomb', adding: 'It's so easy to cause so much damage.'
David Emm, a senior security researcher with anti-virus firm Kaspersky Labs, said the attack was slowing down the whole internet, adding: 'It's like if someone wanted to flood my letterbox with junk mail it would all have to go through the delivery office and that would have an effect on the delivery of other people's letters.
'If the mail is coming from all over the place it will have some impact on the wider delivery.'
Steve Linford, chief executive of Spamhaus, told the BBC the scale of the attack was unprecedented and powerful enough to bring down the Government's computer system.
A spokesman for the Royal Bank of Scotland group said they were investigating the issue.
They added: 'We are aware of a technical problem this morning which is preventing customers from logging in to our mobile banking applications.
'We are working to fix the problem and apologise to customers for the inconvenience caused.
'No other systems are affected.'
Mr Linford said he could not disclose more details as there were fears those involved may also come under attack.
He added that several companies, such as Google, had made their resources available to help absorb the excess traffic.
Sven Olaf Kamphuis, who claims to be a spokesman for Cyberbunker, said in an online message that Spamhaus was abusing its position and should not be allowed to decide 'what goes and does not go on the internet'.
He added: 'We are aware that this is one of the largest DDoS attacks the world had publicly seen.'
Experts say such attacks are growing in power and are now six times larger than recent ones against American banks.


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'Bloody terrorism' will continue without Middle East breakthrough says Hain
Neath MP Peter Hain tells our Political Editor Adrian Masters more about his concerns about the long-held, long-term aim for peace in the Middle East. In a lecture at Swansea he says a 'two-state solution' may no longer be achievable.
Speaking as a former Middle East Minister, Mr Hain says there are formidable difficulties in the way of creating a single state with equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians. But he says unless a solution is found 'the conflict and the bloody terrorism' in the region will continue.
Hain questions 'two-state' aim for Middle East
The former cabinet minister, Peter Hain, has questioned whether or not a long-held aim for peace in the Middle East is achievable. He makes the remarks in a public lecture at Swansea University tonight.
Speaking as a former minister with responsibility for the Middle East, the Neath MP says the 'two-state solution' of a separate Israel and Palestine existing side by side is looking increasingly unlikely because of sustained Israeli settlement on land earmarked for a possible Palestinian state.
And he says it may be time to consider an alternative solution: a single state with Israelis and Palestinians given equal rights.


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The Genius of Liberation: Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved, Emerson B. Powery and Rodney S. Sadler, Jr.
The Genius of Liberation: Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved, Emerson B. Powery and Rodney S. Sadler, Jr. Westminster John Knox Press, 2016.
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Biblical scholars explore how slaves in the American South creatively used the Bible to structure their personal stories and to understand the situation in which they found themselves.
Biblical imagery appears so often in African American spirituals and narratives that we seldom consider how remarkable the practice was. Scholars Emerson Powery and Rodney Sadler explore this phenomena and the particular use of the Bible by those who were enslaved in their new book, The Genius of Liberation. Slaves rejected the message to "Obey your masters"that owners stressed and learned to read specifically to be able to read the Bible for themselves. The authors discuss the particular Biblical messages of freedom, the Sabbath, whiteness, the particular problems of Paul's writings, and suffering of Jesus. In doing so, they affirm our growing understanding that slaves were not passive victims of oppression, but instead created and developed their own paths to dignity and humanity—including the value of Christianity.
As an historian, I appreciate the authors' increased evidence of the creative manner in which slaves understood and coped with their inhumane conditions. The ideas put forth in this book are important, but hardly seem original. Thy are supported by footnotes from numerous other scholars. Perhaps the book would be more valuable if addressed to a non-academic audience who are not already familiar with these stories.


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Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 23:50:13 -0500 From: Four Weis <mweinopsamcom> Subject: Re: 9-5 Rotor Life
Is your 9-5 an automatic transmission? I have heard the same complaint with Volvos and Toyotas when the transmission is an automatic. The theory I have heard is that while a manual can slow down using the engine (via the solid connection through the clutch), the automatic coasts, therefore requiring the application of the brake for any slowing down. This heats up the pads and rotor and when the car comes to a complete stop, more brake pedal pressure must be maintained to keep the car from pulling forward, causing the hot rotor to cool down unevenly(only one area has pressure from the pads), resulting in warped rotors sooner. A manual transmission in neutral does not want to pull the car forward like an automatic in Drive, and requires less brake to keep the car stopped. You could also have a brake system with sticking calipers, master cylinder valves etc that is not releasing the pressure on the pads. This would create the effect of riding the brakes. One thing you should do is get a micrometer and find out the specification for the thickness of new rotors and the minimum thickness after turning. An example is the data for the Girling ventilated rotors for a 1986 900 - thickness new disc=20.0mm, minimum thickness after turning=18.9mm. Next time, ask for the old rotors and use the micrometer and find out if the dealer is tyring to take your money. I have found that old rotors make great lamp bases, either under a decorative cover plate or cleaned up and on their own. Scott Turnamian wrote: > Hello: > > I have a 1999 9-5 (got it in Nov 1998). It has 20,500 miles on it. I just > had to replace the front rotors. The dealership tells me that 9-5 rotors > are so thin to begin with that they can't be turned. This seems awfully > early to be replacing rotors. I don't race, autocross, ride the brakes, or > abuse the car in any way. Most are highway miles. I've had a couple of > Mazda 626s that only required one set of new rotors in 160K miles. > > Any thoughts? > > Scott Turnamian


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1. Go to bed earlier
They don't call it beauty sleep for nothing. Sleeping is the best way to recover from an exhausting day. I know I am stating the obvious here but this will make you feel refreshed and totally energized the next morning. Plus, you'll be able to think more clearly and get a better start on your day.
2. Pamper
Take a bath with added bubble bath or essential oils, paint your nails, apply a face mask, moisturize, … just take a few minutes to take care of yourself and decompress every day.
3. Just say no
Too much to do, too little time. Take a break! Say no to the news, the extra work your colleague wants you to do, the trip your family wants you to join, the party you don't want to attend, friends you don't need to see right now. Don't do what you don't want to do. You might think people will care about you not going to their event but the truth is they have a life too and won't bother for too long.
4. Spend a day at the beach
Now, this might not be possible for everyone but for those of us that don't live very far away from the seaside, let's go. For a day or even a weekend – why not? The sea helps me focus and clear my mind. I find that the fresh air has a positive effect on me and walking barefoot on the sand is the perfect way to reconnect with nature.
5. Go on a date
Either with your friends or your lover. Just spend an evening with someone you love and who loves you back. Indulge in an alcoholic drink without drowning in it, share a dessert, talk your worries away but enjoy the lightness of it all.
6. Gor for a run
Or a walk. This will make you thinner, happier, less tired. This will reduce your stress level, that's for sure. You don't need to be an athlete, you don't need to run a 5K, you just need to put on your shoes and go out the door. That's right: do it outside. Enjoy the fresh air. Start by running and when you have enough just keep walking. Walk, walk, walk your stress away. I reckon it's definitely better than putting your feet up.
7. Bake
Try to recreate your favourite treat or simply bake a family recipe. Baking lets you focus on a task making it very relaxing. You certainly will be benefiting from the results of your masterpiece. We all crave comfort food when feeling down and while it is totally OK to indulge in fat, sugar and salt, make your next meal a healthy one. It's actually better for your relationship with stress.
8. Have a cuppa
Enjoy a fancy hot chocolate, a cup of tea, a cappuccino or fancy coffee recipe. Easy as pie. I find that sipping a hot drink helps me unwind and I really consider it a treat. I am a sucker for beans concoctions with froth milk and sweet syrups.
9. Sing
In the shower preferably but I also adore doing it in the car! It's one of my favourite thing to do to just let it go (!!) and shout my lungs out on a song that I love and know the lyrics to. It lifts up your mood instantly and totally decrease your stress level.
10. Treat yo self
Find your comfort zone and do what you love. It can be reading, working out, watching tv or eating a few treats, if it makes you happy just do it. Do it in moderation though so you can really appreciate it when the time is right. Do splurge on this sparkly top you just found on sale but do it while setting some money aside for the big things or experiences you want to have. Money is known to be a major anxiety factor so don't burden yourself with more stress while trying to reduce it.
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text: This chapter looks at Sweden, long extolled as an egalitarian society with low economic inequalities and high levels of equality of opportunity (e.g., Björklund and Jäntti 2011). Our research questions follow those of the broader project. First, we ask whether direct class background effects are found in Sweden. The second question concerns whether the effects of social background have changed over time. Third, we ask whether direct class background effects are weaker among persons with a tertiary education. Fourth, we are interested in whether class-of-origin effects are stronger or weaker at labour market entry, when employers have less information on potential workers and vice versa, than at later career stages. Finally, we analyse whether direct social origin effects vary by gender. In section 12.2, we discuss the Swedish context and its relevant institutions and characteristics. Then in section 12.3 we review the previous studies pertaining to our research questions. Thereafter, in section 12.4, we present our data. In section 12.5 we present our findings, while section 12.6 provides a discussion.