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K. H. Schwarte lists his works as De opificio Dei, which was "composed in 303/304 and emulating Cicero, this is a cryptochristian (because of the persecution) treatise on the human being as a successful work of God that is obliged to venerate its creator"; Divinae institutiones, which was "published in a first version between 304 and 311, expanded beginning in 324 by speeches of the emperor and dualistic additions, and in this version published perhaps only after Lactantius's death"; Epitome divinarum institutionum, which was "a summary of the principal work ... after 314, probably between the first and second edition of inst."; De ira Dei, "a defense of the biblical picture of an angry and, in his anger, justly punishing God"; De mortibus persecutorum, "a politically inspired medition on persecutions of Christians down to 313 ... the time of composition can be narrowed down to the period from the end of 313 to the summer of 316"; and De ave Phoenice, "a poem of eighty-five distichs, written probably between 303 and 311, on the phoenix, a marvelous bird who appears first in Herodotus 2.37 and, in a Christian interpretation, in 1 Clem 25f." (Dictionary of Early Christianity, pp. 366-367)
Claudio Moreschini writes, "As noted above, a bond of teacher and student joined Arnobius to Lactantius, who was likewise an apologist but took a far different approach and had a wider range of views. Lactantius marks the end of the age of apologetics in the West, but his apologetics are already much more different from those of Tertullian, thus reflecting the changing times. We have seen that apologetics was no longer a matter of defense and controversy but could also be exhortatory, as in Minucius Felix. Now, for Lactantius, it becomes a tool of controversy with pagans and therefore, while more learned, also less specifically Christian. The ability to debate and teach, to broaden the scope of one's research, and to explore problems without aprioristic exclusions, but rather with the outlook of a Christian who lives in this world and peacefully awaits the end time, was not valued in the later centuries of early Christianity. Jerome writes sourly: 'Would that he had been able to teach our doctrines with the same ease with which he could tear down those of others!' (Epist. 58.10)." (Early Christian Greek and Latin Literature, vol. 1, p. 398)
Oliver Nicholson writes, "Lactantius, taught by Arnobius at Sicca, had acquired wider horizons than his master by the time he wrote his surviving works in later life. He was called to be professor of Latin rhetoric at the imperial city of Nicomedia in Asia Minor (Jerome, Vir. Ill. 80), in extreme old age he was tutor to the son of the Emperor Constantine (Jerome, Chron. p. 230e Helm), and there may even be political overtones to his elegant elegiacs On the Phoenix. His enthusiasm for court gossip is most evident in his vitriolic pamphlet On the Deaths of the Persecutors, an important source for the political history of the years which saw the Great Persecution (30313) and the rise to supreme power of Constantine the Great (30637). It was written in 313/15, soon after Constantine and his ally Licinius had brought the persecutions to an end, and recounts recent history in detail to show by 'great and wonderful examples' how God's judgment has destroyed emperors who dared to harm the Christians; 'it has come late, but heavily and in the way it ought' (Mort. 1.6). The message may have influenced Constantine directly: the peroration of a sermon preached by the emperor to the Christians at his court enumerated the unsavoury circumstances in which his persecuting predecessors had perished (Coet. 245). On the Deaths of the Persecutors is notable for its argument as well as for the historical details it records; it is the first application by a political insider of Christian notions about God's involvement in human history to the realities of practical politics." (The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature, pp. 261-262)
Among his lost writings are the Banquet (Symposion), Itinerary (Hodoepericum), Grammaticus, two books To Asclepiades, four books with Epistles to Probus, two books with Epistles to Severus, and two books with Epistles to His Pupil Demetrianus. In addition to this, J. Quasten writes, "A manuscript at Milan (Codex Ambrosianus F 60 sup. saec. VIII-IX) contains a small fragment with the marginal note Lactantius de motibus animi. Consisting of a few lines only, it deals with the affections of the soul and explains their origin. They have been implanted by God, to help man in the practice of virtue. If they are kept within limits they lead to righteousness and eternal life, otherwise to vice and everlasting damnation. Form and content make it probable that the fragment is really Lactantius'." (Patrology, vol. 2, p. 405)
Claudio Moreschini writes, "The Divine Institutes, though polemical in character, are devoted to a global reappraisal of the pagan past, in order to condemn it, yes, but also to salvage it where the author believes it to have borne its best fruits. As such, the work is an intelligent effort to mediate between Christianity and paganism, and a work of harmonious synthesis that would bear its fruit in the Renaissance when the rediscovery of the classical world would have to take account of the Christian religion. Lactantius became a model for the synthesis or syntheses attempted by the Renaissance. This writer's interpretation of Virgil, as a poet who did not end up very far from the truth, is typical of the Christianity of his age and also a symbol of that synthesis." (Early Christian Greek and Latin Literature, p. 400)
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A friend of mine works at the quilt store, so I generally try to plan my trips around the days that she's working which was the case yesterday. With 3 (now 1.5!) blocks left to piece I thought it was about time to buy the fabric for the back of the quilt I've been working on. The finished size will be 84″ x 84″ and with a recommended 4″ around all sides I was getting close to needing wide back fabric and since that would save me sewing a seam, I decided to start there. I finally decided on this Kaffe Fassett Green Carpet 108″ backing fabric. It has the medium green, lime green, and a bit of purple in it so I hope it plays well with the front of the quilt.
As I was checking out, the owner noticed that the tension was off a little bit – I had taken my most recent finished block with me – and suggested I clean out anything that had accumulated under the needle plate. I love it! I appreciated so much that she wants the quilt to look the best that it can and offered a way to help me out. I went home and the first thing I did was to open up the needle late.
Is it just me, or do these piles of lint and dirt that propagate resemble an alien creature to anyone else? The finished pile looked like a little alien that could just stand up and walk out of that machine on its own if it wanted to! The best part? My stitches immediately looked perfect. I do clean my machine regularly but her point was I needed to do it more often with paper piecing. Kaffe Fassett backing fabric? $15.99 a yard. Passing along some much-needed advice? Priceless.


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Lionhead has priced and dated the next set of downloadable content for Fable 2. The See the Future pack will be released this May for 560 and once again will require players to download the free update pack if they wish to play with someone who purchased it in co-op.
In "See the Future," players will be given the chance to heed the call for a hero to restore color and balance to the world, or let Albion fall to the wayside. Those who emerge victorious will receive the ultimate reward: a quest that provides a vision of Albion's future and what lies ahead for those born into the heroic bloodline. The fantastical new quests in "See the Future" will bring players face-to-face with new characters, creatures, events and legendary artifacts
To me it almost sounds as if the game will give players a glimpse at Fable 3. Another interesting addition to this DLC is the ability to change the breed of your dog! What's the chance that they'll have a puggle? In addition to the new breeds, players will have new hairstyles, make-up, hero expressions and dog tricks to enjoy with their friends.
Some of the new content also includes:
Murgo: Having first met him during the childhood sequence of "Fable II," Murgo returns to Bowerstone Market to bring an amazing array of new wares, including potions that can transform canine companions into new breeds.
The Ghosts of the Snowglobe Quest: Holding a disturbing secret, the small model village inside it was once a real town in Albion. The people who once inhabited it are now ghosts condemned to endless torment until the shadowy threat that cursed them is defeated.
The Cursed Knight Quest: Forever banished to a land beyond the dead, the Cursed Knight awaits a hero who has the strength and will to dress up in convincing costumes, even imitating a hobbe or balverine, to save him from his fate.
The Colosseum: The Colosseum puts even the Crucible to shame. Only the greatest heroes have triumphed here. Players' abilities will be put to the test to prove themselves in combat once and for all, to win the ultimate in prizes.
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WIRED describes the visualizations in GLEAMviz as 'mesmerizing'
Yesterday WIRED posted an article featuring the GLEAMviz data visualizations I worked on at ISI Foundation, describing them as 'mesmerizing'.
Unfortunately the concerned graphics are incorrectly attributed. They are in fact the result of a collaborative effort by developers and scientists at both the ISI Foundation in Turin, Italy and the Mobs Lab at Northeastern University, USA, with the support of both European and American research funding agencies.
To end on a positive note:Bill Gates seems to like our work, given his tweet and facebook post.


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Foreign Minister Kotzias meets with the Foreign Minister of Bulgaria, Daniel Mito
Within the framework of the separate bilateral ministerial meetings that took place today, Monday, 1 August 2016, in Sofia, at the Greece-Bulgaria High-Level Cooperation Council, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias met with his Bulgarian counterpart, Daniel Mitov.
During the meeting, the two Foreign Ministers reaffirmed the excellent climate of cooperation between the two countries and decided on the activation of a number of joint collaborations between the two countries within the European Union – beyond the already existing cooperation within the EU – as well as in the Balkan space. More specifically, they decided on the coordination of the two countries' actions on issues related to the study of the repercussions of the UK referendum and to the debate that has opened on the future of Europe.
The two Foreign Ministers subsequently signed – within the framework of the High-Level Cooperation Council – the Executive Programme for Bilateral Educational and Cultural cooperation for the years 2016-2018.


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I don't have the money to be highbrow, so when I visit London, I certainly fall into the second category. In fact I lived there for a couple of years and had many pub crawling nights fraternising with soccer hooligans, that ultimately, would lead to some fights. To my credit, I never backed away from a rumble. The reason behind that is that I had a 6 foot 5 wingman who was built like a brick outhouse. I'm not glorifying violence here, if anything, I'm demonizing alcohol – why would anyone fight someone who could snap them like a twig?
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Interim Director Chosen of NSU's Scholar's College
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Phifer was at Duke University before joining the faculty in the Scholars' College in 1988. A strong advocate of research, Phifer has obtained more than $500,000 in extramural grants. He has also published in leading scientific journals and made numerous presentations to state, national and international professional conferences.
In the Scholars' College, Phifer has taught classes in general biology, biology labs, science, biological systems, neurobiology, Darwin and evolutionary theory, developmental biology, invertebrate zoology, human anatomy and Texts and Traditions. He has directed numerous senior thesis projects.
Phifer was president of Northwestern State's Faculty Senate in 1999-2000 and 2000-01 and has served on a variety of university committees, including chair of the Human Subjects Institutional Review Board for two separate terms.
He earned a bachelor's degree at North Carolina State University, master's degrees at Florida State University and Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole and a doctorate at the University of Kentucky.
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Passion and compassion are the defining qualities of a doctor. If passion is ambition then compassion is purpose.
It is said, the end goal of education is knowledge, and goal of knowledge should be service. Great Teachers are founding stones of medical education. Today we commemorate Doctors Day for those teachers who went beyond their call of duty to inspire, teach and help discover your own passions and directions within you.
To discover and to teach are two distinctly remote qualities seldom seen coinciding in academia. This day reminds us doctors to recognise those personalities, who in their own unique way manifested this fusion to influence lives of doctors. It is them who light in us the spark of curiosity to explore the unknown, to discover our talents and groom our skills beyond limitations of talent
I was once at a medical school and giving a talk addressing the 1st year medical students. During this interactive talk, I asked a few doctors why they chose medicine. Not surprisingly, among the common answers reflecting their collective thoughts were –
- Build a hospital and serve the society
- Research and make a difference to science
- Practice and serve patients
- Become a teacher, and serve the students
Money did not find its mention in any of the discussions. Naturally, they shared their deepest goals and paths to fulfilment.
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I then shared with them an interesting old Chinese story that inspired me a lot about a Doctor –
'Long ago, there lived a man with three sons, who all became doctors, but only the youngest son became famous throughout the land. Patients from far and wide, considered to be beyond hope, would go to him and be cured.
Someone asked their father, "All three of your sons are doctors, yet how come only the youngest has become so famous?"
He replied, "This son of mine can cure people even at the point of death, so naturally, everyone knows him. But my middle son can detect and cure sickness before it grows too serious, so there are only few who know him. And my eldest son takes such good care of people's health in community level that they rarely get sick at all, so he remains unknown.
My youngest son's name may be better known than the other two, but I believe the skill of my other two children is equal to, if not far greater than, his."
I concluded saying, a doctor needs a fraction of each of these qualities. To cure, to detect and to prevent. While there is a great zeal of interest and enthusiasm for clinical subjects, the true impact a doctor can make is to help people maintain health and prevent disease: a true hallmark of a doctor. We are presently innovating illnesses and then further innovating, to solve those man made innovations of illnesses.
"Health care" is often confused with medical care. Medical care is only a part of health care and comes into picture whenever there is deviation from health. Health care is treating the cause and not only the effect where Illnesses form only the tip of the iceberg. A healthy society should have less illness and less hospitals and our goal should be to have a healthy society. Health care innovations thus need to break the conformal barrier of restricting to technological innovations but also seek to address the social determinants of Health through innovations.
One among them asked me – Which branch of medicine do I take up? Which branch has a good scope today?. Well,"I don't know- don't ask me" I replied. "Ask yourself, forget about the scope that markets decide, look within where you will create scope, based on understanding of suffering of patients, need for medical help and geographical patterns of illness. As you continue through your journey of education, you will several times come across a subject, a chapter or a topic that speaks to you. It is as though, an old friend has met you after a long time.
You instantaneously connect with this subject. In no time you realise it seems like a premonition of destiny. This becomes your driving force!
Through my training in medical career I was inspired and touched by several teachers. It is a teacher who identifies talent in you and it is he who can impart skills to you beyond your talents. Most often than not, we dislike a subject, not because it was uninteresting, but possibly because, he who taught us could not incite and ignite the spirit of enthusiasm for that subject in our barren minds, and not because a subject is uninteresting.
My teachers played a key role in inspiring me in this quest to find the meaning of medicine in my life. It is said- "God allows a U turn". Shri Sathya Sai Baba's super Speciality hospital at Puttaparthi where I volunteered inspired me immensely. It was the only medical centre perhaps globally without a billing counter, yet providing state of art treatment without discrimination of any sort. I saw the finest spirit of human service in this hospital and in their operating rooms. This, I must say, was one of the most inspiring events and turning points in my life to identify my purpose.
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Passion and compassion are the defining qualities of a doctor. If passion is ambition then compassion is purpose. When they meet, they are a lethal combination. When they meet together at some point in your life, something within you changes forever, and marks a beginning in your making of a doctor. If passion is ambition, then compassion is purpose. If passion is the power, compassion is the underlying force.Passion defines the intensity and compassion the inclusiveness in your service. This combination permits a doctor to work with a spirit of service blended with zeal and curiosity to solve a clinical problem, thus creating a recipe for discovery in medicine. It infuses a pure sense of artistry into medicine! A doctor who fails to use this creative thinking and intellectual daring when faced with a clinical problem, would not stand the chance to change the textbooks and questions that baffle science.
The greatest discoveries of today will be considered the biggest blunders of tomorrow. The greatest proof of imperfection of modern medicine lies in the fact that medicine is making continued progress. It is only imperfection in a true sense that could make progress towards perfection. Doctor is the bastion of this imperfect science, which is ever evolving. They gloom with this distant hope that health will reign beyond disease, while keeping the darkness at bay for their patients.
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Financial Reasons to Be Thankful For This Year
Thanksgiving is the time of year we gather around the dinner table to feast on turkey, stuffing and apple pie. Amidst the feast we share with family and friends, it is also time to reflect on the blessings in our lives and what we are thankful for.
This year I am very thankful for the newest addition to our family, my second grandson Thomas Casey. Along with Michael Scott, who is now 4 years old, they put a smile on my face, a lump in my throat, and fill a space in my heart I never knew was empty.
The Boomer is also thankful this year for turning 65 and enrolling in Medicare for my health care coverage. The best coverage I have had in years for almost half the cost. Baby boomers have a lot to be thankful for.
A boomer himself, Greg De Jong, financial advisor with Savant Capital Management discussed the following reasons boomers have to be thankful for in 2015.
A Resilient Stock Market: 2015 started the sixth year in a row without U.S. stocks experiencing a typical 20% "bear market" decline, causing many to predict that trouble was overdue. Although surprises from China helped trigger a late summer sell-off, the S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) declined as much as 12.5% before rallying yet again. While today's year-to-date gain of about 1.2% seems anemic, it beats what might have been. The ability of the U.S. to shake off significant global weakness makes us the safest port in a storm.
Stronger Personal Balance Sheets: Whether it was you or someone close to you who suffered a financial "near death experience" during the Great Recession, what didn't kill us has made us stronger. Most of us and our children have cut debt, became serious about saving and have healthier balance sheets today than we did in 2007.
Job Market Strength: As the unemployment numbers have continued to tick downward, job seekers are getting hired sooner. Your son-in-law should be back on someone else's payroll faster than you think with the national unemployment rate down to 5% as of October.
Technology: Is it really making your life better? Look at the apps on your smartphone which regularly save you time or money and ask "How did I accomplish this 5 years ago?" Would you want to go back? Whether considering just your own time and convenience or the macro benefits of enhanced productivity nationwide, the tech revolution is delivering.
Continued Low Interest Rates: If you haven't yet made that major purchase or locked in the ideal mortgage, be thankful you can still do so at bargain rates. Baby boomers who wish to help a child buy a house or condo may also want to research intra-family mortgages while rates are near historic lows. The current rate for a 30-Year Fixed Mortgage is around 3.93%. That said, the Federal Reserve is widely expected to raise interest rates soon, potentially as early as December 16 when they meet next.
Cheap Energy: We were paying $3.34 per gallon on average to fill our tanks just two years ago. With today's national average only around $2.05, the typical two-car family is saving nearly $100 a month at the pump compared to 2013. In addition to money saved on gas and our heating bills, cheaper energy is cutting costs in industries from transportation to chemicals and manufacturing.
Economic Freedom: Despite a few warts and wrinkles, our free enterprise system encourages innovation, rewards hard work, creates lasting wealth and remains the envy of the world.


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2016 Sejong Writing Competition
Winning Entries :: Essays :: Adult first place
Kaitlyn Jurewicz
first place, adult essay division
Link[ing] the Splintered Heart of Mankind with the Yarn Image: Humor and Humanism in "The Glass Shield"
Kim Chunghyok's essay "The Glass Shield" is at first glance a whimsical tale of two friends who make spectacles of themselves as they desperately try to find jobs (a situation to which many of today's millennials can relate). However, this tale is sophisticated in its weaving together of traditional and postmodern elements. Chunghyok uses parody - a common postmodern technique – combined with the traditional doctrines of Confucianism to describe M and the narrator's search to make meaningful connections in a world to which they are otherwise ill-suited.
From the beginning, the author establishes close friendship between M and the narrator, which according to traditional values brings about positivity and mutual growth. Instead, their relationship is exaggerated, bordering on the ridiculous. M and the narrator are inseparable – they are roommates and even interview for positions together to best showcase their skill set (209). The narrator describes their relationship as not just a close friendship, but a duality – without one, the other is only a partial person with little substance: "We were inseparable, two sides of a coin, front and back of a single person. Without M, I was a paper so thin I couldn't stand on my own. And I believe I meant the same to M" (209). The narrator uses these analogies to emphasize the symbiotic relationship with M. Although bordering on obsessive, this idea of togetherness echoes the Confuscian idea that mutual effort results in the overall improvement of a person. By functioning as one entity, two relatively weak characters are able to become stronger – even in their failure.
In contrast to the strong bond between the narrator and M, their series of job interviews represents the lack of connection between the protagonists and their prospective employers. From the onset, M and the narrator are at a disadvantage during the employment process. The two "forget" to research each job prior to applying; as a result, they turn the interview into an exhibition. Aside from completing a dual interview (which is already an anomaly in itself), they deviate from the expected question-and-answer interview process in favor of more unorthodox approaches: role playing as peddlers, magic shows, and unraveling yarn, to name a few (210). M and the narrator do not understand that their serious audience does not want a literal demonstration of skills, but merely expects a verbal overview of what candidates have to offer. Rather than complete the expected interview, the narrator and his companion respond to these rigid expectations by using jokes and exaggeration- techniques at which they excel. According to Confucian ideas of education, students will excel when they learn and are permitted to express themselves according to their nature. It is only when their efforts are seen through the lens of artistic expression that they transform from pranksters to "performance art in the job interview space" (227). The two friends develop a new career as avant-garde entertainers once they stop trying to force themselves to meet the expectations set forth by their employers and instead find an authentic means of expressing their creative "gift." Thus, no meaningful interpersonal connections are made between the companions and their potential employers when they are expected to adhere to serious – and thereby unachievable- standards.
While the protagonists' series of failed job interviews represents a failure of connection, their ludicrous stumble into the world of high art represents the achievement of the genuine interpersonal relationships they have been seeking. To begin, the use of yarn as the characters' signature artistic medium is symbolically appropriate. In literature, yarn is often used to symbolize interconnectedness. During their interview for the gaming company, M and the narrator hopelessly tangle the yarn in an effort to impress the panel; however, as previously mentioned, the connection is not one that is meant to be made. It is only later, when the two friends are alone together (their natural state of being), that they are able to repair the damage and create a new connection – this time, with the art lovers who see M's photograph in "Street Scene." Viewers make text-to-self connections with this "accidental art," equating it to "unforgettable love" and world travel (220). Initially, M and the narrator find the blog's misguided comments a hilarious critique of high art culture – a parody which is enhanced by the inclusion of a caricatured "professional art interviewer" later in the text. As they further pursue their new art career, the pair continues to create deep emotional reactions , first from art enthusiasts and later from other interview "failures" much like themselves. In fact, the narrator is unintentionally poignant when he describes the yarn phenomenon as "'an event that links the splintered heart of mankind to the yarn image'" (215). Although the remark is made in jest, it strikes at the heart of the characters' quest for connection throughout the text. Instead of acting as an intentional evocation of the viewer's emotion, the use of yarn is used to link the nonconformist protagonists with their society.
At the surface, the two misguided young adults in "The Glass Shield" muck through a series of job interviews, only to stumble upon their ideal career through their own shenanigans. Though it seems that their half-hearted goal is employment, what the narrator and his best friend truly want is to reach out to others around them. Though they have been lucky enough to discover kindred spirits in one another, they cannot make the same connections with their superiors. It is only by accidentally creating an avant-garde art form that they are able to rediscover what it means to connect with another human being. By incorporating a parodic twist on the traditional Confucian ideas of human interaction, Chunghyok successfully creates a story that is both humorous and enlightening.
Works Cited
"Post-Modern Korean Fiction: The Prehistory of Postmodernism": http://www.ktlit.com/post-modern-korean-fiction-the-prehistory-of-postmodernism/
"Traditional Korean Literature": http://www.iu.edu/~easc/outreach/educators/literature/workshops/documents/KoreanLiteratureReadingList2011.pdf
All in-text citations come from "The Glass Shield" (2008).


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Favorite Gear
This is a list of what we consider our favorite gear and what makes it special.
We have created our own Amazon store neatly organized with all the gear and vehicle accessories we've used and tested throughout our journey and adventures. Check it out at amazon.com/shop/overlandtheamericas
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Sleeping & Camping
MSR Hubba Hubba NX 2 pax, 3 Season Tent
Kitchen & Cooking
Steel Cook Partner 2 Burner Stove
MSR WhisperLite Universal Stove
Ka-Bar Short Black Straight Edge Knife
Gerber Multi-Plier with Sheath
Garmin InReach Explorer+ Satellite Communicator
Backpacking, Hiking & Climbing
Osprey Variant 52 liter Alpine Backpacks
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Fairisle Jumper Navy
Sharing the same story as fairisle vest. This classic sweater has colorful fair isle patterns throughout. Nature rolling design at collar and cuff gives more vivid look. Also available in Yellow.
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The early years
When the scheme commenced in 1975, employers were required to lodge monthly returns and pay contributions to the scheme based on the ordinary pay of their employees.
This changed in 1986, where employers no longer had to pay contributions or report monthly. Yearly Certificates of Service were introduced, and the method of funding changed to a levy payable on all building and construction work over a specified value undertaken in NSW.
This reduced paperwork for employers and this method of reporting service for employees continued until 2007 when annual Employer Returns and online services became available.
Contractors are able to record service by lodging annual certificates of service which must be verified by a registered tax agent. An online facility for tax agents to complete these certificates became available in early 2012.


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Design and development of an inflation device for angioplasty
Design and development of an inflation device for angioplasty
We helped a market leader in vascular access to design and develop inflation device used for angioplasty.
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Hankering for a Nobel Prize? EAT MORE CHOCOLATE
Study: Nobel laureates consume nearly twice as much chocolate as their peers
A California researcher has discovered a strong correlation between chocolate consumption and the degree of smarts that results in being awarded a Noble Prize.
In "Chocolate habits of Nobel prizewinners", published in Thursday's edition of Nature, Beatrice Golomb of the University of California, San Diego, notes that of the 23 Nobel laureates she surveyed, 43 per cent revealed that they ate chocolate more than twice a week, significantly more than the 25 per cent reported by a control group of 237 subjects matched by age, education, and sex.
Writing in the paper upon which her Nature article was based, Golomb added caveats. "Nobelists could understate chocolate consumption to amplify the appearance that native prowess led to their Prize – producing bias to the null," she notes.
She also cautioned that the health benefits of chocolate might have skewed her results. "Given favorable chocolate-mortality associations, Prize recipients who ate chocolate may be disproportionately alive to complete the survey," she wrote. "However, longevity benefits of chocolate may be mediating rather than (merely) confounding – advantaging Nobel Prize receipt by increasing prospects people will survive to (ahem) get their just desserts."
Golomb extols the multifarious benefits of the tasty wonder food. "Favorable brain effects of chocolate extend to antioxidation/antiapoptosis, cerebral bloodflow, stroke risk, cognition (elderly), and memory (age <50, when much original science takes place)."
She also cites "ecological data" that linked the amount of per capita chocolate consumption in individual countries with their production of Nobel laureates.
That groundbreaking work, "Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates", was conducted by Franz Messerli, director of the hypertension program at New York City's St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals, and published in the New England Journal of Medicine in October 2012.
Messerli's work studied chocolate consumption per capita in 23 countries, and discovered that there was "a close, significant linear correlation" between a country's chocolate intake and the number of its Nobel laureates per 10 million inhabitants.
"The slope of the regression line allows us to estimate that it would take about 0.4 kg of chocolate per capita per year to increase the number of Nobel laureates in a given country by 1," Messerli notes. "For the United States, that would amount to 125 million kg per year."
Messerli freely admitted, however, that his work needed to be taken a step further. "The present data are based on country averages," he wrote, "and the specific chocolate intake of individual Nobel laureates of the past and present remains unknown."
Golomb sought to fill that gap in Messerli's research. "We surveyed Nobel laureates regarding their chocolate consumption in the years of their Nobel-winning work; ... how the Nobel altered their chocolate-consuming habits; and whether they attributed their Prize to their chocolate consumption."
The Nobel laureates whom Golomb surveyed had received their awards in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology/Medicine, and Economics. "Peace and Literature awardees were excluded," she writes, "because chocolate is linked to aggression (relevant to Peace Prize) and depression (germane to literary achievement)."
Like Messerli, Golomb admits that further research is needed, "seeking additional suitable controls (such as, IgNobel Prize recipients)."
Some of the anonymous responses by the Laureates surveyed are instructive.
"The Nobel Foundation hands out to the Laureates, (in addition to diploma, medal and check), small gold colored tinfoil copies of the medal filled with chocolate," one Physics laureate wrote. "This must mean that they think chocolate is important."
A Chemistry laureate was more direct. "Chocolate made me who I am today," he claimed, while a Physics laureate weighed in on his chocolatey preferences: "White chocolate is an obscenity!" he sniffed.
And one Physics prize recipient, in a section Golomb entitled "Methodology Plaudits," praised her scientific rigor. "Who can say a bad word about any research that is poised so precisely in the vast space between balanced objectivity and total confusion?"
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The Weed News Company Publishes Interactive Marijuana Legalization Map for 2020
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Optimal spinal alignment
There is very little evidence that slight misalignments of the spine are related to pain, and no evidence that they indicate an increased risk of future pain. However, if you think back to what you learned about loading, doesn't it make sense to make sure the load is well distributed?
Remember, if you have sustained or cumulative loading beyond the tissue's capacity, it will eventually fail, and is likely to give you some mild pain before it does – remember bending your finger back? The best response to this mild pain is to move, sit differently, vary your posture.
If you are a habitual slumper, you will exert a chronic strain on your tissues, increasing the risk of pain and eventual tissue damage.
Having optimal spinal posture is hard to achieve, but it ensures optimal distribution of load. But varying your position is much more important, and training your back to cope with these different types of loading. But if you want to optimise your loading, make sure to work on your foundation exercises – standing, sitting, and lying well. More on this to come.
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Arab Express: The Latest Art from the Arab World was a unique and timely exhibition at the Tokyo's Mori Art Museum. The show was curated by the museum's Nanjo Fumio and Kondo Kenichi, who also wrote essays for the catalogue, along with excellent contributions from Arab art historians Nada Shabout and Salwa Mikdadi. The exhibition featured 34 Arab artists (including one collective), 11 of them female, and covered ten Arab countries. It included 18 photographers, five video artists, nine artists that use new-media performance and installation, and only three painters.
Christopher Kuhl
Christopher Kuhl is visual artist working in painting, photography, and video as well as a cultural writer based in Atlanta and New York City. He is a contributor to European Photography, Art in America, and Stretcher. His work has been shown at PS1, Artists Space, The Hague, and Ginza Hall. He has received grants from the City of Atlanta and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.


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Wahey! It's Ed Worthington aka "The 6 Million P Man" (that's P as in English pence, not Mike, or the other P word). Those of you who live in the Twitterverse should be familiar with Ed, if not, settle in. This is going to be great.
Over to you, Ed!
Hi Ed, what's this picture then?
EW: This is the sun setting over the Bristol Channel taken on the beach at Rest Bay a short drive from my home here in South Wales. I think it's a good example of where my medium format work has been heading towards and what I hope it progresses from. It's also the only photo my mother has seen and told me – without prompting – that she really liked it and would buy it if she'd seen it for sale.
Ok, so who are you (the short version)?
EW: My name's Ed Worthington. I go by name "The6MillionpMan" online due to the extensive amount of metal plates and screws I've had in my jawline from an "incident" when I was in my early twenties – I'm like the 6 Million Dollar Man but was cheaper to rebuild.
I live and work in Cardiff in South Wales in the UK. When I say work, I mean a day job, photography is very much not my employment no matter how much I wish it was. I live with my girlfriend and my cameras and whilst I'd list that the other way around, she'd find out and be furious. Oh, and I like to shoot a LOT of medium format.
Random non-photography based facts: I have been learning Italian and am obsessed with history, which I like to combine when I go travelling.
When did you start shooting film and what about now? Why do you shoot film and what drives you to keep shooting?
EW: I'm part of that generation of people who grew up just young enough to experience film as the only available medium of photography but not be able to appreciate it before digital took over (try and use that to work out my age).
Technically speaking I first started shooting film when I was a kid, but in reality I'd put my actual start date more like around three years ago. I got into photography roughly a year prior to that. I've not told people this before but I'd been going through a pretty crappy time mentally and felt a creative outlet would help me.
A friend of mine is a professional photographer and when I was living with him I'd help him on shoots, holding lighting stands, carrying equipment etc. When he heard I was getting into photography he suggested I might like to try using film as he'd recently been using it himself.
The other person who got me into film was my grandfather. After I showed him my first few rolls from my newly acquired Nikon FM he gave me his Canon AE-1 Program, a couple of lenses and a lot of encouragement.
He's still the first person I like to show any images I make to, being nearly ninety it takes him longer than it used to to look through a set of prints but he's always interested, especially if he finds out they've been made with his camera (yeah I'm just "borrowing" it).
As to what keeps me going now, well I think it's the plain and simple answer most of us who like to use film always go back to.
I like it, I like it a lot. The whole process, the idea of using an incredibly complicated chemical process to create a snapshot out of thin air of something you can see in front of you, something tangible you can then hold in your hands. I mean, isn't that some kind of witchcraft? You'd be burnt at the stake in centuries past for such magic.
Then there's fact that you can use a whole plethora of machinery from the last 150 years or so. Some of it that can connect you directly to history, to create art, family snapshots, work, whatever you want to use photography for. Point me out a digital camera that'll still be in a working condition in 60 years' time – that's how old my Yashica-D is – or even if it is miraculously working, how would you get those images anyway?
Technology moves so fast nowadays the file formats would likely be obsolete and/or unreadable anyway. Film isn't that because you create something real at the end of it.
I think most importantly what keeps me coming back again and again to film is the therapy I get from the slow, sometimes laborious or labour intensive process of shooting an alternative technology. I can't be the only who feels a genuine buzz when they pick up an old camera or when they fire off the shutter and hear/feel a real moving part, a wonderfully crafted piece of equipment living and breathing in their hands? That's what keeps me coming back, it completes me.
Do you have a favourite subject matter or style you always find yourself drawn to? Why?
EW: The main things I like to shoot are street and landscapes, although I also like to document my travels specifically on film (which I have done most recently on a trip to Budapest and prior to that Italy). With street photography it's mainly because it's something I can just go out and do on my lunch break when I'm working, as I work in the centre of a city it's really easy to just pop out and see what happens.
That's one of my favourite parts of shooting street is the unpredictable nature of it, I never go out with an idea of an image in my head that I want, they just happen in front of me naturally. Of course if I see some good shadows and light or shapes then I'll hang around until the right person walks into where I want them to be, but I've never told someone to do that or be in the right place, I just wait for it to happen.
In terms of landscape there is a specific subject matter I find myself drawn to a lot, that being water or more specifically the sea. Living in a city on the coast means it's very easy to hop in the car and head down to numerous beaches, cliffs, piers or harbours and within less than an hour I can have a camera set up on a tripod and be merrily snapping away.
Style-wise this is almost always taken on medium format, my blog was mentioned a few months ago in a post by Jim Grey that got reposted on Petapixel with a pretty simple description of "Lots Of Medium Format", which at first I thought typecast me a little. Then I actually looked through my blog myself and realised that, yeah there's a hell of a lot of medium format being shot and shared on there. The thing I like most about shooting medium is the shape of the finished article, that big square negative (ok maybe not if it's anything other than 6×6 but you get the idea) just looks fantastic.
The way I shoot medium is so different to 35mm as well, the rule of thirds gets chucked out of the window, everything I want is either slap bang in the middle or symmetrical. I also slow down to an absolute crawl, 35mm I'll fire off at a rate of knots but with medium I will genuinely do the whole, slow down, think about it, properly compose etc. etc. thing. So yeah, I'll champion the positives of shooting medium format any day.
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What's the next challenge…your next step? How do you see improving your technique or what aspect of your photography would you like to try and master in the next 12 months?
EW: Every year I set myself a few Photographic New Year's Resolutions which I slowly work through over the following 12 months, then there's things that crop up as well that I tend to add on as and when. I've managed to tick off half of this year's so far but the big two I really want to get onto are developing my own film and selling a print of my work.
Considering how much film I shoot I still have not got around to developing my own negatives, partly there's the time element as I work a shift based job and when I'm not working I prefer to be out shooting than stuck at home with a ton of chemicals and then there's the fact that I am inherently lazy and if I can get someone else to do it for me then I'll get them to do it for me.
There's also the fact that the lab I use, AG Photographic, do great work and I have never had even the smallest of issues with them. But developing myself is a skill I feel I need to at least try out, maybe not master but certainly try out. In terms of selling a print of my own work, that was just something a little narcissistic, if just one person wants to buy an image I've created then I guess that'll make me feel good about myself. So the idea was to print up a small batch of images, put them out there and if they sell great, if not well I have some nice prints of my work and family birthday presents are sorted for the foreseeable future.
Then there's a few personal projects I have on the go, one I'd like to think of making into a book or zine when it's ready (whenever that may be) and another couple I have in the pipeline for later in the year when I go travelling around Italy on my own for a few weeks. Maybe not exciting for other people, but exciting times for me.
You have two minutes to prepare for an assignment. One camera, one lens, two films and no idea of subject matter. What do you take with you and why?
EW: That's actually a pretty easy question, I'd take my Olympus OM-1, a 50mm F.Zuiko 1:1.8 lens, a roll of Fuji Pro 400H and a roll of Ilford FP4 125. The OM-1 is my favourite camera, even though it's 35mm not 120, and fully mechanical so should be able to take anything thrown at it. The 50mm is a nice standardized focal length with a fast max aperture that'll suit the vast majority of situations and also happens to be a great piece of glass.
As for films, well Fuji Pro 400H is my favourite film of all time, I only ever treat myself to it for special occasions (such as weddings, of which I've been to a lot this year so my pockets are pretty empty), it's a good speed for the majority of situations and has a lovely look to it. The Ilford FP4 would be so I have the option of black and white should it be required and there's not much I can say about it that hasn't been said on this site multitudes of times before, it's a cracking film.
You have an unlimited supply of film to shoot in one location. Where do you go?
EW: I'd take it all on a very long trip around Italy (yes I'm going to class the whole country as one location so there). Later this year I'll be travelling around Italy for 18 days armed with my OM-1, Yashica D and about 30 odd rolls of film so if you gave me the option of an unlimited supply I'd do the same trip but for longer. In fact perhaps I'd never come home?
You can never use film again. What's your last roll of film, where and how will you expose it and why?
EW: Like I said before my favourite film is Fuji Pro 400H, so that's what I'd choose. I'd take it to the top of Piazzale Michelangelo (see below) in Florence and make a similar image to the one at the start of this. Looking down over the city and firing off shot after shot of the sun setting over the distant hills of Tuscany as it reflects off the River Arno. It'd be on 120 and only 12 images but I think it'd be worth it.
What do you think is people's greatest misconception about film photography and how would you set them straight?
EW: I think the greatest misconception is that digital can manipulate an image to look exactly like it was taken on a particular film stock and therefore film is a waste of time if you want the same aesthetic. This is frankly nonsense.
The first thing I would do is sit someone down with a decent SLR, a roll of the film they think they can emulate with their software and then show them the results once it's been developed and printed. I'm not saying they won't look totally different, I'm saying that hopefully that person realises that there's so much more to photography than megapixels and Photoshop, that they come away enjoying the whole process they've been through and realise film is not a waste of time, it's just a different, and often more enjoyable, way of achieving the end result.
In your opinion what is the future of film photography?
EW: I think over the next few years film photography is going to continue to grow into a rather large niche market, it'll never get back to the heydays but it'll return to a profitable position for smaller specialised companies, a solid return of investment for enthusiasts and become a genuine viable alternative for people wanting to experience photography in a particular way.
It'll become like classic cars or music, living alongside the modern but as an accessible alternative for anyone wanting to try and be able to pay the price. Hopefully the future means the return or re-launch of more film stock too, if the next few years are anything like how 2017 has been then it'll be exciting times.
~ Ed Worthington
I'm with Ed on his final thoughts about film photography continuing to grow and establishing a large nice in the wider photographic community. I'd love to see film as the mainstream photographic medium again but being realistic, this simply isn't going to happen.
The growth and acceptance of film photography as a viable and "mass market" medium is contingent on several things happening, namely film photographers:
- Continuing to shoot fresh film
- Demanding local stock where there is none
- Making their voices heard about new film cameras
- Supporting film labs by developing and printing
It's not an exhaustive action list but it is a start. In addition, it is the most basic set of actions needed to get attention from those vendors who have wholesale moved away from film photography over the past decade; the large camera manufacturers. Their re-involvement in film photography may not be large in terms of volume in the future but it will do something important: send a message.
Get out there, shoot, have fun and make your voices heard. At the time of writing, Kodak's 127th birthday was just two days ago and if we want to secure another 127 years of film photography where we remain more than just a small niche, we all need to fight for it in the best way available to us: keep shooting, keep talking, keep sharing.
Thanks for reading and thanks to Ed for stepping up. You can (and should) catch up wth him over on Twitter, IG and over on his website, he's well worth the nudge.
That's all for now but I'll be back with another interviewee next week, so I guess all that remains is for the 152nd time, keep shooting folks!
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Authored by Jamie Lim
May 15, 2019
There is something about the desert.
Correction, there is something magical about the desert.
It may be the dryness of the air, the heat of the sun against your skin, or the red-orange rocks against the bluest of blue skies. Let's be honest, it's all of the above.
First Time
I've experienced the desert as a child. A majority of my mother's family lives in El Paso and we traveled there a few times when I was younger. When I reflect on those times, I can envision the light brown/tan rocks against the blue sky, the dry heat, and the desire for water -drinking it, against my body, give me all the water.
My experience in the desert as an adult was with friends that, in my eyes, are hiking pros. With this, there was a sense of hesitation. I was hesitant because I didn't understand why my friends were so obsessed with Utah, nonetheless the outdoors. All hesitation and confusion aside, I went.
Dazed & Confused
I would love to say there was an instant click for me when we arrived to the Utah desert -there was not. Nevertheless, I still continued to do all the things my friends did for fun. We played a dice game (Doubt?) outside our Safari Tent amongst the tall rock formations, went hiking and scrambling in Zion National Park, and ate the most delicious gluten free muffins at Deep Creek Coffee Co.
Something that I realized along this adventure was that hiking is a whole other ball game. Not only is it physical, it can be extremely mental. For me, it was a mental in a way of not feeling like I could keep up with my hiking pro friends. As I was lagging behind on our trek to the top of Angels Landing, things started to click.
Every Breath You Take
Hiking is not a step-by-step activity, it's a breath-by-breath activity. Similar to yoga, your breath guides you while you hike. With every breath comes every step, and it's when you start listening to your breath things start to become easier (although, the switchbacks are quite challenging).
I noticed that as soon as I felt challenged during my hike, I started looking down at my feet. I wasn't fully present on where I was going or seeing the amazing view. My breath felt heavy and I wanted to stop every ten minutes.
Then I looked up, took a breath in, noticed my surroundings, and something clicked. I realized that the life I live is not a "normal" life and I have friends that are not "normal." They are unique individuals who live extraordinary lives. So, how lucky am I to be on a trip with them to one of their favorite places on this planet?
Real. F*cking. Lucky.
Once I channeled my breath and started looking up, my whole perspective on hiking and nature shifted. There's a moment when you look back while hiking and you're like, "Wow, I just did that." This moment occurred for me multiple times while hiking Angels Landing, especially after all the switchbacks.
It was at the top of Angels Landing where I had my lightbulb moment. Once I met the rest of our group and they asked me how my first "real" hike went, my response was, "Y'all do this for fun?" and Amara instantly replied with, "WE do this for fun."
And, she was right. For me, hiking isn't about getting to the top the fastest. Hiking is allowing my body, my mind, and my spirit to work together as one so that I can reach the top powerfully.
Disclaimer: While I highly recommend listening to the sounds of nature or having a conversation and connecting with friends while you hike, I've curated a playlist that reminds me of the feelings I've experienced while in the dessert.
Blogging Adventurer: Jamie Lim
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Jamie Lim is a certified 200-hour yoga teacher and avid adventurer. Her love for adventure began in 2016, with Live Alive Adventures, in Cambutal, Panama. It was the decision of choosing to go on this adventure that Jamie experienced her first true sense of adventure -exploration of unknown territory with the world, with others and with herself.
Since Panama, she continues to explore the unknown with Live Alive and on her own. She's ventured off to Venice and Rome where she ate gelato every single day, Munich where she experienced the tradition of Oktoberfest, Zion National Park where she completed her very first hike, Dublin where she drank her first pint of Guinness at the Guinness Storehouse, and many other places.
A creative and visionary at heart, Jamie can easily be dubbed as the hype girl within our Live Alive family. She always know which song to play (shoutout DJ Lim Lim), captures priceless moments with her camera and is able to connect with others in her own unique way.


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Wayne Gretzky Signed/autographed Authentic Upperdeck/uda Edmonton Oilers Jersey
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Rocky Rocks a Two Piece
Sly Stallone spent yesterday in London shopping for a bikini ... hopefully for someone else. The mullet man was in the Roberto Cavalli shop on Sloane Street looking for something in a leopard print. Fierce!
Just today, Stallone's lawyers plead guilty for Sly in a Sydney court -- to bringing banned muscle-building hormones into Australia. Sly faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
Maybe the bikini is for him after all.


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Latest NewsFrom time to time, the Baker County Sheriff's Office has the need to pass along thanks or notices to the public that is not necessarily an official press release. This new page will allow BCSO to do just that. Please check back frequently as we will be updating this portion of our webpage regularly.
On November 2, 2015, BCSO is happy to welcome Parole and Probation Clerk Ashley McClay to the P&P Division. Ms. McClay comes to BCSO from the Grant County District Attorney's Office where she supervised the Victims Services office. Please welcome Ashley to the team!
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Zach Perdue is a GIS and Visual expert with over fifteen years of diversified experience performing complex geospatial, statistical and visualization analyses to support a variety of planning initiatives. His broad range of software experience and understanding of spatial data analysis have allowed him to apply unique, efficient, and effective solutions to support projects within the recreation and tourism, real estate, planning, engineering, architectural and energy industries.
Zach draws on his diversified skill set to strategically optimize programmatic designs that not only meet project objectives, but also enhance return on investment. In addition, he utilizes a wide variety of CAD, GIS, graphic and 3D Modeling software to create engaging presentations that captivate viewing audiences. Whether seeking a simple massing model of a conceptual design study or articulating a detailed, photo-realistic vision of a final project prior to implementation, his experience and skill set bring your projects to life.


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'Best Job I Ever Had:' Federal Judges and Former JAGs Share War Stories
"I loved putting on that uniform. It humbled me every time I did it," said U.S. District Judge Stephanie Haines of the Western District of Pennsylvania.
CEO of Speaker Media and Marketing, is the "Secret Weapon of Personal Injury Lawyers and Trial Attorneys" throughout the United States. Specializing as a marketing consultant to lawyers, with a primary focus on content marketing, social media, online video and mobile marketing strategies.


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Los Angeles-based experimental pop artist Jean Dawson has dropped a fresh single, 'Starface*', alongside a new album announcement.
The track marks Dawson's fourth single of 2020. He released 'Bruiseboy' in February, followed by 'Power Freaks' in April and 'Clear Bones' in June.
The song premiered alongside a music video directed by Zack Madden, with creative direction from Dawson and Mowgly Lee.
The visual features appearances from Brockhampton's Matt Champion, singers Cailin Russo and Zach Fogarty, model Jae Unger and more members of Dawson's musical family.
Watch it below:
The cut is lifted from Dawson's forthcoming new album, 'PIXEL BATH', slated for release on October 23 via Dew Process. It follows his 2019 project, 'Bad Sports'.
In a recent interview with NME, Dawson explained how his genre-bending sound first came into being.
"I've been a product of so many different cultures that when people ask me about the genre-bending, I don't even look at it as anything other than making music that I would want to listen to," he said.
"Listening to a lot of the rock groups that inspired me growing up, none of them really looked like me and it created an inner conflict. On my first EP, there's a song called 'Napster' and I wanted it to feel like The Smiths, but what would The Smiths sound like if they were from Compton instead of Manchester?' I love Britpop shit, but how do I keep the same intention of that music and give it my own identity?"


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When it comes to weight management, we tend to focus on the health-related benefits of being lighter, like cholesterol and blood pressure readings, as well as aesthetics. For runners, however, shedding excess pounds may also increase performance gains. There's no denying the fact that you will likely run faster when you're at your ideal racing weight instead of over or under it.
For most of us, the issue is shedding pounds. As you probably guessed, it's easier to run faster when you're lugging around less body mass. In addition to losing fat, gaining some muscle will contribute to that lean look most runners want. Remember, it's not just about getting skinny, but rather about being strong.
To calculate your current body mass index, plug in your height and weight into this BMI calculator. This will give you a good jumping-off point to figure out approximately how much you have to lose to be in the "healthy" weight range. Once you've pinpointed a goal, here are five things you can do to shed pounds and get stronger for improved running performances.
1. Consult an expert.
Making an appointment with a sports nutritionist can be a great way to kick off weight loss. Since you're looking to get lean, an expert in the field will be able to assist in tailoring your diet to fit your specific needs. He or she can help factor in your daily caloric needs based on how much running you're doing so you avoid cutting calories to the point of hurting your performance. A sports nutritionist can also do metabolic tests, which will provide additional health data to inform your get-lean quest.
2. Eat more often.
Research has demonstrated that people who eat six or more small meals during the day tend to have lower BMI's than those who eat three larger meals a day. What's more, a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that nibbling more effectively keeps the metabolism steady throughout the day versus gorging on three large meals. The key is to identify smaller nutrient-rich meals that are satisfying and keep you fueled for workouts. Taking in protein and fiber-rich fruits and vegetables will go a long way in ensuring satiety.
3. Incorporate strength training.
While studies have shown that aerobic training is best for shedding fat, resistance training is tops at building lean muscle. Assuming you're already running regularly, adding in 2–3 days of strength training can help you reach that ideal racing weight. Perhaps even better: Resistance training has been shown to increase running economy, which means you'll use fuel more efficiently during workouts and races. More efficient running workouts translate into increased fitness.
4. Add in high-intensity intervals.
While we often get preoccupied with the idea of linking aerobic training and fat burning, more recent weight-loss studies have begun to focus on high-intensity interval training. In fact, in comparing runners who did four to six 30-second treadmill sprints three times per week with runners who did 30–60 minutes of steady-state running three days a week, Canadian researchers discovered that the former lost more fat after six weeks. While about 80% of your training should be easier steady-state aerobic training, if you're looking to achieve a leaner physique, don't forget to add in one or two harder sessions each week.
5. Track.
Tracking your consumption on MyFitnessPal and your exercise on MapMyFitness can help you determine whether you're taking in the right number and kinds of calories for your activity level. Since research has shown that we often overestimate the number of calories we burn during workouts, this can be particularly important. What's more, it can help you assess the quality of your diet. If you're taking in the right number of calories, but they're all from less-nutritious sources, you're going to have trouble fueling your workouts optimally.
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Mackenzie Lobby Havey is a freelance journalist and coach based in Minneapolis. She contributes to a variety of magazines and websites including TheAtlantic.com, OutsideOnline.com, espnW.com, Runner's World and Triathlete Magazine. She holds a master's degree in Kinesiology from the University of Minnesota, and is a USA Track and Field certified coach. When she's not writing, she's out biking, running, and cross-country skiing around the city lakes with her dog.


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Avigilon Adds Unusual Motion Detection Technology to H4 SL and Mini Dome Cameras
Advanced artificial intelligence capabilities now available with entry-level camera lines
Avigilon announced it has extended its video analytics platform to the H4 SL and H4 Mini Dome camera lines with the addition of Unusual Motion Detection (UMD) technology.
The addition of UMD technology in the H4 SL camera line and H4 Mini Dome camera line offer customers powerful artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities at an entry-level price point. Without any predefined rules or set up, UMD technology continuously learns what typical activity in a scene looks like, and then detects and flags unusual motion. Through Avigilon Control Center (ACC) software, it allows operators to review large amounts of video faster by focusing their attention on the atypical events that may need further investigation.
Figure 1. Avigilon adds UMD technology on the H4 SL and H4 Mini Dome camera lines for powerful artificial intelligence capabilities at an entry-level price point.
"We believe that AI can benefit all of our customers regardless of project size, complexity, or budget," said James Henderson, Avigilon's President and Chief Operating Officer. "By adding UMD technology to the H4 SL and Mini Dome camera lines, we've created an easy-to-install and cost-effective way to deploy advanced video analytics in any application."
All new H4 SL and Mini Dome cameras include UMD technology, which is supported by the upcoming release of ACC 6.10 video management software. A free firmware download is available for previously installed cameras.
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Homeservice Club's fabulous top-rated security system plan gives you a state-of-the-art security system for FREE! No installation charges. No equipment charges. You only pay a small, monthly monitoring fee for a period of 36 months. At the end of the contract, you own the equipment. It's a no-risk, affordable way to protect your property and loved ones.
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Julia K. Holt
Most commercial general liability ("CGL") policies contain standard, insurance industry-drafted language regarding an insurer's duty to defend and indemnify its insured. The language typically states something like, the insurer "will pay those sums that the insured becomes legally obligated to pay as damages because of . . . 'property damage' to which this insurance applies. We will have the right and duty to defend the insured against any 'suit' seeking those damages." Commercial General Liability Insurance Policy Form No. CG 00 01 04 13, § I, Coverage A.1.a. (Insurance Services Office, Inc. 2012). "Property Damage" is defined as "[p]hysical injury to tangible property, including all resulting loss of use of that property" or "[l]oss of use of tangible property that is not physically injured." Id. at § V, ¶ 17.a and b.
The second definition of "property damage" provides coverage when the allegations do not amount to physical injury of tangible property. However, insurers often attempt to strictly narrow the coverage available by arguing that certain types of lost use are not covered because they are merely the loss of economic privileges that accompany the property, such as the right to hold a liquor license or to use the property a certain way via a permit. In other words, insurers often argue that "loss of use" of tangible property requires the total loss of all uses on the property, not merely some uses. The California Court of Appeal recently rejected this argument. See Thee Sombrero, Inc. v. Scottsdale Ins. Co., 28 Cal. App. 5th 729, 239 Cal. Rptr. 3d 416 (2018). Continue reading "California Corner: Loss of Use under Commercial General Liability Insurance Policies Includes the Inability to Use a Property in a Particular Manner"


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Quinta do Noval 2012 Vintage Port
Quinta do Noval 2012 Vintage Port
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Quinta do Noval Vintage Port is characterized by its purity of fruit. Equilibrium, harmony, finesse and elegance characterize our great Vintage Ports, which are declared only in great years (3 or 4 years in a decade) and only when the wines come up to Noval's exacting standards.
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MusicPortl, a Hamburg, Germany-based mashup application created by Christoph Olszowka, aggregates information about music artists. The site leverages the API's of Amazon, Lastfm, Flickr, MusicBrainz, Ontok, Technorati, Wikipedia and YouTube to produce a comprehensive music resource for the artist research.
In searching for artist information on Dave Matthews Band (quite possibly one of the greatest bands ever assembled) MusicPortl returns every possible biography via Wikipedia, links to recent blog posts from Technorati, photos from Flickr, videos from YouTube, recent albums on Amazon.com as well as suggested artist that are similar in genre among other things. See the screen-shot above to see how information is displayed.
Functionally, MusicPortl performs very well and maintains swift page load times by leveraging ajax and a number of other web 2.0 JavaScript libraries.
Bottomline: MusicPortl offers a great one stop shop for researching a music artist.


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Spider-Man musical re-opens to standing ovation
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The troubled Spider-Man musical has received a standing ovation in New York after two shows were cancelled following an on-stage accident.
Instead of performing on Wednesday, the cast rehearsed new safety measures agreed with state officials.
After Thursday's hitch-free return, lead actor Reeve Carney said the show was "always safe" but was "now safer".
Spider-Man double Christopher Tierney, who fell 30 feet on Monday, is due out of hospital this weekend.
Despite wearing a safety harness, video of the incident showed him falling from a ledge into a stage pit.
According to his brother, Tierney was in "good spirits" and was expected to make a full recovery.
New precautions for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, which features nearly 40 aerial stunts, require a second person must check harnesses after they have been put on.
A representative of the stage employees union IATSE said it was "confident in the additional safety protocols".
On Thursday, producers Michael Cohl and Jenny Harris took to the stage at the start of the show to explain they had ironed out problems.
"If you weren't nervous tonight, you'd have to be an idiot," Cohl said after the performance.
Director and co-writer Julie Taymor said the cast and crew had got together before the show "and talked about Chris".
"Chris gave us the spirit tonight," she added, revealing that only one stunt had been cut from the production.
The $65m (£42m) show features music written by Bono and The Edge of Irish rock band U2.
Following a number of incidents during preview performances, it will now have its official opening night on 7 February.


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Laura John
Laura John, a descendent of the Blackfeet and Seneca Nations, began work as the City of Portland's second ever Tribal Relations Director in 2017. She brings over 20 years of experience working in Indian Country. She is a former State Policy Fellow with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and was formally the State-Tribal Policy Analyst for the Montana Budget & Policy Center, working closely with Native American state legislators and elected tribal leaders in Montana.
Laura holds undergraduate degrees from Portland State University and Haskell Indian Nations University, and graduate degrees from Washington State University and the University of Montana.
As the City's Tribal Relations Director, she will assist the Mayor, City Council, and all City bureaus in strengthening relationships and coordinating overall policy development with Tribal Governments and the Portland Native American community.
Laura was born and raised in Portland and is honored to have the opportunity to serve her community in this role.


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A grim milestone appears to be passing, as both U.S. and Japanese intelligence analysts believe North Korea has developed the technology to miniaturize nuclear warheads and fit them inside long-range missiles, years ahead of schedule.
Japan's annual defense review, released on Tuesday morning, described the threat from North Korea's nuclear missile program as "acute."
"It is conceivable that North Korea's nuclear weapons program has already considerably advanced and it is possible that North Korea has already achieved the miniaturization of nuclear weapons and has acquired nuclear warheads," the white paper warned. "Since last year, when it forcibly implemented two nuclear tests and more than 20 ballistic missile launches, the security threats have entered a new stage."
Accordingly, the BBC reported that Japan has begun its first civilian air-raid drills since the end of World War II, evidently stepping up a program revealed earlier this year which taught civilians in certain towns how to deal with an errant North Korean test missile (or perhaps a weapon fired at American military installations in Japan) falling in a populated area.
"We're told to hit the ground or hide behind the wall, but will that really help? Will that really protect us if a missile really falls here, I wonder?" asked one Japanese citizen interviewed by the BBC.
The Washington Post reported on Tuesday afternoon that U.S. analysts at the Defense Intelligence Agency reached similar conclusions about North Korea's capabilities in a confidential assessment prepared last month.
The DIA report also raised the official estimate of North Korea's nuclear inventory considerably, from the handful of bombs hypothesized by most earlier analyses to almost 60 nuclear devices.
The report's authors believe some of these devices are small enough to be delivered by intercontinental ballistic missile. As the Washington Post notes, North Korea claims it has successfully tested such miniaturized devices, although their claims were greeted with widespread skepticism at the time. The missing piece of the ICBM puzzle for North Korea would appear to be reliable heat shielding to protect the warheads from re-entry, a technology Pyongyang is clearly working hard to develop.
A new poll from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs released on Monday found 90 percent of Americans "reject the idea that North Korea should be allowed to produce nuclear weapons," 75 percent see the North Korean nuclear program as a "critical threat facing the United States," and 62 percent would support using American troops to defend South Korea from a North Korean attack.