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Does excessive analysis of books put kids off reading? Author Frank Cottrell Boyce thinks it may just do that.
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Cottrell Boyce recounts one experience when he read aloud in a school. "There's a humbling, Homeric magic in the sight of a crowd of children sitting down waiting to listen to your story."
After he read his story, he recalls, a young, newly qualified teacher addressed the children. "She said: 'We're going to use our listening skills to try and spot his wow words and his connectives so that we can appreciate how he builds the story.'
"Time and time again I come across teachers reading a story and then asking immediately for some kind of feedback. A piece of 'creative writing' 'inspired by' the story. Some opinions about character and wow words. Something to show the parents or the school inspectors.
"It pollutes the reading experience by bringing something transactional in to play. It destroys pleasure."
Pleasure in reading, Cottrell Boyce will say, is deeply important. "Pleasure is a profound and potent form of attention, a kind of slow thinking."
He continues: "When I offer you a story I don't want you to come back to me with a description of how I did it. I don't think of my reader as a trainee writer. I'm hoping that it stays in your mind and comes out in different ways I could never have predicted – as an engineering idea, as a cake, as a hug that you give your dad."
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THE chances of flying filly Airwave exacting revenge on Royal Ascot conqueror Choisir have taken a random jolt in the shape of the draw.
Aussie speedster Choisir has been handed the plum position in stall one for tomorrow's July Cup as he bids to complete a famous hat-trick of British wins at Newmarket tomorrow.
Johnny Murtagh rode Choisir in both the King's Stand and Golden Jubilee Stakes at the Royal meeting and will be on board once again when the four-year-old faces 17 rivals tomorrow.
Paul Perry's colt is sure to blast away from the start of the six-furlong contest and, with the rails to help, he will prove difficult to catch.
Airwave failed by just half a length to peg back Choisir last month and it was subsequently later announced that she had been in season.
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The three-year-old has a centre draw in box nine and the added assistance this time of champion jockey Kieren Fallon in the saddle.
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When the Sadler`s Wells Royal Ballet appears at Dade County Auditorium Tuesday through Saturday, it will present a mixed program that pays homage to its 19th century heritage while looking ahead to the future.
The centerpiece of the British company`s appearance will be Peter Wright`s lavish restaging of the Petipa classic The Sleeping Beauty, a ballet that has become indelibly identified with the English style.
But other ballets from the Sadler`s Wells repertory will undoubtedly prove entertaining. The company will also present house choreographer David Bintley`s 1985 work Flowers of the Forest.
The 28-year-old Bintley, who is also a dancer with the company, has been acclaimed as a gifted classical choreographer whose plotless ballets suggest heavy influences by George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton. Flowers of the Forest is an abstract Scottish ode inspired by the music of Malcolm Arnold`s Four Scottish Dances and Benjamin Britten`s Scottish Ballad.
Also on the program will be a work by another British choreographer who has figured prominently in Sadler`s Wells history. Kenneth MacMillan, who cut his choreographic teeth with the company and its cousin, the Royal Ballet, created many lasting works that test the company`s modernist streak.
MacMillan`s Elite Syncopations is one of those works. This dance ballet, created in 1974, features 12 numbers set to music by Scott Joplin. With its colorful, zany costumes, large cast and wit, this ballet is a crowd-pleaser in the irreverent view of Push Comes to Shove.
The last work featured is Paquita, a quintessential Petipa ballet set to music by Minkus. Paquita was originally a two-act story ballet created in 1846, but all that remains of it now is a divertissement, reconstructed by Rudolf Nureyev for the Royal Ballet in 1965. It features six variations, for soloists and the two principals, that are virtuoso displays of classical style (including the ballerina`s flashy 32-fouette Finale).


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Wittgenstein never considered such difficulties, and as a matter of fact, was tortured by his own personal lies and moral imperfections. Perhaps the great man's philosophy was hamstrung by his shortsightedness. Certainly we can all see this now given our authority's penchant for dishonesty and our community's affinity for engaging in shared self deceptions.
This is not a thread that assumes Apollo fraudulent, not does it assume Apollo authentic, nor is it a thread that assumes Irwin to be an ACTIVE participant in the perpetration of fraud as regards Apollo, though within the "world" of this thread, Apollo may be inauthentic, as Irwin may, or for that matter may not, have been an active Apollo fraud participant.
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Nothing here is assumed, Apollo authenticity/inauthenticity is not an issue, not a focus per se...
This is not a thread that assumes Apollo fraudulent,
Since decisively has access to Jim Irwin's original source material I'll be happy to allow his team take the lead on Jim Irwin's plane crash, crushed legs, memory loss and experience with hypnosis. If you can be brief, decisively
as Irwin may, or for that matter may not, have been an active Apollo fraud participant.
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Well played.
1) Only Scott Bobs around like he is in outer space. Obviously they are trying to "fool" us into thinking that this is a genuine space mission by having Scott float up and down as you see him doing there. Worden and Irwin are sort of painted on there, glued if you will, to the CM backdrop. Bit of an exaggeration, but not much. This is an example of a "weightless scene" which we may have "figured out". Keep in mind, all weightless scenes were NOT done the same way. This one more likely than not employed a layering technique, like green screening or something similar. Scott is the overlay. He would have been shot with nothing but GREEN behind him and then when layered, the only thing one would see from that filming would be Scott, the green having been subtracted out.
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How does one know a "genesis rock" when one SEES one ? Boy them ain'tstronauts are smart (NOT) !!!!
To be sure SayonaraJupiter, it is hard to know where to begin with James Irwin. You've done nothing less than declare it OPEN SEASON on one of Fraudulent Apollo's most intriguing charlatans.
When I think of Jim Irwin and Apollo 15, one of the first things that, BING !!!!!, comes to mind, is the "Genesis Rock" business. Talk about a PLANT, and this is a PLANT inside of a phony story to begin with. How do these guys know this rock is so special to begin with ? I mean I know the story about how Harrison Schmitt went and talked Lee Silver into being a lunar geologist and got Professor Silver to train the astronauts. But come on now, you are on the moon, just strolling along and you see this rock and know it to be that special ? It is one of the most contrived, flat out bogus stories in all of Apollo, and THAT !!!!, is saying a lot coming from these, THE MAVENS OF CON.
But anyhoo, back to Irwin. I believe we are missing a lot as regards Edwards. Dyna-Soar Pilots, MOL Pilots, NASA astronauts, all of these wild test planes, the YP-12, the SR71 Blackbird. Borman going to visit Irwin post injury, EEGs, the chubby guy Wyman with the head injury losing 5 years worth of memory and on and on and on. This stuff is crackers wild, crazy , interesting.
Do you think Irwin knew all along that NASA, U.S. manned space flight was a cover for top secret U.S. military projects ? When do you think these guys "find out" this is about weapons, "plane" and simple ?


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text: The topic of human organ trafficking is gaining more global recognition as the horror stories become more horrific and the death toll rises of those "thousands who die needlessly" (Korobkin). There are two different views on the matter - advocating the legal selling of human organs, or challenging it. Many different valid points have been made on either side of the argument of this controversial topic, however. Although "selling organs for a profit is illegal" (Vine), it could very possibly save the life of a person in need of a liver or a kidney. The selling of these organs causes much discussion, much sorrow and much conflict. Those in favor of organ traffickign believe that the selling of organs from a dead or a live person will help to save thousands of lives, while also reducing the costs of medical bills. If not made legal, it will continue to happen illegally anyway. Those opposed to organ trafficking believe that it causes too big of a risk. The donor can suffer physically if selling an organ while still alive, and can also suffer monetarily by taking care of one debt, but quickly falling "again in debt within a short period of time" (Edwards). A benefit to the legalizing of organ trafficking is that those that give up their organs will be paid, often a large sum of money for their organ. The number of organ donors will greatly increase if the possibility of getting paid arises. Especially among the lower class. If not paid directly, they will indirectly receive payments for their donation through having "part or all of [their] burial expenses" (du Pont) paid off. This is especially beneficial to "lower-income people" (du Pont) that cannot afford to pay for it themselves. Other possibilities include "$20 off drivers' license renewal fees" (Korobkin) just for the agreement to have organs taken out after death. If these organs then turn out to be healthy and useable, the family could then "be paid a few thousand dollars" (Korobkin). Nobel Prize - winning economist, Gary Becker, claims that paying a donor to give up an organ will "increase the supply of kidneys by almost 20 percent and livers by 60 percent" (Shelton). The main problem is the lack of willing donors, the lack of organs, and the lack of time. Giving these people money, or a reward for saving another life, would help "alleviate [the] organ-shortage problem" (du Pont), and save thousands of lives. Despite these financial benefits of selling organs, there are other financial problems that accompany this sale. In many poor countries where debt and poverty is an all-too-familiar story, selling an organ "on the black market" (Edwards) seems a good escape - the only escape - from debt. However, in most cases, the poor organ seller "not only [does] not benefit, but actually [seems] to be harmed [from] the sale" (Edwards). "As with the case of India's Kuman, making only 12 pounds a month, this poor man wasa in debt two and a half years worth of his salary. His only apparent help from this debt was the 410 pounds he received from selling one of his kidneys. The cash barely covered his debt, but sadly he now owed more, (Vine). How horrible. Another benefit in the sale of human organs is the fact that if the organ donation process is not encouraged and more transplantations do not occur, more and more people will continue to wither away on their hospital beds. While "misguided government policy" (Korobkin) brands the sale of organs illegal, "thousands [of hopeless people] die every year waiting for transplants" (Korobkin). As for now, those dealing on the black market have the right idea. Every year "seven percent of kidney patients die waiting for a transplant" (Shelton). That is seven of every one hundred people needing a kidney. Dead. Also, "about 4,000 of the 55,560 patients currently on the transplant waiting list" (Gawande) will die. If the sale of organs were to be legalized, far fewer patients would die because of the greater willingness from people to sell their organs than to just donate them. Although there are people that generously give an organ to a person that need it more, most other people would typically need a little motivation - in the form of money. Another hindrance of the organ trafficking is the fact that "the poor sell their organs but then suffer ill health effects" (Korobkin). The poor that sell their organs for monetary purposes usually have a hard time going back to whatever job they might have. Surgery takes a while to recover from, and it can cause someone to miss weeks of work, thus putting that person back into the debt they lost a kidney to get themselves out of. An "organ seller" (Gawande) often struggles through making the "decision of taking the debt, or the lack of an organ" (Gawande), which results half the time in "persistent pain in the area of the scar" (Edwards). The question is then asked, "Keep my organs intact, or keep my debt?" Going with the latter sounds a little more appealing. The organ trafficking issue will continue to be debated over for a long time. As long as the poor have debts to pay off, the debate will continue to rage. As long as people keep dying in their hospital beds the debate will continue to rage. And as long as people continue to think "it's much easier just to ignore the issue" (Korobkin), the issue will surely continue to rage.


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"Animals are locked in a perpetual present. They can learn from recent events, but they are easily distracted by what is in front of their eyes. Slowly, over a great period of time, our ancestors overcame this basic animal weakness. By looking long enough at any object and refusing to be distracted – even for a few seconds – they could momentarily detach themselves from their immediate surroundings. In this way they could notice patterns, make generalizations, and think ahead. They had the mental distance to think and reflect, even on the smallest scale.
"Early humans evolved the ability to detach and think as their primary advantage in the struggle to avoid predators and find food. It's connected them to a reality other animals could not access. Thinking on this level was the single greatest turning point in all of evolution – the emergence of the conscious, reasoning mind.
The second biological advantage is subtler, but equally powerful in its implications. All primates are essentially social creatures, but because of their vulnerability in open areas, our earliest ancestors had a much greater need for group cohesion. They depended on the group for vigilant observation of predators and the gathering of food. In general, early hominids had many more social interactions than other primates. Over the course of hundreds of thousands of years, this social intelligence became increasingly sophisticated, allowing these ancestors to cooperate with one another on a high level. And as with our understanding of the natural environment, this intelligence depended on deep attention and focus. Misreading the social signs in a tight-knit group could prove highly dangerous" (Greene, 2013, p. 7)
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The APM has announced that David Waboso CBE, director of capital programmes at London Underground, is to become its new president in the New Year taking over from Tom Taylor, who is standing down from the role after his three year term.
Steve Wake, APM chairman, welcomed David to his new position saying; "APM president is an important role at an important time for both APM and the project management profession.
"With the government delivering programmes worth half-a-trillion pounds, our drive to improve project outcomes and increase the number and range of people coming into our profession fits well with David's own focus, experience and passion.
"We're delighted that David has agreed to become our new president. The president is a figurehead and focal point for the profession. David joins with us in an exciting time for project management across all sectors.
"Especially in David's own transport infrastructure sector where programmes such as Crossrail and HS2 continue to raise quality and success of project delivery, as well as its profile."
David was awarded an APM Honorary Fellowship by the association in 2011. He is an internationally renowned engineer and project manager and as capital programmes director for London Underground, is responsible for leading the £1.5bn annual Tube Upgrade Programme – the largest in the company's history. He currently manages a team of over 3,000 colleagues and a supply chain of 20,000 people, delivering on investments that make a difference to millions of Londoners each day.
He has also worked on some of the world's most prestigious infrastructure programmes including Docklands Light Railway and the Jubilee Line Extension in the UK. Internationally he has worked on projects for the European Rail Agency and World Bank funded infrastructure developments in Africa.
David shares with APM a passion for training and education. He has served on committees focusing on the teaching of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) subjects in schools, speaks regularly to the media and radio/TV, and promotes opportunities for people of all backgrounds to realise their full potential in engineering and other professions.
He recently hosted an event for BAME engineering students to encourage them into careers in transport.
David was awarded a CBE in 2013 for services to transport in London, he is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers, and an Honorary Fellow of the Association for Project Management, and also holds a Fellowship to the City and Guilds Institute.
Find out more about the APM at http://www.apm.org.uk.
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It's something that's been there.
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Learn to use the Library and Map modules in Lightroom 5 to organize your digital photos.
- [Voiceover] When you launch Lightroom for the first time with a new catalog you're not going to see any of your photos because none of your photos have been imported into the Lightroom catalog. And in fact, Lightroom will initially prompt you to click the "Import" button to begin. In other words, you need to import photos in order to get started with any tasks within Lightroom. But before you actually import any of your existing photos into your Lightroom catalog, I strongly encourage you to take a look at your basic folder structure to make sure that your images are organized at least at a very basic level right from the start.
Let me show you what I mean. We'll take a look at a storage device that has some of my photos already stored on it. And first and foremost, I wanna talk about the storage device that you're actually using. You can certainly choose among a wide variety of different devices in terms of storing your photos. In most cases that's going to mean some form of a hard drive. That could be a hard drive that's inside your computer or an external hard drive that you can move from one computer to another. Regardless of the specific storage device that makes the most sense for you and your personal workflow, I strongly recommend having a single location for all of your photos.
So, for example, if you use the pictures folder on your internal hard drive for your computer you'll want to store all of your photos in that particular location. If you're using an external hard drive for your photos or perhaps a folder on one of your external hard drives that should be the location where every single photo or video clip that you ever capture belongs. By having a single location for all of your photos you'll always know where your photos are. When you're looking for a particular photo, for example, you don't need to start your search by trying to remember which specific external hard drive that image is stored on.
So, in this case, I'm using an external hard drive called photos and on that hard drive I have multiple folders. Naturally, I don't want to place all of my images directly onto that hard drive. I want to segment the images essentially by utilizing a folder structure, and that provides me with a very basic level organizational system before I even get started with Lightroom. And in fact, I'll be able to take advantage of that folder structure within Lightroom as well among the wide variety of other tools for organizing our photos.
You can see here that the folder names reflect, in general, the contents of the images. So I have a "Flowers March 2012" folder which presumably contains images that were captured in March of 2012 and presumably the subject is flowers. When it comes to naming the folder that you'll use to store a given collection of photos, I recommend thinking very carefully about the folder structure you'll use. Specifically, when you're looking for a given image where will you look? If I asked you where you could find your favorite sunset photo or your favorite bird photo or perhaps your favorite sports photo, where would you find that image? In other words, what comes to mind? For your favorite sunset you might think of a particular location or a event.
For a given sports photo you might think of a particular sporting event. The point is that you'll think about something in particular when you're thinking about the image. And generally speaking, I recommend that whatever that something in particular is that you use that as the name of the folder. This could mean a wide variety of different things for different photographers. For a wedding photographer, for example, that folder name is most likely going to reflect the name of the couple that was being photographed. For a commercial photographer, the folder name might be the client who hired them to capture specific images.
And for a travel photographer, naturally location is probably going to be relatively prominent in that folder name. But the specifics will vary from one photographer to another. The key is to be very thoughtful about that folder structure. So looking at the examples here. The flowers folder, for example, I'm not really going to be thinking flowers when I think of these specific images that are contained within this folder. More specifically, I'm going to think about a visit to Central Park in New York City when I was photographing flowers in the springtime.
And so I'll go ahead and click on the name of this folder so that I can rename that folder. And I'm going to call this "Central Park Flowers" instead of just flowers and I'll also just add a dash here to separate the month and year from the name of the folder itself. So now "Central Park Flowers-March 2012." For me personally, I'm not really going to remember the date. I just don't remember when I captured specific images, but I do like to have a date at least a month and year associated with the folder so that if I revisit the same location multiple times I'll know which images are from which visit.
Now, of course, if I perform a search for flowers I could still find the "Central Park Flowers" folder based on that search, but when I browse my folders I'm more likely to go to the C's, in other words, to look for Central Park because that's what comes to mind when I'm thinking about those flower images. Similarly, each of these other folders could also used to be renamed. My "Czech Republic Trip," for example, was really a trip to Prague. In my mind I think of that as my Prague trip so I can just call this folder "Prague" with the month and year, for example.
When I'm looking for images from San Francisco, naturally, I'm not going to be looking for "Visit to" and so I can take off the "Visit to" from that folder name so that it just starts off with San Francisco. And that ensures that when I'm looking for images from San Francisco I'll be able to find them exactly where they're expected. And finally, my "Workshop at MMW" folder. When I think of these images I'm really thinking of Maine, granted, I was teaching a workshop that week. And that workshop was at Maine Media Workshops, MMW.
But I'm going to think, first and foremost, about Maine. And so, I can take off the "at MMW," for example, and just type "Maine Workshop" as the primary name of this folder. These are, of course, just a few examples to help you get a better sense of how you should think about the naming process for your folders. The particular folder structure I've created here makes sense for me personally. This might not be the way that you would name these folders even if you captured images in the exact same locations at the exact same time.
The key is to think carefully about your folder structure and to make sure that all of your folders are named appropriately and organized ideally into a single overall storage location before you import those images into Lightroom. Doing so will help make sure that the process of managing your images in Lightroom is that much easier.
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Finnegan's Wake
Finnegan's Wake Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin' Street
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A gentleman, Irish, mighty odd;
He had a brogue both rich and sweet
An' to rise in the world he carried a hod.
Now Tim had a sort of the tipplin' way
With a love of the whiskey he was born
And to help him on with his work each day
He'd a "drop of the craythur" every morn. Chorus:Whack fol the dah O, dance to your partner,One mornin' Tim was feelin' full,
Whirl the floor, your trotters shake;
Wasn't it the truth I told you?
Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake!
His head was heavy which made him shake;
He fell from the ladder and broke his skull,
And they carried him home his corpse to wake.
They rolled him up in a nice clean sheet
And laid him out upon the bed,
A gallon of whiskey at his feet
And a barrel of porter at his head. Chorus: His friends assembled at the wake
And Mrs. Finnegan called for lunch,
First they brought in tay and cake
Then pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch.
Biddy O'Brien began to bawl,
"Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see?"
"O Tim, mavourneen, why did you die?"
"Arragh, hold your gob," said Paddy McGhee! Chorus: Then Maggie O'Connor took up the job
"O Biddy," says she, "You're wrong, I'm sure."
Biddy she gave her a belt in the gob,
And left her sprawlin' on the floor.
Civil war did then engage,
'Twas woman to woman and man to man;
Shillelagh law was all the rage,
And a row and a ruction soon began. Chorus: Then Mickey Maloney ducked his head
When a noggin of whiskey flew at him,
It missed, and falling on the bed
The liquor scattered over Tim!
The corpse revives! See how he raises!
Timothy rising from the bed,
Says,"Whirl your whiskey around like blazes
Thanum an Dhul! Do you thunk I'm dead?" Chorus: Comments:"Finnegan's Wake" is a song, called a street ballad, that arose perhaps in the 1850s. It is one of several mock-Irish stage songs that were very popular in 19th-century American vaudeville. It is famous for being the basis of James Joyce's masterwork, Finnegans Wake, where the comic resurrection becomes symbolic of a universal cycle of life. Whiskey, which brought both Finnegan's fall and his resurrection, is derived from Irish uisce beatha, meaning "water of life." So too, the word "wake" is both of a passing and of a new rising. Joyce removed the apostrophe in the title to assert an active process in which a multiplicity of "Finnegans," that is, all of us, wake, that is, arise after falling. Tim Finnegan is the main character in James Joyce's book "Finnegans Wake" (mind the omission of the apostrophe in the book title).Irish Glossary:brogue = a strong dialectal accent, notably in Irish dialects of the English language. It is from the Irish (Gaeilge) word "brog," meaning "shoe." The term was reputedly coined by an Englishman who met an Irishman whose accent was so thick that he spoke "as though he had a shoe in his mouth." The term is also used in reference to Scots, Scottish English, and other Gaelic influenced dialects. hod = a tool used to carry bricks and mortar. It was a wooden box with a pole affixed underneath the box. A hod carrier is someone that had the job of climbing the scaffolding at a worksite and carrying the load in the hod to the masons. The "Irish Wake" is an integral part of the grieving process for family, friends, and neighbors of the deceased, Irish wakes were occasions that mixed gaiety and sadness. The custom was a celebration of the life that had passed, but the tone of the wake depended largely on the circumstances of the death. A wake usually began at the time of death and lasted until the family left with the body for the funeral service. If a death occurred in the evening, the wake was not held until the following night to allow mourners to travel and prepare for the services. Preparations for the wake began soon after death. All clocks in the house were stopped as a sign of respect, and women gathered to bathe and dress the body. The deceased often wore white garments, and if a man died, his face was shaved clean before being dressed. The body was then lain out for viewing on a table or bed, and was not left unattended until the burial. All mirrors in the household were also removed or turned around. Immediately after they prepare the body, the women begin keening. This vocal lamentation is a display of mourning and sounds a bit like wailing to those who are not accustomed to it. Superstition holds that keening must not begin until after the body is prepared, or evil spirits will surround the wake and body. The Irish also celebrated the life of the deceased, and shared food and drink throughout the wake. Music, dancing, and physical games made the wake feel more like a party. The Catholic church has tried numerous times (unsuccessfully) throughout history to abolish the consumption of alcohol at wakes. Though it is a time of sadness, the presence of friends and family makes it more bearable and there is generally great joviality as the deceased is fondly remembered; indeed, there is tradition in some parts of the country to play a game of cards and include a hand for the deceased. mavourneen = My darling - Irish Gaelic - mo mhuirín craythur = Whisky
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On Free Dimensional, John O'Regan attempts to bring his homemade outsider-pop to a larger audience. Judging by the considerable push he's getting from Astralwerks, these songs will be heard by more ears than his previous efforts. Of course, the wild viral success of the adorable video for 2009's All Yr Songs has already brought him considerable indie fame, but O'Regan's been clear that he's aiming to win over mainstream listeners.
The production is much bigger, and his songwriting more assertive and hook-heavy. Unfortunately, the awkward charm and intimacy of his early efforts are missed. His goofier tendencies, though still present, aren't nearly as endearing. Things start to gel on the less overtly dance-pop tracks. When the electric guitars come closer to the foreground and O'Regan throws himself into a big chorus, he sounds like the pop star he's trying to invent.
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More than 50 victims are suing Rupert Murdoch's company after discovering that their voicemails were intercepted by the News of the World.
But about 40 are believed to have now settled the cases out of court or are close to settling.
An announcement is expected this morning revealing that some of the victims, including the MP Chris Bryant and the former footballer Paul Gascoigne have settled their cases.
Those settlements are expected to be announced at a High Court hearing during which lawyers for News International will read a statement of apology to the victims.
It is not known exactly which of the victims have finalised their cases, but Sheila Henry, the mother of July 7 victim Christian Small, is understood to be close to reaching a settlement with News International.
Cornelia Crisan, a Romanian singer who claims to have had an affair with the actor Ralph Fiennes, is also understood to be close to accepting a settlement.
Gerald Shamash, a lawyer who is representing five high-profile victims including retired soccer star Paul Gascoigne, said all of his claims were being settled, although the deals would probably not be announced as early as Thursday.
"We are in the process of settling them," he told Reuters.
Shamash's other clients with claims against News International are ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair's former spin doctor Alastair Campbell, Phil Hughes, agent to late soccer star George Best, former government minister Elliot Morley and Jimmy Gardner, a friend of Gascoigne's.
Many of the settlements are understood to have no confidentiality clause meaning that some victims could choose to reveal how much money News International has paid to keep their case out of court.
The settlements mean that News International is accepting that their journalists hacked the mobile phones of certain named individuals. This could aid the police in their criminal investigation.
The large number of cases being settled could jeopardise the High Court case which was scheduled to begin next month.
Five test cases were due to be heard in order to set compensation tariffs for victims and alleviate the need for multiple court cases.
Those test cases included Mr Bryant, Mrs Henry and Mr Gascoigne.
But their impending settlements means that new test cases will need to found which could delay the case.
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ST. PETERSBURG - City Council members Thursday gave police the green light to crack down on the sale and use of synthetic marijuana and other synthesized drugs that are commonly sold in convenience stores and some gas stations. The council unanimously approved a new ordinance that bans the sale, possession and production of the drugs commonly called spice and bathsalts intended to mimic the effects of illegal drugs such as marijuana and amphetamines. The ban is in response to requests from police leaders who say spice has become the drug of choice among the city�s homeless population often making users violent and uncontrollable. The ordinance does not criminalize the drugs but users could now face arrest and a fine of up to $500. City of Tampa leaders are set to adopt a similar ban on April 18. Thursday, the Tampa City Council gave its first approval to a citywide ban on the sale of synthetic drugs.St. Petersburg City Council members hope the ban will help reduce the number of homeless people congregating at Williams Park in downtown St. Petersburg, where police say drug use is rampant and that people openly use and sell synthetic drugs. �This is having a devastating effect,� said Council Member Steve Kornell. �Kids are in Williams Park because there are drugs there, because they�re readily available.� Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and state lawmakers have banned dozens of chemical compounds used in synthetic drugs in an attempt to outlaw them. But manufacturers have continually side-stepped those laws by tinkering with their formulas. Additionally, police have to send drug samples to a lab to be analyzed, meaning weeks often pass before they can make an arrest. To overcome that, the city�s ordinance outlaws general synthetic drug products, rather than the chemicals in them. Pasco and Hillsborough counties have already adopted similar ordinances. Council Member Wengay Newton supported the ban but warned that it would merely drive use of the drug underground. �I don�t think people are going to stop,� he said. �Instead of being two bucks at that store, they�ll probably get $10 or $20. They�ll take it off the counter, but kids will still come for it.� Synthetic drugs use a wide range of herbal mixtures and chemical compounds to produce a similar high to marijuana, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Under brand names such as �K2� and �Moon Rocks,� the drugs are marketed toward teenagers and young adults. They are sold openly in so-called head shops and gas stations. The products are labeled �not for human consumption.� There have been no studies on synthetic drugs� effects on the brain. Although some users report feeling a relaxed high, others experience extreme anxiety, paranoia and hallucinations, according to the drug abuse institute. A 2010 study by the Drug Abuse Warning Network linked synthetic marijuana to more than 11,000 emergency room visits nationwide. Three-quarter of those visits were people between 12 and 29. �I hope we send a message out this will not be tolerated in our community,� said Council Member Bill Dudley. �We�re going to do everything we can to protect our young.� In other action the City Council:
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text: Spoke Art Gallery kicked off their August show, 'A Taste of Things to Come,' featuring several artists who will have solo shows in the following months. Ken, Spoke's curator, told me they're booked for 14 months. Whoa! The show runs until the 25th of August, so check it out. Spoke opened only a couple of months ago in one of the former Huf store spaces (heard the Hayes Valley location closed too – boo!) and this is their 3rd show, I believe. Still has that fresh gallery smell. Located on Sutter, between Jones & Leavenworth. If you pass Optimus Prime, you've gone too far.


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Yesterday introduced the developer Jagex game studio along with RuneScape: a new subset of the free journey of the same name MMO, Sell RS Gold,the personal computer which will be released this springtime and iOS in addition to Android later this season.
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RuneScape: the conspiracy involving Idle Adventures involves the fact that, as the bearer of the original creature, you must protect plus protect the Gielinor empire by completing numerous tasks. This tale has nothing to do with the planet's watchmen, but it will certainly still send you for some well-known places.
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Definitions of negative
a. - Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; -- opposed to affirmative. 2
a. - Not positive; without affirmative statement or demonstration; indirect; consisting in the absence of something; privative; as, a negative argument; a negative morality; negative criticism. 2
a. - Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition. 2
a. - Of or pertaining to a picture upon glass or other material, in which the lights and shades of the original, and the relations of right and left, are reversed. 2
a. - Metalloidal; nonmetallic; -- contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is negative. 2
n. - A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception. 2
n. - A word used in denial or refusal; as, not, no. 2
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Through its fun, intuitive and frankly addictive user interface, Tinder's simple "swipe right for yes, left for no" approach has earned it a place on mobile home-screens around the world – not to mention a valuation of $1.35bn.
As the popularity (and controversy) of Tinder has grown, many brands have started to copy the brand's simplistic yes-no interface for their own apps.
This has kicked off a UX and design phenomena rapidly becoming known as 'Tinderisation'.
While originally used for purely functional applications such as political polling (e.g. Voter) and recruitment (e.g. Jobr) sites, many such apps received criticism for their trivialisation of complex issues.
One area where Tinderisation is thriving however, is in the marketing and ecommerce space.
How the Tinder-style UI works for commerce
As unromantic as it may seem, if there's one thing that Tinder is truly good for, it's browsing.
Tinderisation offers the perfect solution for those brands with visual products that are likely to be bought based on snapshot details such as colour, price and aesthetic design.
In this way, Tinderisation has given retailers back something that was previously lost in the rush to get online – the ability to browse.
Recreating the serendipity of high street shopping
One of the biggest issues for online retailers is their inability to generate any real notion of serendipity.
Ecommerce sites are great at providing recommendations, accurate search results, and helping customers to find what it is that they're specifically looking for. What they struggle with however, is recreating the serendipity of a physical shopping experience.
Even ecommerce giants such as Amazon still struggle to provide an environment where customers can stumble upon goods that they've never even considered before - the "happy accidents" of a traditional in-store shopping spree.
With a Tinderised interface however, swiping through products to choose yes or no is just about the closest thing a customer can get to wandering through the aisles of a physical store.
Products brush past their eyes in a flash of colour and shapes, without shipping details, abundant options or endless reviews. Just a scroll of colours and deals occasionally grabbing a customer's gaze as they saunter from A to B.
Who is Tinderising?
This opportunity to reclaim the serendipity of high street and supermarket browsing has resulted in an influx of fashion and retail brands looking to try their luck with their own Tinder designs.
The Edit (pictured above), allows customers to browse and develop wish lists in a simple yes-no fashion.
Similarly, Stylect has jumped on the trend with a swipe-based app for shoe shopping.
Even entirely new retail outlets have successfully launched off the trend, with the app-only Grabble promising to become the next "Tinder for fashion".
Tinderisation and the balance of content versus commerce
While it's all well and good for brands to jump on this trend while it's hot, we in marketing must also be wary of how such trends will impact the wider ecommerce industry as a whole. For example, the move towards Tinderisation could be seen as placing content marketing well and truly in the firing line.
Content marketing relies on a certain depth of information and customer experience. It relies on customers building slow, yet strong relationships with particular products and brands.
However, as any critic of the Tinder generation will tell you, the decision to swipe right instead of left is anything but a "relationship". Tinderisation, like Tinder itself, is not about relationships, but rather about aesthetics and the gamified nature of the app itself.
The Tinder approach is opposed to that of content marketing, placing short-term decision making ahead of nurturing long-term brand loyalty.
As such, marketers that embrace Tinderisation should be wary not to undermine their own relationship building efforts outside of the 'swipe'. The Tinder interface provides an amazing user experience, but these micro interactions must be backed up by relevance in the long run.
With a wealth of data collected from the swipes, brands must look to cultivate their customers' interests and preferences, to offer more than just a list of swipe-able products. Content marketing remains a vital part of that cultivation process.
With a solid content and product database in your backend you can build real relationships and focus on developing a contextualised interface that really works for you and your customers.
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I do like the way Tinder is easy to flick though, but I honestly do not believe it will change the way e-commerce works. People shopping online come in two kinds, those who like to browse and those who want to do something quickly.
Those who like to browse may like a Tinder style experience, but it would make it an effort. The way e-commerce works now is you can see about 16 items at a time on screen, you can quickly browse, looking at everything and seeing what stands out, and compare to similar items on the same page easily.
Those in a rush, quite clearly want to flick through pages and find what they want, not one item at a time.
If anything Tinderisation of e-commerce is a modern gimmick which will only reduce sales as it hinders the purchase process. I see it as a nice feature for the few that would enjoy it, but thats all.
Re: "Products brush past their eyes in a flash of colour and shapes, without shipping details, abundant options or endless reviews. Just a scroll of colours and deals occasionally grabbing a customer's gaze as they saunter from A to B."
Is this really how people shop for clothes? I never realized. With me it's more like growing despair as I exclude item after item that's the wrong size, or style, or color - ending up with a choice of two, from which I have to choose something, but both of which I hate.
Online search FTW, because you cut to the choice without doing the excluding manually.
Hi Youtse, nice subject matter.
I think what Pete said is true regarding online search, but I don't see why certain brands can't integrate something like this as a fun option. Quite surprised ASOS hasn't tried it actually: the option to swipe through 200 pairs of red shoes might be fun for some!
Youtse, I stumbled upon your article while I was writing mine.
From my experience over last few years of dealing with this swipe framework, I have observed quite a traction on this design from fashion houses targeted at female shoppers.
We have infact integrated this with many Magento eCommerce stores and customers seem to like it. Check our product Mebly here http://rasbor.com/mebly/
Not sure how long people would continue to like it, but what keep them coming back to this interface is probably the freshness of content. Everytime you open the app, you do not have to go through the menu as you get to see the newest product first on your stack. Works best for shoppers who enjoy virtual window shopping.


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Chapter 13, Article XV of the City of Norman's Code of Ordinances regulates oil, gas and mineral production. The Code Compliance section of the Planning and Community Development Department is responsible for administering this section of the Code. As a part of those regulations, all currently producing oil and gas wells within the City are inspected twice annually for compliance with the City's regulations.
Below is an interactive web map that allows users to determine location of oil and injection wells in the City of Norman and examine the most recent inspection results. The map includes navigation tools and allows users to search by address. Users may choose among 3 modes at the bottom right of the map: basic, aerial, and zoning. Clicking on a well will pop-up additional information about the well including the well name and the Well_API, which corresponds to the API Number in the Oklahoma Corporation Commission's Well Data System. A link to the most recent inspection report may be assessed through the pop-up.
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Fathers Celebrating Daughters and Cool on the Inside workshops are also listed here.
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Working with three youth groups across the London Borough of Richmond we created a series of temporary interventions in public spaces as part of the borough's summer arts festival in 2014.
We challenged young people to think about what an intervention is, what it might say about young people and what it might say about their experience of using public space.
Each youth group had their own idea and message from a plea to not be misunderstood to a piece about the impact of climate change. We co-designed a moveable structure with one of the groups that could be used to display the work and be used at all three of the sites involved in the festival.
We delivered 3 workshops with each youth group in June and July 2014 followed by hosting the interventions alongside young people in August 2014.
We started with a very open brief as we wanted to encourage the young people to develop the ideas for themselves. We explored a huge array of interventions to inspire, provoke and expand the ideas about the type of thing that could be created.
We then collected ideas on what an intervention might need to say about them as a group, how they wanted visitors to feel or respond to the piece and what message they wanted visitors to leave with. We created storyboards describing how people would approach, engage and move away from the intervention before we moved into building scale models of ideas.
Common to three of the groups was the idea of having a space that visitors could go into and we worked with one group to design a moveable structure. We used the example of a jigsaw to inspire a model building exercise that developed a design we could detail into a structure that could be cnc'd and be easy to assemble and take down.
Each group developed their own theme. 'Don't misunderstand me just because…' commented on how young people are often misjudged just for being outside. The young people had identified the things they feel judged about and then invited visitors to add a tag to the structure asking people not to misunderstand them just because of something about them.
'It's a small world' aimed to provoke people to think about the impact our choices have on our planet. A structure was partially filled with silhouettes of factories, cars, planes and other major polluters; moving through these visitors entered into a world of crepe flowers. The young people had made hundreds in a multitude of different colours reminding us of natural beauty in the world.
The final use for the structure was as a sensory garden. Recycled cans and bottles were transformed into plant pots and flowers which then adorned the sides of the structures filled with fragrant herbs. At the festival people were invited to pot up the herbs and create a sensory explosion.
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Food Films: Ingredients
Date:Sunday, April 23, 2017, 4:00 PM—5:30 PM
Location:Decatur Library
Event Type:Movies
Age Group:Adult (18+)
Ingredients illustrates how people around the country are working to revitalize that connection between where food comes from and health. Narrated by Bebe Neuwirth, the film takes us across the U.S., from the diversified farms of the Hudson River and Willamette Valleys to the urban food deserts of Harlem and the kitchens of celebrated chefs. Ingredients is a journey that reveals the people behind the movement to bring good food back to the table and health back to our communities.
Food Films is a series curated by Slow Food Atlanta in collaboration with DeKalb County Public Library.


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Best Cabins onboard the Carnival Miracle: staterooms on Deck 6 --the Empress Deck. Decks 5 and 7 also have very nice staterooms.
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Cabins on Riviera Deck may have some noise concerns because Promenade Deck is directly above. From the clubs and casinos to the aft main dining room, it will be possible to hear the stirrings of humanity up there having fun. However, for the most part this will be occurring when most people are out and about. While we are not suggesting this deck should be completely avoided, some of the worst cabins on the Carnival Miracle are on the Riviera Deck! If you are light sleeper, you may prefer a cabin elsewhere, or bring earplugs. You may also consider investing in a wave machine (a sound device available at a specialty retailer like Brookstone -- produces pleasant sounds that can wipe out the unpleasant sounds).
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Deck 4 on the Carnival Miracle is right above several major public areas on the ship, such as the main dining rooms and the main lounge. However, given the operating hours of the venues, these are times when most people are out of their cabins so this shouldn't present a concern.
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On the Carnival Miracle, Upper Deck cabins are advantageous because the decks just above and beneath only have cabins. The normal noises you would anticipate on a cruise ship are thus buffered. While this is not a high rent section of the Carnival Miracle, it is certainly a place where you will find a bit of peace and quiet after a long day of fun.
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The Empress deck is without question the high-rent district of the ship. This is where the Grand Suites (penthouse category cabins) are located. There is also at least one deck of buffer both above and below this deck, so noise tends not to be an issue from common areas. Given that this is where the high-dollar cabins are, this is also where the best cabin stewards are usually assigned. So, if your budget only affords you an inside cabin, reserving one right across from a penthouse might be a very wise investment! Some of the best cabins on the Carnival Miracle are on Deck 6!
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Verandah Deck on the Carnival Miracle also has the advantage of having only cabins on the decks just below and beneath it. As mentioned, this does help muffle ship sounds in heavily trafficked areas.
Related: Carnival Miracle Verandah Deck Deck Plan (clickable deck layout to view individual cabin pictures and amenity lists)
Panorama Deck on the Carnival Miracle does have Lido directly above it, so there will likely be noise from Lido dining areas as well as the scraping of deck chairs as they are moved about when staff are cleaning. Once again, we suggest earplugs or a wave machine for light sleepers.
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