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Here's your place to come talk about sex and love whenever you feel like it.
I'm a Rageaholic. I love the Rageahol.
This is probably why I've never made use of things like Facebook lists. That little unsubscribe button. Or classic "Unfriend." Why would I do that when I can throw on a pair of sweatpants, slap on a face masque, and hate-read status updates to my husband.
I don't know if it was because spring was in the air or that the Facebook algorithm had figured out my awful habit, but not long ago my newsfeed became inundated with complaints about online dating.
My rage-boner was out of control. So much whining and delusion and amiriteladies?! Worse, every post seemed to get absurd numbers of likes. 40 likes here. 18 comments there. Add those two up, and that's about the number of times I made a jerking off motion while reading this crap.
It was clear to me that this enabling wasn't going to stop anytime soon. And it would be socially inappropriate to drop truth bombs directly onto the pity party. So I'm writing this instead. Totally not a dick move.
How not to be a dick while online dating:
1. Don't shit on the process while engaging in the process.
I'm using dating reality show language here. But you're not going to "make a connection" and go on one of those breathtaking helicopter dates if you're showing every sign that you're not ready for love.
Signs include referring to the website and/or dates with absurd names that only reveal your utter lack of creativity and possible racism -- i.e.,"Can't believe I said yes to another OKStupid date with Captain Curry."
Or stating in your About Me that you have NO CLUE why you're even ON THIS SITE. To quote every chick that's ever been slighted by another woman on The Bachelor, "Then why are you here?!"
2. Stop venting about selfies.
Just as Kreashawn lamented our culture of Basic Bitches in "Gucci Gucci," I would like to call out Basic Bitching when it comes to online dating. I'm referring to complaints that are standard. Boring. Not funny.
Yes, you will see hundreds of shirtless selfies inviting you to the gun show. Yes, you will get messages that do not make the most of the English language. And yes, you will meet people who are very different than how they seemed in their profile. Sharing these stories is half the fun of online dating. I get that. Talk about it over bottom-less mimosas. But keep it offline. You're just going to look like a bitch.
Unless it's really good. Like if your date shows up looking like WWE Superstar Dolph Ziggler and gets into a tables-ladders-chairs match at The Cheesecake Factory to win back your heart and the World Heavyweight Championship. Hashtag the shit out of that.
4. Don't treat it like a free pass to say sexist crap.
I went to a women's college. Needless to say, many of my Facebook friends are vocal feminists. They are smart, compassionate, and read a lot of lady-websites such as this. Yet, time and time again I find these passionate young women throwing thoughtfulness out the window and posting shit like, "Men are such assholes." "All of the guys online are dicks." "Fuck boys."
Women are bitches. Every chick online is crazy. Fuck girls.
Do not perpetrate a double standard. And yes, you can probably make a case for me being a latent misogynist. I'm sure there are plenty of inconsistencies here. I'll give you that. I'm working on it. But this is not what love looks like. Plus it's entirely too heteronormative.
5. Don't make a generic-ass profile and then complain about the messages you get.
So you like to have fun. You love to laugh. You enjoy travel. Trying new foods. You're always up for adventure.
Well, guess what?
This is Bowser. He doesn't send very thoughtful messages. They are riddled with typos and often devolve into manifestos about the neighborhood's feral cat problem.
You are a human. You aren't some start-up company that needs SEO magic and appealing keywords. Pro tip: If your profile is nearly void of any proper nouns, you've made yourself a generic-ass profile and nobody knows who the hell you are. Including you. That's a problem.
6. Don't lie about it. Especially when it works.
"On Facebook." That was the bullshit answer my now-husband gave his mother when she asked how we met. Apparently Facebook is less "Internet" and thus less "shameful" than a dating website. Either way, even my sweet, technologically challenged Cindy could smell a rat.
When I first joined OKCupid in 2006, I lucked out in the excuses department. I went to a women's college. The bars were full of townies that had been with every chick in my house. I was constantly traveling. I was busy.
We're busy. We are busy people.
Some of us are.
But a lot of us are just watching Netflix marathons.
Real talk. I started online dating because I wanted to feel less alone. That's all. Because I missed having a best friend I could also make out with.
The reasons why we choose to dive into online dating aren't any different than the reasons why we want love in the first place. Call me crazy, but we shouldn't be ashamed of that. So stop letting your friends tell you that you're "too good" for it. Or that people like you "don't need it." You want it. And that should be enough.
So how did my husband and I actually meet? Online. OKCupid.com. He sent me a short message. I replied with a slightly longer one. He asked me out for a drink. I enjoyed our date. He wanted to be my boyfriend. I had to move to Los Angeles. He followed me 3,000 miles. And we decided to spend the rest of our lives together.
It's your classic DaveFons meets TheJohnKimble story.


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Gathering assets and delivering advice for a fee are what count, and firms are rewarding brokers accordingly. Prudential Securities is a good case in point, instituting this year a higher payout for fee-based business. Last year, Merrill Lynch and PaineWebber both changed their compensation systems to better reward asset gathering and fee business. Meanwhile, fee pricing and commission rates are declining, while recruiting deals are exploding.
"Firms are customizing the grid," says Michael Herman, a consultant with New York-based Sibson & Co., a compensation consulting firm. "They're asking, 'Who can we pay well, and who can we cut?'" Plus, firms are shifting to longer-term deferred comp plans. "They're all trying to reduce the cost of sales because of the pressure that's been put on commissions," Herman says.
Pru Changes Its Pay Part of the squeeze on commissions is from Internet trading firms. Hence a major industry shift toward advice for a fee.
In line with that philosophy, Prudential trimmed its grid this year for transaction business by one point and raised the payout for fee business by five percentage points.
Prudential brokers' reactions to the grid changes have been mixed, depending on what type of business they do. An East Coast Prudential rep who is fee-focused feels positive: "I calculated it out, and I'll be getting about 8,000 dollars more." A transaction-oriented broker in the Southeast laments: "It sucks. Dropping 1 percent comes to 2.5 percent of my money. In exchange, there are certain products they want us to push--Pru Advisor, managed accounts, Pru Choice, Target."
The firm also introduced a new deferred comp plan, MasterShare. Reps can set aside up to 25 percent of pretax earnings in a Prudential index fund that tracks the S&P 500 at a 25 percent discount to market value. They get a 35 percent discount for contributing at least 10 percent of their income this year. It vests after three years.
But like Salomon Smith Barney's Capital Accumulation Plan (CAP), reps lose their contributions when they leave the firm or are fired. That's why some Prudential brokers are jokingly calling the new deal "Master Scare" and "Master Snare." "It's strictly a golden handcuff," says the East Coast rep at the firm. "They're looking to keep producers who are making money."
A West Coast Prudential rep adds: "I think some guys feel it's a Trojan Horse--beware of the Greeks. I think it's nice. I'm happy they put it in. It comes close to leveling the playing field" with other firms.
Merrill's Price Cut Merrill Lynch's "priority/premier household" compensation plan went into effect in January 1999.
In July 1999, the firm made waves by introducing its Unlimited Advantage program, which cut its pricing on fee accounts to 1 percent--from 1.5 percent or more--while also offering unlimited trading.
To ease the transition, the firm gave brokers with the old fee accounts a gap payment. The transition pay was paid out in cash during the third and fourth quarters of 1999, and will continue through the first half of 2001 in the form of half cash, half deferred compensation.
Merrill also eliminated its discount sharing policy, which penalized brokers for discounting. "They have made it more flexible to do business," says one rep.
The firm jumped into its own discount business in December with the launch of Merrill Lynch Direct, offering customers online trades for 29.95 dollars. "If we were losing an account to Schwab, at least we have a vehicle to capture it now," says one rep.
But the overall pace of change has been unsettling. The price cuts and the discount operation have created some unhappiness at Merrill, some recruiters say.
MSDW's New Choice Morgan Stanley Dean Witter introduced its new fee pricing in October 1999 via a revamped "service platform" called ichoice. It allows clients to choose from three alternatives: traditional full service, a fee-based Choice account with unlimited transactions and the advice of a broker, or a self-directed online account with 29 dollars 95 cent trades through MSDW Online.
Brokers have some latitude in setting fees.
A West Coast MSDW rep says, "Here they give you flexibility to price the client where you were pricing them before." Fees start at 2.25 percent for equities, and 1 percent for fixed income and funds. This base rate "is the minimum you can charge, but you get to decide how to charge the client."
Unlike Merrill reps, MSDW brokers can maintain their traditional fee pricing by charging more.
Brokers at the firm say they've been unaffected by MSDW Online. Clients who pick some of their own stocks are doing it in their Choice accounts because they pay nothing for trades.
A Year for Investors Meanwhile, other firms made minimal or no changes, and commission rates overall have remained in check.
Salomon Smith Barney's grid will remain in place, but recognition club levels are being raised for 2000. Director's Council requirements are now 1.35 million dollars up from 1.25 million dollars; Chairman's Council went to 1 million dollars from 950,000 dollars; and President's Council members need to do 675,000 dollars, up from 600,000 dollars. Plus, a new category called Century Club has been added at the 500,000 dollars production level.
When First Union acquired Everen Securities in April 1999, it adopted Everen's compensation structure. Brokers have been told it will remain in effect until January 2001.
Regarding the industry in general, a 1998 SIA Survey found that more than a third of full-service firms were discounting more in 1998 than in 1997, while commission rates held steady.
Last year saw even more pricing pressure. Overall, "It was a year for the investor versus a year for the broker," says Jim Trice, a North Hollywood, Calif., recruiter.
With SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt Jr. publicly criticizing recruiting deals, some thought incentives would die. Hardly. They're bigger than ever.
"A state-of-the-art deal is 100 percent" of yearly production, says Danny Sarch, president of Leitner Sarch Consultants, a White Plains, N.Y., recruiter.
Patti Rowlette, who heads Rowlette Executive Search in Dublin, Ohio, says 1 million dollars or larger producers might get 125 percent of trailing 12 months' production from a national firm or wirehouse. "A 750,000 dollar producer might get 75 percent, and at the back end 5 percent or 10 percent," she says.
A West Coast attorney who's handled several raiding cases within the past year says he's seen bonuses of up to 150 percent.
In 1995, when the Tully committee recommended the elimination of upfront bonuses, "we thought deals would go away," Rowlette recalls. "Now, deals are almost getting out of hand. Nobody wants to be the first one to eliminate upfront bonuses."
Michael Herman, a consultant with New York-based Sibson & Co., a compensation consulting firm, says the deals go beyond forgivable loans to include signing bonuses, stock options, equity plans and deferred compensation contributions. Sarch confirms the trend, noting that deals offer stock, back-end incentives based on assets and upfront money.
"The typical deal is 60 percent cash, 10 percent stock with additional bonuses after 14 months if they brought in 'as advertised assets,'" Sarch says.
Following in the footsteps of wirehouses, regional brokerage firms and independents are offering better deals (although still smaller than wirehouses), with similar structures of upfront and back-end money, partly based on assets, Rowlette says. And the smaller firms are leaving payouts alone, she adds.
One example is Profit Formula, First Union's quasi-independent program for 1 million dollars or higher producers. They get a 75 percent payout, Rowlette says. "They can get as much as 60 percent of trailing 12 months [gross] in upfront money."
Mitch Vigeveno, a recruiter who heads Turning Point in Clearwater, Fla., says smaller firms will do deals of 5 percent to 20 percent of previous 12 month's gross. "On the independent side, 20 percent is the highest." Only a few independents, such as National Planning Corp. and SunAmerica, offer incentives. "Deals generally don't get interesting unless there's 500,000 dollars in commission," he says.
Why the growing dollars? For one thing, the market has been hot, of course. Rick Peterson, a Houston recruiter, points to other factors. "Handcuffs are huge, and firms have to address that to get brokers to move," he says. "And [while] everybody is recruiting now, training programs have not been as rewarding as in previous years. It's the tightest job market in history, and firms are not getting the cream of the crop anymore."


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I have a client who is deploying SnapProtect in a VMware Environment but have a Windows 2003 Estate that has a heavy churn of page files due to a 4GB memory limitation.
Therefore any snapshots on the paging file will result in large amounts of space being used.
Can SnapProtect be configured to not snapshot or replicate any paging file Datastores?
Yes, with the V9 SP7 release and later, you can take advantage of the VMware datastore exclude capability. Page files are a great use case for this feature.
You can set criteria to exclude all the virtual machines from a specific host or a cluster. For example, if you do not want to backup the virtual machines from Host A, you can define a filter to exclude all the virtual machines from Host A.
The steps to define the filter are as follows:
In the VM Filters area, click Add. In the Add VM Filter dialog box, select Host and enter a host name which appears in the vCenter or IP address of the host. Click OK.
The VM Filters area then displays the host name or ip address of the filtered Host.
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It's time for a cowboy theme party, so straighten yer hats and polish yer boots! Yee Haw!
From invitations and decorations to cowboy party games and grub, we'll give you a whole passel of great western party ideas!
Cowboy Party Invitations
Wanted Poster Invitations — If you have photos of your guests, a fun invitation idea is to make wanted poster invitations. To do this, use your computer to make an old west style "wanted" backdrop and insert your picture into it. For the "crime" you could put something about your guest, such as "Wanted — For being the funniest kid around" or "Wanted — For being the best friend ever!" Under your caption you can include all of your party information.
Bandanna Print Invitations — Another fun way to make a cowboy theme party invitation idea is to print out your wording on translucent vellum paper and then use a piece of twine or raffia to attach it to a piece of background paper that looks like a bandanna. You can find printed paper like this in craft stores with the scrapbooking supplies.
To give your invitations a western theme party flair, use your best cowboy slang in your wording. Yee Haw, Pardner!
**General Invitation Tips** — If you choose to make your own invitations, don't forget to include the date, location, and time of your party. It is also helpful to put the host's name, RSVP by date, and either your phone number or email.
You can always find lots of great online party invitations with a free RSVP manager at Evite,
Here are some other great invitations that would be perfect for a cowboy theme party:
Wanted Poster Style Invitations
Bandanna Print Invitations
Western Horseshoe Photo Invitations
Cowboy Theme Party Decorations
For a cowboy theme party, transform your home into a ranch for a day! Hay bales, cowboy boots, cowboy hats, ropes coiled up like lassos, and snacks served in galvanized pails all can help dude up your party setting.
Similarly, bandannas, cowboy hats, and kerosene lamps, along with ball jars full of sunflowers (tied around the neck with raffia) make great country centerpiece combinations.
Here are some great party supplies that would be perfect for a cowboy party theme:
Cowgirl Cutie Party Supplies
Bandanna Print Party Supplies
Cow Print Party Suppies
Activities for a Cowboy Theme Party
Here are a few party ideas to help get your celebration rolling:
Western Sheriff's vest
What you'll need:
- 1 brown grocery bag for each child
- Magic markers, crayons, stickers, other decorations
What to do:
- To make a vest, cut up the center front of a grocery bag. Then round out a neck hole and cut circles for arm holes.
- To add fringe, make two-inch cuts at even intervals along the bottom of the vest.
Wanted Poster Dress Up
- Create a large Wanted sign backdrop, and have your guests dress up to be the star of their own poster (You might ask them to come up with a fun crime, such as cow tippin', loud snorin', or bank robbin')
- Have your guests dude up with things like cowboy hats, bandannas, sheriff's badges, and moustaches.
- Lay out variety of old clothes or costumes, wigs, hats, and shoes that the guests can try on to become their favorite villain.
- Use eyebrow pencil to draw on freckles, moustaches, or stubbly cheeks
- Let the film roll! These make great inserts into your thank you notes, or if you have the ability to print your pictures before the end of the party, put them into the kids' goody bags as a fun remembrance of the day!
Cowboy Party Games
Shoot Out at the Okay Corral
What you'll need:
- Empty pop cans
- Water pistols
What to do:
- Line up the pop cans on a table or fence, and have your buckaroos see how many they can knock down with their water pistols
- You can try for speed of the draw, accuracy, or number of cans knocked down in a row.
Rattlesnake Jump
What you'll need:
- A ten foot long piece of rope
What to do:
- Have two children hold the rope and whisk it back and forth along the ground. The other children should jump over the wiggling "snake" and try to avoid letting it touch them. For older kids, raise the rope several inches off the ground and see who can go the longest without getting "bitten".
Stick Horse Races
What you'll need:
- Two or more stick horses (Brooms work well for this too!)
How to Play:
- This is a good, old-fashioned relay race, so divide the children into two teams, set your course, and see which team can gallop off to victory!
Sheriff Says
You guessed it…this is the old west's answer to Simon Says.
What to do:
- Pick a sheriff and have the rest of the group line up in front of him. If the sheriff tells the group to do something, they do it…but only if he starts his command with "Sheriff says…" (For extra giggles, have the sheriff talk only with a western accent.) Play until there is one person left.
Rattlesnake Pass
This is how cowpokes played hot potato in the old west.
What to do:
- Put your group in a circle.
- Using a snake of some sort (rubber, stuffed, or old sock with marker eyes) play some country music. When the music stops, whoever is holding the rattlesnake is out.
- Keep going until one child is left.
Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest
What you'll need:
- Watermelon slices with seeds (perhaps those you serve with your meal)What to do:
- Line up your buckaroos and let 'em rip. Aim for distance and/or accuracy.
Cowboy Party Favors
Send your guests home with a special party keepsake. Here are some ideas for cowboy party favors:
Menu Ideas
Nothing says buckaroo hoe down like a barbecue. Here are some sample menu ideas straight out of the wild west!
Snacks — Try serving snacks in galvanized pails, or in baskets or bowls lined with bandannas to give things a western feel. Some snack ideas include:
- Popcorn
- Chips and salsa
- Watermelon wedges
- Happy Trails mix
- Campfire jelly beans
The Main Event
Buffalo Bill's Beanie Wienie
- Hot dogs
- Baked beans
- Potato salad or macaroni salad
Best of the West Barbecue
- Barbecued ribs or pulled pork sandwiches
- Biscuits
- Corn on the cob
To Wet Your Whistle
- Sarsaparilla
- Root Beer Floats
- Lemonade
Of course most parties enjoy a good birthday cake, and there are many possibilities for decoration here. You might make a cake in the shape of a sheriff's star, or decorate the top of your cake with green icing and plastic horses to make a barnyard scene. The sky is the limit!
If you enjoyed these cowboy theme party ideas, you might also enjoy these parties:
Horse Theme Party
Western Theme Party
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Each of the three major ratings sites offers the same basic information, such as physicians' educational backgrounds and certifications, which hospitals doctors are affiliated with, and a patient satisfaction rating, states WebMD.
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A T lymphocyte that amplifies the activity of B lymphocytes, other T lymphocytes, and macrophages. Once a helper T lymphocyte recognizes an antigen, it divides and its progeny start to synthesize and secrete a variety of lymphokines (q.v.). These cause B lymphocytes to divide and differentiate into plasma cells, inactive precursor T cells to develop into cytotoxic T lymphocytes, and macrophages to be recruited and activated. See AIDS, cytotoxic T lymphocyte, T lymphocyte.
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Some email marketing solutions include ConstantContact.com, BenchmarkEmail.com, GetResponse.com and SendinBlue.com, as of 2015. Each solution offers different features suitable for small business, e-commerce websites or traditional brick and mortar stores, including the ability to create custom templates and track the effectiveness of each campaign.Continue Reading
ConstantContact.com allows users to create templates for a variety of campaign types and save them for repeated use. Users can post each newsletter to connected social media accounts, and the service makes suggestions for captions and featured images. Additionally, if offers tools for importing contact lists from other services.
BenchmarkEmail.com contains a drag-and-drop email design tool, which provides users with a set of simple options to create a variety of email templates or single-use creations. It also guarantees that every email displays correctly on mobile devices and offers sign-up forms that work with both mobile and desktop views.
In addition to its tools for creating emails, GetResponse.com enables users to create custom landing pages for each campaign. Landing pages are special pages of the companies website that offer a clear call to action or other feature relevant to the email campaign. GetResponse.com also offers automatic responses, which help the company to stay in contact with new subscribers without the need for custom messages.
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The purpose of the Design Team is to represent stakeholders in the CPS plan development process for Pratt. With opportunities for other stakeholders to provide input, this group will carry out the process, write and submit the plan, and potentially speak to it in the the review process.
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Some common projections for the future of technology, as of 2015, include transportation-related advances in driverless vehicles and ultra high-speed travel, along with medical breakthroughs in pharmaceutical testing and chemotherapy treatment. Futurists also foresee significant strides for computers in terms of size and capacity.Continue Reading
Future roadways will not only contain self-driving cars but also money-saving self-driving trucks. Robot rigs will mean lengthier trips and a safer, smoother ride requiring less fuel. Meanwhile, the hyperloop train concept, able to travel at nearly 800 miles per hour via a vacuum tube system, will journey from Los Angeles to San Francisco in just over 30 minutes, predicts SpaceX founder Elon Musk. With test runs targeted for 2017, the Hyperloop is just around the corner from becoming reality.
The future of pharmaceuticals could see emerging drugs being tested via "organ chips," silicon components containing actual living cells able to simulate the human heart, kidneys, liver or other organs; this method would render animal testing obsolete. Elsewhere in medicine, chemotherapy procedures could improve dramatically using nanoparticles, which are minuscule messengers able to transmit targeted doses of medication directly to diseased cells. The process would sharply diminish the deleterious physical side effects associated with chemotherapy's current methodology.
The supercomputers of tomorrow will be the size of sugar cubes, according to IBM computer scientists. A redesigned computer chip, capable of connecting via miniature drops of liquidized nanoparticles, will make it possible. Also, before long, information contained within a computer system will be calculated in terms of zettabytes, equal to 1,000 exabytes or 1 billion terabytes. As machines are able to handle more demanding amounts of data, a zettabyte will be as commonplace in the future as a gigabyte has been in the past.Learn more about Inventions


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Katestone specialises in generating weather datasets for dispersion modelling, noise modelling, wind resource mapping, climate analysis, forensic event analysis, complaints analysis or any other applications. We can provide weather data ranging from simple time-series at a location, or a three-dimensional dataset for complex applications.
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The adage that two heads are better than
one is a powerful statement that most people have
heard before, yet often treat lightly. We all face
challenges in life, relationships, communication
and especially in business.
Without challenge, imagine how boring
life would be? One of the biggest issues most
people face when confronted with a major challenge
or crisis is to step back from the situation,
humble themselves and seek out others for solid
advice and help. I can tell you from personal
experience that this is where having a 'navy seal'
team of positive, solution driven people to assist
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Here are two great reasons to
assemble and use a mastermind for your
business but in particular within your own
marketing efforts.
#1. To help you get into action. I've
lost track of how many people over the years that
carry on and on about how 'they don't have time'
to work on their marketing or that they 'got busy
and haven't had a chance to work on it' because of
other issues, plans, etc. Yes, the list of excuses
is often predictable and honestly pathetic. Yes, I
said it and here's why: marketing is the oxygen of
every organization. I feel like a broken record
here as I hammer this home in all of my books,
talks and client consultations as it often appears
that I'm speaking a foreign language or being
taken too lightly on this premise.
If you investigated through the daily
list of business casualties around the globe,
you'd find them littered with well intentioned
people who are excellent at what they provide,
make, or offer, but were horrible at promoting
(aka: marketing) it. Unfortunately, the market
place often doesn't reward the best people,
product or service, but bottom line the best
marketers. Please burn that last sentence into
your mind and never, ever forget it. A lot of
people reading may dislike this, but it is true in
almost every industry.
When you assemble a good group of like
minded people to assist you with ideas, questions,
and problems or opportunities related to your
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Musical events are ideal for social media commentary and enhancing marketing opportunities that align with involving loyal enthusiastic fans. For example, Facebook can capture fan interest at a personal level; San Francisco's Outside Lands Facebook page acts as an event guide for the three day summer festival. In only its second year, Chicago's weeklong Revolution 2012 Beethoven Festival between September 8-16 has distinguished itself by attracting great international talent. We're proud to work with them.
Through our friend Steve Takaki, who worked with the Revolution 2012 organizing team, we set up a new way for fans to follow the festival in real time through the week. We started by preparing the Revolution 2012 Twitter feed @Beethoven_Fest with a preset series of tweets that would publicize hourly the next workshop or concert about to happen. We would make the tweets informative and clickworthy by linking to artists' websites, YouTube videos and related music media commentary.
The INCREDIBLE GENIUS of HJ Lim tonight @8pm @beethoven_fest. @hjlim_arcadia performs the epic Hammerklavier! buff.ly/QcqLdG
— Beethoven Festival (@Beethoven_Fest) September 15, 2012
We then used the Rebelmouse platform to create a visual media portfolio of everything happening at Revolution 2012 in real time. We then embedded the platform into the Beethoven Festival website and into media feeds like BreakingChicagoNews.com so the Festival could be locally publicized.
Finally, we developed a nationwide Twitter and Facebook campaign to publicize Revolution 2012 despite the fact that the festival served the Chicago community. We wanted to bring national attention to a festival that deservedly needs to be placed on the future calendars' of artists and classical music fans alike.
Music orgs, we're live-streaming Chicago's Beethoven Festival this week @ om.ly/BwwnH as a public service. We support the arts!
— Breaking NB News (@BreakingNBNews) September 14, 2012
We succeeded in boosting the presence of Revolution 2012 via social media not only for the Chicago audience but for classical fans across America. For upcoming cultural events, we plan to bolster the social media presence using Pinterest and Facebook in a similar visual style. The real mission is to give audiences more resources to not only understand the artists and the music, but to participate in commenting on the performances and festival happenings. Before social media, fan interaction stopped once the concerts were over. We now want to ensure that conversations around Beethoven and Revolution 2012 remain persistent year long so its growing audience is primed to attend when the September 2013 event rolls around. This will work for any festival.
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Last Sunday, we started our Best of News Illustrated series, a collection of graphics hand-picked by the staff on a variety of timeless subjects.
We specifically chose "Killer Tans" to kick off the series, since we're in the middle of Spring Break season. Appropriate since a trip down A1A in Fort Lauderdale will tell you that there's a lot of people who are getting their daily doses of vitamin D.
Renee Kwok's page was originally published in 2006. It's an oldie, but a goodie. And you may learn something new!
If you want more information, check out the Food and Drug Administration's site, as well as Tanning Facts and Tanning Truth.
Or, if you want a break from reading, check out the Sun-Sentinel's Spring Break gallery.


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Tuning In — Conversations with Eric Friesen
"Friesen's remarkable capacity to reach into the fascinating world of musical process and personality, and draw out illuminating and inspiring discourse, is second to none."
A lifelong broadcaster, Eric Friesen thinks of himself as "a pilgrim of creative change and renewal." At Music in the Morning, Friesen indeed brought his name, voice and talents to Tuning In—now a highly successful series of interviews with celebrated Canadian personalities. In this season of conversations about music, Friesen has put together lineup of interviews with a diverse group of individuals from the world of Canadian arts and letters—one that is sure to entertain, engage, and even surprise us.
Eric Friesen is a broadcaster, writer, speaker and consultant on music, broadcasting, culture and faith, and is the Program Director for Winnipeg's classical and jazz station, Classic. He has spent much of his life as a network classical music and culture host, producer and executive for Minnesota Public Radio and CBC Radio, where he hosted such programs as Studio Sparks, among many others. Friesen is a regular contributor to the National Arts Centre, The Banff Centre, Angela Hewitt's Trasimeno International Music Festival (Umbria, Italy), Ottawa's Music & Beyond Festival, the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, the Montreal International Chamber Music Festival, and Vancouver's Music in the Morning series. He writes regularly for Queen's Quarterly and NUVO magazine.
In addition to his leadership role as Chairman of Honens, Friesen is an Honorary Governor of Massey Hall/Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto; immediate Past Chairman of the Kingston WritersFest, Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the English Department of the University of Waterloo, and regularly leads a book club for inmates at Collins Bay Penitentiary in Kingston, Ontario. He divides his time between Amherst Island in Ontario's Thousand Islands and Winnipeg.
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I'm a computer geek; a PHP developer who loves learning new things and new programming languages. In 1998, I started working with web development and had always loved the back end programming of websites and servers. While it started as a hobby, it became my profession in 2005 and since then, I have worked with a wide variety of code bases. I have also spent significant time in the ecommerce world--building custom solutions, modernizing legacy code bases, and working with custom content management systems. Over my career, I have grown to love the PHP community and can often be found in IRC channels relating to the PHP community or tools, and often help mentor those seeking to learn more via phpmentoring.org.
Public Speaking
Since 2014, I have been speaking at conferences on topics such as PHP best practices, PHP security, Laravel, DevOps, and virtualization. I have also given training on Laravel and PHP Security through php[architect] and wrote an article for their August 2014 issue.
Open Source
I frequently contribute to open source projects, such as Laravel Homestead, SlimPHP Documentation, and various other projects of my own. I am one of the maintainers of the PHP IRC Bot project--Phergie--where I help manage, release, solve problems for a number of packages to support many different features of the bot. In addition, I am one of the threePHP Framework Interoperability Group (FIG) Secretaries, in charge of managing aspects of FIG to keep discussions running smoothly and PHP Specification Requests moving along the process.
I'm very interested in PHP and all the different frameworks that come out of the community. I'm heavily involved with our local makerspace here in Memphis. I love just about all kinds of music. I'm a very open minded freethinker. I like to solve problems and plan out solutions. I like doing things that I've been told I can't. I like proving the status quo wrong. I like to learn and try my best to keep learning every day. This usually extends to PHP or a related programming method. I am also a big fan of the Chicago Blackhawks. I love watching European football but I never find the time to keep up with it.


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Giles Foden writes in the Guardian:
In October last year, an item appeared on an authoritative Russian studies website that soon had the science-fiction community buzzing with speculative excitement. It asserted that Isaac Asimov's 1951 classic Foundation was translated into Arabic under the title "al-Qaida". And it seemed to have the evidence to back up its claims.
"This peculiar coincidence would be of little interest if not for abundant parallels between the plot of Asimov's book and the events unfolding now," wrote Dmitri Gusev, the scientist who posted the article. He was referring to apparent similarities between the plot of Foundation and the pursuit of the organisation we have come to know, perhaps erroneously, as al-Qaida.
The Arabic word qaida — ordinarily meaning "base" or "foundation" — is also used for "groundwork" and "basis". It is employed in the sense of a military or naval base, and for chemical formulae and geometry: the base of a pyramid, for example. Lane, the best Arab-English lexicon, gives these senses: foundation, basis of a house; the supporting columns or poles of a structure; the lower parts of clouds extending across a horizon; a universal or general rule or canon. With the coming of the computer age, it has gained the further meaning of "database": qaida ma'lumat (information base).
Qaida itself comes from the root verb q-'-d : to sit down, remain, stay, abide. Many people appear to think al-Qaida's name emerged from some idea of a physical base — a command centre from where Bin Laden and other leaders could direct operations. "We've got to get back to al-Qaida on that one," it's possible to imagine a footsoldier saying. Bin Laden himself has spoken, post-September 11, of being in "a very safe place". There have also been stories that his father had a vernal estate called al-Qaida in Yemen or Saudi Arabia. Could there be a sense in which the name of the organisation represents a notion of the eternal home in the consciousness of its fugitive leader?
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BATD ON Jul 04, 2013 AT 10:40 am
No one can deny that Kate Moss is on a roll: collaborating on her own phone accessories, posing for every fashion brand under the sun and continuing to be quintessentially the most beautifully rock'n'roll woman in the world. Get your checkbooks out because now the modern muse is set to become the centre-piece of a new exhibition and auction at Christie's.
The auction, which will take place on 25 September, is selling both historic and unseen photographs and artworks inspired by the style icon.
Renowned collector and curator of the pieces, Gert Elfering noted, "There is so much you can learn from Kate – how you should always remain true to yourself, develop your own style, and emphasise your individuality".
In addition to limited addition artwork by Mary McCartney, Irving Penn, Mario Sorrenti, Mario Testino, Nick Knight, Ellen Von Unwerth and Sam Taylor-Wood, there will also be specially commissioned artworks for sale, including a sculpture by Nick Knight, a collage by Sir Peter Blake, and a tapestry by Chuck Close.


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1. What is Staph?
Staph is a type of bacteria. Up to one-third of all people carry Staph on their skin or in their nose. They are "colonized," but not infected, with Staph. They have no symptoms, yet they can pass the germ to others.
Ordinary Staph is usually harmless unless it enters the body through a cut or wound. Even then, it typically only
causes minor skin infections (such as pimples and boils) that heal without antibiotics. In fact, Staph is one of the
most common causes of minor skin infections in the United States.
Unfortunately, ordinary Staph can also sometimes lead to a more serious infection called MRSA. People at highest risk are the elderly, people with open wounds or weak immune systems, and very young children. MRSA is seen most often in nursing homes and hospitals, where Staph bacteria can get into surgical wounds and the bloodstream and cause a serious form of pneumonia.
2. What is MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)?
MRSA is a serious type of Staph infection that cannot be cured by common antibiotics (methicillin, oxacillin, penicillin and amoxicillin). MRSA is treatable with other drugs and medical procedures. An estimated 1.2 million hospital patients in the United States are infected with MRSA each year; another 423,000 US hospital patients are colonized with MRSA each year.
Remember that many people carry Staph infection without having any symptoms. While 25% to 30% of the population may be colonized with Staph, only about 1% of people have been colonized with MRSA.
3. What is Community-Acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA)?
Most MRSA cases occur in nursing homes and hospitals. However, 10 to 15 percent of MRSA cases occur in people who have not been in the hospital, or had surgery, dialysis, catheterization or other medical procedures in a year or more. These cases are called community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA). These usually show up as skin infections— pimples or boils or abscesses— and usually occur in people who are otherwise healthy.
4. Why are we hearing so much about MRSA?
Obviously, the tragic deaths of several children from community-acquired MRSA have focused attention on the infection. However, MRSA is not really a new infection. MRSA has been around in nursing homes and hospitals for several decades and in the community-at-large since the 1990s.
Many hospitals are beginning to use surveillance systems to track bacterial outbreaks, so the public is hearing more about these infections.
In the past, MRSA infections were mostly seen in hospitals. Now they are prevalent in community settings, too. Because the occurrence of these infections in community settings is relatively new, some people become alarmed when they hear about them.
The news media are also carrying more stories about MRSA where they use the term "super bug." The term "super bug" may make people think that there are no antibiotics that will work against MRSA. This is not the case.
5. What are the symptoms of CA-MRSA?
The most common signs of any sort of Staph infection are:
Sometimes people will notice more than one sore at a site.
Some people with MRSA will have multiple lesions (sores) that look like spider bites. The involved site is red, swollen, and painful and may have pus or other drainage.
More serious Staph infection may lead to blood stream infections or pneumonia. Symptoms may include shortness of breath, fever, and chills.
6. What should I do if I think that I have MRSA? Can it be treated?
If you think you have an infected wound, see a medical care provider. MRSA can be diagnosed only through a lab test.
MRSA infections can be treated. Treatment depends on the site and severity of the infection. Not all infections require oral antibiotics. However, if antibiotics are prescribed, take them exactly as instructed. If the infection has not improved within a few days after seeing a health care provider, contact the provider again.
7. Is it possible that my Staph or MRSA skin infection will come back after it is cured?
Yes. A Staph or MRSA skin infection may come back after it is cured. To prevent this from happening, follow your health care provider's directions while you have the infection, and practice the hygiene steps described below.
8. Do people die from CA-MRSA infections?
On rare occasions, community-acquired MRSA can cause life-threatening illness and death, even when treated quickly. However, in the vast majority of cases, community-acquired MRSA infections are limited to the skin and do not result in severe complications.
9. If I have a Staph, or MRSA skin infection, what can I do to prevent others from being infected?
You can keep from spreading Staph or MRSA skin infections to others by following these steps:
10. How can I prevent staph or MRSA skin infections?
Practice good hygiene:
11. How can I avoid getting MRSA at my health club?
MRSA is transmitted most frequently by direct skin-to-skin contact. You can protect yourself from infections by practicing good hygiene. Keep your hands clean by washing with soap and water or using an alcohol-based hand rub, and shower after working out. Cover scrapes or cuts with a clean dry bandage. Avoid sharing personal items such as towels or razors. Use a barrier such as clothing or a towel between your skin and shared equipment. Wipe equipment surfaces before and after use.
12. How can my school prevent MRSA?
See below for advice for coaches and teachers.
The Massachusetts Department of Health and the Tacoma-Pierce County Department of Health in the State of Washington have developed excellent MRSA materials aimed at schools. Below, you will find links to their Web sites and to other sites that may be useful.
13. If my child uses athletic facilities (such as the weight room) or is involved in athletics, what additional measures can be taken to prevent and control MRSA infections within the athletic setting?
Athletes, athletic personnel, and parents can help prevent and control MRSA infections within athletic settings by following these simple health and hygiene practices:
Remember: Routine cleaning is all that is recommended. Because the bacteria live on the skin, they may be
reintroduced into any environment at any time. Therefore, hand washing and wound care remain the best means of
preventing Staph infections.
14. What can teachers do to prevent the spread of MRSA in the classroom?
15. Information for School Nurses and Administrators: What should I do if a student in my
school is reported to have MRSA?
Consider taking the following steps:
16. Are children with MRSA required to stay out of school?
Children are excluded from School and childcare based on the SC School and Childcare Exclusion Rules.
17. Do I need to alert parents and staff if a student has a MRSA infection?
Typically, it is not necessary to inform the entire school community about a MRSA infection. When MRSA occurs within the school population, the school nurse and school or district medical consultant should determine, based on their medical judgment, whether some or all parents and staff should be notified. You may contact your local public health department for guidance on responding to MRSA cases and clusters.
18. Are there special considerations for students with immune suppression or HIV?
Students with weakened immune systems may be at risk for more severe illness if they are infected with MRSA. These students should follow the same prevention measures as all others to prevent Staph infections, including practicing good hygiene, covering wounds, cuts and abrasions with clean dry bandages, avoiding sharing personal items such as towels and razors, and contacting their doctor if they think they have an infection.
19. How can I get more information about MRSA prevention and control messages?
Contact your local DHEC public health department, or go to one of the listed Web sites. You can find local DHEC public health department numbers by going to http://www.scdhec.gov/health and clicking on the name of your county.
20. Are there websites where I go to get additional information?
21. Do I report cases of MRSA to DHEC?


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The Sustainability Collection
THE SUSTAINABILITY COLLECTION covers the breadth and depth of the sustainability movement.
THE SUSTAINABILITY COLLECTION encompasses a wide array of disciplines and approaches to sustainability, including new approaches to urban design, the implications of energy choices, and new and traditional agricultural methods and food distribution strategies. The collection shows in a variety of ways and places how design, conservation, community, and legislative action are all crucial components of a sustainable future at both the local and global level.
Sustainable design in the tropics. The story of a Puerto Rican architect pioneering locally-suited green buildings for over thirty years.
Diagnoses the 'disease' of materialism and prescribes its antidote, simple living.
The oil and gas industry has historically dominated Louisiana politics and is largely responsible for the state's rapidly disappearing coastline.
An intimate portrait of an ancestral way of life under threat in a world increasingly dominated by large-scale industrial agriculture.
Created with 20,000 photographs and a haunting soundtrack, "Airsick" plays out like an unsettling dream. Photographer Lucas Oleniuk examines our addiction to fossil fuel - and its consequences.
The story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature in human history -- the transformation of the American prairie.
A young woman's struggle to forge her own path and start a farm.
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SOURCE: "From Double Words to Single Vision: Patriarchal Desire in Much Ado about Nothing and Othello," in Anxious Pleasures: Shakespearean Comedy and the Nation-State, Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995, pp. 170-93.
In the essay that follows, Hall contends that both Much Ado about Nothing and Othello undermine—through their use and treatment of language—the establishment of any single interpretation of the texts.
The opening witty dialogue in Much Ado About Nothing between Beatrice and Benedick consists in a deadlocked rivalry, which seeks to deny that there is a relationship between them:
Beatrice. I wonder you will still be talking, Signor Benedick. Nobody marks you. Benedick. What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you still living?
This is a rivalry of indifferences. Now, real indifference is impossible in dialogue, since it would then not be a sign but a natural state unengaged with the other. Proclaimed "indifference" is a...
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Hereford project announces plans for war heritage site
A project plans to apply for a multimillion-pound grant to create the first special forces heritage centre in Britain.
The team behind Hereford's Enterprise Zone want to turn a former shell factory into a visitor attraction.
The factory was built in 1916 to provide artillery for World War One.
The structure is 40,000 sq ft and has an unsupported span, meaning there are no pillars or supports inside.
'Sense of reverence'
Neil Kerr, vice-chairman of the Enterprise Zone board, said the factory building is as strong as ever, even though the walls are not overly robust.
"The walls were very thin because they were designed to blow out if the factory exploded," he said.
Mr Kerr said he wanted the centre to become a national attraction which would tell the story of the special forces in a sensitive way: "We will establish a real sense of reverence.
"Hereford is famous around the world for two things; beef cattle and our friends at the regiment."
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Loyola's Evening Division is one of the largest, most highly regarded programs of legal education in the United States. Loyola's Evening Division alumni are among the most successful and prominent members of the legal profession — ascending to high ranks in business, government and the judiciary.
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Goldsboro and East Duplin
By Andrew Stevens
Published in Sports on November 11, 2007 11:26 AM
Eric Reid needed just one season to guide Goldsboro to the playoffs.
But he'll have to wait another year for his first-ever postseason victory.
East Duplin, the No. 14 seed, upended the third-seeded Cougars 41-35 at Cougar Stadium on Friday night. The Panthers presented head coach Brian Aldridge with career win No. 200 and a second-round date at North Brunswick in the N.C. High School Athletic Association Class 2-A (small school) playoffs.
The Cougars finished 8-4 overall.
The teams battled like a pair of seasoned prize fighters, but it was East Duplin that delivered the knockout punch. After Anthony Council's 20-yard touchdown run closed the gap to 41-35, the Panthers took over and erased the final seven minutes of regulation with a game-clinching, 14-play drive.
"It came down to who wanted it more tonight ... they wanted it," Reid said. "Seeds aren't nothing, and they showed that tonight. We came out and went blow for blow like a heavyweight fight. I didn't expect to struggle that much with their offense. We just couldn't stop them defensively."
Hykeem Coley put the Cougars on top 27-21 with a 70-yard touchdown run and the ensuing two-point conversion to start the third quarter. Unfazed by the big play, East Duplin (7-5) reeled off 20 unanswered points. Taylor Blizzard and Daniel King each had short touchdown runs, and King hauled in a 39-yard scoring strike from Josh Kennedy.
Goldsboro proved to be its own worst enemy at times.
The Cougars' Council and Coley combined for three fumbles, including two inside East Duplin territory. Goldsboro turned the ball over on downs and committed a costly holding penalty which nullified a touchdown.
"There's not a lot of times that I get shocked, but tonight was one," Reid said. "For our two best backs to drop the ball the way they did and at those times really hurt us. I think that they gave them momentum and lost momentum for us."
Kennedy connected with Johnny Nethercutt on a 10-yard touchdown pass to take the lead early in the first quarter. Less than two minutes later, Coley responded with a 33-yard touchdown run.
King added a pair of touchdown runs in the first half, and Council raced 70 yards for a score just before halftime. However, the two-point conversion failed and East Duplin led 21-19 at the break.
"It hurt to see (Council and Coley) to have the kind of season that they've had and go out with this, it really bothered me," Reid said. "I told our kids things are going to get you down in life. Hopefully our juniors and our sophomores will build from this and remember this taste in their mouth in the spring, when it's time to hit the weights."
East Duplin 14 7 20 0 -- 41
Goldsboro 7 12 8 8 -- 35
First quarter
ED -- Nethercutt 10 pass from Kennedy (Thigpen kick), 8:31
GHS -- Coley 33 run (Greenfield kick), 6:43
ED -- King 20 run (Thigpen kick), 4:05
Second quarter
GHS -- Council 4 run (Greenfield kick failed), 8:34
ED -- King 2 run (Thigpen kick), 0:22.9
GHS -- Council 70 run (Council run failed), 0:05.6
Third quarter
GHS -- Coley 70 run (Coley run), 11:37
ED -- Blizzard 10 run (Thigpen kick), 8:05
ED -- King 30 pass from Kennedy, 4:25
ED -- King 3 run (Thigpen kick failed), 2:18
Fourth quarter
GHS -- Council 20 run (Coley run), 6:47
First Downs 18 9
Rushes-yds 53-272 39-346
Passing-yds 112 30
Total yds 384 376
Fumbles-lost 2-1 3-3
Penalties-Yds 3-21 8-53
RUSHING -- East Duplin -- Daniel King 33-197, 3 TDs; Taylor Blizzard 11-59; Delonte Miller 5-15; Josh Kennedy 2-3; Team rush 2-(-2). Goldsboro-- Anthony Council 17-173, 3 TDs; Hykeem Coley 11-175, 2 TDs; Darren Pittman 2-24; Vontarius Kornegay 2-6; Iveon Sprangle 4-(-5); Dustin Uzzardo 3-(-21).
PASSING -- East Duplin -- Josh Kennedy 6-10-1 112, 2 TDs. Goldsboro -- Dustin Uzzardo 1-3-0 30.
RECEIVING -- East Duplin -- Joey Nethercutt 2-46, 1 TD; Taylor Blizzard 3-27; Daniel King 1-39, 1 TD. Goldsboro -- Enrique Moses 1-30.
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Silver on Mirror (For Ron) pays tribute to the central role that silver has played in photography since the early 1800s. In creating this image of silver leaf on mirror, Bing Wright was influenced by both the camera obscura, which used silver-coated mirrors, and the daguerreotype, which made use of silver-based compounds. The resulting composition has a sense of kinetic dematerialization, capturing the fragility and ephemeral character of silver leaf. Ironically, Silver on Mirror (For Ron) was shot with a digital camera, the device largely responsible for silver's obsolescence in photography.
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Image rights: © 2012 Bing Wright, Maharam under license
About Bing Wright
Bing Wright's photography highlights the physical and chemical processes of printing and draws attention to the narrative quality of his medium. Wright credits John Szarkowski's groundbreaking 1978 photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, "Windows and Mirrors," as having influenced his work. Wright's study of subjectivity and objectivity can be seen in his poetic still-life photographs of subject matter such as broken mirrors, rose petals, dead flies, water drops, lightbulbs, and newsprint clippings.
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The Yarmouk camp for so-called "Palestinian" refugees in southern Damascus was under relentless bombardment by the Syrian government this past April. The Assad regime was attempting destroy the last remnants of ISIS fighters in the camp, but in so doing, it bombed the way it usually does — indiscriminately — and killed and wounded many of the "Palestinian" civilians in Yarmouk. That camp is by far the largest of the 13 camps in which "Palestinians" live in Syria, and at its height had close to 200,000 residents. As many know, the "Palestinians" in Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan are required by their host governments to live in camps. They are not granted full citizenship in these countries nor, for that matter, anywhere else in the Arab world (though a limited citizenship is granted in Jordan), and they are kept from full access to educational and vocational opportunities. For it is more important to the Arabs that the "cause of Palestine" be promoted, even if it means damaging the life-chances of generations of those Muslim Arabs who continue to call themselves, wherever they were born and raised, "Palestinians."
The April 2018 bombing of the Yarmouk camp had ISIS as its intended target, but the Syrians were indifferent as to how many "Palestinian" civilians (i.e., non-ISIS) also died. Several dozen — about 50 — is the estimated number. Of the 6,000 "Palestinians" who were still in Yarmouk on April 19, 5,000 have since fled. The last remaining hospital in Yarmouk was also destroyed by the Syrians. "Yarmouk was a refugee camp that had already been transformed into a death camp," said Christopher Gunness, a spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa), the agency for Palestinian refugees. And now "things have become unimaginably brutal for the civilians there."
The Yarmouk camp had been bombed many times before in the Syrian civil war. In August 2012, two dozen civilians were killed in a single attack by the Syrians. In December 2012, there was an aerial bombing by Assad's MiG fighter jets. In what would eventually become commonplace, the bombing targeted a hospital, a mosque, and a school, killing more than 100 civilians in the process. The Assad regime suspected that Syrian opposition forces were using Yarmouk as one of their bases. In 2013, there was a siege of the camp, and at least 135 "Palestinian" civilians died directly from being bombed during the siege. More than 1,020 died indirectly, of starvation.
In June 2014 the Syrian regime started to cut off water to Yarmouk; this man-made drought, manufactured by the government, continues intermittently to this day. Water had to be smuggled in, for the 18,000 "Palestinians" — less than 10% of those who once lived in Yarmouk — who remained. And as the number of "Palestinians" decreased to 6,000 earlier this year, the deliberate drought inflicted by the Free Syrian Army remained.
During these years, ever since the siege by Assad's forces began in 2013, the inhabitants of Yarmouk were made aware that their Arab brothers were indifferent. Even their fellow "Palestinians" elsewhere remained silent. "Of course we've seen how many Palestinians aren't speaking about our crisis," Hakem Said from Yarmouk News Agency explains. "Most people in the camp blame the Palestinian factions the most for what has happened. They have not done anything to help us. But many Palestinians that aren't even in factions have also not said a lot about the siege. We know that if this were happening in Palestine the reactions would have been stronger. We know this and it bothers us a lot."
It was the same during this latest bombing of Yarmouk by Assad's army in April 2018. There was no outcry over these attacks. Not at the U.N. Not in Europe. Not from any Arab states. Not even from the "Palestinian Authority." But when "Palestinians" belonging to, or egged on by, Hamas, attempted to breach the security fence during the Great March of Return, in order to enter Israel to commit mayhem and murder, and Israel managed to prevent them, there were howls of denunciation at the U.N. and from Arab and Muslim countries. The Arabs and Muslims will protest to high heaven the killing of "Palestinians" by Israelis, but are silent if the killers are other Arabs, for that would dilute the effect, and the propaganda value, of any "Palestinians" killed by the Israelis.
The "Palestinians" in Gaza began their Great March of Return on March 30 and officially ended it on Tuesday, May 15, but they may well continue to show up, in dwindling numbers, for a few more Fridays. Hamas organizers had initially hoped to attract 100,000 marchers, but only 30,000 showed up for that first Friday, which was not exactly a vote of confidence in Hamas, and the numbers steadily went down every subsequent Friday, to a few thousand, before a single last upsurge of close to 40,000 on May 14. In media coverage of the Gaza events, marchers were invariably described as "peaceful" and "unarmed." But in fact, throughout the seven Fridays of marches, and on the last two days, May 14 and May 15, the Hamas-directed "Palestinians" hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails over the fence, showed up with still other explosives to bury right at the fence, brought wire-cutters to cut through that fence, burned tires to create a smokescreen (making it harder for Israeli soldiers to target them with rubber bullets and tear gas), and — a new weapon — let loose kites to which they had affixed oil-soaked rags, and lit the rags on fire, kites which would then land on the Israeli side of the fence and set farmland ablaze –which is exactly what has happened. A handful of the "Palestinians" have also been armed — non-violently, of course — with axes, grenades, and even the occasional gun. The foreign media has been most reluctant to report on all this deadly weaponry. Only a handful have reported on the swastikas daubed onto the killer-kites.
The Israelis were not eager to engage the Gazan Arabs and thereby to further the propaganda value of the spectacle. They continually warned the marchers, week in week out, not to come close to the security fence; they announced these warnings from loudspeakers, they air-dropped leaflets with the same warnings. Then, to stop the marchers who did not heed the warnings, they always responded first with endless volleys of tear gas, and then with rubber bullets. Only in the most menacing cases (as when some Gazan Arabs managed to cut, or were on the verge of cutting, through the wire of the security fence, or were close to the fence flinging Molotov cocktails over at soldiers in Israel, or planting explosives at the fence, or setting alight Israeli farmland with their kites, did the Israelis use live fire, and then they were very careful to aim for the legs, so as to halt the marchers. How accurate was their fire? As of the end of May 15, there have been, according to the figures put out by the "Palestinians" themselves (so a little skepticism may be in order), a total of 109 "Palestinians" killed, and a total of 12,000 wounded. In other words, despite a constantly shifting, confusing, smoke-filled battlefield, 99% of those who were wounded survived; fewer than 1% died from Israeli gunfire. That bespeaks surgical accuracy by the Israelis, rather than wanton killing. Hamas, of course, did whatever it could to encourage children to take part, hoping for many casualties among them; it even sent a seven-year-old "Palestinian" girl (rescued by the Israelis, who returned her safely to her parents) across the security fence on May 11. Hamas also placed adults with intellectual disabilities at the front of the marchers, hoping that they, too, would become victims of the Israelis. Some people were also paid to participate. These are among the many stories about the Great March of Return that the Western media failed to cover.
Many of those killed were initially reported by the Western media as being innocents, but it has later turned out that quite a few, including a "journalist" — that is, someone wearing a sign saying "Press,"about whose death a great fuss was made — were members of Hamas. Despite the flaming kites, the Molotov cocktails, the burning tires, the rocks, the occasional guns and grenades and axes, despite, too, the membership in Hamas of many of those killed, these people remain "unarmed demonstrators" — and not just on Al Jazeera.
Israel has always maintained that not only did Hamas, a terrorist organization, orchestrate this whole event, and inveigle and even pay others to participate, but its own members took the major role as the most aggressive marchers to the security fence. In a television interview on May 16, Hamas official Salah Bardawil proudly proclaimed that "[i]n the last rounds of confrontations, if 62 people were martyred, 50 of them were Hamas." How many of the 47 demonstrators killed before May 14 were Hamas members? If among those previously killed, the percentage of Hamas members was roughly the same as it was among those killed during May 14 and 15, that would mean that 40 of the 47 killed during those Friday marches were Hamas members, and of the total of 109 killed, 90 were members of Hamas.
Meanwhile, in late April, other "Palestinians" — many dozens of them — were killed in the Syrian bombardment of the Yarmouk camp, in just a few days, about half the number killed by the Israelis during the seven Fridays of the Great March of Return and on May 14 and 15, during the last final spasm of "Palestinian" rage orchestrated by Hamas. Unlike the Israelis with the Gazan marchers, the Syrians faced no threat from the "Palestinians" in Yarmouk. They had no burning kites or Molotov cocktails. Those "Palestinians" were simply being killed because they were there, stuck in Yarmouk, caught between ISIS and Assad's army, with both sides indifferent to their fate. No Arab country, not even one of those those opposed to Assad, has bothered to deplore the killings in Yarmouk of "Palestinians" this past April. Nor have any of the "Palestinians" in Gaza or the West Bank mentioned the Syrian Army's assault on Yarmouk and the "Palestinians" who were killed there. The Yarmouk killings were too close in time to the Great March of Return that had been announced, and the "Palestinians" understood that the Yarmouk story would only draw attention away from the propaganda spectacle about to begin in Gaza, and for Hamas that would never do.
A recent report in Maclean's describes the situation in Yarmouk:
In Ramallah, the humanitarian catastrophe suffered by Syria's Palestinians has only rarely warranted any attention from Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian National Authority. In Gaza, Ismael Haniyeh of Hamas has had frosty relations with the Assad regime, but he has taken great care to stay on the good side of the Khomeinists in Tehran, who provide both Hamas and Assad with armor and money.
What this means is that Syria's Palestinians have not only been left on their own against Assad's barrel bombers and Russian warplanes. They are just as likely to be killed in encounters with the various jihadist forces ostensibly identified with the Syrian opposition camps, including the Islamic State and Al Qaida's affiliates. In places like Yarmouk, Latakia and Deraa, they have died at the hands of Assad's allies in Iran's Quds Force and Hezbollah. Assad's mercenary allies in Syria include the PFLP-GC, the Palestinian Liberation Army, the "Free Palestine" organization, Fatih Intifada, and Liwa Quds — all terrorist groups armed to the teeth and claiming to be fighting in the interests of the Palestinian people.
By the Action group's calculations, 3,702 Palestinians have been killed in Syria over the past seven years. That's nearly twice the number of Palestinian civilians who were killed during Israel's Operation Pillar of Defence in Gaza in 2011, and Operation Protective Edge in 2014. But when Syrian Palestinians die, they die far from the television cameras, and their deaths prompt no rallies and marches in the streets of the NATO capitals.
Such hypocrisy no longer amazes. We expect it whenever Israel is concerned. South Africa has "recalled" its ambassador from Israel. Belgium has called in the Israeli ambassador to express its displeasure at the casualties in Gaza. Russia, that celebrated champion of civil rights, has expressed its "deepest concern." But the most outrageous outrage was that expressed by the inimitable Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Even though the Israelis made endless efforts to warn the marchers away from the security fence, by loudspeaker and leaflet, fired tear gas and rubber bullets to try to head them off through non-lethal means, and only as a last resort did they use live fire, taking great care to aim below the knee, so that 99% of those wounded survived, Erdogan had the gall to accuse Israel of the crime of "genocide" and of being a "terrorist state" because it dared to defend its borders against those hellbent on harming it. Erdogan does know something about "genocide" because — according to the U.N. — his troops have since 2015 killed thousands of Kurds, most of them civilians, inside Turkey, and displaced tens of thousands more as they destroyed large parts of Kurdish cities, including Diyarbakir, Nusaybin, Silopi, and Sirnak. And earlier this year, in Afrin in Syria, Turkish troops killed more than 500 Kurdish civilians — that is, roughly five times the number of "Palestinians" killed in Gaza since March 30. None of the Kurdish civilians killed in Afrin threatened the Turkish state, while the Hamas-led "Palestinian" marchers were baying for Jewish blood — that was the whole point of their breaching the fence. Yet here is Erdogan declaring that Israel is guilty of "genocide."
France's Macron has let the Israelis know that the "Palestinians have a right to peacefully protest," as if that was what they had been doing all along. Did Macron manage to miss the spectacle of all those marchers who flung Molotov cocktails and pipe bombs over, and buried explosives beside, the security fence, and sent flaming kites toward Israeli farms, while others used wire-cutters in an attempt to massively breach the fence itself, so that the "Palestinians" could rush in en masse to kill Israelis, with whatever weapons they had? What "peaceful protest" is he talking about? Has he taken leave of his senses?
The next time someone tells you about what those terrible Israelis did to those innocent unarmed marchers in Gaza, mention the orchestration of those marchers by Hamas, mention the mentally deficient adults and children, including a seven-year-old girl (rescued by the Israelis), inveigled into taking part, mention the Molotov cocktails, the pipe bombs, the tires set aflame, the flaming kites with swastikas painted on them, the axes and guns and grenades wielded by some of those "unarmed" marchers. And then describe the care the Israelis took throughout to warn the marchers, by loudspeakers and by leafletting, not to approach the security fence, before employing non-lethal force, and when, as a last resort, Israeli soldiers used live fire to halt those marchers who came close to or were at the fence, attempting to breach it, those soldiers took extraordinary care, by aiming to hit below the knees, to avoid killing, which is why 99% of the wounded survived. And once you have delivered yourself of all of that information then, as a parting shot, be sure to ask "And why didn't anyone report on what happened to the 'Palestinians' in Yarmouk?"
First published in Jihad Watch.
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sf_jpeg_decode Module Guide Resources
Information on the module guide itself and the associated resources and known issues are available here.
The JPEG Decode HAL module is a generic API for JPEG decode processing implemented on r_jpeg. (The JPEG Decode HAL module supports the Synergy™ JPEG Codec peripheral.) The JPEG Decode Framework Module is a ThreadX®-aware high-level API for JPEG Framework module applications and is implemented on sf_jpeg_decode; it provides thread-safe access to the Synergy JPEG hardware on a Synergy MCU Group. A user-defined callback can be created to detect hardware supported events.
The sf_jpeg_decode framework module features:
- Provides thread-safe access to the Synergy JPEG hardware.
- Supports JPEG decompression using the JPEG Decode HAL module.
- Supports a polling mode that allows an application to wait for the JPEG Decoder to complete.
- Supports an interrupt mode with user-supplied callback functions.
- Configures parameters such as horizontal and vertical subsample values, horizontal stride, decoded pixel format, input and output data format and color space.
- Obtains the size of the image prior to decoding it.
- Supports putting coded data in an input buffer and an output buffer to store the decoded image frame.
- Supports streaming coded data into the JPEG Decoder module. This feature allows an application to read a coded JPEG image from a file or from a network without buffering the entire image.
- Configures the number of image lines to decode. This feature enables the application to process the decoded image on the fly without buffering the entire frame.
- Supports the input decoded formats YCbCr444, YCbCr422, YCbCr420 and YCbCr411.
- Supports the output formats ARGB8888 and RGB565.
- Returns an error when the JPEG image's size, height, and width don't meet the requirements.
- Supports the wait API function to suspend/resume the thread for synchronizing with the JPEG hardware supported events.
Module Guide
The JPEG Decode framework module guide is targeted for SSP 1.2.0 and above and the SK-S7G2 Kit.
The most recent versions of the module guide application note, application project and import guide are available here
Module Guide Resources
The following application projects are available from the Renesas web site at the referenced url.
- GUIX "Hello World" for DK-S7G2 - Application Project here.
- Getting Started with the Weather Panel - Application Project here.
Known Issues
- For all known issues refer to the most recent SSP release notes for known issues located here.
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One of the great things about Android is the ability to directly manage files. Of course, finding a good way to manage them is the problem. One solution is File Expert. Offering you the ability to explore your phone's file system and perform common file operations, so you can delete and move files with ease with File Expert.
File Expert features a clean-looking interface – it looks very nice, and its color scheme gives it a much friendlier look than most dark-themed file management apps, like eFile. This app isn't just useful for managing your own files – you can use it as a wireless server to download files to your computer via FTP, or through web browser access. One of the great things about the app is that you can use it to manage and back up your apps, as well, without needing root access. You can use this to easily install and uninstall APKs, and there's even options for rooted users to do it without needing prompting. Also, the app is completely free without any ads, being donationware.
While the app can share files via FTP, it doesn't appear to support connecting to an FTP server, just to SMB servers. Also, if you have a lot of apps installed, then the App tab will take a long time to pop up, as it repopulates your list of apps every time you select the tab. It will often make the OS pop up with a "Force Close/Wait" prompt – if you select Wait, then it will work, or just click on the Apps tap again. It's something that needs work, and the whole app seems to lag a lot – it's not the most stable app at the current moment. The app backup feature doesn't support data backup, so this won't replace Titanium Backup yet.
File Explorer is a solid choice for a file manager on Android, especially as this is a completely free option. The network options are especially useful, and will keep me coming back to this app in the future.


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