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My Intro to Middleman, Bourbon Neat and SMACSS
I recently launched Bookshelf Bar, a site to highlight cocktail culture in Calgary and beyond, and also to journal some of my own experiments behind the bar.
Though actually, the motivation for the site was mostly so I could test out a few frameworks and tools that I had been looking at:
- Middleman: a lightweight Rails alternative for building static sites with with ruby.
- Bourbon: a mixin library for Sass.
- Bourbon Neat: a grid framework for responsive sites.
- SMACSS: Stands for Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS.
The beautiful thing about Middleman is it allows you to use all the tools you've been accustomed to using in frameworks like Rails, but in a package stripped down for static sites. You can still use pre-processors for your styling and layouts (I used Haml and Sass), generate new pages at the command line, etc. And of course, you have the rich Ruby gem ecosystem available to you. Score.
The project was initiatlized with middleman-template which includes Haml, Sass, Bourbon, Neat, and Live Reload. For deployment I tried to use middleman-sync first but there were gem dependency issues that I couldn't resolve. Instead, I'm using middleman-s3_sync to deploy now. Once configured, deployment is as simple as
middleman build and then
middleman s3_sync.
Bourbon & Neat
My primary interest was in Bourbon was just so that I could use Neat, but that being said. I ended up really appreciating Bourbon's powerful mixins.
The documentation for both libraries is great. For Neat, this intro was a valuable resource for getting my feet wet.
I don't know that I'll be using SMACSS again. I was interested in learning a durable way of writing CSS, which SMACSS seemed to promise, but now having tried it I'm still not certain of how it works for responsive web development. The documentation suggests responsive styling be handled as states, which seems to make sense, but the documentation doesn't provide any examples of how to execute this approach and I couldn't find any other resources on the web explaining this.
On my next project I think I'll be testing out The Sass Way's convention for structuring CSS.
And voila! Here's the site. There are only a couple of posts on there right now but I expect that will grow in the coming weeks and months. If you're into cocktails I hope you enjoy!


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. Prototype 2 Hunt and Consume CPL Tino Antonelli Location. Prototype 2 - Murder Your Maker - Final Boss - Insane - Ending - Duration: 11:36 .
Blacknet mission 2] Operation: Black Tulip Blacknet missions - Prototype 2 Game Guide. Hunting for corporal Jeffrey Fasolo. New objective: Go to a Blacknet terminal. In order to start this mission, you have to get to location [1. Very important information is fact, that its activation point is located in the base inaccessible for civilians, so you have to consume any soldier or scientist first and then shapeshift as the murdered person.
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Find the Blacknet terminal and interact with it (B button), watching out for viral detectors. New objective: Hunt and consume corporal Jeffrey Fasolo. As you probably remember, it is best to start the hunt with getting to the rooftop of one of the highest buildings in the area. Only then send an impulse (press left analog stick), so you'll easily find the location of the corporal you're looking for (screen above).
An exact location of corporal Jeffrey Fasolo is [2. Corporal is in the line of sight of at least three Blackwatch soldiers a since it is not easy to get rid of them silently, I suggest not to bother with it and attack all enemies here.
Try not to fight long and do not risk the premature corporal's death, but as fast as possible after the fight begins, grab him and consume him (B button and Y button). Sabotaging the infected specimen. New objective: Go to capture site to sabotage the infected specimen.
Once you regain control over Heller, quickly leave the hostile area and only after the situation calms down, go to location [3. Also this place is inaccessible to unauthorized personnel, so consider entering it in disguise.
New objective: Use the hand scanner to release and consume the brawler. It is worth to know, that interacting with the hand scanner (B button) is not the only option. If you've chosen strength option and killed all local opponents, you might as well destroy a container with mutated beast, thus releasing it.
Eliminating infected specimen. New objective: Defeat the brawler before it kills people. Contrary to appearances, you do not have to worry about other people, although it is important to immediately start chasing the brawler. Help yourself of course with sprint (right trigger) and jumps (A button), trying to reduce the distance between you two. Performing the first attack on the brawler should make him stop, thus starting the real fight. After starting the fight with the brawler, remember about a trick known from initial mission.
It is worth to jump over the brawler and then quickly attack it from behind. Try to perform your best attacks, because there are probably Blackwatch soldiers in the area. Use them mainly as regeneration sources, but if any of them has a rocket launcher, try to get it to attack brawler in alternative way. New objective: Consume the brawler. As you've probably guessed, you have to fight until brawler's health bar is almost empty. Once you receive the relevant information, quickly run towards the monster and consume it (button B).
Hunting corporal Tino Antonelli. New objective: Exit the alert. New objective: Go to a Blacknet terminal.
Losing the chase might be more difficult than usual, so keep looking for alleys, where you can exit the alert. After this, go again to location [1.
Same as before, enter the base disguised as a soldier or a scientist, remembering about avoiding viral detectors. Again, interact with terminal (button B).
New objective: Hunt and consume corporal Tino Antonelli. Behave the same as with the previous hunt, so go to the rooftop of one of highest buildings in order to locate the corporal. He should patrol the western part of the yellow zone, not far from water, and his approximate location is [7. Make sure that the corporal is not observed by anyone and consume him (button B and button Y). Getting to the lair. New objective: Go to the lair to sabotage Gentek's experiment. New objective: Enter the lair to sabotage Gentek's experiment.
Your new target can be found in location [1. After watching a short cut- scene, go to the lair in location [1. Again you might enter the zone inaccessible for civilians disguised as a soldier or a scientist. Position yourself in a shiny circle (screen above) and press B button to get to the lair. Releasing the brawler. New objective: Use the hand scanner to release and consume the brawler. Notice, that Gentek's squads fight in the lair with infected and if you're disguised, you do not have to attacks soldiers.
You can reach the scanner by choosing a corridor heading north (screen 1) or east (screen 2; barricade). In both cases you'll have to face large groups of infected and depending on your preferences you can eliminate them (it is very easy) or ignore them. Eventually you have to reach a second large lair chamber (screen above) in location [1.
Depending on preferences you can eliminate them or leave them alone, focusing on you current mission objective. Try to consume one of the soldiers or scientists, because you can interact with the hand scanner (button B) only after shapeshifting. Defeating brawler. New objective: Chase the brawler to stop and consume it. Start chasing brawler, choosing a tunnel heading north (screen above).
Fortunately you do not have to worry that the beast will get away, because the chase will end after few moments, specifically after getting to one of the large lair chambers. New objective: Defeat the brawler. Take a look at the grenade launcher locker, indicated by the game, because using one of these weapons is required to complete bonus objective. I recommend attacking brawler from upper shelves, because then you won't have to deal with infected in the same time. Besides it takes some time until mutant can reach upper shelves, and even when it succeed, you can jump to another one. New objective: Consume the brawler. Use the grenade launchers (or standard Heller's powers), until brawler's health bar is completely empty and then consume him in a well- known way (B button).
Notice that this action resulted in strengthening of one of your abilities - Tendrils. Leaving the lair. New objective: Exit the lair. Go to the start point, which is in location [1. You might disguise as a soldier or a scientist on your way back, so no one will bother you. Stand in the shiny circle and confirm leaving the lair (B button).
New objective: Leave the area. If you've used the disguise, then you can leave this area safely.
Otherwise you'll have to lose the pursuit. Mission will be over soon. Notice, that as a reward for completing the mission, you can choose a mutation from Predator category.

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A proposed state law that would largely strip local governments' ability to regulate cellphone antenna installations on public property has passed both the senate and assembly despite letters of opposition from throughout the state including from the Ramona Community Planning Group.
Senate Bill 649 passed the Assembly Sept. 13 by a 46-16 vote and the Senate the next day, 22-10. Critics are now calling on the governor to veto the bill.
The planning group on Sept. 7 agreed to submit a letter against SB 649 to the county Board of Supervisors so it could be included with other letters of opposition that were to be sent to Sacramento.
"I work on these types of projects," said planner Casey Lynch at the meeting. "I think they still need to go in front of the community."
SB 649 pertains to "small cells" in public rights-of-way or in any zone that includes a commercial or industrial use, and would provide that such installations are a permitted use and subject only to a specified permitting process adopted by a city or county. It would prevent the planning group and residents from the ability to weigh in on the siting of such wireless installations.
If SB 649 becomes law, planner Richard Tomlinson said a telecommunications carrier could pick a light pole that it wants to install a small cell on, and it would be by right.
The bill defines small cell as antennas on the structure no more than 6 cubic feet in volume, an individual piece of associated equipment on pole structures not exceeding 9 cubic feet, and the cumulative total of associated equipment that does not exceed 21 cubic feet. The total of any ground-mounted equipment cannot exceed 35 cubic feet, which some opponents of the bill have said is the size of a refrigerator.
SB 649 would authorize a city or county to charge an annual fee of up to $250 for each small cell attachment to vertical infrastructure, an annual attachment rate based on a specified calculations, and a one-time reimbursement fee for actual costs.
Comments in support of the bill say it will establish a reliable and standardized process for siting the physical infrastructure to meet the growing consumer demand for greater, faster access to next-generation wireless networks.
Arguments in opposition tout loss of local control and revenue.
SB 649 was authored by Sen. Ben Hueso (D-San Diego). Cities and counties throughout the state lobbied against it, including the County of San Diego.
Over the past few years the planning group has considered many proposals for wireless telecommunication facilities and in some cases there have been concerns by the public regarding the visual appearance and possible health impacts from the electromagnetic frequencies (EMF) emitted for those living nearby.
Before addressing the legislation, the planning group was presented with two different AT&T cell tower proposals that would not be impacted by SB 649 as they are not small cells and are proposed for private property.
AT&T Wireless wants to construct a 35-foot-tall mono-pine along with telecommunications equipment inside a wall enclosure on a 20-acre property at 16225 Highland Trails Drive. The project would be co-located with an existing Verizon installation and the tree would not be visible from nearby roadways, said the representative for the project.
"The purpose of this site is to fill a coverage need," she said.
In another AT&T project, the carrier is proposing an unmanned wireless facility that would include a 65-foot-tall mono-pine at the rear of industrial-zoned property at 516 Maple St. The installation would be adjacent to Sprint and Cricket mono-poles.
There was no opposition to either cell tower at the meeting and both were unanimously approved by the planning group.


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COVINGTON, La., Sept. 29, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Globalstar, Inc. (NYSE American:GSAT) and IPmotion Inc. announced the formation of Globalstar Japan Inc. and the launch of commercial mobile satellite service at a press event today in Tokyo. Globalstar Japan will offer a suite of mobile satellite products and services with voice, data, asset monitoring, tracking and emergency S.O.S. capabilities for the consumer, enterprise and government markets. Globalstar Japan will showcase these products and services at CEATEC Japan 2017, October 3-6 (booth # S051-02 in US Pavilion).
Jay Monroe, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Globalstar commented, "With the launch of Globalstar service in Japan, we will offer our unique suite of products and services to one of the largest markets in the world and continue our growth into new international markets." He added, "We are looking forward to working with the team at IPmotion to bring our lifesaving technology to Japan where we will provide affordable and reliable voice and data communications as critical redundant services or as an extension to current cellular systems."
Globalstar is a leader in the satellite telecommunications industry servicing over 700,000 subscribers around the world and has produced a number of award winning products. Its SPOT family of devices is responsible for initiating over 5,300 rescues worldwide and continues to provide peace of mind to customers in over 120 countries.
Katsuaki Nishiura, CEO, Representative Director of IPmotion, commented, "Globalstar Japan will be the fourth mobile satellite service provider in Japan, and I am delighted to contribute to people's peace of mind and safety by offering the Globalstar suite of products. In Japan, where natural disasters such as earthquakes and typhoons frequently occur, Globalstar phones and their award-winning S.O.S enabled satellite personal tracking devices will be uniquely valuable." He added, "We are looking forward to being the exclusive provider of these much needed satellite devices and services. They will provide critical solutions for personal tracking and safety, IoT, and mobile satellite phones for both consumers and local companies with a global reach."
Globalstar Japan expects to receive type certification to sell its products in Japan in the coming weeks for the following products: Globalstar Satellite Phone 1700, Globalstar 2900, Globalstar SatFi, SmartOne B, SmartOne C, and SPOT Gen3 and SPOT Trace.
About Globalstar, Inc.Globalstar is a leading provider of mobile satellite voice and data services. Customers around the world in industries such as government, emergency management, marine, logging, oil & gas and outdoor recreation rely on Globalstar to conduct business smarter and faster, maintain peace of mind and access emergency personnel. Globalstar data solutions are ideal for various asset and personal tracking, data monitoring, SCADA and IoT applications. The Company's products include mobile and fixed satellite telephones, the innovative Sat-Fi satellite hotspot, Simplex and Duplex satellite data modems, tracking devices and flexible service packages.
Note that all SPOT products described in this press release are the products of SPOT LLC, which is not affiliated in any manner with Spot Image of Toulouse, France or Spot Image Corporation of Chantilly, Virginia.
About IPmotionFounded in 1997, IPmotion was established to contribute to society by providing valuable services as a trusted Information and Communications Technology (ICT) partner. In 2015, IPmotion was acquired and became a subsidiary of Imagica Robot Holdings Inc., (6879: Tokyo Stock Exchange). In addition to its current ICT business, IPmotion will add additional value by leveraging the video systems and broadcasting business expertise of the other Imagica group companies. These synergies will allow IPmotion and the Imagica group to drive business creation and economic development in Japan.
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I was completely turned off to using them, when I first heard about kettlebells in 2005. They were what MMA fighters used, and I wasn't into that scene, that genre. But the same reason I shied away, is the main reason I use them now, both for athletes I train and myself. But first, I had to get my head around why fighters need to train with them. Below, I'll explain a few things that I know for sure, about the bells.
Kettlebells build your strength from infinite angles, whereas dumbbells and barbells are more limited. When you hold a bell, the handle lets you lift it in any direction, from any angle, as opposed to one direction at one angle. Ultimately, this renders our traditional gym equipment as useless. Furthermore, our gym equipment serves to further decondition us, relying less on our ancillary muscles, less on our core, and this actually weakens us, as much as does an office chair (see the similarity….YOU ARE SITTING DOWN).
As a Coach and Trainer, I must follow the best people in the world when it comes to science. I follow Gray Cook, one of the foremost Physical Therapists of our time. He's a certified Russian Kettlebell Instructor. With Kettlebells, you are working the muscles out the opposite way as with traditional weights. With a clean and press, you use every muscle in the human body, muscles often being recruited for only a fraction of a second. You are working more with the endocrinology of the human body, and with the skeleton, the heart, the lungs, and it's pure athleticism. With weights, you target one or two main muscles, these muscles are contracted for 2-4 seconds for between 4 and 15 repetitions.
Using barbells daily breaks down your joints. Use them, but not daily. Insofar as you are holding a bar with two hands, you are loading and lifting that bar, the fact that it holds the opposite hand, arm, elbow and shoulder in one position, wearing the joints in the same place every time. Furthermore, the muscles, no longer working together, pull your body out of alignment, both with the contraction, and with subsequent muscle tightening. As kettlebells recruit all of the muscles at once, the way the body was designed to work, your skeleton is being pulled and pushed from multiple dynamic angles, agonists and antagonists both working more equally, which actually pulls your skeleton into better alignment, and away from harm.
Mixing kettlebells in with your strength training regimen, will give you tremendous strength gains in the short term and long term. When you switch from working out muscles one by one, to working out the entire body more naturally, the benefits are staggering. When your posture changes and corrects, your bodily organs sit inside of you more and more correctly, the way they were designed before you sat in that chair for 10-50 years. Then your organs start working with less stress on them – Go figure.
When we train arms in the weightroom, we train from the elbow up to the shoulder. But what about the rest? With kettlebells, you get tremendous grip strength that builds week by week, year by year. Why? Because you are both working all of the forearm muscles, and experiencing actual tendon hypertrophy (growth) in your arms, wrists and hands. Let's start using the other 64% of our arms…it's just good sense.
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Fun & Easy Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids
What are your favorite Thanksgiving Crafts to do as a family? Liz, from our iFamily Mom & Dad Squad shares a couple of hers! Take a look…
Fun & Easy Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids
You can never go wrong with hand printed or foot printed craft projects for Thanksgiving this year, especially if you plan on giving it to a loved one your kids are thankful for. These gifts will completely melt any grandparent or loved one's heart. Here are a couple of ideas for your kids to create this season that are easy to make and easy to clean up.
Hand & Footprint Turkey
Supplies: Fall inspired colors for the paints and craft paper, wipes to clean up, paint brushes, googly eyes, scissors and glue.
Start with yellow paint or the lightest color and coat one hand in paint. Firmly press down their hand to white paper, using your hand to steady those wiggly fingers. Wipe the hand off and do the same with the orange and red paint. Layer the hands in the same area to create turkey feathers. Set aside the handprints to dry.
After that clean up then move on to the feet. Lather your child's foot with brown paint and toes with orange paint and press their foot against the paper. Set aside footprint to dry.
Cut around the hand and footprints. Cut a red tear drop shape (for the waddle) and a triangle shape for the beak and then have your kiddos glue those together and add a googly eye to make the turkey face.
Simply glue the handprints to the back of the footprint. Either keep it as is or glue to another piece of paper having your kiddos sign their name.
Another fun idea is to make just one turkey for the entire family. Using each family members hand to make the turkeys feathers! Whatever you decide to do you just created an adorable craft to hang up for Thanksgiving or to give to someone you all love.
Thankful for Family
Supplies: Different colors of construction paper, 10 x 10 canvases,
12 x 12 piece of fabric and glue.
First lay the fabric on the canvas, wrap around the sides and glue down. Have each family member trace their hands in a different color construction paper. Start with dad's hand, than moms and the rest of the kid's hands from largest too small. Glue each one on top of the other one and finish off with a constructed turkey face. You now have a beautiful turkey full of color! Using sticker letters, puff paint or a fabric marker, write Thankful for Family on your canvas either above, below or around your family turkey!
As the crisp air continues to come in the next few weeks these projects will be the perfect crafts to keep your kids busy. Happy crafting!
From iFamily to Yours,


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TEL AVIV (Reuters) - A man sustained serious burns after he poured flammable liquid on himself and lit it, said police, at a protest on Saturday in Tel Aviv against the economic policies of Israel's conservative government.
"From what I understand, he claimed money had been taken from him. Obviously he did it for financial reasons, though further details are not yet clear," said police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld. He said the man was aged around 40.
The Tel Aviv demonstration marked the anniversary of the erection of a student-led squatter camp in Israel's economic hub which was followed by a string of wider public campaigns against the cost of living in the country.
Although Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has responded with initiatives meant to ease the burden on Israel's middle class, such as cheaper housing and more extensively subsidized education, some protestors complain of government foot-dragging.
Rosenfeld said a few thousand people had turned out for Saturday's demonstration, compared to the hundreds of thousands who attended some of the biggest protests last year.
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The cats need you! Whether you can help only as your schedule permits or on a regular basis, we look forward to meeting you and sharing with you the good work we do for the cats.
If you are interested in volunteering, please attend a Volunteer Orientation session. You'll learn about Trap-Neuter-Return and how you can make a real difference for the cats in our community!
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Are you under 16 and interested in helping community cats? Here are some ideas:
- Tell all of your friends about Alley Cat Advocates and collect items from our wishlist to help community cats.
- Create an online fundraiser with your own story and photos where your friends and families can support community cats.
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Discussion in 'FaceBook' started by Roryn, Sep 22, 2012.
Hello, I would like to know how to increase a personal page's edgerank.
Well first of all, you must understand how the FB's edgerank works. There are several things that helps your edgerank to increase, but usually they depend on the following: The weight of shares & comments vs likes, how much/often is the user interacting with your page, how much it stays in there and participates; posting consistently is a key factor in many means. If you can't post daily, and you already have some (over 1k fans), simply put out a message that you are looking for content uploaders. You won't believe that there are people who would actually do that, some of them doesn't even know how to create a page, but you would give them the 'touch of a God' chance, so they will do it. For example I have 4 content uploaders on a FB of mine, and it gets updated with pictures and stuff, on a daily basis, without me even touching it. But that's another subject, and to get on-topic I would say that having daily content makes your page being seen by a larger and larger audience every day.
Try to discover what your fans are really into! For that, go to insights on your FB page, and check the numbers of Engaged Users for every post (picture, text, vid w/e) you made. Obviously, the more engaged users a post has, the more attention it gets (you don't say xD) But try to discover a pattern or several factors that made your fans get more into those posts. What did those popular posts had, and the others didn't? And then it comes the 'Talking about this' chart where it shows you how many people interacted by action on your page (sharing some of your pictures, liking a status update, leaving a comment etc) and it doesn't resume only to what happens inside you page. How come? Well check the viral reach chart. It refers to how many other people that aren't your fans yet, saw one of your posts that was shared, liked, comment~ by his friend (which is your fan). When they contribute as fan outsiders, by liking/commenting some pic or sharing it further, both your 'Talking about this' AND 'Viral reach' charts increase. Which ultimately will bring you more popularity -> more fans -> edgerank increase.
Now don't rely only on the fact that more fans = edgerank increase, this is wrong. Actually it's just a part of the entire process to increase your edgerank, so its true, but don't rely only on getting fans, because I'm sure many of you while reading this, would think that getting fake fans from addmefast alike sites, will increase your edgerank.
HOWEVER: A lot of likes aren't weight the same as comments and shared by the Facebook algorithm. All 3 are users interactions, but it's more simple to like something than to actually comment or even share. It's evaluating the user's affinity (mutual interaction for both sides) and your post's age. Don't expect that someone will see on his Newsfeed on 23 November, something posted on your page on 4th March (although it's not impossible). These parameters are summed up by the algorithm and results in the % of exposure to your fans newsfeed. So don't think that if you have 50k fans, and you post something, everyone will see it. But you can work your way to get the much as you can out of this.
Overall, your posts should contain/or add (even in description) something interactive, that will trigger your audience to share, comment, like etc. Hope this helps, Roryn.
Thank you! It really helped!
But how affinity with someone decreases? If I post too much things in a day, if someone didnt like or comment in one of the things, his affinity with me will decrease?
I usually post relevant small business articles to facebook but when advertising my own business on facebook my main call to action is for small business owners to see how much capital they could qualify for based on the current performance of their businesses.
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I see by the papers where two dozen Maryland prison inmates will be trained to answer telephones when tourists call the state's toll-free number for information about sights, special events, restaurants and other attractions here in the Land of Pleasant Living. I like this idea. It's almost perfect.
First of all, it's economical. It involves institutional peonage, a concept whose time has certainly come. Why should the state pay some private company to have operators standing by when we have hundreds of inmates already sitting by, 24 hours a day, in jail cells across the state? At a buck a day per inmate, it's a bargain.
And who's to know? When tourists call for travel information, they won't know they are speaking with a criminal -- unless, of course, a bunch of inmates start howling "Death to pigs!" or rattle tin cups against the bars of their cells.


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Friday, June 8, 2012
But I love Facebook for non-stalkerish reasons, too. It allows me to stay in touch with my step-brother in a way I could't otherwise, with a window into his daily life and the ability to watch his kid grow up. It gives me the chance to be in touch with people that I miss, but live far away. It also lets me stay connected with people that I like, fine, but don't need to see for drinks every week.
I love Facebook so much I even like Timeline. I know.
Clearly I'm all in favor of Facebook. But you have to do it right. If you just leave all your settings alone, people like me, with whom you are perhaps not even friends, can sit down with a drink and peruse YOUR photos and posts and stuff.
So watch this video, and then DO what it says. Keep your shit private and enjoy the awesomeness that is Facebook in peace, knowing that creepy pervs aren't ogling that photo of you in a bikini that your "friend" put on your wall after your trip to Vegas :)
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at 1:51 where you talking about who sees tag suggestions... when I go to that Tagging part of may page, it says that the option is 'Unavailable' to me. WTF?!
This is a GREAT video btw. Sharing it far and wide.
Maybe even to Sweden ;)
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Luckey Roberts - stride pianist, composer (1887 - 1968)
He was Harlem's original piano powerhouse, the king of the New York Fast Shout pianists, the grandfather of stride piano. The name Luckey Roberts has become little more than a footnote in the pages of jazz history books. The names of his students are better known today than the master whom they worshipped. And what a list of disciples it is. These musicians include such luminaries as Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, James P Johnson, Eubie Blake, Willie The Lion Smith and last but not least George Gershwin.
Luckey Roberts was born on August 7, 1887 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After working in vaudeville as a child, Roberts moved to New York where he established a minor reputation as a composer and a major one as a performer of "Rags" and later "Stride" piano.Read more


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Your Wedding day is the most important day of your life and my desire is to photograph it in a way that is creative, emotional and brings out the love that is portrayed on this special occasion.
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text: Best Of E3 Awards Spotlights Mario, Rabbids, And More Mario Spotlights : It's been two weeks since E3 2017 wrapped up and shut its doors, and now the official awards and lists are rolling out for various games. The official Game Critics Awards compiled a list of games that were nominated during their display at this year's event, and a lot of those nominationss went to Mario, the Rabbids… and more Mario. The complete list of the awards are detailed over on the Game Critics Awards website, where there's a…Read More


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The Port of Prince Rupert and DP World announced a significant milestone in the ongoing expansion of Fairview Container Terminal.
The Phase II North container terminal expansion project, launched in the first quarter of 2015, is now more than 75 per cent complete and is on schedule to increase annual capacity at Prince Rupert's container terminal to over 1.35 million TEUs by the third quarter of 2017. The $820-million project is #58 on the 2016 Top100 Projects list.
"Prince Rupert's container business has experienced rapid growth since the opening of Fairview Container Terminal. This project is the continued evolution of our fast and reliable trans-Pacific service," said Don Krusel, president & CEO of the Port of Prince Rupert. "The expansion of our intermodal operations answers growing interest from North American shippers that are capitalizing on the Prince Rupert advantage."
Fairview Container Terminal anchors one of the west coast's most efficient trade lanes, served by CN's North American Class 1 railroad, providing extensive reach into major markets in Canada and United States. The expanded terminal will include a second deep-water berth, three additional gantry cranes, and land reclamation to further expand the container yard. On-dock rail capacity will also be expanded by densifying the current track configuration, which will be supported by a rubber-tired gantry crane operation.
"Prince Rupert's success has been driven by its unparalleled geographical position on the Trans-Pacific trade route, high terminal productivity, and consistent low dwell times that have sustained despite our significant growth in throughput over the past two years," said Maksim Mihic, general manager of DP World (Canada) Inc. "Strong relationships with our partners ILWU locals, Port of Prince Rupert and CN Rail have resulted in a reliable and competitive service for our customers."
The next significant milestone for the project is expected in March 2017 with the arrival of three Malacca-max dock gantry cranes to make Prince Rupert big ship ready. Each crane is equipped with a reach of 25 containers wide and is capable of working the largest vessels in the world with a carrying capacity of 20,000- plus TEUs.


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In which I begin work in the Semantic Web
One of the blessings of living in Austin – and it's important to remember them this time of year when you feel your eyeballs melting out when you step into mid-afternoon sun – is its legacy of work in machine learning and AI. Here we have a very active interest group, Semantic Web Austin run by Juan Sequeda, who has, over the last year or so, brought some very visible researchers in Semantic Web to town to teach hands-on tutorials.
If the concept of "Semantic Web" is foreign to you, let me try to capture its essence succinctly. Presently one can conceive of the Web as a web of documents: presentation and data are represented as web pages. My web document points to Ryan's document and Lauren's document. Now imagine a resume on the Web. This resume is a series of facts (and gross exaggerations ;) ), these have nothing per se to do with the document construct you learn from books called a resume – the thing with a name at the top, horizontal rules under section headings, etc. that, purportedly, employers like to read. Non-human examiners of my resume web page care only about the facts, not the prettiness of the artifact. Thus, the Semantic Web is one in which meaningful data is presented (as a resume) for humans, but also presented (as the essential facts of the resume) for machines such that relationships between the various data can be utilized by semantically-aware web applications.
Both Tom Heath and Peter Mika gave great presentations full of ideas and hands-on activities to the Semantic Web Austin group. From Tom I learned the basics of RDF, the language for enumerating data-facts to machines, and how to build a basic RDF document. Peter showed us RDFa and illustrated that HTML and RDF data can be written into the same document. That was a "whoa" moment for me.
Because I hadn't had a chance to integrate these lessons from the SemWeb Austin sessions, my understanding was a bit shaky. The only way, I decided, to actually figure this out was to find a project that would give me opportunity to work with these respective ideas.
About this time my yearly review concluded and I was about to update my resume, an activity I exhort you to do after reviews. Yet resume-writing had always irritated me: writing a document and then trying to port it to various formats, and then Mithras help you if you need to "skew" these documents to particular employers quickly.
Thus I decided I needed to write my resume in some sort of meta-language so that I could publish to both LaTeX and HTML and "skew" to particular employers quickly. This was the goal of m4resume.
The output is Steven Harms XHTML+RDFa resume. If you're interested in how I learned RDFa well enough to be able to embed it into XHTML, and are curious how I was able to disintegrate that into a series of M4 macros, you may want to read on in this exceedingly technical post. Oh by the way, this very post also has an RDF / Semantic Web payload: check it out.
Phase 1: Get familiar with the RDF specifications
There is really no way around it, you need to get familiar and comfortable with the RDF and RDFa specifications. I wound up needing to consult them so often that I created local copies (for offline access). If you:
git clone git://github.com/sgharms/m4resume.git
you will be given the default 'master' branch. If you want to view the branch that generates my resume, execute:
git checkout -b demo origin/sgharms_example
you'll find my reference documentations in m4resume/reference in your freshly created "demo" branch. You'll want to read:
- RDF Primer.webarchive
- notes from rdf primer.txt
This should give you familiarity with the basic terms, and hopefully my notes should give you a few salient summation points. My notes are in the "notes from rdf primer.txt" file
Build validating RDF documents
At this point, I spent a lot of time playing with the W3C's RDF Validator. If I've learned anything about writing things that produce other things, it's very helpful to produce the thing you want, so that you can test whether your producing thing actually produces something identical.
As such, I wrote out my resume by hand, in RDF. I slowly built it up block by block in RDF/XML and fed it through the validator.
I took advantage of a number of ontologies:
I basically paged through them, found attributes and relationships I wanted to express in the RDFResume and integrated them. The following two documents, again in the $GITROOT/reference directory, provided the information I needed
ResumeRDF Ontology Specification.webarchive
Protip: Don't underestimate the value of using the graph output from the validator. If you mean for something to be connected, this tool will quickly show you if it's not. If you notice arrows pointing back to themselves (as I did), you can be assured you're not doing what you want.
Once I got this far it was a major milestone. I can't say how thankful I am for git in helping me branch quickly, integrate working bits, and roll back any mistakes. Given the frequency of iteration in development, I'd say that a good source code tool is a must as is a good editor (nothing new there).
Embed RDF into XHTML, thus making RDFa
Now that you have working RDF your battle is half-won, you need to integrate it into XHTML. This is defined in the XHTML+RDFa DTD. Here were the sources that I used to make an RDFa-ized version of the RDF-Resume (again, in $GITROOT/reference).
RDFa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.webarchive
RDFa Primer.webarchive
RDFa Use Cases: Scenarios for Embedding RDF in HTML.webarchive
RDFa for HTML Authors.webarchive
RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing.webarchive
Tip Use rdf about and rdf ID effectively in RDF XML.webarchive
My "notes…txt" file also has my notes that I extracted chiefly from the first two links.
The process here is a bit more complex. First you take the XHTML+RDFa document and pass it through the W3C's RDFa distiller. Thereafter, you make take that distilled RDF/XML data and put it into the aforementioned RDF validator (that also makes the pretty graph!). Through many (many!) iterations of this process things, I eventually produced a valid XHTML+RDFa resume.
Now, if you are sane you stop here, you enjoy life with your semantically marked up resume. I, however, am not sane. And decided, you'll recall, to generate a beautifully LaTeX-formatted resume as well as this XHTML+RDFa resume. You have the benefit of being able to crib from my m4resume project.
Why M4?
First question, why M4? It was written in the early 60's, has arcane syntax, and, in the words of one SWiK IRC-er: "does anyone use M4 for any serious programming anymore?" Here was my thinking…
First, I come from a Sendmail admin background, so knowing M4 (sorta) is not an optional thing for me so the syntax wasn't that baffling for me to get into.
Second, M4 also has the ability to be entirely self-contained: no libraries, no external dependenices, no gems (despite the very generous leg-up Dave Coupland tried to give my stubborn self – he underestimated my block-headedness).
Third, it's philosophically sexy. I have a philosophy degree and holders of this are not the most pragmatically-minded people. There's something very attractive about this example of m4 code.
The above makes sure definitions don't get put on the output stream,
we're going to define there macros below.
define(`bar', `BAR')
define(`FOOBAR', `M4 all the way down')
Next, we'll get back on the main output stream
"M4's philosophical coolness BEGIN"
dnl Put a closing "tag" in a buffer, handy if M4 needs to generate markup
"The End!"
dnl You don't need the following, the temporary 2 buffer is
dnl automatically dumped
Because of the simple stream-based replace, it allows you to embed the following in your sources
do_rdfa',more metadata',
less metadata)')
Lastly because of its recursion friendly design, M4 feels a lot more like programming a text-stream editing LISP. Unlike imperative paradigms, you don't have to know how many iterations, you just let expansions happen until they don't and then drop that out STDOUT. That was attractive to me. M4 is tail-recursion capable so all the iteration you need is there and there are enough decision structures to allow rich application logic. How often are you going to be tweaking your resume?
That said, if I ever rewrite this with a specific eye towards RDFa, I would think about using Ruby objects effectively mapping to RDF/XML blocks. Live and learn.
As I said above, the 'master' branch contains only the basics required to generate a simple resume. If you want to see a more involved example, and get a sense of what M4 is able to do, check out (pun!) the sgharms_example branch.


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Meaford is the location of our August meeting. Note that the meeting is starting at a different time.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 6 p.m. Meaford -- Meaford Museum & Meaford Hall
At 6 p.m. join us for a guided tour of Meaford's historical pump house, now the charming Meaford Museum
At 7:15 p.m. regroup at the Terrace Room at Meaford Hall. Marjorie Davison will provide a detailed account of some eminent women of Grey County: Alice Clement (1st woman mayor in Grey and Bruce Counties), Grace Lambe (entrepreneur and owner of Grandma Lambe's) and Retta Gifford Kilborn (medical missionary to China).
Directions to the Meaford Museum from Trowbridge St. and Sykes St. North, turn towards the water and follow to Bayfield St. Turn left, follow to 111 Bayfield St.
Meaford Hall is located at the corner of Nelson and Sykes. If the room designation is changed, there will be a sign indicating this change.
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Contact coordinator: Paula Niall 519-372-0225
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August meeting is at Meaford.
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Read our Strategic Plan here.
Pleiades is an incredible network of women doing crucial work to create a more sustainable world. While we represent fairly diverse career fields, our membership does not reflect the ethnic and racial diversity of the U.S., let alone the rest of the world. We want to change that.
It's more important than ever that we connect and build networks with a broad spectrum of women. As a board, we are looking for ways to connect with organizations run by and for diverse women leaders. We also need to recruit more women into Pleiades who come from under-represented backgrounds, especially women of color.
Please note, we construe the term "diversity" very broadly. While we are highlighting the need to bring in more non-white women, we're eager to recruit women who vary widely in terms of their culture, religion and sexual identity.
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"Rapelay", a Japenese video game, was recently pulled from Web sites such as Amazone and eBay, but anti-violence advocates are shocked it's still available for download elsewhere.
In Rapelay, gamers direct a character to sexually assault a mother and her two young daughters at an underground station, before raping any of a selection female characters.
The game was intended for release just in Japan, but was on offer to British buyers through Amazon Marketplace, the section of the online store's website open to third-party sellers.
Amazon withdrew the game after complaints from users, deeming it to be inappropriate. "We determined that we did not want to be selling this particular item," a spokeswoman said.
Rapelay was developed by the Japanese production house Illusion, which makes a number of sexually violent games for the domestic market. Their other titles include "Battle Raper" and "Artificial Girl".
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Guess I don't even understand why you posted this?
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Introduction to the Primary Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse (2013) This resource document includes content on CSA dynamics, primary prevention framework, national reviews of programming, and key highlights from WA Statewide Assessment.
Exploration of Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Efforts in Washington State (2013). In this report, we summarize our findings from research reviews, national reports, and a Statewide survey and focus groups. We use these findings to present future directions of CSA Primary Prevention efforts here in Washington.
"Youth Activity Guide for Advocates and Preventionists" (2016). The purpose of this Activity Guide is to provide a menu of activities and discussions for advocates working with child survivors of sexual assault and for prevention programs for young children. The target age group for this installment is 5-12 years old.
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Information Packet (2011). This information packet was developed by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center for sexual violence prevention educators, advocates, and their allied partners in public health and other disciplines.
Brochures to Give to Parents & Caregivers
"A Safer Family. A Safer World. A Resource for Parents and Caregivers of Children 0-12 on Preventing Child Sexual Abuse" (2015). This fun resource developed by the Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress gives talking points about healthy sexuality, consent, boundaries, touching, challenging society's messages, watching for signs of abuse and what to do when abuse does occur. Available in 10 languages.
It's Time... To Talk to Your Children About Healthy Sexuality (2012). These tri-fold brochures are a great item to give to parents! Inside parents can find out about healthy sexual development for children, why it is important to talk to children about sexuality, and tips for having these conversations. Available in multiple languages.
Start the Conversation / Inicie la conversación. This resource can be given to parents or other concerned community members about child sexual abuse. Available as a PDF in English and Spanish.
Stop It Now! This website has various resources and tools to help community members, parents, and professionals learn about the issue of child sexual abuse and take action to prevent it.
Preventing Child Sexual Abuse Online Resource Collection from the National Sexual violence Resource Center
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- Sideshow is proud to present the next addition to the Masters of the Universe statue collection, She-Ra!
Sideshow's artists have reimagined She-Ra, the Princess of Power, to honor her in 1:5 scale. The Princess of Power stands about 20" tall and is dressed in intricate armor in her signature white and gold colors. The regal detail of her garb display radiates grace and power, reminding you that She-Ra is the Most Powerful Woman in the Universe.
Project Manager Mike Tolentino said: "She-Ra's costume and environment are very bright, very composed. This is a deliberate contrast to our He-Man, whose costume is weathered and whose base is a bit darker. They look stunning sitting alongside each other, and will make a great addition to our collection."
For her dazzling ensemble, She-Ra wears a winged headpiece over her sculpted blond locks, which flow elegantly behind her to give the piece a sense of movement. Her arms are shielded by patterned gauntlets, and her white dress has matching texture as well. She-Ra also comes with a removable red cloth cape with gold trim and built-in wiring for dynamic display options.
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The Princess of Power wears tall white boots wrapped in gold swirls, which add lightness to her step. She-Ra poses on her pedestal base, which is adorned with translucent crystals, wrapped in a complementary gold to match her intricate armor. Approaching her enemies, She-Ra grips her Sword of Protection, ready to come to the aid of Eternia.
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A man was shot and seriously wounded on the South Side this afternoon, a fire official said.
The man, 60, was shot in the back about 4:30 p.m. near 51st Street and King Drive in the Washington Park neighborhood, said Larry Langford, a spokesman for the Chicago Fire Department.
The man taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, Langford said.
Chicago police were called to the scene near 51st Street and Calumet Avenue -- just west of where fire officials said the victim was found -- just after 4:20 p.m., said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Daniel O'Brien.
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Sydney Morning Herald Form Guide : November 28th 2008
2 the form Friday, November 28, 2008 Next TAB Jackpot Saturday 6th December. INDEX The Form THEFormisnowthe world's best, most comprehensive newspaper racing guide. Get it free only with a copy of The Sydney Morning Herald, the Illawarra Mercury or the Newcastle Herald at the newsstands. HOMEDELIVERIES If you get the paper homedelivered just ring1300888672and we'll deliver it for free so you don't miss an issue. Also you can email: firstname.lastname@example.com The Form. Free. The columns Max Presnell ................................................Page 2 Race Focus ..................................................Page 3 Harness racing ..........................................Page 34 Greyhounds ...............................................Page 35 Bloodlines ............................................ Page 34-35 Saturday's racing ¦ NSW Provincial (Newcastle) .....Page 4 ¦ Sydney (Randwick) ...................Page 5 ¦ Melbourne (Moonee Valley) ... 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Of course, theDoc, a group 1- winning trainerandconcerned enthusiast, reckonedthe best prescriptionfor betting exchanges – evenbeforeBetfair got a toe-hold inTasmania –was to start our own at a timewhenracing adminis- tratorsandTABswailedabout it, figuringhot airwas the remedy. ''Thederby situationback inthe 1970swas regardedas a gentle- man's agreement:Melbourne couldhavethe spotlightinthe spring andSydney the autumn,'' hedeclared. ''But theMelbourne clubshavekeptonchipping away at the autumn. . .'' Somuchfor a gentleman's agreement,whichis a cog above a politician'spromise. Melbourne doesn't believe in sittingpat,nomatterhowcomfort- able its situation,which is the strength of its spring carnival, whichcontinues to improve. Generally, switching the race for young, staying three-year-olds fromthe spring to the autumnhas beenregardedas amasterstroke by theAustralianJockeyClub, but enthusiasmforSydney racing has suffered.TheAJCDerbyplusthe early two-year-olds' races, the Breeders'Plate andGimcrack Stakes,weremajor attractions. Alas theSydney replacement for the derby, theSpringChampion Stakes over the shorter2000m, hasn't the samecharisma andthe two-year-olds' scene has changed due to theGoldenSlipper and MagicMillions. NowtheSydney springisno more thanaworthwhileprelim to the southernmainevent. However, our horses, trainers and jockeys generally remainstronger thanMelbourne's. Infact,mostautumns compare favourablywithdownsouth in the springinareasother thanadminis- Memorable ...DonEduardo andDamienOliver win the2002AJCAustralian Derby. Photo: Simon Alekna tration.Majorevents suchas the AJCDerby,Doncaster,Queen ElizabethStakes,AJCOaksand T.J. Smithmorethancomparewith their southerncapital counterparts. ''Intheprovisional ratings theTJ Smithis thehighest of last season,'' ColTuck, the long-timeAustralian Jockey Club racingmanager, commented, adding that themore recently introducedRandwick Guineaswas the top-rating race for three-year-olds. EasterSaturdays have featured manymemorableDoncaster- Derbydays atRandwick.Tuck mentionedDonEduardo's thrilling success inthe2002 classic plus the mightySunline winning themajor metricmileunder58kg. ''Andwhat aboutSuper Impose takinghis fourth feature mile atRandwick in the [1991]Doncaster,'' he added. So justwhyhas theMelbourne spring surgedso far ahead? ''Melbournehasn't got the same competitionin the spring from other sports asSydneyhas inthe autumn,''Tuckpointedout. WhentheAJCDerbywas switched after Belmura Ladscored in1977, I recallBert Lillye, one of the great turf writers,predicting: ''Wewon't get the samerunat Easter aswedidin the spring.'' Hemeant it fromanewspaper pointof viewbut it's true.Overall, though, the autumnderby is superior. ''It's amaturederbywith more chances,''Tuckstressed. Yet great horseswonthe spring derby atRandwick.Spring or autumn,most years, it's a better race thantheVictoriaRacing Club's equivalent. Still, thetwomajorpoints for theMelbourne spring are thenew Flemingtongrandstandandthe shuttle-service stayerswhichhave givennewlife to theMelbourne Cup,not because of their strike rate but their presence. ''Racing has garneredmore exposure fromthe overseashorses,particularly on thenewspages,''Tuck said. Still, the grandstandandoverall Flemingtonfacilities are amajor factor.Racegoers canenjoy the action inthe best possible conditions.By comparison Randwick is fading andmore like a Gulargambonedunny. Melbourne administrationhas continuedtogoforward.Sydney andNSWracing has beenforced intomediocrity, at best, by sub- standard control.Take a bow, Labor governments, andtheir appointments. WhileNSW stumbles towardsome sort of controlling body,Victoria iswork- ing onfinetuning the spring. Despite the recent success, other options reportedly being considered are: a night-timeCox Plate; a 3200-metre race at Sandown on the Sunday after the AFL grand final; the BendigoCup replacing the Eclipse Stakes meeting, part of a bumper countrymeeting instead of Sandown; and, five days aweek summer night circuit. Meanwhile, inSydney the care- taker government ofRacingNSW is trying to finda suitabledate in the autumnforDoncaster-Derby dayatRandwick.Nowitwould seemitisgoing to be treatedlikea floating craps game. Good men but has the obvious been overlooked? IT'S difficult to believe, on form grounds, that the three wise men– his honour Barrie Thorley AM,the honourable Ian Armstrong OBE, and Des Gleeson – were the first choice for the demanding task of selecting the new, independent board of RacingNSW. Nodoubt Thorley is a fine fellow with a wonderful knowledge of law but to consider that experience gleaned from the Racing Appeals Tribunal and Greyhound and Harness Racing Appeals Tribunal gives him any great insight for the future of a seriously blightedNSWracing industry is surprising. HadhishonourMichael McHugh, the former High Court judge,beengiven the task it wouldhavebeenadifferent matter. Apartfromhis legal credentials,McHughhasa punter's grasp of racing.Oneof the keenest turf analysts, McHughisanenthusiastwho goesto the races, therefore is briefed regularlyonthe trialsand tribulations within the industry. Armstrongwasaturn-up for the bookmakers. Whilewewere cringing at the thought ofaLabor hackgettingaposition,hecomes fromthe oppositebenches havingbeenthe statememberof Lachlan, National Party leader anddeputy premier.Wewere toldhehadvarious ministerial andshadowportfolios, including racing.Youcouldhavefooledme. I don't recall having heard his namementionedonturf matters. If the appointeeswerelooking forapoliticalmoverandshaker, howwasJohnBrown, the desktop exponent, bypassed.He played for the Liberals in the Big League during whichhe orchestratedsomefinemoves for racing. Brown, too, isa punterandracecourse regular. Onmatters of reasonheshone, leaving the Bulldogswhenthey bypassed Johnathan Thurston foralesser talent, feeling that judgement like that could have been contagious. Gleeson, the former Victorian chief steward, scores highlyon twopoints: foraconvivial drink hehasfewpeers nor didanybody continue the tradition of stewards wearing hats better than he.Yetmuchimportance wasplacedonhis overseeing ''the transformation of the Victoria stewards toa professional integrity services ...'' I would suggest in those categoriesNSWhas always led the way. WasJohn Schreck, the formerAJCchief steward with considerable international experience, considered? Schreck got his hands dirty over integrity matters such as the ''Jockey Tapes'' and the Fine Cotton case.Maybehewas overqualified.
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Sonata for Euphonium and Strings (2002)
This work was composed for the Euphonium virtuoso Michael Howard, and premiered in November 2002 in the Chapel at Magdalen College School, Brackley, under the baton of Stephen Ellery. The original scoring is for Euphonium (Bb Tenor Tuba) with Strings (without Double Bass) and Glockenspiel, however the inclusion of Double Bass is preferable.
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Instrumentation: Euphonium (Bb Tenor Tuba), Glockenspiel, Violins 1 & 2, Violas, Cellos, Double Bass (ad lib.)
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