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What can shaky Charlotte Hornets defense do to get its collective head back in game?
The Charlotte Hornets are coming off another shaky defensive performance. And now along comes Devin Booker.
The Hornets, who continue to tread water in 11th place in the NBA's Eastern Conference – still 3.5 games out of the eighth and final playoff spot with 12 regular-season games remaining – lost 112-105 against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday, allowing the NBA champions to make 55.4 percent of their shots.
That same night, Booker, a 6-foot-6 shooting guard, was scoring 70 points for the Phoenix Suns in a 130-120 loss to Boston – the most an opposing player has ever scored against the Celtics.
And while the Phoenix team surrounding Booker will never be mistaken for the supporting cast LeBron James has in Cleveland, the Suns' arrival for a Sunday matinee at Spectrum Center will certainly have the attention of Hornets coach Steve Clifford.
Defense continues to be the part of the Hornets' overall game that confounds Clifford. As he has after so many games since the Hornets' fast start back in November, he pinned Friday's loss against the Cavs on a defense that wasn't necessarily lacking in physical effort. It was more between the ears.
It's certainly not coaching, it's all execution by the players.
Hornets forward Marvin Williams
"We just made too many mistakes," Clifford said. "That's it. Period. (We struggled with) rotations, mistakes and things that you have to be able to do to beat a team like that. The effort was there, obviously, we had plays we had to make there at the end (and) we didn't make them. They did.
"At the end of the day, to win these games, again, we can fix it (in practice). We've got to be better defensively. We've got to be smarter. We've got to be smarter with the basic stuff, smarter, all the time."
Clifford pointed to Cleveland's ability to run its pick-and-roll offense, particularly between James and Kevin Love, during the fourth quarter.
"(The way) our team is put together … our strength would be our intelligence," Clifford said. "That only works if you take advantage of it and (we) just made too many mistakes."
Clifford and his assistants presumably have spent plenty of time watching film of Booker's epic performance against the Celtics. He made 21-of-40 shots (including 4-of-11 from 3-point range) and was 24-of-26 from the free-throw line.
The Cavs loss snapped a three-game winning streak by the Hornets.
"It's certainly not coaching, it's all execution by the players," Hornets forward Marvin Williams said of the team's defensive shortcomings. "Cliff and his staff do a tremendous job putting together a game plan for us. They watch a ton of film. They're always prepared. They always have us prepared.
"It's on us as players to go out there and execute the game plan. We've had some rough times this season, that will happen sometimes throughout the course of a season, but as of late we've been playing really well. We've got to continue to do that."
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In case you missed last week's edition of the Jacksonville Observer Radio Show with Tom Patton, we've got it available for you to download!
Our guest for the bulk of the hour was local political consultant Jim Varian, who has built a brand as a fixture of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Varian has worked on numerous local campaigns and knows the business of politics from the inside out.
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- David Judge In collaboration with the Eden Project, working on their upcoming exhibition Invisible Worlds.
- Elena Milani Vaccine images used for advocacy that are shared among Twitter networks.
- Achintya Rao Exploration of factors that shape attitudes towards outreach within the particle physics research community. Funded by the CERN Doctoral Student Programme.
- Andy Ridgway Exploring ways to change food waste behaviour in family households with children in the UK.
- Wilasinee Tryiyarat (completed 2017) Factors affecting engagement with informal science learning in Thailand: A regional perspective. Funded by the Royal Thai Government – Director of Studies: Dr Clare Wilkinson, Second Supervisor: Dr Emma Weitkamp.
- Supara Kamolpattana (completed 2016) Science Museum Explainer Training: Exploring factors that influence visitor-explainer interactions. Funded by the Royal Thai Government – Director of Studies: Dr Clare Wilkinson, Second Supervisor: Professor Neil Willey, Third Supervisor: Dr Karen Bultitude.
- Helena Wythe (completed 2016) Meeting food hygiene challenges in older people: Mobilising health assets for health promotion. Funded by University of the West of England, Bristol – Director of Studies: Dr Emma Weitkamp, Second Supervisor: Professor Judy Orme, Third Supervisor: Dr Clare Wilkinson, Forth Supervisor: Dr Lucy Meredith.
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In a typical foreign exchange transaction, one party buys a quantity of one currency by paying a quantity of another currency. There are always two currencies involved in any transaction. Each currency pair (e.g. USDCAD or USD/CAD) is an individual traded product, where USD and CAD are the ISO three-letter code of the currencies involved. The base currency (USD) is quoted relative to the quote currency (CAD). For instance, the quotation USDCAD (USD/CAD) 1.0547 is the price of the USD expressed in Canadian dollars, meaning 1 USD = 1.0547 Canadian dollars. This is for buying US dollars by paying Canadian dollars or for selling US dollars for Canadian dollars.
Same rule applies to other currency pairs like GBP/JPY or EUR/GBP, each representing a forex product. For example, when one buys 100 euros by paying 133.23 US dollars, a USD/EUR pair is traded.
While there are many currencies in the world and all of them exchange hands in some quantity, there are major currencies that dominate the forex markets. Below is a table of world's most traded currencies with daily share. The total of all currencies is 200% as every transaction involves a pair of currencies.
Most brokers allow you to trade a major currency (e.g. USD, EUR, GBP) with any currency in the list directly. But you cannot always trade small currencies (e.g. NZD) with another small one (e.g. SEK) directly. However, this kind of trade is always possible through a major currency. For example, if you want to use NZD to buy SEK, you could use your NZD to buy EUR first and then use EUR to buy SEK. Note that this involves two transactions, hence will incur double the transaction cost (which could be a fixed amount, a small percentage of the transaction amount).
The first currency appearing in a currency pair is called the "Base Currency". Historically, base currency is the stronger currency when the pair is created. Since the inception of Euro, it is required by European Central Bank that all currency pairs with Euro should use Euro as base currency (i.e. listed as the first currency).
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text: Share: Comments Print April 9, 2009 at 10:17 AM Has Wells Fargo staged a turnaround for the banking sector? Posted by Jon Talton Top of the News: As we check out Wells Fargo's unexpectedly strong earnings announcement today, let's see what is is…and what it is not. It seems to confirm that Wells is an unusually well-run institution compared against the admittedly low bar of American money center banks. It never got as deep into the swamp of subprime mortgages and other junk as its peers. Management was consistently more conservative (and, again, the bar is pretty low here). The earnings news does not clearly signal a recovery of the banking sector. Even Wells risks projecting too much optimism — it hasn't really absorbed the financial death star that is Wachovia. At that former banking giant, a great institution run into the ground on subprime gambles, most of the huge layoffs have yet to fall in its very vulnerable headquarters city of Charlotte. Crosstown rival Bank of America faces continued weakness across the board, especially from its misbegotten merger with Merrill Lynch (Marry in haste, repent at leisure). Wells is trumpeting its big mortgage share gain from Wachovia, but it will be interesting to see how it manages Wachovia's troubles. (And Wells is a TARP recipient, $25 billion of your money). In addition, as most Americans have learned to their dismay in the past year, we don't really have a "banking industry" that underpins the economy in the old-fashioned way. America, much more than Europe, depends on the broader capital markets — everything from mutual funds and investment bank speculation to the powerful, unregulated shadow banking system. It's the capital markets that are sick and in need of repair, and Wells' earnings give us no indication they are on the mend. And "on the mend" won't be good if they return to the dangerous "privatize the profits and socialize the risk" models that caused the meltdown. The Back Story: Some of yesterday's seeming cranks are today's wise men. Take Kevin Phillips, the former Republican strategist who for years warned of the dangers of the increasing role of the financial sector in the economy. He has some provocative things to say on "disaster financialization" at Talking Points Memo, and on the prospects for inflation. Also, check out the site Global Guerrillas, where Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan, lays out common sense ways to make the financial system safer and sounder. Today's Econ Haiku: A light, a tunnel Surely that beam's a good sign Unless it's a train Comments | More in Bailout, Banking


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Wiley Wiggins In Conversation With Brandon Hobson
Wiley Wiggins is an American actor who appeared in such films as Dazed and Confused, Waking Life, and several independent films including Computer Chess. He currently is a co-organizer of an organization called Juegos Rancheros, located in Austin, Texas, where he lives. Juegos Rancheros showcases different independent videogames from around the world at a monthly meet up and at various cultural events such as film festivals. I had a chance to talk with Wiley recently. You can watch him chase cows and find more info about him at his website: www.wileywiggins.com – or follow him on Twitter @wileywiggins. —Brandon Hobson
Brandon Hobson: Do you still keep in touch with director Richard Linklater?
Wiley Wiggins: Yeah, I see him occasionally at Austin film functions.
BH: How did you first meet him? I know you were young. Did you audition for Dazed and Confused?
WW: I met him during the auditions. His co-producer met me outside a coffee shop, passing out fliers to kids to come audition. I was 15.
BH: What was he like?
WW: Good-natured. Rick was really protective and supportive of me as a kid, long after the movie was finished. We used to go on little trips to the local alternative bookstore together. I think he was worried that having been in a movie would alter my life for the worse. It was also nice that he brought me back for Waking Life. He has a great way of treating actors like collaborators, and I've tried to look for that quality in other directors I've worked for.
BH: Waking Life is fantastic. Did you contribute in any way to the animation?
WW: Yes, I animated a few shots in the movie as well as appearing in it. Bob Sabiston lives in Austin and is also part of the indie videogame scene here to a small degree.
BH: He did the animation for Waking Life?
WW: Bob was the animation director for Waking Life and also wrote the software that we used to animate it. He has an animation studio here called Flat Black Films that's done a handful of other projects with the same animation style. He's also released an animation program for the Nintendo 3DS called Inchworm Animation and a few small iOS apps and games.
BH: Do you keep in touch with anyone from Dazed and Confused or Waking Life?
WW: In the last five years or so I haven't really kept in touch with people who don't live in or visit Austin frequently. We had a 20 year reunion a couple of years ago and I saw a few folks there. Even Waking Life is over a decade old now which seems odd to me.
BH: Do you read much fiction or poetry?
WW: Not as much as I'd like to, lately. The last few novels I read were The Peripheral, The Goldfinch, and I re-read a book of Peter Carey short stories for something I'm working on. So mostly, popular novels read during air-travel.
BH: Are you playing a role from one of Carey's stories for a film, or working on a script based off of it? And what other future film projects are you working on?
WW: I'm adapting one of the stories in The Fat Man in History. Right now it's just a writing exercise. I haven't looked into the rights yet. I don't have any film projects in the works at the moment other than a few video art installations. Computer Chess was the last feature project I worked on.
BH: I thought you were really funny and great in Computer Chess. I enjoyed that film a lot.
WW: Thanks, it was a great experience working on that project.
BH: Did you have more freedom in that film? Is it one of your favorite roles you've played?
WW: I don't know, I'm still very fond of Dazed and Confused, but it's hard to have to see yourself as a 15 year old forever. I did feel like I had a lot of stake in Computer Chess, plus it's the first time anybody has ever really let me play a grown-up.
BH: How well do you know the director, Andrew Bujalski? I taught my 8-year-old to play chess last year, so every once in a while we play. Do you play much?
WW: I've been good friends with Andrew since the 90's, but we'd only really worked together once before (just as actors) in our friend Dia Sokol's movie Sorry, Thanks. I'm a terrible chess player, but I am a vintage computer buff. I got to take part in picking the hardware and getting it running (or at least looking like it was running in some cases). We had some chess experts on hand, and every game you see in the movie was scripted out with play styles for the individual programs in mind. Board positions from 2001: A Space Odyssey's HAL vs. Poole are visible in a few shots as well.
BH: What gaming projects are you currently working on?
WW: The big game I've been working on for a few years now is called Thunderbeam, It's a sort of pastiche of "UFO" and "Space 1999" era sci-fi tropes, with an original score by The Octopus Project (an Austin band I've worked with a lot in the past). It's been a great collaboration with a handful of really great visual artists and creative coders up to this point. Things are slowing down a little bit for various reasons (lack of money, people having babies, day jobs) but I'm hoping we'll have something to show off very soon. In the meantime I've been toying with some smaller projects, like a loose game adaptation of Richard Brautigan's hippy commune novel In Watermelon Sugar and an all-text multiplayer game that runs inside the chat client Slack.
BH: Did you play a lot of Infocom games as a kid? They were my favorite.
WW: I actually know the the modern version of the computer language that was used to write Infocom's text adventures. I played a lot of Infocom games, A Mind Forever Voyaging, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Zork, and Wishbringer were a few faves. Now I have a hard time getting excited about games that use a text parser as input, because so much time is spent trying to guess what you can do. The parser says "hey there's no visible controls here because you can do ANYTHING" but that's really a lie because in any given context you can do like, ten things, and you don't know what they are. I'm ok with guessing and obscured controls in a game, but the 'I DON'T KNOW WHAT "POOP" MEANS' parser errors ruin it. The joy of a videogame as opposed to say, a board game, is that you can't do something "wrong". You bounce off the walls of the world, there's no illegal action. The idea I am kicking around for a multiplayer text game uses humans to fill in the gaps for what the computer can't understand. It's kind of a computer assisted role-playing game.
I was pretty mesmerized by some of the graphical games that came after text adventures, especially stuff like Deja Vú and Shadowgate on the original Macintosh. I love the look of the dithered black-and-white art in those versions. There was a French game for the Atari ST called Captain Blood that I was also very fascinated with. It had a vast, explorable (mostly empty) Galaxy with various alien inhabitants that spoke an alien language using scary, primitive speech synthesis. You had to decipher the language and manipulate these characters into helping you.
BH: We had a Commodore 64 and, before that, a Texas Instruments machine thing with a spine-tingling 16k of ram. My favorite Infocom games were Deadline, Zork, Witness, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Infidel was hard.
WW: There's still quite a bit of interactive fiction being written now by folks like Emily Short (Blood & Laurels, Bee) and Jim Munroe (Everybody Dies, Guilded Youth). I also really like the turn based aspect of those games, and that extends to graphical strategy games for me. My friend Adam Saltsman is working on an amazing and beautiful strategy game called Overland that is just dripping with style. I think he's planning on releasing this year.
I'm pretty focused on games and interactive art now, but I also kind of feel like someone with a lot of creative energy who never really found their medium. I like acting but I feel like indie film is incredibly oversaturated, and I don't necessarily feel like my physical presence is going to improve most movies. Maybe when I get old and craggy-looking. Right now I'm much more interested in building little virtual ships-in-bottles than I am in seeing my own face in stuff. Of course it's great and a lot of fun when someone like Andrew calls me and says he has something for me to do in one of his projects.
BH: What's your connection to the band the Octopus Project?
WW: I've worked on lots of projects with them, mostly as a video projection artist. A lot of what we do involves visuals that are generated live, and are manipulated by sound and other live inputs. I have played keys in a band before but I wouldn't consider myself a musician. I'm definitely passionate about music though, and I like to be around folks who make it.
I mentioned the Inform7 earlier, the language used for writing interactive fiction. Give me a theme and I'll try to make you a sample game.
BH: What about a theme of dead rock stars? Cobain, Joplin, Hendryx?
*Wiley sent me a link to a text adventure he quickly wrote called Roger's House, based on Syd Barrett from Pink Floyd, which was fun to play.
BH: I love it—fantastic. As a kid one of the things I liked about text games is that whenever I played them I forgot they were programmed. I think this is one of the great things about them, that there's an exchanged of consciousness between you and the narrative, much like the way of reading fiction. In Computer Chess when your character types "Who are you?" etc. As a kid that's what I would type sometimes, questions like this.
WW: That scene in Computer Chess was definitely influenced by "Eliza"—a really primitive chatbot that was available for some early computers that acted like a psychoanalyst. Because it had a tendency to deflect your questions back at you, it managed to preserve the integrity of your perception of it as another person, rather than a program.
BH: Do you develop games full-time now?
WW: No, it's just a hobby right now. I'm really still learning a lot. I started a small game development company with my friend James after bonding over a handful of older games that had stuck with us into adulthood. We decided to try to make something that had the feel of a classic graphical adventure game but had less linear gameplay. Something that introduced new game design ideas. Hopefully it will be subversive enough to not come off as straight nostalgia. There have been really interesting new adventure games in the last few years, so we aren't the only ones thinking along these lines. Kentucky Route Zero, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, and Broken Age all brought new ideas to the table as far as the genre goes.
BH: What do you see as the future in gaming?
WW: I think a lot of things that currently fall under the overburdened descriptor 'videogames' will all get their own names and followers and syntax. I think you are going to see a lot of interesting things that are no longer constrained by screens and that we don't have names for yet, virtual architecture, brand new senses, things we can't imagine yet. The negative side of that is I think that as long as all these new media are controlled the way videogames were—commodified and marketed to strict, self-perpetuating demographic stereotypes, then they'll be destructive. My generation has spent an incredible amount of time eeking-out hidden meaning from commercial mass media in order to connect with the world as it is. It's not just that there's hidden value in lowbrow culture, (there will always be value as long as the occasional human is allowed to leave their fingerprints on the products they produce). It's that there's not really protected space that nurtures self-expression outside the ivory tower of academia or the vulture-picked garbage dump of social media. We ought to be able to create and experience interactive works without them needing to be "products" at all, but as a form of communication as natural and adaptive as the words we speak.
BH: By "virtual architecture," do you mean more virtual reality type stuff?
WW: Yeah, a game can serve as a sort of place. VR definitely makes that more immediate, especially with new advances like total body position tracking. Also, it's surprisingly easy to build stuff for most of the consumer headsets that are getting ready to come to market. Last month one company released a tiny high-quality 360 degree camera that costs less than a smartphone. Standard 3D game tools like Unity have a fairly straightforward pipeline to VR, and those tools have free versions and huge and supportive user bases.
I'm also excited about experiments in form that don't rely on fancy new technology though. Last night we were showing off tiny games made for an imaginary game console with constraints that mimic the original Nintendo entertainment system. I have kind of a wicked hang over right now because we show these games off in a bar with a bartender that loves to try to get me to do shots with her.
BH: Sorry about your hangover. What's your favorite drink?
WW: This is just a cheap beer hangover, but I like scotch whisky if it isn't too peaty. Glenmorangie nectar d'or is nice.
BH: I haven't tried Glenmorangie nectar d'or, but maybe I can trick someone into buying it for me. I like Glenfiddich when I can afford it.
WW: Fancy scotch is definitely a sometimes food.
BH: I heartily agree.
Brandon Hobson is the author of Deep Ellum and Desolation of Avenues Untold. He is a 2016 recipient of a Pushcart Prize. His writing has appeared in The Believer, NOON, Conjunctions, The Paris Review Daily, Post Road, New York Tyrant, and elsewhere. You can read more here: http://brandonhobson.com


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Over 20 years ago, UC San Diego was the first university in the world to successfully implement the Balanced Scorecard framework to drive performance improvements, inform strategies, and measure progress. The Balanced Scorecard creators officially recognized UC San Diego and VC Business Affairs by inducting UC San Diego into the Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for its breakthrough results in looking holistically at staff, customers, financial health, and internal business processes. At UC San Diego, three campus-wide surveys provide key metrics to guide department balanced scorecards and continuous improvement initiatives. These survey instruments are developed, statistically validated, and administered by UC San Diego's team of social science and programming experts. Results are customized into actionable data to inform university leaders of staff, faculty, and student priorities.
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When Rich Haddad was fired in 1991 as Jacksonville University's basketball coach after four seasons, he didn't give much thought to pursuing another line of work until he got a tip from legendary coach Lefty Driesell, then midway through a nine-year run at James Madison University.
"I thought about going back to coaching, but when I called Lefty, he asked how old I was," said Haddad, then 38 years old. "He said, 'You should look into another profession. Everybody knows you can recruit players and you can always get back in [coaching]. Go make some money, and if you're not happy doing it, you can always come back.' "
Driesell's advice, coupled with a scene Haddad had seen repeated many times at the Final Four coaches convention, prompted him to look for employment outside his profession.
"I would see great coaches begging to hang on and get jobs with young, upstart coaches," Haddad said. "I decided right then, if that was ever going to be me, I wasn't going to do that. I wouldn't put my family in jeopardy that way."
So a couple weeks after his JU termination, Haddad took a psychological work evaluation, which determined that his profile made him a prime candidate to sell insurance.
In less than one year, after moving his family to Greenville, S.C., and proving himself by initially working for a meager $300 per month as an insurance salesman, Haddad secured his own State Farm agency. He estimates his agency now has more than 6,000 policies, providing Haddad a lifestyle far different than the one he had trying to climb the coaching ladder.
"Coaching taught me everything," Haddad said. "It taught me how to work, how to put myself in other people's shoes, and listen to them. I don't regret one minute of coaching. It taught me how to be a successful businessman.
"I have the best life there is right now. I come and go as I please. I play golf four times a week. We've done very well. This is a very similar skill set to coaching. I'm coaching my staff, but I still sell. I have a team [of four agents]. In the sales process, you're back to recruiting again."
Those who knew Haddad well, including Bob Wenzel - he hired him as his JU assistant before Haddad took over as head coach in 1987 - attest to his recruiting acumen. He was instrumental in convincing NBA draft picks Otis Smith, Ronnie Murphy, Danny Pearson, Dee Brown and Tim Burroughs to play for the Dolphins. Though Haddad's four-year record at JU was a disappointing 41-75, his teams were decimated by defections and injuries, including star player Sean Byrd having his career ended by chronic knee problems. Haddad believed JU was on the verge of turning things around before then-president Jim Brady relieved him of his duties.
"When I think of Rich and his time here, he was a fabulous recruiter," said Wenzel, now an administrator with The Bolles School. "It wasn't just the sales part. Kids liked him, he was funny and entertaining, but he also had a keen eye for talent. He could spot guys that weren't on everybody's radar. He had a good feel for people."
Haddad's recruiting skills and willingness to put in long hours turned out to be a perfect segue into the insurance world. While he struggled financially in his first few years running an agency, Haddad was also fueled by the way he went out at JU.
"I woke up ticked off every day for four years after that [JU dismissal]," said Haddad. "I just put my head down and went to work. The business world was easy for me, knowing that the harder I worked, the more money I made. That was a concept I wasn't familiar with in coaching."
At 58, Haddad still keeps in touch with several former JU players, among them former Jackson High star Al Powell, Curtis Taylor and Tyrone Boykin.
There are aspects of coaching he still misses, but Haddad takes pride in being able to help clients going through tough circumstances. He now has more down time to spend with Shannon, his wife of 36 years, both at his Greenville residence and a second home on Lake Keowee. Haddad has no intention of retiring any time soon because his working days are less stressful than running a college basketball program.
"It's fun, you take care of people," said Haddad. "When I was first interviewed to get a [insurance] job, one of the questions was, 'Are you empathetic?' They asked for an example. The first thing that came to my mind was the thing I miss most about coaching. It's when there's a knock on my office door and a player has a long face on. He'd say, 'Coach, I need to talk to you.' Right away, you know he has a problem that he wants you to help fix. That's what I do now. People have problems and claims and you fix them the best you can."
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Yesterday Jack turned 3 months! I cannot believe he is already so old!
I am not sure how much he weighs now. Last time he was weighed was at 9 weeks (and now he's 13 weeks old). He weighed 14 lbs 7 oz, so there is no telling how much our little chunk weighs now! We have a doctors appointment next week, so I am excited to hear his weight.
He eats every 3 hours, except for at night. And because of daycare, I actually know how much he eats--about 4 1/2 oz each time. He takes a bottle really well. At night, he eats at 7, is in bed by 8, has a dream feed about 10:45, and usually doesn't eat again until 7 a.m.! The past few nights he has woken up fussing a few times during the night, but calms back down really quickly.
He is in size 6 month clothes and size 2 diapers.
This week, he started laughing, and we LOVE it. He has been talking and cooing for a couple of weeks now.
He has even started to roll over! He usually only can go halfway and then he gets stuck. He has figured out how to use his hands. He loves to suck on his fingers and to play with the toys on his play mat.
He still is such a sweet and easy baby. There are days that go by where I hear him cry maybe once (and usually only cause he woke up from a nap!). I am so thankful that he is such a good baby--it makes my crazy schedule a little easier. Of course, I do know this means I am probably due for a colic-y baby next time around! (I was a second child and had colic!)
Likes: Playmat, baths, being tickled, talking
Dislikes: not much...maybe when he breaks out his swaddle in the middle of the night!
And so you can see how much he has changed:
(I remember when we thought he was a chunk at 1 month...boy, were we wrong!)
We love our little 3 month old!


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The Night Fairy
A story about survival.
In this play, a fairy named Flory must survive a dangerous garden landscape by being brave, daring, and resourceful. The director asked me for an illustration in a darker style than our usual work, but not something so dark that it would frighten away the intended 8-12 year old audience. I took inspiration from the actor who would play Flory to design the silhouette, and gave visual nods to the several garden animals that she encounters. I also created publicity photos of the actor, Kaleena Newman, that we sent out to the press.


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Fields and Data Types:Single Line Of text: This is used for small texts or string.Open Set: this type is use for dropdown control. You can create local and global option set as per requirement.Two Options: Two options set is basically used for true false, yes no type values. It's Boolean data type.Image: This type is mainly used to store logo image, you can use only one this kind of data type per entity which can maximum store 5120 kb data.Whole Numbers: This field used
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If you are familiar with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, you must be aware with fetchXML query. It's one type of query language supported by Microsoft dynamics CRM and natively render in C# expresses. Fetch XML uses to directly query Microsoft dynamics CRM entities or related entities with filter criteria and where clauses.Sample fetch XML to retrieve accounts
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Workflow is cherished feature available in Microsoft dynamics CRM, which lets users to configure series of functions or methods which called steps to perform in a flow. Flow can be changed based on conditional values or inputs. It works like data flow diagram presented in below image.Workflows are categorized in two forms in dynamics CRM –1. Asynchronous workflows 2. Real Time work flows or synchronous workflows Asynchronous Workflows: Asynchronous is basically something which
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First, let us tell you what we do with salvage car auction. Don't worry, no long biographies, dates and impossible to spell names. We will just share with you our purpose. You know how there are salvage car auctions? Back in the days they were only open to car dealers. Today they are open to public, but auctions still generally prefer to work with professional dealers because they have a license and a great deal of knowledge.
Therefore, we became the bridge between the salvage car auction and the public, and our blogs and FAQs are here to dissect the auction process step by step and to help you gain that knowledge that the auctions think you are missing.
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Review of Evidence: Arts Education Research Through the Lens of the Every Student Succeeds Act
A report commissioned by the Wallace Foundation from the American Institutes for Research highlights dozens of approaches to arts education that could qualify for federal funding under the Every Student Succeeds Act that state educational agencies, local educational agencies, and schools can use to implement programs for pre-K-12 students. The report, Review of Evidence: Arts Education Research Through the Lens of the Every Student Succeeds Act (93 pages, PDF), found eighty-eight studies of arts courses, instructional materials, professional development, supports for English learners, extended-learning-time programs, and broader efforts that provide evidence or theory- or research-based rationale that they improve student outcomes — including fifty studies about music education and nineteen about visual arts education. According to the analysis, the average effect found in the twenty well-designed studies examined was moderate and statistically significant, indicating that an average child would gain 15 percentile points in a relevant student outcome (i.e., academic achievement, art learning, social-emotional learning, and process abilities) as a result of participating in an arts education intervention.


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" Sports Illustrated" released its annual Swimsuit Issue today, kicking off the highly-anticipated event with the unveiling of the cover ( landed by 19-year-old American model Kate Upton) last night on the "Late Show with David Letterman."
And while many giddily await the special glossy's arrival on newsstands for its endless stream of bikini-clad models posing on sun-drenched landscapes, for Time Inc., the publication's parent company, the Swimsuit Issue means something more: a multi-million business that's bigger than the sports magazine that spawned it.
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I've been trying to sit down for the past month and write something, anything – but I couldn't. The past few months have been stressful and in turn I fell out of love with writing, so I'm sorry there's been nothing but tumbleweeds on Beauty Rant lately.
But I'm back and ready to blog as I want to blog; whether that be 1 post every 2 weeks or 4 posts in one week. Who knows?
Whilst I have been adding a few bits and bobs of makeup to my collection over the past few months, it feels like it's been a while since I had a splurge and bought a selection of exciting new products to try. A brand I really want to explore further is Makeup Revolution.
Makeup Revolution is a super affordable brand that you can get in Superdrug which is very well known for creating some amazing eyeshadow palette dupes for popular high end brands such as Kat Von D and the Naked palettes.
So today's post is going to be my Makeup Revolution wishlist of things I want to try!
The 2 products I'm most excited to try is the Soph X Makeup Revolution collaboration! Popular YouTuber SophDoesNails has teamed up with Makeup Revolution to create her very own eyeshadow palette and highlighter palette. Not only is this a great opportunity for Sophie but also great news for her followers who also love the same sort of looks/shades she does.
The Soph X eyeshadow palette retails for a very affordable £10 and has a variety of matte, shimmer and foiled shades perfect for creating many different eyeshadow looks. I think this palette has a great combination of cool, warm and bright shades – I can't see one shade out of these 24 shades that I wouldn't use so I definitely need to get my hands on this!
The second part of the Soph X Makeup Revolution collaboration is the highlighter palette. You get 8 blinding highlighter shades for £8, which comes in at less that £1 a highlighter when you consider the packaging! All of these shades look stunning; even the last two on the bottom row which would be too dark for my fair complexion would be gorgeous as eyeshadows.
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Recently I've been looking in my makeup and slowly realising that not one of my foundations actually match me…how is this possible?! The beauty industry continues to over look the extremely fair and extremely deep, what's new. So I've decided the easiest option here would be to find a good foundation lightener to solve all my problems (my makeup ones at least!). I already own The Body Shop foundation lightener which is a lot of crap so hopefully this one will be better, definitely worth a go for £3.
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City are in a good shape, they're two points far from desired 4th position (and have a game in hand). They're without a defeat in last eight competitive games (five draws though) and didn't score just once in those (vs.
As tonight's hosts, Toffees are also in up trend. As their big injury crisis started to fade, their results became better. Lately they're scoring plenty, but also have big problems to keep the clean sheet as they conceded in last nine competitive games. With return of Arteta they improved attacking potential (scored 9 in last 3 Premier games). Also Pienaar plays in a life form in my opinion and I expect his another very good display (should run the riot against Garrido at the right flank). They have problems when play on the road, but good thing for Moyes they actually have no pressure. Maybe can reach
Both teams possess high level of self-confidence currently. And both teams have great attacking potential. City will miss two key defenders and I see a space for Everton. On the other hand Tevez plays in a life shape, Bellamy and young Johnson will produce real trouble for the visitors. I expect goals on both sides. Over 2.5.
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Product Selection Guide Page 772 Product Selection Guide-11th Edition
PSG11 772 LITHONIA LIGHTING OUTDOOR www.lithonia.com PRODUCT INFORMATION PARKING GARAGE & CANOPY Intended Use Use for parking garages, convenience stores, hotels, and walkways. Features nominal wall thickness tubular silicone with a light-diffusing prismatic lens Listings UL Listed for wet locations. Listed to comply with Canadian standards (see Options). Covered ceiling mount on concrete, steel, or aluminum. Not for use in dwellings. KACM Specification Notes 1 Not available with SCWA. 2 Universal mogul base lamp allows KACM to be available with SCWA. 3 Must be ordered with SCWA. 4 Not applicable with L/LP. 5 Must be ordered with LP option. 6 Not available with 165IL. 7 Must specify CWI for use in Canada. 8 Optional multi-tap ballast (120V, 208V, 240V, 277V). In Canada 120V, 277V, 347V; ships as 120V/347V. 9 Consult factory for available wattages. 10 Induction only. 11 May be ordered as an accessory. 12 Order accessory as KACMYK. 13 Must specify finish. 14 Maximum allowable wattage lamp included. 15 FP lens only. Order accessory as KACVG. 16 Order accessory as KACWG. 17 See www.lithonia.com/archcolors for additional color options. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For additional product information, visit www.lithonia.com. Drawings are for dimensional detail only and may not represent actual mechanical configuration. Dimensions are shown in inches (centimeters) unless otherwise noted. Flat Lens 17-1/2 (44.5) 7-1/8 (18.1) Max. weight: 40 lbs. (18.1 kg) 17-1/2 (44.5) Max. weight: 40 lbs. (18.1 kg) 11-1/8 (28.3) Drop Lens Example: KACM 400M DPA TB SCWA LPI Series Lamp type Distribution Voltage Ballast Mounting KACM High pressure sodium 1 150S 250S 400S Metal halide 150M 175M 2 200M 3 250M 320M 3 350M 1,2 400M Metal halide ceramic 4 150MHC Induction 165IL 5 FP Flat C73T 6 DPA Drop acrylic DPP Drop polycarbonate 120 208 7 240 7 277 347 480 7 TB 8 23050HZ 9 TVOLT 10 (blank) Magnetic ballast CWI Constant wattage isolated 9 SCWA Super CWA ballast Shipped installed (blank) Surface mount TC Thru-wire condulet tee Shipped separately 11 YK Yoke 12, 13 0ptions Finish 17 Lamped Shipped installed SF Single fuse (120V, 277V, 347V) DF Double fuse (208V, 240V, 480V) EC Emergency circuit 14 QRS Quartz restrike system 14 CSA Meet Canadian standards NOM Meets Mexican standards (consult factory) INTL Available for MH probe start shipping outside the U.S. Shipped separately 11 VG Vandal guard 15 WG Wire guard 16 (blank) Dark bronze DBL Black DGC Charcoal gray DMB Medium bronze DNA Natural aluminum DWH White DSS Sandstone LPI Lamp included L/LP Less lamp LP Lamp factory installed ORDERING INFORMATION Specifications subject to change.Previous Page


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There are many reasons for selling your home. You might want to upgrade in size, relocate for a new career, retire or move to a larger city. No matter the reason, knowing why you are selling your home can help you follow the right plan of action (note for Kayla, link to plan of action blog) for getting what you want.
This article will help you figure out what type of seller you are while guiding you towards the right action plan.
Some home sellers place a high priority on a fast sale even if it means less than the maximum selling price, while some others are focused on getting the highest price possible no matter how long it takes. Still other sellers try to balance the priorities of a timely sale and highest possible sales price.
It does not mean that you won't or cannot get the highest price, but it means that the price is not the deciding factor. A buyer who can give you a quick closing time will appeal much more to you than a buyer who can offer you more money but the negotiation and closing time drag on.
If top sales price is your top priority, it's always good to know how low you are willing to go as a bottom price. This will help to eliminate some of the offers that are not seriously willing to negotiate. Even though you should consider all offers and consider all the terms of each offer–not only price–sometimes, if you know the bottom line and are strict about it, you can save yourself time.
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Robust face detection in cluttered images
Zhu, Xiaoling
Date of Issue2005
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
In this thesis, we present a robust face detection algorithm in cluttered images. It is a system based on a novel feature extraction method that uses wavelet-based sub- kernel principal component analysis (SKPCA) method. Usually, facial features such as eyebrows, eyes, nose and mouth are distinguished characteristics of human face, and that their global structure distribution is a guarantee of the existence of a face. The proposed method firstly transfers gray value images into a Haar wavelet spatial frequency domain to extract visually plausible features of the shape and interior detail of faces, Following this step, the constructed wavelet coefficients are mapped onto a higher dimensional feature space using SKPCA. By this way the structure distribution of laces can be captured. Theoretically, SKPCA is an extension of kernel principal component analysis algorithm (KPCA). In the process of SKPCA, a simple and effective subset choosing method is used to solve the computational and storage problems of KPCA. Via wavelet-based SKPCA feature extraction method, representative features of face images that include both local facial feature detail and global structure characteristic are constructed. Finally, a relatively simple support vector machine (SVM) is adopted as classifier.
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The singer recounted a specific experience she had recently when out with her boyfriend, Mac Miller
Ariana Grande has spoken out about being objectified by fans following an incident that made her feel "sick".
The singer posted about the encounter on Twitter, explaining what happened when she was out getting food with her boyfriend, rapper Mac Miller.
"A young boy followed us to the car to tell Mac that he's a big fan," she wrote, describing the boy as "loud and excited" and said at one point he was "literally almost in the car with us".
She continued: "I thought all of this was cute and exciting until he said 'Ariana is sexy as hell man I see you, I see you hitting that!!!'"
"*pause* Hitting that? The fuck??" she wrote, as Uproxx reports, before continuing to explain how the incident made her feel, saying she was left feeling "sick and objectified". "I was also sitting right there when he said it," she added. "I've felt really quiet and hurt since that moment. Things like [this] happen all the time and are the kinds of moments that contribute to women's sense of fear and inadequacy.
"I am not a piece of meat that a man gets to utilize for his pleasure. I'm an adult human being in a relationship with a man who treats me with love and respect."
Grande expressed pain at how often she hears young people "using these phrases and objectifying women with such ease" and said people need to talk about "these moments openly because they are harmful and they live on inside of us as shame". She also added that not speaking out about such incidents will just allow them to continue.
She ended her message by writing: "We are not objects or prizes. We are QUEENS."
Some fans online criticised the singer for her post, suggesting the way she presents herself in music videos or the subjects she sings about mean she is offering herself up to be objectified. She replied on Twitter, saying: "expressing sexuality in art is not an invitation for disrespect !!! just like wearing a short skirt is not asking for assault."
She added: "Women's choice. ♡ our bodies, our clothing, our music, our personalities….. sexy, flirty, fun. it is not. an open. invitation.
"You are literally saying that if we look a certain way, we are yours to take. But we are not !!! It's our right to express ourselves."


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This is the quick recap of our travel day. We left Vicente Guerrero around 8:30am and ate lunch in Ensenada. We hit the Tijuana border crossing and waited in a mere 2 hour and 45 min border line up. (…take that Peace Arch!).
We got through easily, dropped stuff at the hotel in San Diego and went for dinner at Chik-fil-A. We ordered and started eating when all of a sudden the employees yelled," hey everyone, all you are here are each getting a free chicken sandwich on us!" And it was a very. Full restaurant. Apparently someone called an order of 200 sandwiches and instead of throwing them out they handed it to customers and locals outside walking by, even some impoverished were getting free meals. What an awesome company!!
After we went to James coffee shop, which has a very cool vibe.
Tomorrow we heard back to Vancouver and should arrive around 1pm. Thanks for all the support and enjoy these few pictures.
Hasta Mañana!


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Ancelotti has given Napoli a voice in Europe
Napoli's only European honour was the1988-89 UEFA Cup. They won it at a time when Diego Maradona was still their main protagonist.
Since then the Naples club have yet to have a real presence in Europe but all that seems to have change now that Carlo Ancelotti is in charge. Ancelotti's predecessor Maurizio Sarri never took the Champions League or the Europa League seriously as he was hell bent on winning the Scudetto. It was more of Sarri putting all of his eggs into one basket.
This season has seen Ancelotti weave his magic with the Azzurri and it's clear to see the impact they are making in the Champions League. Of course Ancelotti's history in the completion is storied and it seems he is writing a fresh new chapter in Naples.
When Napoli were drawn alongside Liverpool, Paris Saint-Germain and Red Star Belgrade it seemed as if, the Serie A club would underwhelm. In fact many predicted Liverpool and PSG to be favourites but it looks as if Napoli might be favourites to go through.
They are after all top of their group with six points and again highlights the impact Ancelotti has had on the team. Previously under Sarri they were only prominent in Serie A but Ancelotti has found a way to make them competitive in Europe and Italy. He has given them a presence in Europe through his rotational squad policy.
In fact the former Real Madrid manager is making full use of the strength of Napoli's squad as compared to only relying on a select few, which was what Sarri did. In doing so Ancelotti is moulding Napoli into a force in Europe.


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W District is a community mall with a focus on shopping, dining and entertainment, all brought together with an emphasis on urban modern art – from surrealist sculpture to stylish graffiti. Located next to Phrakanong BTS Skytrain Station, this is the first mall of its kind in lower Sukhumvit and is likely to become a central hub of activity in the area.
W District in Phrakanong is actually comprised of several sections, with the stylish new Beat Hotel; lively W Market with plenty of food stalls, boutique shops and weekend street market; large HOF Art Gallery selling and displaying a range of Thailand's most promising artists; and, on the rooftop of the 46-storey Le Luk Condominium, there is a sophisticated sky bar called Ciello.
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- Vertigo & Moon Bar Rooftop Dining
- Ayutthaya Ancient Capital Tour with River Cruise
- Shangri-La Hotel's Buffet Dinner Cruise
- Bridge on the River Kwai & Historic Railway Tour
- Siam Niramit Dinner Show
- Calypso Bangkok Cabaret Show
- Chao Phraya River Dinner Cruise
- Grand Palace & Emerald Buddha Half-Day Tour
The W Market dining section is currently the most popular section at W District. With its easy-going beer garden atmosphere, full courtyard of food and snack stalls, and reasonably priced beer (500 baht for a three litre tower) it is attracting a pleasant mix of Thais and expat foreigners.
The food stalls open every night from 18:00, and on Friday and Saturday nights there is live music from a Thai cover band that play popular hits in Thai and English. Kooky art sculptures are scattered around so there is always something interesting to look at and there are plenty of fans to keep you cool. The boutique shops next to the dining area are open all day and include ladies fashion, accessories and a hair stylist.
Currently the main four-storey W District Mall is largely unoccupied, although there are plans in place and it should fill up with tenants soon. In the meantime, they are making good use of the entertainment space on the fourth floor with a series of free live performances on some Friday nights.
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My mom used to make a lot of our meals in her slow cooker when we were in High-School, but I just recently realized that I barely use my slow-cooker now at our house. I also associate slow-cooker with beef, which I don't eat on a regular basis, this is probably why I don't usually think of making my meals in a slow-cooker. My dad is really a meat-and potato kind of guy, so a slow cooker is an ideal tool for mom so she can quickly put this together before she leaves for work, and it will be ready when we get home.
Recently Red has been asking for a roast beef, and he has convinced me on how easy this would be to make in a slow-cooker. We just need to lay a bed of chopped veggies, throw some seasoning, broth, and a slab of meat, and let it cook all day. So this is ideal for any day, a weekend day where we spend all day catching up on chores, or week day when we're at work and want something ready in the kitchen when we get home. I finally agreed on making this dish, thinking that it would save me some cooking time.
I wanted a recipe that uses simple ingredients without any thickening agents from a can, so I settled on this recipe from AllRecipes that I thought had simple ingredients and easy to prepare–and didn't involve any cream-based soup in it. I doubled the vegetables called in this recipe, added some shallots, rosemary and parsley seasonings to the beef. I also used chicken stock instead of water and cooked it for 8 hours. The meat was so tender, and we didn't even need a knife to cut through it–and loved the heartiness of this dish! I think I am sold now on this concept of cooking more this type of dishes. I am going to find some more recipes using slow-cooker and see if we can get even more creative with our protein and selection! I hope you enjoy this as much as we did!
Adapted from AllRecipes
4 pounds chuck roast
salt and pepper to taste
1 packet dry onion soup mix
1 cup water
3 carrots, chopped
1 onion, chopped
3 potatoes, peeled and cubed
1 stalk celery, chopped
Take the chuck roast and season with salt and pepper to taste. Brown on all sides in a large skillet over high heat.
Place in the slow cooker and add the soup mix, water, carrots, onion, potatoes and celery.
Cover and cook on low setting for 8 to 10 hours.
Yield: 6 servings


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I know, I know, cheesy posting pics of garden, but I do feel quite proud of it. You see, I can't grow anything, so this is such an accomplishment! Spinach, lettuce, leeks, dill, and carrots. My cucumbers died because it had gotten too cold, so I have to replant them this week now that it's warmer out.
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The stories that my class wrote varied from being loose in the Christmas tree to being loose in the art studio to being loose in the bowling alley. It was awesome to see students connect so much with an author's writing and then create their own inspired by it.
Every morning we start our day with the calendar. Our calendar aide starts the day by asking the class: tell me what you know about today's date. Some examples of what students say are:
- It is December.
- It is 2015.
-Next year will be 2016
- It is Thursday
- It is the 17th.
- The weekend is in two days.
- It is the last school week of the calendar year.
- It is (12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, or 1) 0 days until Gingerbread Day.
So when today got here, we were more than ready! Mr favorite part of today was having enough extra cookie dough (thanks parents and Ms. Loseman's class for the donations!) to make a second cookie for each student. The kids got to decorate their cookie and give it as a gift to someone. Most students gave them to people around our school, such as our custodian, fabulous lunch ladies, principal, etc.
These gingerbread cookies brought so much joy today- to my students and to many people around our school who got a sweet gift from a sweet first grader!


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Tales of a Time Traveler
E&S Digital Theater Produtions, USA
Film review by Monika Staesche, Berlin
Length: 25 min
Unidirectional orientation
Release: October 2017
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Time. Literally an "everyday phenomenon", but still hard to grasp. Many planetarium shows deal with that subject. The approach here is somehow different and unusual, though: Our host and guide is a "time traveler", manifested not in a real human form, but rather as a voice – a very special and characteristic one, since it is the voice of the tenth doctor of "Dr. Who", David Tennant. The "Doctor" is a "Time Lord" and hence – you can assume – an authority as regards this slippery subject. And he takes us on various trips through time and space, but not from Adam (or the Big Bang) to our present time, but trying to shed some light on different aspects of time and how they are evident for us: from the biological clock in your brain or the changing shadows on a sundial, from the history of life on Earth to the life of stars and the history of the cosmos itself. Even the distortion of time by gravity is a topic.
The eternal question of other civilizations in space is posed as well, but rather as a "when" and not as a "where", it touches gently the problem of the lifespan of civilizations in general – but without emphasizing it much. It would have been interesting to learn a little more at this point, but the narrative pace is rather quick. To quote our guide: "As humans, your time is limited, but your perception of it isn't. You can experience a million years in a minute, a billion years in the blink of an eye". The show makes good use of this possibility. Sometimes it would have been interesting to deepen a subject. On the other hand, for a 23-minute show, it is a lot of content already.
As the show starts, you find yourself inside a giant clockwork that fills the dome, while the title appears in a "steampunk" font style – a nice touch that let you associate the subject immediately: Time. Than the scene crossfades into a time-tunnel, a kind of temporal rollercoaster, while the introduction is given. Finally, we end up in a dome, a room that picks up the architecture of the Pantheon in Rome – with an open ceiling that shows space from outside our Milky Way. Inside it looks rather Victorian, with a gigantic dinosaur skeleton as a bonus and a Dr. Who TARDIS-equipment in the center of the room. So this is our time machine. The Dr. Who approach is quite original and makes sense, given the popularity of the TV series and what it stands for. It also provides an outsider perspective and narration.
The show is a co-production of the Houston Museum of Natural Science and Evans & Sutherland and does not only use a rendered universe, but some real world footage as well (landscape timelapses, footage of fossils/bones/models of prehistoric creatures of the museum). Sometimes, some walls (at the dinosaur skeleton sequences in the museum especially) make you lose the immersion somehow, but apart from that, the artificial landscapes of ancient monuments fit quite well with the real world footage.
Apart from the aforementioned, ESO and Hubble imagery is included or modelled – sometimes a little too much and too many at the same time as regard to my personal taste, and sometimes – at least it seems – not to scale, so it doesn't look realistic.
The show created in 8K – that provides a sharp imaging, even in 4K. The score is composed by Chance Thomas and performed by the Utah Film Orchestra – this makes for a vivid, compact sound that supports the travels quite well.
David Tennant's diction is quite precise, the Scottish accent (although it is not a heavy one) sometimes a little unusual for a "non-native" speaker, but on the other hand, you need to listen carefully. I don't know if this special "touch" would be transferable if the show is dubbed.
I would recommend the show for adults and children of age 10 and up – although younger viewers may understand the explanations of most subjects, since the language itself is not complicated.
It is a rather unusual show about time, as regards the approach, although the subjects and explanations can be found in many other shows as well. Given the number of topics, maybe a live part afterwards and or a discussion would be valuable, and some didactic material would be a nice asset, too?
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Hawley, W. M. comp: FAMOUS WARRIORS OF 16TH CENTURY JAPAN. Hollywood, 1975. 16 pp. 15 b/w reproductions. 28x21 cm. Paper.
Xerographic reproductions from the 'Ehon Toyotomi Kunkoki' in an original woodblock edition of 1855-84 by Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi. (Hawley later produced a more extensive selection of reproductions, which has been reprinted.). Minor annotations.
Subjects: Armour and Weapons
Available, as of: 20/05/2019
Was item 363 in printed List 195.
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The industry has long held that delivery of any documents relating to the corporation, must be in the form specified by the owner, and in compliance with the Act. Translated, a hard copy, mailed to the registered owner at the unit address, unless the owner has provided an alternate mailing address.
However, with many boards looking to reduce operating costs, attention has been given to the possibility of sending AGM packages by email rather than sending a hard copy by regular mail as it is often the established practice.
The package for a condominium's annual general meeting ("AGM") generally includes several documents: a notice of meeting, an agenda, the minutes of the last AGM, the audited financial statements, in some a copy of all proposed changes to the declaration and by-laws or any other items that are to be discussed at the meeting. This is a lot of documentation and a lot of paper depending on the number of units.
Section 47 of the Condominium Act (the "Act") deals with notices to owners.
Subsection 47(1) provides that a notice that is required to be given to owners must be in writing and must be given at least 15 days before the day of the meeting if the notice is a notice of meeting of owners.
Subsections 47(7) and (8) provides for the various ways in which notices can be served to owners. Although notices, in particular AGM Package, are often sent by regular mail at the address for service that appears in the records of the corporation, notices can also be sent by facsimile transmission, electronic mail or any other method of electronic communication provided that the owner or mortgagee agrees in writing that the notices may be given to them in this manner.
The requirement to obtain written consent for electronic communications only applies to notices mandated by the Act. Corporations who wish to save trees (and dollars) may send their AGM notices to unit owners once the condominium property manager has obtained the required consent from each respective owner.


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Nasir al-Wuhayshi's group, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, is behind several plots against the United States, including an attempt to blow up a US commercial airliner on Christmas Day 2009, as well as the deadly attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris earlier this year. US officials told The Washington Post they were reviewing intelligence linked to a June 9th drone strike that targeted Wuhayshi, who was also named Al-Qaeda's number two, and other AQAP operatives. "We are looking to confirm his death," a US intelligence official told the newspaper. A local Yemeni official told AFP Tuesday that Wuhayshi is believed to have been killed in the raid in Al-Qaeda-held Mukalla, in southeastern Yemen, and that his body could be kept in a local morgue amid tight secrecy imposed by the militants. "There are currently four bodies belonging to Al-Qaeda members. One of them is believed to be Wuhayshi's," the local official told AFP, requesting anonymity. Yemen has been wracked by conflict between Iran-backed Shiite rebels and exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi's internationally recognized government. Global powers are keen for a speedy resolution of the conflict, fearing the growing power of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemeni branch of the jihadist network that has taken advantage of the chaos to seize territory. Meanwhile, the UN has described the country's humanitarian crisis as "catastrophic", with 80 percent of the population — 20 million people — in need of aid. High-stakes talks were due to continue in Geneva Tuesday to try to end the bloody conflict. "We do not have a moment to lose," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on the first day of talks Monday, adding that the fighting was "giving strength to some of the world's most ruthless terrorist groups". Ban said the violence had killed more than 2,600 people, half of them civilians. "Today, Yemen's very existence hangs in the balance," Ban said."While parties bicker, Yemen burns . . . the ticking clock is not a time piece, it is a time bomb." He called for a fresh two-week humanitarian pause to get crucial supplies through, noting that Ramadan — the Muslim holy month of fasting — begins this week. But analysts said any chance of success at the first talks between the warring factions since Hadi fled Sanaa was "very unlikely". Yemen expert Laurent Bonnefoy added: "Indeed, each side appears to be inflexible, disinclined toward compromise".

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Pre-dawn air strikes meanwhile targeted Huthi rebel positions in the main southern port city of Aden and continued throughout Monday, residents said, as fighting raged on between rebel forces and pro-government fighters. Rebels fired Katyusha rockets at a residential part of Aden's Mansura district, said Ali al-Ahmedi, spokesman of the pro-government Popular Resistance — a coalition of pro-government fighters, Sunni tribes andsouthern separatists. Medics at a nearby hospital said that three members of the same family were killed and four others were wounded in the attack. AFP could not immediately verify the toll given by Popular Resistance sources of 20 rebels and seven pro-government fighters killed in Aden. The rebels, supported by military units loyal to ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, have seized control of large parts of the country including the capital Sanaa, forcing Hadi to flee to Saudi Arabia in February. Fearing an Iran-friendly regime on its southern border, Saudi Arabia has been leading a campaign of air strikes against the rebels since March 26th but has so far failed to rout them from territory they have seized. Yemen Foreign Minister Riad Yassin said the prospects for a breakthrough at the talks in Geneva were poor. "I'm not very optimistic," Yassin told AFP, adding that the rebels "never respect any treaty". Yassin likened the rebels to the Islamic State group or Nigeria's Boko Haram and accused them of sending far more representatives and advisors to the Geneva talks than had been agreed. "They want to come here to make chaos," he said. The talks began without the presence of the rebel delegation after their UN plane was temporarily delayed in Djibouti. The UN had worked to get the rebel group to Geneva on time but "there are issues involving international aviation that are beyond the control of the UN", spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. The government delegation led by the foreign minister reiterated its demands on Sunday night, including that any ceasefire must see the militias withdraw from all territory they have conquered.


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