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Sometimes having the funk is a good thing...as in a Parliament "We need the funk! Gotta have that funk!" kind of way. Other times, though, a negative, non-germ related funk envelopes you and you find yourself fighting the funk.
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Right now, I'm at a loss. I'm fuzzy. I'm overwhelmed. I'm tired. Most of all, I'm still really, really mad.
I know I have no choice in the matter and I honestly thought I'd learned the valuable lesson of not fighting the battles in which I have no choices. I think it's a combination of looking for a job that is going to work with the needs of my family given the deployment and our upcoming adoption, the onslaught of tasks that comes with completing an international adoption, and the demands of one of the jobs I have now (big commute, low pay, you know the drill). It is difficult for me take on all the tasks and yet, have very little control over any of the decisions that need to be made.
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Sunday Trading (Amendment) Bill 2010-12
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The Bill had its first reading on 7 July 2011 through the Ten Minute Rule. The second reading was expected on 20 January 2012 but was withdrawn.
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The Principles are a general statement of the fundamental obligations of firms and the other persons to whom they apply13 under the regulatory system. This includes provisions which implement the Single Market Directives.5 They derive their authority from the FCA's11 rule-making powers as set out in the Act, including as applied by the Payment Services Regulations and the Electronic Money Regulations,13 and reflect the statutory objectives.3
As set out in PRIN 3.3 (Where?), Principles 1 (Integrity), 2 (Skill, care and diligence) and 3 (Management and control) apply to world-wide activities in a prudential context. Principle 5 (Market conduct) applies to world-wide activities which might have a negative effect on confidence in the UK financial system8. In considering whether to take regulatory action under these Principles in relation to activities carried on outside the United Kingdom, the FCA11 will take into account
Breaching a Principle makes a firm or other person to whom the Principles apply13 liable to disciplinary sanctions. In determining whether a Principle has been breached it is necessary to look to the standard of conduct required by the Principle in question. Under each of the Principles the onus will be on the FCA11 to show that a firm or other person13 has been at fault in some way. What constitutes "fault" varies between different Principles. Under Principle 1 (Integrity),
The Principles are also relevant to the FCA's14 powers of information-gathering, to vary a firm'sPart 4A permission or authorisation or registration under the Payment Services Regulations or Electronic Money Regulations13, and of investigation and intervention, and provide a basis on which the FCA14 may apply to a court for an injunction or restitution order or require a firm or other person13 to make restitution. However, the Principles do not give rise to actions for damages
1The FCA wishes to encourage firms to exercise judgement about, and take responsibility for, what the Principles mean for them in terms of how they conduct their business. But we also recognise the importance of an environment in which firms understand what is expected of them. So we have indicated that firms must be able reasonably to predict, at the time of the action concerned, whether the conduct would breach the Principles. This has sometimes been described as the "reasonable
1To determine whether there has been a failure to comply with a Principle, the standards we will apply are those required by the Principles at the time the conduct took place. The FCA will not apply later, higher standards to behaviour when deciding whether to take enforcement action for a breach of the Principles. Importantly, however, where conduct falls below expected standards the FCA considers that it is legitimate for consequences to follow, even if the conduct is widespread
The Principles are set out in PRIN 2.1.1 R. The Principles are a general statement of the fundamental obligations of firms under the regulatory system. The Principles derive their authority from the FCA's4 rule-making powers set out in section 137A4(General rule-making power) of the Act. A breach of a Principle will make a firm liable to disciplinary action. Where the FCA4 considers this is appropriate, it will discipline a firm on the basis of the Principles alone.444
1DEPP 6.2.1G(4) explains that the FCA will not take action against someone where we consider that they have acted in accordance with what we have said. However, guidance does not set out the minimum standard of conduct needed to comply with a rule, nor is there any presumption that departing from guidance indicates a breach of a rule. If a firm has complied with the Principles and other rules, then it does not matter whether it has also complied with other material the FCA has
1Guidance and supporting materials are, however, potentially relevant to an enforcement case and a decision maker may take them into account in considering the matter. Examples of the ways in which the FCA may seek to use guidance and supporting materials in an enforcement context include: (1) To help assess whether it could reasonably have been understood or predicted at the time that the conduct in question fell below the standards required by the Principles.(2) To explain the
3SUP 15.3.23 D to SUP 15.3.25 D are given in relation to the exercise of the powers of the Society and of the Council generally, with a view to achieving the objective of enabling the FCA11 to:2929(1) comply with its general duty under section 314 of the Act (Regulators'29 general duty);29(2) determine whether underwriting agents, or approved persons acting for them or on their behalf, are complying with the requirements imposed on them by or under the Act;(3) enforce the provisions
3The Society must inform the FCA11 if it commences investigations or disciplinary proceedings relating to apparent breaches:2929(1) of the Act or requirements made under the Act, including the threshold conditions or the Principles or other rules, by an underwriting agent; or(2) of the Statements of Principle by an individual or other person who carries out controlled functions for or on behalf of an underwriting agent.
1Examples of circumstances in which the FCA will consider varying a firm'sPart 4A permission because it has serious concerns about a firm, or about the way its business is being or has been conducted include where: (1) in relation to the grounds for exercising the power under section 55J(1)(a) or section 55L(2)(a) of the Act, the firm appears to be failing, or appears likely to fail, to satisfy the threshold conditions relating to one or more, or all, of its regulated activities,
Action which a firm takes either to restore its capital resources to the levels set by the intervention points in PRA2 Rulebook: Solvency II Firms: Undertakings in Difficulty or PRA Rulebook: Non-Solvency II firms: Run Off Operations2, or to prevent its capital resources falling below those points, should be consistent with Principle 6 of the FCA's Principles for Businesses. Principle 6 requires a firm to pay due regard to the interests of its customers and treat them fairly.
1Equally, however, FCA-confirmed Industry Guidance is not mandatory. The FCA does not regard adherence to Industry Guidance as the only means of complying with FCArules and Principles. Rather, it provides examples of behaviour which meets the FCA's requirements; and non-compliance with confirmed Industry Guidance creates no presumption of a breach of those requirements.
Examples of the kind of particular considerations to which the FCA may have regard when assessing whether a firm will satisfy, and continue to satisfy, this threshold condition include, but are not limited to, whether:1515(1) the firm has been open and co-operative in all its dealings with the FCA15and any other regulatory body (see Principle 11 (Relations with regulators)) and is ready, willing and organised to comply with the requirements and standards under the regulatory system
2When the FCA1 decides whether to make a prohibition order against an approved person and/or withdraw their1 approval, the FCA will consider all the relevant circumstances of the case. These may include, but are not limited to those set out below. (1) The matters set out in section 61(2) of the Act. (2) Whether the individual is fit and proper to perform functions in relation to regulated activities. The criteria for assessing the fitness and propriety of
1The FCA recognises the importance of consistency in its decision-making and that it must consider the approach previously taken to, say, the application of a particular rule or Principle in a given context. This applies equally to consideration by the RDC or by the settlement decision makers when they look at action taken by the FCA in earlier, similar, cases. This is not to say that the FCA cannot take a different view to that taken in the earlier case: the facts of two enforcement
In assessing the threshold conditions set out in paragraphs 2C and 3B of Schedule 6 to the Act6, factors which the FCA6 will take into consideration include, among other things, whether: 6(1) it is likely that the FCA6 will receive adequate information from the firm, and those persons with whom the firm has close links, to enable it to determine whether the firm is complying with the requirements and standards under the regulatory system for which the FCA is responsible6 and to
The Principles1 IntegrityA firm must conduct its business with integrity.2 Skill, care and diligenceA firm must conduct its business with due skill, care and diligence.3 Management and controlA firm must take reasonable care to organise and control its affairs responsibly and effectively, with adequate risk management systems.4 Financial prudenceA firm must maintain adequate financial resources.5 Market conductA firm must observe proper standards of market conduct.6 Customers'
1The FCA may be alerted to possible contraventions or breaches by complaints from the public or firms, by referrals from other authorities or through its own enquiries and supervisory activities. Firms may also bring their own contraventions to the FCA's attention, as they are obliged to do under Principle 11 of the Principles for Businesses and rules in the FCA's Supervision manual.
(1) In order to discharge its functions under the Act, the FCA1 needs timely and accurate information about firms. The provision of this information on a regular basis enables the FCA1 to build up over time a picture of firms' circumstances and behaviour.555(2) Principle 11 requires a firm to deal with its regulators in an open and cooperative way, and to disclose to the FCA1 appropriately anything relating to the firm of which the FCA1 would reasonably expect notice. The reporting


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Miscreation by Stefan Jakubowski
There's life. There shouldn't be. Creator Brown has been at it again. But then what can you expect from someone who occasionally ignores the odd zero; especially as he happens to work in billions and trillions. But Brown is the least of the problems for the Chief Creator who has just been handed other disturbing news. The Anarchist is about to rise; from certain bits of wreckage. Serpens the self deluded self proclaimed tutu wearing Anarchist, banished from the Hall of Creators for certain improprieties and as punishment doomed to travel the Universe for all time in a claustrophobic meteorite with his meathead minions has, as luck would have it, crash-landed on Browns misaligned calamity. Time for a plan –something he's not very good at – to escape the planet and pursue his doubtful claim to be ruler of the Universe. But it is going to take time; a whole evolution of it. Enter man. To be precise Musca "the explosion was nothing to do with me" soot smeared idiot son of the very recently deceased Chieftain. He plans to take the survivors of a certain devastating incident to a mythical land called OHM – there's no place like it. Trouble is they don't want to go. Not with him anyway.
Miscreation is certainly an enjoyable book; humorous and entertaining without being just plain silly. An easy (and possibly lazy) comparison would be the early works of Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic.
Miscreation takes the standard fantasy stereotypes and pokes fun at them in a highly affectionate way. This in itself would not be enough to sustain a full novel so the inclusion of the Anarchist Serpens and his (not so) dreadful minions adds great flavour to the story as well as providing the funniest moments (Lyra and Lupus being great characters).
My favourite moments of the book featured an old, and very smelly man called Bootes and Lupus (in the form a sheepdog who has been given the unfortunate name of Fluffy):
"Wiping running eyes with his paws, Lupus didn't need to be a detective to know that he was getting close. He stopped, it was pretty obvious that the old man had been seriously frightened, and he licked his nose; it didn't help."
Miscreation: Chapter 22
One of Stefan Jakubowski's strengths is that with a minimum of fuss he manages to create characters that instantly take form within the mind's eye (this is ably abetted by Pat Moffett's cover illustration). The story he has created is a very good one - expelled demons, incompetent creators, idiotic hero's etc… and the humour which is so vital is of a a high standard.
The main negatives for me were the author's footnotes, which may not be to everyone's taste. I also thought that the book was probably about a hundred pages too long - a firm editing hand would do wonders to this work and I'm confident that the result would be a strong and amusing addition to the fantasy genre. There are moments in Miscreation that I thought were excellent – I believe that Jakubowski is capable of producing accomplished fantasy works in the years to come.
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The big Tobacco Companies raised their tobacco product prices twice over the last two years. Is it just a coincidence that the extra profits raked in adds up to more than the fines imposed? Why does the punishment not fit the crime? Why did the criminal tobacco company exectives that masterminded the plot walk free but the tobacco farmers and their communites are the only ones who are going to suffer the penalties? What if this does not satisfy the debt to banks? WHY are the hundreds of social, civic and legal rights groups hiding their heads in the sand on this undervalued lawsuit and two tiered injustice carried out?
After three years of MP Diane Finley stating she is working hard on the tobacco file exit plan for tobacco farmers comes months of the absolute "NO" word for a buyout! Then out of the blue came the announcement, go to the Delhi Tobacco Auction Centre, Agriculture Minister and other MP's will make an announcement (Aug. 01/08) to tobacco farmers. Federal Minister Ritz stated that part of the court fine imposed would be used as the federal protion of a qouta buyout. With the provincial portion this would make a payment of $1.74 total. "No strings attached!"? With the ooh's, aah's, no's and boo's tobacco farmers felt the insulting stinging slap across their face.
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When Diane Finley was running in the last election, people were extolling her virtues. After she got elected, it was always, I am working hard on the tobacco file. Two seconds later she told farmers they had to serve their customers needs (tobacco companies). This is the last election that I will vote on. The old expression "If you do not vote, you get the government you deserve". I vote in every election but this is not the government treatment I as a Canadian Farmer needs or my community deserves. If the Haldimand-Norfolk PC Constituency Association thinks or agrees with this unjustifiable kind of two tier justice of treating criminals better than its follow citizens, then they can go to hell! Unlike the lucky tobacco companies, my famlies life and lots of others will never be normal again thanks to Daine Finley's failure to perform! With this punitive arbitrary payment, Diane Finley let the tobacco communities down. I am disapointed in her leadership as a cabinet Minister of Canada!
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Michael Bradley shows he is still the U.S.'s most important player in 2017
Ricardo Clark still remembers the first time he saw Michael Bradley play. It was 2003, during Clark's rookie campaign with the New York/New Jersey MetroStars. Bradley wasn't anything close to the star he has become. He wasn't even a professional -- just a 17-year-old kid trying to show he could hang with some of Major League Soccer's finest. Bradley didn't blink.
"He jumped into one of our training sessions," said Clark during a recent phone conversation. "He was very young at the time, but you could tell he had potential, that's for sure."
Over the next 14 years, Bradley reached that potential and then some. He played in the Bundesliga, the English Premier League and Serie A, while earning 136 caps (and counting) for the United States men's team he currently captains. Recently, he's been dominating at Toronto FC -- his stat line in a 3-1 win over the Chicago Fire: 78 touches, 65-for-68 passing (95.6 percent), 16 recoveries, three tackles and two interceptions -- while anchoring a resurgent U.S. side under coach Bruce Arena.
In 2017, Bradley has appeared in 10 games (nine starts) for the Americans. They've conceded just four goals, only one during the run of play, while going undefeated. The midfielder picked up the Golden Boot at this summer's Gold Cup despite not joining the team until the knockout round. Once again, while Bradley might not be the U.S.'s best or most skilled player, he's making a case that he's the squad's most important one.
"He's the anchor. He has that experience, that veteran leadership to hold down the midfield," said Clark, who overlapped with Bradley on the American team from 2006 to 2012. "He's able to read the game really well. Some of the work he does in some games goes unnoticed, but he's helping the team, and the team is doing well. He makes everyone around him better."
Since Arena took over, the manager has deployed Bradley as a No. 6. That position allows the TFC star to use his vision and understanding to protect the back line, break up opponents' forays forward and facilitate the attack with long diagonal passes while hiding his lack of foot speed and occasional overpursuit.
There's also no better player in the U.S. pool at filling gaps and picking spots. In Jurgen Klinsmann's constantly shifting formations and roles, Bradley never quite knew where his teammates were going to be, which made covering for them difficult. Arena has installed a more structured approach to tactics while moving Bradley back to a spot where he has most of the field in front of him.
The results are obvious. Look no further than the two heat maps below. The first shows Bradley's aggregate positioning during the last two years of Klinsmann's reign: the 2015 and 2016 friendlies, the 2015 Gold Cup, the 2015 CONCACAF Cup and the 2016 Copa America Centenario.
The second map is the midfielder during friendlies in 2017, as well as the Gold Cup.
The biggest change is the addition of the large, red blot about 10 yards behind the center circle. That's Bradley's best spot, a position from which he can quickly and easily cover most of the middle third of the field while simultaneously providing defensive cover. It's also a prime location from which to launch attacks by delivering the type of pinpoint ball over the top that Bradley can hit.
The statistics also demonstrate how Bradley, and the U.S., have benefited from Arena's renewed focus on positioning and unity. When the midfielder plays, the U.S. has given up just 0.4 goals per game under Arena compared to 1.3 during 2015 and 2016 under Klinsmann. His passing percentage has jumped from 80.3 percent to 84.9 percent while the success of the next play after the pass is up to 70.6 percent from 63.5 percent. Although the number of chances Bradley is creating decreased from 1.6 per game to 1.1, that can be explained due to playing further back (and also the emergence of Christian Pulisic's attacking brilliance). Also, Bradley's goal-scoring rate has more than doubled this year under Arena.
If there's a single moment that epitomizes Bradley's new comfort over the past nine months, it's the goal he scored against Mexico at Azteca Stadium in June. In the sixth minute, the midfielder intercepted a back-pass from Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez and launched a 40-yard effort that cleared El Tri goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa.
While the shot itself was a bit of sublime skill, it wasn't the most impressive part of the sequence. Instead, the real key was that Bradley knew the pass was coming. After the match, he said the team had studied film of the Mexican squad, saw their patterns of play and developed tactics to combat specific moments. If you watch the goal again, you can see Bradley leaving his mark and sprinting to the spot where he thinks Chicharito's pass will go. If he guessed wrong, he knew that Geoff Cameron and Omar Gonzalez would pick up the attacker he abandoned. If he guessed right, he'd have a shot at making some magic. He did, and voila ... 1-0.
Of course, Bradley hasn't been perfect. His performance in a 1-1 draw with Panama, especially, was lacking in sharpness and impact. But the 30-year-old stalwart is back playing his best ball for club and country. He's come a long way over the past decade and a half from that skinny teenager Clark first saw.
"He's definitely grown as a player," the Houston Dynamo midfielder said. "He's always had that drive and that hunger. He's always been very professional about his craft. A person like that will always step forward and grow. That's what he's done. He's gotten better in all facets. You can see the leadership qualities. It's just his presence, the respect from other players and his teammates. You can tell that he's leading by example. That's one of the most important things. He does that in training and he definitely does it in games."
"But it's pretty incredible to think that he was a teenager and that he's grown into arguably one of the best U.S. players."
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There is still just time to buy tickets for Horncastle Town FC's annual Christmas draw.
Tickets are priced at £1 each and prizes include cash at £100, £50 and £25, plus many other prizes.
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Moguls are not a subject that Snowboarders tend to get excited about and very rarely will a rider jump with joy at the mention of moguls. But, that being the case, they sometimes have to be done.
So whether it be to get to the park, or the lead up to your favourite powder stash, here are some tips that should help you get down those bumps that skiers love the most.
Confidence is key, Pick your line and go for it!
First things first, pick the line you want to take to get through the bumps. You need to fully commit to it once you have. Moguls are unforgiving beasts, 110% commitment is needed when hitting them, otherwise you're going to get thrown around.
When you first start riding bumps you'll want to go for a wider line, this will give you a lot more time to control your speed before performing your next turn. Once you get more confident using a wider line, you can get your line narrower and quicker.
Keep in mind that the lines you pick will be different to the lines that skiers go down. As a snowboarder you will be riding over the top of each mogul and turning down the face of it. This gives you a lot more time and space to perform your turns.
Stay relaxed. Use those knees!
When riding moguls, flexibility in your knees is the key. Keep your knees bent and stay relaxed - much like you should be doing while snowboarding anyway.
When riding moguls your knees should work independently of each other.
A good analogy for how your legs and knees should work is when a bike goes over a bump: the front wheel will absorb the impact first, followed by the rear wheel. This is what your legs should be doing in moguls. This can be easily practiced by simply riding straight across bumpy terrain, get your knees used to it and moguls will become ten times easier.
Vary your turns
Mogul fields aren't usually consistent all the way through. For this reason, you'll probably have to mix it up with your turns.
When riding in tighter packed mogul fields, you won't usually have the time to perform your normal sweeping turn. This is where you'll have to start using the pivot turn.
This type of turn is where you force your board around by spinning your front leg and pushing the board round with your back foot - rather than waiting for it to come around.
Practice these on groomers first. Once they're mastered it'll be another tool in your growing arsenal to tackle the bumps!
Practice practice practice
Moguls are a bit like a guitar solo: they can be fast, hard and technical but once you get into the rhythm, it'll feel awesome!
But you'll need to practice to get there. So once you've got the techniques mentioned above down the only way you're going to perfect your technique is practice.
They might not be your favourite thing to ride on but get out on those bumps now and again. There aren't many things that will work your legs like a mogul fields, if you find yourself on moguls more and more often you might even start to notice a sizeable difference in the strength in your legs!
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Reviewby Andrew Osmond,
Whisper of the Heart
Shizuku is an imaginative middle-school girl, living with her family in a Tokyo suburb. She loves reading and inventing stories, and is intrigued by a male name that keeps turning up on the library cards of the books she borrows. Following a stray cat, she finds a lovely antique shop, where a dapper cat doll ("The Baron") intrigues her further. Meanwhile, a strange schoolboy delights in aggravating her. All these things are connected, in ways Shizuku could never guess…
Viewed one way, Whisper of the Heart, Studio Ghibli's 1995 film which has just debuted on British Blu-ray, is simply a cute teen drama. In fact, it's far more: a fusion of dream and reality, an ode to hope and happiness, and perhaps the strongest post-Totoro manifesto of what the Ghibli studio means. All this in a story which couldn't be more commonplace; a bright 14 year-old schoolgirl having her first experience of love in modern-day Tokyo.
Whisper was meant as a new start, Ghibli's first cinema film not directed by either of its star auteurs, Hayao Miyazaki or Isao Takahata. Shortly before Whisper, Miyazaki told the U.S. magazine Animerica, "I'd like to retire before someone suggests it to me." He storyboarded Whisper, but handed its direction to Yoshifumi Kondo. An animator and designer, Kondo was a veteran with decades of experience, unlike any of the "new" Ghibli directors since (Hiroyuki Morita, Goro Miyazaki and Arrietty's Hiromasa Yonebayashi.) Miyazaki himself called Kondo, "One of the best among the hundreds of animators I ever met." Kondo's early death in 1998, like Satoshi Kon's passing in 2010, closed off one of anime's brightest futures.
The film starts with schoolgirl Shizuku greeting a sunny morning over her town, before being she's drawn, Alice-like, along a paper-trail of small strange things. First there's an indifferent fat cat on a train who leads Shizuku on a merry chase up hill, over fence and through alley to an antique shop. The shop holds an array of gorgeous things, most enchantingly an emerald-eyed cat doll called the Baron that seems to reflect and transform the customer's melancholia (and at fourteen, Shizuku is learning about melancholy). The doll also has a special meaning for the shop's aged owner, who in turn is linked unexpectedly to… ah, but that'd be telling.
The film's point is that nothing is small or commonplace if you see it through the right eyes; the eyes of an imaginative young girl, or those of a Ghibli artist drawing her world in exquisite detail. The minor and mundane in Whisper become starting points for wondrous stories. When the girl sees the cat taking the train, her reaction isn't to cry "Cute!"; rather it's to ask the cat (whom she politely calls "Neko-kun") where he's going. That the cat doesn't answer doesn't discourage her; rather, it deepens the mystery and inspires her to follow. In his written film proposal (reprinted in the book Starting Point), Miyazaki explained that Whisper was aimed at viewers who "tend to give up too easily on the idea of being the star of their own stories."
The boy whom Shizuku encounters is functional in plot terms, but shows a wicked sense of humour early on, needling Shizuku about her poetry and lunch bag (though Shizuku's maddened reactions to him are funnier). His halting eloquence later is charming, which is lucky for him, as some of his behaviour could be construed as stalking! Although Whisper comes from a girls' manga by Aoi Hiiragi, the love scenes smack of monochrome Hollywood romance, even when played by Japanese schoolkids making heartfelt confessions on a rainy school roof. To quote Miyazaki's proposal again: "As Chaplin's films demonstrated, simply meeting a member of the opposite sex can be an uplifiting experience."
The most real people in Whisper, though, are the support cast. One of Whisper's charms is their ordinary lives are hinted to be quite as interesting as Shizuku's (and as deserving of their own films). There's Shizuku's adult sister, who sleeps in the bunk over hers in their small apartment and is believably irritated by her bratty kid sister. Their mother is a mature student who's plainly given Shizuku her independent streak. Shizuku's closest schoolmates are a girl and a boy, playing through a drama we only half-see (look for their return during the end credits). The film's men, Shizuku's dad and the antique shop owner, blend into one kindly teaching figure, responding to a girl with a budding heart and spirit.
The Blu-ray splendidly displays Whisper's hyperreal detail, perhaps unmatched in any other Ghibli film. It's in the cosy clutter of Shizuku's flat; in the play of sunbeams at dawn, noon and twilight; in the panoramic Tokyo landscapes seen from the terraced slopes of Tama Hills (Whisper's real setting); and in the string-plucking fingers of a bit-part band of musicians, who turn up for a single scene to accompany Shizuku through an impromptu performance of "Country Road."
For anyone wanting proof of how the Blu-ray picture improves on the already-available Whisper DVD, look at the last scene, which includes a shot of Tokyo in the dawn mist. The highrise buildings have tiny red aircraft-warning lights, barely visible on the DVD, but standing out clearly on Blu-ray.
The extras are largely about the artist Naohisa Inoue, who painted the bogglingly intricate, bejewelled fantasy landscapes in Whisper's brief dream scenes. There's a slideshow of his background art, which would be much easier to appreciate in a book. A "Four Masterpieces" feature shows how Inoue's paintings are constructed through dozens of impressionist layers, but you wish the artist was on hand to talk through his creations. There's a standard-order "Behind the Microphone" featurette on the dub cast; it includes British actor Cary Elwes, who reprises his role as the cat-doll "The Baron," having already played the character in Disney's dub of Ghibli's later film, The Cat Returns. The Blu-ray also includes Whisper's Japanese cinema trailer and TV spots.
Overall : A
Overall (sub) : A
Story : A
Animation : A
Art : A+
Music : A
+ A resplendent transfer of a timeless anime classic.
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Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline
I confess: I wish I'd written this book. I'm just a little bit too young – my brother, three years my senior, was the one who rode his bike down to the corner drugstore to play the new Pac-Man game when it arrived; I remember him telling the family about it, and being confused: so you eat the ghosts? – and not quite geeky enough, especially when it comes to Japanese anime and robot/monster shows, which I never got into. I watched Voltron (Both versions – everybody remembers the lions, but does anyone else remember the Voltron made of cars? Much cooler.) and StarBlazers and G-Force, but that's about it. Fast forward a few years to Transformers and G.I. Joe, to Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, which featured a light gun shaped like a jet fighter that you could shoot at the TV screen and score hits on the bad guys, and I'm all in. I did play the role-playing games, and I watched the movies – War Games and Monty Python and the Holy Grail are also two of my favorites – but I never had an Atari 2600, so I never played Adventure seriously – just a few times at a friend's house, where I got stomped by the dragons and opted for Pitfall or Centipede or Missile Command instead – and I never found the Easter egg in that pixellated dungeon.
So I couldn't really have written this book, which explores geek culture from the 1980's to a depth that I could not hope to plumb. But I am so very glad that Ernest Cline wrote this book, because I loved it. Absolutely loved it.
The book is about a video game challenge. It is set about 40 years into our future, when the internet has become a single enormous virtual reality environment, built by a Bill Gates-like figure who focused on video game design rather than operating systems and world domination. When this gaming guru dies, he creates a challenge for everyone in the system he created (which is essentially everyone around the world, in one way or another): find the secret challenges he left, conquer them, and you inherit his entire vast fortune, and control of the virtual world. And because this man grew up in the 1980's, the entire thing is one enormous trip through the world of reminiscence: a kind of "I Love the 80's" that focuses exclusively on geek culture and touches every part of life.
This is the first book in a long time that I actually didn't want to put down, and at the same time, didn't regret reading straight through: the excitement is excellent, but it isn't constant, and so it didn't feel exhausting. The dystopian elements were highly disturbing to me, particularly the mobile home "stacks" and the indentured servitude that came as a result of credit card debt, but they were wonderfully well done – and I especially liked that Cline also included some positive aspects: the idea of virtual school, with the improvements and limits that Cline describes, would be a dream come true for me, as an introvert who teaches high school English but would really like to spend lots of time playing video games and living through role playing adventures. I also loved that Cline managed to create realistic and genuine human interactions both within and apart from the virtual world; by the end, I wasn't really sure if the hero would win the game, but I was really just hoping that he'd win the girl.
I identified with the characters, loved the plot and the adventure, and was completely enchanted by both the setting and the nostalgia. This is a geek masterpiece. You have my gratitude, Mr. Cline. Excelsior!


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Experiencing the Chuckanuts. Explore the natural wonders, history, and ecology of the beautiful Chuckanut Mountains just south of Bellingham. We'll hike the approximately four miles to Cedar Lake and back, stopping for some fun activities and to enjoy the scenery along the way. Get ready to experience magnificent Douglas-fir and cedar forests, look for autumn mushrooms, and see the unique Chuckanut Sandstone formations.
When: Sunday, October 21st, 11:00am to about 5:00pm*
Where: Meet at the North Chuckanut Mountain Trailhead** (a 10 minute drive or 20 minute bike ride from WWU).
Cost: Suggested donation $10. Register here.
Reconnect Earth's Fall Student Activist Retreat. Spend Friday evening through Sunday morning building community organizing skills and networking with peers while taking a break from school to enjoy Washington's beautiful, life-supporting coastline. The weekend's activities will include trainings and workshops on grassroots advocacy, activism skills, and harnessing our potential as agents of positive change. We'll also have time to explore the vibrant coastal and estuary ecosystems around Bay View State Park near Mount Vernon. Meals and overnight lodging in a pair of rustic cabins are provided. This trip is best suited to participants with a strong interest in grassroots change and environmental and social justice.
When: 5:00pm Friday, October 26th through 10:00am Sunday, October 28th.
Where: Bay View State Park** (about a 30 minute drive from Bellingham, email email@example.com for carpool information).
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Searching for Fall Salmon. Look for migrating fall salmon as they move upstream to spawn. The Northwest's salmon are an iconic, keystone species on which the health of our forests and marine ecosystems depends. We'll search for adult salmon returning to their natal streams. Prepare to be amazed by the sight of these huge, and hugely important fish migrating through the heart of Whatcom County.
When: Saturday, November 10th, 1:00 to about 4:00pm*
Where: Meet at Arroyo Park,** in the parking area off Old Samish Road (a 10 minute drive or 20 minute bike ride from WWU).
Cost: Suggested donation $10. Register here.
Exploring the Nooksack. Experience late autumn and look for birds and other wildlife along the Nooksack River, one of Whatcom County's most important waterways. We'll take a slow-paced stroll through wetlands and along the riverbank, pausing to enjoy sights along the way and discuss some of the ecological challenges in the Nooksack watershed. This day trip is an especially great option for those with limited mobility or who simply enjoy taking things slowly.
When: Saturday, December 1st, 1:00 to about 4:00pm*
Where: Meet at Hovander Homestead Park** north boat launch parking lot (a 20 minute drive from WWU, also accessible by bus).
Cost: Suggested donation $10. Register here.
*Please note that the listed end time for this trip is an approximation. We suggest not making plans that depend on arriving back at our end point by this estimated time.
**Reconnect Earth respectfully acknowledges that all of our Fall 2018 trips are located in the traditional, sovereign territory of Indigenous peoples including the Lummi and Nooksack, who have cared for these lands and waters since time immemorial and continue to do so today.


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Switzerland has denied a claim by Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido that he spoke to the Swiss president about freezing bank accounts of Venezuelan officials after "irregular movements" were discovered.
Guaido made the claim on Mexican television, according to Reuters and DPA news agencies. He said they had spoken on Wednesday morning but did not mention Swiss President Ueli Maurer by name.
However, Swiss foreign ministry spokesman Pierre-Alain Eltschinger said the information was not correct. "There was no contact between Mr. Gauido and President Maurer," he told swissinfo.ch on Wednesday evening when asked for confirmation.
Guaido said the Venezuelan government held bank accounts in Switzerland and that irregular efforts to migrate part of those accounts to "another site" had been detected. "We are doing everything possible to protect these assets that belong to the republic," Reuters quoted him as saying.
Three weeks ago Guaido declared himself interim president of Venezuela, arguing that Nicolas Maduro's re-election last year was a sham. Most Western countries have recognized him as legitimate head of state, but Maduro still has the backing of Russia and China, as well as control of state institutions. Switzerland has not recognized him, saying that it recognizes states, not governments.


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day 27 of the 30 day blog challenge. 3 more days to go!
still swamped with work, so for now, a line up of blog entries that will be published:
– finally getting into pottermore
– k1 & k2's test results
– a trip to the ER with k3
– k1's career day as a race car driver
– semi-birthday blues
off the top of my head, these are the things that i should've published, but still on paper.
hopefully before the month ends or by next week, these things will be published.
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United's first 737 MAX 9 made its initial appearance in full paint on Friday evening. The aircraft, which is due to start service on June 7, sported a different livery compared to its 737 counterparts.
The 737 MAX 9 mirrors the livery on the carrier's 787 aircraft, which is slightly modified to follow the lines on Boeing's house colors. It is unclear why United chose the 737 MAX 9 to appear in this paint scheme as the airline's newer 777-300ERs wear the standard livery.
A photo of the carrier's first MAX aircraft was sent in an internal memo to employees. A United spokesperson was not immediately available to comment on the jet's refreshed paint scheme.
United's 'globe' livery isn't the most popular, especially after it overtook the iconic 'tulip' design during the United and Continental merger in 2010. The so-called 'tulip,' which appeared in three separate liveries, was introduced in the 1970s. United commissioned esteemed-designer Saul Bass who came up with the pre-merger logo.
When United took delivery of its first Boeing 787 Dreamliner in 2012, the aircraft wore a modified version of the 'globe' design, and the rest of the airline's Dreamliner fleet followed suit. United currently maintains a fleet of 37 787 Dreamliner jets.
As for United's 737 MAX 9, the airline plans to launch it on June 7 from Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH). Nine destinations have been announced thus far for the 737 MAX 9 on a mix of short to medium range routes. On June 7, the aircraft is slated to operate five routes, including flights from Houston-IAH to Anchorage, Austin, Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando, and San Diego.
The aircraft will see 179 seats onboard and will feature United First, Economy Plus, and Economy cabins. The aircraft will have inflight Wi-Fi and in-seat power along with personal entertainment options.
The 737 MAX 9 will join United's fleet of 737-700, 737-800, and 737-900ER aircraft. In total, United has 135 737 MAX aircraft on order, according to Boeing's website.
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Kaash….Maybe if….. Kaash… Chapter 19
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In the Shimal- Chennai flight………
As soon as the flight took off Kartik moved towards Meghna for his answers…..
Kartik: Well I borded the flight as you said. Now it's your turn so start speeking.
Meghna: Well what do you want to know? Ask…….
Kartik: Well how about your childhood which you were so mysterious about to start with.
Meghna: Ok fine listen…….. I was born as Anantmaya Devi Varma, in a small village near Palaghat, Kerala. We were a happy family consisting of my mother Geeta, my Avi cheeten bhiya, and appa Vijay Pratap . Although Appa was in constant travel but we really used to enjoy the short period he was with us. Life was heaven in those days…….. I was appa's princesses. But as grew up his visits started becoming shorter. Amma used to cry constantly at night but I never knew the reason. But as the days passed by his visit was marked by only fights between him and Amma. I being a eight year old never understood what was going on, my chetan used take me to other room as my parents fought. I can never forget the night he visited us last………..
Meghna's Flashback……….
Geeta: Why the hell have you came here Vijay? Just go back………….. Go back to your wife and kids….. They are waiting for you.
Vijay: Just listen to me once Geeta….. (trying to calm her down and pleade)
Geeta: What must I listen Vijay, isn't it enough that I have been listening to your lies all this years, believing you….
Vijay: Geeta try to under me I was helpless………
Geeta: Wow you were helpless…….. do you even know the meaning of that word. I will tell you what is helpless….. Helpless is when you left your family for the man you loved and he cheats you…… Helpless is when your son asks you some questions about his father and you don't have an answer……. Helpless is when your friends call you whore, house breaker, another women etc and you can't answer back as you know some where they are right….. (Sarcastically)
Vijay: Come on Geeta you are no such thing…….
Geeta: Really Vijay then tell me who am I? What is the status of me and my children in your life? Tell me?
Vijay: Geeta you are my wife my love…. And Anu and Avi are symbols of our love……..
Geeta: Wow than, let's go to your father. Tell him that you have a family here, whom you visit monthly….. Tell our kids your real name and why do they don't share your last name… Tell your wife and kids that you have another family here in kerala and they meet their half siblings……
Vijay: Geeta you know I can't do that, I am helpless……
Geeta: There you go again, helpless. You were helpless when you married, you were helpless when you had three kids with that lady, you were helpless when you need to talk to your father…….. Now you what I am helpless………. Helpless to open the door of this house for you again, helpless to even let my kids talk to you, I am just helpless Vijay go….. and never return…… (crying)
Vijay: You can't do this me Geeta…….. You are wife….. They are my kids……. Anu can't live without me……
Geeta: Go Vijay don't create a scene here in front of kids………..
Meghna: My father left that day and did not come back. I never understood why he left us, but whenever I used to talk about him Amma used to get angry and chetan just shut himself off. As the days went by the questions of neighbors also increased finally we left that place and came to Trivandrum where one of Amma's friends lived. Life there was never easy but we tried to find happiness in whatever little we had. Amma went to work as maid and cheten left school for driving auto. I was bright student and always studied with scholarships. But my life came crashing the day of my 10th standard exam result day.
I remembered that like it had happened yesterday only…… I was at my friend Riya's house waiting for news paper as we did not have one at our place…. As soon as paper came her father took it to see her result she had scored first division and there was a celebration at her place the paper was passed along with the sweet box and payasam( a type of kheer) like a trophy.
It was nearly two hours after that I finally got the paper to check my result, I was ready to faint with tension. I knew if I failed then my Amma and cheten won't be able to take it, I wished to pass as I never had tuitions or guides like kids, just self study.
As I was trying to search for my roll number, I heard the taunt from Riya's mother that now a day's even the maid's kids see the news paper for results what will they do by passing when they have to wash someone's plates only
I just ignored her words though they cut me like a blade and started searching for my roll number, but I was shocked to find it nowhere.
But that was not what brooked me but a photograph in the next page that showed my father with his kids and wife inaugurating a new factory in his village. I was shattered beyond repairs. I could never believe my father for whom I cried day and night was enjoying with his wife and kids when my Amma and cheten had nearly lost lives. I felt betrayal at its worst…..
Soon I started to cry, Riya was shocked of my behavior and took the paper from my hand and started to search for my roll number. Soon my sobs were broken by a shrilling shout of Riya. I did not kew what happen….
She just started jumping around and picked me up to dance with me. I could not understand what had happened. Just has her parents came to room she took a deep breath and said
Riya: You know mom why she is crying? (excitingly)
Riya's Mom: Why had she failed? I knew it….. (laughing)
Riya: No mom don't be crazy she has passed…….. (Shouting with joy)
I was shocked now I did not find my roll number there…..
Riya's Mom: So why are you shouting, you too passed that too with first division…… (Sarcastically)
Riya: No mom you don't understand, she just didn't pass she has topped in entire Kerala state…… She is the first rank holder………..
Riya's Mom: Are you sure Riya have you checked it correctly, check again it's not possible.
Riya: Well mom its true our scholar Anu has done it again. The impossible…..
As she said those words I was not able to understand her fully, I was still in daze from the other news. All the people were congratulating me but I was just moving towards my home like a dead body…
Nothing mattered, not smiles, not happiness, nothing. Only thing that mattered was the lie I was living till date, the lie that was my father, the lie that was my existence. Nothing more………….
A heart felt SORRY to all my readers…. I could not update this story for nearly one month SORRY…… I had my exams and was pretty busy. But I promise to make up for it and also promise to give you regular updates please bear with me…..
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Leadership Berkeley is a 10-month program that opens doors for business and community leaders who have the desire to understand all the major components of Greater Berkeley County; along with the aspiration to have the knowledge to help shape the future of our area. This program offers an opportunity to meet with local and state leaders while gaining knowledge of the issues and what makes Berkeley County continue to prosper.
The program begins with a two-day orientation, where you and your classmates will gain valuable leadership training while starting your lifelong bond. Then, once a month, you will enjoy hands-on opportunities and on-site sessions at various agencies, government entities and organizations throughout the county.
…a program that opens doors for business and community leaders…
A Unique Education
How Will Leadership Berkeley Help Further My Career?
Leadership Berkeley provides a unique education, while helping you develop important connections. The lifelong relationships you establish with your Leadership Berkeley classmates will carry over to both your business and personal life. Additionally, the opportunities to meet and discuss with the business/community leaders and elected officials gives you the insight to better understand and even help address critical issues affecting our region and state.
How Does My Company Benefit?
…an expert understanding of the inner-workings of Berkeley County.
Our proven leadership program will help develop and refine a multitude of skills – from leadership, to interpersonal communications and cultivating relationships. Your participation will also increase your company's community exposure. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to help your company:
- Develop new business leads
- Create marketing opportunities
- Explore new ways your company can diversify their offerings
- Provide professional development training opportunities for fellow employees
Leadership Berkeley was established in 1989. Up to twenty-five participants are selected annually. The selectees represent diverse industries from various parts of our region. If you are committed to the ongoing growth and future development of one of South Carolina's fastest growing counties, then we invite you to become one of the over 500 community leaders who proudly call themselves Leadership Berkeley alumni.
By the time you graduate, you will have gained an expert understanding of the inner-workings of Berkeley County.
Sessions & Topics Include
Orientation/Leadership Traits Development – Two-day training to bring the group together to learn the different leadership traits and styles.
History/Culture – From the forming of our county to the hidden historic treasures, learn the foundation which made Berkeley County strong and prosperous. This session includes a tour of plantation homes that are not open to the public.
Government – Learn more about how local and state government entities operate and integrate with business. Meet personally with the area's most prominent leaders, from local mayors and the Berkeley County Supervisor to members of the SC State House and SC Senate.
Economic Development – See why international companies such as Google, DuPont and Volvo choose to call Berkeley County home. Includes a tour of the Port of Charleston – one of the premier economic engines in the state.
Law Enforcement/Judiciary – Focus on all legal aspects of the court system, from law enforcement, to incarceration. Includes a tour of a correctional facility.
Environmental – Focus on the environmental issues facing our state and nation. Explore several of the environmental facilities in Berkeley County.
Healthcare – Spend a jammed packed day hearing from experts on the social issues being addressed in Berkeley County along with visiting healthcare provider facilities.
2018 Leadership Berkeley Highlights
"The diversity and strengths of Berkeley County were on display during the leadership program along with the challenges the area faces. The program provides a great opportunity to learn how you as an individual can work to positively impact the community. Additionally, you will meet people and form relationships that strengthen and enhance the work of improving the lives of Berkeley County residents."
"I would highly encourage participation in the Leadership Berkeley program. Because I am new to the area, this program has given me the opportunity to learn about the history and the many aspects of Berkeley County. Leadership Berkeley has also given me the opportunity to meet other professionals and expand my professional network."
"Leadership Berkeley has afforded me the great pleasure of meeting, learning, and developing relationships with some of our great thought leaders in the area."
"The Leadership Berkeley program gave me the opportunity to see first-hand how this community we call home operates as a living, breathing body with so many moving parts and connected pieces."


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From Britney's Facebook page,
"BS Alert! Find out who's reporting bull$#!t about Britney this week -Adam, Manager"
Yeah, Perez did it again. The buzz about Britney having a reality tv show yesterday is NOT TRUE according to Brit's manager. And who's started all the gossip? Yes, Perez Hilton again.
p/s : You guys can read about the buzz on our previous post


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This week featured a lot at the start and at the end which means it's anchored by some solid gold gems…more so on the earlier side..literally. It really did in fact…wake up like dis:
Beyoncé Performs Entire Visual Album at VMAs – The world, in unison, says "YAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!"
This gif of Gwen Stefani ^
Breaking Bad dominates the Emmy's – Because…well if you need to know why…you clearly need to watch the show.
Hello Kitty Not an Actual Cat – White American girls reach new level of "can't even."
The children in Ethiopia…have yet to comment.
Joan Rivers stops breathing. Revived. In Stable, yet critical condition – Don't even joke like that!
The Champion of the Week goes to Joan Rivers, for looking death in the face and saying, "NOT TODAY, SATAN!"
Disagree? Well Chiffon tells me it's ok for some people to have other opinions…Chiffon and I often disagree…but she needs proof.
Can't wait for next week when pop culture get's cute…or so it says.
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Pioneer Electronics Unveils the SVM-1000
Pioneer Electronics has unveiled the SVM-1000, the world's first reference audio and video combination mixer designed for elite DJs, VJs and club venues to enhance their audio/video performance and provide their patrons and fans with an all encompassing sensory experience. In addition to mixing audio and video, the SVM-1000 mixer incorporates a built-in 11-inch LCD touch-panel display, symmetric channel layout, 4-channel audio and video inputs, Still Image Sampler and hundreds of combinations of video effects. Features and audio mixing capabilities of the SVM-1000 are similar to the industry standard Pioneer DJM-1000/800 mixers, which give DJs and VJs the creative freedom to easily build and create synchronized visual effects to accompany their audio mix for a complete entertainment encounter.
The SVM-1000 mixer was designed to easily integrate into a club environment's DJ booth due to its physical traits. The face of the mixer incorporates a "channel symmetric layout" featuring an 11-inch LCD touch panel in the center of the mixer. With a quick touch of the screen, video manipulation follows the audio with fluid transition.
SVM-1000 Features Include:
- Multiple Video Blending Technology - DJs can synchronize audio and video with up to four sources simultaneously. Each of the four channels features independent fading and equalization for traditional mixing techniques. The mixer is also capable of sound-only or visual-only control for creative mixing according to the DJ/VJ style. For enhanced visuals of any mix, the cross fader is capable of various video effects such as FADE, WIPE and CHROMAKEY.
- Audio Video Effect Function - An Audio Video Effect function enables the user to fully synchronize audio and video effects utilizing a built-in 11-inch touch-panel LCD display. With up to 30 built-in audio and video effects, users have the ability to quickly create exciting visual treatments orchestrated to music. When video isn't available from a source, such as a CD, the DJ can still create a visual performance through pre-loaded graphics and images accessed from an animated on-screen icon for quick selection.
- AV Beat Effect: The mixer automatically detects the tempo of the music and synchs it with the video content. Twelve beat effects are available including Delay, Echo, Pan, Transformer, Filter, Flanger, Phaser, Reverb, Robot, Chorus, Roll and Reverse Roll which can also be combined with other visual effects such as Inverse, Edge and Hue for numerous arrangements.
- AV Touch Effect: Taking advantage of the large touch-screen display, users can quickly access 12 touch effect patterns including Ripple, Lens, Spot, Radiation, Cube, Block, Kaleidoscope, Twist, Zoom, Drop, Blur and Distortion. Each effect contains four parameters to create different variations on the screen.
- Text Effect: Custom text messages can also be displayed to the tempo of the music in various beat-linked expressions. Six text patterns are available including Random, Zoom, Block, Rotation, Crush and Slide which can also be inputted through its built-in USB connection.
- JPEG Viewer Function - The SVM-1000 lets users incorporate their own images and photos from an external memory device for use in their performance through a SD slot and USB connection. Its "Still Image Sampler" further enhances visuals by mixing images, such as logos of DJs, events or sponsors with videos or other still images with the ability to loop and play them as a slide show.
- Audio and Video Quality:
1) Audio: The mixer employs 96 kHz / 24-bit digital sampling and a 32-bit Digital Signal Processor for the highest quality audio. The SVM-1000 integrates various features to maximize audio quality: high rigidity chassis for minimizing unnecessary vibration, dual-shield structure for eliminating digital noise and high performance / low noise power supply for clean and powerful sound.
2) Video: The video signal input through the Analog to Digital Converter is image processed at 600MHz / 32-bit / 4800MIPS (Million Instructions per Second) to maintain high dynamic range and minimized noise resulting in accurate and clear visuals.
Other Performance Features Include:
- Video Trim: Enables adjustment of brightness for each input video channel;
- Video EQ: Assignment of video parameters such as RGB, contrast, hue or saturation allows equalization and synchronization of audio and video;
- Fader Start: Allows the cross fader to start other Pioneer players;
- Fully Assignable MIDI: Control of external MIDI equipment such as effectors or DJ/VJ computer software;
- Video Monitor Select: One touch on-screen video selection.
The SVM-1000 will be available in February 2008.
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This is a collection of some of my favorite vintage graphite pencil drawings produced from 2001 to 2006. I was living in Lake City and then in Cannon Falls, Minnesota where I still reside. Some have greater levels of detail than others. Enjoy!
Graphite Portraits of People
Graphite Portraits of Dogs, Fish & Their People
Below are some links to get more detailed info on some of these drawings. You can see the reference photos used as well as any partial proofs that were documented.
Fish Drawings with Reference Photos
Dog Drawings with Reference Photos
Complex Pencil Portrait Reference Photos & Blog Article


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Lizard eater, was also inspired by a dream. I dreamed about a sea and waves inside a small room. The waves were sparkling, and there was a small figure sitting on a closet. It ate lizards.
Donara Manuk
Lizard eater
Year: 2015 Form of art: Painting Style: Conceptual Technique: oil, canvas Size: 50.00 x 40.00 x 1.50 cm 320€
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Just What is Wellness
The term Wellness is still very ambiguous to the general public, even Wikipedia refers out to either the health medicine page or the alternative medicine page. Wellness is being in good health with a general optimism for life, accepting of self and others with forward movement towards happiness. Wellness definitions are as diverse and unique as each individual human being. Wellness is universal and understood cross culturally and inter-generational just as the arts, music, dance and love.
Wellness Definitions
- Wellness can be defined as your daily feelings about your total wellbeing, the status of your overall physical, mental and emotional health on a continual basis. Or the level of clarity, strength and peace of your mind, body and spirit.
- The American Heritage Medical Dictionary defines wellness as: The condition of good physical, mental and emotional health, especially when maintained by an appropriate diet, exercise, and other lifestyle modifications.
- The Dictionary.com defines wellness as: 1. the quality or state of being healthy in body and mind, especially as the result of deliberate effort. 2. an approach to healthcare that emphasizes preventing illness and prolonging life, as opposed to emphasizing treating diseases.
Baseline Wellness
Here are two major components that determine an individual's baseline health and wellness or state of wellbeing: the medical definition and the spiritual definition.
Conventional medicine is concerned with the body's systems – circulatory, digestive, endocrine, immune, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respiratory, skeletal, and urinary. Each system has a standard of health by which a medical doctor would measure a patient's good health.
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) analyzes all of those systems, then measures each functioning capacity right along side the current state of the patient's the mind, body and spirit. This physician would then make an assessment on the overall health and wellness of that patient.
Generally speaking, the difference between conventional and CAM is in the initial approach to these systems and their possible illnesses, and expected outcome of each patient. Conventional medicine is focused on treating the systems of diseases with pharmaceutical drugs and surgeries. CAM is focused on treating diseases by allowing the body to heal itself using nature and modern science as its guide, using homeopathic and botanical medicine and clinical nutrition. Conventional medicine uses numerical standards as guidelines to help a patient return to a national standard of good health. CAM is also follows the same numerical standards as conventional medicine and go one step further by prescribing healthy therapies to prevent the return on the illness or disease.
In the big picture of health and wellness, we need both disciplines – conventional and CAM. Here is an extreme example of why there is a need for both – if you're in a car accident you certainly want to go the emergency room. For a complete satisfying recovery from the accident, you may want to add massage, Reiki, healing touch, acupuncture and other healing modalities to strengthen the muscles, bones and ease the pain.
Wellness And The Stress Factor
How well you handle stress is an enormous indicator of your present state of well being. Many healers agree that stress is the major cause of all illnesses and diseases. The body receives the stress when it is internalized because the person is unable to release the tension either by physically shaking it off through exercise or movement, through conversations in counseling or mediation or writing it down in a journal or letter. This internal stress or anxiety effects every cell in the body and shows up as headaches, increased heart rate, high blood pressure, digestion problems, breathing difficulties, skin disorders such as eczema, acne, dandruff and more. The ability to react calmly to stressful situations is high functioning optimal wellness.
Mind, Body And Spirit
Spiritual wellness is generally measured by an individual's level of inner peace. Religion and faith in one's daily life are indications of an openness to attain spiritual wellbeing. Several pathways to spiritual awareness require a quiet and calm environment for prayer, meditation or deep breathing. Those who find these paths too "still" look towards movement to tap into their spirit. These pathways include yoga, dance, Qi gong, tai chi, stretching, massages, walking, singing, chanting, repeating mantras while rocking, listening to and playing music and the list goes on. After all the activity settles, it is usually in the quiet hours when on experiences a union with their spirit, their source of inner peace.


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How reviews can drive traffic to your business…
In the hospitality industry reviews are a key part to the success of any business.
Up to 80% of travellers check reviews before booking a hotel and surveys indicate reading six to eight reviews is about average per person.
Statistically, businesses that engage on review sites perform better.
Upon analysing its own customer review data, TripAdvisor finds that highly engaged businesses receive:
•4 times more page views than those who don't
•63 percent higher popularity ranking average and higher visibility (visible to approximately 66 percent of travellers and searchers)
•30 to 40 percent more traveler interaction with revenue-driving products
Communicate with your customer base!
Read and respond to your reviews! Address any issues you can that are brought up in any negative reviews; and don't forget to thank writers of positive reviews. Keeping your website as up to date as possible is also very important, because potential customers frequently turn to reviews to get information they were unable to find on your website.
(A great review example from our Approved Serviced Apartments booking.com page)
Encourage interaction.
Encourage people to share their experiences wit you! Whether positive or negative, on Facebook or Twitter, as it's simple to manage and respond to them there. Don't delete any negative comments unless they are in any way abusive or profane and address the customer's concerns carefully and empathetically.
Regularly track and listen to what customers are saying online, across multiple review sites and customer feedback platforms. Take all advise on board as it helps build your business and gives insight into how you are portrayed to your customer base, and what improvements and adjustments can be made.
Websites with reviews perform better. Fact. Of course we all want to cut out OTA's and agent fee's because it's better for profit, and this can be done with reviews, as it keeps customers on your website, rather than having to dig around for customer reviews.
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David Fernandez-Blanco
Earth Scientist in Spain
My research interest is focused on understanding tectonic, geophysical and geodynamic processes and how they influence the surface of the Earth, especially at larger spatial scales. More specifically, I am interested in studying cross-disciplinary questions of geodynamics and lithospheric evolution by analysing concomitant deformation and sedimentation structures. I am very enthusiastic about unravelling the large-scale geological evolution of orogens and basins via integration of data derived from rock deformation, mechanics, geophysics and tectonics.


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