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Fake News Purveyors Cheer On, Echo Trump Team's Lies About Inauguration Crowd Size
Many Of These Sites Use Google's Advertising Network
Following demonstrably false statements made by President Trump and White House press secretary Sean Spicer that Trump's inauguration ceremony had "the largest audience to witness an inauguration," numerous websites that Media Matters has identified as purveyors of fake news cheered on Spicer for his comments or attempted to verify his false claims. Nearly all of these websites are still supported, in part, by revenue from Google's advertising service and many attempted to brand mainstream media reporting about the crowds as "fake news."
White House Press Secretary Lies That Trump's Inauguration Drew "The Largest Audience To Ever Witness An Inauguration"
NY Times: Trump Press Secretary Spicer Falsely Claims Trump Drew "The Largest Audience To Ever Witness An Inauguration." The New York Times reported that White House press secretary Sean Spicer held a briefing where he "scolded reporters and made a series of false statements" about the inauguration crowd size, including that Trump drew "the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration." The Times noted that "photographs clearly show [Spicer's statement] to be false" and that Spicer used incorrect figures when describing ridership on Washington's metro system. From the January 21 report:
Later, at the White House, [President Donald Trump] dispatched Sean Spicer, the press secretary, to the briefing room in the West Wing, where Mr. Spicer scolded reporters and made a series of false statements.
He said news organizations had deliberately misstated the size of the crowd at Mr. Trump's inauguration on Friday in an attempt to sow divisions at a time when Mr. Trump was trying to unify the country, warning that the new administration would hold them to account.
Mr. Spicer said that Mr. Trump had drawn "the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration," a statement that photographs clearly show to be false. Mr. Spicer said photographs of the inaugural ceremonies were deliberately framed "to minimize the enormous support that had gathered on the National Mall," although he provided no proof of either assertion.
Photographs of Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009 and of Mr. Trump's plainly showed that the crowd on Friday was significantly smaller, but Mr. Spicer attributed that disparity to new white ground coverings he said had caused empty areas to stand out and to security measures that had blocked people from entering the Mall.
"These attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful and wrong," Mr. Spicer said. He also admonished a journalist for erroneously reporting on Friday that Mr. Trump had removed a bust of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from the Oval Office, calling the mistake — which was corrected quickly — "egregious."
And he incorrectly claimed that ridership on Washington's subway system was higher than on Inauguration Day in 2013. In reality, there were 782,000 riders that year, compared with 571,000 riders this year, according to figures from the Washington-area transit authority.
Mr. Spicer also said that security measures had been extended farther down the National Mall this year, preventing "hundreds of thousands of people" from viewing the ceremony. But the Secret Service said the measures were largely unchanged this year, and there were few reports of long lines or delays. [The New York Times, 1/21/17]
PolitiFact Debunked Spicer's False Claims And Rated Them "Pants On Fire." According to PolitiFact, "Spicer offered a few pieces of misleading or inaccurate evidence" regarding the size of the crowd at Trump's inauguration, including falsehoods about floor coverings on the National Mall and metro ridership. PolitiFact debunked Spicer's arguments and rated the claim "Pants on Fire":
Spicer said, "That was the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period."
To support his claim, Spicer offered a few pieces of misleading or inaccurate evidence.
He said that floor coverings highlighting empty spaces on the National Mall were not used for previous inaugurations, but these were in place for Obama's 2013 inauguration.
He claimed metro ridership was higher for Trump's inaugural than for Obama's 2013 inaugural, but he compared numbers for the morning of Obama's inaugural to the whole day for Trump's.
Spicer suggested 720,000 attended Trump's inauguration, while organizers said they expected 700,000 to 900,000, and Trump himself estimated 1.5 million. All of those figures are less than the 1.8 million people who attended Obama's 2009 inaugural.
We rate Spicer's claim Pants on Fire. [PolitiFact, 1/21/17]
Websites That Regularly Publish Fake News Cheer On, Echo Lies About Inauguration Crowd
American News: "Sean Spicer Loses It, Completely DESTROYS Dumb Lib Reporters For Running Absurd Fake News" About Inauguration Crowd. American News, which has perhaps the largest Facebook following of any fake news-purveying website and is verified on Facebook, praised Spicer for "destroy[ing] dumb lib reporters" and called reports on the inauguration crowds a "fake news smear" and "fraudulent reporting." From the January 23 story:
Now that Donald Trump has been sworn in and is inhabiting the White House, he has made it clear to the irresponsible mainstream media that he will no longer put up with their fake news smear. His Press Secretary Sean Spicer recently laid down the law, scolding liberal reporters in a brutal way for their fraudulent reporting.
The most recent smear the media laid on Trump was the story they cooked up about his inauguration somehow being sparsely attended compared to Obama's, when this was clearly not true. At a meeting with journalists, Sean held up Trump's inauguration speech vow that "we're going to hold the press accountable as well."
Explained Sean, "Photographs of the inaugural proceeding were intentionally framed in a way in one particular tweet to minimize the enormous support that had gathered on the National Mall." He added, "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period. Both in person and around the globe." Are you glad Sean set these idiots straight? [American News, 1/23/17; Media Matters, 1/15/17]
Angry Patriot: "Trump And Sean Spicer Have Made It Clear That This Kind Of Lying Will Not Be Tolerated." Fake news purveyor Angry Patriot asserted that Spicer and Trump "call[ed] out the dishonest media," which it accused of offering "ridiculous coverage of the inauguration" and using misleading images. The post echoed many of Spicer's claims, including the false claim that white floor coverings highlighted empty space on the National Mall while in years past, "the grass eliminated" visuals of empty space. In fact, the coverings were also used in President Obama's second inauguration. [Angry Patriot, 1/21/17; PolitiFact, 1/21/17]
Freedom Daily: "Spicer Laid Into The Media" For Photos, "Nailed" Them For "Outright Media Propaganda." Freedom Daily praised Spicer for "nail[ing]" journalists for "outright media propaganda," adding that the press "cherry picked photos" to make the crowds look small. The post called the media's actions "shameful," adding that it is no wonder Trump "hates" the media and "is going to severely restrict their access." From the January 22 post:
Spicer laid into the media for using pictures of the Inauguration that intentionally made it look like there were low numbers of Americans there. That is another lie… I saw for myself a number of pics where the square was absolutely packed. They cherry picked photos as people were coming in and of areas that had a special covering on the ground. It was outright media propaganda and Spicer nailed them for it.
Spicer also slapped the media on what he called inaccurate crowd estimates, stressing, "No one had numbers," since the National Park Service, which oversees the National Mall where spectators stand, no longer makes public an official crowd count. It's just shameful how the media is treating Trump. No wonder he hates them and is going to severely restrict their access. Serves them right. [Freedom Daily, 1/22/17]
TruthFeed: "Fake News Liberal Media Busted Using Dirty Tricks To Try To Make Inauguration Crowd Look Smaller." TruthFeed, which previously claimed that Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta was involved in the abduction of a young girl, wrote that photos of the inauguration came from "fake news liberal media." One post alleged the media used "dirty tricks to try to paint the Trump Inauguration event as less of a success than it was." The website posted an additional story calling reports of lower turnout "fake news" and showing various photos of the crowd. [TruthFeed, 1/21/17; 1/23/17; Media Matters, 12/14/16]
USA Politics Today Accused CNN Of Editing Footage Of Inauguration Crowd, Called Its Coverage "Propaganda." USA Politics Today wrote that CNN tried "something that you would only think possible in the Soviet Union" by "trying to paint the picture that Trump didn't have a packed house." The story called CNN part of the "crooked mainstream media," adding that "Trump is right to call them fake news!" The article posted as its evidence various images showing crowds at the inauguration from an alternate angle. [USA Politics Today, 1/20/17]
Conservative Brief: CNN, The "Fake News Leader," Edited Footage Of Inauguration Crowd. Conservative Brief called CNN the "fake news leader" and asserted that the network was "caught editing inauguration crowd footage." The post stated that CNN "tried to portray that it was not a packed house" and falsely claimed that the crowd was "packed all the way to Washington Monument." [Conservative Brief, 1/21/17]
Nearly All Of The Above Named Fake News Purveyors Pull In Revenue From Google AdSense
Every Fake News Purveying Website Listed Above Except USA Politics Today Still Uses Google's Advertising Network. American News, Angry Patriot, Freedom Daily, TruthFeed, and Conservative Brief continue to use Google's advertising service, Google AdSense, as of publication, despite an announced ban on websites that post "misrepresentative content." Fake news purveyor USA Politics Today previously drew revenue from Google AdSense. A Media Matters analysis in December found 24 websites violating the ban, and another analysis in January found at least 20 of those websites still use Google AdSense. [Media Matters, 12/14/16, 1/12/17; American News, accessed 1/23/17; Angry Patriot, accessed 1/23/17; Freedom Daily, accessed 1/23/17; TruthFeed, accessed 1/23/17; Conservative Brief, accessed 1/23/17]


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See Me, Hear Me 2016
The annual Deaf Day See Me, Hear Me is fast approaching and this important date needs to booked into your calendars – Friday 13th May 2016! Whilst Friday 13th can be unlucky for some, DEAFvibe are positive that this event will be a huge success!
The event is free to all members of the public as well as professionals.
We are in the process of finalising our exhibitor list which will be displayed on our website in the next 2 weeks. In addition to this, planning is underway to have a number of presentations in the Stanley Matthews Suite which will be suitable for both members of the public and professionals.


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Blackness, Freedom, Free Verse
ENGL 604/800, Winter 2017, Monday 6:00-8:15pm
Analyzing the "complicity of slavery and freedom," Saidiya Hartman asks: "is not the free will of the individual measured precisely through the exercise of constraint and autonomy determined by the capacity to participate in relations of exchange that only fetter and bind the subject?" The key terms of this complex question — freedom, measure, constraint — bear not only upon problems of social determination, but also upon problems of poetic form. Is it possible to link social determination and poetic form, as these pertain to Black history and aesthetics, through the sort of question Hartman asks?
Taking up the bearing of this question upon contemporary American poetry, this course will focus on the relation between Blackness, freedom, and free verse. We will read poetry by Claudia Rankine, Aimé Césaire, Dionne Brand, Jean Toomer, M. NorbeSe Philip, Nathaniel Mackey, C.S. Giscombe, Amiri Baraka, and Evie Shockley leading us into investigations of how the history and experience of racial ascription is at issue in discrepant forms of free verse lyric, open field poetry, and poetic cartography. Interspersed with these volumes, we will discuss theories of Black positionality, performativity, and aesthetics articulated by Hortense Spillers, Saidiya Hartman, Fred Moten, Frank Wilderson, and Neil Roberts.
Black Life, Social Death, Poetic Form
WEEK 1 Introduction: White Supremacy, Anti-Blackness, Poetic Form
- Petrarch, Shakespeare, Toomer, Wheatley, Dunbar
- Saidiya Harman, Scenes of Subjection, Introduction
WEEK 2 Blackness and Freedom
- Hortense Spillers, "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book"
- Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection, Chapters 4 & 5
- Neil Roberts, Freedom as Marronage, Part 1 & 3
WEEK 3 Blackness and Free Verse
- Stéphane Mallarmé, "Crisis in Verse"
- Ezra Pound, "A Retrospect"
- Charles Olson, "Projective Verse"
- Nathaniel Mackey, Discrepant Engagement, "On Edge," "Other: From Noun to Verb"
- Fred Moten, In the Break, "Resistance of the Object," from "The Sentimental Avant-Garde"
- Evie Shockley, from Renegade Poetics, Introduction & Coda
WEEK 4 The Prose of the World
- Claudia Rankine, Citizen
- Frank Wilderson, from Red, White, and Black, Introduction and Chapter 1
- Fred Moten, "Blackness and Nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh)
Negritude: Return / No Return
WEEK 5 Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
- Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism
- Walt Whitman, "I Sing the Body Electric"
WEEK 6 Dionne Brand, Primitive Offensive
- Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return
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WEEK 7 Jean Toomer, Cane
- Langston Hughes, "The Negro Poet and the Racial Mountain"
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WEEK 11 C.S. Giscombe, Here and Giscombe Road
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Hey folks, Memorial Day weekend marks another milestone for the gardening world. This weekend is when we start putting out our tender tropical and house plants. Many old-timers use this date for planting tomatoes and other warm-season crops; to others, the weekend means they'd better start getting motivated before summer is here.
Hey folks, Memorial Day weekend marks another milestone for the gardening world. This weekend is when we start putting out our tender tropical and house plants. Many old-timers use this date for planting tomatoes and other warm-season crops; to others, the weekend means they'd better start getting motivated before summer is here.
Meanwhile, let us not forget the true meaning of Memorial Day. Take time to pay your respects to our fallen service men and women.
Q. Hi, Dan, I just recently sent you a photo of Leucothe.Did you see the black spots? I have three bushes. One is near dead and the other two are under siege. What can I do to try to stop this? Thank you. — Dennis
A. Hello Dennis, Leucothe are attractive, deer-resistant landscape plants when they are not disfigured by leaf spots. Leucothoe fontanesiana and Leucothoe axillaris are the two types that are most commonly found planted in our area. The biggest problem with Leucothe is that it is very fussy about where it gets planted and if the right conditions are not provided you will most certainly get leaf spot.There are many different leaf-spot diseases that can affect leucothoe in our area, but the most common is known as Cylindrocladium. It causes both a leaf spot and a root-rot disease that eventually kills infected plants. That sounds as if what's happening to your plants. So what are the right conditions? A nice shady location under large trees and with slightly acidic soil that's moist but well drained with lots of organic matter makes an ideal location.
Basically you are trying to mimic the forest floor.
It does not tolerate heavy, poorly drained clay soil, full sun, drought or road salt. Also, it is best to avoid overhead irrigation that keeps the foliage wet for long periods of time, as this will encourage leaf spot as well. Good air circulation around the plants helps them dry off faster, too. It is also good to use mulch such as shredded hardwood or bark over the roots, but only use an inch or two, and never allow the mulch to make contact with the stems. Leucothe is a great plant, as long as you can keep it happy.
Q. Hey Dan, We are having problems with woodchucks eating our plants. We have a lot of deer-resistant plants, but I guess they are not woodchuck-proof. Can you suggest some plants that these animals might not like to eat? Thanks. — Christy
A. Hello Christy, there are certainly differences in what the deer and woodchucks don't eat. Unfortunately for us, deer and woodchucks do have different tastes, and that can make gardening a bit challenging at at times. There are actually several plants that seem to be both deer- and woodchuck-resistant. In alphabetical order, some of them are artemisia, allium, cerastium ("Snow in Summer"), digitalis (foxglove), euphorbia (spurge), iris, lamium (dead nettle), lavender, lemon balm, mints and perovskia ("Russian sage").
This list is not by any means 100% deer- and woodchuck-resistant, but they are all plants that are definitely less likely to be eaten by either of those two critters.
Your other option is to use repellents like liquid fence or Sweeney's animal repellent. The last option would be trying to trap and relocate them, which is usually best left to professional wildlife control. Don't give up; keep gardening!
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"White hat" researchers are hackers who are ethical and considered "good guys." They monitor the internet for malicious hacking.
When Vickery found the breach, he reported it to Hzone.
9 and "urged them to use their resources to contact the developer to get them to secure their database.
FTC did not respond to that request." The database finally was secured Sunday night, Dissent reported.
"Unfortunately for its users, Hzone does not have a strong tech team, as their spokesperson admitted to Data in an email," Dissent wrote.
"And users who decide that they do not wish to risk exposure from an app that may not have a great grasp of security appear to be SOL because it seems that Hzone won't delete profiles." Dissent gleaned that information from reviews of Hzone in the i Tunes app store.
On its website, Hzone has a link to "Partner Site HIV Dating Reviews." That page includes reviews of sites that include Positive Singles, Poz Personals, Poz Match and HIV Passions, as well as Hzone.
How can you protect yourself from dating app security breaches?In a story reported for Imstilljosh in September, renowned cyber security expert Sean Sullivan of F-Secure Labs offered five tips on how to protect yourself on dating sites and apps. If you want money from us, I believe you will be disappointed.Due to a security breach, personal information from almost 5,000 user accounts on the dating app Hzone for people with HIV was leaked last week.Data reported Monday that "white hat" researcher Chris Vickery provided them with screenshots showing that information from users -- including their photo, date of birth, religion, relationship status, country, email addresses, ethnicity, height, last login IP address, username, orientation, number of children and password hash -- all had been revealed.Although the app is free, those subscribing to the paid features also provide their name, address, telephone number and credit card information."In other words, it's a leak that could lead to identity theft, extortion demands, or embarrassment," Data reported.


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Too much Christmas. That's what I named Christmas 2016. I'm still recovering from the too-muchness.
Too much shopping.
Too much planning.
Too much decorating.
Too much anxiety.
Too much food and drink.
Too much wrapping.
Too much unwrapping.
Too much clutter.
Too much, too much, too much!
I consider myself a contemplative. The definition of the word contemplative in Your Dictionary is "Being deep in thought or meditation." I am much more drawn to the spiritual life than to planning, shopping, decorating and acquiring.
But something happens to me in December. An all-together different personality emerges. It probably stems from my childhood, when my dad was never happier than when my siblings and I found mounds of gifts under the Christmas tree; when the living room was littered with torn wrapping paper, ripped tissue paper and colorful ribbons; when each kid had a stack of gifts—each one exactly what they had wished for.
And so, after Thanksgiving, I make lists, I shop, I wrap. I worry whether I bought the right gifts for the right people. I especially agonize over what to buy my kids, even though they're all grown now.
For many years I tried to tone down the volume of Christmas because of our youngest son's autism. But as Joel has aged, planned chaos has gotten a little easier for him. For the past five years or so, I've let myself get a little more carried away. This year? To heck with autism! I went over the top.
This year, our family room looked like a tornado had ripped through it after the gifts were opened. It seemed to go on-and-on, the gift-opening. Mainly because I was the one who had bought too many gifts. By the time we sat down for brunch we were exhausted.
On December 26 I had a massive Christmas hang-over. I was regretful at my excess. I was thirsty for things of the spirit. I was exhausted from spending a full month on things that don't, in the end, make me or anyone else happy.
Did you know that Christmas is actually a 12 day celebration in the liturgical calendar? In my favorite devotional book, Seeking God's Face: Praying with the Bible Through the Year by Philip Reinders, I read:
"The Twelve-day Christmas season, beginning on Christmas Day, may be the healing remedy needed to reclaim this holiday from merchants and marketers. After all the annoying ads and repetitive jingles fade, when everyone else is burned out on Christmas or has moved on to year-end reviews or gym memberships, now the follower of Jesus can focus on the meaning of the Christmas miracle.
It's a season of light in darkness, where we are taken deeper into the growing light of the Word made flesh. Reflecting on the birth of Jesus, we have time to delight in the how of incarnation as we're also led into deeper wonder of its meaning for our world."
Aaaahhh. Just re-reading this fills me with peace and calm.
Thankfully, I can have more Christmas without it being too much Christmas! I can celebrate Christmas for 12 whole days, lighting candles when it turns dark so early in the evening. Sitting with my husband for a few minutes in the morning, meditating on the Scriptures in Seeking God's Face. Holding my new grandson, Jaxon, and marveling that God came to us in this very form—a new born baby! Miracle of miracles! Spending time in Lectio Divina with dear friends. Thanking God for my family and all of our blessings, knowing that the Perfect Gift has already been given us.
Too much?
I'd say, Just Right.
Happy New Year!


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Yung Pabi ft. Worlasi – Undastand Mp3 Download Audio
Ghanaian rapper, Yung Pabi begins the year with a sparking new single titled "Undastand".
The uptempo joint, "Undastand" features CM Rekords signed artiste, Worlasi. The artwork for the song showcases what the song entails.
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The Original Independent Woman
Here's to the Original Independent Women— Dorthy Nichols.
Thank you for being a best friend and grandmother all in one.
Thank you for working hard to single handedly bring up 2 fine men that make the world a better place.
Because of you, I will work hard, complain less and accept the you I see in me.
I will unapologetically laugh for no reason at all.
I will be blonde for life.
I will talk about my digestive issues whenever I travel (so make sure there's All Bran on hand)
I will love animals like they're people and make room for them in bed.
I will talk to myself because its soothing and I love what I have to say.
I'll be at peace with the fact that The Today Show's anchors are my good friends.
Because I take after you, I'll have faith that my butt will never get big.
And I embrace the fact I snore like a 400 pound man.
Whether real or imagined, I will go dancing until the day I die.
So here's to red satin sheets, and Jean Night's "Mr Big Stuff."
Here's to loving my father as much as I do and never saying a bad word about anyone.
Mimi, you'll be missed. I know heaven is glad you finally made it so, have fun up there!


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Clement (ca. A.D. 35–100) is remembered for having established the pattern of apostolic authority that governed the Christian Church during the first and second centuries. He also insisted on keeping Christ at the center of the Church's worship and outreach. In a letter to the Christians at Corinth, he emphasized the centrality of Jesus' death and resurrection: "Let us fix our eyes on the blood of Christ, realizing how precious it is to His Father, since it was poured out for our salvation and brought the grace of repentance to the whole world" (1 Clement 6:31). Prior to suffering a martyr's death by drowning, he displayed a steadfast, Christ-like love for God's redeemed people, serving as an inspiration to future generations to continue to build the Church on the foundation of the prophets and apostles, with Christ as the one and only cornerstone. (from The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod website, see Blogroll on sidebar)
Reflection: In the bio above and in the quote below the word "fix" is employed. In the Prayer of the Day for the 5th Sunday after Easter, the Church prays,
"Grant that we may love what You have commanded and desire what You promise, that among the many changes of this world our hearts may be fixed where true joys are found, through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord…"
Our hearts, that is, our wills are fixed, that is, guided and repaired in true repentance for the fruit of the joys of His crucifixion and resurrection by our hearts fixed on Him, His forgiveness for us, in us, with us. His life is in our lives. His gift of life is His blood. We can not repair our hearts, our wills on our own. No one did heart surgery on himself, one needs a physician. We are fixed by fixing our hearts and eyes on Jesus Christ and that "fix" is prayer, the prayer of faith in the Lord, in Whom we are made one in Christian love and Pastor Clement made this clear. "Let us fix our eyes on the blood Christ…" In our land, and in all lands, the Lord needs His fixed people to live as Christians:
Walking in the Holy Spirit, this is done because as another Clement said:
Prayer of the Day
Almighty God, Your servant Clement of Rome called the Church in Corinth to repentance and faith to unite them in Christian love. Grant that Your Church may be anchored in Your truth by the presence of the Holy Spirit and kept blameless in Your service until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.


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Winner of 54 Japanese Institute of Plant Maintenance Excellence awards and named twice by EHS Today among the 12 safest companies in North America, Milliken & Company, a 145 year old chemical and textile company based in South Carolina, has been internationally recognized for its achievements in operational excellence.
Milliken is the only American company that has won the top manufacturing award in both the United States and Japan -- the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in the U.S. and the TPM Excellence Award sponsored by the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance. In addition, Milliken has been named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere magazine for 4 years in a row.
Milliken's unique approach to a daily management system can help any organization create a unique state of operational excellence. Positioning its workload as 20% daily operations, 60% continuous improvement/innovation working in cross-functional teams, and reducing the firefighting to 20%, Milliken has completely addressed the failures of a traditional management model. This presentation will offer a stronger investigation into Milliken's Performance System -- what has worked and why and how to avoid portions of the journey that failed. Born out of four study trips to Japan to learn Deming Award-winning plants' best practices combined with more than 30 years of evolved manufacturing processes, Milliken is a company you can benchmark to accelerate your journey.
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Through numerous real-world Milliken examples, you will be able to understand the fundamental beliefs and strategies behind building operational excellence through a system. Using Milliken's 30 year journey as a benchmark, you will learn:
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In addition to the in-depth review of the Milliken Performance System provided during this online training session, select attendees will be invited to participate in a complementary follow-up plant tour and meeting with Milliken executives to benchmark Milliken's lean practices in person. Additional details about in-person site visits to Milliken's Spartanburg, South Carolina facilities will be discussed during the online training.
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Craig Long's seasoned perspective adds to the foundation of leadership for the Milliken Performance Solutions team. He began his career with Milliken at a manufacturing facility as an Industrial Engineer. Craig's real world experience, in addition to Industrial Engineering, includes Product Development, Account Management, Business Management, Corporate Education, Corporate Recruiting and Activity Based Costing. He ran several industrial businesses before being promoted to Director of Quality in 1994. In 1997, Craig was promoted to Vice President of Quality and Milliken University, and then he spearheaded the company's implementation of Six Sigma in 2004. He has held leadership responsibility for all Corporate Continuous Improvement processes, leading two corporate study mission trips to Japan. Craig was a member of the U.S. Quality Council of the Conference Board for 14 years and served as co-chair. He is a graduate of the Harvard Advanced Management Program.
Phil McIntyre, MBA, Babcock School of Management, Wake Forest University, is Director of Business Development and Marketing for Milliken Performance Solutions. His career with Milliken spans 25 years with 10 years spent in manufacturing. Phil then spent 6 years directing several Milliken divisions' efforts in process and cost improvement. He attended Clemson University and earned a degree in Industrial Engineering. Prior to Milliken Performance Solutions, Phil served the company as Market Manager for several of the company's consumer products businesses.
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Lock 6 Cafe
Directions (210m)
Located just around the corner in a 200 year old cafe overlooking the canal, Lock 6 Cafe serves simple fresh food made in-house daily. The vibe is relaxed and unpretentious, the coffee is good (Ariosa, roasted in Ashbourne, Co Meath) and the food is wholesome and filling - think porridge with stewed rhubarb, or scrambled eggs with chorizo. Pastries come courtesy of Dublin's Bakelicious artisan bakery.
Open Monday - Friday 7.30am - 3.30pm
Project Black
Directions (350m)
Just want to grab a coffee and go? Head straight to Project Black, Ranelagh's newest specialty coffee shop. They serve Two Fifty Square artisan coffee, and a range of pastries and grilled sandwiches, and are located right beside the Ranelagh Luas stop; perfect for mornings when time is precious.
Open Monday - Friday 7am - 7pm
Saturday and Sunday 8am - 6pm
Grove Road Cafe
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Perched beside Portobello Bridge, Grove Road Cafe is a treat for those who enjoy a side of people watching with their morning eggs (or porridge). The food is delicious (and freshly made on site each day), and the coffee (supplied by Roasted Brown) is worth getting out of bed for.
Open 7.30am - 5pm Monday - Friday
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Breakfast 7.30-11.30am Monday - Friday
Brunch 9am-4pm Saturdays 10am-3pm Sundays
Directions (800m)
It's fair to say that Cinnamon is a bit of a Ranelagh institution. It's popular with everyone from laptop warriors, to young mums, to local business executives having a 'breakfast meeting' (any excuse to pick up one of their freshly baked raspberry scones!) . It's big enough to get lost in, so find a cosy corner and enjoy a leisurely breakfast, or grab a coffee and pastry and go. You won't be disappointed.
Breakfast Served 8AM -11.30AM Monday - Friday
Breakfast & Brunch 9AM-4.30PM Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays
Directions (650m)
If you're looking for some soakage (and possibly a Bloody Mary) to ease the pain after a big night out, look no further than Dillinger's, Ranelagh's own New York Style diner. Portions are enormous and with classic dishes like American Style Pancakes, Huevos Rancheros, and Steak 'N' Eggs to choose from, you are guaranteed to leave happier than you came in.
Brunch is served Saturday & Sunday only 11:00 – 16:00
Directions (1.3km)
We are HUGE fans of Bibi's. It's one of those 'hidden gems' that locals tend to keep a closely guarded secret, and for good reason. The Turkish Eggs are legendary, as are the French Toast, Granola, Sausage Rolls, Scones, Cheesecake Brownies... you get the picture. Be prepared to wait for a table at the weekend. And be prepared to want to go back for seconds.
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At Synergy Sports Wellness Institute™, we've seen first-hand how many common injuries start with hip misalignment. Correcting this dysfunction helps balance the entire body and prevents many non-contact injuries from re-occurring. That's the crux of the specialized Synergy Release Technique we use – identifying misalignments and irregularities that put extra stress on the body, resulting in pain and injuries over time, and then designing a treatment plan for each patient's specific needs.
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The Deputy Speaker, Jigawa State House of Assembly, Ahmad Garba, on Thursday explained why the state is yet to enact a new child rights act saying the initial law was repealed because it did not follow due process before enactment.
He said once due process is followed, the state would pass any bill that would adequately take care of children. He however said no bill has been forwarded yet.
The official who said this on Thursday during the commemoration of the International Day of the Girl Child, also gave reasons for the cancellation of the previous law.
This he said included inadequate input from citizens and ambiguous sections that needed explanations. He also said the bill, a domestication of the federal act, was signed into law by the then secretary to the state government (SSG) which was not the right procedure.
He explained further that the initial bill was passed in 2012 and signed into law by the SSG who was then the acting governor.
"The law was in place before it was later repealed in the same year 2012," he added. "The power of Nigeria's constitution authorises the state governor or his deputy in an acting capacity to sign the law into being. This is the major reasons why the child rights act was repealed by the state House of Assembly.
"Also then existing law in Jigawa which was supposed to protect children is (was) about the welfare of juveniles and treatment of young offenders and (how) to prohibit the participation by juveniles in political activities is already in the state's 'green volume'.
Mr Garba said the child rights act is a welcome development, "that's why the state initially domesticated the law in the state."
He also said the government was willing to pass any law that would guarantee children's right to education, health, freedom from exploitation, sexual abuses, and the survival and development of these children.
Mr Garba said although the bill has not yet been presented in the house, "but we're ever ready to receive the bill, when it comes, we will make sure it goes through proper public hearing and let it pass through."
The lawmaker also said he is aware of the federal child rights act but insists a similar bill needs to be resent to the house, "either as an executive bill or private bill by a member of the state House of Assembly".
He however did not explain why none of the principal members including him could bell the cat by initiating the process.
Meanwhile, a deputy director in the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) Ummah Fanini, in an interview with PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday decried the rising cases of rape of young girls in the state.
Mrs Fanini said, unlike in other states, Jigawa State has no law to protect the girl child. She called on the assembly to consider the plight of the children by revisiting the child right act with a view to passing it quickly.
"We don't have a law or a policy that deals with rapists in Jigawa. In so many instances, rape cases are withdrawn in the court either because of complication clauses or even non-existence of the law (punitive measure," Mrs Fanini said.
She however commended the efforts of the state government in providing free education for the girl child from primary to tertiary level.
Jigawa is one of the states in Nigeria that is yet to have an enabling law that protects children.
Just as in other states, cases of violence against children and rape have been reported in the North-west state.


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ELC-3030 Working with Advanced Fractions. This set of cards is designed to give students all the practice and insight needed to work effectively with fractions. Printed in full color, each card is double sided. On the front side the students will find a section for Concept and another section for Operations. Turn the card over and each one contains a word problem that will challenge and move them towards developing higher level thinking skills using specific word problem strategies.


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I'm looking at Joomla to serve as a simple website development tool and content management system. Hoping to find something that let me create a simple site for a client who can then go on and manage text and change pictures. I have on client in particular, a small business, with a very limited budget and no on-board technical staff. I'm skeptical since this is the realm of magic bullet in my experience…either tools are too complicated for endusers or so simplistic and restrictive as to be useless for developing a site.
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In order for a spark streaming application to run stably and efficiently in production, its batch process time should be close to the batch interval time, but consistently below it. If the batch process time is always higher than the batch interval, the schedule delay keeps increasing and cannot recover. As a result, the spark streaming application becomes unstable. On the other hand, if the batch process time is always much lower than the batch interval, it is a waste of cluster resource.
When using the direct API for Kafka and Spark streaming integration, we have an easy way to control the max flow rate -- a configuration called spark.streaming.kafka.maxRatePerPartition. According to the documentation, it is
the maximum rate (in messages per second) at which each Kafka partition will be read by this direct APIThe spark.streaming.kafka.maxRatePerPartition configuration is especially crucial to prevent the streaming application from overloading in two scenarios
- It prevents the first micro-batch from being overwhelmed when there are a large number of unprocessed messages in the Kafka topic initially and we set the auto.offset.reset in Kafka parameters to smallest.
- It prevents micro-batches from being overwhelmed when there is a sudden surge of messages from the Kafka producers
However, setting the max rate per Kafka partition statically has its own drawback. For a long-running spark streaming application that runs in production for months, things change over time, so is the optimal max rate per Kafka partition. Sometimes the message characteristics such as message size change over time, causing the processing time of the same number of messages varies. Sometimes a multi-tenant cluster becomes busy during the daytime when other big data applications such as Impala/Hive/MR jobs compete for shared system resources such as CPU/Memory/Network/Disk IO.
The backpressure comes to the rescue! Backpressure was a highly demanded feature that allows the ingestion rate to be set dynamically and automatically, basing on previous micro-batch processing time. Such feedback loop makes it possible to adapt to the fluctuation nature of the streaming application.
Spark Streaming back pressure was introduced in Spark 1.5. In order to enable backpressure, we can add the below code in spark streaming
What about the first micro-batch rate? Since there is no previous micro-batch processing time available, there is no basis to estimate what is the optimal rate the application should use. Sifting through the spark documentation, there is a configuration called "spark.streaming.backpressure.initialRate" seems to control the initial rate when backpressure is enabled. This is a common misconception! That configuration only applies for received-based integration approach and is not used by the direct API. As Cody Koeninger explained in one of his mailing list answers
... that configuration was added well after the integration of the direct stream with the backpressure code, and was added only to the receiver code, which the direct stream doesn't share since it isn't a receiver. Not making excuses about it being confusing, just explaining how things ended up that way :( So yeah, maxRatePerPartition is the closest thing you have on the direct stream side to being able to limit before the backpressure estimator has something to work with.
As a matter of fact, there is an open JIRA: SPARK-18580: Use spark.streaming.backpressure.initialRate in DirectKafkaInputDStream about this issue.
So the recommended approach is to use spark.streaming.kafka.maxRatePerPartition to control the initial rate before the backpressure feedback loop takes effect. I usually recommend setting spark.streaming.kafka.maxRatePerPartition to be 150% ~ 200% of the optimal estimated rate and let the backpressure algorithm to take care of the rest. Please note that spark.streaming.kafka.maxRatePerPartition still serves as the max rate that backpressure algorithm would not exceed.
Currently, PID Rate Estimator is the only available rate estimator. There are a few parameters to control its behavior, according to the documentation
- spark.streaming.backpressure.pid.proportional (default: 1.0) can be 0 or greater.
- spark.streaming.backpressure.pid.integral (default: 0.2) can be 0 or greater.
- spark.streaming.backpressure.pid.derived (default: 0.0) can be 0 or greater.
- spark.streaming.backpressure.pid.minRate (default: 100) must be greater than 0.
Usually, the only parameter I would tune is spark.streaming.backpressure.pid.minRate, since the default is 100. In certain use cases, 100 messages per second per partition is still too high and needs to be adjusted down.
It is important to point out that all following micro-batches are scheduled based on the existing rate (initially set by spark.streamng.kafka.maxRatePerPartition), until the first micro-batch is completed. Please see the below Spark UI graph (I took it from Cody Koeninger's spark mailing list post). When the scheduling delay is 31 seconds, the first 7 micro-batches with interval 5 seconds still use the ingestion rate of 20 records per batch. It is only the 8th micro batch that is affected by the backpressure and changes the ingestion rate to be 5 records. To avoid such huge delay for backpressure to take effect, I recommend setting spark.streaming.kafka.maxRatePerPartition to be 150% ~ 200% of the optimal estimated rate.
To observe the backpressure behavior, we can set the below log4j setting
When PID Rate Estimator starts computing the rate, you should see similar messages below:
TRACE PIDRateEstimator:
time = [time], # records = [numElements], processing time = [processingDelay], scheduling delay = [schedulingDelay]
When there is no enough information for the estimator to calculate the rate, you should see a similar message below:
TRACE PIDRateEstimator: Rate estimation skipped
When there is a new rate set by the backpressure, you should see below message:
TRACE PIDRateEstimator: New rate = [newRate]
In summary, enabling backpressure is an important technique to make your spark streaming application production ready. It set the message ingestion rate dynamically and automatically based on previous batch performance, thus making your spark streaming application stable and efficient, without the pitfall of statically capped max rate.


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I have been doing some traveling to Tacoma, Washington for work lately. While normally I prefer to stay at Hiltons, there aren't any to be found close to my customer's site. And by close, I mean walking distance. Whereas there are two other hotels that are just a couple blocks away. Since the Hotel Murano isn't affiliated with any of the big chains, we stay at the Courtyard which is a Marriott hotel.
During our most recent stay, the hotel was rather full, so when I called to book a room, all they had left were the King Suites. Oh darn. I gotta say, it was a rather nice room. Huge, four-poster bed. Free water and juice. Amazing spa tub (which unfortunately I didn't get a chance to take advantage of. Boo!)
I loved the little details, such as the fancy folded towels. Other details just left me rather giggling. The room had THREE phones! One next to the bed, one on the desk, and one mounted right next to the toilet in the bathroom. There was also a second television in the bathroom, angled so you could watch from the tub!
If I ever get one of those suites again, I *definitely* need to try out that tub!


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Recommendations from the SMSA Crime & Mystery Book Club/
Welcome to the first set of recommendations from the Sydney Mechanic's School of Arts' Crime and Mystery Book Club. We discussed what we read over the holiday break, and boy there were quite a few. So strap in and enjoy:
No 9 Belmont Square by Margaret Erskine
Also known as The House at Belmont Square, this 1963 novel is the 13th novel in the Inspector Septimus Finch series. It is a cozy English crime novel that focuses on the crime and suspects being limited to a single location. The plot is as follows, according to Goodreads.com "Beautiful Tamara Lubova had disappeared from the life of opera star Istvan Kardos over half a century ago, and so had the famous diamond called the Lake of Fire. Now Kardos was searching for both of them in Sara Harkness's boarding house at 9 Belmont Square. What he found was a group of dotty old ladies and balmy gentlemen with a penchant for sneaking about the creaking corridors at night and stashing things in locked cupboards. Kardos suspected they all had something to hide: one of them might be Tamara, one of them may have stolen the diamond, and one of them must have committed murder."
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hǿeg
This Danish novel was translated into English in 1992 and became an international bestseller. The story is about Smilla, who grew up in Greenland and developed an understanding of the different types of snow. Her mother is a Greenlandic Inuit and her father is is a Danish doctor. As an adult, she is a scientist who now lives in Denmark and wrestles with the meshing of the two cultures in her life. Smilla investigates the death of a neighbour's daughter (a fellow Greenlander) who fell from the snowy roof of her apartment building when the police refuse to think of it as anything other than an accident. The book delves into Danish post-colonial society and its relationship with Greenland, which is still contentious to this day.
This is Peter Hǿeg's second novel and he has a reputation for being hard to classify. As Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow is about an investigation into a death, so is often included in crime and mystery sections.
Murder and Mendelssohn by Kerry Greenwood
This is the 20th novel in the long running Phryne Fisher mysteries set in the late 1920s in Melbourne, Australia. These are very straightforward, by the numbers cosy crime novel that rests on how much you like the main character. It is difficult to keep the light and frothy tone of these novels and hats off to Kerry Greenwood for keeping the series going so long. In this adventure, and that is definitely the word for this type of story, Phryne Fisher is called in by Inspector Jack Robinson to help navigate the world of orchestral music when the conductor was found dead. This series has been made into a TV program in Australia, starring Essie Davis as Phryne. It is a good way to spend an hour each week and possibly will have more of a legacy than the original novels. Click here to see the trailer for the TV program.
Noblesse Oblige by Cynthia Smith
Published in 1996, this is the debut in this cosy crime series about Emma Rhodes. Written in the first person, Emma sees herself as a private resolver for the English upper class. She could be seen as a snob, and if you are ok with a a bit of name dropping along with your story, you should be fine. It will depend on how much you like Emma as a character. She goes on adventures and the tone is fun and if you like Emma, delightful.
Cynthia Smith started out as a writer of children's fiction and non-fiction. There are at least seven more Emma Rhodes novels.
Naked Once More by Elizabeth Peters
The fourth in the Jacqueline Kirby series, Naked Once More finds the ex-Librarian/best selling author enticed to come back to writing with the opportunity to pen a sequel to blockbusting novel, Naked in the Ice, by Katleen Darcy. As Jacqueline starts to dig through the missing author's papers, gets to know Katleen's friends and families and is the subject of some nasty accidents, she realises that there is more to the job than just writing a novel.
Elizabeth Peters is the pseudo nom for Barbara Mertz. She also wrote as Barbara Michaels. She was a prolific author who wrote three different crime series as Elizabeth Peters and two gothic and supernatural thrillers series, 25 stand-alone novels and three non-fiction books as Barbara Michaels.
The Red Pavilion by Rob van Gulik
The Red Pavilion is set in Imperial China at the time of the Tang Dynasty and features Judge Dee, a magistrate of Poo-yang and statesman of the Tang Court. The character of Judge Dee is based on a real person who lived between 630AD - 700AD. This is a gong'an crime novel - gong'an being a sub genre of Chinese crime fiction involving government magistrates who solve crimes. In The Red Pavilion, Judge Dee has a chance encounter with Autumn Moon, a powerful courtesan on Paradise Island which leads to him investigating three deaths.
Published in 1961, this is van Gulik's ninth Judge Dee novel. This Dutch diplomat translated the eighteenth-century Chinese murder mystery, The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, by an unknown author and he continued to new mysteries for Judge Dee.
Pilgrim Souls and Unquiet Heart, both by Gordon Ferris
Gordon Ferris has been recommended before and the Pilgrim Souls is the follow on from Bitter Water the book previously discussed here. It is part of the Douglas Brodie series set in Glasgow in the 1960s.
The Unquiet Heart is the second book in the Danny McRae series which is set in London and Berlin. Danny McRae is a World War 2 spy turned private detective who delves into the disappearance of his lover Eva Copeland and gets drawn into the world of the black market, espionage and terrorism at the beginning of the Cold War.
Spider Woman's Daughter by Anne Hillerman
Anne Hillerman is Tony Hillerman's daughter, and she carries on with her father's characters, Leaphorn and Chee. This book focuses on Chee's wife, Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manualito investigation of a shooting she witnesses. As she knows the person who has been shot, Bernie goes on leave and starts to look into the shooting with her husband and his former boss and partner, retired Inspector Joe Leaphorn.
As with her father's novels, this story is set in the Four Corners area in USA (Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada) and deals with the intricacies of Native American culture and territory and white America.
Strange Shores by Arnaldur Indridason
Strange Shores is a Nordic Noir set in Iceland and featuring Detective Erlendur who is investigating the disappearance of young woman who walked into the frozen fjords in Iceland 10 years ago as well as any clues about his brother's disappearance in a snowstorm when they were children. So a lot of searching in the snow and cold.
According to Random House, "outside Iceland, he is best known for his crime novels featuring Erlendur and Sigurdur Óli, which are consistent bestsellers across Europe. The series has won numerous awards, including the Nordic Glass Key and the CWA Gold Dagger."
Saints of the Shadow Bible by Ian Rankin
This is the 19th Rebus novel and Rebus is pulled back into a case he was involved in 30 years old because of an internal investigation lead by Malcolm Fox. Rankin uses this frame to look at the issues and culture of Scotland now in comparison to 30 years ago. What has changed? What is the same? How has Rebus changed over 30 years?
Mr Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal
This is MacNeal's debut novel featuring Maggie Hope, a very intelligent, red-headed American (born in England) who becomes Winston Churchill's secretary during the first few months of World War II. This is a historic crime novel that mixes real people with fictional ones. It is a bit of a page turner that has one plot point too many and a reveal that you see coming half way through the book. It is a nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
This series has made Susan Elia MacNeal a New York Times best selling author. Mr Churchill's Secretary won the Barry Award and was nominated for the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for Best First Novel.
The Telephone Never Tells by Margaret Hinxman
Margaret Hinxman wrote 13 fiction and non-fiction novels. The Telephone Never Tells is her 10th book written in 1982 and it is hard to find much information about. It is a Lythway Mystery, so published by Lythway Press Ltd, a publishing house that focuses on classic genre that includes crime and science fiction.
Dead Cat Bounce by Peter Cotton
Dead Cat Bounce is the debut novel of Peter Cotton. Set in Canberra in the lead up to a tight election, the Environmental Minister is found dead near a Canberra landmark. Detective Darren Glass in on the case to find out what happened. The book delves into the relationship between politicians and the media who covers them, the relationship to power and the games politicians play.
Peter Cotton was an Australian political journalist and media advisor to three Australian federal cabinet ministers.
The Norfolk Mystery by Ian Sansom
Published in 2013,The Norfolk Mystery is the first in the County Guides series written by Ian Sansom. It introduces eccentric, autodidact Swanton Morely who plans to write a series of guides to the counties of England. Set in the 1930s, Morely employs a young assistant, Stephen Sefton, who is a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, to accompany him and his daughter Miriam on their first trip to Norfolk. During their sightseeing tour they stumble into a murder investigation.
Ian Sansom has also written the popular Mobile Library Mysteries Series.
Murder on Nob Hill by Shirley Tallman
Another debut novel, Murder on Nob Hill is the first in the Sarah Woolson Mysteries. Sarah is a newly graduated lawyer who is struggling to be employed as it is 1880 and women are not expected to be career minded. If you are ok with this central premise of dogged intelligent women overcoming the sexism of the day you will love this. If you don't, you won't. There is a fine line for historical crime whereby the tone and values of the novel can be modern set in a historical setting or it can be of its time. This book is the former, it gets the historical context right however Sarah does feel very 20th century.
Shirley Tallman has written five Sarah Woolson Mysteries to date. This is a popular historical crime series.
The Little Walls by Winston Graham
First published in 1995, The Little Walls is a classic crime novel that won the very first Gold Dagger from the Crime Writer's Association. The Little Walls is an area in Amsterdam where Phillip Turner's brother was found dead in a canal. Phillip does not believe that his brother, Grevil, committed suicide and he begins to investigate his death.
Winston Graham is known for writing the Poldark series, however in addition to this series he wrote 35 novels from 1935 to his autobiography, Memoirs of a Private Man in 2003. One of those 35 novels was Marnie, the basis to the Hitchcock movie.
The Blind Man of Seville by Robert Wilson
Ok, so we did read a lot of debut novels this month. The Blind Man of Seville is the first in the Javier Falcon quartet. It is set during the Holy Week in Seville, Spain when a leading local restaurateur is found, gagged and dead in front of his television set. Falcon is the homicide detective who investigates the murder and as he gets deeper and deeper into the past of the victim, his own past and that of his dead father, a famous Spanish painter. This quartet of novels has been dramatised by Sky Television for British TV.
Robert Wilson is a British author who has also written the Bruce Medway series and four standalone novels, which includes The Company of Strangers.
Exile by Richard North Patterson
This political thriller published in 2007 focuses on the Isreali/Palestine conflict in the Middle East. The protagonist is David Wolfe, an American lawyer who is primed to run for Congress when he is asked to take on a case by a Palestinian woman, Hana Arif, a woman he had a secret affair with when they were at law school. The following day he Prime Minister of Israel is assassinated while visiting San Francisco. Hana is accused of being the mastermind of the assassination.
This case pits David, an American jew in conflict with the Jewish community and Israel as he delves into Hana's past and that of her militant husband. This is a very good read that is fast moving and satisfying.
Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly
This is the fifth Mickey Haller novel. Mickey is a defense attorney in Los Angeles and this story builds on a past case as the victim of a murder is a former client who he helped to get clean and out of prostitution.
Michael Connelly is very similar to John Grisham as it is a thriller based on law cases. It is a holiday read as it is a well written page turner that promises on its premise.
Bay of Fires by Poppy Gee
Bay of Fires is the debut crime novel set in the actual small seaside town of the Bay of Fires in Tasmania, Australia. A body of backpacker washes up on shore and as a result cracks start to show in the close knit community of the town. The protagonist is Sarah Avery who has returned to the town leaving an ex-boyfriend and her job behind. Sarah starts to investigate the death of the backpacker along with Hall Flynn, a journalist who is sent to the town to cover the story.
Poppy Gee was born in Launceston, Tasmania and spends her summer at the family shack in the Bay of Fires.
Next month we will be reading books from between the World Wars


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Tentative Fake Corporate Concept Weekend is weird. It is like a strange cult, and I am forever a member because I won it once (but just the one specifically for my weaker gender).
I attended their ending ceremonies and power point light show last evening and every single tribe that presented seems to be continuing on with their tentative concept ( a very well laid out power point).
Until next week when they realize how much work it is. My tribe and I still haven't made much progress on our Tentative Fake Corporate Concept and the system is actually willing to funnel us money. We just don't really care.
TFCCW is actually just a way for people to post on social media about how awesome they are at being a working adult. "Hey look lowly college classmates! On the weekends I work too. I am actually in a work contest that I pay money to be in."
One of the weirdest things about it is that they BEG software and app developers to be in this competition. And even though most of the TFCCW power point light shows claim to be actually presenting things that only these individuals can make. They almost never even get to make anything at all all TFCCW.
The tribe that won last night actually used a form generator that I have used multiple times and called it an app. It took them 5 mins tops and I think they paid money so that they could have a pay option.
Just some observations on this weird cultural phenomenon, I don't think it's really detrimental to anything, however, it is strange.


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Name acquires a significant influence on the personality of an individual. According to Hadith Abu Dawud, Muslims are instructed to choose a suitable name that has a righteous and honorable meaning. The influence of name will bring blessings to the baby throughout his or her life. The Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H.) has emphasized on the significance of beautiful names and meanings. Give your baby the perfectly suitable name. You can browse online and search beautiful and unique baby boy & girls names for Muslims.
There are varieties of trends observed in the Muslim society when it comes to name their infants. Some Holy Hadith sources claims that a baby should be named promptly after birth. The Islamic baby names must be meaningful and impactful, as on the Day of Judgment your worldly name will be your identification. Parents must be selective while choosing a relevant name for their child it should be positive in terms of meaning. Most of the parents want to use Sahabas names for Muslim baby boys and Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) daughter's names for Muslim baby girls. It is the matter of prestige and honor for the parents to name their children after famous Islamic warriors, dignitaries, and personalities. Avoid names that resemble to certain ill omen or bad character.
The Muslim baby name can be anything expect the name of Allah Almighty, so that gives you the option to keep names like Abdul Ahad, Abdus Samad, and Umme Kulsoom etc. HamariWeb brings you a great opportunity to pick and choose a suitable name for your child. We offer an updated Islamic baby names list of boys and girls, along with their meaning, origin and popularity graph.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Luxottica Group LUX, +0.00% on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter earnings of 59.8 million euro, or 17 cents per American Depositary Shares. Revenue for the quarter was 941.7 million euro, up 31 percent from a year ago. The Italian eyewear maker forecast 2005 earnings of 88 cents to 91 cents per ADS, on sales of 4 billion to 4.15 billion euro.
Luxottica posts higher Q4 sales
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Many mental health issues can cause you to fall behind in work, education, and other responsibilities. This can feel like a 'downward spiral', where the problems caused by falling behind make you feel worse.
This is a common feeling, and there are many different ways to tackle it. Different approaches work well for different people. Other people may give you advice which does not work for you, but that's OK – it just means a different approach might work better for you.
First and foremost, we would recommend talking to your GP if you haven't already. If you are under 18, Childline provide some very helpful information on how to book an appointment. [Blog Post on how to speak to GP]. Please try not to feel like you are wasting your GP's time – any issues that impact your day-to-day life significantly are worth talking about.
There are also many ways that you can help yourself. We couldn't possibly cover all of them in one post, but these ideas might inpsire you to try something new that works well for you.
Habitica is an app that we have found useful for keeping on top of your daily responsibilities. It makes your daily tasks fun by giving you small rewards in the form of character upgrades for tracking and completing them. You don't need to use an app though – any kind of structured system for tracking small successes can be beneficial.
Mindfulness is a thinking technique that encourages you to pay more attention to what is happening 'in the moment', and can help to tackle anxiety by focusing your attention on what is happening around you. Anxiety tends to build up when we retreat into our own minds, so being more aware of your surroundings can help you to refocus and enjoy the moment. This is particularly helpful in social situations where there are more demands on your attention. Mindfulness can be practiced by anyone, and is not dependant on any particular mental health challenge. You can find out more by visiting Mindfulness Scotland.
There are a few common pieces of advice your GP will give to improve your mental and physical health: Stop smoking, drink less alcohol, improve your diet, get more exercise. While it's true that all of these things help, most of them require vast changes to your lifestyle which can be difficult when you are facing other challenges. You are more likely to succeed by making small changes over time than trying to do everything at once.
Over the coming months, we will be providing practical advice on how to get started with these self help techniques, and more. Keep an eye on the blog for updates!
Useful Services
Samaritans offer a free listening service for anyone who is struggling to cope. There is no age restriction, and you don't have to give them any personal details if you don't want to. You can call them free in the UK on 116 123.
Mindfulness is a useful technique for dealing with anxiety in your day-to-day life. It helps you to stay present in the moment and not retreat into your own mind, where anxiety can take over. Find out more about mindfulness from Mindfulness Scotland.
Habitica is an app which can help you keep on top of your day-to-day responsibilities. By setting and completing small tasks, you can unlock rewards, upgrades and even pets! Mental health challenges can often impact your daily routine, and having a rewarding way of keeping track of your successes can be very helpful.


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In Salvaterra De Mino, a small Spanish town near the Portuguese border, the Peseta is back.
Yes, according to reports from AFP, the small Spanish municipality is allowing people from all over Spain to shop using Pesetas, the currency displaced by the euro in 2002. So now that 10,000 Pesetas you found in your old pair of pants could buy you a brand new hairdryer.
While the event seems to be more a publicity stunt than a true attempt to ditch the stricken euro — if you remember, the town of Mugardos performed a similar stunt earlier this year.
But, as AFP clearly notes, there's certainly an element of nostalgia for the old currency and the Europe that went with it.
See the latest EUR-USD movements here.