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3D Printing company Shapeways adds a new,
larger printer.
3D printing is generally reserved for fairly small objects unless you are one of the lucky few who has access to specialty high end machines. Fortunately for the rest of us, Shapeways is continuing to expand its already excellent services. Their previous size limit was 230 x 180 x 310mm, but now they have a new machine which can print up to 700 x 380 x 580mm, roughly twice the size in every dimension (or eight times the volume).
The one small catch is that only their White, Strong, and Flexible material can be used for the larger prints, but remember that this material can be dyed in four seasonal colors.
CLICK HERE for information on Shapeways' recent move.
CLICK HERE for a look at the Shapeways booth at Dutch Design Week.
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Champions League draw: Real Madrid v Bayern, Liverpool v Roma
Real Madrid will face a familiar foe in the Champions League semifinals as the twice defending champions were drawn against Bayern Munich in Friday's draw.
Bayern versus Real has been a semi-final in the European Cup/Champions League on no fewer than six occasions, the most recent meeting in the final four coming in April 2014 - with Los Blancos defeating the Bavarian outfit 5-0 across two legs on their way to La Decima.
Mo Salah returns to former club Roma meanwhile as Liverpool were pitted against the Italian side that knocked out Barcelona in the quarterfinals.
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Liverpool beat Manchester City 5-1 on aggregate to cruise through to their first Champions League semi-final for ten years.
Liverpool and Roma have not met in a competitive match since 2002 when Liverpool won 2-0 at Anfield to reach the last eight.
The sides had earlier drawn 0-0 in Italy and Liverpool's win at home was enough to pip their opponents to second spot in the group. Jari Litmanen and Emile Heskey were the scorers.
The two teams have met in pre-season friendlies three times in recent years, Roma winning all three matches.
When will the matches be played?
The Champions League semi-final first-leg ties will take place on Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 April with the second legs on May 1 and 2. The final is due to be played on Saturday, May 26 in Kyiv.

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I have been eyeing this beautiful drape top from Chica Modas for some time now debating on whether to purchase. Well, it wasn't really a debate tbh, I knew I was going to buy it, I was just tryna figure out whether it would suit me or not. You always see the prettiest clothes on the most petite, slimmest models & with me not being one, I didn't know whether this would look okay. Either way, it's here now & I love it. I actually find it pretty flattering actually! So for all my curvy, busty ladies, fear not! This top will suit you! ^_^ I can't wait to wear it on my holiday next month with some high waisted denim shorts! Ahh summer, I cannot wait for you any longer!!


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the Globe's Sam Wanamaker Playhouse has been open for two winters now, and it looks as though the replica Jacobean theatre is really starting to find its feet as an exceptional performance space. The wooden frame of the theatre has given it a uniquely authentic sound and atmosphere, and the beautifully moody lighting is set to give a series of Shakespeare's works a perfect winter aura.
According to Artistic Director Dominic Dromgoole: "we have withheld one great experiment until we felt we knew the space, its potentials and its own artfulness, as fully as possible. That experiment is Shakespeare, and the glorious sequence of late plays, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest, which he wrote late in his life."
Although the Globe's reputation as a fantastic outdoor space is undeniable, Dromgoole goes on to explain why the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is an apt venue for the upcoming showcase.
"We know that they played in the outdoor theatres as well, but he certainly wrote them with the technology and the theatrical grammar of the new indoor spaces, most specifically the Blackfriars, in the front of his mind."
The candlelit series starts with Pericles (19 Nov – 21 Apr). Having been forced to flee his kingdom and wander the world, the titular character and Prince of Tyre wins Princess Thaisa's hand in marriage in a tournament held in another kingdom. Following a sea-storm, Thaisa dies during childbirth and her body is committed to the deep as a sacrifice to calm the storm. The grief-stricken Pericles takes comfort in his baby daughter, Marina, but decides to foster her with friends. Years later, Pericles is informed that Marina has died, but can it be true? Moreover, is it possible that Thaisa can be returned to life? Imbued with music, miracle and the constant presence of the sea, the spirit of fairy tale is never far from the surface of Pericles, the first of Shakespeare's late romances.
"We have withheld one great experiment until we felt we knew the space
Next in the series is Cymbeline (2 Dec – 21 Apr). Imogen, daughter of King Cymbeline, has angered her father by marrying her lover Posthumus. In exile, Posthumus proclaims the beauty of his wife to the villainous Iachimo and lays a wager on her fidelity. Iachimo, though, will stop at nothing to prove that Imogen has been unfaithful – and Posthumus seems implacable in his revenge. Strange, erotic, moving and politically charged, Cymbeline is perhaps the most psychologically acute of Shakespeare's great late romantic plays.
In the third play of the series, The Winter's Tale (28 Jan – 22 Apr), Queen Hermoine is tried for adultery, found guilty and reported dead. When King Leontes discovers his wife's innocence, he is inconsolable with guilt and grief, but time and providence draws redemption from his remorse. Keeping the human and divine in exquisite balance, The Winter's Tale combines the exotic and magical with the realistic psychology of the tragedies.
Last in the series is arguably the most popular of the four late plays, The Tempest (17 Feb – 22 Apr). Thought by many to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone, The Tempest follows Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan who has been exiled by his brother Alonso. With a vengeful spirit Prospero conjures a fearsome storm to shipwreck Alonso and his confederates. Inspired by English colonial adventures and brilliantly conjuring up a magic and supernatural world, The Tempest is Shakespeare's late masterpiece of forgiveness, generosity and enlightenment.
If you are looking for some entertainment this winter that is beautifully intimate in its presentation but brave and grandiose in its conceptualisation, then a trip to Shakespeare's Globe to see one or all of this late, great romantic quartet will be just the ticket.
For more information and tickets, visit www.shakespearesglobe.com
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a local hero REMEMBERED
Concrete, metal and determination shaped into an outstanding tribute
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a capital CHRISTMAS
Highlights this year in and around London's centre
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four winter TALES
Previewing the winter season at The Globe, where four of Shakespeare's late, great plays will be performed by candlelight
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Subject: [ecasound] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Theater Sound FX with Linux [was Re: playing three sources at one time]
From: Kai Vehmanen (email@example.com)
Date: Mon Jul 24 2000 - 00:04:23 EEST
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Jörn Nettingsmeier forwarded from alsa-user:
> I need to play several sounds (wav or mp3) at one time, but I need to
> control the starting of every single sound manually, so a
> multitrack-recording is not a solution (I need this for a play of our
> laity-theater).
Well, you could use ecasound and its ewf format to do this. Write a ewf
file for each sound file, and then just:
ecasound -a:1 -i sfx1.ewf \
-a:2 -i sfx2.ewf \
-a:n -i sfxn.ewf \
-a:all -o alsa,0,0 # ... or /dev/dsp
You can specify the actual starting time in the ewf-file. Here's a sample
file (yup, not very flexible but works):
-- cut, sfx1.ewf --
source = sfx1.wav
offset = 60.0
length = 15.0
-- cut --
After 60 seconds, playback of sfx1.wav starts and lasts for 15 seconds.
You can omit the 'length' parameter if you just want to play the whole
-- Kai Vehmanen <email@example.com> ---------------- CS, University of Turku . . audio software for linux .. http://www.eca.cx . . armchair-tunes mp3/wav/ra . http://www.wakkanet.fi/sculpscape .
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text: American Cake Decorating and Lisa Mansour are honored to present the inaugural Golden Tier Awards. It's easy to enter, simply complete the nomination form with your selected nominees and click submit! Nominations open on March 1, 2017, and close on March 30, 2017. For information on how to enter, read our submission guidelines below!


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The Head Set A Mould allows you to replicate amazing faces with speed and ease. Try using the mould in conjunction with the Arms Set mould for fantastic model figures or even the wings mould to create festive angels!
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After 9 months of hard work, time, preparation, labour, we can say that the LMUN baby has been born #LMUN2016IsHere pic.twitter.com/IRvurzhJdt— LMUN Unilag (@LMUN2017_) August 4, 2016
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Farmers across the country today have a unique opportunity to contribute to the debate on CAP and help shape Fianna Fáil's position on the policy.
Fianna Fáil is hosting a national policy conference on the CAP today where an extensive debate will take place regarding Ireland's approach to CAP reform and the current EU negotiations on the policy.
The conference is taking place at the Red Cow Moran Hotel in Dublin and will hear contributions from Professor Alan Matthews as well as the Presidents of all the main farming organisations. Fianna Fáil Agriculture Spokesperson, Éamon Ó Cuív TD, will also address the conference.
Deputy Ó Cuív commented: "Today is a unique opportunity for farmers across the country to have a say on the future of CAP. Many farmers feel they have not been listened to by Minister Simon Coveney, today is a chance to have their views heard.
"Over the past number of months I have attended over 20 meetings across the country where I have heard contributions from thousands of people regarding the future role CAP should play in Irish farming.
"I will also give an update today on where the CAP negotiations stand and what impact it will have on Ireland. CAP negotiations are entering a crucial phase, today is a chance for farmers to express their opinion. I will take the views of farmers and present them to the EU Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos, when I meet him on Monday.
"The next few months will define the role of the CAP in Ireland over the next decade and it is absolutely vital that farmers have their say on the future of CAP."


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Between Newton, Versus and Royal there are now three of these contests a week in Kanto. Very cool.
Part One
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Atomic Boy ZA, Ore GU, Chabozu SG, Kita CH, Kotaka Shoten GU, VIPER TH, [Gucchi RY]
Sasori DI, Bison Wakamatsu ZA, Raoh RY, KKY BL, Shin TH, Kikai GU, [Numa BX]
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Fourteen people went up against Nakamura including Nakano Guile and YuuVega (!) link.


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Hashtag Popularity Search shows #RT, #iPad,#Android rank higher than #Sex
This shocking discovery happened when I was challenged to do some hashtag popularity research using search tools on the website Hashtagify.me
I was introduced to the Hashtagify.me site by fellow social media participant, Kimberly Reynolds, CEO of Social Notz, who shared a contest announcement with our networking group which involved the Hastagify.me site.
The contest which is now over, had opportunities for winning money and even a chance for someone to be considered for a job opening in the hashtag field.
Upon visiting the site, I did some research, had tons of fun, found the information insightful and sometimes surprising, but I never posted this blog post and missed the contest deadline while this post was a draft waiting for me to click on the publish button.
The stats in this article are from November, so they're a month late for the November contest, but I'm sharing these finding with so as a way of introducing you to the Hashtagify.me site.
According to the website Hashtags.Org , the(#) hashtag is used to highlight keywords or topics within a tweet and can be placed anywhere within a post.
My search for popular hashtags began with celebrities and television shows.
#KimKardashian 49.6; #Chris Jenner 30.8; #Northwest 51.8; and #KanyeWest 53.8.
More popular hashtags include #APP 73.8; #APPLE 75.3; #Technology 68.1; #Cloud 65.9; # Mobile 68.7; #SEO 72.5; #Social 66.3; #Marketing 74.5;and #Facebook 76.6, even #Obama73.2
Dancing With The Stars #DWTS 65.9; #TheVoice 74.00, #Fashion 77.7; #Job 82.8; #Adult 70.5 #VIDEO 77.6 #FREE 80.5 #Love 87.1 #SEX 80.7.
Hashtag popularity statistics are demonstrating that more people are looking for a job found by searching #job which returns a popularity ranking of 82.8 than#Sex 80.7, or #Porn ranked 80.9?
These results should be the topic of lots of late-night talk shows hosted by Letterman, Leno, Conan, Kimmel, or Fallon about these hashtag popularity rankings. I can't be more explicit here but others might go there.
What ranks higher than these keywords? #Music ranked 86.1; #OpenFollow 92.2; #Retweet92.9; #Follow89.9;#iphone88.8; #iPad 92.9; #Android96.8; #RT98.4.
For my next search I want to know how using hashtags in postings influences the number of readers who follow the post and the impact hashtags have on a website and to revenue.
I am fascinated by the power of using hashtags and following trends so don't be surprised if my next book contains my findings. What are your favorite hashtags?
How has using them changed your traffic results to your website and/or blogs? Has your revenue increased dramatically using hashtags in your postings? Share your stories or be a guest on my talk show"Successipes" if you'd like to talk about this.
Before clicking the publish button to share this blog post with you, I went back to the Hashtagify.me site for the latest hashtag statistics including #Android 96.7, #RT 97.8, # iPad 93.1, #Follow 89.4 and #Sex 80.4. So I can still conclude that #Android, #RT,#iPad,#Follow still rank higher in popularity than #Sex.
With upcoming holidays and a New Year right around the corner, I searched and found that #Christmas 71.1 still has a higher hashtag search popularity ranking than #MileyCyrus 62.6.
#Free 80.2, #Instagram 76.6, #Love 86.6, #Shopping 70.9, #Family 75.5, and #Fashion still 77.7
I look forward to your #Follow ,#RT, and Retweet@Successipes .Please let me know about other contests so I can consider entering before the deadline passes. Check out the ranking popularity of your favorite hashtags using http://www.hashtagify.me .


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AIDS Can Be Stopped, But It's Not Stopping Yet, And It Won't Stop By Itself1 December is World AIDS Day 2005.
The 2005 report of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) says that the number of people living with HIV/AIDS rose this year to a record 40 million. There were a record number of new infections, about 4.9 million. And about three million people died of AIDS in 2005, including more than 500,000 children.
In addition to the individual human tragedies of suffering, loss and destitution reflected in these grim figures, there is other bad news:
- Only one in ten of those infected with HIV has been tested and knows his or her status.
- The epidemic is gaining strength in Asia, where the toll of death and economic disruption is potentially much higher than in the current centers in sub-saharan Africa. (South Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV/AIDS. Second is India, where the epidemic is just getting started.)
- The outgoing chief of India's official National Aids Control Organization, S.Y. Quraishi, said 70 percent of Indian sex workers either did not know what a condom was or how to use one.
- High mortality among working-age adults erodes productivity and imposes additional costs on businesses. In regions where infection rates are high this may be a significant deterrent to investment, both by private firms, by governments (for instance in education), and by individuals themselves.
- This underinvestment in future generations, together with costs of prevention and treatment, and reduced productivity in industry and agriculture, will reduce the economic growth of many nations, and could even cause the economic collapse of some.
- Refugees from such economic collapse will threaten the stability of affected countries and regions, and their neighbors.
- In many countries, marriage, and women's own fidelity are not enough to protect them against HIV infection.
Among women surveyed in Harare (Zimbabwe), Durban and Soweto (South Africa), 66% reported having one lifetime partner, 79% had abstained from sex at least until the age of 17 (roughly the average age of first sexual encounter in most countries in the world). Yet, 40% of the young women were HIV-positive. Many had been infected despite staying faithful to one partner. In Colombia, 72% of the women who tested HIV-positive at an antenatal site reported being in stable relationships. In India, a significant proportion of new infections is occurring in women who are married and who have been infected by husbands who (either currently or in the past) frequented sex workers. (From the 2005 report -- see last year's discussion of AIDS and women's issues.)
- In several countries HIV infection rates have fallen recently. There have also been reversals of worrying trends in such countries as Brazil and Thailand. These reversals indicate that it is possible to control epidemics using effective prevention programs.
- So although epidemics continue to worsen in many regions, there are demonstrated strategies for stopping HIV/AIDS, if those strategies can be applied.
- Access to HIV treatment has improved over the past two years. There are now more than one million people in developing countries living longer and better lives because they are on antiretroviral therapy.
- In short, "AIDS is a problem with a solution," says Dr. Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director
Even in the United States, with all its resources, the number of new HIV infections has held steady at 40,000 per year for the past five years, and may even be increasing slightly.The world seems to be willing to accept rampant HIV/AIDS and associated social, economic, and personal suffering in Southern Africa. Will similar crises in Eastern Europe, India or China be as easily ignored?
Additional ResourcesTest your awareness with this HIV/AIDS quiz
UNAIDS site
World AIDS Day is coordinated by Avert.org
Another useful AIDS information site
Excellent report on The Macroeconomics of HIV/AIDS from the International Monetary Fund
David Wheat's Science In Action site has articles about science and math in the real world, weird science, science news, unexpected connections, and other cool science stuff. There is an index of the articles by topic here.
tags: science, AIDS, HIV, science education, math, education, Science In Action


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[11] viXra:0703.0047 [pdf] submitted on 25 Mar 2007
Authors: Michael Ibison
Comments: recovered from sciprint.org
This paper follows in the tradition of direct-action versions of electromagnetism having the aim of
avoiding a balance of infinities wherein a mechanical mass offsets an infinite electromagnetic mass
so as to arrive at a finite observed value. However, the direct-action approach ultimately failed in
that respect because its initial exclusion of self-action was later found to be untenable in the
relativistic domain. Pursing the same end, this paper examines instead a version of
electromagnetism wherein mechanical action is excluded and self-action is retained. It is shown that
the resulting theory is effectively interacting due to the presence of infinite forces. A vehicle for the
investigation is a pair of classical point charges in a positronium-like arrangement for which the
orbits are found to be self-sustaining and naturally quantized.
Category: Quantum Physics
[10] viXra:0703.0025 [pdf] submitted on 25 Mar 2007
Authors: V. Christanto
Comments: recovered from sciprint.org
While nowadays it is almost trivial to prove explicitly that
there is exact correspondence (isomorphism) between Dirac equation and
Maxwell electromagnetic equations via biquaternionic representation,
nonetheless their physical meaning remains open for discussion. In the
present note we submit the viewpoint that it would be more conceivable if
we interpret the vierbein in terms of superfluid velocity. Furthermore using
the notion of Hodge bracket operator, we could find a neat linkage between
Dirac equation and Klein-Gordon equation. From this viewpoint it seems
possible to suggest a generalised unified wave equation from relativistic
fluid dynamics, which is thus far never proposed. Furthermore, the present
note argues that it is possible to derive an alternative description of
gravitational phenomena from Aharonov effect in relativistic spacetime,
which then could be used to explain anomalous gravitational phenomenon
known as Podkletnov's experiment. Further experimental observation to
verify or refute this proposition is recommended. For clarity, each new
equation in the present note, which never appears before elsewhere, is
denoted by (#) notation.
Category: Quantum Physics
[9] viXra:0703.0024 [pdf] submitted on 25 Mar 2007
Authors: Alex Kaivarainen
Comments: recovered from sciprint.org
The original Bivacuum concept developed in this work, like Dirac theory of vacuum, admit
the equal probability of positive and negative energy. The Unified theory (UT) represents
efforts of this author to create the Hierarchical picture of the World, starting from specific
Bivacuum superfluid matrix, providing the elementary particles origination and fields,
excited by particles Corpuscle Wave pulsation.
Category: Quantum Physics
[8] viXra:0703.0023 [pdf] submitted on 25 Mar 2007
Authors: V. Christianto
Comments: recovered from sciprint.org
It is known that Barut's equation could predict lepton and
hadron mass with remarkable precision. Recently some authors have
extended this equation, resulting in Barut-Dirac equation. In the present
article we argue that it is possible to derive a new wave equation as
alternative to Barut -Dirac's equation from the known exact correspondence
(isomorphism) between Dirac equation and Maxwell electromagnetic
equations via biquaternionic representation. Furthermore, in the present
note we submit the viewpoint that it would be more conceivable if we
interpret the vierbein of this equation in terms of superfluid velocity, which
in turn brings us to the notion of topological electronic liquid. Some
implications of this proposition include quantization of celestial systems.
We also argue that it is possible to find some signatures of Bose- Einstein
cosmology, which thus far is not explored sufficiently in the literature.
Further experimental observation to verify or refute this proposition is
recommended. For clarity, each new equation in the present note, which
never appears before elsewhere, is denoted by (#) notation.
Category: Quantum Physics
[7] viXra:0703.0019 [pdf] submitted on 18 Mar 2007
Authors: M. Pitkanen
Comments: recovered from sciprint.org
The idea that configuration space CH of 3-surfaces, "the world
of classical worlds", could be realized in terms of number theoretic
anatomies of single space-time point using the real units formed from
infinite rationals, is very attractive.
Category: Quantum Physics
[6] viXra:0703.0015 [pdf] submitted on 10 Mar 2007
Authors: Richard Gauthier
Comments: recovered from sciprint.org
A spatial model of a free electron (or a positron) is formed by a proposed
superluminally circulating point-like charged superluminal quantum.
Category: Quantum Physics
[5] viXra:0703.0014 [pdf] submitted on 10 Mar 2007
Authors: V. Christianto
Comments: recovered from sciprint.org
It is known that the large scale cosmological model may appear resemble to quantum
liquid (Helium).[1] And recently a modified model using this assumption yields a very
good agreement with observed data so far.[2][3] Interestingly, it is also known that
quantum liquid may exhibit quantum computation phenomena, therefore one could say
that a quantum liquid model of universe may appear also as quantum computer. This
aspect, however, has not been explored adequately in literature.
Category: Quantum Physics
[4] viXra:0703.0010 [pdf] submitted on 10 Mar 2007
Authors: Thomas R. Love
Comments: recovered from sciprint.org
We construct two first order differential operators which commute
with the operators in a representation of su(2), providing a counterexample
to Schur's Lemma.
Category: Quantum Physics
[3] viXra:0703.0009 [pdf] submitted on 10 Mar 2007
Authors: Diego L. Rapoport
Comments: recovered from sciprint.org
We reintroduce the Riemann-Cartan-Weyl geometries with trace
torsion and their associated Brownian motions on spacetime to extend them to
Brownian motions on the tangent bundle and exterior powers of them. We
characterize the diffusion of differential forms, for the case of manifolds without
boundaries and the smooth boundary case. We present implicit representations
for the Navier-Stokes equations (NS) for an incompressible fluid in a smooth
compact manifold without boundary as well as for the kinematic dynamo equation
(KDE, for short) of magnetohydrodynamics. We derive these representations
from stochastic differential geometry, unifying gauge theoretical structures
and the stochastic analysis on manifolds (the Ito-Elworthy formula for differential
forms. From the diffeomorphism property of the random flow given by
the scalar lagrangian representations for the viscous and magnetized fluids, we
derive the representations for NS and KDE, using the generalized Hamilton and
Ricci random flows (for arbitrary compact manifolds without boundary), and
the gradient diffusion processes (for isometric immersions on Euclidean space of
these manifolds). We solve implicitly this equations in 2D and 3D. Continuing
with this method, we prove that NS and KDE in any dimension other than 1,
can be represented as purely (geometrical) noise processes, with diffusion tensor
depending on the fluid's velocity, and we represent the solutions of NS and KDE
in terms of these processes. We discuss the relations between these representations
and the problem of infinite-time existance of solutions of NS and KDE.
We finally discuss the relations between this approach with the low dimensional
chaotic dynamics describing the asymptotic regime of the solutions of NS. We
present the random symplectic theory for the Brownian motions generated by
these Riemann-Cartan-Weyl geometries, and the associated random Poincare-Cartan
invariants. We apply this to the Navier-Stokes and kinematic dynamo
equations. In the case of 2D and 3D, we solve the Hamiltonian equations.
Category: Quantum Physics
[2] viXra:0703.0008 [pdf] submitted on 10 Mar 2007
Authors: Diego L. Rapoport
Comments: recovered from sciprint.org
We review the relation between space-time geometries with torsion
fields (the so-called Riemann-Cartan-Weyl (RCW) )geometries) and their
associated Brownian motions. In this setting, the metric conjugate of the tracetorsion
one-form is the drift vectorfield of the Brownian motions. Thus, in
the present approach, Brownian motions, in distinction with Nelson's Stochastic
Mechanics, are spacetime structures. We extend this to the state-space of
non-relativistic quantum mechanics and discuss the relation between a noncanonical
quantum RCW geometry in state-space associated with the gradient
of the quantum-mechanical expectation value of a self-adjoint operator given
by the generalized laplacian operator defined by a RCW geometry. We discuss
the reduction of the wave function in terms of a RCW quantum geometry in
state-space. We characterize the Schroedinger equation for both an observed
and unobserved quantum systems in terms of the RCW geometries and Brownian
motions. Thus, in this work, the Schroedinger field is a torsion generating
field, and the U and R processes, in the sense of Penrose, are associated, the
former to spacetime geometries and their associated Brownian motions, and the
latter to their extension to the state-space of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics
given by the projective Hilbert space. In this setting, the Schroedinger equation
can be either linear or nonlinear. We discuss the problem of the many times
variables and the relation with dissipative processes. We present as an additional
example of RCW geometries and their Brownian motions counterpart, the
dynamics of viscous fluids obeying the invariant Navier-Stokes equations. We
introduce in the present setting an extension of R. Kiehn's approach to dynamical
systems starting from the notion of the topological dimension of one-forms,
to apply it to the trace-torsion one-form whose metric conjugate is the Brownian
motion's drift vectorfield and discuss the topological notion of turbulence. We
discuss the relation between our setting and the Nottale theory of Scale Relativity,
and the work of Castro and Mahecha in this volume in nonlinear quantum
mechanics, Weyl geometries and the quantum potential.
Category: Quantum Physics
[1] viXra:0703.0007 [pdf] submitted on 10 Mar 2007
Authors: Diego L. Rapoport
Comments: recovered from sciprint.org
We present the space-time and Hilbert-state space quantum geometries and their associated
Brownian motions. We discuss the problem of the reduction of the wave function associated to
these geometries and their Brownian motions.
Category: Quantum Physics


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As reported by the Ottawa Citizen, a trial judge, applying a Canadian Supreme Court ruling, ordered a devout Muslim woman to testify in court without her niqab.[1] She is testifying against men she accuses of sexual abuse while she was a minor. Her religion dictates that she wears her niqab when facing men who are not relatives. Below is a graphic from the BBC illustrating two types of Muslim face coverings.[2]
This trial clearly pits the right to confront witnesses and the right to a fair trial against the free exercise of religion. In Canada, the Supreme Court determined that this issue must be addressed on a case-by-case basis:
"A clear rule that would always, or one that would never, permit a witness to wear the niqab while testifying cannot be sustained. Always permitting a witness to wear the niqab would offer no protection for the accused's fair trial interest and the state's interest in maintaining public confidence in the administration of justice. However, never permitting a witness to testify wearing a niqab would not comport with the fundamental premise underlying the Charter that rights should be limited only to the extent that the limits are shown to be justifiable. The need to accommodate and balance sincerely held religious beliefs against other interests is deeply entrenched in Canadian law."[3]
Essentially, the Canadian Supreme Court set out a four-prong test for lower court judges to use when determining if the niqab interferes with the trial. As summarized by the CBC, the prongs are:
- Does she have a sincere belief in her religion?
- Does wearing a veil create a serious risk to trial fairness?
- Is there any other way to accommodate her?
- If no, does what the court called the "salutary" effects of ordering her to remove her niqab outweigh the "deleterious" effects of doing that?[4]
The trial judge applied the test in the remanded case and found in favor of the rights of the accused. Normally, in Canada or the U.S. this would be the end of the issue and either N.S. would testify without her niqab or the trial would not move forward. But her lawyer is trying another tactic and using recent scientific evidence calling into question the ability of individuals to discern anything reliably from facial expressions. This argument is similar to the argument regarding eyewitness testimony and line-ups.[5] Simply put, humans are not good at remembering facts and faces, we are influenced by context, and we are poor judges of truth despite what we see on "The Mentalist".[6]
Does this evidence tip the balance? Would jurors be better judges of truth without seeing facial expressions or posture during testimony? Are these scientific findings enough to say that due process if fulfilled even if a witness wears a niqab or burka? And how does this balance with the right to confront accusers? In 1985, the U.S. Supreme Court said:
This Court's Confrontation Clause cases fall into two broad categories: cases involving the admission of out-of-court statements and cases involving restrictions imposed by law or by the trial court on the scope of cross-examination…
The second category of cases is exemplified by Davis v. Alaska, 415 U.S. 308, 318, 94 S.Ct. 1105, 1111, 39 L.Ed.2d 347 (1974), in which, although some cross-examination of a prosecution witness was allowed, the trial court did not permit defense counsel to "expose to the jury the facts from which jurors, as the sole triers of fact and credibility, could appropriately draw inferences relating to the reliability of the witness." As the Court stated in Davis, supra, at 315, 94 S.Ct., at 1110, "confrontation means more than being allowed to confront the witness physically." Consequently, in Davis, as in other cases involving trial court restrictions on the scope of cross-examination, the Court has recognized that Confrontation Clause questions will arise because such restrictions may "effectively . . . emasculate the right of cross-examination itself." Smith v. Illinois, 390 U.S. 129, 131, 88 S.Ct. 748, 750, 19 L.Ed.2d 956 (1968).[7]
Yet, this opinion does not address N.S.'s new argument. What if the fallibility or emasculation lies with the jurors? If jurors gain nothing from observing the witness or, perhaps worse make erroneous or unreliable conclusions based upon observing the witness, where does that leave the right to confront? If evidence continues to mount—creating a nearly irrefutable Brandeis brief—free exercise would likely trump the right to confront. But in the end, this same analysis would call into question the rationale for including that latter right in the Bill of Rights.
We have seen the Court reinterpret or alter the interpretation of these amendments over the course of our history, but we have not yet dealt with the increase of knowledge undermining the very rationale for an amendment. In such a situation, what should the Court do? Stick to avowed legal approaches and continue to interpret this clause fairly literally? Or can they use founders intent and suggest that the amendment does not do what the founders intended—indeed it may undermine that intent—so we move away from a strict reading of the clause? Its an interesting conundrum, especially for justices like Scalia who aver originalism.
[1] We wrote about the oral argument in this case back in 2011 (https://clcablog.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/battle-of-the-amendments-sixth-versus-first/). Here we discussed if the Supreme Court, when it faces this issues because its bound to come up in the U.S., would use the Sherbert or the Employment Division v. Smith test.
[3] http://scc.lexum.org/decisia-scc-csc/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/12779/index.do?r=AAAAAQAFbmlxYWIAAAAAAAAB
[5] See http://www.ajs.org/wc/ewid/ewid-home.asp and at this blog https://clcablog.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/due-process-and-eye-witness-testimony/
[7] Delaware v. Fensterer (474 US 15).


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Sauvie Island Farms.
The orchard is loaded with beautiful tree ripened peaches this week. U-pick for only $1.50 per lb. The price drops to $1.25 per lb if you pick over 15 lbs. and to just $1.00 per lb if you pick over 50 lbs.
On the farm this week, we also have beautiful
Blue Crop Blueberries. The bushes are loaded with larger size, sweet fruit right now. They are so easy to pick, and so good for you.
raspberries, but you can still find some in the Saanich and Cohos.
Just a handful of Chester blackberries have started to ripen if you want to get the first taste of the season.
Marionberry season is over and the yellow raspberries need a few weeks to ripen up again.
Pick Your Own berries are $2.50 per lb. We have fresh pick flats of blueberries and raspberries each day, until the raspberries are all finished up.
Veggies this week: we have a young patch of green beans, small sized pickling cukes, dill, cabbage, lettuce, kale, broccoli, peas, & zucchini
Beautiful flowers are blooming in the u-cut garden, dahlias, sunflowers, bachelor buttons, cosmos, zinnias, lavender, daisies, baby's breath, gladiolus, amaranthus.
There have been some Pokemon sightings here on the farm :)
(if you don't know what that means, it's ok....ask someone under the age of 25)!!
It's a great week to come out to Sauvie Island Farms.
Open Monday-Saturday 8am-7pm for more info call
or visit our website www.sauvieislandfarms.com


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Nighttime rituals
So we have our basic nighttime rituals. First we get into jammies, brush our teeth, and then run around a little. Will gets a short story, and we transition to good nights. Will says goodnight to Sophie and Daddy, and maybe Chicken. Then he and Mommy go to the kids room for songs and maybe milkies (if needed). Daddy and Sophie read three books (time permitting). Sometime into the 3rd book Mommy arrives and we snuggle together for the end. Then Sophie gives Daddy a hug and kiss goodnight. And then...
Something a little puzzling to Mommy and Daddy, Sophie heads off to the window and says "Can we talk about Spiders?" I don't know when this started or why. Sometimes there is actual talk about spiders. This time of year it mostly has to do with why we don't see any spiders outside. Too cold.
Then eventually Sophie runs away, gets caught by Mommy, snuggles and good night songs for her.
The spider business is still a mystery.


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The writing saga.
Date: Post:
10/25/13 Weigh Day, Writing and No Sleep
10/28/13 Story restructuring a SUCCESS!
11/01/13 My Weighty Story, NaNoWriMo, and Wall-E Tails OOH MY!
11/03/13 NaNoWriMo, the Husband Unit, Day What, and being proud.
11/07/13 NaNoWriMo: What day is it now? 7?
11/09/13 NaNoWriMo: All Day Write – A – Thon
11/10/13 NaNoWriMo: Day 10!
11/12/13 My Weighty Story and NaNoWriMo: Balancing
11/18/13 My Weighty Story: The Hangover AND a NaNoWriMo Update
11/20/13 NaNoWriMo: A Dash of Mickel de Seduisant. ( Short Story / Sample Chapter of the 2nd book in The Five Angels Trilogy.
11/23/13 NaNoWriMo Day 23: Starting to Freak Out
11/24/13 NaNoWriMo Day 24: Connecting the Dots
11/26/13 NaNoWriMo Day 26: YAHHOOOOOOOO!!!!
11/30/13 NaNoWriMo: Have Red Pen. Will Edit.
12/05/13 NaNoWriMo: Editing Derail and Character Development
12/19/13 Attachment to Characters ….
01/07/14 The Inventive Blogger Award? Me? NO WAY! Well… Apparently.
01/14/14 Short Story: Welcome to the Curtails of the North
01/24/14 The Editing Blahs …. or Not.
01/30/14 Red Ink. All I see is red ink!!!
02/14/14 Disappearing Red Ink
02/18/14 New Web Address
02/19/14 Short Story: The Assassin
02/25/14 Short Story: Lindy meets Arturno
03/01/14 Writing Habits: A Questionnaire
03/19/14 Short Story: Welcome to the Curtails of the North (Revised)
03/20/14 Here we go … AGAIN
03/23/14 Short Story Issues
03/28/14 Obsessions and Murphy's Law
03/31/14 NaNoWriMo Camp and The last 7 days
04/02/14 Camp NaNoWriMo and Trouble Connecting to a Lover
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Rocastle went 60 minutes in the scoreless draw.
The final games of the group stage of the Caribbean Cup conclude today, both involve Sporting KC players. Guadeloupe and Stephane Auvray will look to seal a spot in the semifinals (and a Gold Cup spot too) with a victory over Antigua Barbuda; Jamaica can close out the first stage undefeated with a victory over Guyana.
The semifinals are set for Friday (Grenada will likely play Jamaica; Cuba will face either Guadeloupe or Antigua Barbuda) and the championship is Sunday. Read more about the Cuphere .


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It's Day 3 of our Holiday Savings Parade!
3 fantastical days of holiday creativity from the Girl Fridays using lots of the stamp and die sets that are in our SALE section at fantastical prices!
You are going to have lots and lots of ideas for your Christmas card projects this year!First up is Kimberly!
Oh my goodness! I love that she used the little snowflake stamps from Lovely Blessings to stamp that pretty background! Then, she embossed the big sentiment from that set on black cardstock. But that's not all! She also embossed Holly Jolly Borders in white on her sentiment panel. Love it!
Oh wow! She used a negative die cut from Flurry to create a stencil for her colorful flakes! So pretty! But wait, there's more again! She also cut a flake from her card panel and made a shaker element! How fun is that?
Let's get a close up of that...
And now let's see what Nora created!
Check out that Funky Flake cut from glitter paper! So sparkly and pretty and perfectly placed on the Ornament Tag! The silver foil paper she used to cut the Noel sentiment and the Ornament topper add such a wonderful shine!
The fun thing about Funky Flakes is that you can layer the die cuts together to create your own unique flakes! I love this pink flaked Ornament Tag! Just imagine these on your packages under your tree! You could do the flakes in any color to coordinate with your gift wrap :)
Check it out done up in gold on a Tag Buddies Fri-Die!
Check it out done up in gold on a Tag Buddies Fri-Die!
This is just plain pretty! The gold twine, the gold embossed Snowy Sayings sentiment, the gold flakes with gold sequins...I'm loving all the gold!
Today is the last day of our inspiration parade, but the SALE will continue while supplies last through the end of the month.
Check out our SALE section, no code needed :)
I hope you find some time to get your ink on today :)


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Greetings from Berlin/Germany
I would like to know, if and how the program calculate the chance for a bite using a own tied fly (version3). Color, Size etc.? Or is it more an funny but dispensable Feature? I could not imagine how this can work.
Thank you
Regards Pitti (waiting for the cd
Sorry for my bad english


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Farm and shop
Orders and tickets
Llanvi Farm
The Lenza's history at Llanvihangel Crucorney Fruit Farm began when Peppe moved to the UK from Italy in 1957 at just 19 years old. He came to work for the family who are still resident at the court. It wasnt until 1969 that Peppe took over the business for himself.
It was in 1973 when he began to grow varieties of vegetables that were Italian and it was from this that he began to supply The famous Walnut Tree Restuarant for 25 years and Vin Sullivans for 30years. Peppe was growing Romanesco over 25 years ago, at a time when very few knew what they were.
During the same year that Peppe turned 80, he was joined by his youngest daughter Claudia. Some changes were made to the farm including a play area and animals to feed. In respect to growing, Claudia is hoping to keep up the families tradition of growing varieties that are not available in the supermarkets, under a watchful eye of her father. During her first year, she has grown white strawberries, purple cauliflower and plenty of cime di rapa. Peppe is still very active and is at the farm most days, testiment to a healthy lifestyle that his diet and lifestyle no doubt play a major role in.


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text: based to being array based), for byte to char conversion option (a) takes little memory (256 chars for the table) and is very fast. As I explained in my previous post, it beats option (b) in time-efficiency. I suppose it beats it in space-efficiency as well, as long as most bytes are convertable into characters. When there are only a few legal byte values, which can be encoded into characters, the hash based conversion could be more space-efficient. On the other hand, the array based implementation doesn't waste much memory in that case. Even in the worst case, a fictive encoding that solely uses a specific single byte to encode some character, there are 255 * 2 = 510 bytes wasted. That's not much, and can be improved upon, by introducing range checks and similar techniques. The choices really start to matter when you're going the other way round, from chars to bytes. Take a look at ISO-8859-8 (a.k.a. hebrew). It encodes 220 characters. Of these 220, only 32 are *not* mapping a byte value to itself. They are either mappings into the range between \u05D0 and \u05EA, mappings within the first 256 characters, or mappings to a few special characters like LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK. So what you could do, is having two arrays for the ranges \u0000-\u00FF and \u05D0-\u05EA, and a hashtable for the rest. Or you could have one array (\u0000-\u00FF) and a hashtable. Or just a hashtable. Or a massive array if all you care about is time-efficiency. If the encoder is clever enough, it could realize there is a simple relation between the characters in the hebrew part of the Unicode and their byte values: byte value = unicode value - 0x04F0, and use that to eliminate the need to explicitely store this part of the encoding. This leaves us with 5 Unicode-to-byte mappings that need to be stored in a very space efficient implementation. Unless, of course there is some other relation which can be exploited. On a side note, it might be interesting to look at how GNU recode handles such things for further inspiration, if you're looking for more ideas. I've come up with switch based converters, if you really need to sqeeze as much space as possible: public final static byte convert (char c) { // check if character c is in part of Unicode used in this // encoding if ((this_encodings.first_range.MIN_VAL <= c && c <= this_encodings.first_range.MAX_VAL) || (this_encodings.second_range.MIN_VAL <= c && ...) || ...) { switch (c) { // Only create cases for characters that are not mapped // to themselves/ via a simple relation. case '...': return ...; // the default case: c is mapped to itself. // or you could implement some other relation here. default: return c; } } else { return unknown_character; } As an added bonus, object creation with switch based encoders is cheaper that with other forms. You don't need fields, so you don't need to serialize anything. The conversion methods can be static to improve performance. The question I'd like to ask is: What would you optimize for: time or space? > One would have to see what the actual sizes of the .ser files would be; > keeping those small is certainly desirable. From what I understand, > they're more compact than any Java code representation. > Edouard would know more since he wrote that code, I My patched version of Encode.java currently generates java source code, which gets regularly compiled with kjc. The generated files sizes are 2433 Wed Aug 16 13:44:02 GMT+0:00 2000 kaffe/io/ByteToCharISO8859_2.class vs. 2274 Wed Aug 16 13:44:12 GMT+0:00 2000 kaffe/io/ByteToChar8859_2.ser compiled using kaffe's current kjc with standard settings. Using -O with kjc results in a 2277 bytes large class file. That's about the same. think. > > > On a related note, this whole conversion thing stinks. > Why can't people stick to 7-bit ASCII? > For instance, the JVM98 jack The whole conversion issue is an example of historical cruft. Over the time, people toyed around with different encodings, because a) ASCII left them 128 character slots to play with on 8 bit machines, and b) ASCII is just not good enough if you want to write more demanding languages (in terms of character sets), like Greek, Hebrew, German, Chinese [1]. Whatever. The world is hopefully going towards Unicode now, but there is a massive amount of legacy encoded files in whatever their native encoding is. And people want to exchange them, subversive as they are :) MIME has hooks for encodings, HTTP has hooks for them, and Java is the first popular programming language that realizes that the world doesn't *need* to write its files in latin script to use computers and provides somewhat convenient means to handle the issues. Just be glad we don't have to handle various transliterations of non-english scripts into ASCII, which are used by people without good keyboard layouts. :) For example, how do you type the german letter o-Umlaut, which is an o with two dots on its top in ASCII ? I've seen o" (LaTeX), ö (HTML), o: (arty people), oe (usually found in e-mail from people who can't be bothered learning another keyboard layout's definitions for special characters) . I could imagine 'o' or °o° being used by somebody out there, too. :) benchmark calls PrintStream.print > a whopping 296218 times in a single run. Every call results in a new > converter object being newinstanced, just to convert a bunch of bytes. > (The new converter was one of the changes done to make the > charset conversion thread-safe.) This is one of the reasons > why we're on this test some If I understand the issues involved properly, you need to create new instances of converter objects only if your converter has to conserve its state between consecutive calls. That's only the case if you have a multibyte encoding, like UTF-8, and you might not have provided enough bytes to fully decode the character in the last call. Unfortunately, kaffe's encoding loading mechanism in kaffe.io.ByteToCharConverter and kaffe.io.CharToByteConverter always creates a new instance of an encoding. It should not have to do so for one-to-one encodings. I'd like to fix that, too. 7 or 8 times slower than IBM. > And that's not even using any of the serialized converters, just > the default one (which is written in JNI). > Why was a JNI based conversion chosen for ISO-Latin-1 in the first place? ISO-Latin-1 one essentially converts each byte into itself as a Unicode character. So almost everything the conversion routine does is to copy the bytes around. Is kaffe's interpreter/jit/jit3 slower than the JNI call with all its overhead? If you've made it through till here, I'd like to hear from you :) Dali [1] Personally, I think people should use the phonetical encoding instead. Imagine that! A world without spellcheckers! You'd pronounce the items on the menu of a chinese restaurant properly! Still, the current problem of converting the documents written in traditional scripts, like ASCII, would remain. Back to square one. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com


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May 11, 2012
This last year has been difficult for my blogging. I took a LONG break away from the computer, and its blindingly bright screen. I have been dealing with chronic migraines since last July and have found it ever so difficult to go near my computer. With over 20 migraines a month, then a spinal headache for two weeks in February, and so many doctor visits I don't have much time for anything other than day to day stuff with the children. Finally I am now on a good daily regimen, went through an awesome nutritional cleanse, and am down to only 5-6 migraines a month (a blessing for me). So I am trying to get back into what I love (writing).
Through the last 10 months I have really began to think about other parents that deal with chronic pain issues. It really is a difficult situation to be in, and some parents can put such a great face on while dealing with their pain. I hope for a few good posts on that subject and maybe even a magazine article if I can manage. See you all soon!
November 6, 2011
Em and WIll
September 1, 2011
Boys Love Bugs!
One thing my daughter and I agree on is bugs are yucky. I am not so lucky with the little guy who thinks bugs are toys, fun to squish and play with. This freaks me out, just a bit. Now, I am not one to hide from my fears, but face it head on is not my normal way to do things. But as we mom's go through motherhood, we do things for our children and get used to things we don't like, purely for the sake of making them happy. The Bug Museum Insect Lore is just such a place. Not a place I would go willingly on my own, but with a happy child in tow, I am game.
Lindsay and I headed out to Insect Lore this weekend for a look around with our boys and my sweet girl. We saw pretty lady bugs and butterflies, ugly hairy tarantulas, and enormous disgusting beetles, yes all alive, thankfully in cages. My limit was the beetles, I would have run screaming out of the store if one even looked like it could escape. The true value of the trip was the boys having a great time together.
August 30, 2011
August 25, 2011
Dirty Thirsty... I mean thirty!
My birthday did turn out to be pretty amazing too. We took our friends out for a kid-free weekend of wine tasting. We had a blast in Paso Robles going through winery after winery. We visited some of the best California wineries: Rotta, Turley, Proulx, Cypher, Clautiere, and Tobin James. All had such great wines! The best part was the great company that went with us, our life long friends, Sam and Tara and Greg and Keri. We love you!
August 10, 2011
Baby girl is 4
For her 4th birthday this year we were on our Kennison family vacation, this year was camping. We did a lot of fishing while camping. So we got her her own fishing pole for her birthday and went to the lake and she caught her very first fish! Two casts with a lucky lure and she caught a brown trout. So sweet! She was all excited for a minute and ran back to her snack. That's a kid for ya.
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August 9, 2011
Does it take the Village?
I find one of the most enjoyable parts of parenting can be the friendships made with other parents and their children. The old saying "it takes a village" is one that I completely agreed with. We had some pretty amazing families we were friends with, they were our village. We would have dinner together, travel together, have holidays together. We had lots of kids to enjoy and friends to laugh with, a shoulder to lean on and a listening ear. Over the last several months some particular friendships have died away leaving gaping holes in our circle.
As I am trying to figure out what went wrong, I find truth in the old breakup line, "it's not you it's me". Our "friends" needed to focus on the family, leaving the social aspect of parenting to become a stronger unit. In our little family unit however, that is not something we need. We have lots of time together and we have a great relationship. We are all close and loving, and we love having others we love around us. In the end we have no understanding of our friends needs for seclusion but can respect it. I just wonder why leave people that only want to help and support you?
Are you social parents or seclusion parents?
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ReportTT: Foxconn halting iPhone 5C production at Zhengzhou plant
Reports of Apple's dwindling iPhone 5C sales have been coming in for weeks now, and it appears that many of the rumors about Apple scaling back production on the device are true. A new report from Digitimes is claiming that Foxconn's Zhengzhou plant is halting all production lines building the colorful iPhone 5C.
The plant is said to be able to produce upwards of 9,000 iPhone 5C units per day, which means that halting its production lines further scales the devices daily production from a current 80,000 phones per day to just over 70,000. This puts 5C production drastically down from its high of 320,000 phones per day around launch. The device's poor sales numbers can be directly equated to its retail price of $549 off-contract, which is just $150 cheaper than the company's flagship, the iPhone 5S.


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Addo Elephant Park Budget Accommodation -|- The easiest way to find and book accommodation in Addo Elephant Park
Addo Elephant Park Accommodation – Browse Online For Your Addo Elephant Park Self Catering, Bed and Breakfast Accommodation – Addo Elephant Park Budget Family Holiday Accommodation
Deep within the shadows of the dense valley bushveld of the Sundays River region of the Eastern Cape lies the Addo Elephant National Park. Here, the evenings are punctuated by the strident howl of the black-backed jackal, and the francolin's call heralds each new dawn. Safe from relentless persecution in the past, the grey leviathans of the bush now roam in peace.
The original Elephant section of the park was proclaimed in 1931, when only eleven elephants remained in the area – today this finely tuned ecosystem is sanctuary to over 450 elephants, Cape buffalo, black rhino, a variety of antelope species, as well as the unique flightless dung beetle, found almost exclusively in Addo. And their Addo has only just begun. with plans to expand the 164 000 ha Addo National Elephant Park into a 360 000 ha mega-park. In addition, plans include the proposed proclamation of a 120 000 ha (296 500 acre) marine reserve that includes islands that are home to the world's largest breeding populations of Cape gannets and second largest breeding population of African penguins.
Addo Elephant Park Budget Family Holiday Accommodation – The Addo Elephant National Park near Port Elizabeth, South Africa, gives the true Out of Africa Feeling and offers the rare opportunity to go on safari in a malaria-free area and see the big five on a budget safari. Since October 2003 the 'Big 5' are all back home, but that is not all: the park is set to become the third largest in South Africa and, in addition to the large land animals you will also be able to view whales, great white shark and numerous other sea creatures as the park boarders the Indian Ocean, the Big Seven in one budget safari get away!
The Addo Elephant park was founded in 1931 and currently offers about 460 elephants, cape buffaloes, various antelope species and other veld animals a safe habitat. During 1995 the are around Zuurberg, where leopards are found was integrated into the larger Addo Park.
The Addo Park is particularly welcome for holidaymakers in the Eastern Cape as it offers the unparalleled opportunity to observe some if not all of the Big Five on a budget safari in the larger natural reserve. A visit of the park can be ideally combined with safaris in the nearby private game reserves and a the a vacation along the Garden Route towards Cape Town.
The Eastern Cape, in the South Eastern corner of Africa, is the second largest of South Aricas eleven Provinces. Whille travelers to South Africa will always treat the Western Cape and Cape Town as the most sought after destination, the moderate climate and miles of unspoiled beaches make the Eastern Cape a top holiday destination.
Many visitors are discovering what the lesser known provinces have to offer and the Eastern Cape, toward the Eastern edge of the Garden Route, is fast becoming a sought after destination.
The birthplace of both Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki and the traditional home of the Xhosa people, the Eastern Cape offers tourists some of the most interesting and diversified holiday opportunities available in South Africa. The rich history; the historic battle fields of the one hundred year frontier war and a natural environment that few places in the world are able to match.
The Addo Elephant Park offers attractions of a diverse nature. The water temperatures, as compared to the Western Cape, are conducive to swimming during most of the year and one is almost assured of good weather on most days, ideal for enjoying beach holidays in the region or the many diverse attractions that make the region interesting. The Addo Elephant Park is a malaria free area.
Enjoy game viewing and a true African safari experiences, elephant; Lion; buffalo; leopard; rhinoceros, and all the other "must see" treasures. The Addo Elephant Park offers accommodation and game viewing options to cater for the most discerning traveller. Options are available for those wanting the best in luxury accommodation at internationally recognised standards to smaller reserves catering for the budget conscious traveller. There are even economic camping opportunities, with many Guest Houses and other lodging accommodation just outside the reserves allowing daily access.
The three main national parks are the Addo Elephant Park (SA National Parks Board) taking the lead as one of South Africa's finest game reserves, supported by Tsitsikamma National Park and the Baviaanskloof nature reserve, a world heritage site and the many privately owned reserves. Together enabling the Addo Elephant Park to offer itself as a truly well rounded holiday experience to visitors both from within South Africa and the many international visitors who have discovered this unique corner of Africa.
Addo National Park is a "Big Five" wildlife reserve in Eastern Cape, South Africa. Thanks to its proximity to Port Elizabeth and the advantage of being in a malaria-free region, the park is a popular safari for families and visitors to the Garden Route. Whilst hosting the big 5 the park was originally founded in 1931 to protect the local elephants, who had almost been exterminated by hunters.
Of the thousands of elephants in the area only 16 elephants had survived when the park was launched. Today, the Addo Elephant Park stretches over approximately 186,000 hectares from the semi-arid Karroo in the north over the Zuurberg Mountains, through to the Sunday's River Valley in the east and then south to the coast. Whilst home home to more than 600 elephants the park also hosts lions, buffaloes, buck, spotted hyena, leopards, several antelope and zebra species.
Addo Park is home to a wide range of budget accommodation units, ranging from luxurious five star lodges to simple cheap guest houses whilst many interesting activities are offered to the visitors, including hiking trails, horseback riding trails, elephant back rides and river cruises. Visitors can choose whether to explore the park individually by car, or to book a cheap guided safari. No matter what type of visit you choose, the spectacular beauty of this region will inspire you!


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Shaquanda Cotton to be Freed
by A.man.I
Shaquanda Cotton, the fifteen year-old Paris Texas student who was serving time in a juvenile prison for pushing a student aid should is being freed. Read about it here.
It seems community activists, and the blogging community really stepped up to the plate with this issue.
Here's a nice comment posted to my blog from ExodusMentality.
"You know I was real hot when when I first found out about this case on March 22. It's nine days later and for those of you who haven't already heard, Shaquanda was scheduled to be freed from the Texas juvenile corrections facility this morning. We should celebrate this victory even as we continue to move forward.
Everyone connected with this case acknowledges that it was the concerted efforts of Black Bloggers that caused such a massive amount of publicity in such a short time, that put pressure on Texas officials to remedy this situation so quickly. There is power in the community that is developing among Black bloggers(aka the Afrosphere or the Blackosphere). Everyone who participates by blogging, reading. posting comments, or spreading the word about the existence of black blogs should be justifiably proud of what we accomplished and where we can taqke this thing.
Special shouts to My Urban Report for being the portal that led me to blogging."


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DECT 6.0 GHz Digital cordless phone with caller ID and handset speakerphone.
VTech Communications announced several new trendy cordless phones, including one model with customizable graphics.
Inspired by skateboard and snowboard designs, the DECT 6.0 LS6117 ($44.95) lets you change the look of the phone with one of five design inserts provided. Or, if you're artistically inclined, you can go to vtechphones.com to create and print your own design. In addition, the LS6117 has a large LCD display with white backlighting, selectable ring tones, and is Wi-Fi friendly.
If five designs aren't enough for you, you can create your own by visiting the website where you'll find 18 funky designs to choose from or upload your own. Once you've chosen a design, you simply print it, cut it, and apply it to your stylish landline phone. Pretty simple, huh? The phone itself looks very stylish, and has features like caller ID, call waiting, speakerphone, selectable ringtones, trilingual prompts, voicemail, and digital security to protect you from identity theft.
* DECT 6.0 Digital technology provides the best sound quality, security and range in cordless phones
* Easily change handset back graphic inserts for unique styling and personalization.
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Keegan Kolesar scored with 15.9 seconds left in overtime Saturday night at Xfinity Arena to give the Seattle Thunderbirds a 4-3 overtime win over the Everett Silvertips.
Kolesar took a stretch pass from Ethan Bear to break in alone on Everett goalie Carter Hart. Kolesar beat Hart on the glove side for his seventh goal of the season. Mathew Barzal had the second assist on the game-winning goal.
The T-Birds were all over the Silvertips in the extra period, outshooting the Tips 8-0 and keeping them pinned in their zone.
Seattle goalie Rylan Toth was very good in net for the T-Birds making 28 saves on 31 shots to improve his record to 18-14-1-0.
The T-Birds play the Spokane Chiefs Sunday at 5:05pm at ShoWare Center.
Both teams had eight shots on goal in the first period.
Seattle (22-14-1-0) took a 1-0 lead at 8:22 of the second period. Donovan Neuls took a slap shot off a pass from Barzal. The puck hit the post and landed in front of Hart. Matthew Wedman got a stick on the puck before Bear punched the puck past Hart for the goal.
The T-Birds struck 24 seconds later to take a 2-0 lead. Alexander True got the puck past Hart on a scramble play in front of the goalie. Neuls and Wedman each got a poke at the puck before True scored.
Everett (27-5-7-1) cut the Seattle lead to one at 10:07 of the second on a goal from Connor Dewar. Devon Skoleski and Bryce Kindopp had the assists.
The Silvertips tied the game 2-2 at 12:20 on a goal from Eetu Tuulola. Montana Onyebuchi and Riley Sutter were credited with the assists.
Both team had 13 shots in the second period and both had 21 shots after two periods.
Seattle took a 3-2 lead with 4:28 left in the third period. Ryan Gropp took a shot that rebounded off Hart to Barzal in the slot. Barzal backhanded the puck through Hart's legs for the go-ahead goal.
Everett tied the game 3-3 at 17:23 of the third on a goal from Matt Fonteyne. Patrick Bajkov and Wyatt Wylie had the assists.
Everett outshot Seattle 10-9 in the third period and led 31-30 in total shots after three periods.
Hart had 34 saves on 38 shots and his record is now 17-3-5-0.
First period – No scoring. Penalties – Tyszka, Sea (holding), 4:00.
Second period – 1, Seattle, Bear 12 (Wedman, Neuls), 8:22. 2, Seattle, True 11 (Neuls, Wedman), 8:46. 3, Everett, Dewar (Skoleski, Kindopp), 10:07. 4, Everett, Tuulola 11 (Onyebuchi, Sutter), 12:20. Penalties – Onyebuchi, Evt (major-fighting), 14:28. Strand, Sea (major-fighting), 14:28. Wedman, Sea (slashing), 15:40.
Third period – 5, Seattle, Barzal 3 (Gropp), 15:32. 6, Everett, Fonteyne 13 (Bajkov, Wylie), 17:23. Penalties – Bajkov, Evt (tripping), :36. Strand, Sea (checking from behind), 7:59.
Overtime – 7, Seattle, Kolesar 7 (Bear, Kolesar), 4:44. Penalties – No penalties.
Shots on goal – Seattle 8-13-9-8 38, Everett 8-13-10-0 31. Goalies – Seattle, Toth 31 shots-28 saves (18-14-1-0); Everett, Hart 38-34 (17-3-5-0). Power plays – Seattle 0-1; Everett 0-3. A – 8,249. Referees – Mike Campbell, Kyle Kowalski. Linesmen – Adam Brastad, Mark Heier.
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Paris Writers Workshop Pages
To find out the latest news about the Paris Writers Workshop 2018 visit the events website
The Paris Writers Workshop 2018 (PWW) takes place from Sunday June 24 to Saturday June 30 at Forum 104 in central Paris.
The PWW is hosted by WICE, a non-profit community program founded in 1978 by Anglophones residing in Paris. With the support of WICE, the Paris Writers Workshop has established a strong international reputation for the quality of its instruction, the strength of its faculty, and the success of its summer workshop participants.
For the past two decades, the workshop has become an integral part of the Paris creative writing scene. Many participants – both teachers and students – return to PWW year after year. The PWW has attracted award-winning faculty, including Marilyn Hacker, Samantha Chang, Ayana Mathis, Alecia McKenzie, Mimi Swartz, Ellen Sussman, and Eric Frieze.
That continuity has not only strengthened the program, but also the English-speaking writing community, which Paris has always welcomed. In turn, the Paris Writers Workshop draws energy from the rich cultural heritage of Paris.
Past participants have said that they attach particular value to PWW's high quality of instruction and its reasonable cost. But, perhaps what participants value the most is the energetic writing community that forms around each workshop. Come join our international community of writers.


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Movie News in 60 Seconds: '21 Jump Street' Laughs Its Way to Box Office Win; More SXSW Audience Award Winners; 'Easy A' Director Gets Serious
Laughing and Winning: Riding a wave of positive buzz (and taking advantage of being the only new wide release), 21 Jump Street easily topped the box office charts, grossed an estimated $35 million over the weekend. It's the second-highest opening ever for an R-rated comedy in the non-summer months. Both John Carter and Project X had substantial declines (more than 50%), while The Lorax is holding up nicely after three weeks. Will Ferrell's Spanish-language comedy Casa De Mi Padre earned $2.2 million, despite playing at only 382 theaters, which is probably bastante bien ("good enough"). [Box Office Mojo]
SXSW Audience Awards: After esteemed jury members awarded prizes earlier in the week, along with the overall audience award winners, more audience awards were announced on Saturday, the final day of SXSW 2012. Seven categories were covered:
Winner: Brooklyn Castle
Director: Katie Dellamaggiore
Winner: Fat Kid Rules the World
Director: Matthew Lillard
Winner: LOW & CLEAR
Directors: Kahlil Hudson & Tyler Hughen
Winner: CITADEL
Director: Ciarán Foy
Winner: Under African Skies
Director: Joe Berlinger
Winner: Her Master's Voice
Director: Nina Conti
Winner: Chasing Ice
Director: Jeff Orlowski
Comedy Director Gets Serious: The man who has made breezy comedies about cheerleading (Fired Up!), high school (Easy A), and relationships (Friends With Benefits) will soon tackle a more serious subject. Will Gluck is in negotiations to direct How to Disappear Completely, a remake of a Swiss drama entitled Vitus, which centered around a prodigy who suffers an accident and "reverts back to 'normal' intelligence." The project is still in its early stages; if the deal goes through, Gluck would develop the script further. [The Hollywood Reporter]
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Camp Ehi-Passiko is SBM Youth's flagship project. First organized in 1997, the annual Dhamma youth camp seeks to share the wisdom of the Buddha's teachings to teenagers aged 13 to 21 years old through interactive workshops and sharing sessions. The camp is also a platform where youths can learn soft skills such as leadership, team work and service through the great outdoor and engaging games.
Registration for Camp Ehi-Passiko 2013 is now open!
Since 2004, the average number of campers attending Camp Ehi-Passiko range from 100 to 120. In 2013, the organising committee has decided to restrict the number of camp participants to 80 as we believe that this is the optimal number for learning.
How to Register?
Details of the camp can be seen from the camp poster above. To join the camp, you can download the form from this link, print it out and mail it together with a cheque to:
9 Ruby Lane SG 328284
Singapore Buddhist Mission
Alternatively, you can also make an appointment with us and we can drop by anywhere convenient to pick up your registration form and payment.
If you are interested to find out more about the camp, watch the following video, which is the summary of 2012's Camp Ehi-Passiko:
Summary Video of Camp Ehi-Passiko 2012
What is "Ehi-Passiko"?
Ehi-Passiko means 'Come and See' and it is a teaching taught by the Buddha that encourages us to not simply believe and accept teachings and information with blind faith. Rather, we should develop our mind with mindfulness and wisdom and examine and investigate all things and teachings, before accepting them as truth to live up to.


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The Course
The Time Trial course is approximately 11 miles of single track trail that runs through the heart of the Yankee Spring Recreation Area. The trail is fast and flowing in most sections and includes several technical climbs and descents. Racers will face roots, rocks and sand throughout. Beginner and Sport racers will do ONE lap, while Elite and Expert racers will do TWO.
The trail is predominantly sandy and known to drain extremely well. It is one of the few trails in the area that can be ridden after rainy conditions, so don't worry if there is rain in the forecast.
The main section of the Deep Lake trail is used for the race. Since the time trial is on a Saturday this year, the Red direction will be used. The warm-up loop will be used for the Dirt Dawgs races starting at 11:30, but will be open the remainder of the day.
It doesn't matter what you ride or the level you ride at, there are plenty of race categories to choose from. The top 3 finishers from each category will receive one-of-a-kind awards that you'll be proud to display for years to come.
For a complete list of the categories available, see the registration page.
Hot Lap Competition
Eligible Classes
Elite/Expert Women
Elite/Expert Single Speed
Elite/Expert Fat Bike
2nd: $75
3rd: $50
THis year will again be awarding cash prizes for the fastest laps during the Elite / Expert races. The top 3 men and the top 3 women with the fastest single lap will be recognized and awarded cash for having the HOTTEST OF THE HOT single lap efforts. For those who want to send it hard for one lap at Yankee, this is for you.
** NOTE ** You MUST COMPLETE THE RACE in order to be eligible for this competition. So kill it for a lap and soft pedal the second if you must.....but you gotta complete both laps to be eligible.
Championship Points Series
The MMBA Championship Point Series (CPS) is Michigan's premier grassroots MTB race series. CPS races attract all levels of racers from the first-timer to national and world champions. The races are exciting and competitive, as well as beginner friendly for those wishing to try their first mountain bike race.
The Yankee Springs Time Trial is once again proud to partner with the MMBA to be the first race in the CPS series. Participation in the series is free, but you must register separately through the MMBA in order to collect points.
Kids Races
Athletic Mentors Kids Race
(Various Distances - Free)
The Yankee Springs Time Trial is proud to partner with the Athletic Mentors to promote the participation of kids into the sport of mountain biking. Once again we will be holding special races for our young aspiring mountain bikers. See the Race Day page for race options and starting times.
These races are free, but you must sign up to participate. Day-of race sign up only.
Girls & Boys Race
(11 Miles - Registration Required)
The Girls & Boys race is for kids 10 and under who are ready to take on a bigger challenge. This race is a single lap of the time trial course, same as the beginner and sport racers. Be impressed with the participants of this race... we are!
Registration is required for this race. It is highly recommended that an experienced adult rider accompany each participant.
Team Row
For a small fee, teams and vendors can reserve tent space along Team Row. The spaces are directly across from the finish line and are a great location for staging, recovering and watching fellow teammates finish.
To reserve a space, select the Team Row category when registering. But register soon as there are limited number of spaces available.


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Connecting travelers with locals through food, culture and tradition.
Conducted in intimate and friendly places and taught by locals for an authentic experience that connects travellers with locals through food, culture and tradition.
You will be surprised with the high quality and character of Portuguese wines and by the differences you can find among the 14 wine regions that Portugal has. These differences are reflected in the features of the wines that each region produces, but also in the culture and the character of local populations.
Tailor-made Trip
Prefer a personally tailored trip? We can help you out with that. Save time and effort. We will build your dream trip in 48 hours.
Private food tours.
Food tours off the beaten track with multiple tasting stops - each one at a different location of historical and gastronomical significance. The perfect way to get to know a city.
In Portugal many decisions are made around the table. The food is just the reason for the relationships that are created, the ideas that arise and goals that are outlined. Let the food itself be a new challenge for your team!
Private EXPERIENCES.
A way to showcase the rural areas of Portugal and their hidden treasures. These experiences last one day or half-a-day and introduce travellers to the producers and the production methods of several traditional Portuguese products.
What more could you dream about for your party than a memorable moment for your guests? Leave it with us. Regardless of your location, tell us about your dream and we will do the rest. You just have to show up and enjoy the moment!


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My Husband said that if I buy anymore Craft Supplies he would leave me......Gosh, I'm going to miss that man!!!
Saturday, 16 March 2013
Easter Card
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A really cute, adorable Easter card. The colors you used are top for this image !ReplyDelete
Greetings Helga
So completely adorable! I love how you did the image and the butterfly is FAB! Hugs, RobinReplyDelete
PS My sister has some blog candy if you're interested at http://www.sydneyssentiments.blogspot.com/
Such a gorgeous Easter card and coloured so beautifully! Love the yellow ribbon!ReplyDelete
Gina x
Omg!!!! That is sooooo cute Tammygirl ♥ ♥ReplyDelete
Beautiful Easter card! Love what you've done with the image(s)! Gorgeous colours! Thanks for joining us at Sweet Stampin' this week!ReplyDelete
I'm at a loss for words - you card is just stunning. I LOVE how you combined two of Di's fabulous images to make for one superb card! Thank you so much for the inspiration and thank you too for joining our Easter/Spring Challenge at Di's Digidownloads. DeeReplyDelete
A gorgeous Easter card. Love the way you've merged the 2 digi images and the colours are perfect for this time of year. Thank you for playing at Sweet Stampin' this week. Tracey xReplyDelete
This is adorable! I love the pretty pastel colours. Thanks so much for joining in at Sweet Stampins' Easter challenge.ReplyDelete
WOW! I love how you merged the digis, they're "made for each other" :-) Fab colouring, nice papers and great papers too - an all round lovely card, perfect for the challenge at Di's Digi DesignsReplyDelete
Thanks for joining in, good luck and hope to see you next time too, Donna ♥
WOW this is just awesome how clever are you! i love how you have merged my 2 images together. May i please use your card on my store, i think its just gorgeous!??ReplyDelete
Thankyou for joining in my challenge
Hugs Di xx
Hello Tammy!ReplyDelete
Oh my word, these are so adorable! Stunningly soft coloring and lovely yellow nuances :) Amazing layout and papers too!
Thank you so much for joining us at LLC this month :) Welcome back!
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Innosense was an all-female American musical group that was together from 1997 to 2003.
The band was managed by Lou Pearlman and Lynn Harless (mother of Justin Timberlake).[1] The original members were Danay Ferrer, Britney Spears, Mandy Ashford, Nikki DeLoach, and Amanda Latona. The group was formed in 1997. Their name was suggested by Pearlman and Harless. The band decided to misspell the name so they wouldn't sound like "innocent little four-year-olds."[2] Their inspirations were bands such as NSYNC and Backstreet Boys.[1] Ashford was a member of the Attache show choir, along with high-school friend Lance Bass, with whom she also shared a vocal coach. Bass recommended Ashford to Pearlman, and she was selected to join the band. Later that same year, Spears decided to go solo and was later replaced by Veronica Finn.
Latona left the band to go solo, and was replaced by Jenny Morris. Before she left, Innosense released one single, titled "Wherever You Are". A video for the song was released in Germany in 1998.[] Amanda Latona signed a solo contract with J Records and recorded "Can't Take It Back" (2002) and "Do You Still" (2003). Neither single did well, and she was later dropped from the label. Latona dated Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean. She was featured in 2002 in "Who's That Girl?", an article in The New York Times Magazine. The article chronicles J Records' grooming of Latona's career in an attempt to ensure her success.[3]
In 2001, Innosense appeared in the teen movie Longshot. Spears also appeared in the movie, but not with the rest of the group.[3][4][5] When Spears' solo career began, Innosense became an opening act for her tour.
The band released one album, whose lead single, "Say No More", hit #20 on Billboards Hot Singles Sales chart, but never charted on the Billboard Hot 100. The album itself never charted and as a result never found commercial success.
In 2001 Morris left the group, which left them as a quartet.
The second and final single from the album, "Rain Rain", was released only in Germany in 2002; however, it failed to chart.
Innosense disbanded in 2003 to work on separate projects.
Ashford has modeled in several publications, including Playboy magazine,[6] and also served as a spokesmodel.


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To them, he is just their little brother. I see them look at him with love and I know that will always continue. They will always fight for him and stand up for him. He will definitely be in good hands with these two.
Down Syndrome doesn't define who Asher is, it's just something he has.