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3D printing is most certainly not the latest advancement in technology, but it still makes our hearts flutter at the thought of printing objects on demand. Need a decorative piece to give your desk a little character? 3D-print it! Can't find the right size screw for a fixture? 3D-print it! Want to – you get the gist. Armed with a Computer Engineering degree from KU and a deep rooted "interest in recycling and making stuff," Abdullah Alhussainan founded 3DPme for all your 3D printing needs. But being a part of the Maker Community – which takes the DIY culture into the digital age with the help of technology – is what keeps Abdullah motived. "Building the Maker Community in Kuwait is one of the important things that 3DPme, and many others like FabLab, Manifesto13, ART* and 7erafy, are working on," Adbullah explained. We got the chance to sit with him to learn more about what he does and what fueled his interest.
Originally an Android developer Abdullah – the co-founder of Kuwait Prayer Times app (one of the most used apps in Kuwait) – grew fascinated with the field of 3D printing back in 2014. "I had just resigned from my job and started looking around to start a business. I saw 3D printing and thought 'let's give it a try'," he explained. The name came to him on his couch while staring up at the ceiling – "Suddenly, I thought 3D Print… 3D Printing… 3DP… Me?! 'Me' could be in, well, me and it could be Middle East! Cool! And that's how I got the name 3DPme." But 3DPme doesn't just print stuff for you – they can also rent out their 3D printers with weekly, monthly and yearly packages, and have new and used 3D printers for sale. We learn more about the process with founder Abdullah Alhussainan.
I have an idea! How can I get it 3D-printed?
If you have an idea or a sketch, you share it with us and once we fully understand your idea we connect you with a 3D designer. Once the 3D design is ready, the printing process begins. This process differs from one client to the other, as it depends on the job and client's requirements. We don't have an in-house designer, so we either outsource the 3D design to freelancers in Kuwait, or we use CadCrowd.com – which is a website to find CAD designers. But if a client doesn't want a specific design, we let them choose a free one from any of the community websites available online, such as Thingiverse.com and Youmagine.com. We found that this approach reduces the clients' costs. That's the beauty of the Maker Community – we're connected to a network of designers both locally and internationally that can realize a client's vision.
How often do you host educational workshops and who can attend? What is their purpose?
We have a workshop or two every month. Some workshops are for children and others are for adults and they're open to everyone, even absolute beginners. The objective behind the workshops are to show people how to use a 3D printer and how it can benefit them. We always start by asking each attendee what is their background is and what their goals are to show them examples related to their fields of interest. To reach a bigger and more diverse segment, we host our workshops in collaboration with other businesses such as Manifesto13, ART* and The Print Room.
How do you see people benefiting from 3D printing?
The amazing thing about 3D printing is that it's a tool that each person can use differently. Students are using 3D printing to create their projects. Small businesses are using 3D printing to make molds for chocolates, candles and soaps. Designers are making furniture and prototypes of their products. Architecture firms are printing miniature buildings to show their clients. Car enthusiasts and garage owners are printing spare parts and add-ons for cars. We even experimented with food 3D printing and printed with Nutella. Food 3D printing is a field on its own and restaurants can benefit from it. For it to work, you basically convert your food item into a paste, then fill a syringe with this paste and go ahead and print any shape with the food!
You can buy/rent a printer, or simply print your designs in 3D by checking out 3DPme's website www.threedp.me. Alternatively, you can WhatsApp them on 9962 2030 and follow them on Instagram @3dpme and Twitter @threedpme for more information.


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October 14 - 16
Merigar East Gompa
We are inviting all, having transmission from Chogyal Namkhai Norbu people, for participation in a retreat of Dakini Simhamukha.
Simhamukha usually is translated into English as Lion-Faced Dakini.
This dakini and female tantric Buddha is regarded as one of the principal wrathful manifestations of Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche). As such, she is connected with many ceremonies of the Dzogchen tradition.
Although Simhamukha is a Dakini in her aspect, she functions as a Yidam or meditation deity and her special functions are averting and repulsing (bzlog-pa) psychic attacks that may assault the practitioner and the subduing of negative female energy as personified by Mamos.
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Friday, 7 December, 2001, 15:20 GMT
Life after foot-and-mouth
As Britain moves a step closer to being cleared of foot-and-mouth, with the last area of the country losing its "infected" status, BBC News Online special correspondent Mike Mckay returns to communities blighted by the disease.
This time we were able to drive up on to the moors, cross the cattle grids, then down the rutted track between dry-stone walls into Tom Lord's farm yard.
But that was it. Anywhere else on the farm was forbidden to us.
Back in May, Tom had driven down to meet us in the tiny Yorkshire Dales hamlet of Langcliffe. But only after he had spent half an hour changing clothes, showering and then disinfecting his four-wheel drive.
The culling of his 47 cows and 200 sheep had desolated his hill farm near Settle.
North Yorkshire had just moved from High Risk to At Risk status and the confident official prediction was that it would be declared foot-and-mouth disease free before Christmas.
But the legacy of frustration among many farmers over Ministry handling of the epidemic runs deep.
Tom Lord produced an armful of official documents including one entitled 'Agreement between farmer and Maff to carry out cleansing and disinfectant'.
Like many other farmers, he had been performing his own regular clean-up at the height of the crisis, paid £15 an hour to do so by Maff.
But there was a rash of stories about farmers abusing the system. Prime Minister Tony Blair stepped in and the 'agreement' was disavowed.
Animal welfare
"We had to stop work abruptly while quantity surveyors came round and costed out the work again," said Tom.
"Of course, then the rate for the job became £12.50 an hour. To me, they were breaking a contract.
"But the worst part was the three-month delay it all caused. When we got going again, the nights were drawing in and the weather conditions made the job more difficult."
The delay has another effect. Tom has bought some more sheep. But under present regulations he cannot move them onto his own land till next March.
"And that poses a real animal welfare worry - because just about the time they are moving into new surroundings is when they will also be lambing," he said.
Down the valley, at Broughton, the dairy farm of Edward Taylor and his son Jeremy lost 400 cattle and 800 sheep when a neighbour's farm was infected.
"Of course, the official figures don't include the 1,400 lambs that also had to go after we spent weeks safely delivering them," said Jeremy.
But one fragment of hope remained. Though the vast majority of their renowned Holstein Friesians had been wiped out, 40 survived unscathed on a separate patch of land a few miles away.
The Taylors moved everything they could onto the separate plot, set up temporary animal shelter and went on milking by hand. They also decided to bear the cost of continuous cleaning themselves.
All the time, they were going through regular inspection hoops, crossing their fingers each time an animal was tested. But the result is that they are now restocking.
One-hundred-and-fifty heifers now populate part of the Defra-approved farm.
And while Jeremy Taylor showed us round the new stock, father Edward was in Lancashire scouting for more.
"It was fraught - but we were determined to keep going," said Jeremy.
The tourist trade may not have experienced the emotional traumas of many farmers - but there is an anxious note of hope around the town of Settle.
Tourist information manager Yvonne Fortune said it had been "pretty terrible".
Inquiries about holidays next Spring are starting to come in. But callers are reluctant to make bookings yet, she said.
The area is famous for its walking. Footpaths are re-opening slowly and while access to the three peaks of Ingleborough, Whernside and Pen-y-ghent, is now open, the traditional linked walk remains closed.
In her shop, Dales Pictures, Gwen Price's walls are covered in unsold paintings and sketches of the region.
This year she has noticed most the absence of foreign visitors, particularly from Australia and America.
Ironically, hotel beds were often filled with Defra inspectors and vets.
"Local people have been good," said Gwen.
"A lot have come into us for picture framing and people have just rallied round. We're hoping now that a good spring will bring the visitors back."
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Drawing and Painting with Mixed Media: All Levels
Eight Thursdays, Sept. 25-Nov. 13, 2014 from 6:00 PM to 09:00 PM
Age: 16 years through adult
Let your creative soul come out to play. This class offers inspiration for artists and aspiring artists of all skill levels. If you want the biggest boost for your art, take Painting on Wednesday and Mixed Media on Thursday. Liberate and expand the boundaries of your art by exploring the range of media available for painting and drawing. Approach the relationship between drawing and painting dynamically and experiment with a variety of techniques and materials, including charcoal, graphite, colored pencil, ink, watercolor, encaustics, acrylic, gouache, pastel, collage and found objects. While subject matter is suggested, students may choose to work on projects that they conceive independently.


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There's Now A Way To See Who's Muted You On Twitter
Which is really very awkward, isn't it.
The mute function on Twitter might be the best thing that's been invented since both sliced bread and the forward-facing phone camera, but things are about to get a little awkward as it seems there might actually be a sneaky trick you can do to find out who has muted you.
If you're yet to discover this magical function, the idea is that you're able to stop someone clogging up your news feed with their spammy tweets without them knowing, as they would if you actively unfollowed them or blocked them.
However, the slight fly in the ointment is that it's not necessarily as anonymous as previously thought and there's reportedly a way to get around it to find out exactly who's got you on mute.
There's no way of simply pulling up a list of all the people who've muted you, but as The Independent have worked out, you can do it for individuals if you've got someone in mind that you have a suspicion has silenced your 140 character musings. a
Alll you need to do is open up Tweetdeck and once it's launched, all you have to do is make a new 'Home' column for the person in mind using their handle.
If your tweets don't then appear in the column it means that yes, they have muted you. You can double check this by sending a tweet and seeing if the column remains blank, but you almost certainly are muted as the purpose of the 'Home' column is to view Twitter as a specific person.
Of course the person has to have been following you in the first place for all of this to apply, but go forth and see who's muted you.
Just try not to overreact and send all of the sassy nail painting emojis when you find out exactly who has got you on mute. It's not like they'll see it anyway.
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The Body Shop has been around for almost half a century, so it's only natural that the British company would be due for a drastic redesign. Until it decides to take the plunge, however, one designer has taken it upon herself to conceptualize the direction The Body Shop should go in.
Embracing a watercolor theme, The Body Shop's packaging concept is meant to relay the company's growing concern over the environment as well as its use of responsible ingredients. According to the designer behind this concept, Elvira Ullbrandt of Sweden, The Body Shop hopes to develop and launch at least three new innovations in eco-friendly packaging design before 2020. This line provides one way to do so.
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On October 20th, several search dog handlers, search volunteers, and K9 teams from AST and APD got together at the Alaska SAR Dog Memorial. On this 10 year anniversary of the Memorial, 25 dogs were recognized. Dog tags were created for each dog and all folks present participated by tying a tag and yellow ribbon to the tree. The dog tags will stay on the tree until sometime after the new year.
Notably, half a dozen AST and APD K9 teams came to recognize the efforts of the volunteer handlers and their search dog companions. It was very generous and the Alaska State Troopers gave a commendation recognizing the efforts of search dogs and their handlers across the state.


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More rock-star vibes from John Varvatos for Spring Summer 2014. The idea of mixing easy and non-fussy silhouettes led the classic rebel brand to approach elegant and relaxed styles in a comforting way without compromising style and without the shiny glitz or over-the-top accessorizing. A note of nonchalance echos throughout the show, stressing the importance of contrasting texture and rich fabrics. Tailored, but not overly tailored looks mark the Varvatos show in dark rich hues with hints of metallic colors.
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|c. 6th–5th century BC
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Yāska (Devanagari: यास्क) was an early Sanskrit grammarian who preceded Pāṇini (fl. 4th BC), assumed to have lived in the 6th or 5th century BC. Nothing is known about him other than that he is traditionally identified as the author of Nirukta, the discipline of "etymology" (explanation of words) within Sanskrit grammatical tradition.
Yaska is the author of the Nirukta, a technical treatise on etymology, lexical category and the semantics of Sanskrit words. He is thought to have succeeded Śākaṭāyana, an old grammarian and expositor of the Vedas, who is mentioned in his text.
The Nirukta attempts to explain how certain words get to have their meanings, especially in the context of interpreting the Vedic texts. It includes a system of rules for forming words from roots and affixes, and a glossary of irregular words, and formed the basis for later lexicons and dictionaries. It consists of three parts, viz.:(i) Naighantuka, a collection of synonyms; (ii) Naigama, a collection of words peculiar to the Vedas, and (iii) Daivata, words relating to deities and sacrifices.
The Nirukta was one of the six vedangas or compulsory ritual subjects in syllabus of Sanskrit scholarship in ancient India.
Lexical categories and parts of speech
Yāska defines four main categories of words:[1]
- nāma – nouns or substantives
- ākhyāta – verbs
- upasarga – pre-verbs or prefixes
- nipāta – particles, invariant words (perhaps prepositions)
Yāska singled out two main ontological categories: a process or an action (bhāva), and an entity or a being or a thing (sattva). Then he first defined the verb as that in which the bhāva ('process') is predominant whereas a noun is that in which the sattva ('thing') is predominant. The 'process' is one that has, according to one interpretation, an early stage and a later stage and when such a 'process' is the dominant sense, a finite verb is used as in vrajati, 'walks', or pachati, 'cooks'.[1]
But this characterisation of noun / verb is inadequate, as some processes may also have nominal forms. For e.g., He went for a walk. Hence, Yāska proposed that when a process is referred to as a 'petrified' or 'configured' mass (mUrta) extending from start to finish, a verbal noun should be used, e.g. vrajyā, a walk, or pakti, a cooking. The latter may be viewed as a case of summary scanning,[2] since the element of sequence in the process is lacking.
These concepts are related to modern notions of grammatical aspect, the murta constituting the perfective and the bhāva the imperfective aspect.
Yāska also gives a test for nouns both concrete and abstract: nouns are words which can be indicated by the pronoun that.
Words as carriers of meaning: atomism vs. holism debate
As in modern semantic theory, Yāska views words as the main carriers of meaning. This view – that words have a primary or preferred ontological status in defining meaning, was fiercely debated in the Indian tradition over many centuries. The two sides of the debate may be called the Nairuktas (based on Yāska's Nirukta, atomists), vs the Vaiyākarans (grammarians following Pāṇini, holists), and the debate continued in various forms for twelve centuries involving different philosophers from the Nyaya, Mimamsa and Buddhist schools.
In the prātishākhya texts that precede Yāska, and possibly Sakatayana as well, the gist of the controversy was stated cryptically in sutra form as "saṃhitā pada-prakṛtiḥ". According to the atomist view, the words would be the primary elements (prakṛti) out of which the sentence is constructed, while the holistic view considers the sentence as the primary entity, originally given in its context of utterance, and the words are arrived at only through analysis and abstraction.
This debate relates to the atomistic vs holistic interpretation of linguistic fragments – a very similar debate is raging today between traditional semantics and cognitive linguistics, over the view whether words in themselves have semantic interpretations that can be composed to form larger strings. The cognitive linguistics view of semantics is that any definition of a word ultimately constrains it meanings because the actual meaning of a word can only be construed by considering a large number of individual contextual cues.
Etymologically, nouns originate from verbs
Yāska also defends the view, presented first in the lost text of Sakatayana that etymologically, most nouns have their origins in verbs. An example in English may be the noun origin, derived from the Latin originalis, which is ultimately based on the verb oriri, "to rise". This view is related to the position that in defining agent categories, behaviours are ontologically primary to, say, appearance. This was also a source for considerable debate for several centuries (see Sakatayana for details).
- 1 2 Bimal Krishna Matilal (1990). The word and the world: India's contribution to the study of language. Delhi; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-562515-8. LCCN 91174579. OCLC 25096200. Yaska is dealt with in Chapter 3.
- ↑ Langacker, Ronald W. (1999). Grammar and Conceptualization. Cognitive linguistics research, 14. Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-016604-0. LCCN 99033328. OCLC 824647882.
- Kahrs, Eivind. On the Study of Yāska's Nirukta. Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune, India, 2005. LCCN 2006310275. OCLC 64771339.
- Matilal, Bimal Krishna. The word and the world: India's contribution to the study of language. Oxford, 1990. ISBN 978-0-19-562515-8.
- Langacker, Ronald W. Grammar and Conceptualization. Mouton de Gruyer, 1999. ISBN 978-3-11-016604-0.
- Rajavade, V.K. Yāska's Nirukta. Government Oriental Series Class A, no.7. Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune, India, 1993. OCLC 30703024.
- Sharma, T.R.S. Chief editor. Ancient Indian Literature, An Anthology. Volume 1, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2000. ISBN 978-81-260-0794-3.


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Hi All,
If someone is sitting on a domain name (so not actual website exists they have just registered the name) just to purley make money can I force them to seel it to me if I already have the co.uk equivalent with a legit business setup?
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Hi All,
If someone is sitting on a domain name (so not actual website exists they have just registered the name) just to purley make money can I force them to seel it to me if I already have the co.uk equivalent with a legit business setup?
It is possible to use the ICANN rules to force someone to hand over a ,com domain, but your claim may be weakened because you are using the co.uk, not another ICANN domain. There was a case recently where someone acquired a really good domain that was being squatted, because they had been trading on a similar domain for some time (example: call the domain Widgets, they were using eWidgets).
In US law you can claim to have established a trade mark if you have used a domain for trading for some time without objection. The time is never less than 18 months, and two years is really the minimum for legal establishment. Because we are talking US law, the other party could claim that using a co.uk is not relevant. You would have a better chance if you were trading on the .net, .org, or .info, or a similarly named .com .
What I would do:
I would acquire a free to register ICANN domain, either exactName.net/org/info or VerySImilarName.com - this is initially as "insurance".
I would try making an offer to the person holding the .com, feebly blustering that I might acquire the domain by legal means, but it would save time and money if he sold me the domain for $600. If he counters by asking for anything up to $2k, it is still probably worth buying the domain at that price.
If you really do have to go through the process there will be legal costs involved and the costs of making an ICANN appeal - you should find out what that could cost you.
If he doesn't make any offer you consider acceptable, you then set up a parallel business site on the alternative domain you bought as "insurance" - or you make that your main domain and redirect the co.uk to it. After two years of trading on that domain you are in a strong position to argue your point, if the .com is still not being used. So you make another offer, and invoke the ICANN procedure if it is not accepted. You try the offer first because the ICANN procedure runs exceeding slow, like the mills of God. You don't actually mention/name the procedure because that could tip him off as to what you are intending.
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, just an observer of what happens. And it does take years if you can't persuade him to sell.
Just for info purposes - that establishment of a trademark by usage under US law is why some trade marks are followed by "TM". TM is used for trademarks established by usage, the circled "R" indicates a registered trade mark.
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Most domainers will react badly to an approach that threatens/suggests legal action. They will likely either up their price significantly, or refuse to negotiate at all.
Without knowing the name you seek, I couldn't advise a UDRP through ICANN. You may well lose, at which point the owner of the domain will be unlikely to sell you it for anything less than an outrageous sum. And, considering you just tried to take the name by force, that would be perfectly understandable.
If the domain is not a trademark infringement, you have no rights to it at all. The best approach is simply to make an offer. Have you tried that?
Also consider that not having a website on a domain doesn't necessarily imply it is not being used (i.e., it could be used for email, ftp/sftp, shell acccess, database, DNS, special applications that run on different ports, or on an internal LAN behind the DMZ).


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West U Hosting Health and Wellness Fair
The City of West U is hosting a Health and Wellness Fair on Nov. 2 to motivate residents to be fit and healthy.
The West U Parks and Recreation Department will host a Health & Wellness Fair at the Recreation Center, 4210 Bellaire, on Nov. 2 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The purpose of the fair is to reach out to residents, motivate them to be fit and healthy, and showcase the programs available at the Recreation Center.
There will be presentations, class demonstrations, and informational booths. Prizes will be given out throughout the event. The kickoff to the second annual Biggest User Contest will also take place on Nov. 2.
Vendors currently scheduled to be at the event are Moya Varner, Nutrition Specialist from MD Anderson Cancer Center, Dr. Neda Dodig of West U Dental, Nicole and Dave Wilkenfeld, Personal Trainers, and many others.
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On Wednesday, we began exploring the improvised aspects and possibilities in Baroque ornamentaion and figured-bass realization. The entire class had been asked to write out the violin and basso continuo parts for Corelli's Violin Sonata, Op. 5 No. 9, using Neal Zaslaw's wonderful article, "Ornaments for Corelli's Violin Sonatas, op. 5", from the February 1996 issue of Early Music as a source. The article has an illustration of the first half of Op. 9's opening movement as Corelli originally published it in 1700 and seven sets of subsequently-published ornaments.
The International edition of the sonata was passed around to show how we so often are given a Baroque sonata to study: an unornamented solo part (with perhaps a trill or two added in) and a piano part, fully written out, with no figures, and, of course, a number of dynamic markings; nothing indicates what are editorial additions. It's an anachronistic performing edition. We also looked at the Performer's Fascimiles publication of Estienne Roger's edition which has not only the solo violin and figured bass line, but also an additional ornamented violin line, which Roger claimed were "Corelli's graces" and about which there has been suspicion for 300 years. As Ken Slowick pointed out to me once, whether they are by Corelli or not, they are an example of contemporaneous practice.
So we saw the sort of manuscript people actually played from way back when. And then with the assistance of one of the pianists in the class, I played the first movement unornamented, and then with my own rather simple free ornaments. After a bit of discussion, a number of class members tried their hands as well: trumpet, viola, trombone, French horn, and piano.
What was interesting, among other things, was that the basic melody is so simple that it can be played by any melodic instrument. The character of the piece changes greatly with both the instrument and the player. Ornaments can be adapted to the idiomatic possibilities of the instrument.
We also began analyzing the chords indicated by the figured bass. Rather than a functional, Roman-numeral analysis, we began the process of writing in the letter name of the root of the chord as well as the quality. Whether one is augmenting the figured bass or improvising over it, it's essential to know the chord as a practical, rather than theoretical, concept.
Friday all but two class members were either in or on their way to Atlanta for the School of Music showcase concert at the Woodruff Center, so we had no class.
Monday it was back to Corelli.
But first, some free/focused improv. We began a joint ostinato based on an A major chord and after most people seemed pretty much warmed up, I had just piano, bass, and cello continue the ostinato (or groove, as I was calling it). Then various class members did A-major solos over the ostinato. After about half the class had played or sang a solo, we switched the groove to 4 beats of A major alternating with four beats of E major (I – V), and even had a duo or two after that.
What I really wanted was to immerse ourselves for a while in an exploration of the possibilities of elaborating a harmonic sequence. For those not used to playing over chord changes, this was a good introduction.
Copies of a scholarly performing edition, showing the figured bass and a simple realization, along with Geminiani's published ornaments for Op. 5 No. 9, had been passed out. As a reminder of what was, until recently, standard practice, a student pianist and I played the first movement, sans ornamentation, with the slightly soupy International Edition piano part, and me vibrating as widely as possible. Then I played a recording of the Locatelli Trio playing the same movement–with harpsichord and cello continuo, Baroque violin, sparse ornamentation on the first time through, and elaborate ornamentation on the repeats. How extraordinarily different!
We discussed those differences, and the difference between the sparse realization in the scholarly edition we viewed and what we heard on the recording. The point was made that the realization was provided not as "the" way to perform the work (as the International Edition implies is the case with its performing part), but as something for those lacking skills to do their own realization. And the Geminiani ornaments show a way to ornament the reprises, not the way.
The class found it especially interesting to note that the realization was different on the reprise. And that in the right hand of the harpsichord we could hear ornaments, and even counter melodies. So the good keyboard continuo player needs to know both harmony and counterpoint!
And then we went through the first half of the first movement and analyzed all the chords together. Wednesday, we'll do more experimentation with our own ornamentation, discuss the historical context more fully, and begin looking at Quantz's material on ornamentation.


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Lahore: One dead as car plunges into river
LAHORE: A man was killed as a car plunged into a river in Lahore on Saturday.
According to the details received by ARY News, the car fell into a river near Lahore's Harbanspura area due to which its driver was killed on the spot.
The deceased has not been identified yet.
Police and rescue teams arrived at the scene and recovered the dead body after a struggle of one hour. The dead body was the shifted to a morgue for further procedures.
It should be noted that six people were killed when their car fell into a river in Shujaabad in December 2016. Poor-visibility was said to be the cause of the incident.
Three members of a single family lost their lives when a speeding car plunged into a river in Malakand Agency last month.
Road accidents, primarily caused by poor roads, badly maintained vehicles and reckless driving, leave thousands dead and injured every year in Pakistan.


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Are you live on the mobile market?
What a mobile website is:
The use of mobile phones has become the main platform used by a majority of users across the U.S. as a communication medium (especially ages 15-35). According to the latest statistics there are more people who communicate through SMS than there are through email, and there are more people who own a mobile phone than credit cards or computers.
Naturally, this has led business owners to try and tap into this market. The main viable avenues which have gained a lot of popularity in the recent past are mobile applications (apps) and mobile-optimized websites. This has led to a debate in some circles, on which method is better, especially if you intend to use only one. iPhone apps have a clear advantage over mobile-optimized sites, in terms of the user the experience. However, this advantage does come at a higher cost especially when designing a cross platform web application. It is not hard to make a web app that is compatible with a number of smart phones (depending on the nature of the app), but making a native iPhone app that is compatible with other smart phones, like a blackberry or android based phone, you would have to do so from scratch.
Types of Apps:
Mobile apps can be categorized into two main types:
- Apps built to generate direct income.
- Apps built for marketing, customer service or branding.
We have all heard stories of an enterprising developer who created a web app in their spare time, and as a result, generated enough income from it to quit their day job. The income generated from an app can come from sales, subscriptions or even through advertising. If you plan on charging for your mobile app then a native app is the only way to go. This is because on line media stores, like iTunes™ (the store for iPhone™ and iPad™), will not integrate iTunes™ billing for mobile websites. This is a big limitation considering the huge ready market of 150 million mobile users, accessible through the iTunes store, and the instant payment methods. If you were to charge for access to your mobile website, you would have to come up with your own payment solution, which is not an easy thing to do.
Therefore, as far as mobile-optimized sites are concerned, the best viable option for their use is in marketing, customer service or branding. One of the best examples of this type of media is the target store and Starbucks apps. These apps are often free, since their main aim is to distribute them as much as possible. But if you are to make this type of app, how many customers and prospects can you possibly reach?
The Outreach of Different Mobile Channels
According to comScore's 2010 mobile marketing share report, around 68 percent of American cell phone subscribers send text messages. But in terms of user experience, mobile apps and sites still reign supreme. But what reach of the market, can you access through these two mediums? For mobile websites, the best indicator of market reach is the number of users who browse the web through their mobile phones. According to statistics done in the later part of 2011, approximately 47 percent of mobile phone users in the USA, browse the web through their phones. The data on mobile apps are a bit more spread out, in terms of the mobile phone used. Native apps are engineered to work on specific phones; iPhone apps for the iPhone, blackberry apps for the blackberry and so forth.
In the North American market, the most common platforms used by users are the iOS, Blackberry and Android. The market share of mobile users for each platform is:
Android: 7.75 %
Blackberry: 8.53%
IPhone: 6.75%
Together, these figures sum up to a total of 23% of the market share. When we take a closer look at the individual slices of the mobile app market, you can only hope to reach less than 7 percent of the market through the iPhone. If you want to reach across the three platforms, you would have to develop three individualized mobile apps, which means triple the costs. But if you're primary concern is marketing, then you need to consider whether cost involved matches up to the benefits achieved.
Cost of Apps
There is no such thing as a general app, so it's hard to come up with a meaningful standard cost. But if you were to take a stab at it, you should expect to part with at least 30,000 dollars, to design, implement and launch a first class iPhone app. You can also expect to face similar costs, when designing an app for a Blackberry or Android based device. If you were to compare the cost of creating a native mobile app, able to reach 80% of the smart phone user base, as compared to the cost of developing a web app, able to reach 90% of smart phone users, you are more than likely to see costs double, triple or quadruple (depending on the app).
In some circumstances, this cost may be justifiable; due to the quality achieved and a more engaging user experience. Big enterprising organizations like nationwide retail stores and consumer banks can justify the cost in terms of return on investment, but for small scale business owners, it may not be the best approach towards marketing.
The Return on Investment
If we were to use a conservative estimate of 234 million mobile users, we find that the reach of users per dollar:
Mobile websites: 2839 users/ 1 dollar spend
IPhone apps: 526 users/ 1 dollar spend
Blackberry, android and iOS: 599users/ 1 dollar spend
*We don't include on this example windows mobile phones, which they using the same applications like your normal website does.
This means that you can reach nearly five times as many people, per dollar, through a mobile website than you would through an app.
What we can do for you:
The Web Empire can create the right solution for your mobile strategy. Either if you have a website now or you plan to create one, we can analyze what your needs are according to your target market, your products or services and how possible it is to transform your whole vision into a mobile eye-catching solution. You can choose, after beign given specific examples, if you will create a new mobile website, an App or both and for what Operating Systems.
Mobile market is out there and it's huge but at the same time it's risky and you should be aware of that. We know what's going on, we deliver results and offer many options to choose from.


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Jay Arem and business partner Jack Fischman founded their men's accessory line, the Knottery, over a shared love of telling jokes and menswear. Their designs include ties, belts, and that oldie-but goodie: pocket squares. "When I was wearing a pocket square eight years ago, my friends would look at me like I was crazy," Arem said. The pocket square, developed originally as a handkerchief during Grecian times, "isn't functional. I mean, I wasn't wiping a woman's tears with it." He paused. "Not that I go around making women cry."
But, Arem notes, it's all about details, and that's where the pocket square comes in. Disposable tissues may have replaced cloth handkerchiefs for everyday use, but "We're in a post-Casual Friday world. We have a culture of being fit and healthy, and the next logical jump is to start caring about the way you look, too."
Patrick Ryan and Miriam Zelinsky started Lazy Jack Press to bring a bit more personality into menswear. "Pocket squares for us are a nice complement to the ties, because some people just don't wear ties ever," said Ryan. "For a regular guy, a pocket square is a place where you can express yourself in lieu of a tie."
Pocket squares are for women, too. "I wore one of our pocket squares for a trade show we did last week," said Zelinsky. "It looked really jaunty, and just as good as it would on a guy." Her partner agreed. "I think it looked good," said Ryan. "I think she should do it more."
The texture of the fabric is every bit as important as the color and pattern. The polished gleam of printed silk, for example, makes it an excellent choice for formal occasions, and its smooth hand also makes it perfect for some of the jauntier, more casual folds. "I change it up, depending on my aesthetic," said Aren. "A silk paisley one if I'm feeling dressy, or for work I'll wear a linen handkerchief. I personally own over 50 pocket squares."
The crisp lines of cotton and linen make tidy businesslike folds look clean and well put together. Linen's coarser texture is nicely shown off against a blazer with a smooth fabric.
"It really depends on the rest of the outfit," said Ryan. "You know, mixing of texture is a huge thing right now. If you're wearing a knit wool tie, you can play with texture along with your pocket square. You might wear a pocket square of a lighter silk and that's a nice balance."
"My personal preference is a cotton pocket square," said Arem. "If it's plain, it's a simple way to match it up. It can also be fun to get something a little more seasonal, like linen for summer or wool for winter."
"The gateway drug of pocket squares is the white pocket square," said Arem. "It goes with anything, it's easy to wear." Wearing a pocket square without a tie is a casual way to start, since when you add a tie matching becomes a bit more complicated. But it's not so hard as it seems, said Aren. "Don't worry about it so much. Just try to keep the color families the same."
A pocket square should complement the tie, added Ryan. "It should pick up a color that's in your tie and also bring in maybe another color or another texture. Let's say you're wearing a woven cloth tie with a navy ground and gold crests. You could wear a gold pocket square that has some sort of subtle print on it." Using the pocket square to bring out the detail of your blazer is also a good strategy. "I'm wearing a blazer right now with gold buttons, and our pocket square which has gold undertones," said Ryan.
When in doubt, a neutral color like gray, cream, or classic white are always a good choice for a clean and businesslike look. One last note: keep in mind that a rolled hem gives a classier look than a folded one.
How you fold your pocket square is up to you. Experiment until you find a signature style, like Patrick Ryan. "The way I like to wear a pocket square, it looks sort of like a beluga whale and a tail, with the tail being the end of the pocket square." Here are a few basic folds to get you started.
The Flat (or Straight) Fold
Despite its simplicity, this sharp fold means serious business and understated sophistication.
Fold your pocket square so it's the exact width of your breast pocket (rather than just in quarters), then fold up the bottom so the total height is no more than 1/2″ longer than the pocket. Tuck it into your pocket so just a sliver is showing.
Pointed Folds
Neatness and crisp lines are the hallmark of this group of folds, which are best suited to cotton or linen pocket squares. Keep in mind that the more points you add, the more formal the look. One- and two-point folds look smart for business occasions, whereas crisp three- and four-point folds up your outfit's level of sophistication.
The One-Point Fold
Fold your pocket square down to about a 4 1/2″ square. Fold that square into a triangle, then fold the acute-angle ends in so it's the width of your breast pocket.
The Two-Point Fold
Similar to above, fold your pocket square down to about a 4 1/2″ square. Now turn it 45 degrees so that it looks like a diamond with the folded edge on the lower right, then shift the layers so the points at top are offset by about 1/2″. Fold in the other three points so it fits in your pocket.
The Three-Point Fold
Fold your pocket square into a triangle, then fold both side points up and over to make a tulip-like design. Fold up the bottom behind your design, then tuck it into your pocket. To make the Four-Point Fold, simply offset the two upper points in the first step.
Puff and Reverse Puff Folds
Both the Puff and the Reverse Puff folds produce a softer, more pillow-like structure that shows off luminous printed silk pocket squares perfectly.
The Puff says you're well-dressed, but relaxed. To create it, simply grasp your pocket square by the middle, letting the points hang down. Pinch it off about halfway down, and fold up the hanging points so it fits in your pocket. Adjust the puff as desired.
The Reverse Puff is the exact same, but instead of the center of the pocket square peeking out, insert it upside down so the hanging points peek out of your pocket like petals.
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Fashion retailer General Pants Co. and leading food rescue organisation OzHarvest are teaming up this Christmas to provide food for those in need, aiming to raise $50,000 across the month of December.
The clever collab, aptly named Give a Fork, has several ongoing opportunities for people to get involved: you can purchase a $2 Give a Fork pin from General Pants Co. stores, as well as donate lunch money online but our favourite? The reverse food truck, which will be stationed at Bondi Beach tomorrow, accepting lunch money donations to help feed the 644,000-plus Australians who receive food relief each month.
All proceeds go to OzHarvest, the pioneering food relief program that helps Australians in need nationally. Go on, give a fork this Christmas!


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Another great twist on chicken parm. Turning the red sauce into pesto and adding fresh tomatoes makes this American classic easy to enjoy guilt-free!
Healthy Pesto Chicken Bake
- 3-4 Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts
- 4-6 Tablespoons Prepared Pesto
- 1-2 Roma Tomatoes
- 1 Cup Mozzarella Cheese, grated
- Trim the chicken and lay them in a glass baking dish in a single layer.
- Spread 1-2 tablespoons of the pesto on top of each chicken breast.
- Cut the roma tomatoes into slices approx 1/2″ thick and lay 2 slices on top of each chicken breast.
- Sprinkle the cheese over the top of the chicken breasts.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 30-40 minutes or until the chicken is done and the juices run clear.
- Serve over a bed of rice or a plate of pasta. Enjoy!
Recipe source: http://www.thepinningmama.com/2014/09/21/easy-dinner-recipe-italian-chicken-bake/


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The Reserve Bank left the official cashrate unchanged at 2.5% today. Bank governor Graeme Wheeler said: "Global growth is set to recover in 2013, with economic indicators improving in many of our trading partners. Consistent with this, global financial market sentiment is positive, contributing to lower bank funding costs and some reduction in interest rates faced by households & firms in New Zealand.
"Domestically, recent data on business confidence & construction activity suggest gdp growth is recovering from the softness seen through the middle of last year. The Canterbury rebuild is gathering momentum and its impact will be felt more broadly in incomes & domestic demand. House price inflation has increased and we are watching this & household credit growth closely. The bank does not want to see financial stability or inflation risks accentuated by housing demand getting too far ahead of supply.
"Inflation remains subdued and is currently just below the bottom of the Reserve Bank's inflation target range. This mainly reflects the impact of the overvalued $NZ. The high currency is directly suppressing inflation on traded goods, and is undermining profitability in export & import competing industries. At the same time, the labour market remains weak and fiscal consolidation is dampening growth.
"Overall, we expect economic growth to strengthen over the coming year, reducing spare capacity and bringing inflation slowly back towards the 2% target midpoint."
Attribution: Bank release, story written by Bob Dey for the Bob Dey Property Report.


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Have you moved to the new API yet?
Posted by Dom K on Tuesday, August 02, 2016 - 17:37
Three months have passed since we launched our new website and cloud API. For the benefit of both new and existing Everything Location customers, we wanted to offer a quick summary of our new platform, and a sneak peak at a few upcoming improvements.
Yes, we have a new API:
If you have been to our new website recently, you may have seen or read about our new API – api.everythinglocation.com. The new RESTful API includes many of the features of saas.loqate.com, but we've built the new service on Amazon Web Services, which allows us to provide a reliable, scalable and expandable service that is always on.
In addition to relaunched versions of our address verification and geocoding products, we have a new set of auto-complete endpoints that provide the ability to integrate type-ahead address entry into your application or website.
Your existing accounts, credit balances and API keys work on the new API, so if you are still using saas.loqate.com, we encourage you to have a look at the new api.everythinglocation.com endpoints, and perhaps consider moving to enjoy the benefits of the upgraded platform.
You can find documentation for the new API on our website. If you would like any information or assistance integrating with the new API, our team is on standby to help.
Credits are now available as a monthly subscription:
Alongside the new website and API, we have launched a new credit subscription model that offers a fantastic rate on monthly blocks of credits. You can view and sign up for our plans from our pricing and purchase page. We also have a new payment provider, Stripe, who offers secure credit card payments for both subscription and on-demand puchases.
More improvements are on the way:
We're still busy building out new features on the Everything Location site - expiration notifications, key security, auto-renewal settings and some new, accessible product interfaces are just around the corner. Over the coming weeks, we'll be posting regular updates to our new product and service status blog – bookmark it now!


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In starting our virtual archaeology project to visually reproduce a 15th century Virtual Iroquoian Longhouse from the archaeological record, our assumption right from the beginning was that we would follow the process that J.V. Wright had initiated so many years ago when reconstructing a longhouse from the archaeological record. Through experimental archaeology, Wright used the exact pole positions at the Nodwell site of an excavated longhouse floor to position and build the longhouse. Pole diameters were matched with the archaeological record however certain logical decisions were made in the building process to determine which archaeological post hole positions were relevant for the rebuild.
Traditionally, if a longhouse was to be physically rebuilt from the archaeological record, the existing pole positions would act as a guide in the reconstruction process and as in Longhouse 1.o we intended to use existing excavation maps to guide our 3D virtual longhouse build. However our pivoted goal was the phenomenological experience of being in and around a longhouse within virtual space. Thus, we chose instead to use substantial quantitative data, to build a representative version of a Northern Iroquoian longhouse prior or just at point of European contact in the 15th century.
As discussed in Longhouse 1.5, J.V. Wright, Mima Kapches, Dean Snow and Christine Dodd along with Ron Williamson, John Creese and others generally agree based on the archaeological data, that there is a basic building process that Iroquoian builders used when building longhouses. What differs, based on historical European visual and written accounts, oral histories and language of the Iroquoian themselves and the speculations of practicing archaeologists was how the roofing structure was built and the possible positioning of the sleeping platforms. I will go into more detail later, but these are just a small example of the research questions being raised as we start to build.
Following Dodd, the basic building blocks of a 15th century Norther Iroquoian longhouse are:
- An average of 18m's in length.
- Height is as tall as the width (note that the archaeological record only provides data on width and oral history provides data on height). Generally the average width is 7.6m's.
- The centre corridor width is 4.0m's.
- Sleeping platforms/family cubicles were generally 1.1-1.8m's in width, 3.7-4m's in length and 1.8-2m's in height.
- The actual sleeping platform itself has been recorded to be anywhere from 0.30-1m off the ground level with the roof of the platform where personal storage was commonly thought to be, being 2m's from ground level.
- Average interior support post were 8.6-9.1cm's in diameter.
- Exterior wall post diameter was 1-3cm's in diameter and on average there was 4.5 poles per meter along the length of the longhouse.
- Typical fire hearth spacing was 2.9-3.6m's between hearths. Each hearth support two families on either side of the longhouse.
- Exterior roof and wall shingles were 1x2m cedar or elm shingles.
The difficulty is that most academic literature describes longhouses in a similar fashion, leaving the reader to visually imagine what a longhouse might look like. How do these measurements equate visually if they were to be represented?
In addition to the basic measurements that Dodd was able to collate through the archaeological site data of over 400 Iroquoian longhouse excavations, there is the discussion between the roofing structure, which is highly dependent on the initial support post or internal skeletal structure of the longhouse. Currently there are three major internal structural forms or supports that make up the external visual differences in longhouse construction as described in historical accounts that have been theoretically suggested (Snow, 1997; Williamson, 2004):
- Wright's reconstruction of a longhouse at Nodwell suggests a π shaped internal support infrastructure existed which would have supported a visual ratio of 4:1 in height between the main building and a separate arbor roof (1971, 1995);
- Based on extensive historical European oral accounts and two specific visual representations of Seneca longhouse floor plans from the 1700's, Snow suggests that longhouses might have had a 60/40 split between longhouse body and a separate upper roof (1997);
- Kapches, using Iroquoian oral history, suggested that the longhouse walls and roof might have been entirely integrated by long exterior posts lashed at the center roofline forming a continuous arbor effect (1994).
So our initial variables in the construction of a digital longhouse are: width/height, length, inner support post diameters and exterior roofing/framing style. As discussed in Longhouse 1.0, there is an ability within several 3D Animation & Modelling software applications to create a dependent procedural modelling environment. Basically, the ability for the modeller to change any parameter at any time during the model creation process. In traditional Animation & VFX production, this flexibility would be severely constrained due to the danger of clients changing their minds and the massive interdependencies that are involved technically when creating assets for a Film or TV production. However in this particular project, the procedural approach does allow for the ability to experiment visually with the known archaeological data.Using Autodesk Maya, we started with the initial framing design based on the average building parameters discussed. As seen in the image above, basic eometry represents the interior and exterior framing elements and a Metric Measurement standard was used within the 3D modelling environment to mimic the size and object relationship to real-world data. Ten centimeter diameter interior support posts were used, with 3 cm diameter exterior wall posts bent in an arbour effect, similar to the Kapches theory of longhouse construction.Seen in the image above, we ensured that the longhouse height was equal to it's width and that the sleeping platform widths and the corridor width were distributed appropriately based on the averages within the archaeological record. On the left of the image, the support posts were positions roughly 4m apart which corresponds to both archaeological and written data. Lastly, the middle section of the image demonstrates the average number of exterior support poles per meter.With regards to the sleeping platforms, written accounts from the Jesuit Relations indicated that the Iroquoian longhouse members would sleep head outwards toward the main corridor (and the heating source) and their feet towards the exterior walls. the Jesuits indicated that the Iroquois men were on average, their own height or slightly larger. The average height of a French male in the 1500's was 5'6″, which is just a few inches shorter then the normal 1.8m width of the sleeping platforms which would allow for individuals to lie fully prone on the bed. The image above is a previous test to determine if a 5'6″ 3D character could lie comfortably within a 1.8m width platform to support observations of sleeping berth dimensions the Jesuit priests discussed in the Relations.Our next iteration of the model was to add placeholder bunks, supported by long horizontal posts running the length of the longhouse and short platform and roof slats for the family cubicles. The gap in the upper roof is based on several modern interpretations of how families might have accessed goods typically stored above and/or the "loft" for additional sleeping. Currently the diameters of all the wooden elements are uniformly 10cm's. Also, we have to rely on "common sense" to determine how the bunk itself was constructed as there is no written, oral, visual or archaeological references that describe this building process.In an attempt to better understand how the bunks might have been constructed, we borrowed the same technique of making an "h" support system on either side of the main corridor from the modern architectural test version in Longhouse 2.5. This made complete sense as it would almost be impossible for the outer 3cm diameter exterior wall posts to support the weight load of not only the bunks, but the numerous people and goods they would hold.This next image was a simple ambient lighting test. Basic grey non-reflective shaders (surfaces) are used to determine how the light diffuses as well as identifying any potential modelling or lighting issues early on. Additionally, we added a slight taper to the support posts from 10cm's at ground level to roughly 9.5cm's at the top to mimic the natural tree growth diameter as the tree matured.A closer image reveals the typical 3D uniformity of assets that are built and copied. What immediately sticks out is that the bunk poles and the other pole surfaces are flat faced tubes, lacking any taper, diameter sizing or surface variations. A sparse virtual environment that lacks any connectedness to the real-life building materials or even construction techniques. Our next task was to add some visual variables in order to convey a more realistic material environment.The first remodelling request was to give the support posts more thickness. In the previous images, the poles when visualized with the upper range of Dodd's average 10cm thickness, they looked too thin to support the benches. Now this might have been my own artistic interpretation of what I was seeing, but after talking with Ron Williamson, he had suggested that the data gleaned recently from the 99 longhouses at the massive Mantle Site, suggests that inner support posts for Mantle were actually an average of 15cm's in diameter. We applied this diameter along with an adjusted taper in length which produced a more satisfying visual result.As we started applying textures to our wooden posts, the first question was; "did the Iroquois strip bark from the posts before they were erected and would that act as a fire safety measure due to the proximity that the support posts would have to the fire hearths"? After discussions with Dean Snow, Neal Ferris and Ron along with an exhaustive searching of the historical writings, the answer was non-conclusive. A chance discussion with Namir Ahmed about the problem led to the suggestion that bark might have stayed on the support post as it was erected in place, but during time, out of boredom or necessity, the bark would have been stripped away. Thus we mimicked bark removal in areas directly adjacent to the sitting or laying parts of the sleeping bunks where it would be easily removed.
An additional layer of texture mapping will be applied later to visually suggest a buildup of creosote which would have most definitely been present within the rafters of longhouses as numerous fires would have been contributing to the smoke layer within the structure.
Additionally, no tree grows straight. Thus the 3D posts were given a slight randomness and curvature to represent what would be typical tree growth patterns. Tree nots and protrusions on the support posts were also added in an attempt to better visualize the natural material being used. Finally end surfaces of poles were rounded off in an attempt to visualize a rough cut made by stone tools. Texture maps with lateral cracking was added to the ends to also mimic the drying of the wood as it aged. Test 3D cordage was added to determine how the poles would have been secured to the main supports.
In visualizing the initial framing process, we were able to not only raise more questions as it pertains to traditional longhouse construction, but experiment in order to arrive at variants from the existing data. We immediately recognized that to build bunks with multiple 1.8m length poles for support and roof surfaces, would be a highly labour intensive endeavour. It was more likely that longer and less quantity of poles would be used along the length of the longhouse instead of the width. Also, our textures and modelling of the end caps of all poles and posts had to be rougher in order to mimic the use of stone tools. Lastly, issues like the cordage type and even the knotting of the ropes, would have to be researched further.


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From Library of Congress Name Authority File
Freeman, Jo
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 19450826
Additional Related Forms
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- found: Women, a feminist perspective, 1975.
- found: Waves of protest, 1999:CIP t.p. (Jo Freeman) data sheet (b. 8-26-45)
- found: Information from 678 converted Dec. 16, 2014(Asst. prof. pol. sci. State University New York, College at Purchase; PhD from Chicago)
- found: Jo Freeman.com website, viewed July 31, 2015:(Feminist Articles by Joreen. Joreen was Jo's movement name) - http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/joreen.htm#Top
Change Notes
- 1979-07-31: new
- 2015-08-02: revised
Alternate Formats


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Who we are?
This answers the questions, when was our business formed? Who are the founders and what are their roles? How many employees are there? What are our business locations? When you first open or start your business some of the questions will be very simple to answer while others will take some serious research. The best thing about doing it from the ground up is that it will be easy to maintain and edit as things change because part of your responsibility for running the company is to review your business plan at least annually
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The woman has gorgeous breasts and yet she does nothing with them, very disappointing.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of shaving because of the stubble after a few days. Nonetheless, Connie makes shaving look sexy.
Her vivacious smile at the start of the set is well-appreciated. Connie got a really stunning face and her smile amplified it, adding a cute, girly appeal. Her face may exude innocent and charming but her body showcases her confident and womanly side which looks gorgeous in lingerie and stiletto shoes.
Yeah, once you've started, you have to keep shaving every day. I know since I'm shaving my balls.
That's why I expect from the ladies to do the same. Either that, or a full bush.
Davi-I'm late in adding comments again. Lots of work travel for me plus a nice weekend in Colorado. If you have never been to the Rocky mountains you should add to your list of places to visit and to shoot in :). You are probably tired of me reiterating my ardent support of you and your work but I can't help but say again that I am pulling for you in a big way. You are a real talent and from all I can tell a hell of a good man too! This is a lovely set and its obvious that you know how to capture Connie at her erotic finest. I love the dark background and the peak at the window as contrast. The shaving shots are just plain hot and the look in her eyes in these pictures is very arousing. Always looking forward to more of your work! Best to you always!
Hi JinNJ! you're wrong.. I'll never be tired of your support..;) I always need it even now that the worst days are behind, because it always takes efforts, choices, inspiration to create something worth to be shown here and feedback is always the greatest reward and confirmation of being on the right direction. So thank you again for the very nice and more than welcome words, I really appreciate and I really get a lot of energy from that. As I wrote Connie is one of those special models to me, we had met before I started shooting for Sex and Met and it was about time to work together and show the results to you all. I always found her very erotic and she perfectly interpreted my vision of her as the subject of my photosets, and the look in her eyes was exactly what I had asked her, so it's pleasant twice to hear they had that effect on you. I really look forward to being able to show my other work with Connien and my new work with Melena, Nici Dee, Vanessa Angel, Paula Shy and several others soon!
Connie wrote me today and was really happy to see our work published with such a great appreciation, she wrote that this set along with the previous one and also the ones on TLE were "super" and we have been quite "good" together. We will speak about new projects, maybe not right now but in a short time since she has moved and she is going to change some things in her life, but I believe we will think of doing something together in not a long time, she is one of those models my wife and I have a special feeling with and will always be happy to collaborate.
That is wonderful news! I wish her all the best in her move and new plans. I hope you will be able to work together again in the future, what you have already done is wonderful. ( :
Very nice, I'd love to see a few more shaving sets, Connie looks as gorgeous as ever.
I am very willing to contribute to the shaving sets.. I have a few ones waiting to be sent, one of the most recent ones is with Vanessa Angel. They have stolen my silver mirror but the shaving kit is safe...
Oh no, the mirror is gone? ) :
I'm glad to hear that you shot a shaving set with Vanessa... I have a feeling that will be a big hit. :D
I'm on the edge of my seat...
Yes the mirror is gone... But one day I will replace it with a special one. At least the matching brush is still there and can still be used..
Vanessa's set was shot in june, so she could also use the mirror, it was the last time. A glorious end..
I agree, bobblehat, it would be nice to see shaving sets become a semi-regular feature here on SA...
It was a set of Connie at the end of July when we all learned of the robbery and the challenge Delta qould face because of it. This set predates that occurrence and all I can say is we all benefit from it being already in the system. This set shows Delta at his best in my opinion. Even a little fetish with a wonderful model he has worked with several times and every one excellent, but today may be his best yet with Connie. DG disclosed on Connie's last set that he and I communicated directly so I I'll give you an update. With loaned equipment, last week he traveled back to Prague and was able to re-shoot several of the models who's sets were "lost". And some new models we have never seen, some for Met and some for here. As we view this it is my understanding that he and Phi were able to get away on a real vacation rather than a trip for a shoot. My personal hope is that his post-disaster sets get into the system and we are able to have more regular postings. The amount of his work across the family sites in July was a real treat for us and a high point for his career. Let's surpass that with what is come in the future, OK Dave74.
F, last night when I had the chance to connect again and read your comment on top of this very pleasant and rewarding thread which gave me new energy and inspiration for the upcoming new work I am planning. It also made me look back at those really bad days and at all of those unexpected and touching moments that followed, bringing me back again to the peaks I had touched for some weeks until the robbery came to obscure everything, but just for some time.
Connie's sets here on SA (and Lauren Crist's on MA) kept me "alive" all this time in which I was not able to work on the previous submitted work and to shoot new sets, and gave me the chance to update you all about my situation and get support which has been vital for me.
Now as you have written things have turned positively at last, in august I could shoot in Rome and in Prague thanks to a friend's gear and the help of my friend Peter Guzman, starting to repeat the "lost" shootings, which is helping me to leave the bad memories behind.
As you also say now my wife and I are on a short relaxing vacation that is sweeping away the last bad memories and recharging our batteries in order to be ready to be back on track with my latest work.
Just few days ago I could submit several "post-disaster" sets which K liked, so you are hopefully going to see them in the next weeks. Thanks to these good news from K I could already arrange a shooting in Hungary next week, and it really feels like I am almost out of the dark days. Now I am only waiting to get my new gear thanks to Jon's support, and that will officially mark the new start.
In any case September feels like a very sweet and promising month for me.
I have a feeling we've only seen the tip of the iceberg as far as DG's potential is concerned, swplf2... some people just simply cannot be kept down no matter how hard life hits them. Such people are resilient and it is the inner fire of their inspiration that keeps them going when other people would give up. I have a feeling DG is one such man... ( :
fer... I have just started to believe what you have just written.. I hadn't realized that until life hit me, and what seemed the worst time of my artistic (and not only) life has turned out to be the proof that there are extraordinary powers - such that of inspiration, but also friendship - that keep some lucky people alive after the storm and make them stronger and even more willing to follow their dreams and visions harder than before.
Thank you and all those who opened my eyes on this great finding.
Just like the old Noxema shaving cream ad... 'Take it off. Take it ALL off!'
Careful Connie don't get too close to that beautiful clit of yours! I loved the set!
she has been careful Photo Shoot, I was in charge of supervising the whole operation... ;)
Gemstones and haute couture jewelry are often shot with absolute black backgrounds, thus allowing the colors and shapes of the works to be perfectly displayed, without other distractions. DG proves that the technique works wonderfully well with beautiful women, gems in their own way, especially Connie. I appreciate and love the several shots of Connie's curvy back and derriere. The female back doesn't get enough attention in eroticism; we seem too often focused on the other side of a lady's torso. Connie is beautiful from the backside! And her smile is very endearing. A very nice set, thank you both.
Hi horsemaster, your comments are often my benchmark to find out if I reached the goal with my sets, and it's really pleasant to read your appreciation of the peculiarities of this one. You perfectly caught the reason why I wanted a dark blackground and your comparison with jewelry totally fits the kind of effect I wanted to reach. I also agree with the unique sensuality of female backs and I recall several painters/photographers who would agree as well. And Connie's smiles add a special touch to the set. It's no wonder why Connie is one of my favorite models and I look forward to shooting her soon again.
Wow, thank you for the kudo. I will have to be especially thoughtful on all your sets now. Your work is usually a little different and gives one something to think about. And always very well done. Yes, Connie is a lovely subject, especially in this set.
I am glad to hear that and it's good whenever there is something to think about. Connie is really lovely, we have just chatted now and she is really happy about the work we've done.
P.S. it's my old account, can't access with the current one for now. DeltaGamma
The first shot on page 8 is especially nice. If we could have just had it without the chair and other stage clutter in the frame, it would have been absolutely wonderful!
I must agree horsemaster, that shot deserved to stand alone. It inspires me for a painting the pose and the facial expression of Connie recalls one of those classic paintings out of time.
Yes, I was thinking Boccaccio's Venus. Connie has just that perfect degree of voluptuousness and softness coupled with a timeless face.
Yes that pose and her voluptuousness have the same taste of Botticelli's Venere coming out of the sea, I totally agree, a classic and timeless vision of female beauty. I should make a painting out of that image
Yes, Boticelli (oops).
Connie perfectly portrays cute and sensual in this series. Her braided hair, no make-up look, and her sweet charming smile that lights up her angelic face certainly adds to her youthful allure. But the way her delicate hands touch and caress her precious assets turned me on.
Hi Jannice, it's nice to hear such words of appreciation for Connie in this set, they also make me very satisfied of the work. Thank you.
P.S. it's my old account, can't access with the current one for now. DeltaGamma
Wonderful !!!
DG, I fell in love with Connie when she was posing for Erro at his site but hadn't seen very much material by her since then. So last year when you mentioned you were shooting with her, I was overjoyed... one of my favorite models with one of my favorite photographers, a match made in heaven. ( :
This set certainly lives up to my expectations! I am a sucker for Connie's great big grin seen in several of the opening shots, and a little later, the reason for the grin becomes apparent. ( : Almost 25 years ago, when I was in the Navy, I happened upon a porn mag that featured exclusively shaved models, and it was just at the beginning of shaved in erotica, so I'd never seen it before and it had a powerful effect on me. One of the sets in that mag was of a model shaving herself, and that was even more powerful. So I'm happy that you're reprising that experience for me ~ with Connie. ( :
Finally, I love the dark background, it makes Connie stand out even better. And the lingerie is exquisite, as are the gorgeous heels. I'm very glad Connie kept them on for most of the set, they added just that extra little spice. ( :
Excellent set, DG ~ please send my appreciation to the gorgeous Connie ~ I hope to see more by both of you soon!
Hi fer_realz, I am really happy to hear such enthusiastic words about this set and the memories that it brought to your mind, I can perfectly understand the special taste that they give to the viewing of these images. Shaving is one of my favorite fetishes and shooting two sets with Connie (one here and one on TLE) has been something very pleasant since she is also one of my favorite models, she has class and she spreads sensuality/sexuality, being also very professional to work with and a very nice person at the same time.
Fantasies coming alive are really something special, and I hope to bring many more to you and the other members. I will send your sincere appreciation to Connie, I am sure she will be happy to hear you are a big fan of hers ;)
P.S. it's my old account, can't access with the current one for now. DeltaGamma
That's OK, reading the words it was pretty apparent who was responding! ( :
I'm glad to hear you're as enthusiastic about Connie as I am ~ she is, put quite simply, incredible. ( :
I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what is coming in the future from both of you!
I think I will call Connie later to congratulate her for this set and to arrange new work together ;)


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SINGAPORE 60s: A musical revue
Ever heard of Naomi & The Boys? Shirley Nair & The Silver Strings? Rose Iwanaga? Veronica Young? Or how about The Crescendos? You may not have – but your parents may – ask them. These were amongst an extraordinary group of artists who dominated the Singapore pop music scene in the 1960s. In preparation for Singapore's 50th Anniversary, the Musical Theatre programme presents a tribute to these pop artists who in their own way were part of the first years of Independence. Concentrating particularly on the female vocalists of the period, this will be a night of great music and nostalgia, and a celebration of a unique and wonderful aspect of the Singapore story.
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Large head of romaine
2 chicken breasts
15 oz. can black beans, rinsed and drained
1 large orange bell pepper
1 pint cherry tomatoes
2 cups corn
5 green onions
cumin, salt, and pepper to tast
Creamy Cilantro Lime Dressing (Recipe below)
Season chicken breasts with cumin, salt, and pepper.
Grill chicken breasts and chop into bite-sized pieces.
Finely chop romaine, bell pepper, tomatoes, and green onions.
Place all ingredients in a large bowl and stir to combine.
Toss with desired dressing.
Creamy Cilantro Lime Dressing
1 cup loosely packed cilantro, stems removed and roughly chopped
1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt
2 Tbsp. fresh lime juice (about 1/2 lime)
1/4 cup olive oil
1 1/2 tsp. white vinegar
1/8 tsp. salt
*The original recipe calls for 1-2 garlic cloves, but I thought it was WAY too much garlic and it completely overtook the dressing. Next time, I will omit it completely.
Puree all ingredients in a blender or food processor until smooth.
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19 April 2013
Tripoli, Libya, April 18, 2013- The drawing of lots for the 2013 men's African club championship was held in Tripoli, Libya on Thursday where the 17 participating teams were divided into 4 preliminary pools.
The drawing of lots was attended by CAVB President Dr Amr Elwani and CAVB first vice president Mory Kieta, CAVB Referee Commission President Hassan Ahmed, SOC delegates Okba Gougam and Morkinyo and CAVB Executive Director Howyda Mondy.
Teams ranked first and second in the pool will be promoted to the quarterfinal.
Pool Composition
Pool A: Ahly Tripoli (LIB)- Nahda (SUD)- FAP (CMR)- DGSP (CGO)
Pool B: Bourj Bou Aririj (ALG)- Sfax (TUN)- Ahly Beni Ghazi (LIB)-Dim Hamad (SUD)-Muzinga (BUR)
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The Scream is so 90's . . . 1890's
Some lunatic paid 119.9 million dollars for Edward Munch's "The Scream" last night, and I don't think that's a very wise investment, as the image-- which was the ubiquitous icon of anxiety and angst for the 20th Century-- has lost its relevance . . . that screaming face doesn't do it for us in the 21st Century, because we don't have that kind of emotional energy to waste, we don't have the wherewithal to scream at the multiplex of horrors we face every waking moment-- horrors from our own lives, horrors from the lives of others, horrors from around the world, digital horrors multiplied a million times over . . . a constant barrage, an infinite deluge of horrible, contradictory, complex, awkward and terrible information . . . Joseph Kony is abducting children! Greece is going to default! My LDL cholesterol count is 340! Angelina and Brad are on the rocks! Eddie Money is still touring! I need to refinance! The sea levels are rising! . . . we'd be screaming all the time . . . we'd lose our voice; in fact, we don't have even have enough emotion left to utter a Homer-esque "Doh!"-- that's so '90's-- instead the essential reaction to the 21st Century, the facial expression for our times is Jim Halpert's ironic half-smirk . . . one of these : / because how else can you react to the inconceivable? . . . I am afraid that the "The Scream" is destined to be lumped with King Lear and Oedipus Rex: an evocative piece tragic art, but also full of antiquated outpourings of melodrama and emotion . . . I wish I could paint so I could update the idea-- I would call it "The Smirk"-- not that there needs to be more parodies of this thing, which-- like I said-- has run its course, but I really do wish I could paint (mainly so I could paint a giant squid battling a sperm whale on my bedroom wall, a suggestion that my wife vetoed, probably because I can't paint).
6 comments:
- zman said...
My wife vetoes all sentences that include the words sperm, paint, and wall.
- May 3, 2012 at 8:34 AM
- Dave said...
when you put it that way . . .
- May 3, 2012 at 9:06 AM
- Igor said...
Maybe if you included "giant" she would go for it.
- May 3, 2012 at 10:11 AM
- zman said...
Then she'd know I was lying. Or laying? Dave, let me know.
- May 3, 2012 at 11:33 AM
- Dave said...
with this topic, sounds like either verb would fit the bill.
- May 3, 2012 at 12:53 PM
- Igor said...
Lying about laying has been in existence since before there was an English language.
- May 3, 2012 at 1:13 PM
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My father always told me:
It doesn't have to make sense.
I didn't believe him.
I eat food and my body transforms,
Swells, processes, creates,
This makes sense.
My eyes absorb the spectrums
They are designed to and ignore
The rest, like my mind in its sea of thoughts,
This makes sense.
He tells me he likes me but doesn't call
For 2-27 days until he has his aha moment,
And there is nothing I can do to rush it,
Or make it come if it won't,
And even this makes sense to me.
But Sandra makes no sense.
Eric makes no sense.
Alton makes no sense.
Philando makes no sense.
Tamir made no sense.
Yuvette made no sense.
Kayla made no sense.
My father knew.
Emmett didn't make sense.
James didn't make sense.
Malcolm didn't make sense.
Fred didn't makes sense.
Martin didn't make sense.
Shit, Chicken George didn't make sense.
Yet rationality rules…
It has never made sense;
It has made war, torture,
Neglect, poverty, rape & abuse
Words of common sense out
Of sheer usage alone.
They have never made sense.
Not once.
Not once in the history
of people being people
has it made sense.
so what do we make of this?
Do we make cages for ourselves and others?
Do we make fences with "no trespassing" signs?
Do we fire bullets in the air and conveniently forget
gravity until they all come crashing in?
Do we make our hearts as closed as our minds?
We've already made nation states & nationalities,
Genders, sexual orientations, races that no one wins.
We've made treaties, songs, poems, refugee camps,
Dances, historical landmarks, and manifestos;
Hell, according to some, we've even made it
To the moon. But still no sense on the ground.
We've made the reefs disappear,
Our brothers cry and our sisters bleed,
We've made our mothers wish we'd never been born-
They can't stand to see what we have to live through,
if we manage to live through it- we've made enough
drugs, and enough people desperate enough
to take them that most of us aren't really living
anymore anyway.
So what do we do?
Do we hide?
Do we run?
Do we swim?
Do we fly?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I can't know,
The one thing
We can't seem
To make is
I guess,
In its absence
We do as we are told
And make the most
Of what we have;
Our love, pain,
Passion, anger,
And the years we've had
To realize reason
Is no fit ruler to
for a heart.


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