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The State of Things Trailer (1982)
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956) . The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.
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Middle Concho SWCD Poster Contest Winners
The Middle Concho Soil & Water Conservation District held their Annual Conservation Poster Contest and announced winners last week. The contest was open to 4th and 5th grade students. The top three winners in each class and grade level were announced as well as an overall winner from Regan County Elementary. Winners included:
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|Dan | profile | all galleries >> Nature Galleries From Nicaragua >> Great-tailed Grackle, ''Quiscalus mexicanus''
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The Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) is a large icterid blackbird , also referred to simply as "blackbird", and occasionally "crow" or "jackdaw", though it is not a member of the Corvidae. Similarly, it is often called "cuervo" in areas of Mexico where there are no true crows. Its range stretches from Kansas in the northeast to southern California in the northwest down to northwest Peru and northwest Venezuela in the south; the grackle's range has been expanding north and west in recent years. It is common in Texas and Arizona in the southern regions. It is commonly found in agricultural regions and suburban environments, feeding on fruits, seeds, and invertebrates. Female There is a considerable amount of sexual dimorphism in this species. Males reach up to 43 cm (18 inches), including a tail that is almost as long as the body, weigh 230 g, and are jet-black with a violet-blue iridescent sheen to the feathers. Females are significantly smaller at 33 cm (13 inches), weigh 125 g, and are mainly brownish-black, with a pale brown throat and belly. This bird has a large variety of raucous, cacophonous calls, and is widely considered to be a noisy pest species, though its range expansion has not been aided by human introduction (compared to the European Starling). The Great-tailed Grackle and Boat-tailed Grackle were once considered the same species. Some species of Grackle, usually the Great-tailed, are confused with an American Crow when people unfamiliar with bird identification are asked to identify a dead blackbird. This usually occurs when birds need to be identified as candidates for West Nile virus.
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The time It seems to stand for Italian politics. The same theme is repeated for months without finding a solution. I talk show politici They are all the rage and are able to be competitive with calcium and reality shows in terms of audience. Now have themselves become real reality show where self-centered characters and take part in a bizarre and grotesque tragicomedy endless.
The actors of these interludes are political cabaret, lackeys disguised as journalists and cynical journalists who have understood how to use their spirit critical to participate as protagonists in these trashy sitcom.
How much time, energy and ingenuity to solve real problems remain?
Very little. But probably the goal is not to solve problems, but precisely to keep alive the fire that feeds them into a vicious circle with no end.
Maybe it's the democratic system that is imploding on itself?
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Jimmy Fallon discusses the pros and cons of Game of Thrones
Jimmy Fallon is at it again and has created another viral gem. This time the American chat show host, is discussing the pros and cons of the hit show, Game of Thrones.
Fallon goes through what makes the show so popular, but still manages to throw in some references about James Franco and the not so popular ending, of How I Met Your Mother.


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Reigning in Provincial Fiscal 'Owners': Decentralization in Lao P.D.R
Lao People's Democratic Republic is a small single-party State with an already long but erratic history of decentralization. Political drives towards decentralization and re-centralization have alternated for more than thirty years. Today, provincial governments enjoy a great deal of autonomy and collect around the sixty percent of all government revenues from a wide array of sources including the import tariff. Most central finance functions (tax administration, customs, and treasury) are de facto controlled by the provinces. In this paper we argue that the Lao PDR system of inter-governmental fiscal relations is not really decentralized, and can better be described as a sui-generis form of de-concentration. Although provincial governors are appointed at the central level, they have a high degree of fiscal autonomy. In addition, the provincial governors appoint the heads of district offices. The system is thus absent of proper accountability mechanisms between the citizenry and its political representatives. In addition, the excessive de facto power at the provincial level implies the sub-national authorities are not accountable either to the central government. Somewhat paradoxically, the major constraint towards fiscal decentralization in Lao PDR is the absence of a strong central government with the capacity to efficiently collect revenues and be able to control and monitor expenditures at the sub-national level. Significant re-centralization will need to take place before decentralization reform can go forward.
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The Washington Times - James Gwartney and Robert Lawson, The Fraser Institute,
That Watson-IBM thought, to which I'll return, bears on this work that rates, indexes and ranks the degree of economic freedom for 123 countries. Like its competitor, the annual economic freedom index published jointly by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal, this report — authored by economists James Gwartney of Florida State University and Robert Lawson of Capital University in Columbus, Ohio — finds a close connection between economic freedom and national prosperity, including per-capita income.
Messrs. Gwartney and Lawson acknowledge the ongoing help of economists Milton Friedman of the Hoover Institution and Michael Walker of the Fraser Institute in Vancouver, British Columbia.
They also acknowledge the support and participation of some 60 other free-market think tanks, including the Cato Institute, Centro Einaudi in Italy, the F.A. Hayek Foundation in the Slovak Republic, the Free Market Foundation of Southern Africa, the Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research, Britain's Institute of Economic Affairs, South Korea's Center for Free Enterprise and Timbro in Sweden.
The authors classify the various statistical components of their index under five areas: size of government expenditures, taxes and enterprises; legal structure and security of property rights; access to sound money; freedom to trade internationally; and regulation of credit, labor and business.
Messrs. Gwartney and Lawson find that Hong Kong retains the highest rating for economic freedom, or 8.7 out of a possible 10, whereas Singapore comes in second with 8.6, and bunched for third at 8.2 are the United States, Britain, New Zealand and Switzerland.
Australia, Canada, Ireland and Luxembourg, in that order, round out the top 10. The bottom five countries, in descendingorder,are Venezuela,theCentral African Republic, Congo, Zimbabwe, and, in last place, Myanmar (formerly Burma), with a score of 2.5.
In other of their findings, the authors note that booming China's rating has climbed from 3.8 in 1980 to 5.7 in 2001; prosperous Ireland's rating has advanced from 6.2 in 1985 to 7.8 in 2002; and ex-Soviet, newly admitted EU member Poland rose from 3.3 in 1990 to 6.6 in 2002.
Two notable nations moving down of late include Zimbabwe (formerly successful Rhodesia), whose rating fell from 6.0 in 1995 to 3.4 in 2002, and Argentina, whose rating fell from 6.7 in 1995 to 5.8 in 2002.
As Mr. Gwartney and Mr. Lawson remark, economically free nations grow faster; nations with more economic freedom both attract more investment and achieve greater productivity, and central to successful national growth is "a legal structure that provides for secure property rights, even-handed enforcement of contracts, and the rule of law."
Well, for our terror-haunted world, these constructive forces have apparently been at work over the last two decades. Good work: Only 15 of 104 countries had double-digit inflation rates in 2002, compared to 76 in 1980. In 2002, not a single country imposed a 60 percent marginal tax rate on personal income, while in 1980, 49 did so.
Tariff rates dove: In 2002, the average tariff rate was 10.4 percent, compared to 26.1 percent in 1980. Upshot: World trade expands, relatively and absolutely. From 1980 to 2002, on average, exports plus imports as a share of GDP went up by 25.2 percent.
So Thomas J. Watson's idea of "World Peace Through World Trade" seems to be doing its part for peace — albeit, note the authors, with much of the Middle East and other Islamic nations generally lacking the rule of law and property rights. It's an unsafe lack.
U.S. critics of "globalization" and "outsourcing," who tar CEOs engaging in such practices as "Benedict Arnolds," have it wrong. For don't such criticisms set back global market democracy and world capitalism, and unmindfully incite further terrorism across a nervous globe? Isn't free trade-world trade-world investment the Watson answer for world peace? Indeed.
Why should terrorists and suicide bombers kill, when their very own people engage in friendly and peaceful trading and investing across borders, and are the richer and happier for it? After all, who goes around shooting his customers or bombing his investors?
William H. Peterson is an adjunct scholar with the Heritage Foundation and contributing editor to the Foundation for Economic Education's magazine, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty.
Mark Littlewood argues that the green lobby has over played it's hand on climate change on BBC Radio 4's 'Ethical Man'
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Deborah Martin: Under The Moon
Numina + Zero Ohms: Broken Stars Through Brilliant Clouds
Time Being: A Place To Belong
Three recent releasestwo new and one a twentieth anniversary re-issuereveal why the California-based Spotted Peccary imprint has come to be regarded as one of the central resources for ambient music production.
Time Being immerses the listener within the natural world from the first moment of A Place To Belong when rustling winds and faint moans by some unknown creature arise during the opening seconds of The Wind Has Called. With such sounds positioned prominently in the mix, it feels as if night is falling and that details rendered clear during the day are becoming indistinct. That Jourdan Laik and Phillip Wilkerson are able to evoke such vivid impressions speaks highly of their soundsculpting abilities; as impressive is the fact that they created everything on the hour-long album using synthesizers and programming.
Following upon their earlier A Dimension Reflected, this second full-length collaboration is deep ambient at its most potent. Though A Place To Belong is indexed as eight pieces, it, like many a recording of its kind, registers more as a singular entity of intermittently changing design. Swirling, electronically produced atmospheres dominate, but the recording isn't totally bereft of non-electronic sounds. Piano melodies tinkle softly throughout From Where We Are, and insect chirps, gull cries, water burble, and whistles emerge elsewhere to pull the material away from the stars and ground it solidly on earth.
That oscillation between the natural world and the abstract realm is something that happens throughout the album, and the listener comes away from the project sensitive to the duo's desire to encompass multiple dimensions. Nowhere is that more strongly felt than during the closing An Infinite Home, a twelve-minute epic whose blend of real-world and synthetic elements could pass for a single-statement Time Being manifesto. There are oscillations in mood, too, such that episodes of soothing calm (Farther Worlds) are countered by unsettling threats of physical rupture (The Elements Melt). Not surprisingly, the word oceanic springs to mind as the pair assemble multiple layers of glistening synth washes and whooshes into their dramatic sound paintings.
A complementary release to Time Being's is Broken Stars Through Brilliant Clouds, the first collaborative effort by Numina (Denver-based synthesist Jesse Sola) and Zero Ohms (Richard Roberts). Once again the material sends the listener on a voyage into deep space, and the hour-long ambient recording is likewise epic in scope; in addition, field recordings of the natural world figure prominently in the eighteen-minute closer, Of an Uncertain Mythos, to locate the recording firmly on earth. But there are differences, too, foremost among them the instrumentation involved. While both artists are credited with synthesizers (wind-controlled in Roberts' case), Zero Ohms also plays flutes and bass flutes on the recording, and it's these woodwind textures that help distance the material from Time Being's. With the gentle lull of Roberts' flute playing audible alongside delicate, synthetically generated exhalations, A Day Without Time stands out as an especially tranquil meditation.
One's ears perk up six minutes into the opening Secrets of the Treasure House of Stars when high-pitched whistlings rise above the immense, string-like washes that unfurl in seeming slow motion. Yet as serene as Broken Stars Through Brilliant Clouds often is, there are also moments of a more unsettled nature. A sense of foreboding creeps into Night of the Falling Planets when low-pitched tones rise and fall like the breathing of some physical colossus and prismatic accents play off the music's surfaces like sunlight reflections. Another thing that differentiates Broken Stars Through Brilliant Clouds from A Place To Belong has to do with tone. For an album that thematically deals with the vastness of space, the understated character of Sola and Roberts' music comes as a bit of a surprise. There's a serenity and calm to the music, as if the two were more interested in evoking the quiet grandeur of the spheres than overwhelming the listener with extreme volume and dynamics.
Still, with all due respect to Laik, Wilkerson, Sola, and Roberts, it's Deborah Martin's Under The Moon that is the shiniest jewel in this particular crown of releases. To honour this twentieth-anniversary edition, Spotted Peccary has meticulously restored and re-mastered Martin's original tapes, resulting in a recording marked by even greater lustre than the original. It's really the odd man out in the trio, as Under The Moon doesn't feature long-form ambient settings so much as enchanting, electroacoustic reveries that have more in common with New Age than ambient, formally speaking. A parallel could be drawn between it and similarly luscious-sounding albums issued years ago on Private Music and Windham Hill, and there are moments, too, that call to mind the kind of music Mark Isham released on Tibet and Castalia in the late 80s.
Adding to its appeal, the stylistic range of Under The Moon is broad and the instrumentation rich, with Martin (credited with acoustic guitars, synths, percussion, and vocals) joined by many guests, among them bassist Tony Levin on two tracks and Edgar Perry of the White Mountain Apache Eagle Clan on one. Martin's self-described theme for the project concerns that magical time between twilight and dawn where all precious imaginings exist, suspended in the elegant dream-space we all crave. In keeping with such a theme, her oft-ethereal music abounds with nocturnal and archetypal associations.
It's the kind of album where each piece stands out for one reason or another. Analog synths softly whisper throughout the symphonic overture Twilight to begin the project on a strong note. Aurora is elevated by Jeff Moore's ambient and acoustic guitars and Levin's distinctive bass playing, as well as Martin's omnipresent synth textures, and his bass along with acoustic and electric guitars give Rainbow Man an earthy naturalness. The prettier side of Martin's music-making comes to the fore during Nymphea (Water Lilies), while her classical side is showcased in the piano playing of the graceful title track. With Perry reciting a poem in his native Apache tongue (plus Martin singing in English), the meditative Gray Sky exudes an ancient quality that's reinforced by the inclusion of haunting flute-like expressions and hand percussion accents.
Martin has remained productive in the years since the album's original release, with Tibet, a project undertaken with Cheryl Gallagher, and Anno Domini, a collaboration with J. Arif Verner, two of the better-known projects. But twenty years on from its original release, Under The Moon no doubt stands out as a high point in her career.
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cfd post chart undef??
I designed an axial pump: stator, rotor, diffusor. Now i want to plot the average static pressure distribution along the axial direction (in my case z axis).
I've created a turbo line at 0.5 span.
location = turbo line 1
x axis = Z
y axis = pressure
but when i plot the chart it seems incomplete. It only plots values in certain intervals...
When i export the .csv file to excel it says "undef" at thoses intervals...
Does anyone knows what the problem is?
Are those regions in cavities in the mesh? Maybe the line goes through a blade or the central spinner or something like that.
Indeed the turbo line goes trough the blades of the rotor. How do I plot the pressure rise across the rotor then?
You need to have a careful think about exactly what you want. The pressure along a line which passes straight through a rotor is not very useful as flow cannot take that path.
Do you want the average pressure over the front versus back faces of the rotor? Or the pressure along a streamline through the device? Or average pressures across the flow at different cross sections in the pipes leading into and out of the device?
I want to plot the pressure along a streamline across the device.
I think i found something that works. I used a polyline in the rotor to plot de pressure values.
Or can you create a streamline as a locations for the chart?
You can use any scalar as the X or Y variable in a chart. Scalar variables include length along a streamline.
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Taking Time to Honor MLK
"There was a time when the church was very powerful. It was during that period when the early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society…" MLK
Jan 16
Martin Luther King, Jr Was ProLife! MLK's Niece Supports Personhood!
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) was prolife reveals his niece, Dr. Alveda King. "In advising men and women on questions of personal behavior 50 years ago, Uncle Martin sounded no different than a conservative Christian preacher does now," said Dr. King. "He was pro-life, pro-abstinence before marriage, and based his views on the unchanging Word of the Bible." Alveda King continues MLK's prolife legacy by defending the right to life of all innocent humans, including the unborn, elderly, and disabled and compares abortion to slavery.
May 05
Make it a Personhood National day of Prayer
Come join us locally in Saint Lucie County, or wherever you are at your local events, to pray to God for abortion to end and "to petition the government for a redress of grievances" for government, tax funded abortion especially. Bring your clip and petitions, let's include the pre-born, elderly and the disabled in our prayers.


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It's time for rockin' o' the Celts — and more
This St. Patrick's Day week, we have so much Celtic music — and everything else — so let's get right to it.
The Toronto Scottish-inspired combo Enter the Haggis rocks The Egg (Empire State Plaza, Albany) on Friday at 8 p.m. With 10 albums of lively, eclectic sounds since 1998 and their own PBS special (shot in Plattsburgh), ETH draws fans of folk, jams and everything else. Tickets are $24. Phone 473-1845 or visit www.theegg.org.
The Egg wraps up its Celtic offerings with Gaelic Storm on March 22. But first, the busy orb-venue hosts troubadour Sarah Jarosz on Saturday (7:30 p.m.; Lera Lynn opens; tickets $20, students $15); the "Led Zeppelin Experience" by Hammer of the Gods also on Saturday (8 p.m.; tickets $39.50 and $34.50); and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, world's most influential Afro-beat vocal group, from South Africa, on Sunday (7:30 p.m.; tickets $29.50).
Road-trip-worthy Celtic sounds are not far down the highway in North Adams and Northampton, Mass., and in Hudson.
After a reportedly charming show at the Eighth Step last week, Irish singers Susan McKeown and Michael Brunnock reunite on Friday at MASS MoCA (1040 MASSMoCA Way, N. Adams, Mass.). Both have fine voices, but McKeown's is really exceptional. Show time is 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 in advance, $16 on Friday, students $10. Phone 413-662-2111 or visit www.massmoca.org.
Iron Horse lineup
The Iron Horse (20 Center St., Northampton, Mass.) is all Celtic, all week.
Tonight, Alan Reid of Scottland's Battlefield Band (keyboards, guitar, vocals) brings his duet partner, guitarist Rob Van Sante, to the Horse; Abby & Harrison Adams open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door. Phone 413-586-8686 or visit www.iheg.com.
On Friday, Zoe Darrow and the Fiddleheads (her guitarist dad Philip and pianist Tom Coborn; she plays fiddle, don't you know) take over the Iron Horse stage to play Celtic and Cape Breton tunes, starting at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12.50 in advance and $15 at the door.
On Saturday, rowdy Irish rockers Big Bad Bollocks, Northampton's own Celtic thrash band, crank up the St. Patrick's Day spirit at its noisiest at 7 p.m. They've been rockin' Irish sounds since 1989, with a handful of albums and a reputation for loud fun. Tickets are $12.50 in advance, $15 at the door.
On Sunday it's Maura O'Connell. O'Connell may have the best-known Irish voice across America — she lives in Nashville now — and a wonderful way of warming up any song in possessing it completely, and being completely possessed by it. John Mock opens the show at 7. Tickets are $22.50 in advance, $25 at the door.
Across town at the Calvin Theater (19 King St.), Gaelic Storm — recently at The Egg — plays on March 23, and Enter the Haggis visits Club Helsinki in Hudson on March 30, wrapping up our sprawling — in distance and time — Celtic music fest.
Before then, the Chris O'Leary Band plays a St. Patrick's Day show on Saturday at Club Helsinki (405 Columbia St., Hudson). O'Leary is the Schenectady-born singer and harmonica player who led Levon Helm's band when Levon's voice was out of action. Show time is 9 p.m. Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door. Phone 828-4800 or visit www.helsinkihudson.com.
Marsalises, more jazz
Yes, Branford WAS just here, at Proctors; and his brothers Jason and Wynton play here this week.
"Music is always in motion," says Jason, the youngest Marsalis brother and a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master. He certainly is. Jason plays drums in the periodic projects of the Marsalis family band, including a 2008 Proctors show. He plays many sideman gigs, including Los Hombres Calientes, Marcus Roberts' band and — yes, even a Celtic band. But he comes to the Van Dyck (237 Union St., Schenectady) on Friday leading his Vibes Band. The Jason Marsalis Vibes Band, a quartet, plays two shows on Friday, at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Admission is $23 in advance, $26 on Friday. Phone 348-7999 or visit www.vandycklounge.com.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra celebrates boss Wynton Marsalis' 50th birthday on Monday at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. The Orchestra is 15 pieces strong — make that, very strong — and they have full command of jazz's big-band tradition. Will they play "Happy Birthday"? Who knows? But if they do, they'll swing it, guaranteed. Show time is 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $79, $69, $49, students and children $22. Phone 273-0038 or visit www.troymusichall.org.
Also in Troy, the next night, Tuesday, there's more jazz in the capable hands of trombonist Joseph Bowie and percussionist and pianist Adam Rudolph at the Sanctuary for Independent Media (3361 Sixth Ave. at 101st Street, Troy). Like the Marsalises, Bowie hails from a musical family including saxophonist Byron Bowie and the late, great trumpeter Lester Bowie, who played RPI's McNeil Room in Troy in the 1970s with the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Joseph Bowie founded and led Defunkt, the baddest funk band this side of James Brown's vintage crews. Rudolph is a world-music world traveler, experimenting with many ethnic styles, leading bands of various sizes and configurations and releasing 25 albums. Show time is 7 p.m. Admission is $10. Phone 272-2390 or visit www.MediaSanctuary.org.
Short cuts
The Pennsylvania-based jam band Dr. Dog rocks Northern Lights (1208 Route 146, Clifton Park) on Tuesday at 8 p.m. Despite regular personnel changes, they've become festival faves and released six albums since 2002; "Be the Void" hit last month. Tickets are $15 advance, $17 on Tuesday. Phone 371-0012 or visit www.northernlightslive.com.
The Lost Radio Rounders launch a new Third Friday Charity Concert Series on Friday at the McKownville United Methodist Church (1565 Western Ave., Albany). The Rounders — multi-instrumentalists and singers Michael Eck and Tom Lindsay — bring musical pals Low 'n' Lonesome and Steven Clyde (Ramblin Jug Stompers and Blotto) for their "Spreading the Word: Spirituals & Gospel Blues" program.
There's no admission charge, but donations will support the church's Skye Farm Camps. The series continues with Kim Kilby and M.R. Poulopoulis on April 20 and the Gospel Train and guests on May 18. Phone 456-1148. or visit www.reddoorschurch.org.
On Saturday, the Steamer No. 10 (500 Western Ave., Albany) "Eclectic Performance Series" pairs up Albany-gone-national troubadour Sean Rowe with all-woman all-star group Babe City: Olivia Quillio, Meagan Duffy, Maryleigh Roohan and Caroline Corrigan.
Since releasing his album "Magic" on Anti Records, Rowe has built his star power on the national stage. He sang with Marketa Irglova on NPR's "All Songs Considered" and sang a "Tiny Desk Concert," also on NPR. And he's busy mixing his second album, featuring Railbird. Show time for Sean Rowe and Babe City is 8 p.m. on Saturday. Tickets are $13 in advance, $15 at the door. Phone 438-5503 or visit www.steamer10theatre.org. This series continues with Rosanne Raneri and Bryan Thomas on April 14; the Star Spangled Washboard Band with guests Val Haynes and Todd Nelson on April 21; Rosary Beard, and Winterpills on May 4; and Frank Jaklitsch and Friends on May 5.
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Smoothly but warily, U.S. and China stick to script in Tillerson visit
19 Mar 2017 - 13:42
By Yeganeh Torbati and Ben Blanchard | Reuters
BEIJING: Despite a long list of potential pitfalls, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's visit to China, the first by a senior member of the Trump administration, passed off relatively smoothly although there were no tangible gains to show.
On the positive side, there was none of the awkwardness of the kind seen in Washington as President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held the first summit meeting between two of the West's biggest allies.
Even a tweet from Trump criticising China the night before Tillerson landed in Beijing did not, at least in public, create any discord.
As Tillerson wrapped up his visit on Sunday, Chinese President Xi Jinping praised his "active efforts" in making a smooth transition of the U.S.-China relationship to the Trump era.
Tillerson and the Chinese officials he met – Foreign Minister Wang Yi and State Councillor Yang Jiechi – struck a positive note, only hinting at differences in their positions.
"For setting up a new tone, it's a good start," said Sun Zhe, the co-director of the China Initiative of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
"It seems that Donald Trump's administration is coming back to the normal track, trying to work with China to solve problems."
No formal agreements were announced in the visit, although the two sides said they would work together on North Korea and countering its rapidly developing nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.
Wrapped up in the tightly scripted proceedings, however, was a sense that the world's two biggest economies were warily testing each other out as the new administration settles down in Washington. They seemed to be reserving airing of differences for another occasion.
The potential points of conflict are many, some inherited and some that have come up since Trump took office in January.
The United States has started to deploy missile defences in South Korea that China views as a threat, Washington believes Beijing could do more to rein in Pyongyang's weapons programs, and prominent Trump administration officials and Trump himself have bashed China's trade practices.
China's currency policy and the row in the South China Sea have been bugbears for years.
Even Tillerson said during his confirmation hearing in January that China had offered "empty promises" to pressure North Korea but had failed to do so, and that it had "proven a willingness to act with abandon in the pursuit of its own goals."
But the proceedings in Beijing were kept firmly devoid of tensions as both sides worked on laying the groundwork for an expected meeting between Trump and Xi in the United States later this year.


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Lara Downes: A Billie Holiday Songbook
The challenge for any musician tackling songs associated with Billie Holiday involves finding a way to distill her singular vocal persona into instrumental form. One expects that quite a few musicians will attempt to do so in the months ahead, given that 2015 marks the centenary of her birth. Lara Downes' personal history indicates that in her case the project idea didn't develop out of some sales-driven marketing ploy but instead from the pianist's life-long admiration for the singer. Downes even wrote in her diary when she was eight that Holiday's I Cover the Waterfront was her favourite song, and the pianist grew up absorbing Holiday's recordings in the company of her father, a man born and raised in Harlem mere blocks away from the legendary jazz clubs where Holiday sang in the 30s and 40s.
By her own admission, Downes has been captivated throughout her life by the singer's distinctive phrasing and handling of mood, and it's qualities such as these that Downes so effectively emphasizes in her twenty-two interpretations. The combination makes for an especially interesting one, given the way the classical pianist adapts her conservatory-trained playing style to the earthiness of the jazz icon's delivery. In doing so, Downes makes good on her desire to reflect the multi-faceted complexity of American music.
Admittedly not all of the songs on the album are indelibly associated with Holiday; other singers, Sinatra among them, recorded memorable renditions of I'm a Fool to Want You and I Cover the Waterfront. Yet when theirs are put up against Holiday's, it's hard not to come away concluding that it's Holiday's that pierce the soul most deeply. At the same time, Downes also includes songs that are inarguably associated with Lady Day, foremost among them God Bless the Child, Good Morning Heartache, Billie's Blues, and Strange Fruit.
Any artist covering such material already has an incredible head start, considering the melodic riches pieces such as I'll Be Seeing You and But Beautiful offer the interpreter. Most of them are in the two- to three-minute range, making for a sixty-five-minute recording rich in content, and the piano sound on the album is as crisp and clear as one would expect from an album released on Steinway & Sons Records. One shouldn't overlook the fact that the project involves a critical third party, composer Jed Distler, whose arrangements not only draw upon Holiday's performances of the songs but reference numerous styles of American music (e.g., ragtime, stride, and gospel) and figures such as Monk and Ellington. Listeners familiar with the version of In a Sentimental Mood Ellington and Coltrane recorded for their 1962 collaboration will recognize the piano filigree Duke plays on that performance (as well as other characteristic Ellington touches) surfacing in Downes' Solitude treatment.
Another challenge that Downes must grapple with on the album is how to newly invigorate songs that have been covered so many times before. In that regard, these versions are invested with inspired touches: Blue Moon re-fashioned as a breezy stride number (replete with Monk-like flourishes), Body and Soul re-imagined as an impressionistic, Debussy-esque meditation, and convention upturned when the chords of I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You are initially played in the upper register and the melody at the keyboard's lower end.
Classical training doesn't get in the way of Downes infusing her playing with a bluesy feel, as she does during the wistful Yesterdays, Willow Weep for Me, and God Bless the Child, and different sides of Holiday are captured on the album, from the girlish (Blue Moon, What a Little Moonlight Can Do) to the despairing (Strange Fruit). But though Holiday's life, as has been well-documented, was dogged by tragedy, Downes' recording is no exploitative exercise. Instead, the tone is celebratory, the pianist approaching the project as an opportunity to honour an artist whose work has profoundly influenced the lives of so many, Downes' included, and continues to do so today.
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Cultural Studies II
This course sequence is intended for students who have had one year of formal instruction in Portuguese, and it is designed to expand the PSGE 3201 course. In this program, modes of communication are integrated within cultural thematic units that explore the diversity and complexity of the Portuguese-speaking countries nowadays. Students will further develop their communicative skills through intensive exposure to authentic reading in the target language, debates, in-class presentations, and discussions of cultural phenomena in depth, while increasing and enriching their vocabulary and being in contact with different registers. These units may include tests and/or final projects. Among other fields, these thematic units may encompass the study of the environment and sustainability of the Amazon rain forest, Afro-Brazilian heritage and tradition, media in the Portuguese-speaking world, culture and civilization of the Lusophone world, and the arts in general, which may also include participation in workshops and exhibitions. Bibliography for PGSE 3203 will vary each year.
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- Summer 2014 Language Schools, Portuguese 7 week
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- Freeman CK2(FIC CK2)
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- Rosalia Diogo Rodolfo Prates Guilherme Ribeiro
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Tanzania - July 1
The First Family left the relative safety and comfort of the capital of
South Africa for the wilds of Tanzania early Monday morning.
The first lady had initially requested to stay behind.
The Tanzania Free press showed up to greet the arriving First Family, but
the President was unable to make a statement to the Tanzanian nation
as there was no working teleprompter available.
Johnny on the spot MFNS reporter Earl of Taint from the bush captured the first lady
doing first lady diplomat stuff at a local Tanzanian village. Soon after her arrival,
most wild animals quickly evacuated the area to safety.
After a traditional meal of bongo bongo leaf salad and wildebeest spleen dressing,
in appreciation of her visit, the first lady was presented with a pair of Tiger testicles for
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Kardashian Clan Says Dad's Widow Is Selling Family Photos
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If this doesn't get kids to eat their veggies, I don't know what will. It comes from a classic chef, James Beard.
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No more hitting it, or even breaking it – let's shatter it!
I've been vocal in urging more women to pursue technology careers and in supporting women as they face challenges moving up the ladder.
HIMSS16 attendees can focus on many topics this year. I will be pursuing my passion for developing the next generation of leaders, especially helping women deal with barriers they face as we try to level the playing field.
I'm happy to be a voice for women – but I'm not alone.
- On Tuesday at 10AM at the HIMSS Spot, the annual #healthITchicks meetup is happening. I'll be one of the guest speakers along with Rebecca Freeman, Chief Nursing Officer at ONC and Dana Sellers, CEO at Encore. Jennifer Dennard, #healthITchicks founder, organizes monthly TweetChats on a range of topics as well as this annual meetup at HIMSS. Join us for some interesting Q&A and networking!
- On Wednesday at 2PM, I will be one of two female executives speaking at the Views from the Top Session – "Shattering the Glass Ceiling – Lessons Learned for Aspiring Female Executives". I'll be joined by Deanna Wise, Chief Information Officer at Dignity Health. Carla Smith, EVP at HIMSS will be the moderator. A similar session last year was a big hit with a large crowd so let's make this year even bigger and better! Kate Gamble with HealthSystemCIO.com wrote an excellent preview of the session this week.
- And in a two hour closed session on Monday morning, I will be one of six executive women that Carla has pulled together for a Women in HIT roundtable session. More than 900 women responded to a recent HIMSS / Healthcare IT News survey on the women's professional needs in the health IT field. According to Carla, those responding overwhelmingly wanted more recognition of female leaders, and more gender-focused resources that support networking, mentoring, and educational and career opportunities. She hopes that the roundtable will give HIMSS valuable input towards developing a year-round, comprehensive, and meaningful program to empower women, and to nurture the next generation of women leaders.


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I like this for a maths department motto: "Spotting Pattern Everywhere". (Thanks to a former workplace for that one. I still love it.) Something I was reading today mentions that a lot of learning, not just in maths, is about spotting patterns. People love making meaning out of the things they see around them. The consciousness researcher Daniel Bor was interviewed in Time magazine talking about this. He calls the human brain "ravenous" for solving problems and making patterns. He says, "We get streams of pleasure when we find something that can really help us understand some deep pattern."
Bor mentioned people who want answers to the question, "Why?" "The way I approach my job, it's like trying to solve a really big fuzzy crossword puzzle and when you do put in that new clue and see the deeper pattern, that's incredibly pleasurable." I took this as encouragement to help students approach learning maths like a puzzle to be fit together. This could make learning more pleasurable for my students' brains.
Bor was asked, "If our brains are hungry for information, then why do we tend to see learning as a chore and fail to recognize it as a huge source of pleasure?" He replied, "I don't know. Obviously, more intelligent people get more pleasure from spotting these patterns, but I think almost every normal person does this. I think it's a pretty pervasive thing but it's almost as if we can't notice it because it's so pervasive."
Ways to Make Maths Learning Like a Puzzle
1. Show a diagram and ask, What does this tell you?
I was about to teach about area and volume scale factors of similar shapes. I put this on the board and asked students to discuss what it might mean.
2. Ask students to watch you do a maths procedure in silence, then explain to their partner what it was.
Here's a great example from the nrich website where you watch a very short video of someone summing a sequence, then students are asked to explain what just happened.
Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for tweeting about this today and making me think more about it.
How do you make learning into a puzzle?


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Phthalates findings cast a shadow over chemical sector
New evidence that phthalates - used in plastics and cosmetics - may be causing reproductive problems in boys could prove to be the biggest single chemical effect ever documented, according to a leading UK researcher on endocrine-disrupting compounds. The study, which shows that mothers with higher phthalate exposures are more likely to produce feminised boys, has potential to cast gloom across the whole chemical industry, further undermining its public image.
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Following a most hectic late Autumn which saw me launch a new business www.onestopnature.co.uk on the North Norfolk Coast, after resigning from In Focus (after 21 years! ), selling the house to have it fall through one hour before exchange of contracts, and with Sam out of action from effectively what was a broken ankle/leg twice, I have made it out finally, to do some bird spotting.
Actually that's a bit of a fib as I twitched the Western Sandpiper at Cley a few weeks ago and also managed to seen a Green-winged Teal and a Green-winged Teal Hybrid.
But this morning it was off to West Acre Scrape and there were two Snipe in front of the hide and a distant Little Egret. Having almost forgotten how to use a camera I was all over the place with wrong settings ago go. Eventually I did manage a shot on some reasonable settings.
So that'll be it till New Year's day - If you are passing Burnham Deepdale do please pop into my new shop for a browse.... binoculars, telescopes, microscopes, magnifiers, astroscopes, trap cameras, night vision, books, bird feeders and food, insect habitats, moth traps, bat detecters and loads more...........


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Monthly Archives: January 2013
BlogTour Proved Interiors Still Need Texture
The trend for interiors with texture is here to stay. The beauty of vising a European trade show is the ability to nab trends which will infiltrate our homes 5-10 years from now. In this age of less is more … Read More
All Things Ferrari – Live From The Cavallino Classic
Follow along during the Palm Beach Cavallino Classic 22, the show of car shows for Ferrari enthusiasts and owners.
Palm Beach Style Transcends The Florida Coast
Palm Beach style is big, bold and never cold. Hot juicy colors oozing with life. It pulls from tradition but is not about money.
IMM Cologne – The Good, Bad and What Won't Come Ashore
A look at the fabulous finds in furnishings and appliances from the IMM Cologne show for interior design.
Cars of Amsterdam
Interesting cars and bikes on the snowy frigid streets of Amsterdam.
Is Change Good At Porsche?
Do the words from Dr. Porsche in 1989 extolling the virtues of history and timelessness still right true at Porsche today?
Spying On European Design
What does Europe have in their homes that we might be missing? Design bloggers descend on the International Furnishings Show, IMM Cologne.
Ready To Hang With The BlogTour Gang
Aside from traveling to Cologne and Amsterdam and meeting our sponsors, I'm also looking forward to hanging with the entire Modenus BlogTour gang.
The Porsche Road Trip To Colorado
Driving a Porsche 911 twin turbo to and through Colorado. The sights from a driving tour and Porsche Parade.


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In May 2016 the world is coming to my home – Portland, Oregon — a place where we proudly claim our weirdness and laugh along with episodes of "Portlandia" in an endearing way. We are into communal and laid back living, farm to table eating, free swaps and DIY on just about everything including our spirituality. We are concerned about the environment and recycle our food scraps. We love our LGBTQ brothers and sisters and even advocate for bike safety with our annual Naked Bike Ride through the streets of Portland. The coffee, beer and wine are always flowing and people who visit feel genuinely welcomed. Tolerance, understanding, diversity, natural fibers, life/work balance, communing with nature, good books, funky flavored ice cream and authentic conversations are important to us.
But frankly, we are having difficulty preparing for the General Conference delegates from all over the world who will be coming to our city for the quadrennial legislation of the United Methodist Church next May. You see, WE will tolerate differences as long as YOU tolerate differences. We will welcome your expression of diversity as long as you welcome our expressions of diversity.
Here is our issue: We know you don't want to welcome such diversity. Continue reading The Naked Bike Ride to General Conference


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Once upon a time, I worked at an amazing Christian resort in the Adirondack mountains called CAMP-of-the-WOODS. It was there that I met Adam and Christie. Adam serves as the CFO, and Christie and I actually had the same job at different times. When Christie went on maternity leave for their eldest daughter Ashley, Christie trained me as her replacement! At the time we bonded over both having "CCC" initials and both having the middle name Claire - but then I got married and messed everything up! Now I'm "CCG!" :)
I couldn't wait to photograph their beautiful family while Chris and I were spending our first vacation at CAMP-of-the-WOODS! It was a week full of seeing old friends, making new memories, and taking some beautiful photographs! Without further ado, meets the Carrs: Adam, Christie, Ashley, and Annie! :)
Ashley was such a little model!
Like sister, like...sister.
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I consider myself a systems change designer. While I know my way around the Adobe Suite, possess intermediate HTML/CSS skills, and am generally a tech nerd, I apply design-thinking processes to complex organizational and urban scale challenges.
Facilitating vision and strategic planning. Identifying gaps, framing challenges as opportunities, networking and deal making.
I am currently working with the Winnipeg Arts Council in the early stages of partnering with business, design and civil society communities in Winnipeg to create an urban innovation and design lab called Urban Idea. Like RampUp, we too are inspired by the accelerator/incubator model, pitch-days, etc., and we are looking at some creative ways to apply these methods to generating ideas and actions for sustainable urban renewal.
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VIDEO: Bluffton teenager wins first place at Hardeeville's Got Talent
Hannah Brown of Bluffton along with Zach Jenkins of Hardeeville received first place in the second annual Hardeeville's Got Talent: Youth edition show.
The duo played guitars and sang Taylor Swift's, "Picture to Burn."
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Focus Media Announces Restructuring of In-store Advertising Unit
Focus Media Holding Limited (Nasdaq: FMCN), China's largest digital media group, has announced restructuring of its CGEN in-store advertising network and announced the termination of its remaining wireless advertising (interactive marketing) business.
In addition, Focus Media announced it will terminate its remaining wireless advertising (interactive marketing) business due to changes in market conditions. As a result, Focus Media will incur additional one-time non-cash impairment charges of approximately $20 million in the fourth quarter of 2008, representing all of its remaining tangible and intangible assets relating to its wireless advertising business.


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On episode 19 of Red List News, Dave goes deep with analysis concerning our increasing rush to World War 3, and how we are now closer than ever to conflict. Covering the institutional kidnapping arena, Jim next highlights how one NY hospital admitted to taking "medical custody" of children whose parents refuse newborn vaccines. Following up, FEMA and their true intentions are exposed as Dave ponders where all the elite have gone. The privatization of "Big Brother" is covered next as Jim reports on the proposal (passed 4-1) to mount data gathering cameras on garbage trucks in an effort to assist law enforcement. Rounding out the broadcast, Dave asks for your support in assisting Arizona Law Enforcement…please make the call. Lastly, Jim spotlights the latest effort to take guns out of our hands by criminalizing gun sellers.
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