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Learn how to make a handy serger thread catcher to keep your sewing area neat and tidy using this free thread catcher pattern.
Use 1/2" seam allowances unless otherwise noted.
Download the free serger thread catcher pattern.
From the fabric, cut two pattern pieces on the fold.
Align the two pattern pieces with right sides together. Stitch the perimeter, leaving a 3" opening along the short straight edge.
Trim the seam allowances and clip the corners. Turn the thread catcher right side out through the opening, pushing out the corners and turning the opening edges 1/2" toward the wrong side; press.
Edgestitch the thread catcher perimeter, closing the opening.
Fold the thread catcher upward along the marked foldline, aligning one lower section edge with the long edge to form the bag; pin. Stitch the aligned edge using a scant 1/4" seam allowance. Repeat to stitch the remaining lower-section edge to the opposite long edge.
Turn the bag section right side out; press. Place the upper section under the serger, aligning the bag with the serger cutting area.
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Year-Round Vegetable Production with Eliot Coleman (DVD)
This filmed workshop on year-round vegetable production offers farmers and gardeners the rare chance to sit in with Eliot Coleman, one of the pioneers of the organic farming movement and author of The New Organic Grower, Four-Season Harvest, and The Winter Harvest Handbook.During his careers as commercial market gardener, director of agricultural research projects, developer of tools for organic growers, and teacher and lecturer on organic gardening, Coleman has studied, practiced, and perfected his craft, and while you can bring Coleman's books with you into your garden, there's nothing like getting the advice straight from the man himself. Included in the DVD:
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And more…Experience a workshop with bestselling author and expert in season extension, based on a filmed daylong workshop and extensive interview. Complete with a slide show, images from Coleman's own farm over the years, his travels to Europe, and detailed plans for his model of season extension, this film is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to sit down with a master.
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Elliot Coleman— farmer, author, and organic entrepreneur—is the presenter on this double-disc set filmed at the 2009 convention of the Northeast Organic Farmers Association of Vermont. The first disc contains an edited version of a daylong intensive session with Coleman, whose PowerPoint-enhance talks details how he farms year-round in snowy Harborside, MP. Borrowing from the intensive practices of European farms—such as harvesting one crop while another is beginning to grow alongside—Coleman has built a thriving business, turning conventional agriculture (at least as practiced in the U.S.) on its head. Coleman says that experts who visit his Four Seasons Farm marvel at what he produces while simultaneously denying that what he does is even possible: growing basil in March, for instance, or Vidalia onions that mature three days before the famous crop in Georgia. Pests and diseases are kept at bay, Coleman asserts, by healthy soil and good practices. Coleman has even invented a number of hand tools to make some tasks easier, such as a flamer that burns off weeds and a transplant tool fashioned from a mason's trowel. The second disc includes Coleman's crowd-pleasing keynote speech at the conference, an interview that enlarges on his ideas, and a PDF with detailed climate and USDA zone maps. Although sporting rudimentary production values, this is an intriguing and inspiring look at an earth-friendly farming renaissance that combines old techniques with modern knowledge. Recommended.
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I have spent the last couple of days re living moments of our wedding and remembering all of the beautiful moments. Sometimes I just lie down and close my eyes and let my brain get flooded with memories of the past years, just because I can remember, because a year ago I thought I wasn't ever going to remember properly again.
Our anniversary has not just meant a year of marriage it has also meant a year of remission, which I am so thankful for. Those of you with this disease will understand when I say that I have still had flares, my most recent being a few weeks ago, however, I have successfully managed to stay out of a relapse. We are comfortably settled in the North, and the most amazing thing is I have a fast paced, full time job that demands me to fire on all cylinders. If you had asked me, or any of my Doctors a year ago if I would be working in that capacity, we would have all said no. But I do!
I still sometimes struggle with drumming words up in my head or tripping over words, but I know that it will only last a little while and then I will come back again. I practise reading, and push my writings skills, and challenge my linguistic skills. We did it as children, why not as adults?
September 24, 25, 26, and 27 will forever be special to me as it was when I married my best friend and found out I was diagnosed with a rare disease that forced me to choose the path in life I always wanted to choose. Isn't that funny about us? That we wait for something big in our lives to happen before we listen to our inner voice that is telling us to do what makes us happy?
I hope that each and everyone of you who comes across my blog doesn't wait until your memories start slipping out of your mind and your mind becomes a blur. I hope you don't wait until the day you wake up each morning with flu-like symptoms and pain in your arms that you have to ignore and smile through so that nobody notices. I hope you don't wait until you are too tired to do anything. I hope you just don't wait. Hug, kiss, try something new, and do what inspires you, lights your flame, and makes you smile a thousand smiles.
I will probably update again closer to my next Neuro appointment in November! I am meeting with my neurologist again - everything should hopefully be moving forward toward good health and the hopes that in the near future we can start planning for a family :)
Some people including my Doctors have asked why I haven't gone to the Mayo Clinic yet. It's simple, I am having fun right now. I feel good and I do comprehend that as much should be done preventatively, but right now I am enjoying being 30, married, and working. I need that right now, and when I feel the moment is right, if there ever is a moment again that is needed to be right, I will go to the Mayo Clinic. Sometimes having fun though is better than hearing another perspective :)
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Police said a woman shot her husband at their home, then snapped a photo of his body and took a shower before calling 911.
The victim, identified as 42-year-old Dennis Drum, was found shot in the head at the house on Crawford Run Road in Frazer Township, police said.
Drum's wife, Teresa Drum, 38, was arrested on a charge of criminal homicide.
According to the criminal complaint, Drum called 911 and told police that her husband had shot himself. When police arrived, they found the victim in the bedroom with a gun in his hand.
Drum showed paramedics a photo she took of the victim prior to the arrival of emergency responders. The victim was not holding a gun in the photo.
"Anytime you see something of that nature, where crucial evidence is moved, and you have inconsistent statements and discrepancies, it's cause for concern," Frazer Township Police Chief Terry Kuhns said.
Drum sent the photo to a friend, who advised her to call 911, according to the criminal complaint.
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August 27, 2014
Dear Wall Street Recruiters,
I would first like to say that I do very much applaud you for making an effort: those "protected weekend" policies were a nice touch (and the least you could do in light of what happened last summer) and the 20 percent salary hikes just announced will not go unappreciated. However, if you really are, like so many financial journalists and bloggers, including this one, have pointed out, attempting to compete for America's most excellent sheep with the Googles and Facebooks and Twitters of the world, then you have been, as they say, barking up the wrong trees. You don't need to go to the money tree or the fewer-hour tree, but what you do need to do, and what young wannabee masters of the universe really want from you and your colleagues, is this: more responsibility.
That's right, more responsibility. Which includes more contact with senior bankers. More client contact. More deal experience and better deal experience. More senior-level work (or at least higher-level work). More fast-track promotions. More internal mobility. More international work placements. More interaction with your C-suite. More interesting work. More challenging work. More work that could be used no matter where (and to which industries) the future might take you.
I think the same could be said for consulting firms. Consider who started out at McKinsey: Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg. And who started out at Andersen Consulting: Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo. And who started out at Braxton Associates (another consulting firm): LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner. And who stared out at one of your own, Goldman Sachs: Twitter's CFO Anthony Noto.
Thing is, even if a young lamb does want to go into tech (or some other industry of the moment such as clean energy), if they aren't a tech genius (Zuckerberg, Gates) then they're going to need financial experience and operating experience if they want to $ucceed at the highest level. And you and your Wall Street firms (and perhaps consulting firms) are still able to provide that experience, perhaps better than any other industry, including tech.
However, too often, what you and your colleagues do is this: dump your newbies into sixteen-square-foot cubicles and force them to crunch numbers until they turn purple in the face and fat around the middle and full of way too much caffeine. And you make them do this night after night (okay, except for Saturday nights). Instead, they could (and should) be allowed to attend all high-level client meetings, be on all client calls, even meet your own CEOs and very high-level managers (which some of you, I understand, are beginning to do; word on the Street is Morgan Stanley now offers an internship, not a very highly publicized one mind you, that gives a select number of college students access to the highest level of the firm—James Gorman level—and by access I mean the ability to work alongside the CEO and have a few one-on-one chats with him).
Don't get me wrong, I do understand the difficulty you find yourselves in. There was that financial crisis thing when all sorts of mortgage-backed securities hit the fan and misdeed upon misdeed was revealed for all the public to see. And since then, it hasn't been exactly rosy. There have been other scandals. A lot of scandals. Whales. Libor fixing. Michael Lewis and Martin Scorcese haven't helped, either. And there will be more misdeeds and more billion-dollar fines coming down the pipeline. But that doesn't take away from the fact that there are some very good and very ethical blue and gray pinstripe suits among the bad. Nor does it take away from the fact that many of them are privy to the most high-profile, impactful companies, products, governments, and deals on the planet.
Which brings me to this: impact.
That is, it's not so much the financial crisis and evildoers among your firms that have made a job on Wall Street less attractive to the excellent sheep, but the fact that times change, and technology changes, and the desires of the nation's youth change, and what's cool changes, and right now the perception is that the more impactful companies and thus the more impactful jobs (of the corporate stripe) fall into the tech sector, mainly located down in something called Silicon Valley. (During the Reagan era and G.W. Bush era this wasn't the case; as you know all too well, you and yours reigned during those high times, when deal summaries were still sent by fax and/or DHL, when analysts could expense everything from their dry cleaning to their Hampton shares, when bottle service wasn't ridiculed but envied.)
However, remember, this is only perception, not truth. Who took Facebook public? Who underwrote Twitter's IPO? Who helped Apple aquire Beats? Who advised Instagram on its sale to Facebook? (Okay, that last one may be a poor example.)
In any case, the point is you'd be wise to listen to your own young bankers and hear what they have to say. Have you asked them what they want lately? Have you?
If not, one week from today, right here on this very blog, Vault will be releasing its latest Banking Rankings, and so next Wednesday, September 3, you'll know where your firm stands in the areas of client interaction, internal mobility, ability to challenge, supervisor relationships, and international opportunities, among other workplace categories. I hope to see you then.
Read More:Wall Street Banks Dig Deeper to Keep Best and Brightest Junior Bankers (DealBook)Sorry, Wall Street. Paying Young Bankers More Won't Make You Cool Again. (NYMag)Goldman Sachs' 'Protected Saturday' Policy Might Be Working After All (Vault)
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In the third of our How To films Mr Mike Gawthorpe, manager of the Fernandez & Wells cafés in Soho, London, demonstrates how to make great coffee. The cafés, founded by Messrs Jorge Fernandez and Rick Wells, are notable for their rustic European food, delicious coffee from Has Bean, and rugged, minimal design. Two new London branches will open later this year, one in Mayfair and one in Soho. Follow our simple step-by-step guide to ensure the perfect blend, day in, day out.


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Think of people standing around a free-standing tank at an aquarium. There may be a few fish in the tank, and there may be a lot more people standing around than there are fish. The people are watching everything the fish do, even discussing what the fish are doing. The fish are swimming around, possibly communicating in subtle ways that are beyond the watchers. But there is basically no communication between the fish inside the tank and the people observing them. That is the general idea behind Fishbowl.
Three or four "fish" sit facing each other in the center of the classroom. They form the fishbowl. The rest of the students position their seats around the fishbowl as observers. The "fish" discuss the assigned topic, while outside the tank the observers listen to what the fish are saying, take notes, and jot down questions to ask the fish later. As in any discussion, the fish make supportable statements, ask each other questions, request clarification, respond to remarks, extrapolate, etc.
At the conclusion of the discussion, observers interact with the fish, unlike with real fish in real aquaria. The observers ask for clarification on points made by certain fish or respond to statements made by any fish; they comment on any question or discussion point, or add examples of their own that support or refute a fish's comments. In addition, the observers comment on the mechanics of the discussion, and offer ways to improve fish interaction.
To get started, the instructor can introduce the concept of Fishbowl to the class the day before. The topic of discussion is presented, and reading (or research) is assigned. Students prepare for the discussion, as none of them know who will be a fish. The next day, the instructor announces the fish, and the observers move their seats into a circle around the fish in the center.
The first time or two, ask for volunteers. After that, select students of mixed ability levels, or a mixture of less talkative and more talkative students to be the fish.
So what happens during Fishbowl?
The instructor is not the one doing the teaching. The instructor may moderate and sum up, but the teaching is done by the students.
- Students learn that there is not necessarily one right answer.
- Students learn that they have something to share, and that they can learn from each other.
- Students learn to critique and to take constructive criticism.
How can Fishbowl be used with younger learners?
In Kindergarten through third grade, Fishbowl could be used for Show-and-Tell activities. As the Fish discuss each other's Show-and-Tell, the Observers might find they have more questions. The discussions might stimulate Show-and-Tell ideas for students who have difficulty coming up with something to share.
Fishbowl can be used to discuss a reading passage or a story the teacher just read. It can be used to discuss history or science concepts, and even explaining how to do an arithmetic skill or solve a word problem.
Fishbowl is easy to implement, but may take several tries before all students are comfortable with it and are learning together. However, the possibilities of Fishbowl and other collaborative learning techniques are only limited by the combined imaginations of the teacher and students. And the best part is, collaborative learning techniques make the teacher's job a lot easier in the long run.
Some parameters:
- Make certain there are "rules" of participation in place, such as talking out of turn, watchers not interrupting fishbowl participants, showing respect for each other, tolerating different views, etc.
- Older children can participate in discussions for longer periods, but it is OK to limit the time in the fishbowl to 15 to 20 minutes. Even with discussion afterwards, it is still possible to get in a second round of "fishbowl" with fresh participants. Just leave enough time at the end of the class period for summation and closure.
- Younger children may need only 5 minutes per "fishbowl" activity group, allowing either more fishbowls to be formed or time for follow-up or different activities.
- If older students can "tolerate" more than one fishbowl occurring simultaneously, that's fine–as long as the teaching staff is willing to split its attention among multiple groups.
- Often, special education students–especially those with attention and/or behavior problems–need closer monitoring. It is a good idea for a classroom adult to be standing/sitting near the most problematic student(s) to provide behavior cues, if needed.
Fishbowl works as well at the university level as it does at the pre-school level, with certain adjustments–such as number of independent groups, length of discussion period, age-appropriate and lesson-appropriate topics. You as the class educator know your students best and know what the students can handle.
Students are more apt to come to class prepared. Students are responsible for reviewing material before class, and will often be more prepared than if all they have to do is sit through a lecture. Few students want to undergo the embarrassment of being "clueless" if they are part of the discussion.
Students practice discussion techniques and general forms of inquiry as they participate inside the fishbowl or outside.
Students develop listening and questioning skills.
Students learn aspects of critical thinking skills as they learn to question certain assertions, especially if what a fishbowl participant says is not the interpretation of the material that another student–within or outside the fishbowl–understood during preparation (or even listening).
After a while, students develop self-confidence in their academic work, whether related to the reading/preparation material or from the proposition of a new idea.
Creative thinking might follow, as long as ideas flow from the preparatory material or from internet/library searches. Outside material should be backed up with references and, if possible, examples.
And there are more positive outcomes that are too numerous to mention.
Fishbowl encourages freedom of expression. This is a single technique among many that allow students to freely discuss and academic/school-related social topics. It leads to exploration without a teacher intervening and telling the student he/she is wrong. So long as the discussion is on topic, allowing the students to monitor the rules to the greatest extent possible can help more shy students gain some confidence in what they know, even if it comes from personal experience or something seen on the TV or internet.
Feel free to contact me with questions about Fishbowl. Other techniques will be posted in the future.


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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Has "South-by" lost its direction?
For several years running, that question has hovered over the iPhone-clutching tech cogniscenti who made the annual springtime pilgrimage to the mecca of geek- and hipster-dom in Austin, Texas.
In 2007 the South by Southwest Interactive festival - the five-day digital offshoot of SXSW, the two-week-long gathering for music and film lovers - solidified its reputation as the place for entrepreneurs and tech investors to see and be seen after the conference helped boost a then-little-known service called Twitter to prominence.
Since then, the interactive festival's popularity and its ticket prices have skyrocketed — and so have complaints from the geeks that it has become too big, too crowded, too expensive and too hopelessly awash in corporate sponsorship money.
The anxieties hit new highs this year as app makers largely eschewed using the event as a launching pad, even while marketing dollars from consumer brands such as Oreo, American Airlines AAMRAQA.UL and General Motors' (GM.N) Chevrolet seemed to flow as freely as company-expensed margaritas.
Greg Cohn, a Los Angeles entrepreneur who recently launched Burner, an iPhone messaging app, decided to forgo the festival for the first time since 2005, saying he felt the conference had become overwhelmed by large advertisers and was increasingly irrelevant for startups jostling to get their name out.
"It's a lot less intellectually stimulating, a lot less organic and authentic," said Cohn, who opted to attend a new conference in Portland, Oregon, called XOXO, started this year by disaffected SXSW veterans. "It feels like SXSW has gone bankrupt, and it needs a new start."
In Silicon Valley - where embracing the new and ditching the old can sometimes be a serious sport - more than a few sniffed at SXSW.
"It's jumped the shark," said Mike Volpi, a partner at Index Ventures, who stayed home.
Eric Eldon, co-editor of startup blog-of-record Techcrunch, reluctantly said he was headed for Texas - "but only for Music and Film," he quickly added. (Techcrunch later published a post headlined: "No Hot SXSW App This Year? Here's Why.")
The startup world may have cooled on Austin, but the five-day festival, which ends on Tuesday, is still plenty hot. Almost two decades after it began, SXSW Interactive has grown vastly more diverse in subject matter and more mainstream, with dozens of do-it-yourself workshops and "meetups" to accompany the panels. This year it is on track to break the 25,000 attendance record it set last year, organizers said.
Above all, it was the brand marketers who were this year's stars, evidenced by Oreo Cookies' mascot strolling through the Austin Convention Center and the "grab-and-go" cookie packs the company gave away. Chevrolet offered rides in cars equipped with voice-recognition software and parked two model cars in front of the convention center, while Target (TGT.N) transformed the rear of a restaurant into a "Tarcade" hall filled with videogames. American Airlines and AT&T (T.N) held a joint "hackathon."
Hugh Forrest, a former alternative newspaper journalist who has organized SXSW Interactive since its inception in 1994, said he "frequently hears criticism" about the festival's evolution but noted that it now offers a head-spinning 800 panels and events to choose from, compared with just 16 two decades ago.
"Is there a larger presence of corporate sponsors? Yes," Forrest said. "But also there are more smaller, indie, bootstrapped things as well. Sponsors help us out with a lot of things we couldn't do before."
Sitting in a "Gold Lounge" with Doritos and a dozen other logos plastered on the wall inside the Austin Convention Center — an irony he pointed out with a chuckle — Forrest noted that the advertising-supported business model should be something many app makers at SXSW understand well.
"We'd be silly and naïve to think marketing is not a big part of new media and culture and business at this point," Forrest said. "That's how many, many things get paid for."
As SXSW's programming has ballooned in recent years, its offerings have been fleshed out by a surging number of sub-topics, such as health and medicine or public service and activism. Even the startups sphere has expanded, there have been an increasing number of advanced design-related programs.
Since it was introduced in 2010, the news and media track has in particular become a cornerstone of the festival's programming, as digital outlets and traditional news organizations alike flock to Austin to discuss their fast-changing industry, said Jennifer 8. Lee, a former newspaper reporter and volunteer SXSW organizer.
Lee noted that with the growing corporate presence, the festival's culture has become more free-spending in recent years, even though she argued that its overall quality is still rising.
"The difference is that this once was a place where people paid their own way, or you somehow got a badge by doing a panel," said Lee, as she doled out drink tickets Saturday night to a party crowd that included CNN Digital Managing Editor Meredith Artley and New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson. "Now you come with a bunch of co-workers and expense it," Lee said. "It's like spring break for adults."
One of the companies with a big presence was the advertising agency JWT, the WPP Group (WPP.L) subsidiary, which flew more than 60 ad execs from its offices around the world.
The agency started what it called a five-day "pop-up" ad agency that took several dozen pitches from startups in Austin and offered its marketing services for free to a chosen winner.
David Eastman, the chief executive of JWT North America, said firms like his relished a lucrative marketing opportunity like SXSW, though he saw the irony in his presence.
"The bad side of all this is that SXSW used to be indie, for the folks who didn't want to be mainstream," Eastman said. "When the brands arrive, the money arrives as well."
Still, the cynicism wasn't nearly so pervasive among the younger generation, especially the enthusiastic attendees on their first or second trips.
"I haven't seen any new startups make their big launch here, but it's been great for meeting people and making new friends," said Sahil Lavingia, the 20-year-old founder of Gumroad, a fast-growing online payment-processing startup backed by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Then there were those who shrugged off SXSW's fading appeal - then showed up anyway.
Then there were those who just showed up for - what else? - the parties.
Nick Denton, the Gawker Media founder, pondered the matter as he ducked into a downtown hotel elevator Saturday night.
"People have been asking that for a while," Denton said with a smirk. "So maybe the question's jumped the shark."
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Could the answer to staying slim and sharp be as simple as sleep?
Two recent studies address this.
A study from the University of Colorado had eight men and women, with an average age 22, sleep in a lab for two weeks.
They gained almost two pounds over five nights when they were limited to five hours sleep. They did eat more, but hunger hormones responded as expected and didn't explain this.
When participants were allowed nine hours, they ate less.
"If you're gaining weight, I would recommend a person have a sleep study performed, especially if they've gained more than 10 percent of their body weight," says Dr. Andrew Perez, a sleep specialist at St. Clair Hospital. "Diagnosing someone with sleep apnea, or sleep disorder, you might be able to help them sleep better and that might help them maintain their body weight back to the ideal."
In a different study from Washington University, 145 volunteers with normal thinking and memory, ages 45 to 75, kept sleep diaries for two weeks. Researchers had already analyzed their spinal fluid for markers of amyloid plaques in the brain, which are abnormalities associated with Alzheimer's disease. Those with markers had poorer sleep efficiency compared to those without — that is, just as much time in bed, but less time asleep.
This leads to the question: "Is the Alzheimer's disease impacting the sleep, or is the sleep causing the progression of Alzheimer's?" Perez asked. "Which came first, sort of, the chicken or the egg?"
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Glenn Edgerton, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
In dance, the year about to end has been one of stellar achievement by the backstage manager. Whether he is called artistic director, executive director or just plain boss, the leaders of our dance institutions and companies delivered big time. The Auditorium Theatre, the Harris Theater, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Dance Center of Columbia College and the Chicago Dancing Festival offered memorable programming. The Joffrey Ballet and River North Dance Chicago impressively broke new ground. But Glenn Edgerton's management of the city's leading contemporary troupe, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, edges out the rest. He brought the great Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin to town for a new piece and took the troupe to St. Petersburg, Russia, for its debut in that renowned dance capital. But his biggest coup: persuading legendary American choreographer Twyla Tharp to create a premiere, October's gleaming "Scarlatti." "She wanted to talk about reviving older pieces," Edgerton says of talking to Tharp on his trip to New York last spring. "I certainly wanted my dancers to experience her on any level possible. But I also want Hubbard to be a catalyst, to look forward, not back. I wanted a new work. "We met for an hour and a half, and by the end, she was up on the floor, dancing in her studio, demonstrating what she wanted for the new piece." Tharp has said Edgerton's artistic sensitivity helped sway her. His strengths include forging key relationships and building on them. He was artistic director of the Nederlands Dans Theater from 1994 to 2004, working with Naharin and Nacho Duato, now in St. Petersburg. Others before him brought the duo's works to Hubbard, too, but Edgerton got them to come back, in person, bringing Duato here last year, leading to the St. Petersburg invite, and getting Hubbard to Israel to work firsthand with Naharin. "I have long friendships with all these guys," Edgerton puts it. In this economy, nothing comes easy. Hubbard shrank to only 16 dancers for a while, now back to 17 and, Edgerton vows, up to 18 in the next year and a half. "We should be 20," he says. A slowly revolving door still plagues the lineup: Benjamin Wardell left this year. "Ben wants to freelance and pursue video work," Edgerton says. "You hate it when someone prominent leaves, but you have to respect the life paths of others, too. Hubbard requires quite a commitment. We work 52 weeks out of the year." Soft-spoken, sporting careful articulation that, if anything, sounds vaguely Dutch, despite his upbringing in Orange, Texas, Edgerton, a onetime Joffrey Ballet dancer, is one of the most visible artistic director out in theaters observing other companies' work. "I like to know what's going on and support it," he says. "It's an important part of who I am. My favorite thing is to sit in a theater, waiting for the lights to go down, anticipating dance. I love it." -- Sid Smith
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Before last year, Provo's Scott Vance was a DJ and rapper who performed in local hip-hop groups such as Can't Stop Won't Stop.
But then the summer of 2011 arrived, and despite can't stopping and won't stopping, he stopped.
"Last summer I decided to switch gears completely," Vance said. "I sold all my DJ equipment and bought a Gretsch hollow-body guitar and a 1963 Ford Galaxie. I drove the car around for two months to get a feel for the era of music I wished to channel. I then picked up my guitar and began writing songs that had a rich surf-rock groove. I figured people needed to hear the music I was creating. So I got three good friends together to start a vintage surf-pop-rock band."
Vance, on lead vocals and guitar, is joined in the band by Tom Brinton on bass, Ben Zabriskie on lead guitar, Eric Call on keys and horns, and a percussionist whose stage name is simply Tony the Drummer.
The band recently posted a high-concept video for its single "Heartbeat," taken from its debut, self-titled album.
Vance answered questions about Utah County, inspiration and what Spice Girls song he'd like to perform on a tribute album.
Is there a prejudice about bands from Utah County?
I've heard there is. I don't really mind if there is, though. Our music should speak for itself, and I feel enough Utah County bands have broken that mold.
If you were asked to contribute a song to tribute albums for The Beatles, Rolling Stones and Spice Girls, which songs would you contribute?
The Beatles: "Hey Bulldog." Rolling Stones: "She's a Rainbow." The Spice Girls: "Say You'll Be There."
What inspires you? What doesn't inspire you?
All experiences, past and present. All genres of music. If you fail to find inspiration in everything, you stunt possibility. However, I feel I am most inspired by hyperemotional situations. In that instant, my mind has no emotional roadblocks. I have complete understanding of my feelings and how to transform them into music.
What is the best way for people to learn more about your band?
Listen to our album. The second best way is to hear us in concert.
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A resolution approving a lease agreement between The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County on behalf of the Sheriff's Department and the Sharp Electronics Corporation for the lease of copiers.
Whereas, the State of Tennessee has entered into a lease agreement with Sharp Electronics Corporation for copiers for various state departments; and,
Whereas, Metropolitan Code of Laws, §4.12.090(B) provides that the purchasing agent may make purchases using the provisions of contracts entered into by the State Department of General Services in compliance with Tennessee Code Annotated §12-3-1001(c); and
Whereas, the Davidson County Sheriff's Department is in need of nine (9) copiers; and
Whereas, Metropolitan Code of Laws Section 5.04.020, which applies to all departments, boards, commissions and agencies, provides that all leases for equipment shall be approved by resolution of the Metropolitan Council if the annual expenditure for said lease exceeds five thousand dollars ($5,000) per year; and,
Whereas, the annual expenditure to lease said copiers exceeds five thousand dollars ($5,000) per year; and,
Whereas, it is deemed to be in the best interest of the Metropolitan Government to approve said contract.
Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Council of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County:
Section 1. That the lease of nine (9) copiers by The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County on behalf of the Davidson County Sheriff's Department, using the contract between the State of Tennessee and Sharp Electronic Corporation, a copy which is attached hereto and incorporated herein, at the annual lease cost of not less than thirty three thousand eight hundred ten dollars and thirty-six cents ($33,810.36) is hereby approved.
Section 2. That this resolution shall take effect from and after its passage, the welfare of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County requiring it.
Sponsored By: Jim Shulman & Howard Gentry & Tony Derryberry
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Public Safety Committee
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text: > > Is HT anything more than a thinly-veiled attempt at luring more software > >... > > I would say no as well. In a single sentence, hyperthreading (its better > than "super" or "multi" threading ;-) ) delivers idle work slots from each > functional unit inside all superscalar processors in an SMP system to > any 'needs-to-be-run' thread of work from any process. that makes HT sound rather general; it's not. HT pretty much splits your CPU into two CPUs (which the OS pretty much has to boot separately); the two pseudo-CPUs now share the same resources - you'll probably notice quite a bit higher cache misses, for instance, but otoh the CPU will tolerate misses better, since it has a whole thread's worth of other work to do. > There is some scheduling over head of course. extremely minor; in general, you have to push quite hard to expose kernel performance issues. the IBM numa boys typically resort to 16+ CPUs before they start showing noticable benefits to their kernel changes, for instance. > The following article does an excellent job of explaining this. > > http://arstechnica.com/paedia/h/hyperthreading/hyperthreading-1.html I find it annoying. reading one of the excellent academic papers on SMT is a lot more informative, clearer and compact. > However, YMMV depending on job type/work mix. In the worst case, > where two processes execute identical instructions at the same time, > there will be no benefit over multithreading. On the other hand, the better way to think of it is simply that SMT needs a lot of pipeline bubbles in order to show any benefit - idle units with one thread that the other thread might conceivably use. one thread actually keeps a resource busy, HT isn't going to help at all unless the other thread is doing something quite different (not contending for that resource). if you can somehow partition your program into one thread that does nothing but pointer-chasing (cache misses) and the other that does nothing but purely-register multiplies, for instance, then you'll see a very nice speedup.


text: On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Peter St. John wrote: > Joe Landman wrote: > > "...if you buy into the notion that there may in fact be some fundamental > physical limits on Moore's law due to the nasty combination of > thermodynamics (stability of small structures with respect to temperature, > and resistance of same to defect formation), and quantum mechanics ..." > > Yeah I buy into that. I figure that there's a ceiling of so many Deliverable > FLOPS per Cubic Angstrom? And I wonder if something like Nonvolatile Memory > vs Processing Bits per Second are sortof a Heisenberg Dual; if you want a > bit carved in stone, so it will still be there when you look later, you > won't be able to process it as fast as someting transient. So you could > maximize the amount of FLOPS in a milliliter, or the amount of RAM, but not > both. > > So maybe the ceiling will be (Deliverable FLOPS times Recoverable Bytes)/ml > > I think acheiving zero degrees kelvin, watching time zero in a telescope, > and the ceiling for DP are all kinda the same thing, and we'll entertain > ourselves reducing temp below 0.001K (whatever) and watching t < 0.00001 sec > and so on, for decades. Maybe we got within a certain kind of ballpark of 0K > first, now we're getting to the ballpark of time 0 cosmologically, and maybe > in a few decades we'll get in the ballpark of Max DFLOPSRB/ML (tm). > > Robert? Y'all are so cynical, really. Historically the demise of Moore's Law for reasons of violating rapidly approaching physical barriers has occurred with depressing regularity, but in each and every instance reports of its demise have been premature, or as Moore would doubtless like to say, "I'm not dead yet. I'm really feeling much better..." I will make no such mistake. Sure, there are probably physical limits on switching associated with Heisenberg and Maxwell. As Jim noted (or was it Joe?) light (or if you prefer, information) ain't a gonna move no faster than c, and indeed will almost invariably move strictly slower than C in media. The quantum switching stability argument is not so clear -- there it is difficult to make concrete statements without a specific model. Yes, the engineering hovers around a variety of barriers in this arena, but the barriers have proven fairly mobile as people think up clever new ways of making things work in spite of the fact that they "can't". The barriers for Silicon aren't the barriers for Gallium Arsenide aren't the barriers for Compount X that hasn't been invented yet aren't the barriers for the Hi T_c super-semiconductor that will win the Nobel Prize in five years aren't the barriers for optical switching at all (which awaits certain key developments that I can fairly well "promise" will arrive in the next 3-5 years:-) -- and then there is real quantum computing and computing based on a complete logical rearrangement of the way we define "a computer" and... Don't think of humans as designing computers (or any technology). We are co-evolving them in the midst of the most intense genetic optimization algorithm in recorded history. And one of the lovely things about GAs is that they can and do make "far jumps" quite frequently, they don't just toddle along up the nearest hill only to discover at the top that it is an anthill and they are missing nearby Mount Everest. So no sooner will an "unsuperable barrier" appear making uphill across a deep valley -- a veritable chasm even -- than a new dimension will emerge and folks will take a single short step >>around<< the barrier and emerge on the far side with easy climbing as far as the eye can see again. We are part of this. Parallelism and COTS simply blew Moore's Law for supercomputing away right when it looked like supercomputers couldn't get any faster except at immense expense. Now single chassis computers available off the shelf ARE COTS clusters, with four CPU cores on a network with memory and clever little clusterware keeping them all happily coexisting, one hopes. There is more parallelism within the CPUs. There are unexploited opportunities for truly massive parallelism in IBM Cell processors and the like. Neural computing and so on are still primitive but full of potential (potential that may be waiting for something like the Cell softwired into a network). So I'm not holding my breath on ML running out this week or next. I'm more interested in speculating on when the next massive superML jump on TOP of ML will occur, when the next phase/paradigm shift is due that will change the way we all think about computing to where we look back and remember who quaint it was to even doubt that it was up, up, up as far as the eye can see and the mind can imagine... OK, enough poetry now. rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Two Sentara hospitals receive Magnet® designation
Balloons fell and confetti flew as two Sentara Healthcare hospitals in Virginia achieved Magnet Recognition Program® designation from the American Nurse Credentialing Center.
Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center and Sentara RMH Medical Center in Harrisonburg received official announcements of their designations on Wednesday, Dec. 17 and Friday, Dece. 19, 2014. The designations, granted to about 7 percent of U.S. hospitals, culminate multi-year journeys toward recognition for excellence in patient care, innovation in nursing practice and a supportive work environment for nurses.
"Magnet is the most rigorous designation there is for a hospital nursing program," said Donna Wilmoth, nurse executive at Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center. "I could not be any more proud of our nursing team than I am today."
Hospitals applying for Magnet recognition first file more than 3,000 pages of reports documenting that they are already meeting 88 quality measures ranging from falls with injuries to hospital-acquired infections and skin breakdown. If they meet those criteria, a three-day site visit validates the documentation while nursing team members are interviewed for their clinical knowledge and knowledge of the process. Finally, a commission reviews the findings and votes on whether to admit the applicant as a Magnet hospital.
"We have elevated nursing practice and improved patient outcomes through this demanding process and that's what it's all about," said Donna Hahn, nurse executive at Sentara RMH Medical Center. "It means a lot to quality care in our community that we have been able to achieve Magnet designation."
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A Louisville author will speak on "Unsung Women in the Civil Rights Movement" at a lecture next week at the University of Louisville.
Betty Baye teaches "Women in the Civil Rights Movement" at Bellarmine University, where she is an adjunct professor. She will speak Tuesday during an event that runs from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. EST in Ekstrom Library's Chao Auditorium.
Baye is author of "The Africans" and "Blackbird," a collection of her columns in The Courier-Journal, where she was a reporter, editor and columnist from 1984 to 2011. She was also a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1990-91 and was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists' Hall of Fame this month.


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Boot Portable Live USB Linux on Older Hardware
Portable USB Linux distros are wonderful go-anywhere Linuxes for troubleshooting and repair. The catch is older hardware doesn't always support booting from a USB stick-- but there is a workaround called Plop Boot Manager.
5 Excellent Linux Media Servers for the Enterprise
A good stout Linux media server has a home in the enterprise because it's a better tool than traditional file shares for storing, archiving, and sharing company multimedia presentations.
Top 59 Open Source Websites
The Free/Open Source software world is huge and sprawling. Cynthia Harvey presents a semi-organized list of good sites to learn about and download open source software.
10 Android Apps for Linux Server Admins
The Linux server admin on the go needs a good remote administration toolkit. Here are 10 useful remote administration apps for Android devices.
Farewell MS Exchange, Hello Linux Open-Xchange
Where oh where can we find refuge from Microsoft Exchange? One attractive option is Open-Xchange-- but what if your users revolt?
Seagate GoFlex Is Really a Pogoplug in Disguise
Little Linux-powered plug servers pack a big punch, serving up file sharing and multi-media streaming. Paul Ferrill explores the innards of the Seagate GoFlex, which offers USB 3.0 and streaming anywhere to anything.
53 Open Source Ways to Improve Your Desktop
The open source world has a feast of high-quality and useful applications for all platforms and all tasks. Cynthia Harvey collects 53 for your deployment and migration consideration.
6 Linux Groupware Servers
The Linux/FOSS world offers a wealth of excellent Linux-based groupware server choices, suitable for small shops to giant enterprises. Eric Geier rounds up six to get you started.
The Tiny Hackable Linux Pogoplug Pro
The CloudEngines line of tiny Pogoplug plug computers are fully-hackable little Linux servers. Paul Ferrill shows us what the Pogoplug Pro can do, and how to use it.
Three Excellent Linux Router Distros + 1 BSD
Linux is an endlessly adaptable networking and security powerhouse, from tiny to enterprise. Here is a sampling of three specialty Linux router distros and one based on FreeBSD.
Tired of Gnome and KDE Bloat and Bling? Try XFCE 4.8
When you get tired of bloat and bling, try the lean, mean, clean XFCE 4.8.
Can Linux Open-Xchange Replace Microsoft Exchange?
Whether you're replacing Microsoft Exchange or just looking for a competent groupware server, Open-Xchange is one of the leading contenders for Linux. How does it rate? Very well, with a few caveats.
20 Great Open Source Apps for Business
Open source software can save businesses a lot of money, and who doesn't like saving money? Matt Hartley rounds up 20 applications of interest to business users.
The Suits vs. Linux-- Conspiracy, Malice, or Clueless?
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The S&P 500 is up 2.3 percent this week because there is a honeymoon between Wall Street and Congress over the "fiscal cliff."
This could end fast.
Most people are fed up hearing about the fiscal cliff. It's like Greece. After a while, too many iterations produce eye-glaze.
But there is a lot at stake. It's the difference between "eh" GDP growth and "improving" GDP growth in 2013.
(Read more: Two Weeks of Goodwill, Then Markets Get Jittery)


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This week's criteria is unique and different, as well as a good buy.Have you ever dreamed of owning a cabin in the woods that has all the comforts of home? This particular log cabin is a very unique property. This home is a great buy because it is completely off the grid.What does the grid mean? This means that it is a completely self-sustained home that operates on solar energy and a generator system. It is not connected to the electrical grid, thus no utility expenses. It has its own well for water and septic system for sewage. Not only is this off the grid, but also you can access the heating system remotely from a computer so that when you arrive at the home the heat is on (solar power), nice and cozy.This 1956 restored log cabin is surrounded by wilderness, yet has all the comforts of home. The remarkable home features a vaulted tongue-and-groove ceiling, three beds, a washer and dryer, in-floor radiant heat and sits on 2 acres. It is very private, yet only 10 minutes to Silverthorne. Jason Smith at Colorado Real Estate features this best buy at $399,000. The next property is a huge 5,225-square-foot home big enough to bring the family, cousins and friends. Enjoy the view of the Gore Range from your floor-to-ceiling windows. Soak in the sun in the large sunroom. Walk out to your beautifully manicured lawns and patio backing up to open space with abundant trees surrounding the home.Inside, the home features five bedrooms (two master suites) and four baths. The large kitchen features an eating nook with two refrigerators and enough room to feed an army. There is plenty of room to spread out in the large living room or great room. You can store your toys in the large four-car garage. And to top it off, this home is located right in town in Silverthorne. Mary Allessio of RE/MAX Properties of the Summit features this best buy at $899,000.For more information on these or other best buys, or any of your selling or buying needs, contact Leah Baxter, firstname.lastname@example.com, http://www.leahbaxter.com or (970) 389-6367.
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The inductees are graduate students pursuing their master's degrees in counseling. They are: Jody L. Babb, Nicole Calbi and Christopher David Dockey, all of Olean, N.Y.; and Chelsea L. Fitzpatrick of Hinsdale, N.Y.
Dr. Mary O. Adekson, faculty adviser of the Phi Rho chapter at St. Bonaventure, inducted the new members on March 18.
Phi Rho is directed toward students, professional counselors and counselor educators. For students to be eligible they must have a grade point average of 3.5 or above and be enrolled in a graduate-level counseling program.
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Anonymous 19th century painter of the Cuzco School
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Second of a pair of angels with an arquebus ("angel arcabucero")
Oil on canvas : 90,3 X 64,7 cm
Frame : 102,8 X 77,8 cm
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These graceful brocade clad warrior angels, plumed and winged, testify of the hybrid art in the high Andes: an extraordinary imaginative fusion of Inca and of Catholic religion, inspired by Dutch drill engravings.
Colonial Indian paintings of Catholic martial angels, so-called "Angeles Arcabuceros", were for centuries very popular in large parts of the Western side of South America, that is the former Peruvian Viceroyalty (1542 – 1824).
Spanish Zurbaran-like androgynous angels wearing sumptuously painted 17th century costumes of the Andean aristocracy were represented in poses inspired by Dutch early 17th century engravings of Jacob de Gheyn II with large harquebus-guns.
Paintings with these mysterious, but charming celestial-aristocratic-military angels had been created in the second half of the 17th century for missionizing purposes in the New World. Soon they became very popular over a large part of the Andes until today.
About the Cuzco School
Situated at a height of 3.400 m in the Andes mountain range in Peru, Cuzco was the ancient capital of the Inca Empire until its conquest by the Spaniards in 1534.
Apparently Cuzco became the first town in the Americas where European artistic techniques, especially of painting, were being taught. The main purpose of this Christian, Catholic school of painting was to teach the Bible to the local Indian population, so that it could more easily be converted to Christianity.
Colonial, Spanish painters (some were Jesuit missionaries) specialised in religious painting, who had travelled to the Viceroyalty of Peru, learned indigenous Indian (Quechua) and mestizo artists how to create didactic-dogmatic Catholic paintings.
The result: a mix of artistic elements borrowed from both cultures, the European and the Inca:
- the European elements not only included the Spanish Mannerist style, but also influences of Italian and of Flemish painting, and of Flemish and Dutch engravings;
- Inca painting, in ceramics and in murals, had above all been geometric and abstract.
The best-known Quechua artists form the Cuzco School from the 17th century period are Diego Quispe Tito (1611 – 1681) and Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao (1635 – 1710):
- Diego Quispe Tito worked in a Mannerist style, strongly influenced by Flemish engravings (by Adriaen Collaert). He was the son of an Inca nobleman. Typical elements within his large paintings are angels, birds and the use of gilding;
- Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao worked in a more modern, Baroque style, influenced by Spanish paintings from the collection of the local bishop, Manuel de Mollinedo.
By the end of the 17th century indigenous artists had left the Cuzco Painter's Guild. In their new style they assimilated more local elements and Inca subjects. These painters could be found in Peru, in and around Cuzco, in the Callao and in the Puno province, but also on the other side of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. Especially the representations of angels became very popular in large parts of the Peruvian Viceroyalty, not only in present-day Peru, but also in Bolivia and in the N. of Argentina.
About our painting
Catholics believe that angels are celestial beings who serve as intermediaries and messengers between heaven and earth, hence their wings.
Some angels, the martial angels like the Archangel Michael, were traditionally depicted with a "Roman" military uniform and a sword (for example in the famous painting by Guido Reni circa 1636 in the Santa Maria della Concezione church in Rome).
Circa 1680, the 17th century indigenous Cuzco painter Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao was the inventor of the so-called "angeles arcabuceros": martial angels with an arquebus (an early muzzle-loaded long gun) instead of a sword. Their extravagant clothing was inspired by that of contemporary Andean noblemen. The plumes, adorning the European hats, are an Inca signifier of holy and royal status.
These angels reminded of the full-length female martyr saints painted by the famous Spanish Baroque painter Francisco de Zurbaran (1598 -1664) and by his workshop, of which many were exported to the New World.
As to the poses of Santa Cruz' angels, these were indebted to engravings from "The exercise of Arms" ("Wapenhandelingen van Roers, Musketten ende Spiesen" = "Arms drill with arquebus, musket and pike") by the Dutch engraver of Flemish origin Jacob de Gheyn II (Antwerp circa 1565 – 1629 The Hague). That book, published in Dutch and also in English in 1607, and later also in German and in French, holds over 100 engravings with soldiers holding their weapons in very diverse poses. It was a tactical book for officers and under-officers.
Martial angels wearing the most lavish attire became a favourite subject of the Cuzco School, at first because they reminded of Inca winged deities. Apocryphal accounts of Biblical angels (such as the Book of Enoch) seem to have been particularly popular in S. America. Missionaries redirected the veneration of Inca sacred beings and celestial phenomena into acceptable Christian substitutes. Although the Council of Trent (1545–1563) had condemned all angelic depictions and names but those of Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael in the mid-sixteenth century, this ban was observed neither in the Viceroyalty of Peru nor in Baroque Spain.
Since the first half of the 18th century and also during the 19th century the popularity of paintings with martial angels had spread over important parts of the Viceroyalty of Peru, that is over much of the W. part of South America. I found groups of "angeles arcabuceros" also outside Peru, in other South American countries.
Over 600 km S. of Cuzco, in the small town of Calamarca, near La Paz in present-day Bolivia, hang on the walls of a small church 35 paintings, two series of angels by the so-called Master of Calamarca. Some date these paintings to the 2nd half of the 17th century, others to the first quarter (before 1728) or even to the first half of the 18th century. The first series represents martial angels, the second one the seven (female) Archangels of Palermo holding flowers or wheat.
These paintings are attributed by some to José Lopez de los Rios, a painter who was active on the shores of Lake Titicaca in Carabuco, Bolivia.
At 1.000 km S. of La Paz (that is 1.600 km S. of Cuzco), in the N. of Argentina, in the small village of Uquia in the province of Jujuy near Humahuaca, the late 17th century colonial church of San Francisco de Paula, is decorated with nine (originally there must have been ten) "Angeles Arcabuceros", which can be traced back here to the middle of the 18th century, but might date from the 17th century.
In some cases the names of these celestial musketeers have been painted on the canvasses: Gabriel, Laeiel, Letiel, Uriel, Asiel, Aspiel, Eliel, Oziel, Hosiel, Rafael, Yeriel, etc.
Whys should you buy this pair of paintings?
Because these charming, elegant celestial-aristocratic-military angels with their broad ballooning sleeves and intricate gilt embroidery, remind you that there is more to South American painting than just Fernando Botero.
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Fox doesn't necessarily disagree with his team's top billing in the Perfect Game Top 25, among other rankings, but he doesn't view this club, at least right now, quite as flawless as some of the great UNC teams over the past 10 seasons.
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I was shocked and saddened to learn that two homeless people died alone on a frigid night last week in Costa Mesa ("2 homeless people found dead," Jan. 16). Every person deserves dignity. Every person deserves help.
It prompted me to research Costa Mesa's history on the issue of homelessness in the past few years. The Daily Pilot reported that Costa Mesa's former mayor once discussed putting the Someone Cares
Soup Kitchen out of business. Another City Council member described Costa Mesa as a magnet destination for homeless persons. To further these positions, the city has used other measures to harass homeless people.
The line that connects these actions and statements with the deaths last week appears clear to me. I wonder if any public interest lawyers see that same line?
Thomas J. Peterson
Newport Beach
Gun control now
Re. "Commentary: Edits to gun commentary confused readers," Jan. 20:
What is it about "A stitch in time saves nine" or "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" that Chuck Cassity doesn't get? The best way to keep stark-raving nuts from mowing down our children is to keep them from having guns in the first place. Everything after that is about trying to lessen the damage.
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Corona del Mar
Gun owner's view
I am a lifelong gun owner who went shooting just last month, but it's time for common-sense gun restrictions that regulate assault weapons, "cop killer" bullets, overly large ammunition magazines and loose gun-buying laws, all of which will not infringe upon our 2nd Amendment rights.
Members of both parties in Washington need to show backbone and stand up to the gun lobby, even if they risk losing reelection. The common argument that these gun restrictions would not have prevented past mass killings does not fly with me, as I'm not talking about the past; I'm talking about preventing possible future calamities. It's time to act; just saving one life will be worth it.
Jules Marine
Newport Beach
Arab Spring anniversary
The United States and Europe directly and clandestinely encouraged this revolutionary fever with the naive expectation that these countries could be pacified by evolving into European-style welfare states. Unfortunately for the West, these people have a common heritage as a series of Caliphate Empires that from 622 AD to 1258 AD were the most powerful, wealthy and cultured nation on earth.
Arab Spring revolutionaries understand it took 200 years for Islamic forces to defeat the Crusaders. They have demonstrated by invading Mali and attacking Algeria that they are embarking on a protracted war of liberation to reestablish Caliphate of the Moors to control of North Africa, the Middle East and Southern Europe.
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Gulf Air recruits unemployed Bahraini pilots
Manama, May 28, 2013
Gulf Air, the national carrier of Bahrain, has taken on 12 Bahraini pilots who lost their jobs following the recent closure of Bahrain Air.
The airline yesterday confirmed the decision had been taken following the directives of board chairman and Deputy Prime Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa, according to a report in the Gulf Daily News, our sister publication.
Officials said it highlighted the airline's commitment to fill as many positions as possible with skilled and qualified nationals.
They stressed that despite the ongoing restructuring process that involves a substantial reduction in its workforce, no Bahraini pilots had been affected.
The decision was welcomed by Labour Minister Jameel Humaidan and several MPs, who recognised the national carrier's commitment to Bahrainisation.
Gulf Air said the airline continues to lead the way amongst its regional competitors in terms of nationalisation, with 62 per cent of its workforce being Bahraini.
The airline also recently signed two agreements with Tamkeen offering Bahraini cadet pilots training opportunities and providing 33 Bahraini graduates of Tamkeen's aeronautic engineering programme two-year job training contracts. – TradeArabia News Service


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Justin Gehring needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 69 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
Simple logo design for a non profit in Minnesota.
The North End Community Foundation of Saint Paul is a non-profit corporation established in 2000. We are working to meet the needs of the people, organizations, andbusinesses of the North End of Saint Paul and surrounding area.
We are looking to get a new website and image, but would like to start with the logo.
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- It MUST feature the 3 overlapping circles and the words "Community", "Family", "Children", inside them, as seen here: http://www.necf.org/necf_logo.pdf
- It should be usable in both online media as well as print media (greyscale/black and white).
- The colors of foundation are "more of a red wine color and softivory" than what is currently on the website at http://www.necf.org/. Although the colors don't have to be used in the logo, the logo should at least "go with them".
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Reward vs. risk? You can throw it out on the window. Winning percentage? You can toss that one away, too.
OK. Maybe we're overstating that a bit. However, it is fair to say that what probably are the two most popular trading statistics basically are useless — by themselves. Unfortunately, that exactly is how many people evaluate them. Many traders will jump into a trade with a reward-to-risk ratio of three-to-one, just because they presume this means they will win $3 for every $1 they lose.
Likewise, other traders are drawn to 90% winning percentage strategies like moths to a flame. They must enjoy the frequent sound of the cash register, ringing after each win. No doubt, making money on nine out of every 10 trades does sound pretty good.
In both cases, however, the traders following these approaches are missing a critical piece of the puzzle, and it's a piece that can make a major difference in their bottom lines. "Questionable curves" (below) shows two hypothetical equity curves. The blue curve represents a three-to-one reward-to-risk ratio system. The green curve represents a 90% winning percentage system. Both systems are appealing according to their selected standalone statistics, yet both systems are losers. Why?
Simply put, those trading metrics by themselves are insufficient. Alone, they tell you only part of the story, and you easily can miss important facts about your trading system. All is not lost, though, as the key is combining these figures.