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Come to GraphConnect Next Week to Meet the Authors and Learn Everything You Need to Know About Graph Databases
SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 5, 2013) - Neo Technology, creators of Neo4j, the world's leading graph database, will launch "Graph Databases," the authoritative book on graph databases, next week at GraphConnect Boston and GraphConnect Chicago. Published by O'Reilly Media, the book gives unprecedented access to the power and flexibility of the graph and provides best practices for implementing graph database technology. Authors will present at both conferences, which take place on June 10-11 in Cambridge, MA and June 12-13 in Chicago. All conference attendees will receive a complementary print edition of the book.
"In today's data-intensive world, your data could grow to a few million records quickly especially in use cases such as social applications, recommendation engines, fraud detection, resource authorization, network & data center management and more. The book, Graph Databases can help you master, manage and query your highly connected and dynamic data," said Mike Hendrickson, VP Content Strategy at O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Graph databases are particularly well suited to address one of the great contemporary business trends: leveraging complex and dynamic relationships to generate insight and competitive advantage. Whether we want to understand relationships between customers, elements in a telephone or data center network, entertainment, or genes and proteins, the ability to understand and analyze vast graphs of highly connected data will be a key factor in determining which companies outperform in the coming decade.
"Graph databases are already proven to solve some of the most relevant data management challenges of today. As information processing continues to evolve, the next frontier arguably lies in the ability to capture, analyze, and understand relationships between data. This book was written with the goal of providing everyone with the basic understanding of graph databases," said Emil Eifrem, CEO of Neo Technology.
The book will leave readers with a practical understanding of graph databases and will show how data is "shaped" by the graph model, and how it is queried, reasoned about, understood and acted upon. The book discusses the kinds of problems that are well aligned with graph databases, with examples drawn from practical, real-world use cases. The book also describes the surrounding ecosystem of complementary technologies, highlighting what differentiates graph databases from other database technologies, both relational and NOSQL.
To access the O'Reilly podcast interview with Emil Eifrem, co-author of the Graph Databases book, please visit http://youtu.be/Dr0KfJXqMbs.
Register today to attend GraphConnect Boston and use promo code NEO4GC to receive a 25 percent discount on registration. For more information, please visit www.graphconnect.com
About the Authors
Ian Robinson is the Director of Customer Success for Neo Technology, the company behind Neo4j, the world's leading open source graph database. He is a co-author of "REST in Practice" (O'Reilly) and a contributor to the forthcoming books "REST: From Research to Practice" (Springer) and "Service Design Patterns" (Addison-Wesley). He presents at conferences worldwide on the big Web graph of REST, and the awesome capabilities of Neo4j.
Jim Webber is Chief Scientist at Neo Technology working on next-generation solutions for massively scaling graph databases. Prior to joining Neo Technology, Jim was Professional Services Director with Thoughtworks where he worked on large-scale computing systems in finance and telecoms. Jim has a Ph.D. in Computing Science from the Newcastle University, UK.
Emil Eifrem is the founder of the Neo4j open source graph database project, which is the most widely deployed graph database in the world. As a life-long compulsive programmer who started his first free software project in 1994, Emil has with horror witnessed his recent degradation into a VC-backed powerpoint engineer. As the CEO of Neo4j's commercial sponsor Neo Technology Emil is now mainly focused on spreading the word about the powers of graphs and preaching the demise of tabular solutions everywhere. Emil presents regularly at conferences such as JAOO, JavaOne, QCon, and OSCON.
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About Neo Technology
Graphs are everywhere. From websites adding social capabilities to Telco's providing personalized customer services to innovative bioinformatics research, organizations are adopting graph databases as the best way to model and query connected data. Neo Technology researchers have pioneered graph databases since 2000 and have been instrumental in bringing the power of the graph to numerous organizations worldwide, including 25 Global 2000 customers, such as Cisco, Accenture, Deutsche Telekom, and Telenor. Serving customers in production for over a decade, Neo4j is the world's leading graph database with the largest ecosystem of partners and tens of thousands of successful deployments.
Neo Technology is a privately held company funded by Fidelity Growth Partners Europe, Sunstone Capital and Conor Venture Partners, and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA, with offices in Sweden, UK, Germany, and Malaysia. For more information, please visit www.neotechnology.com.
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E-Publishing Program
General Editor:
Mohamad al-Asad, CSBE Founding Director
CSBE is undertaking a project that aims at publishing on the Internet a variety of information that includes the presentations it is organizing as part of its architectural forum, Diwan al-Mimar, and its public lecture series, and the training courses that CSBE is organizing. The CSBE e-publishing program is being funded by a grant from the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development. Additional support is being provided by Darat al-Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation.
The publication process includes a number of phases. For example, in the case of presentations, each presentation is taped and consequently transcribed. The transcription is used to prepare a detailed essay dealing with each presentation. The essays contain extensive information about the contents of the presentations, and although they aim at documenting the presentations, they partially provide an interpretation of them. Also important is that the essays present the questions and discussions that take place following each presentation. The process is, of course, carried out in coordination with the persons delivering the lectures.
In addition, hyperlinks are provided for each published presentation that connect the reader to web sites containing information of relevance to the subject of the presentation. These hyperlinks can be updated regularly, by the editors of the project and through the participation of the readers themselves. The published lectures will also provide readers with the opportunity to make comments, ask questions, and to exchange ideas with other readers and with the lecturers who delivered the presentations. Consequently, such a publishing process means that each of the published presentations is not viewed as a finished product, but as one that is being continuously discussed and developed.
Categories of presentations:
The presentations that CSBE is publishing belong to a number of interrelated and overlapping categories. On the one hand, one can classify the presentations geographically since a group of them deals with issues relating to Jordan, a second group addresses issues relating to the Arab world, and a third group deals with issues that are international in their scope. In terms of subject matter, the following categories have been represented:
Architectural education
Architectural history, theory, and criticism
Architectural practice
Architecture and the information revolution
Conservation of heritage sites
Construction technologies
For list of E-publications please visit our E-Publication & resources section.


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French photoporter and environmentalist Yann Arthus-Bertrand is revealing the environment's 'bigger picture'.
Read more at SurfEuro
The "Car L" project was hatched by Chris McLennan and engineered by Carl Hansen to capture unique images of lions with a Nikon D800E, fired remotely by Chris McLennan using a trigger system built into the remote control unit.
Made possible by HP and Nikon New Zealand.
Yes another Bridge Deconstruction
A Bridge Too Far from James Miller on Vimeo.
Experience Human Flight from Betty Wants In on Vimeo.
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Heather L. Merk, The Ohio State University; John McQueen, Oregon State University; Nicholas Wheeler, Oregon State University
Photo Credit: Fikret Isik
All modules are available as voiceover powerpoint videos produced using Camtasia software. This video format allows users to pause the video, turn closed captions on and off, and toggle through slides as desired. Slides for all modules are also available as downloadable pdfs.
The Conifer Translational Genomics Network and the Conifer Reference Genome Sequencing (PineRefSeq) Project led the developement of these resources. Funding for this work was provided by: the USDA/NRI CSREES Plant Genomics Coordinated Agricultural Project (CAP) Award # 2007-55300-18603; the USDA/NIFA AFRI Applied Plant Genomics CAP Award #2009-85606-05680; the USDA Forest Service; and by the USDA/NIFA Grant #2011-67009-30030. Development of this page was supported in part by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Solanaceae Coordinated Agricultural Project, agreement 2009-85606-05673, administered by Michigan State University. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the United States Department of Agriculture.
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Family Art Night
Look for information on this year's Family Art Night in BearFacts or on the Calendar!
Family Art Night is a wonderful event that brings the Emerson community together to create beautiful arts and crafts projects to bring home as well as to decorate the school.
Emerson's art teacher Ms. Ames and parent volunteers create a creative program of fun projects for kids and families to make together. From cardboard constructions to hanging mobiles, watercolor still lifes, and pom pom animals, there's sure to be something for everyone in your family to enjoy.
Dress for mess at art night, and come hungry because we always serve free pizza and salad!


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We were at Radiohead's concert in Houston (check it out, we have pictures/video) and we're both definetely in agreement that it was one of the best shows we've ever seen. Now all of us can relive and even download their Houston performance. Radiohead Not For Profit has it, along with some of the other cities on their first leg of their North American tour.
Thanks Lance for the heads up on this one.
The second leg of Radiohead's tour starts August 1 with an appearance at Lollapalooza (which we'll be at!!).
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Question: A 19 year old male patient is referred to you for conductive hearing loss. Audiometry reveals mixed hearing loss with a 30 dB ABG and Carhartt notch. He is interested in surgery but is worried that his procedure will "fail" like his father's did. What is your next step in the workup of this patient? [Answer will be posted with next week's new question]
Answer to last week's question, Shouldering the Burden? (November 30, 2015):
Physical therapy. Accessory nerve weakness commonly presents with shoulder discomfort and joint pain.


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Happy Monday Y'all! We had a great relaxing weekend here even though the weather was terrible! We got teased with 2 weeks of gorgeous 70+ degree temps only to be knocked by down again with rain and clouds. It kept the hubs & I productive though! I've got lots of great stuff in store, we've got a clean garage, and we had delicious meals Saturday and Sunday {steak burritos & spaghetti!}
Today I'm sharing one of my favorite pillows with you - the Puff Flower Pillow. This one is pink, navy, and yellow {one of my favorite color combos!}
The puff is made by cutting a circle {rather large, I use my biscuit bowl as a guide} and hand stitching around the edge to gather the ends into the center. This one is finished off with a vintage square yellow button.
Love the detail! I use envelope closures on all my pillows because I like that they are easy to switch out with the seasons.
I'll be linking up this week! Check out my linky parties page for all the great parties. Visit 'em and make new friends!


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Got a Mom with a sweet tooth? Inge Loker from Snap, Sizzle and Cook brought along her Roly Poly pudding for us all to dig in to.
Snap, Sizzle and Cook is also a food blog all about home cooking; as you can imagine, it didn't take long for Inge and myself to click! You'll find some scrumptious dishes shared on her blog; it's definitely worth a look through.
Inge, a down-to-earth Mom and foodie at heart, was one of the few of my invited guests who taught herself how to cook. At school she took Home Economics and learnt a great deal there; this Roly Poly pud is one of the first dishes she made at school. What may have been one of her first dishes to learn; it has stuck with her throughout life and become a dessert her family enjoy! Another dish Inge shared at the Mother's day lunch (unfortunately, there's no recipe for this one), was her take on coronation chicken. Like many of us home cooks, measurements aren't exact and each time it is made it is adapted to suit the taste buds catered for.
Back to the golden sponge of dessert goodness, which tasted delicious on the day. Inge warns that it's best to make this dish on the day you plan to eat it and make sure you eat it straight away while still warm, and with a good healthy dollop of cream on the side.
Ready to try it? It certainly will warm your Mom's heart up and win her over on Mother's Day!
250g Self raising flour
125g salted butter
30ml castor sugar
80ml water (approximately)
Smooth Apricot Jam
Syrup Sauce: – Melt in a small pot
250ml water
125ml castor sugar
Sift flour and rub in butter. Add enough water to make a stiff dough. Roll out into a rectangle shape and spread a thick layer of jam. Roll up into a log and cut into thin discs. Place discs into a greased casserole dish and pour over syrup. Bake at 200 degrees for 40 minutes. Serve with fresh cream or sour cream.


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Either that, or if someone held me by my legs and carried me upside down, they'd find that I double up as a talking broom.
Yes, it's true! I wasn't born with shiny locks and a thick mane. And on top of that, I never know how to manage my hair well. Also, the thought of overloading my head with tons of chemicals with names like formaldehyde, triethanolamine, diethanolamine, and whatever other mines and hydes that I can't even pronouce... really doesn't sit well with me.
Luckily for me, Eugene from Urbanhair has always given sensible advice, and does a perfect job of getting my hair back in shape every time I visit.
He keeps reminding me of different ways to style my hair, and how the correct and suitable shampoo and conditioning set, plus regular treatment will slowly but surely do my hair good.
This time round, he got a shock when he saw my hair. Yeap. I did a photo shoot that week and I think the stylist from the photoshoot got a bit overzealous with the heat curling iron. My hair was rebonded and somehow after that photo shoot my hair just wouldn't get back to straight.
Don't ask me how or why. I don't know either.
Eugene remained calm, and ensured me that he would fix this. So this is what we did that day.
|part of a four-step restructuring system
|helps strengthen hair weakened by chemical processes, heat styling and environmental exposure
|quinoa protein penetrates the hair shaft, working from inside to help strengthen and repair
|phellodendron and barley seal in moisture
|castor, jojoba and meadowfoam seed oils smooth hair's surface
There's also a feel-good factor about sitting in Urbanhair and using Aveda products. With it's strong beliefs rooted in connecting beauty, environment, and well-being, this socially responsible product/lifestyle really cares for the world we live in. From the products they make to the ways in which they give back to society, they strive to set an example for environmental leadership and responsibility, not just in the world of beauty, but around the world.
Did you know that a lot of the products that are essential to a salon's daily tasks, shampoo & conditioner, color for hair dye, and perm chemicals contain nasty ingredients that don't mix well with the environment?
Imagine all the chemicals used in salon products that go down the drainage system and is flushed back into the sea... The poor fishes will have to live in shampoo and remnants of hair dye.
Imagine if you were that fish.
Not very pleasant, is it?
That said, there aren't that many salons in Singapore that actually care about the environment. Well, at least, I haven't spoken to a single salon owner who has told me that they take into consideration environmentally responsible ways to run their salon. Not until I met Eugene, that is.
So the next time you choose your hair salon, be sure to choose one that not only makes you look good, but one that cares for YOU, and for the ENVIRONMENT.
Because True Beauty Should Be...
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Emma Persky
TEam Lead, Google Assistant Recipe & Cooking Experience
Emma currently leads the Google Assistant recipe and cooking experience team. Prior to recipes, she focused on natural language processing and answers. Before joining Google, Emma was a software engineer for companies including Hashable, Ebay, and Trampoline Systems. Emma holds a Bachelors in Engineering in Computing from Imperial College London


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Victoria Selbach's Synergism
The interaction of elements that when combined produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements, contributions, etc.; synergism.
Victoria Selbach is known for her captivating women in their natural state. She only paints women. She has been cited in the Huffington Post by Priscilla Frank as Finally, Artist Paints Female Nudes As They Really Are (NSFW).
Her new series does not deviate from the nude or the female form yet it takes us to a new dimension. Her subjects are placed against a tapestry of memories and artifacts which not only define her subjects but also define our American culture. In the portrait of fellow artist Elizabeth Claire Ospina we have the vixen beauty set again trashy romance novels with the backdrop of her grandmother's pink and white doilies and the saintly stamps which most Catholic fed women grew up around carrying in their wallets and purses. Victoria perhaps unknowingly has captured the true sense of what is taught to Hispanic women which I can attest for myself being one of them. Our abuelas taught us to be ladies during the day and sexual beings at night.
The painting on the header is GenerationalTapestry.OnHerShoulders | 48x36 | acrylic and mixed media collage on panel. This painting was the first to start the series. Filled with Victoria's own grandmother's offerings, it includes the small town picturesque and the love of this nation with travel postcards. Notice the use of red, white and blue.
There are others in this series which we will not reveal for now but follow Victoria Selbach on Instagram as she reveals her new work and the offerings our grandmothers bestowed upon us.


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Politics & Government
House OKs bill requiring background checks for nursing home workers
FRANKFORT — The state House approved a measure Tuesday that would allow long-term care facilities to complete fingerprint background checks on potential employees.
The Cabinet for Health and Family Services has received a $3 million grant from the federal government to start the fingerprint background check. The state will also kick in $1 million in matching funds.
The House approved the bill 62-36, with many lawmakers expressing concerns about the cost of the program when the grant runs out in three years. It could cost anywhere between $60 and $80 for a background check after funding dries up.
Rep. Tim Moore, R-Elizabethtown, said because the federal funds come from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which is being challenged in the U.S. Supreme Court, he is concerned about the source of the funding.
Rep. Alecia Webb-Edgington, R-Fort Wright, said it typically costs a little less than $40 to get a fingerprint background check. Webb-Edgington questioned why it would cost an additional $20 to $40 for the fingerprint check proposed in House Bill 250.
Currently, long-term care providers must do a name-based background check. However, those background checks only look at state records. A fingerprint check can search nationally for criminal records.
Rep. Carl Rollins, D-Midway, said there are increased up-front costs because there will be continued monitoring of an employee's criminal history.
Rollins, who sponsored the bill, said the facility could also choose to pass on some of the cost for the background checks to potential employees.
Rollins said he is not sure how HB 250 will fare in the Republican-controlled Senate. He plans to talk soon to Sen. Julie Denton, R-Louisville, the chairwoman of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, where the bill will likely be assigned.
Also on Tuesday, the House Appropriations and Revenue Committee approved House Bill 259, which would create a registry of employees who work with adults who have had substantiated cases of abuse or neglect.
Rep. Ruth Ann Palumbo, D-Lexington, said people who have had substantiated cases of abuse, neglect or exploitation often never face criminal charges. The measure is being pushed by many adult care workers, who say there is no way for them to know if a potential employee has had a substantiated case of neglect or abuse against them.
There is a similar registry for child care workers. HB 259 now goes to the full House for a vote.


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John Kilroy recently joined REIT.com for a video interview at REITWeek2017: NAREIT's Investor Forum at the New York Hilton Midtown.
Kilroy commented on the company's recent leasing activity. He noted that Seattle and San Francisco are both in line for record leasing, "and that's on top of five or six very strong years."
The company recently signed a leasing agreement with Adobe in San Francisco, and is on the verge of several other major transactions, according to Kilroy.
"All of our markets are good and improving, but some are just absolutely beyond belief — that would be Seattle and San Francisco," Kilroy said.
San Diego has probably been the laggard on the office side, although there has been positive absorption for almost every one of the last 20 quarters, Kilroy noted.


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Tokyo Haul (so far): Kitsch, beauty, and art materials
Tokyo has a ton of tax-free tourist-friendly shops like Tokyu and Donki, as well as cheap-ass drugstore beauty products in Matsumoto Kiyoshi. That's why it's super easy to get lost in a shopping frenzy! I went crazy the first time I was here, but on my third time I now know what NOT to buy.
Number one on my list of NOT to get is cute junk. Yes, they are cute but they are junk. I'd like the idea of owning them but it is highly unlikely that I'll ever use them which was the case when I filled a huge carry-on of that stuff before. I am wiser now so I only get things that I won't be able to buy in the Philippines, or if they are considerably cheaper here (not likely but it happens).
Anyway, here's what I purchased here in Tokyo so far! I'll be flying back to the PH tomorrow so I might add more - we'll see.
Can't resist a bit of kitsch at the underground mall in Tokyo Station! I got some printed stockings, floral eyeglass cases, leather case, and padded indoor flats. I wish I have more luggage space so I can get household items, but oh well.
Here are my few choice picks at Matsumoto Kiyoshi in Shibuya. A lot of beauty bloggers love the drugstore Shiseido eyebrow pencil so I got a couple of 'em. Nivea also has this gel face moisturizer with SPF50 which I haven't seen in Manila yet - have you? It looked interesting. I also grabbed some cheapo eyeshadow brushes plus a triangluar flat top brush.
I confess one of the major reasons I went back to Tokyo is to raid the art/crafting section of department stores. I'm a wee bit disappointed so far because I haven't seen an interesting artist-level watercolor palette, but I have one day to look for one. I did get some calligraphy stuff, brushes, watercolor paper, water brush, and paper palettes from Ito-Ya in Shibuya.
The ceramic plates up there are from Tsukiji Market, for my watercolors. Ceramic/glass is a better surface for mixing colors compared to plastic.
Ahh, my great find so far - drawing inks from Winsor & Newton! This should go well with my new calligraphy pen and brushes. I also got Copic pigment pens and some cute paper from Tokyu Hands in Daimaru (Tokyo Station).
So there. I plan to hit Shinjuku later to check out the Tokyu Hands there because I remember it has a more extensive art section. Crossing my fingers I find what I'm looking for!
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(On the phone yesterday afternoon)
Beast: Are you going to be home for dinner tonight or what?
Foodie: I think so, if I can get my shit done. It might be late, like 9:30pm.
Beast: That's perfect. I'll be home by 9:00pm, and I'll bring dinner.
Foodie: Pardon?
Beast: I'm going to bring home some homemade lasagna and eggplant parmigiana from the espresso place across the street from work.
Foodie: They started making food?
Beast: Yes, and don't be a snob about it. It's really good. They're from Rome you know.
Foodie: I wasn't being a snob about it! I'm sure it's going to be great.
Beast: Can you pick up makings for a salad?
Foodie: Sure.
Beast: Caesar salad please. And can you pick up one of those frozen garlic breads with cheese on it?
Foodie: Okay.
Beast: Great. See you tonight.
We met just on time, shortly after 9:30pm, in the kitchen.
Foodie: I think this is going to be the first night we've had dinner together at home in about three weeks.
Beast: I KNOW–and I had to make it!
Foodie: I wouldn't call you bringing home prepared foods making dinner. Anyway, it'll be–wait: what pants are you wearing?
Beast: What, these? You bought them for me a few years ago, from H&M I think.
Foodie: Wow. That's a seriously cool outfit. You've got my Dior belt on, and…are you wearing my ring?
Beast: Just as a joke, but I'm thinking I might start wearing rings. What do you think?
Foodie: Absolutely not. I won't allow it. And I thought you were against cool pants?
Beast: Whoops–I did it again!
Foodie: Did what again? Be cool again?
Beast: Exactly. Would you please help me? I'm doing everything here! Can you at least open up the pre-packaged garlic bread?
Foodie: This is disgusting. It's covered in oil! Feel it!
Beast: No way. Please don't skimp on the bacon bits in the salad.
Foodie: Everything we're having tonight comes from a package–the bacon bits, the croutons, the romaine lettuce, the lasagna and eggplant parmigiano, and even the fucking garlic bread. This is horrific.
Beast: This is amazing. This is a perfect dinner in my eyes.
Foodie: It really is, isn't it? You love frozen lasanga.
Beast: This lasagna is not frozen! It's really good!
Foodie: Fine. I just want half a piece of each please.
Beast: That's all I was going to give you anyway. The other lasagna is for my lunch tomorrow.
Foodie: You're being awfully sassy tonight.
Beast: Well you've left me home alone for A MONTH!!!! Give me the bottle of Zin that Aaron brought you and I'll open it up. (Footnote: Aaron was a student at the school in Florence where I was a teaching assistant. He and his roommates were all extraordinary people with whom I still keep in touch. He stayed with us for two nights earlier this week–an experience which will provide the subject for the next post–and brought a bottle of zinfandel for me, remembering that I loved it many years ago.)
Foodie: I can't watch you open up a bottle of wine wearing a ring.
Beast: Relax man! I bet you won't tell your F&B readers that you used to love Zin.
Foodie: I can't believe you just said F&B and Zin in the same sentence.
Beast: Zin is sogauche. Aren't you embarrassed?
Foodie: That was, like, eight years ago! People's palates for wine inevitably change over time. Oh God.
Beast: What?
Foodie: Eight years ago, I was still older than you are now.
Beast: And I'm old enough to know that zins are for fuck brains.
Foodie: I think there's a time and a place for them.
With our plates loaded up, and our wine glasses filled with a lovely, not-over-the-top, zinfandel, we made our way into the living room. The Beast turned on the TV and tuned into a baseball game.
Foodie: This eggplant parmigiana is really, really good!
Beast: I told you you'd like it.
Foodie: Why is the stadium at this baseball game so full?!
Beast: It's the World Series.
Foodie: Since when do you watch baseball?
Beast: I don't. You can turn it, but TV is shit. At least watching baseball doesn't make you feel bad about the human condition.
Foodie: Wow. Would you say that about all sports or just baseball?
Beast: Just baseball. Did you try the lasagna yet?
Foodie: I did. It's good, but I like the eggplant parmigiana better.
Beast: Will you go get me the other lasagna?
Foodie: I thought you said that was for your lunch tomorrow.
Beast: You're right. I'll take another glass of wine then.
I filled up our glasses and then we curled up on the couch. While the Beast watched the baseball game, I read a magazine.
It's nice to be home.
Foodie: **
Beast: ***
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Fujitsu enables customers to capitalize on digital opportunities with confidence, by helping them to balance robust ICT and digital innovation. The leading information and communication technology (ICT) company can achieve this based on its full portfolio of business-technology products, solutions and services, ranging from workplace systems to data center solutions, managed services, and cloud-based software and solutions. Fujitsu's vision is to enable a Human Centric Intelligent Society that creates value by connecting infrastructure, empowering people and creatively defining new forms of intelligence. In Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA), Fujitsu employs more than 29,000 people and is part of the global Fujitsu Group. For more information, please see http://www.fujitsu.com/fts/about/
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Cape Verdean guitarist, songwriter, and singer Teofilo Chantre was introduced to world music audiences via his compositions, many of which were popularized by the great Césaria Évora. Later in his career Chantre used that momentum and recognition to launch his career as a performer. Teofilo Chantre was born in 1964 on the island of Sao Nicolau, later moving to São Vicente. He was surrounded by music and arts early on, brought up by a father who was a renowned lyricist in Cape Verde's bustling arts hub of Mindelo. In his early teens Teofilo relocated to France, where he began to experiment with guitar and composition. Only a few short years later the budding artist took an interest in the music of his homeland. As Chantre grew as a writer he garnered the attention of professionals in the Portuguese music community, such as producer Jose DaSilva.
In 1991 DaSilva included a number of Chantre's compositions on Césaria Évora's record Miss Perfumado, which went on to be a smash success. A lasting relationship between Chantre and Évora developed, resulting in widespread popularity for the previously unknown songwriter. It was not long before Chantre had the clout necessary to release high-quality solo recordings, the first of which was Terra & Cretcheu (1993). On his debut record listeners were treated to not only standard Cape Verdean fare, but a rich mixture of elements, including Brazilian, Caribbean, Spanish, and jazz-influenced musics. Having spent a number of years living in Paris, Chantre had been exposed to a world of ideas that he now integrated with his native Afro-Portuguese musical heritage. His sophomore effort was entitled Di Alma (1997), followed three years later by Rodatempo (2000). Following a live record in 2002, Chantre's 2007 recording, Azulando, enjoyed a lasting presence on world music charts throughout Europe and the States. ~ Evan C. Gutierrez


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How To Deal With Brand Controversy On Social Media
They say that all publicity is good publicity, but I'm not sure that's so true in the social media age. There have been some serious PR fails from two major brands in the last few weeks which received huge backlash on social media: namely United Airlines' refusal to let a customer onboard for wearing leggings; as well as their forcible removal of another passenger from an overbooked flight; then Pepsi's advert starring Kendall Jenner handing out a can of Pepsi to ease racial tension at a protest.
Prior to social media, research shows that an unhappy customer would tell 11 people about their bad experience. Today a dissatisfied customer might have 1,000 friends on Facebook, several hundred followers on Twitter and Instagram, and their negative review of your business could be indexed on Google for years to come. Social media provides and amplifies the customer voice. So if your brand does something wrong, people will call you on it. If we look at United Airlines as an example, both controversies were incidents which affected single customers, but were shared with the entire world through the power of mobile video recording and Twitter. Customer interactions are no longer just between just and the customer.
So how can your brand's social media team deal effectively with a PR controversy?
Here are my 5 top tips for managing a big brand controversy on social media.
1. Convey a united brand message
Your response to the controversy needs to be the same on social media as with your other communications channels. Your social team should act in line with the message provided by your public relations team. The worst way to react is to panic, start responding to hate messages, and not give the carefully crafted response which your brand needs to provide. Find out what the party line is and make sure to include social media in your brand's overall plan for disseminating the message. This might include putting a statement on your company website which you could link to from social media. You need to decide whether you plan to respond to the negative comments. If you think you should, you need to respond calmly, fairly, and get the situation offline as soon as possible by offering an email address or private method of contact to the customer. If the controversy is on such a great scale that you cannot respond or you decide that no good can come of responding, then post your brand's statement and nothing else.
2. Do NOT POST 'BUSINESS AS USUAL' CONTENT
Posting the same type of content that you usually would will elicit a negative response from your followers because they'll feel like your brand is sweeping the controversy under the rug. Cancel all pre-scheduled posts and make sure people can see you've responded to the situation when they land on your profile. Post out your statement and pin it to the top of your social media profiles if the situation is severe. Pausing your regular posts until the crisis has died down will demonstrate to your followers that you are taking the issue seriously.
3. Make sure your team has enough resource
It's likely that your brand's notifications will be much busier than usual in the backlash of your PR controversy. You need to have enough people in your team who can monitor social media and respond to comments. Even if your chosen approach is to not respond to any comments on the subject, your team should still be monitoring social media to get as much data as possible. Social media is like an ear into your audience's living rooms. Use it to find out what they're saying about you; which part of the controversy they are focusing on; what upset them the most about what you did; and why they care in the first place. You'll learn a lot about your direct customers, your wider audience, and anyone else affected by the fallout. Take these lessons on the chin and learn from them (both to guide your actions in the current situation but also to make sure this kind of controversy doesn't happen again for your brand).
4. Use a dashboard for social listening
Your team will need some high-quality social listening tools to make sure that you are picking up all of the mentions of your brand. Brandwatch and SocialSignIn are two paid services which you could use to do this. If you need to start using a dashboard immediately but are waiting on budget approval, use Tweetdeck to set up monitoring streams on Twitter for free. We recommend choosing a dashboard which will record data about your brand mentions for you, such as how many people are mentioning you, from where in the world they're posting, and at what times of the day. It's an impossibly time-consuming job to record all of this manually and not an effective use of your team's time. A dashboard will also measure the sentiment of each post mentioning you, deciding whether it's positive, neutral or negative. This is a useful way to judge when the controversy is subsiding and when you could resume posting as normal again, as you'll see the number of daily negative comments start to decrease. As well as monitoring comments from angered customers, set up streams to watch how the press and your competitors are reacting to the matter. Fellow airline Delta took this cheeky jab at United over their leggings scandal. By comparison, Delta's average post gets around 50 retweets, so this will undoubtably have been their best performing tweet of the year.
5. Report back to the rest of your team
Once your social media team is collecting all of these useful insights and data on what your customers and people around the world are saying about you, it's important to feed it back to the rest of your team. This should include the PR team, the team lead or director, and any other relevant people who have asked to be kept in the loop with what's happening. Provide some overall numbers as well as any stand-out posts which you think deserve a mention. The PR team will be looking to you for an indication of how the public are reacting, so don't be afraid to give a frank commentary. The social media team are likely the most well-informed on public opinion, so you'll be able to speak as experts. Social media at this stage is like a massive focus group for your brand, so make sure you're taking notes and learning from the discussion.
Successfully dealing with PR controversy on social media
By following these tips and dealing with the situation effectively, you will minimise the damage of the situation on social media. Dealing with the situation erratically and without consideration will only dig a deeper hole. If repeatedly reading negative comments gets too much for your team, remember to take a deep breath and keep in mind that all of it will blow over eventually. It's important to take your personal emotion out of the situation and work hard to placate customers in whichever way your organisation has deemed best.
Do you have any questions about dealing with crisis communications on social media? Get in touch or tweet me @CorrieFJones for advice.


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If you're under 18, get your parent's permission first. It reads at the bottom of a brief statement on the company blog for Walt Disney World theme parks. The company today is releasing screen shots of their new Smart Phone application. It will initially be – bringing attraction wait times, FASTPASS return times, extensive information on character locations and more for Walt Disney World and Disneyland theme parks to your Verizon Wireless phone.
Other funcationality of note will be rich GPS enabled maps of the parks. Based on what I can see there's nothing new to this content that's not being done in a mapping capacity. The power will be the integration within their queue-line setup to determine and dynamically feed wait-times.
Here's the knife in the devil's throat: "If you are not a Verizon Wireless subscriber, you can still use your mobile phone to access select information via text and on the Disney Parks Mobile Web site. It's just better from our friends at Verizon Wireless." Nothing cracks me up more than Thomas Smith, Social Media Director, Disney Parks giving a wink to the vendor, while Steve Jobs sits on the steering committee at Pixar. Seconds after the post to be followed by these comments:
For Disney's sake I hope they're listening. I'm an iPhone/Apple/Beer/... snob. Additionally, I love the brand! I'm like most everyone in Orlando, I love all the parks! Especially as a new father I can actually see what joy they can bring. Even with that said it's simply beyond shortsighted for them to overlook such a appropriate demographic as iPhone users. Bare in mind there are other mobile apps, released prior that is making Disney now fight for the "me too" spot.
The icing on the top of the capitalistic cake however is this: I was told this mobile application is available for download and purchase beginning in November for $9.99 for six months of service! YAY! While most apps are a couple of bucks and updates are free, Disney is herding you into the Cool-aid line for cash? It's IMHO that they just go this one wrong. There's plenty of time to fix the "ID-10-T" error here, a one time app charge will fix this issue.
I see pay website content coming for Disney's future and I think it's fine. Taking on the Club Penguin genre with a monthly subscription fee for a safe place for our children to have fun online – I'm a believer. With that said you cannot just break the mold for mobile applications and expect zero backlash. Maybe Disney's brand can afford the impact, but I cannot see why you'd be willing to take the hit when you don't have to.


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Welcome to my personal website! I am a choral conductor and teach vocal music at Whetstone High School, and also serve as the music director for traditional worship at Northwest United Methodist Church.


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Four lines in the key of G. First line starts with a chromatic descending line and ends with a bluesy outro. Next is a banjo line that will challenge your left hand. The third line is one my favorite open melodic lines ever. Last is a rowdy, bluesy line with attitude! All 4 lines in G are transcribed and are included in the lesson.
Kenny Smith shares his passion for the guitar in High Definition video lessons.
As I share my passion for the guitar in these High Definition video lessons and PDF tablatures, you'll come away with something that will be with you for life.


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Celebration Of Life - Erin (Swisher) Youngbar
Erin Elizabeth (Swisher) Youngbar, 33, passed away peacefully in her Hagerstown, MD home on July 14, 2014. Many family members, friends and Washington County Hospice Staff/friends aided Erin in her passing after a long journey battling brain cancer.
She was preceded in death by her Aunt Pat Sill, Uncle Jim Churchill, and Aunt Sue Elgin.
She is survived by her husband, Josh Youngbar and their children, Lucas, Addisyn and Kierstyn;
Father, James Swisher and Mother, Peggy Swisher; Sister, Kelly Swisher and her two children Will and Annaleigh; Grandfather, William Elgin and Grandmother, Jane Rebecca Elgin; and many loving aunts, uncles and cousins.
Erin was born Sept. 14, 1980, in Washington County, MD. She was a 1998 graduate of Williamsport High School and attended Hagerstown Community College. Erin grew up as a member and regular attender of St. James Brethren Church where she began her commitment and deep faith in God. She married Josh, her husband of 15 years, in 1999 and together they have attended and served at Smithsburg Valley Church where Erin served as Children/Student Ministries Director in recent years.
Erin was passionate about serving God and others. She was a loving wife and mother. She home educated her children and dedicated her time to family and friends. She was a talented photographer, enjoyed classic movies and loved to cook.
A Celebration of Life of Erin (Swisher) Youngbar will be held at St. James Brethren Church, 17718 Lappans Rd., Fairplay, MD, on July 26, 2014, at 2 pm.
In lieu of flowers, Erin always wanted her church to have a picnic pavilion for children and church fellowship events. Erin dedicated herself to reaching others for Christ, this will be our way to honor her life. Please make desired donations designated for the pavilion in her memory to: Smithsburg Valley Church, 12911 Bikle Rd., Smithsburg, MD 21783.
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Women of Colour:
Anna Atkins, Color Photography
and Those Struck by Light
Project by Ellen Carey
My research on the origins and history of color photography noted an absence that prompted a question: "Where would color photography and women practitioners be without the work of Anna Atkins?" The British Victorian, Anna Atkins (1799-1871), was the first woman photographer, albeit cameraless, and the first in color, using the cyanotype, a method that yielded a Prussian blue. Sir John Herschel, the British scientist, taught her his method. She partnered it with Talbot's photogram (1834) — his paper negative image, a ghostly outline of the object, such as fern leaf or lace, in non-color, produced a palette of earthy browns. Gender codes of Atkins' blue/feminine versus Talbot's brown/masculine (italics mine) underscore these divisions of content, context, and concept, adding to the discourse around male and female sight.
Her cyanotype-as-photogram includes her handwriting, another first. Writing as "word art" is born, delicately seen in her cursive, filigree descriptions, in and around her botanical and nature studies. I am of the opinion that her compositions are precursors to abstraction and minimalism in photography, noted for their sophisticated, elegant arrangements that highlight her keen visual intelligence. Her work points the way to these less-is-more art movements through off-frame space, symmetry and asymmetry, reductive palette, rectangular frame-as-active picture plane, line-as-open form, size, and scale, thinking conceptually toward the end results. Her actions are fluid and highly sensitive, powerful in their visual impact, and no bigger than a sheet of paper or a small page in a book. One of seventeen existing portfolios is in the New York Public Library's collection; rarer still for its pristine condition and original wrappings, it is highly prized.
Color is light, seen in nature as a rainbow, and light is photography's indexical. Photogram and cyanotype are transformed through the agency of nature; "sun pictures" double and mirror the phrase drawing with light. Anna Atkins is a Woman of Colour struck by light — inspiration — that begins the discourse around color and photography as object and form and technical and visual advancement. What is absent? My hypothesis supports the singular recognition of women practitioners, whose historical and contemporary collective contributions in color photography remain "under-exposed," to borrow a traditional photographic term.
Women of Colour advances fresh, new scholarship through a distinct and separate category, tracing its origins to gender-specificity. In doing so, it challenges and reframes the big question posed by the American art historian, Linda Nochlin, in her groundbreaking essay (1971) published in ArtNews: "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" Today, almost a half-century later, the answer to Nochlin's question in art and feminist debates, art history and criticism, art world and marketplace proves this has improved, but still exists. My femme brut(e) is a curatorial phrase I developed to describe this bias, bringing it to the surface for (re)examination; it celebrates all the great women artists. My research finds color blindness probably existed with gender blindness.
Photography is well populated by great women practitioners, many using color: "Why?" Are there social, economic, or political reasons? Color is technically challenging and expensive, especially in photography. Does this fact underscore female power, financial autonomy, and break taboos of physical strength, visual intelligence, and "woman artist" stereotypes in art, science, and chemistry? What was photography's role in this?
Why do women photographers choose color? What are the aesthetic reasons? How are they gender-driven? Is color more "attractive" or was it because originally photography was an "empty" field? Women for the first time freed themselves from the margins of art history because photography wasn't considered serious or an art form. So, does practicing color offer paradoxically more freedom? The British late Victorian, Lady Sarah Angelina Acland, follows Atkins in the 'Sanger-Shepard' color process. My big question: "Who was first in color photography?" This person was definitely British and female and living in the 19th century! Colour, the British English spelling, highlights its origins as England.
Women of Colour: Anna Atkins, Color Photography, and Those Struck by Light provides a scholarly context highlighting women and color photography. A lecture/panel/exhibit would give my hypothesis a robust opportunity since this political phrase is purposely attention-grabbing. In addition to Atkins and Acland, my proposal and presentation includes the late Sarah Charlesworth and Jan Groover; Marie Cosines, who worked with Dr. Edwin Land to develop Polaroid color; African-American photographers Renee Cox, Lorna Simpson and Carrie Mae Weems (US); Susan Derges (UK), Liz Deschenes, Barbara Kasten, Cindy Sherman, Sandy Skoglund (US), and others (list TBA). It offers a glimpse into my new scholarship and startling theory. New scientific data shows that a DNA gene called tetrachromacy allows some women an increased ability to perceptually see, perhaps have a greater understanding in color. Having four cones instead of 3 significantly multiplies the amount of color one can discern; color blindness is 20 times more frequent in men. Is this groundbreaking news the first broadcast from the dawn of photography — in color photographic images — of and by women practitioners, from then until now?
Color orbits an artist's universe; color theory (RGB=YMC) is photography's planet. In partnership with other disciplines, new discourses expand: theory/art history, feminism/photography, aesthetics/technology, and gender psychology/biology of seeing. My practices as Photography Degree Zero (1996-2011) and Struck by Light (1992-2014) contribute to this dialogue. I am a "woman of color." My scholarship known as Pictus & Writ (2008-2014) sees published essays on Sol LeWitt and Man Ray. "What is color?" — nature, innovation, wonder, invention — a wheel spinning creative opportunities for Women of Colour: Anna Atkins, Color Photography and Those Struck by Light.


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A large part of my life consists of trying to be domestic and failing. Due to said failure I have done deep seeded and irreparable damage to my self-confidence related to wife-ing. This is why it took me five years to start cooking.
I once made Chili for a party we were hosting and charred the bottom of it. In a salvaging effort I thought it would be helpful to scrape the char from the bottom of the pan, not sure why that made sense at the time, but as you can assume the burn taste then permeated the whole pot of soup which we all ate anyways and called it, smokey. I also cooked in the oven smoked salmon, like it was fresh salmon, which is sort of like baking turkey sandwich meat and serving it for thanksgiving. I somehow missed the al dente lesson concerning pasta and boiled some spaghetti noodles until they were so overdone that they died and returned to their original state of wet formless flour. I cooked them into oblivion, as my mother would say. Because of these failures I quit, and for five years our fridge usually had an egg in it that was wildly passed its expiration date and probably some jar items that never really expire, like Dijon mustard.
Then one day I roasted some potatoes and they turned out good. Trever gained a baby bit of confidence in me and thus, so did I. Slowly I started buying food and making salads, lots and lots of salads because they are very hard to mess up. I made Vietnamese salad with napa cabbage, and Greek salad with feta cheese and crumbled pita chips, and a mixed grain salad with tomatoes and cucumbers. The first step into the wonderland of salads is making homemade dressing, which I did. Dressing by the way is much easier than one might think and far superior to the bottled super market version, which is just a cover for putting preserved sugar on salads. Blerg. Now at the ripe age of 29 I cook at home several nights a week and only fail miserably a couple of times a year.
I do my best to cook healthy, which essentially means we eat a lot of vegetables. This works out well for me as I don't eat meat and fortunately my skinny husband obliges my first-world eating preferences. I have however, inadvertently developed a reputation for myself that I am some sort of health nut. I know this because my friends moms always like to come up to me and tell me they were health nuts before it was cool and proceed to recite their health related fanaticism. I'm really not that extreme, I like to watch everyone get on and off bandwagons for what is and isn't killing us all. Starting with fat, then all carbohydrates, then sugar, now gluten, and on it goes. I just think we generally would do good to stop cutting out entire food groups and just eat fresh food (except vegetarians because we're different, we cut out a food group in a stance against animal murder – virtual eye roll).
Also I think we should balance quality of life with our eating habits. Friends of mine have become such health enthusiasts that they complain constantly about their weak stomach's inability to process pizza anymore and they wear it like a badge of honor. Happiness is also very good for your body, pizza makes the world happy, in conclusion we should never stop eating pizza. On that note, if our bodies can no longer process pizza we have done something terribly wrong and must retrace our steps to return ourselves to pizza, even if that means we eat it until it stops hurting. Plus, if we just ate pizza with natural ingredients and cut out the chemicals and preservatives all the way from the farming of grain, to the raising of cows for milk, to the fermenting of bread, we would all be just fine!
Ok so we got to my point -fermenting bread. You've seen cooked on Netflix right? Did you see the one about air? If you didn't you should, but for now *spoiler alert* I will tell you that they interview a baker who goes through the history of bread and emphasizes the need for whole flour and natural yeast. He convinced me of the need for fermenting our bread with natural yeast via our own starters. BTW, my friend and farmer Bill Spencer at Windrose Farm makes his own starter and bread and it is the best bread, it is heaven in a crunchy little loaf. Because I will NEVER give up gluten, I am trying this whole homemade bread domestic wife thing. This whole ramble was to convince you and me, that I can do it! I have begun my starter and it is sitting on top of my fridge stinking up my kitchen. I have to feed it every day which essentially means throwing out half of what looks like pancake batter and adding more flour and water to allow it to keep growing. Grow baby yeast grow! I might fail but I won't tell you until I succeed because I prefer to parade my excellence to the world wide web as often as I can. If I find the perfect recipe I might share, we'll see.


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…iPhones are, under limited circumstances, willing to share information with other devices when they shouldn't…
As the Red Queen told Alice, it isn't etiquette to cut any one you've been introduced to. Locked iPhones, on the other hand, are not supposed to communicate with other devices before the formal introduction.
However, it appears that iPhones are, under limited circumstances, willing to share information with other devices when they shouldn't, even to the point where Heise researchers managed to implement a full backup of an iPhone, complete with plaintext passwords, which let itself be inappropriately paired to a Windows Vista PC.
More here.
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I thoroughly enjoyed Iron Man 2 a couple of weeks ago. I realize I might be in the minority among fanboys, and even some fellow colleagues here on Screen Rant, but I'll probably even buy the Blu-ray when it comes out - because I enjoyed it that much.
One thing we can all pretty much agree on is the suit and CG used in the Iron Man series are absolutely fantastic. Special FX house Industrial Light & Magic proved their worth once again by delivering the best digital and practical effect money can buy.
However, they aren't the only ones that have some great SFX skills when it comes to bringing the Iron Man suit to life.
This morning Jon Favreau tweeted about an Iron Man spoof by french SFX artist Strob. Strob recently released his version of Marvel's blockbuster franchise entitled Iron Baby and it looks so awesome that I would actually watch a TV series based on this clip - if it were ever produced.
Thanks to the Great White Snark for the heads up on the video.
Watch it below and enjoy:
There are a number of terrific little details in the clip such as the safety pin on the cod piece and the duplicate hot rod push car from Tony Stark's garage - not to mention how seamlessly the different parts of the armor look while adjusting.
The appearance and feel of the clip remind me of a number of other baby-fied adult oriented characters. The Flintstone Kids, Muppet Babies, Tiny Toons, and Super Hero Squad are all well written, funny, and entertaining in their own right.
If someone in Hollywood were to step up and make a live action version of Iron Baby along with Hulk Baby, Spider-Baby, Baby Thing, Invisible Baby, The Baby Torch and Baby Fantastic then, as long as it was as entertaining as Strob's video - they could consider me an avid fan.
This isn't Strob's first work and he's got several other high quality samples on his website - check them out HERE.
How did you like Iron Baby by Strob and what would you think about a live-action Baby Avengers or Super Hero Squad show?
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Cuban-American judge's name floated as possible U.S. Supreme Court nominee
Published February 16, 2016
Fox News Latino
Adalberto J. Jordan, 54, came to the United States from Cuba at the age of 6.
A Latino judge who clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and now sits on a federal appellate court is among about half a dozen people judicial experts say President Barack Obama may choose from to succeed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died Saturday at the age of 79.
Adalberto J. Jordan, who is 54 and came to the United States from Cuba at the age of 6, serves on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Florida, Georgia and Alabama.
Jordan would be the second Hispanic and first Cuban-American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
President Bill Clinton appointed Jordan, who graduated from the University of Miami School of Law, to the Federal District Court in 1999 and Obama promoted him to the appeals court 2012, according to the New York Times, which listed Jordan as one of six possible contenders for the court.
Republican presidential candidates and congressional leaders have vowed to block any nominee Obama puts forth to succeed Scalia, the court's most vocal conservative.
Jordan would be no stranger to nomination fights.
He waited four months for Senate approval of his confirmation, which was held up by partisan bickering between the Obama administration and Republicans in the Senate. Senate Republicans filibustered his nomination, which was endorsed by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, over objections they had to several Obama appointments that occurred during a legislative recess.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, released a statement in 2012 assailing his colleagues for holding up Adalberto's confirmation.
"Judge Adalberto Jordan is the kind of nominee who in the past would have been confirmed without delay, rather than wait four months for Senators to consent to proceed on his nomination," Leahy wrote. "Judge Adalberto Jordan is precisely the type of qualified, consensus nominee the Senate should be confirming without delay…Senator Rubio praised his knowledge of the law, his experience, and his participation in his community, stating that he looks forward to [Judge Jordan's] appointment."
Various judicial watch web sites depict Jordan as liberal-leaning.
Last year, Jordan ruled that Florida's healthcare system for poor and disabled children violated federal laws. Healthcare providers had long fought for the state to pay enough to cover proper treatment to low-income and disabled children.
In a ruling that spanned 153 pages, Jordan accused lawmakers of setting the state's Medicaid budget artificially low, driving many healthcare providers who catered to children not to participate in the program.
"This is a great day for the children in this state," said Dr. Louis B. St. Petery, a Tallahassee pediatrician who was at the forefront of taking the state to court, to reporters. "This action was taken because we found that children weren't being treated properly if they were on Medicaid."
"Our position as pediatricians," Petery said, "is that children do not choose their parents. They don't have a choice to be born into a rich family or a poor family."
In 2014, Jordan was part of a three-judge panel that rejected a request by Florida's secretaries of health and management services and a county clerk to extend a hold on same-sex marriages – basically allowing gay marriage to move forward in Florida.
A judge previously had ruled that Florida's gay marriage ban was unconstitutional, but stayed the ruling to give the officials a chance to file their appeal.
"It means that relief is finally in sight for the same-sex married couples suffering under Florida's refusal to recognize their legal unions," SAVE Executive Director Tony Lima said in a statement to the media.


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A Notre Dame-based program that uses literature to bring hope to South Bend juvenile offenders will be one of the participants in a unique nationwide initiative called "World Book Night" on Tuesday, April 23.
The program reaching out through South Bend's Juvenile Justice Center is called "Reading for Life" and is the brainchild of Dr. Alesha Seroczynski, who developed it with support from the Institute for Educational Initiatives. She is a psychologist affiliated with the University's Center for Children and Families.
Through her efforts, "Reading for Life" received approval to be one of the "giver" organizations making good use of 500,000 free books being distributed by the non-profit World Book Night U.S. This is the second year that the organization has sought applications and then designated worthy recipients of books, all for the cause of "spreading the love of reading, person to person."
Groups like "Reading for Life" have been picking up free copies of fiction books that were selected for the 2013 World Book Night campaign. Booksellers around the country, including the Barnes & Noble store in Mishawaka's University Park Mall and Better World Books in Mishawaka, serve as intermediaries where the books can be picked up by designated recipients.
"Reading for Life" requested, and was authorized to receive, free copies of Looking for Alaska by noted author John Green. According to Seroczynski, "Our ability to participate in World Book Night will enable us to give a free copy to every youth in detention at the St. Joseph County Juvenile Justice Center on April 23. We love John Green and we are excited to share his stories with these young people."
"Reading for Life" also operates a diversion program with less serious juvenile offenders. For both groups, the goal is to engage young people in structured discussions about notable works of fiction in which the pursuit of virtue clearly transforms people's lives for the better.
The program, now in its fifth year, is a controlled experiment to confirm that strong, pro-virtue messages in literature can help reduce recidivism and bring hope for juvenile offenders.
Peter Morgan, J.D., executive director of St. Joseph County's Thomas N. Frederick Juvenile Justice Center in South Bend, believes that, "Reading for Life has been more successful in diverting young people from the juvenile justice system than traditional programs such as community service. The program's success makes it very cost-effective."
Contact: Dr. Alesha Seroczynski at 631-0952.


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Moonstone Magic/
Most boho loving girls have a bit of a devil-may-care attitude when it comes to dressing and I, most definitely have taken that approach since as long as I was old enough to dress myself.
Pattern mixes and handmade textiles, I love to wear clothing that reflects a laissez faire lifestyle. In regards to accessories - sentimental pieces, and jewels a plenty are my go-to. I've never been into designer bags or the shoe of the moment, on the other hand, my wardrobe is filled with gemstones, sun-charged crystals, oversized wooden beads, pendants and charms.
In collaboration with a new Moon child favorite of mine (https://www.moonstoneshop.com/), a brand dedicated to a gem that's known to enhance physic ability, intuition and sensitivity and one that serves as a protector too (it's truly my favorite, one I've always been drawn to) I created a little video reflective of the magic of the gem and the sun-drenched hills here in Tennessee. Learn more about the gem and some moonstone rituals below!
wearing: Aurora, Mystic Moon & Oceana ring from Moonstone Magic, heart sunnies, straw hat, Heartloom romper
Moonstone Rituals
(adapted from the Moonstone Magic blog)
Moonstone for Cleansing
A full moon bath cleanses the mind, body, and spirit. As you wash the dirt away, you'll also cleanse the negative energies you're holding on to. Become synced with the moon's feminine energy by experiencing a quiet moon bath - add the gem to the water and follow with fragrant oils and Himalayan salt. Moonstone will purify your thoughts and emotions, while Himalayan salt will release toxins and add minerals into your body at the same time. Add candles and sip on an herbal tea for a sacred moment.
Moonstone for New Beginnings
We may not be able to re-do the past, but we can look forward to new beginnings. During the full moon, go outside with the Moonstone in your hand. Close your eyes and think of the things you want to change, choose a mantra like "Mother Moon, take these trials away from me." Repeat the phrase every night by your window until the new moon comes. On the night of the new moon, take your gem away from your home and bury it (or, if you reside near a body of water - send it down the river). Leave it there without looking back knowing that those past constraints are released.
Moonstone's powers are in full spectrum on a full moon. Whatever ritual you choose, the most important thing is to throw your inhibitions away and be genuine. Trusting that the moon is infinitely nestled inside us and these Moonstone rituals will boost your innate power as a child of the moon.
Wanderfully yours,


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Kanye West has managed to embroil himself in more controversy today after he posted an image to Twitter which shows him searching for keygens and cracked copies of VST plugins on the infamous torrent website Pirate Bay.
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There has been a lot of hype surrounding Twitter's Music app, developed after the social network acquired San Francisco-based music aggregator WeAreHunted last year. And the wait is finally over, with the app available now for iOS and on the web.
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For the first time, the life and mind of Anders Behring Breivik, the most unlikely of mass murderers, is examined and set in the context of wider criminal psychology.
July 22, 2011 was the darkest day in Norway's history since Nazi Germany's invasion. It was 189 minutes of terror—from the moment the bomb exploded outside a government building until Breivik was apprehended by the police on the island of Utøya. Breivik murdered seventy-seven people, most of them teenagers, and wounded hundreds more. The massacre left the world in shock.
Breivik is the archetypal lone wolf killer, often overlooked until the moment they commit their crime. Breivik is also unique as he is the only lone wolf killer in recent history to still be alive and willing to discuss his crime. With unparalleled research and a unique international perspective, The Mystery of the Lone Wolf Killer examines the massacre itself and why this lone-killer phenomenon is increasing worldwide.
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The Price of Peace is a forthcoming book about the other side of the coveted Nobel Peace Prize.
When Alfred Nobel died in 1896, his will left instructions that his vast wealth was to award five prizes in his name. Four of the prizes were to be awarded by his native Sweden, while the fifth, the Peace Prize, was to be awarded by "a committee of five persons to be elected by the Norwegian Storting."
When Nobel died, Norway was not the economic powerhouse with the world's highest standard of living it is today. Perhaps Nobel thought that Norway would be more objective and less prone to corruption than Sweden in promoting peace. Whatever his reasoning, the Norwegian committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to individuals and organizations—worthy or not—since 1901.
In her upcoming book, Unni Turrettini turns her laser focus toward the secrets behind the selections of the Nobel Peace Prize. Working with Alfred Nobel's relative Michael Nobel, she delves into the history of the winners, and reflects on the reasons some were selected and others were not.
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Thomas Ajspur
Chief Executive Officer, ENAVATE Holdings, LLC
Thomas is a seasoned entrepreneur who has served as part of leadership teams for five major acquisitions. Thomas began working with Dynamics 25 years ago as an ERP user and implementer and then utilized it as the system to run his own business. In 1999, Thomas joined the Dynamics Professional Services industry with a focus on building ERP high performance organizations in Europe and the US and is known in the industry for selling large international AX deals.
Andrew Bryant
Mr. Bryant spent most of his distinguished career at Arrow Electronics, Inc. and Avnet, Inc., both Fortune 500 companies focused on value-added distribution of electronic components and computer products globally. Andrew has a track record of success in operating large complex distribution business models. He is a thought leader and has built trust with senior management teams throughout his entire career.


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The Ultimate BLT/
Every summer, when the Jersey tomatoes are in full swing, I start thinking BLT. But this summer, it wasn't the juicy beefsteak tomatoes that drove me as much as the new technique suggested by my dear friend Elizabeth Karmel, author of Taming the Flame, and my grilling goddess, for grilling the bacon. Wow! Why did I never think of this before? It is so quick, effective, and mess-less.
With a gas grill, preheat the grill and then turn the middle burners to low. Place the bacon on top and grill for about 2 minutes a side, watching carefully so that it crisps to the degree of your preference without burning, though a few char spots add extra slightly smoky flavor.
The BLT in this photo is on the 50% wholewheat bread, previously posted. I recommend toasting it very lightly as too crisp a toast hurts the palate. Ah the combination of wheaty bread, a gilding of mayo, a suggestion of crisp lettuce, juicy tomato that threatens to run down your wrist, and my favorite bacon which more often than not is Harrington's from Vermont (it's smoked over corn husks). It's been my favorite since I first tasted it almost a half century ago (I kid you not!)


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Have you joined the craze over Periscope yet? I'm not one to usually "jump" into new social media because there is just SO much to keep up with– but I'm LOVIN Periscope! If you don't know what Periscope is–think YouTube but LIVE! Yes, you get to be the "fly on the wall" so to speak into others everyday life. You get to chat with them and see them in the moment–it is pretty awesome.
If you've been around for awhile you know that I'm not big on video. I have a Youtube account–but I haven't done anything with it for YEARS! So, I'm hoping that Periscope will bring me out of my shell. Plus, you get to chat with me DAILY (because I will be scoping daily) and you get to go with me everywhere. 🙂
I hope to be able to take you along with me while in Ireland and show you where we are vacationing. (as long as wifi permits)
SO PLEASE join me! I'll be scoping later today with a fun money saving tip. I'd love to see you there! Once you download the app, be sure to search my name "Josie K" or "Southern Cali Saver" to follow me!


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Calling for a stop to demolitions and demanding a resettlement plan, more than 100 residents of Taipei's Huaguang Community (華光) and their supporters clashed with police as a demolition squad moved in yesterday to tear down two houses as part of a development project.
"No to forced eviction. We want resettlement," protesters shouted as about 300 police officers escorting the demolition squad moved into the community at around 10:20am.
They had set up a 3m tall tower in front of the houses scheduled for demolition, while more than 100 people lay in front of the houses. Inside the houses, students chained themselves to walls and doors.
The situation quickly became heated when the police started to take protesters away.
"How could you do this to these people? Do you have a heart?" a female protester yelled.
It took police more than two hours to clear the street in front of the houses.
Soon after the police broke into the houses, arresting more students.
"You should have female police officers to do the job," protester Lin Fei-fan (林飛帆) yelled at male officers grabbing female protesters inside one of the houses.
"We don't have such a good service," an officer said, to which Lin responded: "Asshole."
Enraged, the officer slapped Lin in the face and yelled: "What did you say? I dare you to say it again!"
"I don't know what I did wrong to be treated like this," Lee Kui-chu (李桂朱), a Huaguang resident, said in tears after being forced from her house. "I feel very sad and sorry to see so many students supporting us being hurt by the police."
"Life is already hard for us, now that our house is flattened we will just have to find another place to live, while the bank accounts of the entire family have been frozen due to the lawsuit over 'illegal occupation' of government property," another resident Lin Su-hua (林蘇華) said.
Heavy machines moved in to accelerate the demolition after all the protesters — many of whom went on to launch another protest in front of the Executive Yuan — were removed by about 2:30pm.
The Huaguang community, located near Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in the heart of Taipei, is mostly inhabited by former soldiers — and their descendants — who withdrew to Taiwan with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) after the Chinese Civil War.
Although the land was officially government property, the soldiers were unofficially allowed to live on it as the government at the time was unable to address housing shortages. Their homes were subsequently given official house numbers, electricity and water were provided, and taxes were collected from them.
However, when the government decided to use the site for a commercial development more than a decade ago, residents were asked to leave, and then sued for "illegal occupation" of government property.
Residents have staged a series of protests, but despite President Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) promises, no resettlement plan has ever been drawn up.


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Counsellor in Ledbury, near Hereford, Gloucester & Worcester.
My name is Tim Bray and I have been a practising counsellor and therapist for nearly 30 years. I am committed to providing counselling and psychotherapy in a safe, confidential and non-judgemental environment. I am an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy and am on the BACP Register (No. 013948). You can check my entry here.
I provide counselling to adults and young people on an open-ended basis or for an agreed time period, with the aim of enabling you to enhance your life and to live it more fully.
In the past I have provided counselling to children, young people and adults experiencing all kinds of distress and emotional challenges in their life. You can read more about my counselling experience on the Qualifications & Experience page. I have particular interest and experience in working with the following issues:
My counselling practice is in Ledbury, Herefordshire, within easy reach of Hereford, Worcester and Gloucester. I mainly work from home and see clients in a comfortable quiet room on the ground floor with direct access from outside (see photo below). There is easy parking in the street and the house is 5 minutes walk from the town centre. There is one step into the house for those with mobility issues and I can assist with access if needed.
I am committed to providing a high quality and effective service to my clients. As a member of the BACP I am required to attend Continuing Professional Development to ensure my practice is up to date and of a high standard. I am also required to attend monthly supervision of 1 1/2 hrs per month with a BACP recognised supervisor, where I can discuss my client caseload. In order to renew my accreditation each year I have to provide the BACP with evidence that I have met these requirements.
Tim Bray, Counsellor for Hereford, Gloucester & Worcester
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ByAshby Jones
The SEC on Wednesday offered an early glimpse into how it's ultimately going to handle this expected flood of whistleblower complaints from anyone and everyone who works at, well, a company.
And for now, neither side of the debate is entirely thrilled.
Let's back up. The Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, passed in July, contains a whistleblower provision. The provision enables the commission to pay between 10 and 30 percent of a recovery over $1 million to anyone who brings forward original information of fraud.
That much is written into law.
But the SEC still has to come up with regulations that flesh out how the so-called "bounty provision" is likely to be implemented. On Wednesday, the commission offered up its first stab at some proposed rules. (It will now take comments from the public; the final rules don't have to be finalized until next April.)
Corporate America isn't enamored with the provision. It opens companies up to more scrutiny from the SEC, and will likely raise costs. The Sarbanes-Oxley law of 2002 required companies to implement their own fraud-detection systems; Dodd-Frank threatens to render useless those programs.
To address some of those concerns, the SEC proposed on Wednesday not to disqualify people who first report a problem internally, as long as they report the wrongdoing to the SEC within 90 days. The SEC would count employees as informants from the date they reported a problem to the company so they don't lose their place in the line of tipsters seeking awards.
The SEC also proposed giving credit to informants for first reporting the wrongdoing through company channels in setting the size of the award. Click here for the WSJ story, by Jessica Holzer and me.
But business doesn't seem to pleased with the proposed rules. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce isn't a fan. And Steven Pearlman, a corporate defense lawyer at Seyfarth Shaw in Chicago, added: "We'd like to see the SEC do more to encourage whistleblowers to give a company a chance to fix the problem first. It's better for the company and better for its shareholders."
Lawyers who represent whistleblowers mostly applauded the proposals and the SEC's decision not to mandate that would-be tipsters first go through corporate channels.
"Whistleblowers should not be required to go to their companies first," said Jason Zuckerman, a Washington plaintiffs' lawyer.
But Zuckerman didn't like that the SEC is encouraging whistleblowers to go tot he companies first. He called corporate-compliance programs "mostly a lot of window dressing" that "too often are misused" to retaliate against the whistleblower. He added: "If these programs really worked well, and really performed legitimate investigations and brought about corrective action, then the widespread fraud that helped bring down our economy would never have happened. It's just common sense."


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My next project will be about one of the most fascinating people I know - my 5 year old niece, Avren. I've had the privilege of getting to know Avren for a few days at a time, a couple times a year, since she was born in January 2011. I'm looking forward to attempting to explain our relationship through pictures I've taken over the years.


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APPLETON, Wis. — Pets here will be breathing a little easier now that local rescuers will be carrying oxygen masks designed for animals.
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Six Appleton fire trucks and 13 ambulances will be equipped with masks intended for use on dogs, cats and other small animals.
Alderman Richard Thompson initiated the program after he saw a newspaper photograph of a firefighter in Superior giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a cat rescued from a house fire.
"A pet is family to most people," he said. "I know I wouldn't want to lose Maggie, my collie, or Lucy, my Tabby cat, to a fire, carbon monoxide poisoning or Lord knows what else."
The money to pay for each $49 mask came from donations by local animal lovers.
"It was something to see," Thompson said. "There was no organized solicitation effort. People and community groups just read or heard about the program and stepped up to the plate."
The masks, which come in three sizes, will be distributed to each of six fire stations and to the Appleton Police Department K-9 unit, he said.
The Madison Fire Department carries similar masks on its seven ambulances, said Lori Wirth, the department's community education officer.
The Madison department also bought its masks with money raised from unsolicited donations, she said. In fact, the department raised so much money it was able to buy mask kits for several neighboring communities.
Wirth said the department's firefighters haven't had to use the masks yet but they're trained and willing.
"What we've done so far is use the masks as a way to remind people to get out of their residence in the event of a fire and don't go searching for pets," she said. "Firefighters will care for any pets we find in the event they suffer from smoke inhalation."
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I remember being excited to hear this as a teenager based on the fact that James Murphy's work on Cause of Death (Obituary) was excellent. Unfortunately, playing solos is all James Murphy should be relegated to doing, as I learned from listening to this dreck. Disincarnate sounds like the byproduct of all overplayed generic death metal techniques thrown into a blender that adds up to nothing more than being Roadrunner Records most generic death metal release in their history.
Nothing here is spectacular. The vocals are typical hoarse growling delivered effectively. The lyrics are actually really well written and some of the topics are fairly interesting though, of course, there is subject matter typical of the genre in there as well (Beyond the Flesh). Drums are played on point, no complaints. If they were triggered, they're not overbearing, as the bass drums aren't annoying. The performances are top notch, these guys are without a doubt great musicians. The problem is the music itself: it's tame and boring.
All the songs cycle back between riffs. The structures are so simple that everything just runs in a loop. This band is no challenge to it's audience or themselves. Just some cool riffs on occasion held together by rhythm to create a simplified, headbangable version of the death metal at the time. It amounts to nothing more than that, however, and after one song, it wears thin real quick. Tracks are interchangeable. All the technical flourishes are just that, flourishes (usually the same harmonizing positions too, for cheap "morbidity" i.e. death metal cred), and don't add anything to death metal, sounding like unnecessarily bloated versions of what could be decent Brutality riffs. The band is content with just grooving most of the time and thus negates the whole purpose of their pretension towards intellectualism with the concepts they present in their lyrics. To put it in simple terms, it's no wonder James Murphy ditched this project to join Konkhra once they decided to head straight into Machine Head territory. Even Cancer's Death Shall Rise is more rewarding as a "generic death" product, as this is more a solo showcase from James Murphy sandwiched in between standard death metal riffs and song construction heard a million times better before. Boring.