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Mohammad Mehdi Pour, Andrey Lashkov, Adrian Radocea, Ximeng Liu, Tao Sun, Alexey Lipatov, Rafal A. Korlacki, Mikhail Shekhirev, Narayana R. Aluru, Joseph W. Lyding, Victor Sysoev, and Alexander Sinitskii. "Laterally extended atomically precise graphene nanoribbons with improved electrical conductivity for efficient gas sensing." Nature Communications (2017), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00692-4
Mikhail Shekhirev, Timothy H. Vo, Mohammad Mehdi Pour, Alexey Lipatov, Siddhanth Munukutla, Joseph W. Lyding, and Alexander Sinitskii. "Interfacial Self-assembly of Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons into Uniform Thin Films for Electronics Applications." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2016) DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b12508.
Adrian Radocea, Tao Sun, Timothy H. Vo, Alexander Sinitskii, Narayana R. Aluru, and Joseph W. Lyding "Solution-Synthesized Chevron Graphene Nanoribbons Exfoliated onto H:Si(100)" Nano Lett., Article ASAP DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03709
Justin C. Koepke, Joshua D. Wood, Yaofeng Chen, Scott W. Schmucker, Ximeng Liu, Noel N Chang, Lea Nienhaus, Jae Won Do, Enrique A Carrion, Jayan Hewaparakrama, Aniruddh Rangarajan, Isha Datye, Rushabh Mehta, Richard T. Haasch, Martin Gruebele, Gregory S. Girolami, Eric Pop, Joseph W Lyding, "Role of Pressure in the Growth of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Thin Films from Ammonia-Borane" Chem. Mater., Article ASAP DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b00396
Cory D. Cress, Scott W. Schmucker, Adam L. Friedman, Pratibha Dev, James C. Culbertson, Joseph W. Lyding, Jeremy T. Robinson, "Nitrogen-Doped Graphene and Twisted Bilayer Graphene via Hyperthermal Ion Implantation with Depth Control" ACS nano 10 (3), 3714-3722
Duc Nguyen, Zhi-Guang Zhu, Brian Pringle, Joseph Lyding, Wei-Hua Wang, Martin Gruebele, "Composition-dependent metallic glass alloys correlate atomic mobility with collective glass surface dynamics" Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C6CP02654K
Lea Nienhaus, Joshua J Goings, Duc Nguyen, Sarah Wieghold, Joseph W Lyding, Xiaosong Li, Martin Gruebele, "Imaging excited orbitals of quantum dots: experiment and electronic structure theory," Journal of the American Chemical Society 137(46), 14743 (2015).
Lea Nienhaus, Sarah Wieghold, Duc Nguyen, Joseph W Lyding, Gregory E Scott, Martin Gruebele, "Optoelectronic switching of a carbon nanotube chiral junction imaged with nanometer spacial resolution," ACS Nano 9(11) 10563 (2015).
Justin C Koepke, Joshua D Wood, Cedric M Horvath, Joseph W Lyding, Salvador Barraza-Lopez, "Preserving the 7x7 surface reconstruction of clean Si(111) by graphene adsorption," Applied Physics Letters 107(7) 071603 (2015).
Pamela Peña Martin, Joseph Lyding, Angus Rockett, "Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of epitaxial silver indium diselenide," Surface Science 636 8 (2015).
Duc Nguyen, Lea Nienhaus, Richard T Haasch, Joseph Lyding, Martin Gruebele, "Sub-nanometer glass surface dynamics induced by illumination," The Journal of Chemical Physics 142(23) 234505 (2015).
Jae-Won Do, Noel N Chang, David Estrada, Feifei Lian, Hyeongyun Cha, Xiangyun J Duan, Richard T Haasch, Eric Pop, Gregory S Girolami, Joseph W Lyding, "Solution-mediated selective nanosoldering of carbon nanotube junctions for improved device performance," ACS Nano 9(5) 4806 (2015).
Joshua D Wood, Gregory P Doidge, Enrique A Carrion, Justin C Koepke, Joshua A Kaitz, Isha Datye, Ashkan Behnam, Jayan Hewaparakrama, Basil Aruin, Yaofeng Chen, Hefei Dong, Richard T Haasch, Joseph W Lyding, Eric Pop, "Annealing free, clean graphing transfer using alternative polymer scaffolds," Nanotechnology 26(5) 055302 (2015).
Duc Nguyen, Justin Mallek, Andrew N Cloud, John R Abelson, Gregory S Girolami, Joseph Lyding, Martin Gruebele, "The energy landscape of glassy dynamics on the amorphous hafnium diboride surface," The Journal of Chemical Physics 141(20) 204501 (2014).
T Olewicz, G Antczak, L Jurczyszyn, JW Lyding, G Ehrlich, "Coexistence of two diffusion mechanisms: W on W (100)," Physical Review B 89(23) 235408 (2014).
Lea Nienhaus, Gregory E Scott, Richard T Haasch, Sarah Wieghold, Joseph W Lyding, Martin Gruebele, "Transparent metal films for detection of single-molecule optical absorption by scanning tunneling microscopy," The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 118(24) 13196 (2014).
Parsian K Mohseni, Ashkan Behnam, Joshua D Wood, Xiang Zhao, Ki Jun Yu, Ning C Wang, Angus Rockett, John A Rogers, Joseph W Lyding, Eric Pop, Xiuling Li, "Monolithic III-V nanowire solar cells on graphene via direct van der waals epitaxy," Advanced Materials 26(22) 3755 (2014)
Brent E Walling, Zhizhou Kuang, Yonghua Hao, David Estrada, Joshua D Wood, Feifei Lian, Lou Ann Miller, Amish B Shah, Jayme L Jeffries, Richard T Haasch, Joseph W Lyding, Eric Pop, Gee W Lau, "Helical Carbon Nanotubes Enhance the Early Immune Response and Inhibit Macrophage-Mediated Phagocytosis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa," PloS one 8 (11), e80283 (2013). (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080283)
Jae-Won Do, David Estrada, Xu Xie, Noel N Chang, Justin Mallek, Gregory S Girolami, John A Rogers, Eric Pop, Joseph W Lyding, "Nanosoldering Carbon Nanotube Junctions by Local Chemical Vapor Deposition for Improved Device Performance," Nano letters 13 (12), 5844-5850 (2013). (DOI: 10.1021/nl4026083)
[U of I News Bureau, KurzweilAI, Materials 360, Printed Electronics World, The Engineer-UK, Phys.Org, Science 360, youtube]
Parsian K Mohseni, Ashkan Behnam, Joshua D Wood, Christopher D English, Joseph W Lyding, Eric Pop, Xiuling Li, "In x Ga1–x As Nanowire Growth on Graphene: van der Waals Epitaxy Induced Phase Segregation," Nano Letters 13 (3), 1153-1161 (2013). (DOI: 10.1021/nl304569d ) [U of I News Bureau]
Justin C Koepke, Joshua D Wood, David Estrada, Zhun-Yong Ong, Kevin T He, Eric Pop, Joseph W Lyding, "Atomic-Scale Evidence for Potential Barriers and Strong Carrier Scattering at Graphene Grain Boundaries: A Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study," ACS Nano 7 (1), 75-86 (2013). (DOI: 10.1021/nn302064p) [Beckman News]
Wei Ye, Kyoungmin Min, Pamela Peña Martin, Angus A Rockett, NR Aluru, Joseph W Lyding, "Scanning tunneling spectroscopy and density functional calculation of silicon dangling bonds on the Si (100)-2× 1: H surface," Surface Science 609, 147-151 (2013). (DOI:10.1016/j.susc.2012.11.015)
M.Y. Timmermans, D. Estrada, A. G. Nasibulin, J. D. Wood, A. Behnam, D. Sun, Y. Ohno, J.W. Lyding, A. Hassanien, E. Pop, and E.I. Kauppinen, "Effect of carbon nanotube network morphology on thin film transistor performance." Nano Research 5, 307-319 (2012). (DOI: 10.1007/s12274-012-0211-8)
K.T. He, J.D. Wood, G.P. Doidge, E. Pop and J.W. Lyding, "Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study and Nanomanipulation of Graphene-Coated Water on Mica," Nano Letters 12, 2665-2672 (2012). (DOI:10.1021/nl202613t)
S.W. Schmucker, N. Kumar, J.R. Abelson, S.R. Daly, G.S. Girolami, M.R. Bischof, D.L. Jaeger, R.F. Reidy, B.P. Gorman, J. Alexander, J. Ballard, J. Randall and J.W. Lyding, "Field-Directed Sputter Sharpening for Tailored Probe Materials and Atomic-Scale Lithography," Nature Communications 3, article 935 (2012). (doi:10.1038/ncomms1907) [Press Release, R&D, Materials 360, You Tube, MyScience, Nanotechnology Now, NSF, Journal of Sciences, Phys.org, NanoWerk, Science Codex, Science Daily, Scientific Computing, Laboratory Equipment, Product Design & Development, e! Science News, Eurekalert, Nano Patents and Innovations, Scientific Earth Conscientious, AZoNano-Australia, Science Newsline, Ceramic Tech Today, Laboratory Talk-UK, Materials Today, IT Web-Johannesburg, Micro Manufacturing, The Engineer-UK]
S. Ashtekar, D. Nguyen, K. Zhao, J. Lyding, W.H. Wang and M. Gruebele, "Communication: An obligatory glass surface," J. Chem Phys. 137, article 141102 (2012). (DOI:10.1063/1.4757975)
S. Ashtekar, J. Lyding, and M. Gruebele, "Temperature-Dependent Two-State Dynamics of Individual Cooperatively Rearranging Regions on a Glass Surface," Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, article 166103 (2012). (DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.166103)
J.C. Koepke, J.D. Wood, D. Estrada, Z-Y. Ong, F. Xiong, E. Pop and J.W. Lyding, "Atomic-scale study of scattering and electronic properties of CVD graphene grain boundaries," Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO), 12th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, Conference Proceedings paper (2012). (DOI:10.1109/NANO.2012.6322107)
J.D. Wood, S.W. Schmucker, R.T. Haasch, G.P. Doidge, L. Nienhaus, G.L. Damhorst, A.S. Lyons, M. Gruebele, R. Bashir, E. Pop and J.W Lyding, "Improved graphene growth and fluorination on Cu with clean transfer to surfaces," Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO), 12th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, Conference Proceedings paper (2012). (DOI:10.1109/NANO.2012.6322101)
K.T. He, J.D. Wood, G. P. Doidge, E. Pop and J.W. Lyding, "Scanning tunneling microscopy characterization of graphene-coated few-layered water on mica," Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO), 12th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, Conference Proceedings paper (2012). (DOI:10.1109/NANO.2012.6321969)
J-W. Do, D. Estrada, X. Xie, N. Chang, G. Girolami, J.A. Rogers, E. Pop, and J.W. Lyding, "Nanosoldering carbon nanotube junctions with metal via local chemical vapor deposition for improved device performance Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO), 12th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, Conference Proceedings paper (2012). (DOI:10.1109/NANO.2012.6322102)
Pamela Pena Martin, Angus A Rockett, Joseph Lyding, "Growth mechanism and surface atomic structure of AgInSe2," Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A 30(4) 04D115 (2012).
Joseph W Lyding, "Graphene, the one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atom, is a very important material and considered to be a potential replacement to silicon in semiconductors for consumer electronics," Advanced Coatings & Surface Technology 24(12) 11 (2011).
Joshua D Wood, Scott W Schmucker, Austin S Lyons, Eric Pop, Joseph W Lyding, "Effects of polycrystalline Cu substrate on graphene growth by chemical vapor deposition," Nano Letters 11(11) 4547 (2011).
S Ashtekar, G Scott, J Lyding, M Gruebele, "Direct imaging of two-state dynamics on the amorphous silicon surface," Physical Review Letters 106(23) 235501 (2011).
Y Xu, KT He, SW Schmucker, Z Guo, JC Koepke, JD Wood, JW Lyding, NR Aluru, "Inducing electronic changes in graphene through silicon (100) substrate modification," Nano Letters 11(7) 2735 (2011).
Joseph W. Lyding, "Surface chemistry: molecular-cartwheeling," Nature Chemistry 3 341 (2011).
Gregory Scott, Sumit Ashtekar, Joseph Lyding, Martin Gruebele, "Direct imaging of room temperature optical absorption with subnanometer spatial resolution," Nano Letters 10(12) 4897 (2010).
Wei Ye, Pamela A Peña Martin, Navneet Kumar, Scott R Daly, Angus A Rockett, John R Abelson, Gregory S Girolami, Joseph W Lyding, "Direct writing of sub-5 nm hafnium diboride metallic nanostructures," ACS Nano 4(11) 6818 (2010).
Kevin T He, Justin C Koepke, Salvador Barraza-Lopez, Joseph W Lyding, "Separation-dependent electron transparency of monolayer graphene membranes on III-V semiconductor substrates," Nano Letters 10(9) 3446 (2010).


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Following their recent Best Wedding Venue win at the inaugural I Do Wedding Awards 2015, we find out a little bit more about Hodsock Priory's Wedding Manager, Lynda Pepper...
Planning a wedding can raise all sorts of emotions and tensions. Luckily you're in good hands with Lynda. She has 30 years of experience and truly loves working with brides and grooms. No Hodsock wedding is the same and she becomes part of your family - which is why she has a keepsake box with hundreds of hand-written thank you cards on the desk.
She's been Superwoman many times – from re-icing a wedding cake that has collapsed to stitching wedding dresses seconds before the Bride walks down the aisle. She even drove after the Best Man who'd left the rings behind to find him panicking in the Church yard. You need a calm and safe pair of hands in these circumstances and they don't come better than our Lynda.
She has a heart of gold and great intuition. Lynda will always crouch down and welcome children to Hodsock. It's a family home and if the children are happy, the parents will be too. On the flipside, in the heat of a family wedding, tempers can be hot and she has the uncanny ability to defuse any tensions with a well-timed laugh.
Lynda says she must have one of those faces that mean people tell her all sorts of secrets on their wedding day. Mum's the word - she won't tell a soul.
"I love people and everything about them – the names and the funny stories and there's nothing better than helping a couple and their families plan their wedding. I'm able to get on and do the job at Hodsock in a way I don't think I could anywhere else. And I get paid to do what I do best!" Lynda on why she loves her job so much!The relationship Lynda has with her brides and grooms doesn't stop when the wedding's over. Adrian and Theresa are one of many couples married at Hodsock who return every year for their anniversary. They have a lovely ritual of opening a bottle of champagne on the Terrace and inviting the Hodsock Team to join them for a drink. They always bring Lynda a huge bunch of flowers. We leave them to have a romantic stroll round the gardens before they have dinner in the village. They stay up late, helping themselves to drinks from the Bar, listening to music and looking at their wedding album. They take the following day off work so they can have a lazy (full English) breakfast in the Ante Room looking out over the gardens.
If Hodsock Priory sounds like the Nottinghamshire wedding venue for you, then their next open day will be on Sunday 27th September 2015 11am-3pm. Entry to the venue is free allowing you to meet the team, explore the gardens and walk around the house set out ready for a glorious Hodsock Wedding.
"Keep it simple and enjoy it – you don't need as many 'extras' as you think!" Lynda's top tip for couples planning their wedding.
For details about Hodsock's wedding packages and facilities visit www.hodsockpriory.com/weddings or call 01909 591204 and speak with Lynda Pepper, weddings manager.
Cover Image: George Buchanan & the Hodsock Wedding Team courtesy of Peter Boyd Wedding Photography
Cover Image: George Buchanan & the Hodsock Wedding Team courtesy of Peter Boyd Wedding Photography


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Live Footage. Van Cleef & Arpels, UNICEF, Rag and Bone, VICE, and It Gets Better. Iceberg Men's fall/winter collection for Fachion Week Milan in 2012, Fantasia Film Fest in Montreal 2012, the TriBeCa Ball for NY Academy of the Arts, Rooftop Films, various Modern Dance performances and off Broadway theater pieces. In 2012 the TriBeCa Film fest debuted the critically acclaimed film "Graceland". The accompanying score was therein released by draft house and distributed world wide. Live Footage has toured in Europe, Korea, Canada and across the USA.
Emily Wells, Portland Cello Project, Pharoahe Monch, Robert Glasper, Dan the Automator, and Henry Wolff at prestigious rooms like the Bowery Ballroom and Le Poisson Rouge.


text: Business Management Characteristics of a Great Leader By Robert Castro Posted on October 14, 2016 4 min read 0 1,278 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Reddit Share on Pinterest Share on Linkedin Share on Tumblr If you run a company then you should know how to lead your working team from upfront. A business totally depends on work and a productive work depends on the team leaders. Leading a team is not an easy job to do. There are many characteristics to become a good leader. In this article, I'm going to write about some of the valuable points regarding this. Job Details You have to know your job in details to lead your working team. Be aware about the every possible points of your work to increase production. All your team members will wait for your decision to give their effort into the right track. Working Together The motive of a good leader is to always think about how to do the job as a team, not alone. You have to know well about the capability and productivity of your team members to deliver a good result. Knowing the Employees You have to distribute the responsibilities among your team members. That's why; you have to know your each and every worker's skill and accountability. You can't find same effectiveness in your every employee. You have to find out your key players to generate some speed for your productivity. Encourage This is the vital part. You have to encourage your junior members to give their effort to the production. You can encourage them with good comments, tip bonus, paying leave or something like this. Communication A clear communication with your workers can resolve many problems instantly. Try to walk to your worker and if possible, talk to them about the work and working problems they are facing. Try to note-down their requirement and lead them to the possible direction to generate profits. Giving Importance Make your employees feel that, they are equally important to the company as you are. In this way, you can motivate them to perform good hard work. They'll realize their value in the company and fell proud to have a chance to serve under you. Managing a good leadership is very tough thing to do. You have to take some vital decision on the spot. But if you follow these points then you can achieve your goal easily as a great leader.


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Remember, when in disputed territory or otherwise uncertain
circumstances, just repeat this mantra: "don't be scared; stay with the group."
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Just through the April Door. - We'll see if all my color dabbling/learning makes it into this piece. The dabbling and math for complements helped a bit. Sped me up. Took me as long to do ...


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Join our growing community of music lovers and music makers and enjoy the rewards membership has to offer. For more than 65 years, the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra has been a source of pride and a cultural priority in the Shreveport area, engaging people in all segments of the community.
The Music-by-the-Month Plan is a convenient and affordable way to support the SSO's Annual Fund on an ongoing basis. By enrolling in this plan, your credit card will be automatically billed at intervals determined by you (monthly, quarterly, or for a fixed number of months), making it easy to spread your payments over a period of time.
Shreveport Symphony Orchestra's Annual Fund drive is based on the fiscal year, which begins July 1 and ends June 30. Individual and corporate donations are critical to the support system of the SSO. Donors may join The Conductor's Circle with a gift of $1,000 or more and enjoy Symphony Club hospitality before and during Willis-Knighton Masterworks Series concerts at the RiverView Theater, complimentary valet parking, and invitations to exclusive Patron events. See donor benefits
Checks may be made payable to Shreveport Symphony Orchestra and mailed to P.O. Box 205, Shreveport, LA 71162-0205 or call the Symphony offices at (318) 222-7496.
Become a corporate partner today. Gain prestige and visibility by contributing to the cultural life of your community. Sponsor a concert, a guest artist's appearance, or a special event. Get the maximum return on your investment—the creation of a vibrant and lively community in which to live and do business. Our Corporate Partners are entitled to an array of marketing and hospitality benefits.
Every year, the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra commits to an extensive education program, offered free to every child in grades 3–5 in Caddo and Bossier Parishes. You can be instrumental in providing music education for the children in our community. Your support could transform a child's life.
Secure the Symphony's future by making us part of your estate plans. Your gift may have significant financial advantages to you and to the Symphony. We offer a variety of gift options that can fulfill your personal and financial goals while furthering the Symphony's mission. Contact us to find the one that is right for you.
The Shreveport Symphony Orchestra offers a variety of volunteer opportunities for you to join us and contribute to our success:
- Usher at concerts
- Work at will-call during the concerts
- Office support—help with mailings, answering phones, etc.
- Hospitality—provide refreshments for the musicians or for a reception
- Transportation—pick up guest artists and provide transportation during their stay
- Special events—a variety of needs for events, big and small
- You name it! Have you noticed a need to be met? Call and talk to us about it.
If you'd like to make a gift to the Shreveport Symphony, or discuss volunteer opportunities, please call 318.222.7496 or send an e-mail to email@example.com.
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- Complimentary intermission and pre-performance hospitality in Symphony Club
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Is there a good, up-to-date production guide to installing RVM, Passenger and nginx on CentOS?
I've been trying unsuccessfully to get rvm and passenger to work on CentOS 6.4. Are there any good guides for setting it up in a production environment? The Passenger tutorials don't seem to work and rvm doesn't seem to even install properly. Thanks!


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Greetings and Salutations.
If you've read my previous June Addiction post, I'd planned on reading Jill Shalvis' Lucky Harbor series in July. Well, I just couldn't help myself and started them last week. There are four books that are currently out and two for future release. I'm reading the fourth book now and I'm completely swept away. These books are pure romance! They're all intelligently written with characters that I'm absolutely pining for. I've coasted through the four books and devoured each one in more or less one sitting. If you're looking for pure, unadulterated romance, Jill Shalvis is your girl!
I've written reviews for all four books and are scheduled to go up later in the week. At Last comes out later in the month so I'm plenty pumped about that. Forever and a Day is scheduled to come out in July so I might have to break my ARC request ban and contact the publisher for this one. Wish me luck!
But Jill Shalvis also has other series and I'm dying to read those as well. At this rate, my June will probably be filled with Jill Shalvis reads! Lol. I'm not complaining. The woman is full of awesome.


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The staff at the University of Lancaster UK (centre number 10770) knew nothing about the GRE subject test that was supposed to be taking place. There were 10 of us there who all had official documentation and registration numbers issued by ETS so the university security staff were just as baffled as us! We were told to report to the physics department but it was completely shut without any hint of a GRE test.
We got together and wrote an email to the complaints department of ETS but we fear that our applications will be set back by a year because of ETS's clerical error. We are all going to individually call the ETS information number on Monday but we have no idea what is going to happen.
Has anybody had an experience with ETS like this before? If the ETS try to stonewall us is there any institution in the US who can help us? We are asking for the test to be rescheduled and travel expenses reimbursed.
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Thamanna who is currently acting with Jayam Ravi in Thillangadi gave a small interview:
About Thillangadi?
This film is a remake of the Telugu hit Film Kick. Jayam Raja is directing this film. I am pairing with Jayam Ravi.
Our combination will be totally different in this film. All the songs have come out well. Choreographer Shobi has specially designed special movements for me in this film. Cinematographer Rajashekar has captured me in a different dimension. The film has come out well. See the film and tell me.
What kind of role you are doing in Vijay starrer Sura?
I am acting in this film under the direction of S P Rajkumar in this film. I am donning the role of a city girl and this is the first film I am pairing with Vijay.
Is there any difference of opinion between Nayanthara and you?
For some reasons Nayanthara did not act in Paiyya. Because of this somebody has to act in her place. They selected me to do this role. Since I liked the story I agreed to act in this film and moreover they paid me the salary I demanded. So I acted in this film. There is nothing wrong in this. There is no problem between Nayanthara and me as you mentioned.
Are you interested in working in Hindi films?
I have got a place for me in Tamil films. For time being I am not interested in acting in Hindi films. But if I get the opportunity I wouldn't refuse to act provided it is a good story.


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Last April my esteemed colleague Gary who writes the informative, and even now and then entertaining blog, View from the Wing, had a post about the most important words for all travelers to know. Since that was a LONG time ago, at least in Twitter years, let's just call this what everyone calls it today, that is HUCB or "hang up call back".
With our beloved Delta this is advice to live by. Why? Let me tell you, there is just about nothing reps cannot do (and this is a good thing). No matter what the excuse a rep tells you, there is a workaround to just about anything. All you must find is a rep who is willing to do what it takes to get done what you want.
This applies across the board btw. Matt who had a really fun, well for us not him, Sunday guest post yesterday showed how some reps will do the right thing while others will say anything to make you go away. I have had reps say the same thing as well. I have had gate agents say one thing and a SkyPub rep say the exact opposite and the other way round. I have had phone reps say impossible and the next rep say oh sure we can do that all we have to do is XYZ. At times you need to find a red coat supervisor; other times it takes the reissue desk on the phone when the live reps say no.
Also please understand we are not JUST talking about "breaking the rules". Yes there are times you can get someone to do this, but what I am talking about is just having the rep do what is inside the rules but they are just not always willing to help you or just don't know HOW to do it and the simplest answer is no. Or, as happens many times, the rep may not understand that you are allowed to make whatever change or adjustment you want due to status, situation or other issues like say a weather waiver is in place and on and on.
Are there limits to any of this? Sure. When enough reps say NO, you may be in a situation that really is a brick wall (but this is the exception not the rule). Or, the really worst case situation is that a rep makes a note in the record so all other reps see this and will not go the extra "yard" to get what you want done. So, just be cautious not to end up in this tiny penalty box. – René
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The Spat King: Georgia Oystermen in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
That beefy fellow up there? That's Justin Manley, otherwise known to the coastal commercial fishing community in Georgia as the Spat King. He was the star of my story published on Dec. 21 in the Atlanta Journal Constitution called, oddly enough, "The Spat King," and he is also the catalyst for most of the action on my book, "The High Low Tide," that's all about my home state's mysterious, aging and fascinating watermen and oyster industry.
The digital presentation was rather beautiful, including a slideshow of 20-plus photos I shot while down on the coast in early November. My ugly mug even made its way on there somehow:
The print version looked a like this:
Coming soon: My favorite stories from 2014. Maybe 14 of them if I can really get around to it! And an Etsy shop I'm setting up to sell prints of my favorite photographs.


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Nailed It: Meet the World's First Prosecco Infused Nail Polish!
Getting buzzed at the nail salon will take on a whole new meaning thanks to the latest beauty craze!
Groupon UK is launching a delightfully bubbly new nail polish, just in time for Mother's Day. The polish comes with it its own twist (unfortunately not of lemon or lime)-it looks, smells AND tastes like Prosecco. Yes you heard me correctly, it's an EDIBLE nail polish!
Groupon boasts that the nail varnish has an exquisite gold lustre, and gives you the fun flavor you'd expect from the brunch favorite without a messy hangover the next day. Sounds good so far, right?
So let's get back to this edible piece. Hmmmm.....it's still nail polish?? There's still propylene glycol, shellac E904, sodium saccharin, titanium dioxide and iron oxide for ingredients. Sounds delicious. The site does warn against ingesting the polish like last call at the bar, but occasional nibbling is perfectly okay.
To celebrate the launch of the polish, Groupon is hosting a Mother's Day Competition where you can enter to win a chance at earning a bottle of your very own, of nail polish that is. I sure hope Groupon doesn't mind my multiple entries!


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Grand Designs Live NEC Birmingham Featuring Future Rooms. 9-12 October
Future Rooms At Grand Designs Live NEC Birmingham. Future Rooms Ltd a Gloucestershire based company who make bespoke garden rooms are exhibiting their garden rooms at "Grand Designs Live" at the NEC in Birmingham. Future Rooms are located in the Grand gardens stand G230
Grand Designs Runs From 9th October 2014 Until 12th October 2014
About Grand Desgns Live
Grand Designs Live at the NEC is a four-day celebration of self-building and home improvement. Grand Designs Live features 500 exhibitors spread over six sections.
Grand Designs Runs From 9th October 2014 Until 12th October 2014
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Grand Designs Live Birmingham
NEC (National Exhibition Centre)
About Future Rooms
Future Rooms manufacture a range of top quality garden rooms including the solo a very small garden office to bespoke commercial rooms. Garden rooms can be made to suit most budgets but Future rooms refuse to sacrifice on quality.
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Three profiles of heavy metal fans: A taste for sensation and a subculture of alienation
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Profiles of three fans of heavy metal music are presented, in order to examine the definition and boundaries of the heavy metal subculture. It is suggested on the basis of these profiles that a high level of sensation seeking can lead to a liking for heavy metal music, because the music provides such high-intensity sensation. However, fans become part of thesubculture of heavy metal music only to the extent that their high sensation seeking is combined with alienation. Although all three people profiled enjoyed the high sensation qualities of the music, their involvement in the subculture varied according to the depth of their alienation. Jack, deeply alienated, was deeply committed to the subculture. Brian's alienation was moderate, and his involvement in the subculture was moderate as well. Marvin was not alienated in the least, and was essentially outside the subculture.
KeywordsHeavy Metal Social Psychology Social Issue Cross Cultural Psychology Sensation Quality
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First Profession of a New Zealander in Melbourne
WelCom March 2018:
Sr Brigid Murphy cp
The first Profession, on 10 February 2018, of Karen Englebretsen from Palmerston North is a source of great joy for the Sisters of the Cross and Passion and the wider Passionist family in Australia, New Zealand and worldwide. It was an honour for us all that Bishop Charles Drennan from Palmerston North made the journey to be with us and preside at the Eucharist. We were also blessed with the presence of Karen's friends from New Zealand joining with our parish community and Passionists from around the world.
Karen came to know the Sisters in 2014 but as they did not have a community in New Zealand she made the decision to move to Melbourne in 2015. In Endeavour Hills, a suburb of Melbourne, she continued her journey towards becoming a full member of the Sisters of the Cross and Passion. Karen, a woman of amazing faith and courage has now taken vows as a Sister and a whole new world opens up before her as a member of a small but widely dispersed Congregation. The nearest community to Australia is a small but vibrant new community in Vietnam where there are four young women journeying towards commitment.
We are grateful for these signs of new life. We believe that the charism of compassion in action is needed now as it was when Elizabeth Prout, our foundress, began her journey responding to the needs of Manchester in 1852 when she formed a religious community with the assistance of our Passionist brothers.
Sr Brigid Murphy cp is a Passionist Sister based in Melbourne.


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When working in the Lab color mode we can quickly and easily enhance color separation and saturation in myriad ways. As we've discussed in previous posts, the essential key is to increase the contrast of the a and/or b channels of the image. This can be done manually and individually (to each channel) with Curve or Levels adjustments or we might duplicate merge all layers onto a new, top layer and modify the blend mode of that layer. One of the most effective techniques of this type is the Multiply and Layer Mask Technique inspired by the great master of Lab, Dan Margulis. This not only enhances color but also deepens light areas of the image and will add some contour enhancement to the overall image as well.
I describe Dan's basic technique here along with my own observations (having used the technique many times in many ways). This technique requires the full version of Photoshop and assumes a general knowledge of the application. It really doesn't matter which version it is.
1. Convert image to Lab mode. The easiest way to convert your image to Lab mode is to go to the pulldown menu in Photoshop and choose Image>Mode>Lab Color. A more unerring way to convert images back-and-forth between Lab and RGB is to choose Edit>Convert to Profile…. This will give you more options for color spaces which is essential particularly when converting from Lab to RGB or CMYK. For this part of the technique we'll simply choose for our destination space, "Lab Color."
2. Merge all layers to a top layer. If there is only a background layer, right-click on the layer and choose "Duplicate Layer…" or drag the background layer to the small page icon at the bottom of the Layers Panel. In either case you will end up with a duplicate layer. If you have more than one layer, select the top layer and press Cmd-Shift-Opt-E on the Mac or Ctrl-Shift-Alt-E on the PC. This will merge all visible layers onto a new, top layer. It is always good practice to rename new layers with something descriptive.
3. Change the blend mode of top layer. You will then change the blend mode of this new, top layer to Multiply. You will immediately notice a change in the image. It will appear darker, more dramatic, and more highly saturated. In most cases we must mitigate this effect with the application of a layer mask. Depending upon how your preferences are set up, you will either have a blank (white) layer mask already included in the new layer or you will need to add one by clicking on the add-layer-mask icon on the bottom of the Layers Panel (it's the little rectangle with a round hole in the middle of it).
4. Load the mask with luminance info. Click on the layer mask to select it and go to the pulldown menu and choose Image>Apply Image…. This dialog box is very powerful and also a bit confusing if you aren't familiar with it. In this case we'll keep it simple (most of the choices will be the default options) and use the following options.
- Source: the file we are working on.
- Layer: Merged
- Channel: Lightness
- Blending: Normal
- Opacity: 100%
Leave the other options at their default. Click OK. The layer mask will now be filled with the luminance information (the L channel) of the photo. This will protect the darker areas of the image from the overall Multiply effect.
5. Blur the mask. If you are using a version of Photoshop that is older than CS5 you will need to blur the mask by selecting it and going the pulldown menu and choosing Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur… and then choosing a very large Radius, something like 100 pixels. Be sure Preview is selected and look at the image while you adjust the Radius amount. Click "OK." With CS5 or CS6 you can change add blur dynamically. In CS5 you'll do this in the Mask Panel, in CS6 you'll click on the mask and the new, Properties Panel will automatically appear. In either case you can choose the Feather slider and, like you would with Gaussian Blur, you will select a high amount, around 100 pixels or so.
6. Adjust results. The blurring of the mask will actually give the impression of a sharper, more highly-defined image. You can adjust the overall effect by changing the blur amount on the mask, changing the opacity of the layer or using the advanced blending options for the layer. We'll discuss these blending options at another time.
7. Convert to back to RGB. Lab is a powerful working space but hardly ever a final, output colorspace. You normally must convert back into the RGB colorspace that you started with or perhaps convert to CMYK if that suits your needs. You'll also normally flatten the image again in order to preserve the accuracy of the final conversion.


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Fears Of Unrest Prompt Bailout Of China Exporters
The first of a three-part series.
In Depth
Over the past quarter century, one trade relationship has been central to the process of economic globalization — Chinese factories exporting products, and American consumers buying them.
The current economic crisis signals a change in that relationship, and the gradual decline in China's role as factory to the world.
China has tried to decrease its reliance on export industries and, for now, the country has resorted to propping up its export sector out of fear that its collapse could lead to unemployment and social unrest.
Pressure On Chinese Factories
Many of the dress shoes and sneakers that end up on sale at Sears and Family Dollar begin their journey halfway around the world under the sewing machines of the Feng Tai Footwear Company, located in Dongguan city in the southern Guangdong Province's Pearl River Delta.
Eddie Lam, Feng Tai's CEO, says this is one of the toughest times he's seen since he moved his factory here from Hong Kong nearly 30 years ago.
With prospects for the Christmas shopping season looking grim, Lam says American retailers are delaying shipments of shoes they ordered from him months in advance.
"All of a sudden they call us and say, hey, they want to split those shipments into three shipments instead of one big shipment," Lam says. "And then six months down the road they only take half of it, and you're stuck with them."
That makes it hard for Lam to pay his suppliers. He has stopped replacing workers who quit, and he's had to consolidate his assembly lines.
Worries About Bankruptcy
Most of the factories in the delta simply assemble materials into finished products for export. They're known as original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs. Hong Kong toy company executive Ben Hui says the technology, brand names and marketing are all in the hands of the foreign companies for which they produce.
"OEMs have nothing to upgrade. We just add labor," Hui says. "There are only two things we can do — maintain efficiency and quality. If you can do that, you can survive. Lose either one, and you're finished."
Official statistics show that thousands of factories in Guangdong province have gone bankrupt this year. In the latest flare-up of unrest, laid off toy factory workers protested in Dongguan on Nov. 25, flipping police cars and smashing company offices.
This has Beijing worried. It has decided to protect exports by increasing export tax rebates and halting the three-year-long appreciation of China's currency against the dollar. And local governments in the delta have used billions of dollars to bail out small and medium enterprises.
China's top economic planner, National Development and Reform Commission Director Zhang Ping, defended the bailouts at a recent press conference.
"Helping these companies get through their current difficulties is entirely necessary and appropriate," Zhang said. "Otherwise, if too many factories go bankrupt, it will lead to many workers losing their jobs, and could increase social tensions and unrest."
Righting The Imbalance
One bright spot in the Pearl River Delta is that most American companies there are surviving. At the Dahon bicycle factory, workers make tire rims for the company's folding bikes. The bikes' patented technology is a hit with consumers who want to save energy and storage space. The company's founder, David Hon, says he anticipated the economic changes now under way.
"Three or four years ago, when we saw the thing coming, the groundswell of everything coming, we started to do domestic marketing and sales of our product," Hon says. "And that took a couple of years, and finally took off a couple of years ago."
The problem is that now neither American nor Chinese consumers have the appetite to buy all the products the delta produces. China's industrial oversupply and America's overconsumption have become the main factors in a major global imbalance that is now undergoing a correction.
Beijing University finance professor Michael Pettis says that the most likely way out of this imbalance is that U.S. household savings must go up, and Chinese production must come down.
"There's two ways production [can] come down. One way is the way it happened to America in the 1930s, where basically American overproduction collapsed," Pettis says. "We could have that in China — China overproduction could collapse. China may try to protect it, by exporting more, but my fear is that that creates a trade war, in which case it will have to come back to China."
Pettis points out that 80 years ago, the tables were turned — it was the U.S. that was exporting its oversupply of goods to Europe. And its efforts to protect those exports, such as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, led to a bruising trade war, falling foreign trade and an even harder economic landing.


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Drug offences in the UK is are treated by the courts with a high degree of seriousness. Under the Drugs Misuse Act 1971, there are a variety of offences related to drugs such as the possession of drugs, knowledge of the existence of drugs, possession and use of controlled drugs and possession with the intent to supply or conspiracy to supply controlled drugs. The abuse of controlled drugs is regarded as a criminal offence in England and Wales and these offences, although all related to drugs, carry different sentences. By virtue of the fact that the abuse of controlled drugs can be very harmful and dangerous to users, the possession, distribution and use of the same is monitored very intently by law.
Although the Western world can be said to be relatively more lenient with drug offences and the attached punishment as opposed to some foreign countries where those found in possession or drug distribution may find themselves facing the death penalty, the sentences drug offences attract in the UK can nevertheless also be very serious indeed. The need to seek representation and advice from competent drug lawyers, or drug crime solicitors is therefore crucial. Expert advice, knowledge and a robust as well as proactive defence must be mounted at the earliest possible.
Drug laws are getting stricter
Our London criminal law network are experts at this; with several years of defending clients on various drugs charges in the UK. The most vital advice is, as they say, to make haste while the sun shines! We cannot stress enough the absolute importance of getting a team of experts involved at the earliest possible time. Our drug attorneys are renowned specialists in defending drugs related offences. It does not matter what stage of the investigations you are at or if indeed outright charges are yet to be brought against you, our drug crime lawyers will provide you with exceptional legal advice and the most formidable legal representation possible. Our services are tailored to our clients' needs and situation. Please be minded however that the earlier we hear from you and inform the investigating authorities that all further enquiries should either be directed to us or channelled through us, the better.
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Our expertise in defending drug charges dates back several years and we have come to learn the best lines and grounds for defence. We will, as such, go through your case in a very thorough manner. We will call every piece of irregular 'evidence' held by the prosecution into question and provide you with the best possible advise with regards to the validity of any search warrant that may have been served or about to be served on you. Search warrants grant the Police undeterred access to your life, your privacy and the right to rummage through anything; invaluable or otherwise, stored in the area for which the warrant has been granted.
Even when there is nothing of substance to hide, very few of us are ever happy for complete strangers to rummage through all our precious and most cherished memories as well as belongings. Warrants may be obtained to search your home, business premises, and other areas where the Police have reason to believe that you may be storing or hiding any controlled drug. Virtually all recreational drugs are now controlled as controlled or illegal substances and have all now been banned from the United Kingdom. Any substance outside of cigarette and alcohol is therefore regarded as illegal. Drugs such as Ecstasy, heroin and cocaine are controlled as Class A drugs because of their potency and harmful impact on users.
Other drugs which have gained popularity in more recent years such as Speed and amphetamines; also infamously dropped in unattended drinks, and temazepan are regarded by the law as Class B drugs; while Class C drugs include drugs with the lesser harming potentials. These include cannabis or weed as it is more commonly and informally known, certain forms of tranquilisers and steroids. It is not impossible, given the vast array of controlled substances in today's society, for one to be unaware of the fact that a particular drug they are in possession of is illegal. Although ignorance is not a ground for defence, we may nevertheless still be able to mount a solid defence on your behalf by dwelling on the surrounding circumstances and the fact that you are, where relevant, a first time offender. Other mitigating circumstances such as the use of a controlled drug for medicinal purposes, where this applies, will also be presented expertly before the court.
The more complex drugs or drugs related cases include importation, drug smuggling charges, possession with intent to supply, possession of drugs with highly significant street value ranging from thousands to millions of pounds, drug cultivation and trafficking. With our combined vast knowledge of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, our extensive years of experience and most dedicated lawyers possible, you are guaranteed a robust representation no matter how serious or complex the charges you face appear.
We are criminal defence solicitors and this is what we do best. Thanks to our combined expertise, several years of experience and our unshakable unity in the belief that every single one of our clients deserves the best and most formidable defence possible, regardless of the allegations they face, we are indeed one of the best criminal defence law networks. Once we are contacted by people who find themselves on that most unpalatable side of the law, we immediately spring into action with absolutely no delay. We will first and foremost provide you with excellent and expert legal advice tailored to your particular situation, the allegations you face and other surrounding circumstances.
Although we are based at the Old Bailey in London, at the heart of the country's legal matters, we are happy to and do represent our clients all over the country. If you have been charged with drug related offences therefore or you are suspected of being involved in drug smuggling, possession, peddling and/or other offences, and you are outside London, please just give us a call and one of our devoted lawyers will guide you through our wide range of services and the most applicable to you. Our areas of expertise in drugs crimes include charges or suspicions of conspiracy to import and/or export drugs, possession with intent to supply Cocaine, Heroin, Ecstasy, Cannabis and other controlled drugs. We are also very experienced in defending allegations of drug cultivation such as the growth of cannabis on any scale; large or small.
We are well aware of the fact that investigations into allegations of drug related offences very often go on for a considerable period of time. The regrettable reality is that while such investigations are ongoing, regardless of the end result, people's lives are being adversely affected. Family life, business or the work place are all likely to be affected while the Police drill into people's private affairs. Depending on the allegations an individual is facing, there may sometimes be more people involved than just the landlord.
Investigations into such suspected crimes as cannabis cultivation, conspiracy to supply, exportation or importation of drugs will more than likely also involve other investigating bodies such as the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), as well as the HM Revenue and Customs. These investigations are usually drawn out and disruptive. You will require professional legal advice during this difficult time. At London's most prominent criminal defence law networks we are very familiar with this lengthy process and will provide you with the best possible service at this time. We have several years of experience in defending clients on the drug related offences.


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text: Wisconsin is both the dairy capital of the United States and a major center for beer brewing, however, apparently Wisconsinites like their cheese way better than their brewskies. That interesting nugget was buried in Public Policy Polling's latest survey of the Badger State, which found that 64 percent of Wisconsin residents prefer cheese to beer compared to just 18 percent of Wisconsinites who have a higher opinion of beer than of cheese. Continue reading "Wisconsinites Like Cheese Even Better Than Beer"


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YouTube Revamping Ad Plan The Old-Fashioned Way
Web video has been one of the great media success stories of the past few years--well, by most accounts. There's one fairly important metric in which the medium has fallen a bit short: advertising.
Even Google's video golden child, YouTube, has struggled to figure out the perfect way to generate a decent income. It's toyed with a number of options, including, notably, the insertion of pop-up ads into videos.
It seems Google and YouTube have finally decided to bite the advertising bullet, by handing over its most valuable real estate to advertisers: the top of its homepage. According to Silicon Alley Insider, the the company is soliciting advertisers to fill in a soon-to-be empty slot for banner ads.
The new ads will begin appearing within the next fortnight. Google will start by offering up the prime YouTube real estate for the bargain-basement price of $200,000 a day.


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"If your clothes are not natural fabrics consider them plastic. Your body will absorb all of that" Shelby Lynn, 26, owner at KahunaKai swimwear.
I'm so stoked to introduce you all to Shelby Lynn, friend of mine, mom, total #GIRLBOSS & entrepeneur!
Recently, Shelby moved to Sacramento from Maui to raise her 2 twin boys close to her family & open her own business once and for all.
KahunaKai has really hit the ground running the past year. She launched her first round of bikinis last year in June which have all sold and since then, she has grown her instagram over 7,000 followers, moved into a large studio space & is ready to launch her second round of bikinis for this summer (TONIGHT).
Shelby's line KahunaKai is something you wont find just anywhere–
her swimwear is made out of 100% recycled material, abandoned fishing nets to be exact.
The dyes she uses to color her beautiful, sustainable bikinis & yoga wear are from 100% non toxic colorants and sometimes the dyes are even purely PLANTS.
Shelby's clothing is making a statement that a healthy body also needs HEALTHY CLOTHES to absorb. Yes, that's right, what we wear can get into our skin and Shelby is shining MAJOR light on that.
Each of her bikinis are made carefully by her and a few of her staff members.
Shelby basically works and raises her 2 little ones all day everyday. #GirlBoss
Shelby has had an itch for designing fashion her whole life– in high school she was in the newspaper wearing a prom dress she designed made out of milk jugs, garbage bags, wire & more.
What I admire so much about Shelby and her brand is how she shows how important ALL NATURAL products are. She even goes above & beyond just eating natural foods– she only wears and puts things on her & her boys body that are completely natural/organic!! What she shares is so important and I would have never thought about it before: our skin is the biggest organ we have in our body and it absorbs everything, even our clothes and what their made with. KahunaKai makes an amazing statement with the way the clothes are made.
I asked her a few questions just so you guys can get to know her a bit more as well as her brand and how it SHINES brightly compared to others.
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Shelby: When I have time I prefer hot yoga! I love to get my booty kicked into gear and sweat out all my stress and fears. Afterwards, I feel like a new person ready to tackle the world. If I am unable to go to yoga I do my best to play outside at least once a day and stretch on some aerials.
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It's The Teaching!Our team of 11 left SFO on June 13 and after our 2-day safari in the Masai Mara, spent a full 5 days at the Achungo Children's Centre (that's how we spell it in ex-British colonies!). What was most remarkable on this trip for me was that every single teacher from our 2 preschool classes through Kindergarten up to 6th grade were simply superlative. I just wish I'd had them as teachers! They were engaging and encouraging and respectful and fun and they frequently got the students out of their seats (what an innovation!). It's true, the little boys weren't expected to sit still on their plank desk all day with their hands folded and somehow translate all their innate kinetic energy into contemplative learning.
The new buildings are wonderful -- the locals tell Michael (the Director) that it should be a High School because the buildings are too nice for a Primary!
We now have a total state-of-the-art, fully recycling latrine! (I've got to do an entire article on that one!)
The children are getting breakfast (wheat gruel) as well as lunch!! And they seemed even more energetic (if that's possible) and healthy and joyous than before.
Achungo has become more than a leg up for orphans toward survival and it is a truly wonderful life experience for these dear children. I was just enthralled!


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Color The Vote
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Voters Guide - Twin Cities
A Call to Minnesota Elected, Business and Community Leaders to visibly and strongly affirm Minnesota's Core identity as Open, Welcoming and Safe.
November 16, 2016,
Governor Mark Dayton
Speaker Kurt Daudt
Majority Leader-elect Paul Gazelka
Majority Leader-elect Joyce Peppin
Minority Leader-elect Tom Bakk
Minority Leader-elect Melissa Hortman
Greetings and congratulations to the newly elected leaders,
All across Minnesota there is a heightened state of anxiety and fear within the ALANA (African, African American, Latino, Asian, and Native American) communities, LGBTQ community, minority religious groups and Minnesotans in general. This is greatly affecting our children, especially young women and girls. Unfortunately since the election, there has been a significant increase in incidents committed by a small number within our schools, places of work and in the public which have sought to divide us as a community and make some of us feel unwelcome and safe. When trust and respect is lost, our society could collapse. We must work to change the environment very soon.
In this context, we call on our elected, business and community leaders, led by Governor Dayton, and our legislative leaders in partnership with business, religious and community organizations to provide a very visible and joint message to Minnesotans that they are committed to keeping Minnesota open, welcoming and safe with great intent and urgency towards shared prosperity and common respect for all Minnesotans.
The undersigned organizations call for your leadership to visibly and strongly affirm Minnesota's Core identity as Open, Welcoming and Safe and are ready to stand with them to achieve respect and prosperity for all Minnesotans.
Advocates for Human Rights
Acctech LLC
African American Leadership Forum (AALF)
African Immigrant Services (AIS)
African Reconciliation and Development Organization (ARDO)
Anika Foundation
Al-Amal School
American Indian Community Housing Organization
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GCSE regrade: WJEC seeks 'urgent' talks with education minister
The WJEC examining board is seeking further urgent talks over the Welsh education minister's demand GCSE English papers be regraded.
Leighton Andrews said a review had persuaded him hundreds of pupils had been the victims of an "injustice", a decision welcomed by teaching unions.
It follows a row about students being awarded lower grades than expected.
England's exams regulator Ofqual has refused to order exam boards to regrade this summer's English GCSEs.
Mr Andrews told BBC Wales he will give WJEC a "reasonable time" to comply but will force the issue if required.
UK Education Secretary Michael Gove has refused to intervene in England.
But Wales' education minister has taken a different course of action by asking the WJEC exam board to regrade papers.
If it refuses his request he can order the board to act.
The WJEC sets exams on both sides of the border, with 34,000 taking English language GCSE in Wales this summer and 84,000 in England.
The board said Ofqual and the Welsh government work jointly on a range of regulatory matters over exams.
"For example, in 2012 these regulators jointly required WJEC to make our GCSE English language awards more severe at grade C than we had proposed, by asking for changes to some of our grade boundaries."
A spokesperson for the WJEC added: "Given that the regulators have worked jointly on all matters to date relating to WJEC's GCSE English language awards, it is helpful that the minister's statement indicates that discussions 'will continue' with Ofqual on the results of WJEC English language candidates.
"We look forward to further urgent discussions with both regulators in order to be clear about the direction we should now take."
The percentage of pupils from Wales gaining an A* to C in GCSE English language fell from 61.3% in 2011 to 57.4% this year.
The Welsh government says it expects "several hundred" candidates will now get higher grades.
England's exams regulator, Ofqual, has refused to order exam boards to regrade this summer's English GCSEs.
It acknowledged grade boundaries had changed part way through the year, but stood by the new June grading system.
Mr Andrews said there was a "case to answer".
"We have looked in detail at the evidence and my regulatory officials have produced a very dry, sober and technical report on the conclusions that they have drawn," he said.
"It's very clear over the last 18 months Michael Gove has made a series of announcements about GCSEs and about A Levels without reference to the fact they are three country qualifications, he's not discussed his statements with me - but this is about fairness to individual candidates in Wales.
"That is why I have asked the WJEC to regrade the English language results this summer, I don't think they were fair."
But Conservative education spokeswoman Angela Burns accused Mr Andrews of political game-playing.
"While fairness and the welfare of pupils must always come first, I question the minister's motives in today's announcement," she said.
Mr Andrews questioned whether the Conservatives had read the report.
He also told BBC Radio Wales: "I'm going to be sitting down this morning with my officials and I've no doubt I'll be discussing it also with legal and regulatory officials in the department.
"We will give the WJEC a reasonable time to comply with our request before we make any decision to issue a direction, but we would issue a direction if forced to do so."
Wales' largest teaching union, the NUT, welcomed the move, saying the minister had recognised an "injustice".
NUT Wales secretary David Evans said: "Between January and June, exam boards changed the grade boundaries in such a way that many pupils who would have scored a C in January, scored a D in June - for exactly the same work.
"This change was not explained and has disadvantaged many thousands of pupils and their schools. That situation was simply unacceptable to the many pupils, parents and teachers who have been left feeling very angry at this action."
Dr Philip Dixon, director of education union ATL, said the report gave "a clear and forensic analysis of what went wrong".
Anna Brychan, director of NAHT Cymru, called it a "victory for fair play".


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|This is a lore summary, presenting intradiegetic or in-universe information about the subject. For game characteristics and similar data, consult the table on the right.
An axe is an implement with many uses, such as a tool or a weapon.
Variants[edit | edit source]
Auto axe[edit | edit source]
Jury-rigged together from a chainsaw and old car parts the breakers bring in from the city, the auto axe is a gas-operated steel cutter. While used to cut steel for construction projects of The Pitt, auto axes were designed by Marco, a slave engineer in The Pitt, for combat through and through.[1][2]
- For the unique auto axes found in The Pitt, see: "Man Opener" and "The Mauler.
- For the semi-common auto axe found in the The Pitt, see: "Steel saw".
Axe[edit | edit source]
A felling axe with a long wood handle and a one sided steel head that's intended to be used to cut down trees but is instead used by the inhabitants of Point Lookout on any tourists they find.
- For the unique axe found in the Fallout 3 add-on Point Lookout, see: "The Dismemberer".
Fire axe[edit | edit source]
Primarily used by fire fighters before the Great War, the axe is now often used by raiders and prospectors alike for its durability. Because of its use by fire fighters, the head is painted a bright red and has a pick opposite the blade. The haft of the axe is covered in a synthetic grip past the throat for better handling.
- For the unique axe found in Fallout: New Vegas, see: "Knock-Knock"
- For the NPC-only poisoned variant found in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Honest Hearts, see: "Poisoned fire axe"
Grognak's axe[edit | edit source]
This pre-War artifact may be a mere replica of Grognak the Barbarian's iconic weapon, but it is still surprisingly effective in the right hands. The double bladed battle axe has a solid metal haft with a grip made of leather straps, and is hefty enough that two hands are required to swing it accurately.
Hatchet[edit | edit source]
Hatchets are weighted hand-axes with a simple wooden or rubber-gripped metal handle, used for chopping wood and limbs alike. Unlike throwing hatchets, these are not balanced for use as a projectile weapon.
- For the NPC-only poisoned variant found in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Honest Hearts, see: "Poisoned hatchet"
Proton axe[edit | edit source]
The proton axe was developed by Big MT to fit into the new trench warfare niche, alongside power fists and super sledgehammers.
Tomahawk[edit | edit source]
Fashioned from PVC pipe, two rusted railroad spikes and stretch cord, the tomahawk is an improvised weapon used by many of the Utah tribes, such as the White Legs and Dead Horses.
Throwing hatchet[edit | edit source]
Smaller than the regular hatchet, the throwing hatchet has a shaft crafted entirely from wood for lighter weight and easier throwing. The head is thinner than on the regular hatchet, with a relatively wide blade.
Axe handle[edit | edit source]
Only the handle of a hand axe. While not quite as effective as it would be if it had the axe head still attached, it's still a decent blunt weapon.
- ↑ The Lone Wanderer: "I guess you're right. What are you working on?"
Marco: "Weapons. Lot's of 'em. There's something coming... and soon. So, I take the crap we find out in the yard and some of the tools we use, and I make them into stuff we can fight the bosses with."
(Marco's dialogue (The Pitt))
- ↑ The Lone Wanderer: "I need a weapon. Can you help me out?"
Marco: "Yeah... you're the one Midea told me about. Wernher sent you, right? I can help you out. Take this. It's called an Auto Axe. Nice, huh? I make 'em out of the old car parts the breakers drag in from the city. Do what you can with it, just be careful around the bosses. Make a wrong move and you're done."
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In a somewhat surprise move, iOS 9.3 was released by Apple into beta testing yesterday and this could spell trouble for those waiting for a jailbreak tool. I say surprise as the new version's predecessor, iOS 9.2.1 is still in beta testing too, which means that two versions of iOS are now in beta, waiting to replace iOS 9.2. For your average Apple iOS device user, this isn't a problem, even if they're released within a week of each other.
However, for those wanting to take advantage of a possible release that was slated for iOS 9.2.1 (we actually know iOS 9.2.1 has already been jailbroken, but no public tool exists) in the coming weeks, the release of iOS 9.3 into beta testing massively complicates the issue. This is for two reasons. Firstly, it now means that a major update of iOS is now in the wild and jailbreaking teams will likely want to release a tool for it, rather than the intermediate iOS 9.2.1, which went to beta on 17th December, especially as iOS 9.3 includes some nifty new features such as Night Shift and updates to 3D Touch.
This is due to the fact that iOS 9.3 includes some nifty new features such as Night Shift and updates to 3D Touch. The latter will only be of use to iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, but Night Shift as well as some of the other new features and tweaks in iOS 9.3 will definitely be useful to jailbreakers with older devices.
As well as having a jailbreak for the latest version of iOS, there's one other reason that jailbreaking teams may hold off on releasing a tool and skipping iOS 9.2.1 altogether. The likelihood is that as soon as the tool is released, Apple will patch the exploits it uses. If the teams release an update for iOS 9.2.1, it could introduce a patch into iOS 9.3 and bring forward its release to essentially kill the jailbreak for a lot of people.


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It's here.
And it's magical.
People always try to compare the iPad to net-books, tablet computers but in honesty, it isn't meant to compete with either of them. It's a new class of PC - for very specific features. We really shouldn't take the iPad lightly, if it's able to execute these "specific features" well, it can become something quite special.
The first thing that I felt when I held the iPad is that it feels a bit thick. Yes, it sounds odd but It just doesn't feel as thin as it looks. It's not a deal breaker but I would have liked a few millimeters off the curved back.
Another thing that is evident is how much more tactile the home button feels compared to the iPhone.
The iPhone OS started off as a tablet OS and it's clearly evident. The iPhone OS runs so much better on the iPad that it makes the iPhone feel incredibly uncomfortable. When I use the iPhone now, it just... well, feels like crap.
Apple seems to be going for a sharper design language. The buttons and the rotational lock switch (which is awesome by the way) have a surprisingly sharp edge.
Every time I hold an aluminum Apple product, I am surprised by how well Apple executes aluminum. Also, the Apple logo isn't scratching and leads me to believe that it's ceramic or glass.
If you are going to buy an iPad, I really feel that the 64GB versions are ideal. The iPad is really all about stuffing all the content you own in it - and 16/32GB just doesn't cut it (for most people).
Also, I would go for the Wi-Fi version of the iPad. 70% of the places you're at will have Wi-Fi access anyways. Instead, use your phone (if supported) to tether your iPad to it.
One thing that bugs me immensely: the iPad's lock screen looks rather ridiculous. There is so much space on that screen that can be put to better use. It would be great to have the schedule, weather and other information on it.
If you think the iPad is "just" a "big iPhone" you are mistaken. The big display is really what enables it to be revolutionary.
Apps like iBooks really showcase what the iPad is all about. It's about a new age of content distribution and consumption that just "works".
The keyboard is very usable too. Almost life-size. It's still missing many languages though.
Some of my favorite Apps:
USA Today (free). I read it every morning and it's a brilliant metaphor of the newspaper. The looks and works very much like a real newspaper.
Reuters (free) is also fantastic but takes a completely different approach from USA Today. Instead of trying to imitate paper, it goes for a more modern UI. It also has imbedded videos with annoying ad pre-rolls.
Twitterlator ($5) is my Twitter client of choice. I've tried most of the ones for the iPad and none of them beat Twitterlator's good looks and ease of use.
Dropbox (free) has also released an iPad specific app, and we all know how ridiculously useful Dropbox is.
Wikipanion (free) is probably my favorite application on both the iPhone and iPad. If you are a heavy wikipedia user, it really gives you an experience that is so much more polished than using a web browser.
Weather HD ($1) is a weather application but looks incredible. It plays a surreal video that matches the current weather condition in the background.


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You know the drill: try out a new service or app these days and you're confronted with a Facebook or Twitter authorization. Like us, you may cringe at how much is being asked for or mutter "fine" under your breath before hitting "accept." At that point, you hope the company doesn't misuse your info.
Now imagine if all your data, including photos, appeared on the device or new app where you wanted them, almost magically. And if you bought a new smartphone or tablet, you'd only have to download your favorite apps and they'd be ready to rock, no configuring necessary. Plus you wouldn't have to worry about privacy or security because you could easily control which apps saw/got which data.
Sound too good to be true? Trove is betting this scenario will become normal eventually, and it could happen even sooner if it succeeds at courting both developers and consumers.
Since launching its API in August, Trove has focused on developers. Their pitch: spend more time building products instead of solving "plumbing" problems. [ The founders first got attention for their developer survey of which APIs were worst to work with -- the overwhelming answer was Facebook. ]
Taking a page from the Twilio playbook, Trove is promoting the platform at hackathons.
"At these hackdays, Trove is valuable for 95% of the people in that room," co-founder Seth Blank tells LAUNCH. "If they integrate with us, it takes them 20 minutes. They can spend the rest of their day building their product rather than figuring out what to pull in."
Just last week, Trove's other co-founders, Nick Vlku and Jesse Emery, were among the winners of the Dropbox API hackathon. Their app -- built on Trove, naturally -- backs up all your social content into your Dropbox in one click. Seth says they hope to publicly release the app "within the next week or two."
So far, about 40 developers have built apps with Trove, and 65 apps have been built. Seth estimates it will take "anywhere from six to 18 months" to hit a critical mass of developers using Trove. That's also why the startup won't charge developers to use its API.
Getting consumers on board will come next. "What we have now is a terrific developer-focused brand and no consumer brand," says Seth. "That's something we need to build in the very near future." He thinks the consumer version could be called something like "my Trove" or "my wallet." Monetizing Trove will come later, in the form of advertising, payment services or paid content like music, according to Seth.
Some developers are already trying to give users more control over what data gets shared, for instance with a Chrome extension that lets them opt out of Facebook permissions when that awfully long list pops up in a dialog box. Chad Selph of Twilio, who posted his extension's code on GitHub, recently generated a huge discussion on Hacker News about the trust between developers and users, the scary amount of data Facebook sucks in and alternatives to Facebook authorizations.
Seth agrees with the HN commenters who said that using the extension could break the app because apps aren't built to deal with missing permissions. He says the frustration with permissions is a core reason they started building Trove.
"Practically speaking, this extension will not truly help users until applications begin to handle partial permissions effectively, and that won't happen until content providers change developer expectations away from a black and white view of permissions," Seth explains. "And at that point, the extension would be redundant. However, as a means of stirring the pot over expectations, this extension's doing a wonderful job."
Seth -- who has worked with gdgt, Songkick and Justin.tv -- Nick and Jesse began building the Trove platform two years ago on the side while they worked at well-paying jobs, getting feedback as they went along. They jumped into Trove full time in August after hosting two hackdays, the first in San Francisco and the second in New York.
"In the time between hackdays, we were dogfooding the product and writing more documentation. By the second hackday, we had a product people could use," Seth says. "That's when we reached an inflection point. Now it's really ready, now's the point where it's no longer bootstrappable, we need to get behind this."
Trove is working on closing a seed round, money it will use to beef up its developer-marketing efforts. The company's advisors include Danielle Morrill, Twilio's marketing director.
As for competition, companies like Embedly are focused on bringing public data, including videos and photos, into apps -- but not on user data. The only real competitor is the Locker Project, an open-source initiative that Singly is sponsoring and that will give people a "container for personal data" and developers an API to build apps that access that info.
Seth says the Locker Project is "trying to solve a similar problem but almost in the exact opposite way. I would go so far as to say it's a solution that hard-core engineers would absolutely love and no consumer would ever use." He argues that consumers just want their stuff to appear where they want it, painlessly and fast, not to make sure that it all goes to the right place first.
"I actually think we can make their platform more powerful anwyay," says Seth. "I see them as partners not competition." Although he disagrees with Singly's approach, he says, "We both hope that if we're wrong the other guy is right."
As every potential investor has told them, all this great plumbing won't matter if the average person doesn't feel safe using Trove -- no one wants photos popping up where they don't expect them, for example. And let's not forget Facebook's recent settlement with the Federal Trade Commission because of its broken promises on user privacy.
"We are immensely concerned about privacy and security," Seth says, though he notes it's an issue developers haven't raised with them. Trove has a number of measures "baked into the system" so that all sharing is 100% opt-in, and the founders have "a lot of ideas" to make privacy and security better for both users and developers.
As Seth points out, "If you look at this from a completely devil's advocate position, if we screw this up, we are dead in the water or we can't survive doing what we do. We have to do it well. We happen to do it well anyway and it's important to us to do it well."
The data users will want to appear anywhere will likely come from Facebook and Google. Seth knows Trove's biggest fights will be with these companies. "We don't care where you consume and create, we just want to help you. Facebook and Google want you to consume and create on their platforms."
Trove also wants to be built into hardware operating systems. One of Seth's example of Trove's potential magic is buying an iPhone and being able to see all your contacts' phone numbers and email addresses when you turn it on. But working with Apple is admittedly a long way off.
"It would be our dream to be baked into iOS. It would make every experience for every user on iOS better," says Seth, who acknowledges that he hasn't spent much time thinking about it because of Apple's famously closed system. "I think there's real potential to make that happen, but many years in the future."
This is one example of how Trove could appear to consumers. To populate a new photo-sharing service, a person could simply activate Trove, which is connected to that person's Flickr, Facebook, Instagram, Google Picasa and Twitter accounts.
Website: https://www.yourtrove.com/
Twitter: @yourtrove
Blog: http://blog.yourtrove.com/
Demo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZEsWnbrYdY
Seth Blank
Email: s at yourtrove dot com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sethblank
Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/2/118086737936443306746
Blog: http://sethblank.com/
AngelList: angel.co/sethblank
Nick Vlku
Email: n at yourtrove dot com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nickvlku
Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/2/113099872454469509827
Blog: http://blog.vlku.com/
Jesse Emery
Email: j at yourtrove dot com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ejesse
Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/2/113138163013833868989/
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