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bentti needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 96 designs submitted by 31 freelance designers.
Kissing Kumquats is a clothing line that is fun, fresh, feminine and youthful, but not babyish. The customer range will be 8-30ish and will cater mostly to moms, who will be doing most of the shopping. Any ideas for a tagline would be great.
Kissing Kumquats
We need a logo that can be made into businesses cards, stationary, web design, circular hang tags, and printed on t-shirts. We imagine our clothing as comfortable. It's beachcomber chic, but cute and eclectic. We specialize mostly in skirts, capris, jumpers, dresses, hair accessories, and would like screen printed t-shirts.
- Item 1...We would like two kumquats.
- Color scheme: tangerine, pink grapefruit, lemon, lime.....
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- Any ideas for a tagline
- Circular design
- No primary colors
- Straight lines
- Faces on the kumquats
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LOS ANGELES – Teena Marie, R.I.P. Bat Boy loves you.
Grammy nominated singer Teena Marie — once known as Rick James protégée — died in her sleep last night at her home in Pasadena at the age of 54 . She was also known as The Ivory Queen of Soul.
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by Michael Caruso
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill, welcomed Christopher Jennings to perform a solo recital on its 114-rank Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ Friday evening, Oct. 18. The event was a fundraiser for the Ann Stookey Memorial Fund for Music. Stookey, a longtime Chestnut Hiller and church member, recently passed away. Her family has given the church a matching bequest for the maintenance of the organ and the sustenance of the parish's music program.
Jennings, who is currently associate organist/choirmaster at St. James' Church in New York City, chose a program that highlighted the color capabilities of the church's pipe organ. The entire first half of the recital was taken up by Clarence Dickinson's "Storm King" Symphony. After intermission, Jennings played Alec Wyton's "Fanfare," Calvin Hampton's "Five Dances" and Gerre Hancock's "Toccata." In all four scores, Jennings displayed a rock-solid technique, interpretive flair and a gift for registering the instrument for maximum tonal effect.
Composed in 1920, Dickinson's "Storm King" Symphony paints five aural pictures of the "Storm King" mountain overlooking the Hudson River in New York State. Originally scored for organ and orchestra, Dickinson later transcribed it for solo organ, the version that was used by Jennings Friday night.
Wyton's "Fanfare" voices an inner melody within broad, staccato chords and an admirable sense of dramatic development. Hampton's "Five Dances" are full of syncopated rhythms, jazzy harmonies, a surprisingly full palette of counterpoint and welcome moments of eloquent lyricism. Hancock's "Toccata" brought the recital to a flashy finale. From start to finish, the music and the playing it received showcased what is undoubtedly one of the finest pipe organs in the world.
Piffaro, the Renaissance Band, opened its 28th season of concerts in Philadelphia Saturday night, Oct. 19, in the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill. Although the program, "The Return of the Pipers," looked splendid on paper, there were technical glitches in performance that troubled the discerning ear.
The concert was set out as a "competition" between Flemish, English and French music of the 15th and 16th centuries, pitting against each other the musical establishments of Europe's most powerful monarchs: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, England's King Henry VIII and France's King Francois I.
There were sections entitled "A Suite of Flemish Tunes," "An English Sampler," "Three Sacred Offerings," "More English, with a French Twist" and "French & Flemish Dances." Although a certain degree of sameness did creep into the music making — each group invariably seemed to end with additional percussion — Piffaro's characteristic vitality almost always captivated and delighted.
On several occasions, however, individual numbers started off precariously and eventually ground to a halt due to ensemble insecurities, forcing the musicians to restart the proceedings. While these difficulties did not surface during pieces performed by the full consort of recorders, they did occur when the complement either featured or included only the double reed instruments.
One positive highlight of the concert, however, was the playing of Martin Bernstein, the winner of Piffaro's 2013 National Recorder Competition. He played with the technical fluency and interpretive sophistication of a seasoned, veteran musician.
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Semyon Bychkov guest-conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra October 10, 11 and 12 in the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall. Although pianist Yefim Bronfman lent an air of glamour to the evening's music making by joining Bychkov in Beethoven's "Fourth Piano Concerto" to open the concert, it was Bychkov's reading of Shostakovich's "Symphony No. 11 in G minor" ("The Year 1905") that made the strongest impression.
Shostakovich composed his eleventh symphony in 1957. Only the year before, Russian tanks had rolled into Budapest to violently suppress the peaceful protests of the Hungarian people against the communist oppression imposed upon them after the end of World War II. And so, Shostakovich, probably at great personal risk, offered an implicit cry against such tyranny while explicitly commemorating the 1905 massacre of peaceful protesters by Czarist troops in St. Petersburg. It's a score that not only doesn't request beautiful sounds from the players but that almost forbids them, with the exception of those telling moments when ethereal beauty is contrasted against hideous cruelty.
The loveliest of those fleeting gestures of beauty was that provided by former Chestnut Hiller Elizabeth Starr Masoudnia, the orchestra's English horn player, near the end of the symphony's final movement.


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Thanks, Ed. That is exactly the point I was making. On Nov 17, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Ed Felten wrote: > It seems to me that there might be substantial agreement here. As I > understand John, he was positing two reasons for sending a DNT flag to > first parties: (1) when DNT is enabled, first parties shouldn't > circumvent the limits on third-party collection by collecting data and > then sharing it with third parties, and (2) some first parties might > choose voluntarily to go beyond what the standard requires when they > see a DNT flag. > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Mike Zaneis <email@example.com> wrote: >> This is where there is a fundamental split amongst the parties. We had a >> discussion several weeks ago about the first party obligations and I pointed >> out that IAB and my member companies generally support the U.S. FTC position >> that consumers don't expect first parties to be subject to such >> restrictions. Those positions have not changed. >> >> Mike Zaneis >> SVP & General Counsel, IAB >> (202) 253-1466 >> On Nov 17, 2011, at 2:56 PM, "John Simpson" <firstname.lastname@example.com> >> wrote: >> >> Shane, >> I don't understand why we would say that a 1st party most likely will not be >> subject to the DNT signal. If we continue to use the 1st party/ 3rd party >> distinction, it will likely (almost certainly) have different and probably >> fewer obligations than a third party. It should still be subject to the >> signal. >> As a user I want the 1st party site to know that I have DNT configured. As >> a 1st party site operator I want to know a visitor has configured DNT and is >> sending me the signal. There will be some "musts", ie not sharing data from >> a DNT configured user with 3rd parties, but if I am a responsible site >> operator I may chose to go further in honoring the DNT request. For >> instance I might chose to not even include the visitor in my analytics. I >> need to know if DNT is configured and the way this happens is by being >> subject to the DNT signal. >> The obligations are different, but its important that we think of all sites >> being subject to the DNT signal, once it is configured in the browser. >> >> 73s, >> John >> On Nov 17, 2011, at 7:22 AM, Shane Wiley wrote: >> >> Karl, >> >> This statement is an attempt to remove the concern that a 1st party, which >> will mostly likely not be subject to the DNT signal, does not have a >> backdoor opportunity to pass user data directly to a 3rd party (aka - >> closing a loop-hole). 3rd parties present on the 1st party's web site >> should honor the DNT signal directly. >> >> - Shane >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Karl Dubost [mailto:email@example.com] >> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 5:40 AM >> To: Shane Wiley >> Cc: John Simpson; Jules Polonetsky; Nicholas Doty; Roy T. Fielding; Mark >> Nottingham; <firstname.lastname@example.com> >> Subject: Re: "cross-site" >> >> >> Le 16 nov. 2011 à 23:30, Shane Wiley a écrit : >> >> Alter statement to read "First parties must NOT share user specific data >> with 3rd parties for those user who send the DNT signal and have not granted >> a site-specific exception to the 1st party." This will leave room for >> sharing with Agents/Service Providers/Vendors to the 1st party -- as well as >> sharing aggregate and anonymous data with "others" (general reporting, for >> example). >> >> I guess you mean >> s/DNT signal/DNT:1 signal" >> >> Trying to understand what you are saying. >> >> 1. User sends DNT:1 to a website with domain name www.example.org >> 2. www.example.org collects data about the user >> (IP address and categories of pages the user visits) >> 3. Company Acme Hosting Inc. (a 3rd party) has access to these >> data NOT through the Web but through an access to the logs file. >> >> >> What is happening? >> >> >> -- >> Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/ >> Developer Relations & Tools, Opera Software >> >> >> >> ---------- >> John M. Simpson >> Consumer Advocate >> Consumer Watchdog >> 1750 Ocean Park Blvd. ,Suite 200 >> Santa Monica, CA,90405 >> Tel: 310-392-7041 >> Cell: 310-292-1902 >> www.ConsumerWatchdog.org >> email@example.com >> > > ---------- John M. Simpson Consumer Advocate Consumer Watchdog 1750 Ocean Park Blvd. ,Suite 200 Santa Monica, CA,90405 Tel: 310-392-7041 Cell: 310-292-1902 www.ConsumerWatchdog.org email@example.com on Friday, 18 November 2011 18:11:14 UTC
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In this Sept. 11, 2012 photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a "fireside chat" at a conference organized by technology blog TechCrunch in San Francisco. Zuckerberg updated his Facebook status on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, to announce that the social networking site has more than 1 billion active users each month. He thanked users and said that he is committed to making Facebook better. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company has had a difficult time of late. There were trading glitches the day it went public in May and concerns since then about its revenue potential. It's also facing lawsuits from disgruntled shareholders.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
NEW YORK (AP) — More than a billion people now log into Facebook each month to check up on old friends, tag photos of new ones and post about politics, religion, cats or what their kids are doing.
That's double the 500 million it hit in July 2010 — what now seems like a lifetime but was a little more than two years ago. August 2008 marked another big juncture, 100 million users.
The latest milestone also amounts to nearly half of the world's roughly 2.5 billion Internet users, as measured by the International Telecommunications Union.
So who are these people?
Most of them — 81 percent — live outside of the U.S. and Canada. Many of them log in on mobile devices rather than personal computers, and the company now has 600 million mobile users.
The people joining now are young, with a median age of 22. It was 23 in 2010 and 26 in 2008 and 2007. Most of them are from Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico and the United States. They are unlikely to be from China, the world's most populous country and home to its largest Internet population. And millions of them are not actual people. Facebook acknowledged in August that 8.7 percent of its then-955 million users may be duplicate or false accounts. At that rate, as many as 87 million accounts are fake.
As expected, the longer users are on Facebook, the more "friends" they have on the site. A user who signed up two years ago has an average of 305 friends. Someone who signed up in December 2005, when Facebook had nearly 6 million users, now has nearly 600 friends, on average.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg marked the milestone on his Facebook page, as he has in the past when the site's users hit nice round numbers.
"If you're reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the honor of serving you," he wrote. "Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life."
But he acknowledged in a "Today" show interview that the company is going through a difficult patch.
"We're in a tough cycle now and that doesn't help morale, but people are focused on what they're building," he told Matt Lauer during the interview.
The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company's stock never recovered from a botched initial public offering in May, at one point seeing its value slashed in half by shareholders who don't think it's increasing revenue fast enough, especially from its fast-growing mobile user base.
Last month Zuckerberg gave his first interview since Facebook's shaky IPO and since that time he's been working hard to boost confidence among investors, employees and the public.
The 28-year-old executive also continued to reassure that he is the right person to lead Facebook, as some on Wall Street have questioned whether he has the ability to lead a large public company.
"I take this responsibility very seriously," he said.
To further mark the occasion, Facebook also released a video Thursday that, somewhat abstractly, seeks to illustrate its ubiquity and utility in connecting people to one another. Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu ("Babel," ''21 Grams" and "Amores Perros"), the video starts off with an empty red chair suspended in midair in a forest. Then it moves to chairs with people, first just one then two, and groups around a dinner table, dancing, playing. Then more chairs.
"Chairs. Chairs are made so that anyone can sit down and take a break. Anyone can sit on a chair," a woman's voice assures the viewer. "And if the chair is large enough, they can sit down together. And tell jokes. Or make up stories. Or just listen. Chairs are for people. And that is why chairs are like Facebook."
See also: doorbells, airplanes and bridges.
"These are things people use to get together so they can open up and connect," the ad continues. The conclusion? The universe is vast and dark and makes us wonder if we are alone. And there is Facebook. And chairs, of course.
It's Facebook's first advertising campaign surrounding its brand. So far, though, the company is not saying whether the video will air on television.
Facebook Inc.'s stock slipped a penny to $21.82 in afternoon trading. The shares are 43 percent below their $38 IPO price.
AP Business Writer Michelle Chapman contributed to this story. Reach Barbara Ortutay on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BarbaraOrtutay.
The Facebook chair video: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=3802752155040


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I've got a long flight today so this is perfect timing :Daiba: Glad you guys were able to get together and record again!
Yes! My first podcast shout-out! I made an audible shout of excitement when I saw there was a new FloraCast yesterday. I just finished listening to the 2nd hour, and I really loved this episode, especially concerning Slan! Y'all covered some great topics.
I'm really glad y'all were able to bring in O-Blessed-King-of-Longing. She had some great insights that complemented the regular cast really well. It sounds like everyone was having a lot of fun. It's nice to see a bridge being extended between fan domains.
I enjoyed the discussion ladies! That was an interesting comparison between Flora and Mozgus.
Hopefully BKOL joins skullknight.net (if she already hasn't) and joins in future chats.
Delightful as before, and you really brought the heavy stuff at the end. On that note it made me think about what you said about the story always being served even while certain conventions are arguably being observed, and the distinctive ways female nudity is used. Such as in the case of Slan, where despite her measurements she's by no mean's a sexual object to anyone within the story, and is in fact repulsive and kind of represents the repulsive nature of sex in general (the cannibal orgy scene, her abstract dimension of amorphous T & A).
Come to think of it, has sex ever not been horrible in Berserk? Guts and Casca apparently got a nice one in there, but that was after a traumatic false start involving childhood rape, father issues, and strangulation! Luca and Jerome seem like the most prominent example of characters actually just enjoying casual consensual sex without direct consequences.
In general, I feel Berserk has matured into what I'd consider a more adult-themed series; it's always had nudity, violence, and at times a shocking mix of the two, but more recently I feel like there's also been more uneventful, casual nudity, such as the above mentioned bath scenes, that aren't leering but also aren't throwing any fig leaves out there. Combined with the maturity of the characters and the exploration of their relationships and family dynamic, like I said, I think it makes for a more adult-oriented series in general. Obviously, the series is also being written by a more mature Miura with evolving interests than when he was a young man, or maybe he's just been watching a lot of HBO. =)
So, are you going to do the Schierke pod next, or what? She's always permeating the edges of the show.
I'm very excited about the prospects of a Schierke-centric episode also!
I'd like to propose you to focus on the characters' mentality. This is one of women's specialty, isn't it?I mean pychologically and from a woman's perspective. For example, Casca is considered to be a perfect woman to men. But for women, she might not be as ideal because she's just so devoted. Rather, an independent woman like Luca might be more appreciated. These kinds of things.
Also, as a woman, I've always thought that Casca is not ideal because she's too devoted
Why is Casca not ideal because she is "too devoted" and why is that a negative trait? I am not saying that being devoted is bad but based on what you have said here you seem to be implying that it is not good. Like it would appeal to men but not women.
Could I ask you to explain what you mean by this? Why is Casca not ideal because she is "too devoted" and why is that a negative trait? I am not saying that being devoted is bad but based on what you have said here you seem to be implying that it is not good. Like it would appeal to men but not women.
I might be stating the obvious, in which case please ignore me, but I believe the implied stigma here is that Casca can be seen as being too dependent on others for her own happiness.
I think my post is self-explanatory. As a role model for women, or someone the female reader can identify with, she could be seen as lacking independence/ambition for herself.
I enjoyed you ladies' talk. And it was nice to hear a new voice (O-blessed-king-of-longing's) too.
For me, the best woman in Berserk is Schierke. If she were 10 years older, I think she'd be a good alternate choice for Guts.
Flora as a relic from the past that gives us insight into worldviews from hundreds of years ago versus the Holy See's worldview -- good point! Though I don't think Mozgus and Flora were meant to be contrasted in that way as individuals, as representatives of their religions, it's solid.
And to answer a question you guys asked, I don't think we've seen the last of Flora. She may be departed, but more than once it's hinted that she and Schierke will meet again, in some form. After all, there are no hard and fast rules for the other side of the afterlife. So perhaps she could take a form similar to how Obi-Wan appears to Luke after his death.
King of Longing brought some great analysis to the show, and I hope to hear more from her in the future. Amazing that she's only been reading for less than a year... Here's hoping she doesn't lose her interest in Berserk and wander off to another series.
I do not see how Casca's biggest aspiration is to be loved by someone makes her an unappealing character to female fans. Casca is a mixture of fragility and strength, that is what makes her interesting to me. True I would love for her to have aspirations beyond just being someone's woman, but being particularly devoted to either Guts and Griffith does not make her less of a cool female character.
I think to contribute to this thread I think Miura does a good job at swaying his readers to feel a certain way toward his characters. For example, with the exception of flora, Schierke and Luca, I disliked most of the major female characters in Berserk at first. I disliked Casca for many reasons that I will not into right now but mostly how she acted toward Guts in the beginning, and I thought charlotte was annoying, and Farnese I thought was just a pretentions hateful character. But I have eventually come to really like all of them. Miura does a good job of, even if the characters are not immediately likable (or completely unlikable) he gives them such genuine characteristics and motivations for their actions you can't help but appreciate them for what they are. He does this very well even with his female characters.
Greetings all.[truncated for ease of reading]Ok, thanks for reading. I look forward to any future FloraCasts!


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First of all, most of you would advise me to use the Background Transfers that are available in Windows Phone. And you are right! Yes you are.
But we can't initiate a Background Transfer from a Background Agent. I still want do download files in the Background Agent. I know the standard Background Agents won't help, because they can't be run any longer than 25 seconds. However we still have the Resource Intensive Agents. And yes the constraints for Resource Intensive are even harder to meet. But when the constrains are met, it can run for 10 minutes. For your information these are the hard constraints to meet.
- External power is required
- A WiFi connection, or connected to the internet through a pc
- The device's battery level is greater than 90%
- The screen is locked
- No active phone call
Yes I know, in practice these constraints are only met when the phone is on charger during the night. But still it will happen. So I want to download large files, sometimes the download won't even complete in the 10 minutes that are available. Which could be cause by a slow or medium WiFi/Internet connection in combination with very large files. So I would like to continue the unfinished downloads the next time the Resource Intensive agent gets to run. So I've been working on a solution.
Resumable Downloads
Yes I found a solution, you can find it at the end of this post, but you can read my journey as well. There are interesting parts in my journey, but that's up to you to read or ignore.
Cheapest request to know the size of the download
I started with a little bit of experimentation, just a simple console app. I know that's not completely equal to a Windows Phone app, specially a Windows Phone Background Agent. But it's easy experimenting and because I wanted to use the HttpClient, I expected them to be largely equal. They were equal for the API parts, but not the implementation. But back to my idea, I want to know the size of the download I'm about to start. The cheapest way to get to know this, is by a HTTP HEAD request, instead of a HTTP GET. The HEAD request is identical to GET, but it doesn't contain the body, being the file in my case.
So how do we do a HTTP Head request, and get the Content Length Header? It's as easy as the following piece of code.
public static async Task<long?> GetRemoteSize(HttpClient client, Uri uri) { var headRequest = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Head, uri); HttpResponseMessage response = await client.SendAsync(headRequest); return response.Content.Headers.ContentLength; }
It's interesting code, however for Windows Phone you can immediately forget this. It works in the Command line app, but the ContentLength header is somehow not available for Windows Phone when doing a HEAD request, it's always returning 0. This could be caused by the HttpClient implementation, or it's maybe at a lower level, I don't know.
If I modify the method above, to a HTTP GET request where I ask the method to complete as early as when the headers are read. I don't want to wait for the whole 80 MiB file to be downloaded, just to know the size of the Download.
private async Task<long?> GetRemoteSize(HttpClient client, Uri uri) { var headRequest = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, uri); HttpResponseMessage response = await client.SendAsync(headRequest, HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead); return response.Content.Headers.ContentLength; }
That's working, nice! So I can at least get the length of the download when I start the download. That will enable me to check if they bytes I've written to the file are the complete download. I will not make this call as a separate method call, like the method above. This was just experimentation.
The Range Header, or better the Header that enables a partial download aka resume
Let's say we've been downloading for 10 minutes, but the download did not finish yet. We've already downloaded 45 MiB of the in total 80 MiB file. We want to continue with the download as soon as our Resource Intensive Agent gets run. So we need to tell the remote server which of the bytes we want from them. Here we have the HTTP Range header to help us out. It's not available via method or properties, but we can set it very easily. So in below example I wanted to download all the content starting from 45 MiB. The HttpRequestMessage would read like this.
var readRequest = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, originToDownload); readRequest.Headers.Add("Range", string.Format("bytes={0}-", 45*1024*1024));
The range that you add to the Range header can end with a dash when you want to get all the remaining bytes. This works fine on the Console application, but it fires an InvalidOperationException telling "Nullable object must have a value" on Windows Phone. Sounds like the upper range being empty isn't supported on Windows Phone.
I did investigate it a little bit, but not too much. I now fill the upper part of the range with long.MaxValue and that seems to work.
var readRequest = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, originToDownload); readRequest.Headers.Add("Range", string.Format("bytes={0}-{1}", 45*1024*1024, long.MaxValue));
Be aware that the ContentLength header you're getting in the response will contain the actual length of bytes that are sent. So in the above case it will show the amount of bytes remaining 45 MiB done of the 80 MiB, means 35 MiB in the Content and 36700160 (35*1024*1024) as ContentLength.
The Solution
If you combine the Range header with the knowledge we gained about getting the ContentLength we can write a method like this:
private async Task<bool> Download(HttpClient client, Uri originToDownload, string targetToDownloadTo) { var readRequest = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, originToDownload); StorageFile fileToDownloadTo = await ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder .CreateFileInPathAsync(targetToDownloadTo, CreationCollisionOption.OpenIfExists); using (Stream writeStream = await fileToDownloadTo.OpenStreamForWriteAsync()) { writeStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.End); long currentLength = writeStream.Length; if (currentLength > 0) readRequest.Headers.Add("Range", string.Format("bytes={0}-{1}", currentLength, long.MaxValue)); using (HttpResponseMessage response = await client.SendAsync(readRequest, HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead)) { long? remoteSize = response.Content.Headers.ContentLength; long totalRead = 0L; if (remoteSize == 0) { //All bytes have already been read. return true; } using (Stream stream = await response.Content.ReadAsStreamAsync()) { var buffer = new byte[1024*64]; int bytesRead; do { bytesRead = stream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length); writeStream.Write(buffer, 0, bytesRead); await writeStream.FlushAsync(); totalRead += bytesRead; } while (bytesRead != 0); } if (remoteSize == totalRead) { return true; } return false; } } }
If you want to copy paste, you will need the helper method to CreateFileInPathAsync.
public static async Task<StorageFile> CreateFileInPathAsync(this StorageFolder parentFolder, string path, CreationCollisionOption collisionOption) { string folderPath = path.Substring(0, path.LastIndexOf('/')); string fileName = path.Substring(path.LastIndexOf('/') + 1); StorageFolder targetFolder = await EnsureFolderExistsAsync(parentFolder, folderPath); if (targetFolder != null) { return await targetFolder.CreateFileAsync(fileName, collisionOption); } return null; } public static async Task<StorageFolder> EnsureFolderExistsAsync(this StorageFolder parentFolder, string path) { StorageFolder currentFolder = parentFolder; var pathElements = path.Trim('/').Split('/'); foreach (string name in pathElements) { currentFolder = await currentFolder.CreateFolderAsync(name, CreationCollisionOption.OpenIfExists); } return currentFolder; }
Memory Usage
It's very nice we now have a way to download large files, and when required resume them. However be careful around memory usage. In my application I already have the SQLite db-engine in memory, so there's not much memory left. So even though you can download multiple files after each other the memory usage increases. I stop downloading more files when I've less than 1.5 MiB of memory left. Not sure if this will be the sweet spot for your app, I've tried keeping that thresshold smaller but got Out of Memory exceptions quite often. So you've been warned.
Final notes
Now I created a method to download large files and even resume downloads, I can't recommend to use it in every place. Use it where appropriate and where the better alternative Background Transfers can't be used. I can't think of any place other than a background agent to use this. But there might be others.
In the end this is something that can be used in any other .NET application, with a small set of modifications maybe to suit the targeted platform.


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Coitus frustratus
My boyfriend is a very spiritual person who practices yoga, meditation, etc. He showed me a website about karezza, which basically involves deriving sexual pleasure through long, drawn-out, non-vigorous physical contact without experiencing an orgasm. It sounds nice and all, but I would greatly miss the orgasm part of sex. Well, he recently revealed that he is a recovering porn and masturbation addict. I see from the way he talks how important it is for him that we give up traditional intercourse for karezza. I love him and want to help him in every possible way, but I'm not sure how to come to terms with giving up orgasms. — Conflicted
You aren't a bad girlfriend if you need your boyfriend to be something of an animal in bed, and not the kind found fossilized in rock.
OK, to be fair, there is some movement during karezza, just not enough that anybody participating would get anywhere near Orgasmageddon. Alice Stockham, the 19th century Quaker doctor who came up with karezza (named for the Italian word "carezza," meaning "caress"), argued in her 1896 book about it that orgasms "without cause" (such as the desire to make a baby) are "degrading." Stockham called for a more "ennobling" sort of sex, "a quiet affair" that is "devoid of lustful thoughts, that is, the mere gratification of physical sensations" — or, to put it in more modern terms, "50 Shades of Reading Next to Each Other in Matching Snuggies."
Karezza does get props from practitioners, who insist they feel way more bonded to each other than when they used to give each other screaming orgasms. However, the science-y sounding claims for its benefits by some of those who publish books and articles about it seem largely unsupported by research. Also, it is not a solution to your boyfriend's compulsions but a way to avoid dealing with the issues underlying them. As addiction treatment specialist Dr. Frederick Woolverton explains in Unhooked, at the heart of any addiction is an attempt to avoid legitimate suffering — difficult emotions which are part of being alive.
You could agree to try karezza for three weeks to see whether it works for you, and by "works," I mean gets you thinking, "Oh, orgasms, schmorgasms." Unless it does, it's unfair to resign yourself to the sexual equivalent of reading a 300-page crime novel ... except for the last 30 pages, which you tear out and burn. And despite the spiritual window dressing around karezza, unless your boyfriend is doing as Woolverton advises — taking steps to "head straight into [his] emotional pain, which is what terrifies [an addict] the most" — what you'll likely have on your hands is a meditating, yoga-doing, spiritual-talking boyfriend who's only somewhat present. In other words, you support him by committing to help him deal with his feelings while he develops healthy coping mechanisms, not by replacing your "If the van's a-rockin' ..." bumper sticker with "If the van looks like it hasn't been moved in years ..."
Whistle while you weep!
My boyfriend and I just ended our relationship and are trying to heal and move on. This is difficult because we not only work together but are in the same building and on the same research team. I love my job and feel lucky to have it, so moving on to another workplace isn't the answer. — Blasted With The Past
It's hard to maintain a veneer of professionalism when the plant's loudspeaker pages you, "Employee No. 442, Employee No. 440 is drunk-dialing you on extension 2." Unfortunately, it's easy to end up in that situation when you don't have the usual benefit of a breakup, which typically involves separating once and for all, not every day at the end of the workday. Give yourself concrete reinforcement that it's over by writing down five reasons you don't belong together, and help yourself compartmentalize at work by drawing a line down a piece of paper and listing the appropriate behaviors for "Together" vs. "Just work together."
Because research finds that ritual is highly effective in helping people assimilate change (and because it'll probably be comforting to have a cackle with a couple of friends), maybe have a "funeral" for your relationship and "bury" a few symbolic items from it in the nearest Dumpster. That probably sounds a bit wacky, but acting like the relationship is dead and gone and you're moving on should help you do just that. According to British psychologist Dr. Richard Wiseman, author of The As If Principle, numerous studies suggest that "the easiest, quickest and most effective" way to change your thinking isn't by thinking about it but by acting "as if" you're the person you want to be — in your case, the person who's managed to demote one of her co-workers from soulmate to paperweight.
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Ken Chickering's affinity for the oil industry came naturally. "My father, for whom I had a lot of respect, worked for Oilwell Supply. My great grandfather helped start that company in 1862. Three generations of the family worked for the company in Oil City, PA. I didn't work there, but I started my oilfield roustabout work near Oil City and spent other summers as a roughneck and working for Halliburton."
Flying into a Career
In 1962, Chickering was a petroleum engineer with Exxon in Mississippi. An avid aviator, he had learned to fly in the Air Force, and once he returned to civilian life, supported his love of flying by buying and selling airplanes on the side. As luck would have it, just about the time that Chickering was ready for a move to Houston, General Valve was looking for a sales engineer. They also had a company airplane, the clincher that lured the promising young man into the valve industry. "They were a pretty small company," he said, "and they were based in Houston. I didn't like being a reservoir engineer, chained to a desk. I wanted to be an outside guy. And I was getting married so it was good timing."
One of General's biggest customers was Daniel Industries. "They [Daniel] were making big crude oil skids for Saudi Arabia. Those were big jobs, so during that time I started going to Saudi Arabia quite a bit with General. Then Daniel hired me in December of 1976."
At Daniel Valve, Chickering became involved in the design of a four way valve and an expanding plug valve. "We hired some engineers and together we designed the expanding plug valve and a special four-way valve used in metering oil and gas," he remembered. "The meters are used a lot in Saudi Arabia when they're loading a tanker, or when they're pulling oil off a big U.S. pipeline and putting it into the storage tanks. The meters tell how much gasoline or jet fuel that a company bought that day."
Early Travel in the Middle East
Chickering reminisced about the early days of traveling to the Middle East. "When I started going to Saudi Arabia in 1972, trying to find a hotel or a motel was difficult. For a while, I'd stay in a company house with a friend who worked for Aramco. But driving conditions were terrible back then. There were a lot of wrecks, and of course security was altogether different than it is these days. You could walk right into the offices." He chuckled as he recounted, "I was in Dubai when the tallest building was two or three stories. Now look at it!"
The camps for American oil company workers were much like big army bases, said Chickering, who last traveled to Saudi Arabia in 2003. "The employees lived in the camp, where it was much like in the States. Outside the Aramco camp, women couldn't even drive, but inside they could wear shorts, do pretty well anything they could do at home. There were church services in the gymnasium, that sort of thing."
Daniel Valve
In 1977, Daniel Valve bought M&J Valves. "It was in Houston, and so was I, so I became the number two man there," Chickering said. "I became Executive VP and got heavily involved in sales. I travelled a lot, and got involved in developing a couple new types of gate valves. But most of my activities were in sales. Then I became president of Daniel Valve Company in 1988, and stayed there until I retired in 2004."
When asked what he considered his biggest professional achievement, Chickering was quick to reply. "Growing Daniel Valve from initially a single product company to a larger company, I would have to say that's it. Instead of one product line, we made four different products and the company became very profitable."
Thoughts on the VMA
Chickering was an active member of the Valve Manufacturers Association for many years and devoted much time to it. He is a former Chairman and was also honored as a "Man of the Year". "I attended many meetings, starting in 1977," he said. "It was different back then. There were really no women in the association, but the wives came to the annual meetings, and my wife got really involved in re-invigorating the women's program at the annual VMA meetings. It was probably in the mid 1980s when she started having get-togethers and welcoming teams for the women, trying to make first-time attendees feel welcome." Nancy Chickering has also been recognized by the VMA several times for her contributions.
When asked if he was going to be attending the 75th Anniversary meeting, Chickering chuckled. "My wife has advised me that we will be there. She made a lot of good friends there, and we'll be going."
A VMA Man of the Year and former Chairman, Chickering spent some time talking about the value of the association. "It was really helpful for networking. We shared ideas and learned about things to try or not to try. Sure, we were competitors in many ways, but we just had good discussions, either with fellow members, or speakers. As a trade association," he said, "the VMA was good about putting out notices if something had come up with the environmental laws, or if we needed government forms or something. That was a lot of the benefit.
"A lot of trade associations, their business segments dwindle or die, or have problems, but the VMA has been a real success story. I think the health of it is due to some of the major companies and smaller companies that supported it. I think the staff has done a good job of watching expenses and going along with the interest and needs of the member companies."
While he has officially retired, that does not mean that Chickering spends his days rocking on the porch of the family home in Oil City, PA. While he does play a bit of golf, he stays active, involved in charity work and as an advisor and consultant to Chromatic Industries and Western Valve. He is also on the board of directors and spends a fair amount of time at HII Technologies.
Like so many valve industry veterans, Chickering stays up to date with the industry and the VMA, and had this parting advice. "I would definitely encourage people to get involved in the association. Just like anything else, if you put in the effort, you get the rewards, and you really get more out of the VMA if you're involved, not just a member paying your dues."


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Taking a break from the Novachord restoration/sampling project this weekend I turned my attention to something else in my studio in need of some TLC.
A couple of years ago I restored a 1985 SCI Prophet 2002, the more rare rackmount version of the Prophet 2000 sampling keyboard. The 2002 is a delightful rackmount 12 bit sampler with Curtis filters a delightful "stack" facility whereby up to 8 voices can be stacked, detuned and delayed and lovely built in arpeggiator. It is also arguably a better option than it's keyboard sister as it features proper tactile switches instead of a membrane keyboard.
Despite the 2002 having 2 x 512K of memory it has a wonderful smooth warm sound with a great bottom end. It is a very different beast to the Mirage, a sampler it's often wrongly compared with. It's analog filters go way into self resonance and can be made to dance just on the edge of it to great effect too. It's also quite quiet and capable of surprisingly high quality sampling, albeit for a very short period of time!, at max sample rate. At low sample rate the sound is wonderfully crunchy without being horribly thin or noisy. Drum loops and bass sound wonderful through this beasty.
That said, the Prophet is not without it's issues. The original floppy drives often failed, the user interface is sometimes maddening (especially setting up multisamples!!).
Mine had recently developed a sample memory fault which was manifesting itself as a series of random clicks heard throughout sample playback. I decided to investigate and on reminding myself that the DRAM is socketed I got lucky and found a superb old portable memory tester on the net. The item turned up, an ABI MasterRAM Compact, and within a few minutes it had identified a faulty memory chip. This was replaced and hey presto my samples were pop free.
The Prophet 2002 is quite unusual for a sampler in that it offers 12 built in basic waveforms. The idea is that the sampler may be used as a primative hybrid synth. I strongly susptect that the Prophet 2002 shares it's basic architecture with one of the other Prophet synths of the era - I keep meaning to compare the schematics. Many of the waveforms offered are not terribly nice but one or two are very useable. This manner of using the sampler - ie. sampled waveforms modified by synth like features is a superb way of using this little beast.
A few months ago I found that if you select preset #3, which is a basic guitar waveform, and then dial in a stack of 4 voices each detuned by 7 you end up with a lovely chorused guitar effect.
I liked this sound so much I decided to multi-sample it in Kontakt.
Here is the result - a 4Mb multisample using two cross faded sampled velocity sample sets:
The Prophet 2002:


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Delving Into Spectra Logic Deep Storage
Spectra Logic is promoting the concept of "deep storage" as a new way of selling tape libraries, but don't let your thoughts on the viability of tape distract you from learning about deep storage.
Try to step back mentally and emotionally and see where deep storage fits in the recent panoply of IT innovations and what it portends for management of "heavy data"--that is, bulk data--that is a byproduct of the ongoing data explosion.
Spectra Logic defines deep storage as "extremely low cost, power efficient and dense storage that requires some latency when retrieving data." This is a storage tier for the long-term mass storage of data--typically, from about 200 Tbytes to north of multiple petabytes.
In essence, deep storage is a new application use for a tape library. The two principal application uses of a tape library are data protection (such as for backup and recovery) and active archiving. Yet heavy data does not fit easily into either application category. Since heavy data is working data that maintains a long-term value, it is definitely not data protection, where backup/restore and disaster recovery are the primary functions.
In fact, much of heavy data is fixed content (that is, the data does not change after it is created), so, technically, it might be a target for an active archive. There might be cases where some deep storage data would fit into an active archive. But an active archive also requires overarching software that provides functionality such as compliance and e-discovery for emails. This may be too much or the wrong kind of software management overhead for many applications, such as big data, seismic data or video surveillance data.
With deep storage, specific use cases are probably best managed individually rather than under an active archiving software management umbrella. But that poses a problem: Moving data for deep storage and then accessing that data for business purposes is not easy. In fact, although you could write custom software to do the job, it would still be difficult and complex. Active archiving and data protection have solved this problem, but at the expense of focusing on targeted solutions rather than on providing a framework that can be adapted to serve as a general purpose solution.
In contrast, Spectra Logic has introduced a general-purpose interface that enables the use of deep storage and will eventually be open (at least to some extent). Spectra Logic also launched its BlackPearl appliance to use deep storage with its own products, which are most likely to be with tape libraries, but that will also eventually work with a Spectra disk product.
Deep Simple Storage Service (DS3)
Spectra Logic's DS3 is a communications interface that allows clients (as in a client/server architecture) to manage and direct bulk storage read (GET) and write (PUT) operations to deep storage, such as tape. DS3 is actually an extension of Amazon's S3 (Simple Storage Service). The extensions enable the use of sequential storage media as well as removable storage media.
Amazon S3 is a de facto standard and one that has been broadly accepted as a Web services interface designed to scale large amounts of data at any time and from any place on the Web. Storage is in the form of objects in buckets where each object has a unique, developer-assigned key. Spectra Logic employs this form of object storage for its deep storage architecture and solutions.
As an extension of S3, the DS3 interface obviously encompasses the REST (Representational State Transfer) client/server architectural style to move objects to and from deep storage using the high-level GET and PUT commands. DS3 is the first native RESTful interface that can work with robotic tape libraries.
[Read how tape is a more cost-effective way to deal with little-used data than hard disk drives in "How Tape and LTFS Can Relieve Storage Pressure."]
Using an extension to S3 as a cornerstone seems to be a particularly good move on the part of Spectra Logic. Deep storage has to be able to play in the modern IT world, and integration with the Web services world is an essential component for doing so. Secondly, deep storage has to be feasible in the sense that the application developer time has to be palatable for organizations. It's about being able to do what would have been too costly (development-time-wise) in a time frame and at a cost that an organization deems acceptable. Previously, that was not true except for custom-built applications that could justify the investment.
The BlackPearl Deep Storage Appliance
BlackPearl is Spectra Logic's data management appliance based on DS3 that actually implements the use of deep storage. BlackPearl does a number of things:
• Acts as a DS3 server to DS3 clients while using the DS3 interface; data is migrated from a DS3 client to the BlackPearl appliance;
• Stores data as object-based deep storage by grouping collections of data as buckets while being able to store this data using the open, self-describing Linear Tape File System (LTFS) format, and maintaining an object catalog physical storage location and metadata information;
• Manages the deep storage system itself, including inventory, retries and error handling;
• Provides tight integration with Spectra's BlueScale tape management system for actual management functions of the tape library, such as tape encryption, data integrity verification and system error detection.
Spectra has a developer program that provides all the tools necessary to write a custom DS3 client, including the necessary API, a software development kit (SDK), and a simulator download. The vendor is also working on pre-written clients; one is for use with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), so data can be migrated out of an active HDFS-managed cluster for long-term storage and future use.
Spectra Logic claims that its tape-based deep storage platform, front-ended by a BlackPearl appliance, can cost as little as 9 cents per gigabyte in multipetabyte environments and 14 cents per gigabyte in smaller environments. Note that this is the full purchase price. The payback would be in less than a year, versus a monthly charge for a cloud service that provides longer response times (most notably Amazon's Glacier, which is a deep archiving service).
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The Mets open the second half of what has been a surprising season tonight in San Francisco a team with confidence and resiliency – just four games behind Atlanta despite several questions.
Many of those questions were only partially addressed and remain to the point where they are issues.
Here's the top five questions for the Mets entering the second half:
1. QUESTION: How healthy is this team?
ASSESSMENT: The Mets will get Carlos Beltran back tonight, but don't know how he'll respond to a heavy workload. For now the plan is to juggle playing time between Beltran, Angel Pagan and Jeff Francoeur, with the latter's time reduced the most. Beltran returns to center and the clean-up, but don't expect him to immediately be in All-Star form.
Another pressing issue, or at least it's turning out that way, is Jose Reyes, who strained his right oblique muscle, June 30. Reyes sat out a handful of games before the Mets foolishly let him return only to bat right-handed, even against righty pitchers. Had Reyes been placed on the disabled list originally, or continued to sit until he was 100 percent, he might be fine today.
Instead, Reyes is still ailing and considered day-to-day. The Mets are still toying with him batting right-handed exclusively and not waiting until he's 100 percent. Reyes aggravated the injury and the Mets are pushing their luck.
Also, Mike Pelfrey, after a string of non-descript to poor starts, says he might have a dead arm, although not an injury it is physical related.


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What would they do if they ever won? Probably win again, just like the Red Sox did.
I'm watching the Rays-Sox. Tampa Bay losing in the second and Scott Kazmir is struggling. The Rays are the best story of the playoffs, but you can bet the networks hope it will be Boston and the Cubs. Two storied franchises playing in antique stadiums. They are salivating over the potential ratings already.
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State didn't flag Skagit bridge despite repeated truck hits
Though the state Department of Transportation places warnings about some bridge heights in permits it issues for oversize loads, it provided no such warnings for the Interstate 5 Skagit River Bridge.
By MIKE BAKER
The Associated Press
OLYMPIA — Washington state's Department of Transportation (DOT) has known since the 1970s that the Interstate 5 bridge that recently collapsed after being clipped by a truck hauling an oversize load had been struck repeatedly in the past by similar big rigs.
Just last fall, a tall vehicle crossing the Skagit River Bridge hit the overhead structure, ripping a 3-inch gash in the steel and deforming three components.
Even knowing that history, state officials didn't take precautions as they often do to prevent truckers from hitting overhead structures, raising questions about whether the state could have done more to prevent the collapse from happening.
The Associated Press found that the DOT regularly puts detailed warnings on its trucking permits when routes are projected to encounter potentially problematic areas of low clearance. But the Skagit River Bridge — along the I-5 corridor between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C. — was never added to that group.
Federal transportation investigators found that an oversize load struck the bridge last month, causing a portion of it to collapse into the river and taking two vehicles with it. Nobody was seriously injured, but the failure has continued to disrupt transportation and renewed attention on the condition of the nation's infrastructure.
DOT spokesman Travis Phelps said the agency puts out the caution notifications on some areas that have had clearance problems in the past — but that not every clearance height is noted. The state didn't consider the Skagit bridge to be particularly problematic.
"We don't put every bridge that's been struck onto a permit," he said.
In the DOT permit to allow the oversized load across the bridge, the state determined that the route was OK for a load that stood 15 feet, 9 inches tall, even though the outer edges of the bridge had a clearance of less than 15 feet.
DOT did add a qualification that the agency does not guarantee the height clearances, and Phelps said it is the company's responsibility to ensure that the load safely passes across. The state also provides separate information to companies about bridge heights.
The permit, however, was much different from another approval given just two days earlier to the same company. In that request, Mullen Trucking sought to bring a large boiler along Interstate 90, with a maximum height of just 14 feet.
At 10 points on the route path, the DOT issued a "Caution" notice, detailing the height of the overhead clearance and asking the driver to take a different route if the load was within 2 inches of that level. None of those overhead heights were a problem on that specific permit because they were at least 7 inches higher than the load.
Problem noted in 1979
The problems over the Skagit first started appearing in handwritten inspection notes in 1979, when an inspector noted what he deemed "minor dings" in various components, according to records reviewed by AP.
A 1985 inspection specifically described "high load dings" on the first overhanging portions of the bridge that vehicles would encounter as they drive southbound — apparently the same parts that were compromised in last month's collapse. Similar notes appear in other inspections as well.
Last October, a DOT bridge-maintenance specialist notified another official about the large gash in the northbound portion of the bridge and the other damage that appeared to accompany it.
Images show the effects of the impact on the steel, with one portion peeling back like a torn piece of paper and left pointing down the roadway. A patch of gray paint is completely gone, exposing some older green paint and the brown metal underneath.
DOT officials decided the damage wasn't severe enough to warrant an emergency, but the department worked to mend the metal and conduct a special inspection of the span.
"Unacceptable risk"
State Sen. Michael Baumgartner, R-Spokane, said DOT should take a stronger oversight role in oversized-vehicle permitting to make sure such hits don't keep happening. He'd like to see the department prohibit vehicles from traveling in areas where their loads might strike overhead portions, and said officials could automatically offer alternative routes to those drivers.
Baumgartner said it was a huge risk to rely solely on the driver to safely navigate the route, especially when it may mean that the driver has to be in a specific lane.
"That's just an unacceptable risk to take," Baumgartner said.
The Skagit bridge is deemed "fracture critical" because it can collapse if a single, vital component of the span is compromised. A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that it failed last month because the impact of the oversized load on the overhead portions of the bridge caused significant damage to those critical elements.
The driver told investigators that he felt "crowded" by another vehicle that was passing him as they arrived at the bridge, so he moved his vehicle to the right.
Crews opened a temporary replacement for the bridge this week, allowing motorists to cross at a slower speed. The state hopes to have a permanent replacement built in the coming months — although much of it will remain in its current size and style.
DOT is not allowing oversize loads to travel the temporary Skagit bridge. Phelps said it's not clear whether drivers will get a caution statement for the span when the permanent replacement reopens. "We're going to wait and see what the investigation of the NTSB uncovers," Phelps said.
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Historical fiction at its best The Brothers Grimm meets The Thirteenth Tale
I am not the sort of person about whom stories are told.
And so begins Elise Dalrisss story. When she hears her great-granddaughter recount a minstrels tale about a beautiful princess asleep in a tower, it pushes open a door to the past, a door Elise has long kept locked. For Elise was the companion to the real princess who slumberedand she is the only one left who knows what actually happened so many years ago. Her story unveils a labyrinth where secrets connect to an inconceivable evil. As only Elise understands all too well, the truth is no fairy tale.


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First things first let me decorate the swisher
Rolling up to Cali let your niggas smoke it wit' cha
Screaming "thug life" - taking pictures
Rest in peace Pac, I'll just pray I make it wit' cha
To the ghetto, 'till the niggas see the pearly gates
I try to spend a billion and fuck bitches in estates
Damn it feels good to be a real nigga, don't it?
Your baby mama, I can get her number if I want it
Going back to Cali strictly for the weather, women, and the weed
Lil' J like lil Cease
Better watch your bitch, bitch nigga, don't slip
My nigga String keep the YAMENARY you set trip
Chronic on repeat, think I'm bout to stop at Compton
Dreamchaser tour, me and Meek nigga stuntin'
Shout-out to your bitch she got a ticket to the show;
And I'm from Virginia if you bitches didn't know
We like 10 deep walking out of 10 Deep
In and Out Burger animal, I been a piece
As-salãmu 'Alaykum, we ain't fuckin' with police
I think they call em pigs
That's just what it is
Co-busy how much you charging for a feature?
I ain't trying to do it I ain't fuckin' with em either
Sippin' Malibu, yeah, out in Malibu
Out in Cali, And you be mad when the whip got no roof
Feelin' better than some head on a Sunday afternoon
Out in London when you got a hit they say you got a tune
Smoke weed every day, that's what Nate Dogg said
Nigga hatin', that's why we hate y'all
That's why we tryin' to see a nigga Ray Charles
Oh yeah, Rest in peace, Nate Dogg
My 3-1-0 chick like Phillips
And she like Raphael Saadiq
And she think she bossy like Kelis
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Most of the transpersonal or spiritual theories deal with the meaningfulness of a person's life or ultimate meanings. Abraham Maslow (1954) has also been influential in this approach to motivation. Other influential scholars included Gordon Allport (1955), Victor Frankl (1998), William James (1997), Carl Jung (1953, 1997), Ken Wilber (1998).
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One classification of motivation differentiates among achievement, power, and social factors (see McClelland, 1985; Murray, 1938, 1943). In the area of achievement motivation, the work on goal-theory (Pintrich, 2000) has differentiated three separate types of goals: mastery goals (also called learning goals) which focus on gaining competence or mastering a new set of knowledge or skills; performance goals (also called ego-involvement goals) which focus on achieving normative-based standards, doing better than others, or doing well without a lot of effort; and social goals which focus on relationships among people (see Ames, 1992; Dweck, 1986; Urdan Maehr, 1995). In the context of school learning, which involves operating in a relatively structured environment, students with mastery goals outperform students with either performance or social goals. However, in life success, it seems critical that individuals have all three types of goals in order to be very successful.
One aspect of this theory is that individuals are motivated to either avoid failure (more often associated with performance goals) or achieve success (more often associated with mastery goals). In the former situation, the individual is more likely to select easy or difficult tasks, thereby either achieving success or having a good excuse for why failure occurred. In the latter situation, the individual is more likely to select moderately difficult tasks which will provide an interesting challenge, but still keep the high expectations for success.
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At this point there is little agreement about the identification of basic human needs, how they are ordered, and which theory of motivation might be most basic or correct. Drawing on the work of Maslow (1954) and those who have critiqued his theory, Ryan and Deci (2000) suggested three needs, although they are not necessarily arranged hierarchically: (1) autonomy, (2) competence, and (3) relatedness. Thompson, Grace and Cohen (2001) stated the most important needs for children are: (1) connection, (2) recognition, and (3) power. Nohria, Lawrence, and Wilson (2001) provided evidence from a sociobiology theory of motivation that humans have four basic needs: (1) acquire objects and experiences; (2) bond with others in long-term relationships of mutual care and commitment; (3) learn and make sense of the world and of ourselves; and (4) to defend ourselves, our loved ones, beliefs and resources from harm. The Institute for Management Excellence (2001) suggested there are nine basic human needs: (1) security, (2) adventure, (3) freedom, (4) exchange, (5) power, (6) expansion, (7) acceptance, (8) community, and (9) expression.
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Any unanticipated threat to survival triggers an immediate sequence of events in the brain that culminate in a coordinated neural, endocrine and behavioural response. There is increasing evidence that stress itself modifies neural circuits. In other words, neural stress circuits learn from stress. This self-teaching is surprising as one might expect these essential circuits to be hard-wired. Our recent findings, however, indicate that repeated homotypic stress in rats causes functional changes in neural circuitry in the hypothalamus. In particular, we focus on signalling via endocannabinoids and describe plasticity in this system that impacts fast retrograde signalling at synapses on to the stress command neurons in the brain. Interestingly, this plasticity appears to be limited to early adolescence, hinting at unique modes of control of neural circuits by stress during different developmental stages.
In all organisms, maintaining a stable internal environment and responding to external threats is vital for survival. This requires the ability to sense, transduce and respond effectively to real and perceived stress. In mammals, multiple brain nuclei are activated in response to both physiological and psychological challenges. When faced with a challenge to internal homeostasis or an unanticipated, direct threat to survival, this 'stress circuitry' rapidly sets in motion a cascade of neural, neuroendocrine and behavioural responses. Mounting an appropriate physiological response to such challenges requires that the brain interprets, learns from and then remembers the appropriate stimuli. This series of tasks is accomplished by groups of interconnected neural networks that incorporate information from sensory systems, process this information in higher brain centres then engage downstream effectors to coordinate generalized behavioural and physiological adaptation to change. In the short-term, these adaptations are beneficial as they allow the organism to respond to the threat. They also promote learning, which results in more refined responses to subsequent challenges. When launched inappropriately, however – for example, in the absence of stress – they can have deleterious effects on mental and physical health (
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Often, it is impossible to say whether information collected by a smart toy is securely stored or even where it is stored.
"Behind any of the smart toys … there are a whole bunch of computers," Dr Merkel says.
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Of course, this is the case with any internet-connected device, including your smartphone. But Dr Merkel points out that Apple and Google spend a lot of time and money making their smartphones reasonably secure.
"Apple and Google hire large numbers of the best information security people out there," he says. "That doesn't apply to your average smart toy vendor."
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The property – with access to Interstate 40, U.S. 64 and Germantown Parkway – contains 1,191 feet of frontage access on Macon Road plus 63,373 square feet of warehouse space.
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Shelby Farms Park Conservancy leaders formally break ground Friday, June 13, on the $70 million project that includes an expansion of the park's Patriot Lake, the addition of 10,000 new trees and other improvements.
Construction of a new buffalo range is already complete, with other work already underway. The process is expected to take two years. The improvements will include a new visitors center, with the existing one closed during the construction period. Other additions include more pavilions around the lakes, a farm-to-table restaurant, a retreat center, a boat-rental kiosk, new trails and a wetland walk.
The bulk of the money for the project, $66 million, was raised from private donors, with another $3 million from Shelby County government.
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The rainy weather that has hovered over the area in May and June has thrown a wet blanket on the Memphis Botanic Garden's plan for a donor appreciation party for supporters of its new performing arts venue.
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Duncan said the new concert area, which includes a permanent stage, will be ready when the Live at the Garden summer concert series launches its 14th season June 21 with Little Big Town.
Besides the new stage, the $6.1 million project includes a living wall of plants, food court, box offices and a below-grade area in front of the stage that can hold around 125 people.
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Civic and business leaders celebrated Conduit Global's new call center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday, June 11.
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Bryce Hayes, president of Conduit Global, said Shelby County was chosen over two other cities because of the available labor force, proximity to universities and technical schools, and the cooperation offered by state and local governments.
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The Argus Leader newspaper reports that the upgrade is spurred by South Dakota's pending move to online standardized tests.
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