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Instagram down for Thanksgiving
The hashtag #InstagramDown is trending on Twitter.
Many people have been taking to Twitter since Instagram and Facebook are experiencing problems.
Instagram tweeted:
"We're aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing Facebook's family of apps, including Instagram. We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.
The tweet has been liked 22,000 times. It also has 7,000 retweets and 3,000 replies.
Persons around the world, especially in the United States, are reporting problems logging in, commenting and posting whether ads, videos or photos.
Today is Thanksgiving in the USA and many persons wanted to share their family photos, pictures of food and clips from the Thanksgiving Day parade.
Instagram posted to Twitter around 11.30 am today.
In the Caribbean even posting to Facebook has been spotty when using third-party platforms like Hootsuite. Uploading to IG TV was a hit or miss as well.
In Texas, one person said the problem seems to have been fixed in the past 10 minutes, around 2.15 pm.
"I can post some things but other
things will not post - "oops there is a problem." I can't post anything about the Thanksgiving parade or the Christian heritage of Thanksgiving but I can post other comments- Is this done purposely picking and choosing? Either all my post should have a problem or none of them"
On downdetector.com, persons in San Diego highlighted that they are affected too, while someone else said, "It is working somewhat here in the mountains of Southern California but I cannot load videos right now."


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It's nice to see Elko's Redevelopment Agency adopt a viable storefront improvement program. The plan approved this week will provide matching funds for projects in the $10,000 to $25,000 range, but we think the rate of decline downtown calls for a more focused and aggressive approach.
Businesses have been leaving "main street" and more will follow – even after removing the strip-joint bar from its midst.
Is Elko serious about redeveloping blighted areas downtown, or will we end up putting lipstick on a pig?
The lack of focus on the Redevelopment Agency was highlighted this week in the debate over a
request for funds to help demolish buildings at 10th and Idaho streets to make way for a new attorney's office.
Page Investments LLC/Lostra Engineering wanted $30,000 for demolition and infrastructure at the location, which is currently occupied by three dilapidated buildings. The company presented plans for a 4,300-square-foot Bradshaw Law building to go in their place.
City Planner Cathy Laughlin supported the request, and RDA member John Patrick Rice fought hard for its passage, but the board ended up punting it to the Redevelopment Advisory Council for review.
Opponents correctly pointed out that there was no program in place or precedence for such a deal. It's also several blocks from the core of downtown, in a neighborhood that has already seen significant renewal via private investment.
Yes, there is plenty of blight within the redevelopment district, and the 10th and Idaho properties definitely qualify. But the RDA does not have a geographical or more specific list of priorities to fit such requests into. Shuffling proposals down the chain of command is likely to discourage developers.
Sharing the costs of demolition, or even funding it outright, would be a legitimate use of RDA funds. Which brings up another issue that got tabled this week: the offer from the Pescios to donate the former Dupont/Cherished Friends building at Fifth and Idaho to the City.
It's hard to imagine any other project having a more noticeable impact on the downtown district than this one. The building is literally falling apart, and beyond repair, so replacing it should be a top priority.
As one reader commented at elkodaily.com, "Doesn't it say something worth noting that one of the four main cornerstone properties in the very heart of Elko's downtown is not considered a great investment opportunity by the City itself?"
The RDA has limited funds to work with, and demolition bids came in at the $200,000-plus range. Any work would be complicated by the fact that the building shares walls with two other properties.
At the other end of the block sits another building in even worse shape, after private reconstruction plans fell through. The result is a set of crumbling bookends on what is supposed to be the central showcase of downtown Elko.
A few fancy facades won't be enough to spark renewal if the buildings beside them are falling apart.
After more than a decade of existence the RDA should be getting a firmer grasp on its priorities. We need a better system in place to evaluate where the agency can get the most bang for its buck, before the next business packs up and leaves.
Original post from ElkoDaily.com – http://elkodaily.com/news/opinion/editorial/editorial-saving-elko-s-downtown-one-facade-at-a-time/article_e8ef1df1-dbcd-5c63-83c8-597cd78a7163.html


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Only a week out from Christmas, the Carrum Cup is the last racing event on the 2017 calendar.
Due to family commitments and holidays, not all Brave Hearts were able to make this year's Carrum Cup. However, a small contingency, combining with the Mt Beauty Dragon Boat Club, made it to race over the weekend. Showing true support for the small Alpine club.
The team raced where they could, ambitiously entering the Premier Mixed and Master's Open categories, unfortunately missing out on progressing to the finals races.
A women's master's crew was also entered, making it directly to semi finals with a first place in their heat. With strong competition in the semi final, the women's crew made a close 3rd, making the final based on the times.
The final for the women's master's race was neck in neck, with Melbourne Flames, Peninsula Dragonflies and Ballarat Golden Dragons competing against our crew. Our women just missed out on a placing this time, coming 4th by only .01 of a second.
All up our paddlers had a great time competing with Mt. Beauty, really cementing a friendship between the clubs. Plus it is great to see the Mt. Beauty members get a chance to compete with similarly strong teams.
This was our second time at Nagambie Lakes Regatta Centre this season, this time to compete in both 500m and 200m events as well as a sweep's turn race to keep us on our toes. And once again, Brave Hearts put everything in and were well rewarded for their efforts.
Last weekend Brave Hearts attended the Dragon Boat Victoria hosted regatta at Nagambie Lakes Regatta Centre. This regatta formed the first competition regatta of the season and a welcome return for a Nagambie Dragon Boat event.
Brave Hearts represented Albury Wodonga in four categories over the course of the day; Masters Womens 10s, Masters Mixed 10s, Premier Mixed 10s in 200m races, as well as a Open 2000m Sweeps Race.
Prior to the regatta, learner dragon boat sweeps, Julie and Gavin headed down to the regatta centre to take part in a sweeps accreditation course, and we are pleased to welcome them as new L2 provisional sweeps for Brave Hearts! We are also happy to note that their first regatta was a success, with no incidents taking place.
Our masters' paddlers showed their dedication to our younger paddlers this Regatta. Charlotte showed us her skills in the stroke seat, and the team raced against strong teams Yarra River Dragons and CYSM.
The premier team applied a lot of pressure against the other teams, and although they didn't manage to make the finals, they kept the other crews honest and competed well!
The masters women's crew started the day with an amazing race in heat 1 coming off the starting line strong and finishing the race in first place against Dragon Masters and Geelong Gold.
The masters women's crew had new sweep Julie in her first regatta for the day. Julie showed excellent skill in backing into the pontoons swiftly, and kept the boat straight though out the race.
Our masters mixed team performed amazing in their first heat, taking out the fastest time for the category and securing their place in the finals. Feedback from the banks was that the start was powerful, strong and the team instantly had the jump on Geelong Silver and Dragon Masters.
The team backed up their solid run and took out 2nd place against Warriors Dragon Boat Club, Geelong Gold and Dragon Masters.
Brave Hearts regrouped for the last race of the day and showed a magnificent effort in the 2km sweeps race competing in the first heat against Golden Dragons Composite and Geelong Dragons. Our team was seeded as the last to start, quickly catching up to Geelong in the first 500m and keeping close on their tail throughout the race.
The race run smoothly, with new sweep Gavin taking control of the sweep's oar for the 2000m. Gavin kept the boat steady around the turns, and skilfully handled the passing of the Golden Dragons composite crew on the last turn just before the 1500m mark.
Overall Brave Hearts crossed the line second, still on the tail of Geelong, placing the crew in first for the heat when the times came in. Brave Hearts completed the race, breaking the 12 minute mark at 11:40.


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MARK O'Haire's (@MarkOHaire) scoured the coupon from Friday's crucial Euro 2016 qualifiers in the hope of landing a few international winners.
Montenegro v Russia | Friday 19.45 | Sky Sports Interactive
Spain v Ukraine was picked by Sky Sports as the lead game from Friday night's offering but Montenegro's clash with Russia is already looking like a vital showdown on the road to Euro 2016 and shouldn't disappoint.
The two teams are locked on five points in Group G and a clear five points adrift of pace-setters Austria. Sure, the top two teams qualify automatically and Sweden sit just a point above both nations but a win or loss here could have fatal consequences come October time when the group concludes.
Russia arrive in Podgorica as 11/10 favourites and there's just no way we could get involved with Fabio Capello's troops at that price. The 2018 World Cup hosts arrive on the back of three consecutive 1-1 draws (including an embarrassing result at home to Moldova) and the Italian boss is under fire as he bids to turn the ailing national team's form around.
The visitors opened their account with a breezy 4-0 success over Lichtenstein but that success is he only fixture in seven competitive outings in 2014 that Russia scored more than one goal in a game. And although Montenegro are yet to record three points since despatching Moldova 2-0 in Podgorica back in the opening round of games, the hosts are capable of getting a result.
The Brave Falcons have dropped down the FIFA rankings after a series of disappointing results but have only been beaten in four of their 17 competitive matches at the Podgorica City Stadium since earning full UEFA membership. Coral have made Montenegro available to back at 17/20 in the Double Chance market, meaning I'll be paid out should the hosts avoid defeat and that appeals.
Macedonia v Belarus | Friday 19.45 | Sky Sports Interactive
It's probably the unsexiest fixture on Friday night's card but that doesn't mean we should desert Belarus' trip to Macedonia from a punting perspective. Oh no. There's a bet to be had with Paddy Power offering 11/10 on FYROM in the Draw No Bet.
As a QPR fan, I'm well accustomed to brave home displays and often shoddy, pathetic away performances. It's a little soul-destroying but at least it's fairly predictable. Well you can stick Macedonia in the same bracket as the Super Hoops.
It's quite easy to point, look and laugh at the Red Lions' recent record. Failure to score in six of their previous eight outings and defeats in 12 of their last 16 will probably send most of you running for the hills but hear me out… FYROM have returned W9-D2-L5 in their past 16 at the Philip II Arena.
And when hosting teams of similar stature as Belarus in competitive internationals at their Skopje base, Macedonia are rarely turned over. Since 2007, the only nations to beat the Red Lions in their own back yard in non-friendly fixtures are the Netherlands, Spain, Russia, Ireland, Croatia, Belgium, Scotland and Slovakia.
Boško Gjurovski's team have faced a difficult opening to their qualifiers with games against the top-three seeds but FYROM netted in a 5-1 loss in Spain and put in determined displays against Slovakia and Ukraine, only to be suffer from a few awful defensive mishaps. Gjurovski will have certainly outlined this match under the 'winnable' category, as he did when they overcame Luxembourg 3-2 on home soil.
Belarus have taken a point from same four fixtures at Macedonia and the visitors have won just three competitive away games since 2007. At worst, I expect a push from the Draw No Bet selection and I'm slightly surprised to see the hosts as underdogs for this encounter.
Moldova v Sweden | Friday 19.45 | Sky Sports Interactive
Another game that's unlikely to get your juices flowing on Friday night but I'm keen to have a dabble on the 6/4 from Betfair that Both Teams Score in this Group G showdown from Chisinau.
I've already alluded to the tight nature of the pool during the above Montenegro-Russia preview and with Moldova deemed the whipping boys of the group, many punters will expect Sweden to wipe the floor with their Eastern European opposition but I can assure you, it won't be that straightforward.
Since 1997 only three nations have left Moldova with wins by a margin of three goals or more – Turkey in 2001, funnily enough Sweden in 2011 and England in 2012. Sure, San Marino (twice) are the only side they've beaten in competitive football on home soil in the past four years but Alexandru Curtianu's men won't be easy meat.
Despite Moldova's nightmarish results, the Eastern Europeans have netted in 10 of their last 12 Chisinau fixtures, including their defeat to group leaders Austria back in October. With Sweden keeping just three clean sheets in 13 road trips, I'd like to think backing Both Teams To Score is more than just a speculative stab in the dark.
Best Bets
Montenegro v Russia – Montenegro double chance (17/20 Coral)
Macedonia v Belarus – Macedonia draw no bet (11/10 Paddy Power)
Moldova v Sweden – Both Teams To Score (6/4 Betfair)


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Property scam warning as investigation begins
Five government agencies have launched a joint investigation into recent real estate scams to determine if extra protection is necessary to stop identity theft and warned of more attempts at bogus sales.
The Commercial Crime Division of WA Police, Consumer Protection, Landgate, the Real Estate and Business Agents Supervisory Board and the Settlement Agents Supervisory Board will investigate after a Wembley Downs man had an investment property sold while he was overseas.
Roger Mildenhall was in South Africa when he was told that his Hale Road home was on the market.
He then found out his investment property in Deanmore Road, Karrinyup, had been sold in June for $485,000 without his knowledge.
The five agencies will examine how the property was fraudulently sold and consider measures that will be aimed at minimising the risk of a repeat occurrence.
Similarities to an attempted fraudulent sale of a West Perth apartment in 2008 will also be examined.
Officer-in-charge of the Major Fraud Squad Detective Senior Sergeant Don Heise said both cases involved scammers from Nigeria with possible collaborators in South Africa.
"It appears there was an interception of the landowner's mail in South Africa, where the fraudsters stole his identity and falsified a number of documents. These were then sent to the relevant real estate agent in Perth," Det Snr Sgt Heise said.
Snr Sgt Heise said possible warning signs included:
Notification of a change of contact details, email and postal addresses of the property owner prior to the sale request;
Sale was communicated as urgent for business or other personal reasons;
Promise of future sales through the agent as an incentive to cooperate with a speedy sale and settlement;
Documents from Notary Public in Nigeria, verifying documents and identity;
Request for a short-term loan before settlement;
English in some of the correspondence very basic or poor.
REBA says that last week a Perth real estate agent reported another attempted sale scam involving a bogus owner.
Chairman Mark Cuomo said the bogus owner's name didn't match that of the registered proprietor so it was quickly identified as a fraud attempt.
"The style of this approach was different to the other cases but highlights that the fraud attempts might increase after the success of the Karrinyup case," Mr Cuomo said.
"All real estate agents must now be increasingly vigilant against these types of scam attempts and carry out extra checks to verify an owner's identity, particularly those who are selling local property while overseas.
"It would be an effective fraud-prevention practice that, if a property owner changes their postal or email address, they should send a confirmation to the old address to make sure the new address is genuine. Similarly, if phone and fax numbers change, try the old number to double check.
"We would also suggest to agents to ask questions of absentee owners that only the real owner would know, perhaps about the last sale or characteristics of the property."
"Agents could also consider asking for selling fees up front, as scammers will most likely be discouraged from pursuing the sale or will make up excuses as to why they can't pay them.
"The onus, however, is on the agent to exercise due diligence in these situations and to be extra vigilant."
SASB Chairperson Mirina Muir said that often the settlement agent was considered to be the last line of defence against inappropriate property transfers.
"We would encourage all settlement agents who are currently, or will be in the future, dealing with absentee owners to be ever vigilant and double check the validity of documents that have originated overseas," Ms Muir said.
WA's Registrar of Titles Bruce Roberts has reminded professionals within the property industry to ensure that identity verification is included in their practices.
"These checks could involve the 100-point system where the owner must produce multiple sources of identity with photographs and signatures."
Commissioner for Consumer Protection Anne Driscoll said scams are now becoming more professional and more elaborate.
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Date of Award
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Environmental Studies
Steven Stoll
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Judith Jones
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Evon Hekkala
From the Trail of Tears to the forced evictions that turned Cades Cove into a ghost town, Appalachia's residents have long been betrayed by their governments. Currently, mountaintop removal – the destruction of hundreds of mountain peaks for coal – mirrors past abuses, and has sparked a new cycle of catastrophic health effects and land loss. This legacy of human rights abuses is far from Appalachia's only option, however. In examining both the past and current socioeconomic structures that enable environmentally destructive practices like mountaintop removal, it is possible to chart a path forward. And, by adopting a system similar to Chico Mendes' extractive reserves model, state governments in Central Appalachia can foster both economic growth and environmental renewal. In my senior honors thesis, I will explore not only the historic roots of Appalachia's current environmental challenges, but also the legal options available to best lobby for change. This thesis includes a historical overview of the land rights struggles of the Gullah/Geechee Nation, the Cherokee Nation, and other communities across the middle and mountain South, as well as a series of policy proposals to more sustainably manage land and combat climate change.
I am very grateful for the generous mentorship of professors Steven Stoll, Silvana Patriarca, Judith Jones, and Evon Hekkala, as well as the wisdom of Queen Quet and other dignitaries and legal advocates I consulted over the course of writing this thesis.
Recommended Citation
Studies, Environmental and Happel, Robin J., "Saving the Smokies: Land Rights in the Middle and Mountain South" (2018). Student Theses 2015-Present. 74.


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The Enlightenment and Religion: The Myths of Modernity - S. J. Barnett
The Enlightenment and Religion: The Myths of Modernity
by S. J. Barnett
Pp. vii+244. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003
Hardback, £49.99; Paperback, £14.99
The Enlightenment and Religion is an important revisionist study that questions assumptions about religion and modernity in the eighteenth century and, specifically, the role of deism. Barnett, Subject Leader in History of Ideas at the University of Kingston-Upon-Thames, argues that an exaggeration of the role of deism has led to a failure to engage with more traditional forces for religious change.
Barnett also takes issue with the extent to which the concept of public opinion has focused on the writings of the philosophes and on what he sees as the dominance of the traditional top-down approach to intellectual change. Barnett claims with reason that the philosophes' perception of enlightenment in class terms led them to ignore the bottom-up process of intellectual change. Correctly taking issue with the Habermas approach, Barnett claims there was a reciprocal intellectual relationship between the various orders.
Barnett does not address adequately, however, the argument that religious conservatism was the defining characteristic of popular religiosity, nor the attempt to focus on the extent to which there was an anti-Enlightenment. The use, for example, of the culture of print for preserving tradition and traditional learning as well as for disseminating new ideas and influences, is a reminder of the ability of traditional influences to respond to new opportunities, and also of the dynamic possibilities of traditional learning.
Furthermore, to focus on "popular" views, it is necessary to consider the economy and culture of the poor. The troubled character of their experience and imagination was not one that readily lent itself to a conviction of the superior value of earthly government. Similarly the desire for inexhaustible supplies of food and wealth central to many folk tales was not one that could be fulfilled by economic growth. Indeed the combination of these beliefs reflected the harshness of the life of the poor and their need to turn to magical solutions. The very sense of menace and danger helps to account for the energy devoted to religious issues and this serves as a reminder of the need to consider the populace as more than a passive recipient of policies and initiatives from the more powerful.
Barnett's book makes a worthwhile contribution to debate on the eighteenth century and on historiographical method, but does not exhaust the material available for considering the role of religion and the nature of enlightenment in that period.
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Eurailpass or Swiss Rail Pass?
Eurailpass or Swiss Rail Pass?
A few years ago I stayed in Lucerne and took the Golden Panorama train out and back to Lucerne. I think Interlaken was the turning point, and that I didn't need a Swiss Rail pass for that. It was beautiful. Are there other loops I can take, based in Lucerne, using just the Eurail Global Pass?
EMPLOYEE0Jeff (Official Rep) July 27, 2017 15:04Hi Rich,
You don't "need" a rail pass for any trip; you can always just purchase regular tickets instead. As it happens, any rail pass that includes Switzerland, whether it bea 'Eurail Select Pass' that includes Switzerland , a Eurail Global Pass, or the single country 'Swiss Travel Pass', is valid to cover the full length of the GoldenPass scenic route. Trains from Lucerne to Interlaken are GoldenPass trains; however, this only represents just one segment of the full GoldenPass scenic route. The full route consists of a train from Lucerne to Interlaken, another train from Interlaken to Zweisimmen, and then another train from Zweisimmen to Montreux.
Of the trains comprising of the GoldenPass route, reservations would only be recommended on the segment from Zweisimmen to Montreux. For travel with a rail pass, you would purchase reservations for a train from Zweisimmen to Montreux by clicking the 'Seat Reservations' tab on our homepage (www.raileurope.com), entering the cities, and indicating the type of rail pass with which you'll be traveling.
On the other segments of the GoldenPass route, reservations are possible but not necessary. If you also would like to have reservations on those segments, you would just have to piece together the connection by doing a separate search for each segment. Therefore, you would do one search for trains from Lucerne to Interlaken, another search for trains from Interlaken to Zweisimmen, and another search for connecting trains from Zweisimmen to Montreux.
All trains from Lucerne to Interlaken do have panoramic windows for taking in all the scenery.
Trains on the Interlaken-Zweisimmen segment do not have panoramic windows, but the views would still of course be very scenic.
On the segment from Zweisimmen to Montreux, there are either 'Classic' GoldenPass trains or 'Panorama' GoldenPass trains for you to choose from. These will be labeled accordingly when you pull up the results of your search for this segment of the trip.
Coaches on the 'Classic' GoldenPass trains have a vintage turn-of-the-century Belle Époque look, whereas the 'Panorama' GoldenPass trains have a more modern look with panoramic windows. 'Classic' GoldenPass trains also have 'wine cellar' coaches, which offer a wider selection of wine than would be offered in the bar cars on the 'Panorama' trains; however, food is available for purchase on both the 'Classic' and 'Panorama' trains. The Classic trains have large windows, but the windows on the Panorama trains are more "panoramic".
Jeff (Official Rep) July 27, 2017 15:12Out of Lucerne, there is also the 'Gotthard Panorama Express' scenic route. This scenic route consists of the steamboat over Lake Lucerne from Lucerne to Flüelen and then trains from Flüelen to Bellinzona or Lugano.
From July 3rd to October 22nd of 2017, the 'Gotthard Panorama Express' trains run daily from Flüelen to Bellinzona and Lugano. On these trains, reservations are required as a supplement to a rail pass. For this route, the reservation that we issue is inclusive of both the steamboat (from Lucerne to Flüelen) and the connecting 'Gotthard Panorama Express' train from Flüelen to Bellinzona or Lugano.
To purchase reservations for the 'Gotthard Panorama Express' journey on our website, you would type 'Lucerne-Boat Gotthard' (instead of just 'Lucerne') in the field for the departure city, with either 'Bellinzona' or 'Lugano' in the opposite field. Therefore, your search would be from either 'Lucerne-Boat Gotthard' to 'Bellinzona' or 'Lucerne-Boat Gotthard' to 'Lugano'. By doing this, our website will know to issue the reservation that will cover you on the steamboat from Lucerne to Flüelen and the panoramic 'Gotthard Panorama Express' train from Flüelen to either Bellinzona or Lugano. Also, when you go to purchase these reservations, be sure to indicate the type of rail pass with which you'll be traveling.
Generally, these reservations can only be issued once within 90 days of an intended departure date.
As the name suggests, these trains do have panoramic windows.
Jeff (Official Rep) July 27, 2017 15:21There is also the nearby mountain peaks. Close to Lucerne, there is Mount Pilatus, Mount Titlis, Mount Stanserhorn, and Mount Rigi. What to purchase for these excursions depends on the rail pass you purchase. It would be different whether you have a Eurail Select Pass that includes Switzerland or just the single country Swiss Travel Pass.
For Mount Pilatus, you would click here: https://www.raileurope.com/activities/mount-pilatus/index.html.
For Mount Titlis, you would click here: https://www.raileurope.com/activities/mount-titlis/index.html.
For Mount Stanserhorn, you would click here: https://www.raileurope.com/activities/mount-stanserhorn/index.html.
For Mount Rigi, you pay locally.


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20 Questions A Journalist Should Ask About Poll Results - continued
8. When was the poll done?
Events have a dramatic impact on poll results. Your interpretation of a poll should depend on when it was conducted relative to key events. Even the freshest poll results can be overtaken by events. The President may have given a stirring speech to the nation, pictures of abuse of prisoners by the military may have been broadcast, the stock market may have crashed or an oil tanker may have sunk, spilling millions of gallons of crude on beautiful beaches.
Poll results that are several weeks or months old may be perfectly valid, but events may have erased any newsworthy relationship to current public opinion.
9. How were the interviews conducted?
There are four main possibilities: in person, by telephone, online or by mail. Most surveys are conducted by telephone, with the calls made by interviewers from a central location. However, some surveys are still conducted by sending interviewers into people's homes to conduct the interviews.
Some surveys are conducted by mail. In scientific polls, the pollster picks the people to receive the mail questionnaires. The respondent fills out the questionnaire and returns it.
Mail surveys can be excellent sources of information, but it takes weeks to do a mail survey, meaning that the results cannot be as timely as a telephone survey. And mail surveys can be subject to other kinds of errors, particularly extremely low response rates. In many mail surveys, many more people fail to participate than do. This makes the results suspect.
Surveys done in shopping malls, in stores or on the sidewalk may have their uses for their sponsors, but publishing the results in the media is not among them. These approaches may yield interesting human-interest stories, but they should never be treated as if they represent public opinion.
Advances in computer technology have allowed the development of computerized interviewing systems that dial the phone, play taped questions to a respondent and then record answers the person gives by punching numbers on the telephone keypad. Such surveys may have a variety of significant problems, including uncontrolled selection of respondents within the household, the ability of young children to complete the survey and poor response rates. These problems disqualify this type of survey unless the journalist knows that the survey has proper respondent selection, verifiable age screening, and reasonable response rates.
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Smile! Click. And upload.
Most of the time, when posting photos on your Instagram or Facebook accounts, the biggest concern on your mind is which filter to use. But what might just be a simple click of a fleeting memory for you, could mean a mosaic of information for marketers.
Creepy, right?
Well, there are several photo mining start-ups out there today which are actively sieving through consumers' public selfies or images to help marketers and advertisers have a better understanding of consumer profiles and the data out there.
One such photo mining startup is Ditto Labs which mines publicly available images on Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr. In a conversation with Marketing, David Rose, CEO of Ditto Labs said social media is becoming increasingly visual but brands aren't able to "listen to photos" – this is where the company steps in. It fills the gaps with proprietary image recognition tools that tags brands, scenes and objects in the daily torrent of photos people share on social media. This is then transcribed into coherent customer insights and engagement strategy for Ditto Labs' clients.
"There's a famous phrase a picture tells a thousand words. In a single photo there can be a number of unique buying signals. For instance, a marketer can tell where the image came from, what brands are present in the image and the person's interests," Rose tells Marketing.
Today the world is moving to a point where personal stories are told through social images. Mingle that with the growing smartphone penetration and dropping price range, image-based storytelling will sooner than later, dominate.
"Millions of new people are going to be walking around with a digital camera in their pocket. Couple this with people's preference for image-first social networks like Instagram, and you have a new way for marketers to understand customers' behaviors and preferences," he added.
(Data courtesy of: Ditto Blogs)
Without naming clients, Rose added that in several instances privacy concerns were raised by potential clients. However, he reiterated that his team only analyses publicly available photos – not very much different from how marketers mine for data from text messages.
"Admittedly, some people do express privacy concerns when they first see the platform. However, this initial reaction is typically due to seeing something novel, and not because there's a sense that people's privacy is invaded. I think social photo analysis is where social text analysis was a few years ago. Nowadays people understand that if they tweet about a brand, that text is searchable. Soon people will adopt the same understanding about the photos they share," Rose said.
Data mining from selfies an evolution to text mining?
However, disagreeing with Rose is long time digital marketer Damien Cummings, global head of digital marketing at Standard Chartered. He explained the two are very different as consumers post images in a bid to share it with their loved ones or friends.
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You can't have a personal relationships or friendships with brands. So corporations don't have a right to hijack selfies for their own marketing interest. I suspect there would be a huge backlash from consumers if found out that their selfies were being used without their permission, even for simple data gathering.
In his view, text based content are usually publicly posted and there's already an assumption that all of this content (whether it appears on Facebook, Twitter or a blog) is going to be seen publicly and as fair game.
Prantik Mazumdar, managing partner of Happy Marketer however, agrees with Rose that this could possibly be an evolution of text based data mining.
"I think once any piece of content, irrespective of format, which is on the public domain, is available for anyone to see, re-hash, mine, analyse, re-produce unless of course it is copyright protected. So I don't see why data mining for consumer pictures should be any different from data mining for text based posts or data gathered from campaigns," Mazumdar said.
Whilst the data is on the public domain and open for mining, what would be nice is if the brand chooses to be proactive and open about the data mining initiative, added Mazumdar.
Is Asia ready for data mining from images?
While the service might be taking off on the US, most of the marketers Marketing reached out to in APAC said that at this point of time, they were not data mining when it came to images. Cummings echoed these marketers and said that while there is a massive interest in moving to insight and data-driven marketing, there's still only a small percentage of marketers that have embraced it.
Even when it comes to mining for data based from their own brand campaigns, most marketers are simply content to have customers engage with their brand, or share their experience of that brand with a friend.
"The idea of mining data from selfies is an interesting one but for what end? Unless a brand has a team of analytics to mine insights, or a robust digital marketing operations capability that can take advantage of these insights, then the effort isn't worth it," Cummings said.
Of course, there is also the very thorny issue of privacy.
"In the short term, there aren't that many benefits. The risk of upsetting customers by stealing data from their photos appears to massively outweigh any benefits," he added.
Don Anderson, regional managing director of social media agency We are Social added that currently there is still very little guidance and regulation in the industry for how researchers should or shouldn't use social media data.
"For research, our use of such data tends to remain at an aggregate audience / community level to gain insight into consumer behaviour and trends, and not really at a personal level to target individuals," said Anderson.
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Young experimenting with vaping in Canada
The number of young people in Canada who have tried vaping is higher than the number of young smokers, according to a story by Amy Thatcher for CMAJ citing recently released government statistics.
Canadian Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs Survey figures show that among those 15-19 years of age, 20 percent have tried vaping while 11 percent smoke.
Only nine percent of Canadians aged 15 and older have tried an electronic cigarette, which seems to imply what everybody knows – young people are more adventurous than older people are.
"We've never had a snapshot like this," said Margaret Bernhardt-Lowdon, executive director of the Manitoba Lung Association.
She called the rates of youth experimentation with electronic cigarettes "concerning", and would like to see a ban on sales of these products to minors.
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We have multiple NetApps in our data center of various models. My team is responsible for applications that use the luns provided to UNIX and Windows servers.
A question that comes up from time to time when NetApp outages are required for upgrades to the heads or to upgrade OnTap relates to identifying which servers are using which luns. On Windows there are tools such as SANSurfer that help but I would like to know if there are some fairly simple commands that can be issued on the NetApp to identify which system is using a particular lun.
I would also be interested in any direction somebody could provide in identifying courses available in the US that would relate NetApp best practices to database use on luns or NFS file systems.
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Unfortunately once the LUN is created you can only check which igroups the LUN is mapped to and therefore which hosts can mount the LUN. You could add a comment to each LUN using the `lun comment` command, syntax as follows:
lun comment lun_path [ comment ]
Another way to keep track for future LUNs would be to include the hostname or clustername in the volume or qtree name, that way the output of `lun show` would show quite clearly which hosts would mount which LUNs.
With regard to training, there is some excellent documentation in the NetApp Tech Library which may well cover the information you require: http://www.netapp.com/us/library/
To add to this if you have DFM you should be able to find out what HBA sits in which igroup that accesses which LUN.
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The Green Mile; Drama, USA, 1999; D: Frank Darabont, S: Tom Hanks, David Morse, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell, Michael Jeter, Doug Hutchison, Sam Rockwell, Bonnie Hunt
In 1999, Paul Edgecomb is 108 years old and is in a nursing home. He remembers back how he was a corrections officer in '35, being in charge of a death row in Louisiana, where prisoners were escorted to the electric chair. The newest prisoner is a black man, John Coffey, a tame giant who was found together with two corpses of raped girls and was charged of being the perpetrator. Paul soon finds out he has supernatural healing powers and becomes friends with him. Among the officers is also the evil Percy who executes one prisoner in the most brutal way. One day a new inmate is transferred to prison and John senses he is the real murderer of the girls, using his powers to control Percy to kill him. After that Percy falls into a catatonic state. John gets executed but Paul keeps his pet mouse.
"The Green Mile" is a sad essay about the ever lasting passivity of people, who sometimes have to obey orders and to do things they don't want to. Unfortunately, that passivity also transferred to the authors of the film, who chose to make into a standard, stiff, cliche melodrama instead of something special and stimulating. Overlong, overrated and over-preachy, "Mile" is actually good in the first quarter: in the poetic opening shots, without sound, armed farmers are seen walking in a field, but then the story becomes more and more bizarre, transforming at moments into a travesty. For instance, the main protagonist Paul has urinary problems and always screams when he is urinating. Then he encounters John Coffey, who has supernatural powers - and who places his hand between Paul's legs, mysteriously healing him while in the background a light bulb starts lighting: this sequence is so inadvertently funny that it's pathetic. To top it all, after that John opens his mouth and thousands of moths (?) come from his mouth, and then disappear.
Surely, if the authors wanted to address some esoterical issues, they could have done it in a better way. John Coffey - who is played by Michael Clark Duncan who is making such grimaces that not even Jerry Lewis would be ashamed off - apparently has a few parallels with Jesus Christ: he can heal people, his initials are J. C. and he is executed innocent, but those parallels don't add much to the film's quality. Forced poetry and too obvious cliches are also problematic. The movie is touching at times, ambitious and well acted, but no serious movie can work if he is oversimplifying things and presenting them as only black and white: for instance, the evil officer Percy is shown as a completely one dimensional bad guy without any positive feature since he in one scene squashes the inmates pet mouse with his foot and executes a prisoner on a electric chair deliberately without special equipment, causing his body to melt and him to die in an extremely painful way - that scene is disgusting and shockingly campy, and what's too much is too much. Actually, it's so bad the movie had to do extraordinary virtues in order to redeem himself for it. In the end, "Mile" is a solid and competent film, but 15 minutes of his running time are worth less than one minute of "Saving Private Ryan".


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Henry Peterson is trying to change his ways. After his escape from the nightmare he created in Virginia, He is turning over a new leaf. After committing one last crime as a favor to Rex Roland, he heads to Florida.
He meets a pretty girl named Shelby and they hit it off. He's happy for the first time in ages and relieved that his tortured past is staying in the basement where it belongs. The sunny weather, Shelby's friendship and her dog Misty, all seem to help Henry become a better person and keep his inner demons at bay. The voices have stopped as well as most of the nightmares.
Wyatt Courtland is an eleven year old boy on the run. He's on a quest to find the brother that doesn't even know he exists. Wyatt has always carried the burden of rumors and speculation that his Dad is somehow tied up with Tom Willin who later changed his name to Henry Peterson. Finally his Dad admits that Henry and Wyatt are brothers. Wyatt is an extraordinary boy whose lucid dreams sometimes predict the future. He uses these dreams to help him find the person he thinks will lead him to Henry, ex-cop Rex Roland.


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They called it "Silicon Alley," a clumsy play on words meant to evoke an East Coast urban version of the California place where microchips made fortunes grow and digital devices work. It was a marketing play really, designed to lure public funding and convince established business to locate in New York. But the term was always flawed. For one, few of the small-time entrepreneurs and dreamers who created the tiny and fragile Internet scene in mid-1990s New York ever touched silicon or worked on a chip. And for another, where were the alleys? Ancient tilting walk-ups, former garment center sweatshop floors, crumbling converted townhouses, semi-abandoned finance towers, nooks and crannies of the abundant and under-used spaces that created a buyer's market for offices - these were the mis en scene for the happy band of under-achieving writers, editors, photographers, designers, artists, tramps and thieves who formed the core of "Silicon Alley." But these places fronted on streets and avenues, the grid of lower midtown and Chelsea and the Flatiron District, and the crazy Dutch patchwork of lower Manhattan.
There was another reason that the artifice of "Silicon Alley" never worked, even though it entered common parlance as shorthand for the Internet business in New York - it was cynical and lacked soul. It argued that a quick label could throw a stylish cape over this rag-tag workforce, creating an "industry" and a glide path for capital, valuations, mergers and IPOs - just like in the drab anodyne office parks well outside of San Francisco's urban realism. The label never worked because it didn't capture the essence of what made Silicon Alley come into being - that rare combination of culture and opportunity, and a group of perhaps 2,000 people living and working amidst seven million others, and knowing each other.
No, the real Silicon Alley was deeply cultural. It was formed at the very dawn of the commercial Internet by a tiny army of lunatics who realized almost at the same time - and almost as one - that the shackles that had previously defined "career" and "lifestyle" had suddenly been thrown off. This corps had more in common with the swinging London or Haight Ashbury cultural scenes of the 1960s or the Parisian literary set of the 1920 than it did with khaki and button down engineer and venture capitalist crowd in California. And it really shared its DNA with the New York avant garde and punk music scene of the late 60s and 70s. Like that generation of loners and stoners and guitar obsessed maniacs, who emigrated downtown to start bands and create their art, the Alley tribe of the mid-90s ran its train along a cultural track. Everyone hung out. Everyone had a band. Everyone debated how life would change. Some flamed out. Some never grew up. Some moved on. And some hit the big time. But as a group, their influence is still being felt today - not just in the massive Wall Street valuations of the big Internet companies, but in the way the Internet is used, how it has evolved, how it has both raised society and connected people in new ways - and threatened institutions and long-held beliefs.
And on this Labor Day weekend, it may be a good time to recall that it was a generation that revolutionized - at least in part - the ideas of working and compensation and free agency in what used to be a called a "new economy" really meant. As co-founders of @NY, a proto-blog of business and culture that launched on Labor Day weekend 1995, Jason Chervokas and I became street-level chroniclers of Silicon Alley for five years, writing about start-ups and driven entrepreneurs, wild ideas and new technology, over-the-top parties and digital art experiments. A wonderful recent book by Gina Neff, associate professor at the University of Washington and an analyst who studies the relationship between society and communication technologies, captures and - to some degree - measures those changes in labor that are with us still, using the Silicon Alley of the '90s as a research platform ... and gratifyingly (at least to me) @NY's reporting as some of the basis for her conclusions.
The book is Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries (Acting with Technology), published by The MIT Press last year and for those trying to figure out the roots of a more mobile, open, "free agent" work force - especially among young people in urban areas - it's a cornerstone study of motivation and risk in labor, especially the media and technology industries.
Of course, for me it's a great bit of personal time travel. The names and companies of the late 90s in New York - and what we wrote about them - bring me back to what was a wonderful time to write about culture, business, media and technology. That memory was a bit singed by the great technology driven crash in 2000 - and masked by the subsequent horrors of 2001 - but Venture Labor remembers for me just how idealistic those companies and their founders were.
Yes, some were in it purely for the money and the book captures that formula of young, talented people weighing the risk of equity in a long-shot with a foosball table against drudgery in a typical midtown day job. But in the very early days (the ones most fondly recalled), the balance was toward art and creation and the brilliance of change; some of the IPOs and instant wealth changed that, as a handful of those who seemed to be slumming along with you suddenly acquired Hamptons summer palaces, rare sports cars, and flat screen televisions that actually hung on the wall - when such new age media appliances started at $25,000.
Neff does a great job of capturing the seeming randomness of it all. She wisely focuses in one chapter on video, casting the wild and wooly antics of digital pioneer Josh Harris and his company Pseudo against eventual world-beater YouTube - but as I recall, there were never fewer than a score of venture-backed online video companies in Silicon Alley in the 90s, even when the typical home Internet connect was 56K and T1 lines cost more than the rent for office space downtown.
"People working in Silicon Alley believed strongly in the transformative power of the Internet," writes Neff, "even if it was difficult to predict which particular companies would succeed ... Pseudo may not have put CBS out of business, but just as Josh Harris predicted in 2000 online streaming video content has already drastically and irrevocably changed the economics of broadcast media."
So much of what went down among start-ups in Silicon Alley was ahead of the curve - and well ahead of the bandwidth. Online video. Online music. Online games. They were all there, early. Yet Silicon Alley clearly was at the center of the revolution in media, the epicenter of change to the ad business and to the idea of what media was and who would control it.
Writes Neff: "Silicon Alley left a legacy of downloadable songs, video streaming, Internet radio, social media, pop-up ads, and heartfelt personal blogs" - though we called them e-zines at the time - "all of which continue to reverberate in online media content ... The revolution may not have been won by those who started it - namely, small, upstart independent online media companies like those in Silicon Alley - but the vision that they had changed the landscape of the Internet then and the expectations that we have as users of new media now."
Neff's main point is that for that generation of workers - hired on promises of stock options, low pay, no healthcare, and few benefits (at least in the early days) - venture labor "stood in for venture capital." The human capital of that era was just as important as the infusion of cash many companies received from angel investors and VC firms. It's where the ideas came from, and where the energy to experiment existed. And beyond the advances in media, the lifestyle of the growing independent workforce has survived in places like New York - right through booms, and busts, and recessions, and terrorist attacks. In fact, it's been growing.
But it's not just that, really. Her other main point is about personal choice, and a work ethic that demanded self direction above a corporate career - people embraced risk in the (occasionally misguided) belief that they were buying into a growing, stable industry on the ground floor.
Writing in @NY and our columns in The York Times, the Industry Standard, and the short-lived Inside, that risk was as obvious as the Empire State Building on the skyline to Chervokas and me. We constantly referred to hype and what we believed was the over-valuation of market value for companies deeply in the red. Still they came. Jason nailed it in one 1999 @NY post quoted in Venture Labor: "With Internet stocks reaching heights perilously close to the outer edge of the earth's atmosphere, everyone in New York is looking for a piece of the action. These days, if you forget your money in the morning when you go for coffee, don't worry - the guy at the deli will trade you breakfast for equity."
Of course, we were right - not that it matters, particularly. It all came down, then the planes hit the towers, and later the "social media" boom grew in the well-turned compost of the digital media roots we all created. But something of what willingness to balance risk and lifestyle - to strike out even now, in an age with a mature commercial Internet and a digital data-gathering system that banishes the last vestiges of privacy to both government and Internet companies - still remains, I think. Gina Neff's excellent Venture Labor is a must-read study for those who were there, and for those who care about our evolving workforce.
Yeah, it's not the early days any more, but you still can't stop ambition in the big town.


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Artist/Blogger LanceScurv speaks on how too many of us get in the way of our own personal progress to become our own oppressor.
Sure, there are many oppressive forces out in the world seeking a way to exploit us and use us for our resources but if we are armed with a healthy sense of self esteem, knowledge of who we really and truly are and an unshakable belief in ourselves then how can any outward force defeat us?
So understand that our true oppressors have been wise enough to not attack us face to face as much as they used to, but they permeate our minds undetected by us to have us do his bidding without any resistance from us at all!


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It's that time of year again. Time for what The Onion refers to as the Reinforcing O' the Stereotypes. So dust off your bagpipes, get out your penny whistle, and get ready to get so wasted that you would beat up your own grandma.
I was reading something this morning from some pretentious blogger who was saying that St. Patrick's Day is a holiday for the REAL Irish people. I hate assholes like that. This is a holiday for anyone with a mouth and a functioning liver, and to be honest, I'm not sure you even need the second one, although it greatly improves a person's chances of survival on this great day. I don't care if you're Polynesian, Chilean, Sudanese, or Argentinian get your ass out there and drink some green beers!
St. Patrick's Day embodies what is severely lacking in other holidays. Most of us work really hard at our jobs, day in and day out, slaving for the "man". We need more holidays where people can rent a bus to drive them around to various drinking establishments, drink excessively, and celebrate as a community, regardless of religion, race, sexual preferences, or political party affiliations. If we had about 52 more holidays a year like this, we would be going to war, because no one would want to miss out on the great party that was coming up the next week. We'll call this new holiday Saturday.
Unfortunately, having a community drunk fest every Saturday does have it's drawbacks, including liver and/or kidney failure, loss of spouse, frequent urination, morning episodes of dry mouth, skanks in bed syndrome (for you singletons out there), loss of car keys, loss in income to the Taco Bell drive-through, and memory loss.
Whatever you find yourself doing today in celebration, be safe, rent a bus or hire a cab, and may the luck of the Irish be with you every day!


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Understanding Wisdom
Sources, Science, and Society
Edited by Warren S. Brown
The study of wisdom is challenging and thought provoking. This volume sheds light on the age-old question: What is wisdom and where does it come from?
Evidence of wisdom can be seen in both perception and performance, in sacred scriptures and in brain images. An eminent group of scholars from fields as diverse as theology, philosophy, medicine, biology, psychology, and linguistics were brought together to bring focus to this understudied area of scientific research.
Editor Warren Brown presents his research on brain functioning, drawn from observing individuals with damage to specific neural areas, to suggest the importance of integration between hemispheres of the brain to comprehend complex situations in a way that may be termed "wise." Diana Van Lancker also looks at hemispheres of the brain and explores studies that show that left brain functioning is related to prayers, chants, and sayings often used in religious practice.
Wolfgang Mieder, recognized as the foremost scholar in the study of proverbs, explores the secular use of the biblical proverb of "A house divided against itself cannot stand" (Matt. 12:25). R. E. Clements also looks to the book of Proverbs and focuses on its ultimate goal: virtue and wholeness.
Preface ix
Introduction: A Hierarchical Framework for Understanding Wisdom 1
Nancey Murphy
Part I: The Sources of Wisdom
1. The Sources of Wisdom 15
R.E. Clements
2. Profundity with Panache: The Underappreciated Proverbial Wisdom of
Sub-Saharan Africa 35
Stan W. Nussbaum
3. "A House Divided": From Biblical Proverb to Lincoln and Beyond 57
Wolfgang Mieder
4. Israel's Wisdom Literature and the Intrinsic Integrity of Creation 103
Dianne Bergant
5. Wisdom on Death and Suffering 121
John Goldingay
6. It Takes Wisdom to Use Wisdom Wisely 135
Robert K. Johnston
Part II: The Science of Wisdom
7. Wisdom Traditions as Mechanisms for Organismal Integration: Evolutionary Perspectives on Homeostatic "Laws of Life" 153
Jeffrey P. Schloss
8. Wisdom and Human Neurocognitive Systems: Perceiving and Practicing the
Laws of Life 193
Warren S. Brown
9. A Neurolinguistic Perspective on Proverbs and the Laws of Life 215
Diana R. Van Lancker
10. On the Emergence of Wisdom: Expertise Development 245
John L. Horn and Hiromi Masunaga
11. The Science of Art: How the Brain Responds to Beauty 277
V.S. Ramachandran
12. A Scientific Study of Wisdom (Or Its Contributing Parts) 307
Warren S. Brown
Part III: The Learning of Wisdom
13. Wise Emotions 319
Nancy Sherman
14. Setting the Stage for the Development of Wisdom: Self-understanding and Moral Identity During Adolescence 339
William Damon
15. Lessons Learned: The Role of Religion in the Development of Wisdom in Adolescence 361
James L. Furrow and Linda Mans Wagener
16. Maxims to Live By: The Art and Science of Teaching Wise Sayings 393
Arthur J. Schwartz and F. Clark Power
17. Seeing Wisely – Learning to Become Wise 413
Lawrence M. Hinman
Contributors 425
Name and Subject Index 429
Scripture Index 443


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It's so hard waiting for those Omni plant opportunities.
Fingers crossed for the Omniplant chain opportunities.Persimmon is really handsome (and my favorite).
Oh, that is one scary image. Persimmon is so sneaky. Congrats Palmira, I guess? Lol. And congratulations to Poppy and Abraham.
Just caught up with this -- good luck to Poppy!
What a pleasant surprise to find a witch in the family. Congrats Poppy, everything has happening so fast - completing her requirements, getting married and having the next heir. Welcome Goldenrod, I think of him as Goldfinger lol.
Plant those magic beans, Poppy! Actually reading your stories has made me appreciate the value of a red berry bean garden.
Welcome baby Goldenrod, and congrats to Poppy! I can't wait to see him as a toddler!
The kids are adorable and Citrine looks really good in yellow.
How cute, they both take after one parent each.
Citrine is so cute!
WOW really enjoying this. Love the colour theme for names, it gives some nice variations to the usual suspects. Can't wait for more...
Aliens are supernatural, so maybe a ghost hunter?
I'm with mpart, ghost hunter! It must be something to be so adorable that the potty wants to pinch you cheeks.
I was thinking astronaut but that's me spending too much time playing Sims 4. They are both adorable, I'm reminded of my nephew and nieces playing together, so sweet.
If ghost hunter isn't it, science career?
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Surrey Quays Shopping Centre, Redriff Rd, London SE16 7LL, UK – 0333 014 4501
Sometimes wonderfully quiet and a nice experience. Can be busy, dirty and slow with purchasing tickets and food. Screens are also not monitored well so it can be quite common to get people distracting movies with talking
Went to see Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Enjoyable film. The cinema is clean and nice environment. Parking is located outside and is free which makes it even better. There's a eatery Frankie's & Benny's and the shopping centre itself isn't far away.
42 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6DR, UK – 020 3773 9075
Really cool theme cinema. I had the chance to go there for my sister's birthday, she absolutely loved it. We had a great time there, the scenography was pretty accurate, and staff kind. They suggests to go there 2 hours before to take the best seats even though you booked them in advance. Me personally will not advice to go there so soon because inside the cinema you have the chance only to eat small snacks. If you are a bit more hungry you can go easily out and grab some food from the highly supplied market...but looks like you're going to miss all the atmosphere ;)
Great fun for any film fan! Travelled down from Leicester twice for Backyard Cinema events and no doubt will be back again soon. Located at Mercato Metropolitano there is so much food and drink to choose from at the stands surrounding the cinema before the screening. The venue itself is dressed up in that season's theme and actors lead you in via a scene played to small groups. It's all such a wonderful experience with a great atmosphere and attention to detail. Also, customer service is fantastic, Amy-Jane was a huge help with a booking issue. Highly recommended.
259-260 Hardess Street, Loughborough Junction, Brixton, London SE24 0HN, UK – 020 7737 6153
The Whirled cinema and its staff are the BEST!!! Yesterday, my new husband and I hired the Whirled for our reception venue. I can't even begin to explain how awesome it was. Every single guest had a fantastic time and loved the venue. The staff, Elijah and Mycajen were absolute super stars. Kind, patient, professional and helpful to each and everyone of us from start to finish. If you're thinking of hiring this venue, honestly, do it. It was an amazing location to have a movie themed wedding and I just can't thank everyone involved enough. Thank you thank you.
Had a cousin's party that was hosted at the venue. What a lovely little place! Not huge, but offers a nice sized personal space with a roof terrace for smoking. Reasonably priced and really friendly staff.
443 New Cross Rd, New Cross, London SE14 6TA, UK – 020 8694 1888
I took the weekend acting course two weeks ago and it was brilliant. I enjoyed every moment of it. Harry is a great teacher and we covered so much in a relatively short space of time. I feel much more comfortable on stage now and would recommend this course to anyone.
Breakwater Theatre Company made its London debut at this wonderfully quirky, fringe theatre in February 2017. The owner made us all feel welcome and could not have been more helpful in every regard. If you are looking for an inexpensive way to take work to our capital, look no further than hiring the London Theatre. We did and we will do so again in a heartbeat.
Douglas Way, London SE8 4AG, UK – 020 8692 4446
Great local arts venue. Renovated and nor in an increasingly trendy area. Deptford is a really happening area and the Albany is a the heart of it. Check out their really innovative and creative offerings.
Great shows and staff. Lots of art based shows and things for kids to see and do, events, gigs and meetings. Very accessible to people with additional needs. And staff willing to help. Best bit was the garden especially in the summer for the community as good meeting place, picnics and children to play. Absolutely loved the chickens. Important as educational/teaching but calming and fun too. Very sad the fox got them. Wish they would get new ones especailly as they were rescue battery hens.
59A Bethwin Rd, Camberwell, London SE5 0XT, UK – 020 7701 0100
Good fringe venue. Very basic. And on the day WARM!! But the owner was giving us water during the show which was sweet.
Very nice place i took my nephew for drama class I love it would recommend it to parents and carers to take their children or children they babysit


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This is the 3 Series Touring
It's the sixth take on the BMW 3 Series Touring, based - as it is - on the seventh-generation of the German company's most crucial model. Here's the run-down on what we're getting in the 3 Series estate, this time around.
Visually, we could talk about the 3 Series Touring's upswept shoulder-line aft of the C-pillar, which is new, or the fact that it has improved aerodynamics compared to its predecessor, or the adoption of LED lights all round for the wagon... but really, it's the estate version of the comparative 3 Series Saloonand you should all know how this works by now. In essence, the Touring looks great, thanks to the grafting-on of extra metal at the back.
So let's talk about some of the facts of the 3 Series Touring. It has a 41mm longer wheelbase than its forebear, with wider front (+43mm) and rear (+21mm) tracks, thanks to its overall dimensions growing by 76mm (length), 16mm (width) and 8mm (height). That svelte bodywork is also 25 per cent more rigid than the shell of the old 3 Series Touring, with the chassis mounting points uprated too - in places, the new 3 Series Touring is 50 per cent less prone to flex than the outgoing car. The weight balance remains at the perfect 50:50 front-to-rear, while the rear glass of the hatch is 20mm wider than before to emphasise the Touring's stance. As a minimum, 17-inch alloy wheels will be fitted, but expect up to 19s and possibly 20s to be part of the kit list down the line.
We don't need to talk too much about the dashboard and tech of the 3 Series Touring, because it's the same stuff as the 3 Series Saloon. We should say that the new Touring has greater shoulder space and elbowroom in the front, more legroom and comfier seats in the rear and extra headroom for all occupants. Oh, and its rear-seat bench can accommodate three child seats abreast with ISOFIX fittings, too. Practical.
The main area where a Touring differs from a 3 Series Saloon is with regards the boot. Here, it's rated at 500 litres (+5 litres on the old 3 Series Touring) with all seats in place and 1,510 litres (+10 litres) with the 40:20:40 split rear bench folded away. All models of the new Touring will get automatic tailgate operation as standard, while the separately opening rear window - a feature of BMW estates for decades now - continues. Usefully, while the volume might not have increased that much on paper, the Three's cargo bay is up to 112mm wider in places, with a loading aperture that's more generous to the tune of 125mm.
From launch, BMW will provide three petrol and three diesel engines for the Touring. Four of these are four-cylinder powerplants (two petrol, two diesel) and then there's a six-cylinder motor in each fuel type to crown things off. The 320i (184hp/300Nm, 0-100km/h in 7.6 seconds, best eco-stats of 5.8 litres/100km, or 48.7mpg, with 133g/km CO2) and 330i (258hp/400Nm, 0-100km/h in 5.9 seconds, 6.0 litres/100km, or 47.1mpg, 136g/km) are the 2.0-litre four-cylinder petrol models, with the inline-six 3.0-litre M340i xDrive Touring (374hp/500Nm, 0-100km/h in 4.5 seconds, 7.1 litres/100km, or 39.8mpg, 162g/km) providing the overall range flagship from the get-go.
Over with the diesels, the 318d (150hp/320Nm, 0-100km/h in 8.9 seconds, 4.3 litres/100km, or 65.7mpg, 114g/km) and 320d (190hp/400Nm, 0-100km/h in 7.1 seconds, 4.4 litres/100km, or 64.2mpg, 115g/km) are again the 2.0-litre models, while the 330d xDrive Touring (265hp/580Nm, 5.4 seconds, 5.4 litres/100km, or 52.3mpg, 140g/km) continues as a 3.0-litre straight-six. Both the 320d and the 330i are rear-driven as standard but can be optioned up with xDrive four-wheel drive, which slightly harms the economy and emissions, but which can improve acceleration, while gearboxes are almost all the eight-speed Steptronic auto - it's standard-fit on most cars but an option on a few lesser variants, where a six-speed manual is the norm.
BMW claims the new Touring has a 'striking increase' in dynamic sharpness, agility and handling precision, as well as optimised ride comfort. A range of chassis options will help enhance the Three, with items like M Sport suspension with a lower ride height, Adaptive M suspension, variable Sport steering, M Sport brakes and an electronically controlled M Sport differential with fully variable locking function all on the menu.
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South Indian film production company Photon Kathaas Productions has announced plans to list on London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and to raise funds to establish a corporate film studio focused on South Indian cinema for audiences in India and worldwide.
The new venture will target the South Indian audience of around 240m and global audiences for South Indian films. Photon Kathaas is led by chief creative officer Gautham Vasudev Menon, who is a Tamil film director and producer. Oscar winning music composer A R Rahman joins as creative adviser. Seymour Pierce is the nominated adviser and broker of Photon Kathaas.
Venkat Somasundaram, Photon Kathaas chief executive, said, "With our industry experience and Gautham and A. R. Rahman's creative expertise, we are very well positioned to become a market leader in the fragmented and under resourced, but rapidly growing, South Indian film market. With our first mover advantage, there are substantial opportunities to cost effectively produce a range of multi-lingual film-based IP for exploitation across a wide range of the media, not just in the South Indian markets, but the global Indian Diaspora.
The South India film industry includes the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry. South Indian films have accounted for 60 per cent of the total 1,300 films produced in India in 2009 and around 50 per cent of the total cinema screens in the country.