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The Bank of Canada predictably announced a few weeks ago that its key interest rate remains unchanged. Two points were emphasized: it's likely that the next rate move will be up, and this increase won't happen in 2013.
The Bank also released its quarterly Monetary Policy Report, providing an outlook of the Canadian and world economies. Here are the report's key features for Canadian agriculture.
Let's start globally. China is an important player in the agricultural market because of its population and the relationship between income growth and food demand. That relationship is not wavering, but we need to continue monitoring Chinese growth. Their gross domestic product is expected to still grow, but slightly slower over the next two years, falling to a 7.6 per cent annual rate by 2014. However, this is hardly poor growth.
China's challenge is to sustain strong growth even as the source of that growth shifts from investments in housing and infrastructure toward consumer spending. The size of China's labour force is expected to decline soon, and that could cut the country's future growth rates.
The good news is that demographic changes will force the Chinese to focus on increasing efficiency as labour becomes scarcer. Fewer workers will mean upward pressures on wages, and this is expected to continue shifting diets towards more animal proteins. At the same time, potentially slower growth could further push commodity prices closer to historical averages.
On our side of the world, the U.S. economy is expected to continue improving. With some fiscal uncertainty behind them, American businesses and consumers can now plan better for the future.
While tax increases and spending cuts do lower GDP, they are forecast to be offset by rising home prices and increased consumer spending. This could be positive for Canada's food processing sector if it creates higher demand for processed foods and upward pressure on wages in the United States. The latter makes Canadian firms relatively more competitive.
The Bank of Canada believes economic conditions in Europe remain the largest risk to the Canadian economy. Austerity is not working for Europeans, as the unemployment rate currently stands at close to 11 per cent in France and 26 per cent in Spain. But European austerity benefits Canadian agriculture by minimizing the impact of the crisis on other parts of the world that are driving agricultural markets. That said, if a major EU country defaulted on its debt obligations, it would slow the world economy. The expected decline of European GDP does not bode well for exports to that region — unless a free trade deal is signed in the near future.
With our open economy, global conditions impact Canadian business profits. Business investment, although currently subdued, is expected to make up a nearly 30 per cent of growth in the Canadian economy over the next three years. The growth in household debt is slowing down and could roughly be in line with the pace of growth in disposable income by the year's end — a welcome development for the Canadian economy.
Given low inflationary pressures and a sluggish labour market, the key interest rate of the Bank of Canada is expected to remain low into 2014. The current low interest rate environment has been a driver of increases in farmland values across the country. There are usually two concerns about low rates: that they'll rise and that they won't! Low rates can provide an incentive to increase risk-taking behaviour. Alternatively, sharply rising rates can expose inefficiencies in some businesses and put them in a difficult spot.
A gradual increase in interest rates that starts in a year or so, combined with commodity prices slowly declining closer to their historical levels could be conducive to a softening of farmland values — that is, the pace of future annual increases in land prices will likely be lower than it has been over the last few years. It would be prudent to plan for budgets that can accommodate higher rates and lower crop receipts.
Multiple factors influence economic growth. The key message is that even as a major player like China slows, stronger global economic growth over the next two years paints a positive outlook for the demand of agricultural products and therefore, Canadian farm income. In the short term, livestock and crop producers need to monitor weather conditions and acreage forecasts in major crop-producing regions. The next United States Department of Agriculture world agricultural supply and demand estimate will provide a picture of available supplies as well as a first look into the production plans of U.S. crop producers.
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A Supplement to the Plays of William ShakspeareEarly Modern History | Drama | Geo. F. Cooledge & Brother | 1848
Well-known as a poet, cultural critic, and novelist, William Gilmore Simms's undertaking of an edited volume of Shakespearean apocrypha seems, at first, odd and atypical. Yet, throughout his long career, Simms displayed a real interest in the theatre, attempting, often unsuccessfully, to write and stage plays. His correspondence also shows a recurring concern with the opinions and evaluations of the great Shakespearean actor Edwin Forrest, for whom Simms wrote several dramas, none of which were ever staged.[1] Taking into account the author's deep and abiding interest ...
The Life of Captain John Smith. The Founder of Virginia.British Colonial History | Biography | Geo. F. Cooledge & Brother | 1847
The Life of Captain John Smith was published by George F. Cooledge & Brother in March 1847 as part of The Illustrated Library series intended for school libraries and general reading.[1] Simms's letters indicate that he began the biography as early as November 1844 when he wrote to George Frederick Holmes: "I have half contracted to prepare a Life of Sumter, one of Paul Jones, and a third of John Smith, with a new edition of his history of Virginia."[2] By the middle of the month Simms informed James Lawson he had already "written a chapter." The process of getting ...
Castle Dismal; or, The Bachelor's ChristmasAntebellum Period | Novella | Burgess, Stringer & Co. | 1844
A gothic tale of ghosts, infidelity, murder, and love, Castle Dismal follows the protagonist Ned Clifton, a "veteran bachelor" who fears the bonds of marriage, in his holiday visit to the home of married friends. Set during the Christmas season in South Carolina, Simms's story illustrates the southern custom of bringing together family around a table to feast; and while Clifton eventually marries Elizabeth Singleton—freeing him from the "melancholy dependencies of bachelorism"—Simms subverts naïve nineteenth-century notions of marriage and domesticity.[1] Marked ...
Helen Halsey, or The Swamp State of Conelachita: A Tale of the BordersAntebellum Period | Novella | Burgess, Stringer & Co. | 1845
While one of the lesser-known of Simms's border romances, the novella Helen Halsey is nevertheless a strong work, indicative of the overall project the author undertook in that series. The first mention of Helen Halsey in the Letters was in June 1843. By September, Simms told James Lawson that the work was "nearly ready." Helen Halsey was "to follow up" Simms's ghost story Castle Dismal, a work he announces in the same letter to be sending to "the Harpers."[1] Letters to Lawson from this time period indicate that the author was interested in shopping ...
Views and Reviews in American Literature, History and FictionAntebellum Period | Reviews/Essays | Wiley and Putnam | 1845 - 1846
Part of the Wiley and Putnam's highly influential Library of American Books, Simms's two-volume Views and Reviews in American Literature, History and Fiction, shows the author theorizing the "American" aspects of American literature, as well as the relationship between America's history and its imaginative writing. In this, we can see Simms presenting and promoting the cultural agenda of the "Young America" movement, whose members included Melville, Poe, and Hawthorne. Views and Reviews is thus a central text in understanding the struggle for defining American literature ...

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Comprehensive Support: The Key to Reducing Student Desertion
Article originally published on E-Learn Magazine on Apr 19, 2018 – Click here for the Spanish version
Chile's Andres Bello University, a member of the Laureate International Universities network, has been developing and strengthening a Comprehensive Support Model for both the design and offering of online courses and programs that have been developed at UNAB Online since 2012. Gerardo Barros, director of UNAB Online, spoke with Blackboard to share insights about this model, which is bringing innovation at both the national and international level.
Founded in 1988, Andres Bello University (UNAB) is a young university, but one that has established itself as a leader in Chile's higher education sector. The university's efforts in program accreditation in recent years has had a positive impact on the online programs offering, as it is the first Chilean university to offer an online postgraduate program with the highest possible accreditation in the country, seven years.
UNAB Online is made up of 36 team members working in areas such as design, teaching and digital marketing. Nowadays, this is the university's organizational group in charge of supporting undergraduate and postgraduate faculty and students with an online study component, which is mainly supported by the Blackboard platform.
It all began in 2011 with a pilot test conducted for two postgraduate programs – one in public health and the other in nursing – both unique programs in their modality in Latin America. Professionals with location or time constraints expressed their interest immediately, which is why the university decided to further develop that area within the institution.
UNAB Online's Rapid Growth
The probability that a young professional will to have to take specialized courses via an online environment increases more every day. As a result, UNAB, as higher education institution, prioritizes the adoption of modern communication, collaborative and learning tools, given that the development of these skills is essential to acquire basic competencies for the 21st century. In addition, professional development today is deeply linked with the ability to navigate the digital world, where self-discipline, self-study, time management, planning or remote work are fundamental.
UNAB's directors understood this, and for six years, they created the ideal conditions for the online team to continuously progress in the offering of quality online courses. In 2014, encouraged by the success of the postgraduate programs, coupled with the experience gained, UNAB began implementing blended undergraduate courses. As a result, students could take some of their core curriculum courses via blended learning. Additionally, they can also take English and international certificate courses through this modality.
Comprehensive Support Model
UNAB Online's experience is built on a transversal support model that is flexible, from the creation of programs and accompanying curriculums, to the support provided to students and professors during the delivery of online courses.
This support is one of the university's many retention tools, as the UNAB Online team is aware of dropout rates being one of the biggest issues in e-learning to date. In most cases, attrition is due to students feeling alone throughout the learning process. An almost intuitive response to this challenge is to get faculty and students to work closer together in order to guarantee a personalized approach to students' questions (via the university's platform), within a reasonable time frame.
Undoubtedly, this model highlights the importance of providing support, but it is also worth noting that this is a comprehensive support, which implies support not only to the student, but to all parties involved throughout the various stages of the process. An example would be the development of an online course based on the content of the university's face-to-face model, in conjunction with the professor in charge. In all cases, an instructional designer works with the professor to achieve an effective migration. The professor is aware of the skills and competencies the students need to gain in order to pass the course, and offers advice and support on the key aspects that will create a course with attainable objectives for both the professor and the students.
The student is supported at all times, either by the professor or a 'supporting tutor.' This person is responsible for several students at the same time and is in charge of sending reminders about deadlines, updates and announcements, as well as offering support on the use of the platform. In this way, the tutor can help the student feel supported during the learning process, without delving into course content. In fact, the accreditation process of the first postgraduate programs (under the accrediting agency's responsibility) showed that monitoring students under this model has better results than what was achieved in a face-to-face environment, given that tutors and instructors have detailed knowledge about their students including their profiles, interests and social-demographic data, all of which can impact and affect their learning process.
January 2018 marked the beginning of UNAB Online's second development stage, as the team aims to provide their online students with a fully enriching university experience from an academic, social and administrative perspective, thus highlighting the value of online education.
The university's approach comes from UNAB Online's experience – from its policies and the internal logic of the digital space – stemming from the intention to innovate effectively and find alternative solutions to achieve high-impact results. This is where concepts of innovation and support connect and intersect, as UNAB Online's model where faculty and students are supported during the entire process is an innovation in and of itself. Likewise is the adoption of Blackboard LMS tools and the continuous search for educational technologies that foster and contribute to the university's pedagogical model in line with innovation in terms of implementation.
UNAB Mobile
All academic services must be available to students, professors and tutors at all times. Therefore, it is essential to have online platforms, but even more so essential is to provide access through the most ubiquitous technology existing today: smartphones and mobile apps. This is not only an efficient way to reach more students, but a strategy to use the intuitive nature and great penetration rates of these technologies.
UNAB Online course content that has been developed to date have been created with the digital environment in mind. However, as it usually occurs with course design, their applicability to mobile technology was not an initial priority. Taking this into account, and with the aim of adapting content to a more accessible and mobile environment, UNAB developed training activities for curriculum designers in order to lay the foundations for the arrival of UNAB Mobile.
As of this year, UNAB Online has started to produce content for mobile application (as well as adapt its existing content), which implies different challenges in several aspects. For example, in graphic design, it is necessary to consider screen and font sizes, the interface design and, above all, the type of interaction the user will have with the device.
Dropout Reduction and Quality Improvement
The current situation in postgraduate programs is particularly telling, as the dropout rate is between 3 and 4 percent. At the same time, dropout rates in undergraduate blended courses have reached the same levels as the in-person counterparts, which shows the strength of an online experience with emphasis on support. Even more encouraging has been the data collected through analytic tools, which has shown that students in online courses get the best grades. Of course, this does not mean that online students learn more, but shows that monitoring objectives and self-learning discipline have paid off.
Through UNAB Online, UNAB also offers courses to students admitted into undergraduate programs. These courses allow students to review basic subjects related to the program they were admitted into in areas such as Language, Mathematics, Sciences, among others. The main benefit of these courses is the reduction in failure rates in courses where it is usually high, in addition to the introduction of remedial courses in alternate semesters to reduce academic delay. All of the above is in line with the policies of respect and inclusion adopted by the university to make it a more open and diverse institution.
Regarding inclusion, this methodology provides the perfect opportunity for students who may not have access to face-to-face education due to the following reasons: geographic location, time constraints, work, etc. The team is working to go above and beyond, as it is possible to include students with disabilities and adapt the educational experience to their needs. UNAB has already begun working with disabled students to implement different solutions through Blackboard's native resources.
Online education in Chile has gained such momentum that there are high expectations for an accreditation process specifically for online programs, instead of the adapted framework of face-to-face education used so far. From this perspective, it is clear that the quality of online education is no longer measured in comparison with the quality of face-to-face education, but by its own parameters and criteria.
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Mayans left their calendars among many other things, which happens to be the most discussed topic about this civilisation – but, there is more to it.
Mayans lived in Central America. The first date in the Mayan calendar is estimated to be around 3372 BC, however, it was only around 400 BC when their notable architecture such as pyramids or temples were built. Over the next few centuries, Mayans continued to grow and the civilisation reached its peak at around 700 AD. Chichen Itza – the most important Mayan city was governed by a council at that time.
The prosperity was soon followed by a decline, as people began to move to the highlands of Mexico and Guatemala. Also, Toltec people took over Chichen Itza. Interestingly, Mayan civilisation tried to revive itself in around 1250, and it succeeded, until 1440, when a rebellion against the rulers weakened the entire culture. In 1517, Spanish conquests of Maya lands began and thus civilisation came to an end.
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10 Ways To Improve Your Art
September 11, 2018
1. Use reference
Using reference always helps!
A reference could be anything from something someone else drew to an apple you get at lunch! (Tip: Pinterest helps a LOT with finding reference)
2. Study anatomy
You can study anatomy on your own or in a class at school. Studying anatomy helps with getting proportions and spacing right.
3. Start small
Start with small things like eyes, noses, mouths, ears, and hair. Starting with those will drastically improve things when you start putting faces together and then moving onto bodies.
4. Look at people
Looking at people can help a LOT. By looking at people you can work on perspective, shading, and proportions!
5. Practice
As the well known phrase goes, PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT. Try to take at least thirty minutes out of your day to practice drawing. It can be just a single eye to an entire person, that is up to you.
6. Start with traditional
Traditional art is created with a pencil and paper. As a beginner, it is recommended to start with traditional and work up to digital.
7. Look up tutorial pictures and videos
YouTube is a great place to find art tutorials. Watch a few of those and maybe try some of the techniques they used. You never know, you could end up liking them and using them more often.
8. Start with tracing
Tracing is an amazing way to start before actually drawing on your own. Take pictures of characters from anything and try to trace them.
9. Try to express yourself in your art
Expressing yourself is a great way to make anything better. Once you get basics drawing down, try to develop your own style by putting little bits of your personality into your art.
10. Have fun!
Having fun is a basic principle for everything. Don't think of art as a chore, think of it as something enjoyable and you'll be sure to get better!


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Your Encore, Cascada or LaCrosse will need Buick repair sooner or later. For any distance you travel each day and no matter how good your driving habits, parts and fluids last only so long. From oil changes and new brakes, to transmission work and engine diagnostics, all necessary maintenance and repairs will keep you driving at your best for many miles ahead. At the same time, experience is important when it comes to the shop handling your Buick. Schaumburg Automedics in Schaumburg, IL, is the experienced shop you can trust, where you'll always get honest and professional Buick repairs by a family-owned business.
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Since 1989, Schaumburg Automedics has been serving Buick drivers throughout Schaumburg, Cook County and the entire Chicagoland region with reliable Buick repairs. You might come to us for the A/C on an Enclave, the electrical system on a Regal, or the radiator on a Lucerne. No matter your automotive needs, basic or complex, there's no job our ASE-Certified team can't handle. Altogether, we take pride in our equipment and expertise as a digital shop, which we look forward to sharing with you. With our reputation for affordable Buick repairs, we're your alternative to any Buick dealership— and not to mention the cleanest shop in town!
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In addition to immediate Buick repairs, a long-term Buick health plan will help you avoid surprises. When you bring your Buick to Schaumburg Automedics for any reason, we'll also perform a thorough digital inspection. This includes photos showing the present condition of all components within your Buick. You'll have literally the full picture in hand of your Buick's current state, allowing you to make informed Buick repair decisions without pressure from us to spend more than you wish. Whatever work we complete, you'll drive away with the peace of mind of our 3-year/36,000-mile warranty protection.


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How do you move through your day?
Are you thinking of the future?
Reliving the past?
Or are you enjoying the moment
Exactly as it is unfolding around you?
Dear One, as you have read before, the only part of your life which enables you to take action is the present. Contemplating the future or the past puts you in a state of being which exists only in your mind. The possibilities of enjoying the present moment are minimized as your mind takes you elsewhere. Your conscious attention is drawn away from what is occurring in the now limiting your potential for growth.
In reality, time does not really exist as you perceive it with your conscious mind. In truth, you are existing in multiple time frames simultaneously. Does this sound too far-fetched for you? Then consider how often you are traveling from one physical place to another while your attention is far away either in the past or the future. Is this not existing in two time frames at once?
And have you been productive in either of those times as you co-exist in both at once? Have you not missed what is occurring in your immediate surroundings at the present moment? Have you contributed anything other than worry or anxiety to the past or future moment which you consider in your mind? Once again, we tell you that the present moment is the only point of action.
Can you instead focus all of your attention on the present moment? Seeing, really seeing and observing, what is occurring at this time. Truly listening to what another is saying rather than already forming your response while they are still speaking. How many opportunities have passed in the present while you have been in your mind thinking of other times?
Dear One, your life can be infinitely more enjoyable if you are able to truly be present in the moment. If you feel you need to plan for the future, or reflect upon the past, then set time aside to put all of your attention on either of these tasks. For, indeed, reflection and contemplation are required for forward movement on your path. Allowing yourself the time to meditate or to write will help you to clear your mind of those thoughts which continue to vie for attention through-out your day.
Remember also, that your perception of past encounters can be altered due to your emotional state. To be able to see things more clearly, ask for help and clarity as you reflect upon the past. If you are certain how you want a future event to unfold, give gratitude for it as if it has already happened as you wish it to happen.
You are more powerful than you imagine. But you require more practice in focus and release. Focusing on what you are truly feeling, on how you want your life to unfold and what is happening at this very moment in time. Multi-tasking is not as productive as you require it to be. Have you considered that the reason you do not remember much of what has occurred in your life is because your focus has been elsewhere rather than in the moment, in the now.
Life for you is very complicated. But there are ways in which it can be simplified by honestly reflecting on what absolutely needs to be focused upon in this moment in time. And then by focusing solely on that one task. Your daily life is filled with a constant flux of energies from those around you asking for your attention. Add to that the internal chaos which exists in your mind as you grapple with doing it all.
Dear One, take a deep breath and take an honest assessment of what really serves you and how you can serve the world in this moment of time. It may be as simple as sitting quietly and allowing your mind to clear and de-clutter. It may be as easy as taking a breath and sending love out into the world. Or it may be as natural as observing your present situation with all of your senses.
Remember the tranquility, Dear One,
That lives deep within your being.
It is your natural state.
Find it again, it is still there.
Buried within the chaos of your mind.
Go to your heart center and allow it to emerge
With each breath that you take.
This is who you truly are
Connected with the All
In peace and harmony.
Dear One With All of Thee.


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By MARC BERMAN
HOUSTON – That familiar, loud shouting voice sounded like music in the visiting locker room in Denver late last night. The always loquacious 5-7 Knicks guard Nate Robinson was coming out of the shower, headed toward his locker when he saw a large group surrounding Jamal Crawford, several media bodies spilling over into his locker cubicle.
"Hey man, you're all in my space," Robinson sang at the top of his lungs. "I know my man had a great game but I got to get dressed."
It all had a happy ring to it as the Knicks survived in Denver 109-107, miraculously, on a Jamal Crawford steal and 3-point bucket with 3.7 seconds left. Crawford finished with 35 points after such an awful start to the season that analyst Steve Kerr said Jamal was "shooting like Dick Cheney."
Suddenly, the Knicks own a not-so-awful 2-3 record – a 2-1 clip on the road – when they arrived on the charter flight and got to the Four Seasons in Houston at 4 a.m.
Former Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy awaits tomorrow. One of Van Gundy's worst losses as Rockets' coach came two years ago when the Knicks played the Toyota Center and Crawford win on it with a desperation 3-pointer.
Crawford is an enigma wrapped in a riddle. When he's on, he's unstoppable. When he's off, as he was in the season's first four games, he shoots 21 percent.
The Knicks probably would not have been 1-3 entering the Denver game if Crawford shot a lick. "It's more than one person," Crawford said. "We're a team but I feel like if I'm aggressive and not thinking, I help my team's chances. I'm not saying I'm the guy or anything. But I feel I help my team's chances when I'm playing aggressive."
Crawford is by far the Knicks' best crunch-time player. He knows it. And relishes it. Crawford had seven game-winning shots last season – a remarkable number for a team that won 23 games. "You want me to name the teams," Crawford cracked. Trust me, he could.
Crawford studies the game, studies the newspaper clips, perhaps to a fault. He knows everything you've written about him and can be too sensitive at times. At the morning shootaround yesterday, he admitted to me he's had trouble adjusting to the new ball, feeling it's more like a college ball, but quicly made sure to put the disclaimer that it's "no excuse."
Perhaps it wasn't the ball, but that Crawford got a chance to start in the backcourt with Stephon Marbury because of Steve Francis' ankle sprain. That's the Knicks' best tandem. Marbury and Crawford have chemistry. That backcourt allowed the Knicks to get off to a 16-13 start two seasons ago before the team caved.
There is so much ego involved with the backcourt situation but I hope Isiah Thomas comes to his senses and makes Crawford the permanent starter. I sense Jamal would love that. When Jared Jeffries comes back in late December, Thomas may want to consider taking Francis out of the rotation altogether because Quentin Richardson is playing too well.
One of the fun parts of the Knicks playing the Rockets tomorrow is seeing the old Knicks coaching staff – Van Gundy, assistants Tom Thibodeau, who deserves to at least be considered for a head-coaching job, Steve Clifford and Andy Greer. (Patrick Ewing resigned in the summer to watch his son's basketball games and Charlie Ward is now on the bench).
Van Gundy and I had our run-ins back in the day, but heâs more enjoyable to cover than Larry Brown. Jeff is more real. When he's not doing his sour-and-dour spiel after a loss or a bad win, he's a great personality – chatty, funny, personable. What other guy would hang proudly the New York Post's backpage of himself in a noose on his office wall. He probably misses dealing with the New York media and all the angst that comes with it. Houston is a one-newspaper town, plus a strong Fox affiliate whose premier sportscaster is named â Mark Berman (no relation).


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As an artist, I think you ought to be able to answer this question for the rest of us =)
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Americas News
IMO2020: Matson Fitting Scrubbers to at Least 3 More Vessels
Matson going for scrubbers. Image Credit: Matson
Matson, Inc. [NYSE:MATX] has committed to installing scrubbers on a further three vessels as part of its IMO 2020 compliance plans, bringing the number of its vessels equipped with the technology to at least six.
We're going to continue to take a hard look at the remaining six vessels. That is the four new vessels and the remaining two vessels," the Pacific carrier's Chairman and CEO, Matt Cox, said during this week's Q3 2018 earnings call.
"And at this point, we're making no predictions, but at the next drydock period on those vessels, we'll be taking a hard look at whether or not we install over time scrubbers on the remainder of our fleet. Exactly when that will occur is unclear."
Matt Cox, Chairman and CEO, Matson Inc
it's not a no-brainer, but it seems a pretty strong business case within the larger context
At approximately $9 million per vessel, Matson's cost to install the units is considerably more than that quoted by many other firms during the recent round of earnings calls - tanker owner Ardmore, for example, this week indicated its per-vessel installation cost would be in the $2.1 million to $2.5 million range.
Still, Matson is confident it can recover this cost through its existing fuel surcharge mechanism.
"We really see this as having the optionality to burn the least expensive fuel. So that option value, we think is definitely worth $8 million to $10 million a ship," said Cox.
"For us, it's not a no-brainer, but it seems a pretty strong business case within the larger context."
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WLKR Threads is a small clothing brand from Eagle River, Alaska, that started on Etsy in 2014, and has since gained some traction with features on BuzzFeed, Bored Panda & More, with their hilarious graphic tees. What's your favorite?
If this wasn't your life motto before, it is now. A slogan we can all get behind! This shirt SCREAMS Monday Morning.
Okay, let's be honest. Good Vibes Only sounds great in theory, but you're lying through your teeth. When the barista screws up your triple shot vegan soy chai mocha latte espresso creme coffee beverage, are you feeling those "good vibes"? When you drop a pen on the ground, bend over to grab it and feel a sudden breeze from betwixt your cheeks as your pants rip open, where are those good vibes? Nowhere to be found. Hello, Melancholy.
Honesty is the best policy, after all.. right? Let's face it, dogs are, and always will be more fun than humans.
Life is all about balance! In a world filled with kale, kombucha, and other weird trends, be a PIZZA. Everyone loves pizza, and if you meet someone that says they don't? Well.. that's not the kind of negativity you need in your life.
It's a toss up on which animal I truly relate to the most, tortoise or sloth? Why not both. The world's first.. Tortoisloth. Eh, we'll workshop that title.
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22 April 2011, 01:07 PM
backbay corbina and bonus keeper flatty 4-22
Did some scouting around this morning looking for some corbina. Found a couple new and nice spots to try out. First spot didn't produce any corbs but I did see a nice 20" plus model cruise by me. Got ancy and started pitching a swimbait in hopes of catching a nice flatty and about 10 casts in I get bit. Nice battle on 4lb but she was finaly beached.
bigger than two foot prints
It was about 24 to 25". Couple pics and she was released. Worked the spot for an hr more for notha so I picked up and moved to spot "B". Pitched out a nice GS into some good looking water and about 10 min later I herd the drag singing that sweet sound ZZZZZZZZ Grabbed the rod and slowly tried to stop the frieght train. Noodle rod was maxed but I got the fish turned and while doing so saw it flash, CORB!!!!!! and a nice big dark model one too. Faught way harder and longer than the butt. After what seemed like forever I was finaly able to slide her up on the shore. Killer first corb of the season. About 23 to 24"
After the pics she was released. About this time a guy with his girl friend or wife and their two kids pull up to fish. They set up and start baiting up with squid. I asked them if they wanted some ghosties and he said sure. Showed him how to hook them and watched as he cast the bait out and then put the rod in the rod holder. I kid you not he was bit in less than 5 min. Rod doubled over and he grabbed it and then the line went slack. He pinched his split shot to tight and it popped right there. Bummed for him but he had a shot. Gave them a dozen ghosties and took off for home stoked to find some corbs and actualy catch a good first one of the year as well as a keeper butt for my first shore caught butt of the year. I'll say it was a "Good Friday"
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Thanks Beta. You know I've never caught one of thse things, strange looking critter, must live in the mud, five apendages, looks like hair or some cilia stuff. Do they have eyes? Can't seem to locate the mouth eiter on the pic. Strange looking thing! (havent ever caught a corvina either) I've got to give that one a try...but that other thing looks darn scary!
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The latest attempt comes from Neel Kashkari (the new "NK" at the Minnesota Fed, the previous one being Narayana Kocherlakota).
In 1967, Friedman´s "centerfold" for the role of monetary policy was:
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NK´s "top of the list" role:
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In perfect agreement.
To Friedman, that meant:
keep the machine well oiled, to continue Mill's analogy. Accomplishing the first task [avoid monetary disorder] will contribute to this objective, but there is more to it than that.
Our economic system will work best when producers and consumers, employers and employees, can proceed with full confidence that the average level of prices will behave in a known way in the future-preferably that it will be highly stable.
Under any conceivable institutional arrangements, and certainly under those that now prevail in the United States, there is only a limited…
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Priests-in-training are to be given glossaries to help them understand the Book of Common Prayer for the first time because they struggle to decipher the language.
The Prayer Book Society, which gives out free copies of the 17th century book to first-year students in theological colleges, will this year also include a key to some of its more old-fashioned words and phrases.
The list includes definitions for words such as "eschew" meaning abstain from, "concord", for an agreement between people, and "froward", meaning perverse or contrary.


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I really thought I was on to something. Something big. Something that would rival the great Halloween of 2007 – David Bowie from The Labyrinth (which recently yielded 793 hits from procrastinators on October 29). I even felt like I was doing Halloween right this year and not just going through the motions. I taught Liam about the Great Pumpkin, carved a sweet Top Gun pumpkin in honor of the recent Top Gun 2 announcement, and we even had a The League style "Adult Halloween." Although I liked Dustin's idea – to go as BP, spilling everyone's drink, apologize profusely, but wait a few months to clean it up – I thought my idea was better. My big idea: a Chilean Miner. Slightly culturally insensitive, but I figured enough time had passed and who doesn't love a good Chilean Miner Soap Opera. So I went on Amazon and picked up the needed supplies (i.e. a hard hat and a Chile 2010 World Cup t-shirt).
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At least you have a sweet new hat. You can go explore some caves. Are those agave plants in the background? I will assume yes, and that you are making your own tequila. Awesome!
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Obituary: Herbert Travis Dike, 91, of Trumbull
Herbert Travis Dike passed away on February 21, 2014 in Trumbull, Ct, at the age of 91.
Born on July 1, 1922 in New York City to Herbert Valentine Dike and Alexandria MacAdam Dike, he was the last of the 5 siblings both in life and in death; Jessie, Helen, Valentine and Donald; and the last of the generation who knew Lake Moreau, NY as a family summer home in the 1920's.
Herb attended Trinity Preparatory School in NYC before attending Columbia College, Class of 1944. He interrupted his studies to volunteer for the US Navy and served as an officer aboard the destroyer, USS Gainard. He fought at Okinawa and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal before returning to graduate from Columbia College and Columbia School of Law in 1948.
Mr. Dike was employed by GE as a division General Counsel before retiring in 1987 after more than 30 years of service. After his retirement, he was regional manager for the United Way and mentored young students in Bridgeport, CT.
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His spirit, vision, devotion and determination will always be remembered and serve as an inspiration to us.
Mr. Dike is survived by his longtime partner, Dorothea Brueggemann, his former wife, Mary Jane (Brandhorst) Dike, his son Alec Dike, his wife, Siobhan Flynn and children Cameron and Jenna of Wilmette, IL; his daughter Laura Dike, her husband, Vaughn Miller and daughter Jessie of Winchester, MA and his son, Herb "Cliff" Dike of Methuen, MA.
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Christian leaders from Sussex and Kent have joined Muslim leaders at services across the south east to remember victims of the New Zealand mosque attacks.
Bishops and Imams echoed the Prime Minister of New Zealand's call for unity.
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An award-winning author and an educator who writes books for children, teens and adults with themes of social justice and resilience is coming to Gainesville to share her journey, offer tips to would-be writers, read excerpts from her books, and sign her books.
"An Evening with Jewell Parker Rhodes" will be held at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 26 at the Alachua County Library Headquarters at 401 E. University Ave. in downtown Gainesville.
Nickie Kortus, communications and public relations manager at the library district, said via email the library district tries to introduce readers to diverse, award-winning authors to provide readers an opportunity to meet an author and be inspired by the author's work and personal expertise.
Kortus said the takeaway is that "Often, attendees engage in conversation with the author and come away inspired."
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Rhodes, 63, is an author of six adult novels, "Voodoo Dreams," "Magic City," "Douglass' Women," "Season," "Moon" and "Hurricane."
And, she is best known for her novels for teens, which include "Towers Falling" about 9/11 and "Ninth Ward" about Hurricane Katrina, which received the Coretta Scott King Author Honor. Her next book, "Ghost Boys," about young black males killed by police, will be published in spring 2018.
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She said "Voodoo Dreams" was her first book and it took three years to be published after receiving many rejections.
She said often, books are rejected not because they are not good, but because of marketing decisions.
"Write what you want to write, don't write for marketing," Rhodes said. "Fight for it (book) and wait for the (publisher) that says yes."
She said it's important to continue writing while working to get a book published. "Don't stop writing," said Rhodes. "Someone will have an opinion that will influence your career."
Rhodes said she had a hard childhood and was born in the dawn of the civil rights movement. Jewell said she was raised by a wise and wonderful grandmother who also raised her sister and three cousins. She said her grandmother was very influential in her life and encouraged her to pursue an education and to write.
"I'm interested in writing about resilience and triumph, being secure in yourself, strong in your skin and self-love," said Rhodes. "I write books about coming of age, women of color, and multi-ethnical images."
She said "Ninth Ward," which is set in New Orleans' Ninth Ward, is the story of a 12-year-old girl and her caretaker and their challenges to survive the storm. She said the book is about resilience, family, love and friendship. It's also about the social injustice of not having the money to get out of the path of the storm.
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Rhodes is the Virginia G. Piper Endowed Chair and Founding Artistic Director at the Arizona State University Piper Center for Creative Writing, where she teaches creative writing.
Kortus said Rhodes is best known for her books for children and teens, so in conjunction with her visit to the library, she also will visit local schools. She said the Library District arranged for Rhodes to talk to students at Howard Bishop Middle, Rawlings, Shell and Finley elementary schools, and High Springs Community School.
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When: 6:30 p.m. Sept. 26
Where: Alachua County Library Headquarters, 401 E. University Ave.
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Berlin: The involvement of Iraqi, Syrian and Afghani refugees in the murders, over the last few months in Germany has been revealed; causing aggravation among the public. This new report by the German Police department has surfaced at a time, when the rising discontent is becoming evident from the week long protests in Chemnitz. The report claims increased involvement of migrants in violent crimes in Germany. This report by the German police is likely to further aggravate the already rising discontent.
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A few months ago, German Chancellor, Angela Merkel had admitted to the fact that 'No Go Zones' had been created in some parts of Germany due to the migrant influx and increasing crime. Following this, the Alternative for Germany party had accused Merkel of bringing extremists and terrorist into the country under the disguise of migrants and had also demanded her resignation.
Against this background, the revelation that there is migrant involvement in the violent crimes in various German cities has intensified the discontent among the local citizens. The incident of the murder of a 15-year-old German girl at the hands of an Afghani migrant boy in the city of Kandel in Germany is being widely discussed and there is severe displeasure that a sentence of only 8 and a half years has been meted out to the accused.
A 35-year-old German citizen, Daniel Heilig died after he was attacked by the migrants from Syria and Iraq. The local right-wing groups and political parties have adopted an aggressive stand and have initiated a strong agitation. In the meantime, an emergency has been declared in the city, in view of these clashes between the groups supporting the migrants and the locals.


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Language death occurs usually as a combination of circumstances. In the Lower Sorbian area the cohesion of the language area with its dialectal features was considerably reduced by moving entirevillage populations to other areas in order to get easily to the lignite coal deposits. This in itself required more effort to speak the language across generations. The revivalists in Cottbus thought they could prevent language death by increasing usage but as Harrison put it so well: when it came to getting together and speak Lower Sorbian as it had been spoken 50-60 years ago, nobody showed up. This, as most revivalists will agree with now, is an impossible task (purism never pays off in such efforts). Then, the mere effort to get people together to speak Lower Sorbian in a natural environment – after a few trials people never showed up – there was simply no motivation. Here one can learn a great deal from the revitalization of indigenous languages where goals are set much lower, i-phones are used without having to be in a class-room situation, and purism (overcorrection) is a no-no. But you tell that to the Sorbs: "Gunter, we aren't any Indians!" Of course, Lewaszkiewicz is right also – the Sorbs were too enthralled by consumerism rather than making time to maintain and revitalize their language.
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(TEASING) You gonna baby-sit her?
Beats me, I heard there would be free food and I had to come. (Also I might steal I thing or two!)
Blaze is one of the main guards of the village and normally helps the people who live in it. She was childhood friends with Cherri (So you will have to do a kids voice as well).
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Bioinformatics allows all kinds of information to be gleaned about the gradual evolution of genomes. For example, it is clear that many genes have arisen from the duplication of an earlier gene, followed by a subsequent divergent specialisation of each duplicate under the pressure of natural selection.
New Scientist describes an interesting experiment to turn back genomic time, and to re-create the original gene that gave rise to two descendants. Moreover, that new "old" gene was shown to work perfectly well, even in today's organisms.
What's impressive about this is not just the way such information can be teased out of the raw genomic data, but that it effectively allows scientists to wind evolution backwards. Note that this is possible because the dynamics of natural selection are reasonably well understood.
Without the idea of natural selection, there would be no explanation for the observed divergent gene pairs, and the experimental fact that their putative ancestor does, indeed function in their stead, as predicted - other than the trivial one of saying that it is so because it was made so. Occam's razor always was the best argument against Intelligent Design.


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Under the FHA's Energy Efficient Mortgage program, a borrower can add up to $8,000 — or 5 percent of the home's value, whichever is more — to the loan amount to pay for qualified improvements, and up to $2,000 for weatherization improvements.
Donna and Eduardo Peralta used an Energy Efficient Mortgage to get work done on their Fairfield home before moving into the place in April.
They were able to roll the cost of the $8,000 worth of improvements that paid for attic-insulation improvements and duct-sealing work into their 30-year, fixed-rate FHA loan, which increased their monthly mortgage payment by about $40 to $3,080. But that extra cost will be more than paid for by the energy savings they will see as a result of the improvements, an estimated $147 a month.
"We were able to (pay for the energy improvements) through our mortgage instead of getting a personal loan to get the work done on the home," said Donna Peralta, 35.
Maria Santos, a Realtor with the Fairfield office of Prudential California Realty, represented the Peraltas in the transaction to buy their home and told them about the government-sponsored program, which has been around since 1995.
The Peraltas were told that while the cost of their mortgage would go up slightly, they would see lower utility bills as a result of the improvements that were done, Santos said.
"It's more in the long run for them to save money on their (energy) bills."
Green Home Solutions, a division of The Grupe Co., a Stockton-based home builder, has partnerships with Prudential California Realty, Keller Williams Realty and various mortgage companies to provide free inspections to home buyers interested in the program.
"We call it the best-kept loan secret," said Stephanie Rodriguez, director of sales for Green Home Solutions.
To be eligible for an Energy Efficient Mortgage, the projected energy savings have to be greater than the cost of the work. The savings are calculated using what's called the Home Energy Rating System index, which calculates what the average energy usage would be in the home once the improvements are made compared to a similar home that did not have the work done.
However, actual savings will depend on people's energy usage habits, Rodriguez said.
With the Peraltas' home, the recommended insulation work was calculated to result in an annual savings of more than $800 off their annual utility bills while sealing up leaking ducts would save more than $900, or a total yearly saving of more than $1,700.
To find out more information about the HERS index, and how it can be used to help measure a home's energy efficiency, go the California Energy Commission's website at www.energy.ca.gov/HERS/booklet.html or call 800-772-3300. The Energy Commission can also provide a list of companies certified to provide HERS ratings in your area.
Contact Eve Mitchell at 925-952-2690.
Source: FHA Energy Efficient Mortgage program.


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New Visa Rules Cut Back on Foreign Students Lower Out-Of- Country Enrollment Means Less Tuition for Almost All Universities
Byline: Maria Baran Medill News Service
Research universities here and nationwide are reporting a decline in enrollment of foreign students, according to three new surveys. Some blame delays in processing U.S. visas as well as increased competition from universities abroad.
Christopher Viers, associate dean and director of international services at Indiana University, cited a heightening of post-Sept. 11 security levels, the increasing cost of U.S. education and "a reflection of better opportunities for students to remain in their homeland." He also noted advances in graduate programs in other countries, particularly in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.
A survey of more than 2,700 U.S. universities and colleges showed foreign enrollment had dropped by 2.4 percent in 2003-2004, according to the annual Open Doors report released by the Institute of International Education, a New York-based not-for-profit educational exchange program. That's the first national decline in enrollment of foreign students since 1971.
"We're hoping the enrollment decline this year is a blip, rather than a trend," Viers said.
While national numbers for this year aren't yet available, a check with several Midwest universities found all down.
The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks led to tightening of U.S. visa regulations. Now, each person requesting a visa must have a personal interview by U.S. embassy personnel and undergo security clearance checks that can take months, especially for those studying in scientific and technical fields.
Perhaps as a result, the decline in enrollment of international students at the graduate level is higher, according Michael Brzezinski, director of Purdue University's International Students and Scholars office. The school's 2,978 international graduate students make up more than 40 percent of the program's enrollment. …


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The idea is to save the back and the wrist during finetuning of tricky notes.
Having the station as flexible as possible and nicely rotatable and also without any disturbing noise was priority while planning. We made the height adjustable – so i can keep my habit of sitting with a straight back.
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Fans hoping to stream Prince's music in tribute to the late virtuoso Thursday were very likely disappointed by the lack of choices. On mainstream services such as Spotify and Apple Music, Prince was virtually nowhere to be found. Instead, online users had to turn to the smaller Tidal, where much of his music streams exclusively. It was either that or purchase his music by downloading it through the iTunes Store or as a physical CD.
Inconsistent? Sure. But that's the way Prince Rogers Nelson wanted it: his music, delivered on his terms.
"Record contracts are just like — I'm gonna say the word — slavery," Prince said as recently as August while speaking to a group of reporters at his Chanhassen, Minnesota, recording studio, Paisley Park. "I would tell any young artist ... don't sign."
Perhaps more than any artist in the history of recorded music, the iconic pop star, who died at his home in Minnesota Thursday, personified the never-ending tensions between music performers and the industry that profits from them. In a four-decade career beset by legal skirmishes, Prince battled with record labels, bootleggers, streaming companies, ticket resellers and internet giants such as eBay and YouTube. He was not afraid to take adversarial stands against anyone he perceived to be a threat to his artistry or his livelihood, which to him were one and the same. That included public entanglements not only with parasitic types in the recording industry but also with advocates of free speech and even his own listeners.
"The Purple One is famously protective of his music," the alternative weekly City Pages in his native Minneapolis pointed out last year, after Prince yanked his music off the major streaming services.
Prince's vigilant control over how and where his work was presented trickled into almost every aspect of the business, large and small. "Weird Al" Yankovic, the music parodist known for spoofing some of the biggest hits of the 1980s, once told Us magazine that Prince was the only artist who consistently turned him down. Prince even snubbed the "Guitar Hero" series of music-rhythm video games.
Whether this custodial strategy worked to his financial detriment or was the mark of a brilliant businessman is difficult to quantify. He sold more than 100 million records during his career, putting him in a somewhat exclusive club but not even in the top 40 best-selling artists of all time. At the same time, a lot has changed in the music industry since he recorded his first studio album in 1978, when most people got their music through albums or radio airplay. Prince's battles to control his music in the face of changing business models came to embody the declining fortunes of the industry itself, where global revenue has been hammered by the digital revolution, falling to $14.97 billion in 2014 from $26.6 billion in 1999, according to the IFPI.
Last year, streaming became the dominant form of purchased music for the first time, generating $2.41 billion in the U.S. and accounting for more than one-third of the industry's total revenue, the Recording Industry Association of America reported. As such, Prince's relative absence from streaming services might seem to be a financial determent, but, in reality, streaming revenue has never been enough to return the music industry to its former glory. And Prince generated robust touring revenue throughout his career, notably pulling in more than $87 million during his Musicology Live 2004ever tour.
Moreover, Prince did it all on his own terms. His history of conflict with the industry goes back to his earliest days as a recording artist. In 1977, he signed to Warner Music at the age of 18, the Guardian in the U.K. reported. He released several albums under the label, but it wasn't until 1982, with the release of "1999," that Prince first edged into the top 10 of U.S. artists. Three years later, he boldly opened his own studio and record label, both named Paisley Park, according to a brief Rolling Stone biography. The label was distributed and partially funded by Warner Bros., so, of course, conflict ensued shortly thereafter.
During a dispute with Warner Bros. over his record contract, Prince famously spent much of 1993 performing with the word "Slave" inscribed on his cheek. He came to espouse the view that, because of his contract with Warner, the company owned and controlled him — and owned both his name and his musical output under it. His solution? In September 1993, he changed his name to an unpronounceable combination of symbols for male and female. He became known as The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, among other names. But a few months later, in February 1994, Warner dropped the distribution deal with Paisley, which subsequently folded.
The Internet Is Over
As music consumption moved from physical sales first to downloading and then to streaming, Prince appeared to find adversaries, and make enemies, at every turn. Notoriously litigious, his representatives routinely fired off copyright complaints against alleged infringers. One of his songs was at the center of a high-stakes court battle that helped establish a key legal standard for copyright holders who discover their material on sites such as YouTube. In 2007, when a YouTube user uploaded a video featuring her children dancing to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy," Universal Music filed a lawsuit that went all the way to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The court upheld a position that copyright holders such as Universal can't simply fire off copyright complaints without first considering so-called fair use, a legal term meaning that people are allowed to use a limited amount of copyrighted material without permission under certain conditions. The clip in question was 29 seconds long. Prince's stance against the minor use of his music put him at odds with First Amendment advocates such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which represented the YouTube user and called the court's decision an "important win" for free speech.
A common thread that tied together many of Prince's battles was an insistence that he should be paid for his music, an idea running counter to the internet's culture of free. He wasn't alone in that fight. Artists from Thelonious Monk to David Bowie famously fought with their record labels, and when iTunes and Pandora came along, the industry had no shortage of holdouts, including bands such as AC/DC and Pink Floyd.
"I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else," Prince told the Daily Mirror in the U.K. in 2010. "They won't pay me an advance for it, and then they get angry when they can't get it."
While other artists embraced digital exposure at the expense of lost revenue, Prince fought vehemently to wrest control of his music from the masses as user-generated media proliferated. Each new digital platform seemed to incur his wrath. In 2013, his NPG Records issued a complaint under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act against Twitter's Vine, a short-form video application, over eight six-second clips that featured Prince's music, Rolling Stone reported. And in 2014, he sued 22 fans for posting links to bootlegged copies of his concerts on file-sharing sites.
One of his last salvos against the industry came last year when he pulled his music from Spotify, the market leader in music streaming, as Variety reported. That decision clearly reverberated into Thursday afternoon when fans mourning the pop star looked for his music there only to come up short and vent their frustrations on Twitter.
Music fans have a right to be bummed, but they can take solace in knowing that Prince, through his exertion of force, pushed forward conversations about the value of music and fights over fair compensation that are still being waged today. If his rightful heir is Taylor Swift, who famously took on Apple last year — and won — that probably won't do much to console grieving fans. But it's a start.


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Björk icelandic pullover sweater, is a redesigned interpretation of a classic Icelandic sweater. The sweater is super feminine and somewhat fitted to the body.
The sweater in this kit is knitted in Isager Jensen, 100% wool and Isager Tvinni 100% merino wool, for a warm and lovely sweater.The sweater kan also be made in our own soft and sustainable yarn Önling No 1 or No 2, see related products below.
This yarn kit contains: Isager Jensen and Tvinni, yarn for the elected sizeand a pattern.
The pattern is a PDF file. Immediately after purchase you will be able to download the pattern directly from the purchase confirmation page. You will also receive an e-mail with a link to your pattern, and the pattern will be available here at the site via your personal account- so remember to create an account :-)
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Designed by Katrine Hannibal for Önling.
Sizes: (XS)S(M)L(XL)2XL(3XL)
Bust circumference: (86)95(99)105(113)120(131) cm / (34)37½(39)41¼(44½)47¼(51½) inches.
Length mid back: (59)60(61)62(63)64(65) cm / (23¼)23½(24)24½(24¾)25¼(25½) inches.
Sleeve length from underarm: 46 cm / 18 inches.
Materials:Color A: Isager Jensen: (300)350(350)400(450)450(500) g.
Color B: Isager Jensen: (100)100(100)150(150)150(150) g.
Color C: Isager Tvinni, knitted double stranded: (50)50(50)50(100)100(100) g.
Recommended circular needle and double-pointed needles size 3,5 mm and 4,5 mm / US 4 and 7.
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Gauge: 21 sts and 28 rows in stockinette stitch and in pattern on a 4,5 mm / US7 circular needles = 10 x 10 cm.
DirectionsThe sweater is worked top down and in the round. The yoke is worked a color pattern and with increases in the pattern. After the yoke, the work is split into body and sleeves, which are finished separately.
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Category Archives: Church
A special place, a special space
I've always loved churches, though God knows (sic) I've never been in the slightest way religious. To me, churches are simply havens of calm and relaxation, providers of aesthetic beauty, and sources of the occasional historical fascination. I sense no presence in there except the imagined ghosts of history.
This is Bury Parish Church. It's not actually that old, having been built in the 1870s, although there has been a church on the same site for over a thousand years. It is rather lovely.
There's a coffee shop just inside, where I like to go for a small Americano after gym. It's good coffee, and inexpensive. After my drink I usually wander into the main body of the church for a shufti at the Lancashire Fusiliers colours, and a quiet ten minutes just having a relaxing sit down surrounded by calm, untroubled by frets about the state of the world, or thoughts of jobs I have yet to do.
Here's a point, though. Anyone seeing me sitting quietly in the pews might think I was communing with my god, when in my reality there is no such being. For an all-too-brief spell, I can be alone with my thoughts, unmithered by cats, spam callers, or nagging thoughts of how The Raven's Wing's Minstrel John and jongleuse Moss might break into a rich merchant's house.
However … maybe that's all 'God' is? Simply a device invented to allow us a brief respite from all the worries of this horrible 2017? If so, then I'm more confused than ever I was.


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If the properties and methods in the Navigator Panel are longer than the panel, the scrollbar appears, but if I try to scroll, it jumps up and down and then tries to scroll itself back to the top, as if it were attached to a rubber band. Sometime it does the opposite, sticking to the bottom and trying to always scroll itself to the end.
Product Version = NetBeans IDE 7.4 (Build 201310111528)
Operating System = Mac OS X version 10.9.1 running on x86_64
Java; VM; Vendor = 1.7.0_45
Runtime = Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 24.45-b08
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 211406 ***