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I saw 54 televised minutes of Mel Gibson's Aramaic Passion Play before becoming completely disagreeable. I love the blue beginning and very much enjoyed seeing a soldier's torch add spectacular color to the blue. It was also a pleasure to welcome back the demons in the desert. I suppose they are always out there, waiting for our imaginations.
It is my recollection that the messiah is indeed supposed to be coming, if he hasn't come already, and many have claimed they were he... Sabattai Zevi is my favorite. What is this coming of the messiah? It accomplishes what? Given expectation of one, it is understandable that when one of us among us takes on the title for him or her self that we might become disillusioned and pissed off from the elevated hopes and inevitable disappointment.
Only the heights of salvation can achieve the depths of despair. Who else wants to claim messiah status? And remind me, what good will the messiah do again? Perhaps his or her coming will release the tension I feel compelling me to write this. Although Paul's success with Rome is undeniable, Mr. Gibson's film is a great reminder that Christianity is a sect of judaism.


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Definition of Investigating
1. Noun. The work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically.
Generic synonyms: Work
Specialized synonyms: Analysis, Count, Counting, Enumeration, Numeration, Reckoning, Tally, Police Investigation, Police Work, Empiricism, Examination, Scrutiny, Examination, Testing, Enquiry, Inquiry, Research, Search, Tabulation, Tap, Wiretap
Derivative terms: Investigate, Investigate, Investigate, Investigate
Definition of Investigating
1. Verb. (present participle of investigate) ¹
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Definition of Investigating
1. investigate [v] - See also: investigate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Investigating
Literary usage of Investigating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America by Henry Wilson (1875)
"investigating committee. — Position of the President. ... Early in April, the Congressional investigating committee arrived in Kansas. ..."
2. Concentration and Control: A Solution of the Trust Problem in the United States by Charles Richard Van Hise (1912)
"(9) investigating Departments. — Not only is the large organization able ... but it is able to have an investigating department in order that discoveries ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1889)
"LAST year the committee appointed for the purpose of investigating the physiology of the lymphatic system presented a preliminary report dealing with the ..."
4. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1825)
"This principle, duly considered, would alone be sufficient for investigating the sense of Scripture; but as there are not wanting persons who reject it ..."
5. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"... Dublin, since the Beginning of the Year 1818, for investigating the Effects of Parallax and Aberration on the Places of certain fixed Stars; ..."
6. Biblical Repertory by Charles Hodge, Peter Walker (1825)
"ON investigating THE SENSE OF PASSAGES. I. As it is requisite for the interpreter to observe which signification of a word suits a particular passage, ..."

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I'm sure I heard a noise.
No, it's nothing. There's nobody here but me. It's late, I'm forcing ideas into my own head.
No, shit, that's definitely a noise.
Fine. Let's check it out.
I edged my way out from beneath the safety of the blanket. Every part of me was screaming that this was a mistake, but I did it anyway. What, did I want me to think I was a coward? Not a chance in hell. I grabbed the baseball bat that rested against the cupboard, relaxing a little as I felt the solid handle in my hands. I took a moment to grab the torch as well.
It was definitely a noise, a rustling sound coming from upstairs. What the bloody hell could it be? I looked over at my front door, latch and chain both still firmly affixed. But there was somebody in my flat.
I rested my foot on the first step, about to begin making my way up to my room, when I paused. The first step has creaked ever since I moved into this place. I should probably avoid alerting anyone to the fact that I wasn't snoring my head off on the sofa now. I moved to the second step, feeling like a ninja as I prowled upstairs. Step two, step three, step six (two creakers in a row there. I should really get this place fixed up.) I reached the top and saw the light seeping around my door. I took a deep breath then let it out as silently as possible. I counted to three in my head.
Take a firm grip on the bat, both hands now that I've put the torch on the floor.
Big deep breath ready and waiting for…
I burst through the door and saw someone rifling through my desk drawers. He lifted a hand towards me and said "Stop."
I did. I lowered the bat and asked, "What the fuck are you doing here?"
That broke his attention from the papers he was looking at. He looked up, looked at his hand, looked back at me, back at his hand then back to me and said "Stop."
"You tried that bit. What the hell is going on? Who the fuck are you?"
"Hold on, this usually works." He put the papers onto the desk, shaking his hand as if he was trying to clear pins and needles. "Stop. Stop? Stop! God dammit!" He paused, looking up to the ceiling. "Sorry." He mumbled before looking back at me.
I looked right back. Stared, boggled… I'm still working out the best thing to describe how I was feeling at that moment. The guy at the desk did nothing, just stood there in a long coat. It may have just been me, but it didn't look like he was casting a shadow. "Are you… What are… Who exactly are you?"
"Sorry. The name's Garianda. Most people just call me Gary. By that I mean the people I usually talk to, not you mortals. How are you fighting the time stop?" He spoke quickly, forcing the words out as if he were on the clock to speak them.
This, understandably, had me really confused. I figured there was only one thing for it. You can't deny it, you'd have done the same thing.
I hit him with the bat.
Oops. I'm not sure who Garianda is yet, but I imagine he's going to be a little upset when he wakes up. Stopping time, mysterious figures… Strange times lie ahead for this protagonist.
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I know this is a bit dark but it does have an underlying purpose. Maybe someone who reads this will put off the magic bullet of surgery, and commit him or herself to attempting to get well the hard way.
In our culture we want quick fixes. We want to take a pill, and make the pain go away. We want someone to cut out the pain, and let us get on with our lives. We want our doctor to be a home run hitter. But life is messy. Unintended consequences are always around the corner. A less invasive option, epidural steroid injections which often do a marvelous job of helping break the pain cycle especially for sciatica, has begun to be questioned. Women who get these injections have long term increased risk of osteoporosis and spinal compression fracture. Steroids are not innocuous or safe.
I recently had a flare up of my lower back pain. It was not mild; my pain levels were about an 8 for the first few days. My magic bullet is taking oral steroids, half of a Medrol dose pack for 4 days or so. But I had just taken a set of these two months ago. I know if I do it too often I put myself at risk for diabetes and other long-term chronic illnesses. The steroids solve the problem in 3 days. If I wait, and live with my pain, and take a few days of ibuprofen, and religiously do my exercises, the problem will usually resolve within 2 weeks. I telemark skied Mt Bachelor yesterday 3 weeks after my flare up. Yay!!
I am not saying that back surgery is not useful. It can be amazing. I am saying weigh risks and benefits. In a vast majority of cases, one should wholeheartedly do the less invasive route first, and realistically assess your own responses. Go to the chiropractor, PT, acupuncturist and bodyworker, do the exercises, eat an anti-inflammatory diet. The goal is to make the pain no longer the center of your life. If you can move the pain out to the edge you have won.


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text: CHART BEAT Ariana Grande Tops Billboard Hot 100 for Sixth Week, Andy Williams Makes 'Wonderful' Record Return to Top 10 12/24/2018 by Gary Trust FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Jesse Grant/Getty Images Ariana Grande backstage at the 2018 iHeartRadio Wango Tango by AT&T at Banc of California Stadium on June 2, 2018 in Los Angeles. Grande's "Thank U, Next" holds at No. 1, while "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" brings Williams back to the top 10. Ariana Grande's "Thank U, Next" rules the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Dec. 29) for a sixth week. Meanwhile, late legend Andy Williams returns to the Hot 100's top 10 after a record-breaking 47 years, eight months and three weeks, as "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" rises from No. 13 to No. 10, becoming the his first top 10 since 1971. Williams recorded the classic holiday song, which reaches the Hot 100's top 10 for the first time, in 1963. Let's run down the top 10 of the newest Hot 100, which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 25). Grande's "Next," released on Republic Records, and which debuted atop the Nov. 17-dated Hot 100, becoming her first No. 1 on the chart, notches a seventh week atop the Streaming Songs tally, with 43.5 million U.S. streams, down 14 percent, in the week ending Dec. 20, according to Nielsen Music. (It drew 93.8 million clicks in the week ending Dec. 6, the largest streaming week for a song by a woman, following the Nov. 30 premiere of its official video.) It dips 2-4 on the Digital Song Sales chart (which it led for two weeks), down 8 percent to 23,000 downloads sold in the week ending Dec. 20. On Radio Songs, it holds at No. 5 with 86.4 million audience impressions, up 12 percent, in the week ending Dec. 23, good for the Hot 100's top Airplay Gainer award for a fourth consecutive week. Halsey's "Without Me" spends a second week at its No. 2 Hot 100 high. It leads Digital Song Sales for a fifth week (37,000, essentially even week-over-week); repeats at No. 4 on Radio Songs (88.3 million, up 7 percent); and drops 3-8 on Streaming Songs (31.9 million, down 1 percent). The gap narrows between the Hot 100's top two titles, as "Next" decreases by 7 percent in overall activity and "Without Me" gains by 2 percent. Travis Scott's "Sicko Mode," which led the Dec. 8-dated Hot 100, keeps at No. 3, while topping the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a ninth week each. Post Malone and Swae Lee's "Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)" reaches the Hot 100's top five, surging 7-4, after the film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse premiered in theaters Dec. 14 and scored a box office-topping first weekend. Meanwhile, the song's parent soundtrack debuts at No. 5 on the Billboard 200. "Sunflower" sprouts 6-3 on Digital Song Sales (28,000, up 69 percent); 13-4 on Streaming Songs (34.1 million, up 42 percent); and 15-14 on Radio Songs (46.4 million, up 2 percent), as it snares top Sales and Streaming Gainer honors. Post Malone adds his fourth top five Hot 100 hit and Swae Lee adds his second (following his featured turn on French Montana's No. 3-peaking "Unforgettable" in summer 2017); plus, as half of Rae Sremmurd, Swae Lee spent seven weeks at No. 1 in 2016-17 with the duo's "Black Beatles," featuring Gucci Mane. Marshmello and Bastille's "Happier" dips 4-5 on the Hot 100 after reaching its No. 3 peak, as it tops Hot Dance/Electronic Songs for a 14th week, and Panic! at the Disco's "High Hopes" likewise slips a spot, to No. 6 from its No. 5 Hot 100 peak. "Hopes" rules Hot Rock Songs for an eighth week and Radio Songs for a fifth frame (125.5 million, down 1 percent). Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" backtracks to No. 7 on the Hot 100 after reaching a new No. 6 peak a week ago, becoming the highest-charting holiday season-themed hit in 60 years. It remains at No. 1 on the Holiday 100 (for a 34th week of the chart's 39 weeks of existence, since its 2011 launch) and hits a new high on Streaming Songs (6-3; 34.7 million, up 24 percent). Despite its one-position drop on the Hot 100, "Christmas" gains by 21 percent in overall activity, the second-greatest increase in the top 10, after "Sunflower" (up 35 percent). Kodak Black's No. 2-peaking "ZEZE," featuring Travis Scott and Offset, lifts 9-8 on the Hot 100, as parent album Dying to Live launches as Black's first Billboard 200 No. 1. "ZEZE" swaps spots with Lil Baby and Gunna's "Drip Too Hard" (8-9), which reached No. 4. Rounding out the Hot 100's top 10, Andy Williams' "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," recorded and first released in 1963, dashes 13-10, reaching the top 10 at last. It rises 8-7 on Streaming Songs (33.3 million, up 6 percent) and 50-46 on Radio Songs (26.4 million, up 5 percent), while sporting 4,000 sold (down 6 percent). Here's a look at some of the most notable achievements for Williams and the classic carol. Longest break between Hot 100 top 10s: Williams, who died in 2012 at age 84, adds a fourth top 10 to his Hot 100 history and first since April 1971, when "(Where Do I Begin) Love Story" reached No. 9. Ending a record gap of 47 years, eight months and three weeks, Williams blasts past the mark for the longest wait between time in the Hot 100's top 10, previously held by the late Dobie Gray, who went 30 years, two months and a week between his own "Drift Away" in 1973 and Uncle Kracker's remake of the song, featuring Gray, in 2003. Among acts as lead artists on both bookending hits, Williams passes Paul McCartney, who spanned 29 years and two weeks between "Spies Like Us" in 1986 and "FourFiveSeconds," with Rihanna and Kanye West, in 2015. Longest span of Hot 100 top 10s: Williams expands his span of top 10 Hot 100 hits to a record 59 years, two months and two weeks. He first appeared in the top 10 on the chart dated Oct. 12, 1959, with "Lonely Street," just over a year after the Hot 100's Aug. 4, 1958, inception. (He has now tallied top 10s in the 1950s, '60s, '70s and 2010s). Williams bests McCartney, whose solo top 10s span 44 years and two weeks, from "Another Day"/"Oh Woman Oh Why" in 1971 to "FourFiveSeconds" in 2015. (And that's not including McCartney's iconic hits with The Beatles, who first appeared in the top 10 on Jan. 25, 1964, with "I Want to Hold Your Hand.") From Anka & Avalon to Ari: Looking back at Williams' first week in the Hot 100's top 10 (also at No. 10), on Oct. 12, 1959, Bobby Darin's classic "Mack the Knife" led the list. Williams' latest week in the region finds him back at the same rank looking up at Grande's "Thank U, Next." "Mack" became the 20th No. 1 in the Hot 100's history; "Next" is the 1,079th. To compare, the artists currently in the top 10 with Williams: Grande, Halsey, Scott, Marshmello, Bastille, Post Malone, Swae Lee, Panic! at the Disco, Carey, Kodak Black, Offset, Lil Baby and Gunna. And, the artists in the top 10 with Williams in his first week in the top 10: Darin, Paul Anka, The Fleetwoods, Santo & Johnny, The Everly Brothers, Sandy Nelson, The Coasters, The Browns and Frankie Avalon. Below "Mack the Knife" on Oct. 12, 1959, Anka ranked at No. 2 with "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" and The Fleetwoods held No. 3 with "Mr. Blue." Sixth holiday top 10 on the Hot 100: Williams' "Wonderful" becomes only the sixth yuletide hit ever to reach the Hot 100's top 10, and the second in a year after Carey's "Christmas" (which first reached the region last holiday season), with the advent of streaming helping both songs. Highest-Charting Holiday Songs in the Hot 100's History No. 1 peak, four weeks, beginning Dec. 22, 1958, "The Chipmunk Song," by David Seville & The ChipmunksNo. 6, Dec. 22, 2018, "All I Want for Christmas Is You," Mariah CareyNo. 7, Jan. 8, 2000, "Auld Lang Syne," Kenny GNo. 7, Jan. 6, 1990, "This One's for the Children," New Kids on the Block&No. 9, Feb. 21, 1981, "Same Old Lang Syne," Dan FogelbergNo. 10, Dec. 29, 2018, "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," Andy Williams "Wonderful" first appeared on the Hot 100 just two holiday seasons ago (Jan. 7, 2017). As for holiday songs and their eligibility, or lack thereof, for the Hot 100 over the years, chart historian Joel Whitburn notes in his book Christmas in the Charts: "From 1963 through 1972, and from 1983 through 1985 [with minimal exceptions], Billboard published a seasonal Christmas Singles chart and did not chart Christmas singles on the Hot 100." Per current Hot 100 rules, in place in recent years, older songs, including seasonal titles, can rank in the top 50 if experiencing significant multi-metric gains, and multiple holiday standards re-enter or debut each season. The Skipper, too: "Wonderful" was written by Edward Pola and George Wyle, the latter of whom also co-wrote the theme song to the classic '60s sitcom Gilligan's Island, "The Ballad of Gilligan's Island." He co-penned the latter with Sherwood Schwartz, who created Gilligan's Island and fellow beloved sitcom The Brady Bunch (and co-wrote the Brady theme, with Frank De Vol.) Find out more Hot 100 news on Billboard.com this week, and, for all chart news, you can listen (and subscribe) to Billboard's Chart Beat Podcast and Pop Shop Podcast and follow @billboard and @billboardcharts. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 25), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME


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We are happy to announce that the online web-based Freecell solver now has a graphical and animated solution display, thanks to the open source version of Solitairey. The older text-based solution display is still available.
Freecell Solver is an open source library and some command line applications, for automatically solving several variants of card Solitaire / Patience games, including Freecell.
Also of note is the new releases of the solver (up to version 5.6.0) with more details available in NEWS file, and some progress in compactly storing Freecell positions/states, going below the 64-bits threshold.
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Biden: Va. Tech showed background checks needed
RICHMOND, Va. — The 2007 Virginia Tech shooting illustrated the importance of strengthening background checks to ensure guns are not sold to people who cannot legally buy them, Vice President Joe Biden said Friday.
Biden spoke briefly to reporters after leading a two-hour roundtable discussion about what to do in the wake of the elementary school shooting last month in Newtown, Conn., that left 20 students and six adults dead.
Also participating were Obama administration officials and a few people who served on a Virginia task force that made recommendations after the Tech shooting, which left 32 people dead — the largest mass shooting in U.S. history.
"It's a national tragedy and a window into the vulnerability people feel about their safety and the safety of their children," Biden said of Newtown.
Much of the focus of the discussion, Biden said, was on improving mental health services and making sure records of those declared ineligible to own a gun are transmitted to the national databank for background checks. The group also discussed gun safety and trafficking, he said.
The meeting was held at Virginia Commonwealth University, less than two miles from a state Capitol where lawmakers in recent days have rejected the same gun control measures advocated by President Barack Obama: universal background checks and bans on combat-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who was governor at the time of the Tech shooting, was among the participants in the closed-door meeting.
"We have the scar tissue of tragedy, but also reason to be hopeful," he said, pointing to changes Virginia made after the Tech massacre to become a national leader in reporting ineligible gun buyers to the background check database.
Biden did not discuss banning assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines. Kaine told reporters later that he's open to the idea but wants to "make sure the definitions are right" in whatever legislation Congress considers.


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A Professor from the University of Nova Gorica Receives the Zois Award
Prof. Dr. Gregor Mali, a senior researcher at the Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana and a professor of physics at the University of Nova Gorica, received the Zois Award.
The professor is engaged in the development and implementation of nuclear magnetic resonance methods to study materials for storing energy and gases. Gregor Mali was the first of Slovenian scientists who showed in practice the nuclear magnetic resonance of high resolution, which makes it possible to analyse the structure of materials and processes occurring therein at the atomic level.
The professor's work on the analysis of heterogeneous and unregulated porous materials is of particular importance. It managed to provoke interest among known foreign researchers—a group of scientists from the University of Leuven (Belgium), Versailles (France) and Cambridge (Great Britain).
The Zois Awards and the Johann Puch Awards were solemnly presented last week at the Grand Hotel Union in Ljubljana.
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- 1 tb Fish sauce (nam pya ye)
- 1/2 ts Salt
- 4 c Water
- 1/8 ts Pepper
- 1/2 bn Watercress, divided into stems
- Broil the oxtail in a gas or electric broiler until well roasted and slightly charred, about 15 minutes. Better still, barbecue over charcoal to impart a slightly smoked flavor.
- Put everything except the watercress into a pan, and bring to a boil. Cover the pan and cook over moderately low heat for 1 hour or more to tenderize the meat until it comes away from the bone.
- Add the watercress, cover the pan, and cook for 3 minutes more.


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Lifelike – "Pacific Palisades (Original Mix)"
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Lifelike Presents French House Mafia – "Le Disco Chic"
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Kosmetique – "Stella Eximius"
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Kosmetique – "Palace Gates"
Yuri Grasevich and Sergej Ananjev's influences span through the decades and together they form the Latvian duo known as Kosmetique. They dub their sound as "artificial" with traces of analog, electronic, pop and obvious disco vibes. Up above you'll find their … Continue reading


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The arc of history may bend towards justice, but only if every generation joins the fight against racism & demagoguery. #Charlottesville— Rachel Notley (@RachelNotley) August 13, 2017
The problem is that the sentiment is rather naive of what is actually happening on the ground. I certainly excuse politicians for this. They get excoriated if they don't represent the right sentiment. But, academically minded can and should do better.
The problem is, as I understand years of twitter feeds and youtube feeds, some of the protesters are protesting agains racism and demagoguery. However, the racism they are protesting against is in terms of classical racism (based of skin phenotype) rather than new racism (based upon punch-down intersectionality).
How else do you explain "Nazi's" who are proud to have Jewish friends, who overtly stand against classical racism towards people of color, and rally around equality under the law, etc. While there are certainly some (perhaps many) full on white supremacists, and while I fully understand the value of condemning anything associated with such movements, the problem is, statements like Notley's are likely to come across as exceptionally hollow to those who may have been protesting these exact things but are now condemned as deplorably racist Nazi's.
Thus the situation is sort of like how Evergreen professor Brett Weinstein was condemned as a racist for complaining against racism. Perhaps the main difference being there was a crazy supremacist prof down the hall who did the same act for different reasons...and plans weren't in place for distancing and denouncing. Perhaps that means the protestors are in fact soft of Nazi styled white supremacy. That is a very logical point to consider.
My main worry isn't about how "Nazi" the group was - I think with current polarizations, accurate assessments would be hopelessly flawed. My worry is that calling people racist who, in their minds, were protesting racism (even if just against whites) diminishes the social stigma of racism and creates a backlash that needn't have been created with a bit of wisdom.
But I certainly understand how people view the condemnation of anything associated with supremacist groups more valuable than any potential backlash. I just worry that the backlash calculus has been underestimated and hence outcomes may strengthen rather than weaken racism.


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What a lonely place Cog Hill Golf and Country Club was Tuesday morning.
There were a lot of people everywhere and nobody anywhere.
Tiger Woods hadn't arrived at the course yet.
No wonder Western Golf Association officials were frightened that Woods wouldn't qualify for this week's BMW Championship.
No wonder PGA Tour officials, regardless of what they say, must be worried about an eventual and inevitable future without Woods.
No wonder players wonder how their incomes will be impacted when Woods' career is finished.
Without Woods on the grounds, the scheduled main events in the interview room Tuesday were Matt Kuchar and Charley Hoffman.
These are two outstanding golfers, winners of the first two events in the Tour's season-ending playoffs.
Sorry, but I didn't stick around to hear them or wait for Woods to show up.
Listening to Cog Hill's grass grow would be more entertaining than Kuchar and Hoffman. Heck, staring at Woods' empty parking space in the players' lot would be.
Let's face it, without Tiger Woods the PGA Tour is just golf. With him it's show business - for better and worse.
Woods used to be an "it" guy as one of the world's best athletes. Now he is as one of the world's most naughty athletes.
A year ago golf fans could debate whether to pull for or against the overwhelmingly dominant Woods. A year later it's whether to pull for or against him because he has been overwhelmingly scandalous.
Two media items were eye-popping this week alone, both out of New York of course, both from tabloid newspapers via USSportspages.com.
First came the headline, "Tiger Woods' former mistress Rachel Uchitel buys luxury pad on Park Ave., TMZ reports."
The story was that Uchitel - "said to have collected $10 million in hush money from the links legend" - paid $2 million for the new digs.
Then there was this headline: "Tiger Woods headed to hometown of 'Infidelity Analyst.' "
The gist of this one was that if Woods were named to the U.S. Ryder Cup team - which he was Tuesday - he would compete in the Wales neighborhood of the author of "Having an Affair: A Handbook for the Other Woman."
Such nonstop media treatment is harsh, but Woods would have a difficult time arguing that it's undeserved.
Regardless, I know that this smut shouldn't interest me. Well, what can I say? You caught me. I'm a dirty old man who peeks at anything anywhere involving Woods' days of hanky-panky.
If, say, Kuchar or Hoffman had a score of extramarital scores the way Woods did, it would be no big deal. But we're talking about one of the planet's most famous people turning infamous.
As in the past, of foremost interest this week in the BMW will be how Woods fares against a field full of Kuchars, Hoffmans and Phil Mickelson.
The fresh twist is the context of Woods' recently finalized divorce, his attempt to end a slump and his quest for his first title of the year.
Tiger Woods will start energizing Cog Hill in Wednesday's pro-am, partly now because his race back up toward the top of golf will feel a bit racy.
Excuse me for being fascinated by the circumstances.


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I never intended to be away from this for so long. We had a very busy couple of weeks getting things ready around here before going out West to see our family. Our kind neighbors looked after our little trio of a cattle herd. Funny how it couldn't be more the country way to have this happen, in fact it is a great diversion for tired children at about 4pm to go see the cows. What's changed a bit is that while they watch the animals when we are gone they can text us with questions, or photo updates, funny, so not completely the 'ol country way! We had a full week out there, in the Oregon area, which was totally enjoyable. We spent a couple days on the coast which was beyond beautiful, and then back to the city to see oodles of family members. It was wonderful to catch up, it was also a lot of socializing packed into a small window, which for us not-used-to-being-social-folks was a lot but, it was wonderful to be there. After many nights of different beds and lots of visiting we were ready for our quiet lifestyle on the farm to come back and settle into for sure! As we went through our routines after returning home, the comfort of our home was felt in everything we did, even beyond our everyday complete gratefulness for this life we have here.
Here is a picture of the amazing beauty we left behind on the coast.
It was back to granola business though the next morning after returning, catching up on orders, baking and delivering kept me very busy, and all thoughts of garden planning, chicken coop designing etc were fleeting thoughts as I waded through that and the daily items like bills, laundry, cooking, and shopping for food. Sunday was a self designated "no granola" day, not that I don't love my little business, but there are lots of things to love! With the weather here being cold enough to threaten school closings the next day and a projected -10 degree actual temperature tonight, I holed up in the house on Sunday reading and note taking on garden planning, composting set up, and worked on lists like "what to plant", and "what to freeze/dehydrate, root cellar or can". Also a chart by month with things to be thinking or working on each month related to growing, storing, or processing food. Shopping at the store has becoming a bit of a game. I've eliminated a lot of items over the past few months, the list includes but is not limited to…paper napkins, paper towels, bread, buns, sauces, anything from the deli, and all but a select group of meats, (these are mostly local and all organic). We love to get our cheese from a cheese maker in a small town where the store is only open on friday mornings, which on the good trips includes a great small town diner for breakfast. So shopping has become a game of bringing home less and less, which will be oh so much easier when gardening in the summer. Vegetables now, are local, or organic, and sometimes traded for babysitting the children next door! I'm loving trading these days!
Tonight's dinner is Chicken Tortilla Soup from homemade chicken stock, hubby will also get a yummy turkey, cheese and veggie sandwich on whole wheat bread I made yesterday. It's been my experience that husbands in general are not so creative at lunch time, mine stares in the fridge, and mostly gives up. Since I no longer buy deli items, he is at a loss, and so in lieu of the old fall back I am trying to have healthy lunch options in the fridge. Today I have pulled chicken simmering in the crock pot. He loves pulled pork or chicken with coleslaw on it on a bun, which is perfect since I made coleslaw a couple of days ago, and way to much of it at that! I will make more buns tomorrow. In general I'm making extra portions and freezing them singly so there are lunch foods for us, now that we are both home most of the time.
Tomorrow will be an important granola business meeting which may tell some big changes for the business, but regardless of if it changes or not, my focus needs to be balance now, incorporating the business but while enjoying living, working and eating closer to home and yes continuing my game of what else can I quit buying at the store;)
The low winter sun is beaming into my eyes, almost blindingly, through the kitchen window, and despite this the temperature reads a whopping 5 and will get 15 degrees colder yet tonight! With the tractor having a missing part, hubby can't bring the giant front end loader full of wood around to the back door but he is on his 3 or 4th wheelbarrow load! I am going to put on my four layers and go stack it near the door so it is easier to get at during the night. Goals tonight… stay warm and watch a movie together.
As for steps taken towards? I now understand, no till planting, what a kill mulch is, and know the difference between wet keepers and dry keepers when storing vegetables and fruits. I have ideas for our compost area, and have a list of places to check out for free resources such as weed free compost, or wood chips, even big bread carrying racks that the delivery trucks use for delivering commercial bread loaves in, turns out they are perfect for stacking in root cellars so there is air around the vegetables. I have emailed the gentleman I refer to here as "pond guy" to see when he can come out and consult with us on our pond. I am committed to making it bigger, and to stock it, which would mean in addition to the beef from our cattle, and the chickens for meat and eggs and the veggies in the garden, the goal would also be to have a supply of fish of our own! So although no tangible progress has been made, I've learned a lot and continue to day dream.


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Dr. Enid Curtis Bok Schoettle, the director of the international affairs program at the Ford Foundation, and Herbert Stuart Okun, a former deputy United States representative at the United Nations, were married at the Erminia restaurant in New York on Dec. 27. Judge Sheryl L. Parker of New York City Criminal Court in Manhattan officiated.
Mrs. Okun is a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. Curtis Bok of Philadelphia. Her father was a justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. She is a graduate of the Baldwin School and Radcliffe College, and she has a doctorate in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She is a granddaughter of Edward W. Bok, an editor in chief of The Ladies' Home Journal, and Mary Curtis Bok Zimbalist, the founder of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. The bride's great-grandfather Cyrus H. K. Curtis founded Curtis Publishing.
Mr. Okun is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Irving J. Okun of New York. He graduated from Stanford University and received a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University. He is a career minister in the Foreign Service, and was the deputy American representative at the United Nations from 1985 to 1989. He is the executive director in New York of the Financial Services Volunteer Corps, which provides advice on financial reform to countries in Eastern and Central Europe. His father was a produce merchant. The bridegroom's previous marriage ended in divorce, as did the bride's.


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"The World's Finest (Part 2 of 6): Early Warning": Batman and Superman have been buried alive by Metallo. Unable and unwilling to go up out of the grave for fear of another Metallo attack, Batman uses an explosive charge to free them from the grave. They end up in the Gotham City Sewers and work
Superman/Batman #2 is an issue of the series Superman/Batman (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 2003. It was published on September 17, 2003.
Appearing in "The World's Finest (Part 2 of 6): Early Warning"
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Synopsis for "The World's Finest (Part 2 of 6): Early Warning"
Batman and Superman have been buried alive by Metallo. Unable and unwilling to go up out of the grave for fear of another Metallo attack, Batman uses an explosive charge to free them from the grave. They end up in the Gotham City Sewers and working together eventually return to the Batcave via underground tunnels.
Meanwhile in DC, Luthor and Captain Atom wait as a cache of nuclear missiles head towards the Kryptonite Asteroid via an illegally obtained boom tube. The missiles fail and the meteor gets closer.
Back in the cave, Alfred has removed the bullet and patched up Superman. Batman has found out what Superman was trying to tell him about John Corben...according to files in S.T.A.R. Labs, Corben was in Gotham City the night his parents were murdered and also carried the same caliber weapon they were murdered with. While they argue, a boom tube opens and an older version Superman appears in the cave and attacks them. During the confrontation, older Superman explains that he is the future version of Superman there to stop him from doing something that will result in him killing everyone he knows and ending up alone.
Batman confirms that the doppelganger is in fact telling the truth and rushes to get the kryptonite ring. Future Superman attacks Batman and throws him into one of the Batmobiles and then threatens to drop the car on him. Superman fires Metallo's bullet from a shotgun at Future Superman. He disappears with a warning ("Beware...") before the bullet can strike.
In D.C., Luthor prepares to address the nation. Captain Atom once again requests to talk to Superman, which Luthor denies. Luthor goes on TV and informs the public that the meteor is coming and that Superman is responsible for bringing it here. He then offers a bounty of $1 billion dollars for the capture of Superman so he can face the charges of crimes against humanity.
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John Malone just can't keep it together.
In his latest plan for his vast and ever-shifting media assets, Malone said he would effectively split his Liberty Media conglomerate again through the creation of three new tracking stocks.
One would be the Liberty Braves Group, reflecting the Atlanta Braves baseball team and a stadium still under construction, and another designated Liberty Sirius Group, focused on a stake in satellite radio player SiriusXM.
The third tracking stock, Liberty Media Group, would hold remaining interests in concert promoter Live Nation and smaller stakes in Time Warner and Viacom, among others.
Malone has a penchant for spinoffs, tracking stocks and other tax-averse financial maneuvers that have worked to the benefit of his investors over the years.
The media mogul used tracking stocks in 2012 to separate the home shopping services assets of Liberty Interactive Corp. from its digital media assets.
Shares were up 2.2 percent $41.94 on Thursday morning on the news.
"We expect this recapitalization to highlight each tracking stock group's operations, and the financial performance of its attributed assets, provide greater investor choice, and enable targeted capital raising while maintaining an optimal capital structure for Liberty," said Greg Maffei, Liberty's president and CEO, said in a statement.
A tracking stock is pegged to the financial performance of a specific business unit or operating division of a company rather than the company as a whole.
Liberty said it expects to complete the new tracking stocks in the first half of 2016.


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Formation of Scottish Lure Fishing Team - 08/01/2020
As I mentioned in my Christmas message, over the past couple of years I have received numerous requests to consider forming a Scottish Lure Fishing Team, both from aspiring Scottish Anglers and members of the English and Irish Lure Teams. … Read More
International Team Manager Calls for Nominations - 05/11/2019
In the past few years we have increased the size of the International squad, introducing new anglers to great effect in the Sensas Challenge and Home International. As caretaker Manager this is something that I am keen to continue to … Read More
I am delighted to be able to announce the Scotland squad for this year's World Angling Championships which will take place on the International Rowing Course at Montemor-o-Velho, in central Portugal over the weekend of 8/9 September. The squad is … Read More
Club Focus – Inverness Pike Angling Club - 06/06/2015
In this new 'Club Focus' feature this month we look north to Inverness and the Highlands. Some in certain sectors would have you believe that there are no coarse fish in the Highlands, but the Inverness Pike Angling Club know … Read More
Bread Punch Fishing on the Canal - 17/07/2013
Having received a number of requests for information about how to fish the canal and what to use, I have produced three short video clips covering bread punch fishing, They show you how to prepare the bread, what rigs to … Read More


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Death Trooper Lego MOC helmet
The Youtuber LegoSpencer has built an awesome wearable Death Trooper helmet with Lego. He has succeeded to make the look very authentic. The base is made from technique lego which ties the whole construction together. Great work!


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GoPro Fusion with OverCapture could mark new age for videography
At the GoPro Mountain Games in Vail, Colo., last week, GoPro took the wraps off its Fusion spherical camera, a hardware and software technology package that, if executed effectively, could herald the beginning of a new age of videography.
The dream of every videographer is to be in all places at all times, capturing footage from every angle. It's an elusive goal for professionals and amateurs alike, but technology introduced with GoPro's Fusion could make it a reality, upending decades of traditional filmmaking technique.
Dubbed OverCapture, the new hardware/software solution allows users to punch out 1080p video from Fusion's 360-degree image feed. The system translates spherical footage for consumption on 2D screens and allows editors leeway for creating interesting content like "tiny world" views — a forced warped perspective in which video subjects appear living on a miniature planet. More importantly, OverCapture can with one device capture concurrent footage equivalent to current multi-camera setups.
AppleInsider sat down with Fusion product manager Jess Foley for an inside look at the project and what it means not only for GoPro, but the wider world of videography. (Full disclosure, Foley and I were stuck on the same shuttle to Denver International Airport).
Describing herself a purist when it comes to cinematography, Foley thinks features like "tiny world" — and perhaps even VR, thanks to a clunky headset-based consumption model — will be short-lived in the grand scheme of filmmaking. The viewpoint is not one you would expect from a team lead working on a 360-degree camera. Spherical capture often goes hand-in-hand with VR headset viewing, and indeed GoPro presented much of its Fusion content on Samsung Gear VR headsets during last week's event.
However, the VR slant disregards Fusion's real trick: OverCapture. The software-driven function lets filmmakers pull slices from anywhere in the 5.2K spherical stream. An integral part of the Fusion experience, OverCapture can reproduce traditional camera framing, including pan, tilt and tracking shots, from a single static unit without the usual fisheye look that is typically part and parcel of 360-degree capture.
OverCapture opens a world of possibility for videographers. Set up a Fusion in the middle of a crowded scene and capture footage on all sides — including above and below — simultaneously, then pick and choose what angles make it to the final cut.
In many ways, Fusion replaces multi-cam setups like those seen in popular automotive videos. Instead of attaching five or six GoPro Hero cameras to your hood, fenders and bumpers, just mount one Fusion to achieve similar results. As an added bonus, OverCapture lets users perform pan and tilt without bulky rigs.
It is this level of flexibility that makes Fusion such a powerful platform, and one that has taken GoPro well over a year to realize.
Spherical camera hardware has been around for years, Foley notes, but no single product has been backed by an effective software solution. This, along with a lack of imaginative marketing on the part of camera makers, has hindered wide consumer adoption. GoPro is looking to create a compelling use case when it launches Fusion later this year, Foley says.
As part of that effort, the company is opening Fusion access to established production houses and experienced filmmakers in a pilot program this summer. The program is less about setting a benchmark than showing off what the device is capable of achieving, and hopefully serving as a starting point for future Fusion owners.
GoPro brought about ten working Fusion units to the Mountain Games, which floated around the event capturing footage from kayaking to dog jumping. Foley and her team combed through the content and presented a short video produced in both 2D with OverCapture and VR, snippets of which can be seen below.
Since OverCapture is in large part a software feature, copycat solutions will undoubtedly make their way to market. But Foley, who keeps a collection of 360-degree cameras at her desk at work, isn't worried. From what she has seen, competing spherical camera makers are nowhere near supporting similar feature sets. In other words, GoPro will own the market when Fusion launches.
Hardware is, of course, a key element in the ultimate success of Fusion and GoPro has put just as much effort into the device as it has in supporting software. For example, each of Fusion's two cameras can compensate for lighting conditions independently, a feature not seen on other spherical cameras. And while GoPro failed to confirm whether Fusion will be waterproof, we saw one unit take on low level rapids in a kayak, while another remained in working order after sitting in a pool for over five minutes.
While we were lucky enough to see the first functional Fusion units operating in the wild, GoPro stayed mum on what's going on beneath the camera's sleek gray exterior. The company was even reluctant to discuss Fusion's offset lenses, one of its most distinguishing features. Foley told us the design facilitates advanced imaging techniques like accurate stitching, but declined to comment further. More information will be revealed when Fusion officially launches later this year.
Foley mused that she could have used couple of Fusions to film her wedding, but guests would have had to sign non-disclosure agreements. She was half joking, but the idea of capturing a live event with just two or three cameras might not be that far from fiction. And with Fusion, that reality is just off the tiny world horizon.


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Colm Barrington was awarded the Irish Sailing Presidents Award at the RDS on Friday night in recognition of his instrumental work setting up the Irish Sailing Performance Pathway system and his stewardship of the Irish Sailing Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Irish Sailing.
Barrington has been a long term player in the Irish Olympic movement where he is currently Vice President and a member of the Executive Committee.
The Volvo Irish Sailing Awards also saw Robert Dickson and Sean Waddilove of Howth and Skerries respectively named as joint Volvo Sailor of the Year.
The annual event hosted by Irish Sailing drew a record crowd of over 500 people from across the country and sailing community to celebrate another eventful year of sailing.
Dickson and Waddilove have worked their way up from club sailing with Sutton, Skerries and Howth, to the Irish Sailing Performance Pathway coaching programmes and the 49er class (a two-handed skiff).
Their progress has been quick and they delivered a stand out performance at the U23 World 49er Championships in Marseille last September where they came home with the Gold medal.
"I'm delighted that Rob and Sean have won this prestigious award," said Irish Sailing President Jack Roy.
"They're now working with our coaches as part of the senior team preparing for an Olympic qualifier in December this year, and I would like to wish them all the best in their preparations".
Nell Staunton of the National YC in Dun Laoghaire took home the Volvo Youth Sailor of the Year for her performance internationally in the Laser class, culminating in her new Irish record of 8th place at the World Youth Sailing Championships in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Jack Hannon of Bray Sailing Club was awarded the inaugural Volvo Irish Sailing Inclusion Award for his pivotal work building relationships between his club and local special needs sports club Bray Lakers, and developing a new programme ensuring people of all abilities get to enjoy sailing.
This year a new award (the Volvo Irish Sailing Sustainability Award) was presented to joint winners Howth Yacht Club and Royal Cork Yacht Club for their innovative ideas when thinking about the environment and sustainability. From providing sailors with reusable water bottles at events, using compostable food and coffee containers, paper straws, online documents, to organising rubbish collections from their local waters and giving educational talks, both clubs invested much energy into reducing the impact sailing has on the environment, and worked with young sailors, members and their local communities to create sustainable sailing practices.


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ArLiSNAP Calendar
Important Dates for ArLiSNAP members & admins.
- Follow up with conference organizers to make sure an ArLiSNAP meeting room is available at ARLIS/NA annual conference
- ARLIS/NA Conference Travel Awards Applications Deadline: February 5th (may vary)
- College of Art (CAA) Annual Conference
- Draft annual report using ARLIS/NA guidelines
- Previous reports can be viewed here: http://arlisnap.org/tag/annual-report/
- Reports are currently dated with the beginning year of the term (e.g. for the 2010-2011 term, the report is dated 2010). This matches reports submitted to ARLIS/NA.
- Submit annual report by deadline.
- VRA Annual Conference
- Samuel H. Kress Foundation Summer Educational Institute Scholarships deadline for the Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources and Image Management
- Kress Award for European Travel deadline
- Organize Pub Stop/Crawl for ARLIS/NA Conference
- Past Pub Stops/Crawls: http://arlisnap.org/tag/pubs
- Create an initial post for suggestions, preferably from a local
- Post on arlisnap.org once the location(s), date, and time have been determined
- If creating a flyer, include in the arlisnap.org post and print copies to distribute at the annual conference
- Computers in Libraries (CiL) Annual Conference
- Collect ArLiSNAP Promotional Materials for ARLIS/NA Conference & Conference Packets
- These may be distributed at the annual conference first time attendee orientation, registration desk, Web 2.0 kiosk, and sessions geared towards new professionals.
- Posters and flyers: http://arlisnap.org/arlisnap-promotional-materials/
- First time attendee pamphlets: located (with additional materials) in the arlisnap.org media library: https://abcs.wordpress.com/wp-admin/upload.php
- Buttons and other promotional materials at Cafe Press: http://www.cafepress.com/arlisnap
- Update & promote the first-time attendee wiki
- Refresh the ArLiSNAP needs survey
- Online
- Google Docs forms have been used in the past. They can be copied and formatted for the current year.
- http://docs.google.com/a/arlisnap.org
- Paper
- For distribution at the annual meeting
- 2010 survey example
- Online
- Prepare & announce ArLiSNAP annual meeting agenda
- Create a post on arlisnap.org & request additional items to discuss from the community
- Announce on ARLIS-L and the ARLIS/NA Facebook group
- Call for a volunteer to record meeting minutes
New ArLiSNAP Co-Moderator Process
- One new Co-Moderator each year serves for two years
- Call for ArLiSNAP Co-Moderator Candidates
- Make call 3 weeks before the conference week on ARLIS-L, ARLIS/NA Facebook group, ArLiSNAP.org (feeds should automatically go out to Twitter and Facebook)
- Hold candidacy submissions for 2 weeks
- Candidates submit via the comments of the call's post
- Election of ArLiSNAP Co-Moderator
- Begin voting on the Monday before the conference week
- Survey Monkey has been used in the past and old elections can be easily reused for new ones
- Announce the new Co-Moderator
- Announce the new Co-Moderator on Monday of the conference week
- Announce on ARLIS-L, ARLIS/NA Facebook group, ArLiSNAP.org
- Send an email to the ARLIS/NA webmaster to update the arlisna.org site.
- Notify TEI association specialist that the contact for ArLiSNAP is now the second-year coordinator
- Update Google Apps accounts
- Current volunteer's name for webmaster [at] arlisnap.org
- Current volunteer's name for co-chair1 [at] arlisnap.org OR co-chair 2 [at] arlisnap.org (which ever is being replaced)
- Make sure email forwarding is updated if used for any of the accounts
- Post meeting minutes and annual report on arlisnap.org
- Domain Name registration renewal due to 1and1.com (auto-renewal)
- WordPress domain mapping renewal (NOT automatically renewed)
- ARLIS/NA Annual Conference
- ArLiSNAP-relevant events include:
- ArLiSNAP Annual Meeting
- New Voices in the Profession Panel
- First Time Attendees Orientation
- Pub Crawl
- Meet the Vendors Program
- Conference Mentoring Program
- Year-long Mentoring Program
- ArLiSNAP-relevant events include:
- ArLiSNAP Co-Moderators follow up with new contacts and volunteers. Set volunteer expectations and responsibilities for the following year.
- ARLIS/NA Conference Proposals Due for following year
- Investigate what is necessary to procure an ArLiSNAP meeting room at the next ARLIS/NA conference
- After coordinators review, submit meeting minutes to conference proceedings editor
- Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources and Image Management
- American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference
- Special Libraries Association (SLA) Annual Conference
- ARLIS/NA Special Funding Requests Deadline
- Deadline is either July, August or the beginning of September; watch ARLIS-L
- Guidelines
- Back to School ArLiSNAP email sent to LIS programs
- Gerd Muehsam Award deadline for excellence in a graduate student paper or project


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Someone enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan or Stand-alone Part D Rx plan can change their plan outside of the Medicare Open Enrollment Period if they move outside of their current plan's service area.
When does a SEP based on change of residence take place?
Begins either the month before the permanent move if the plan is notified in advance or the month the beneficiary provides notice of the move.
Continues for two months following the month it begins or the month of the move, whichever is later.
The individual may choose an effective date of up to 3 months after the month in which the enrollment form is received by the plan, but it may not be earlier than the date of the permanent move
What can beneficiaries do during the SEP?
Qualifying beneficiaries have one opportunity to enroll into a new MA or Part D plan.


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A lounging cat made from carved fossilized walrus tusk is the focal point of this versatile piece by Zealandia. Made from sterling silver with a beautifully faceted peridot you can wear it as a pin or a pendant as it comes with a sterling silver, 1.5mm rhodium bead chain.
- Width: 1 inch
- Height 1-1/2 inches
- Chain length: 18 inches


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As a locally owned business, we're deeply involved in the communities we serve. We've worked hard to create a reputation based on exceptional service and high quality products. In addition to serving thousands of residential clients throughout Marin County and San Francisco, Blinds & Designs is the specified window covering contractor at 1598 Bay, 288 Pacific, 1886 Van Ness, 1238 Sutter, 815 Tennessee, 555 Fulton, The Austin, 450 Hayes, 388 Fulton, 875 California, 119 7th Street OneEleven, 300 Ivy, The Icon, and 3500 19th Street.
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SAM Learning is pleased to announce its recent partnership with Group Call to provide more effective and efficient data provisioning between your school's MIS and SAM Learning. Through this partnership, SAM Learning looks forward to providing your school with:
- Increased efficiency – increased effectiveness and efficiency of school data provisioning, saving staff members time in preparing, handling, and managing data
- Increased security – stronger, more secure handling of learner data, compliant with GDPR
- Increased data accuracy – class and learner data will always be in sync with the school's MIS
- Increased customer experience – easy to on-board and easy to implement, providing a positive school and end-user experience.
In the upcoming week, you will receive an email from Group Call providing the necessary details to install and/or authorise data sharing between Group Call and SAM Learning. This service is at no additional charge to your school and only requires your school to complete the action item(s) outlined in the email sent by Group Call.
SAM Learning wants to ensure:
- Your school is aware of this customer experience enhancement and takes action upon receipt of Group Call's email or telephone calls.
- The appropriate person responsible for MIS/data management at your school is identified and contacted.
- If this contact has since changed, please be sure to provide updated contact details (school name, first name, last name, job title, email address, telephone)
- Group Call and SAM Learning support staff make contact with MIS/data management personnel to get your school on-boarded swiftly.
Please find SAM Learning's Group Call FAQ's attachment to help you answer questions you may have.
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What time of year should you change your tires over?
Clearly the answer isn't the same every year, as the seasons feel very different from one winter to the next. It's also not the same for everyone, since every area is hit by cold temperatures at different times.
In this way, tires are like footwear. In some parts of the world, people can wear the same shoes year-round because temperatures don't swing up or down that much. But in areas where people experience distinct changes in weather, the idea of calling tires "all-season" is as strange as wearing sandals in a blizzard or snow boots in the summertime. We need the right footwear to do activities outside in both +20°C and -20°C. While luckily we don't have to swap out tires as often as we switch out our shoes, it's still incredibly important that your car is properly "dressed" for the season so it can perform correctly.
Just like the name for "all-season tires" is inaccurate, so is the idea of "snow tires" – and even "winter tires" doesn't actually make sense, because these tires are actually designed for many different weather conditions (basically whenever it's cold outside).
Here's the rule you should know: major tire manufacturers recommend that you switch to winter tires once your local temperature is consistently at or less than 7 degrees Celsius or 45 degrees Fahrenheit.
If you care about the safety of yourself, your family, and other people on the road, you should make sure you've got the right tires on your car. So when should you make the switch? You'll have to check your local long-term weather forecast to get an idea of when to get ready for colder weather. This year, in many parts of Canada and the United States, people are anticipating plenty of snow and some wild temperature swings thanks to the Winter 2018-19 prediction from the Farmer's Almanac.
Why switch your tires at 7°C/45°F?
7 degrees Celsius or 45 degrees Fahrenheit is the standard temperature that winter tires are designed for improved handling, traction, and braking distances, across all major tire brands.
In any weather conditions where the temperature dips below this number, all-season tires can't perform effectively and become risky to drive on. The rubber hardens to the point where, like a hockey puck on ice, the friction point is reduced and the tires will lose traction or require more stopping distance.
When the cold weather worsens from snow and ice, the softer rubber and specially-designed treads on winter tires give them better grip and performance on slippery surfaces, and better traction to maneuver and brake at shorter distances.
Are winter tires required in Canada?
Tires are one of the most important safety features in your car. Most of us don't give our tires much thought, aside from the times in the year we need to change them, or when we get a flat. But tires do the vitally important job of keeping our cars driving on the road and maneuvering as they should be.
That being said, in most places switching your tires isn't written in law. In the United States, there are no states that require putting on winter tires. In Canada, it's required by law in two provinces:
- Quebec requires all cars to be equipped with winter tires between December 15 and March 15.
- British Columbia requires all cars driving on designated highways in the province to be equipped with winter tires between October 1 and April 30.
However, regardless of where you live and drive in the northern half of North America, winter tires are essential to safe driving in colder temperatures. The use of winter tires is strongly encouraged by all provinces and Transport Canada in the months between October and May.
Here are 5 reasons to change your tires on time.
Just a little extra motivation to change your tires now.
- There's no better way to maintain your car's performance in winter conditions than swapping out your all-season tires for winter tires.
- As temperatures drop, not only do your all-season tires become less effective, it becomes more difficult to drive on them – so you may find yourself losing control on the road.
- Some insurance companies offer discounts to drivers who install winter tires. If you live in Ontario, the rate reduction is guaranteed, so make sure you get it by changing your tires!
- You never know when the weather will take a turn for the worse. Instead of being caught off guard by a sudden dumping of snow, it makes life much easier to get your tire change out of the way earlier in the fall. You don't want to end up stuck in your driveway!
- If you wait for the first frost or snowfall to swap your tires, don't expect to get a service appointment any time soon. Most drivers wait until this time to book, meaning it could be days or even weeks before your tires are changed at the shop. The wait can be so long that many drivers start booking appointments before Thanksgiving!
Don't find yourself stuck waiting for an appointment and compromising your safety in the meantime. Change your tires yourself, and you can get the job done on your own schedule. Try changing your own tires this year, and you'll have them on your car exactly when you need them.
Follow these 3 winter tire installation tips to stay safe on the road.
Tip 1: Winter tires should absolutely be installed as a complete set of four. Otherwise, your wheels won't all have the same amount of traction and stability.
Tip 2: Keeping your winter tires on their own set of rims will save you a lot time and hassle every time you swap them. They don't have to be brand-new or the same as your all-season rims, but they must all be the same size as each other, with the same bolt pattern. Doing this also saves your regular rims from the wear-and-tear of driving in wintry weather conditions.
Tip 3: Try changing your tires yourself, instead of waiting a week or longer for the service centre appointment and hours for mechanics to get the job done.
Everyone should put on their own winter tires, and it's easier than you think.
With the right tools and know-how, it's absolutely safe to change passenger vehicle tires on your own. So stop living by someone else's appointment schedule and learn how to change a tire with our step-by-step illustrated guide.


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The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, reveals a tight embrace between the proteins NONO and PSPC1 that explains for the first time how they work together inside cancer cells.
The combination of structural biology studies carried out at the Australian Synchrotron (Clayton, VIC) and high-resolution microscopy studies carried out at WAIMR, explains not only how the proteins can act together but also where in the cell they act.
Lead author Professor Charlie Bond, from UWA's School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, said that while previous studies had shown the importance of these proteins to cells and cancers, this is the first time researchers had a picture of what they look like.
"Proteins in our cells are like very tiny machines," Professor Bond said. "In order to understand how they work and develop drugs against them, we have to magnify them. By combining microscopy and a sophisticated technique called crystallography, we have been able to observe the detailed atomic structure of NONO and PSPC1, and their location in the cell."
Co-author Dr Archa Fox, from WAIMR, added, "This is an important finding because it is the first step towards developing drugs that could change the way these proteins work. However, more work is required to show how they might be targeted by new cancer drugs."
The proteins NONO and PSPC1 are found in a part of the human cell called a paraspeckle, discovered by Dr Fox in 2001. The work relied heavily on contributions from UWA PhD student Daniel Passon and research fellow Mihwa Lee, who were able to access the Australian Synchrotron's world-class Macromolecular Crystallography and Small-angle X-ray Scattering facilities.
Media references
Professor Charlie Bond (UWA School of Chemistry and Biochemistry) (+61 8) 6488 4406
Dr Archa Fox (WAIMR) (+61 8) 9224 0368
Carolyn Monaghan (WAIMR Communications Manager) (+61 4) 48 021 932
Michael Sinclair-Jones (UWA Public Affairs) (+61 8) 6488 3229 / (+61 4) 00 700 783


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TAMPA, Fla.—Mitt Romney was never the first choice for conservative Republicans such as Jason Zier, a 43-year-old resident here who jumped on the Herman Cain bandwagon last summer before voting in the primary for Newt Gingrich.
But that hasn't diminished his enthusiasm for supporting Mr. Romney in November. "This is the guy, so let's go," Mr. Zier said.
Self-described conservatives have rallied around Mr. Romney to oust the target of their disdain, President Barack Obama, a turnabout of sorts from the Republican primary campaign, when Mr. Romney struggled to generate enthusiasm from evangelicals and tea-party activists.
In the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, nine out of 10 conservative Republicans said they plan to cast ballots for Mr. Romney. With both parties banking on their core supporters, this factor could be crucial in November.
In 2008, partly because of a lack of support for Republican nominee Sen. John McCain, 17 million self-described evangelicals stayed home on Election Day, including nine million registered voters, according to Ralph Reed, founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition.
Today, the Faith and Freedom Coalition plans to shower conservative households in 10 swing states with phone calls, direct-mail pieces and emails. Many voters will receive direct mail that encourages them to "get off the fence and get in the game."
In some ways, Mr. Romney's lukewarm support from evangelicals and self-described "very conservative" voters during the primaries might have been misleading. In most of the closest contests, both groups showed a preference for former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, according to exit polls of voters in those states. But they showed an overwhelming inclination to support Mr. Romney in a head-to-head match-up with the president.
"The hand-wringing and supposed animosity [toward Mr. Romney] was overstated," said Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group that is part of a consortium that plans to spend more than $200 million on television ads and grass-roots turnout. "I don't think there was ever going to be a question that the base was going to be rock solid in support of the candidate," he said.
Appealing to these groups, while important, comes with a price: potentially alienating centrist voters. To avoid that pitfall, Mr. Romney spent the week leading up to the convention distancing himself from remarks by Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican Senate candidate in Missouri, who suggested women's bodies have the ability to prevent pregnancies in instances of "legitimate rape."
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz is a novel published in the year 2007 to unprecedented acclaim, and the novel turned to be a huge critical and popular success winning The National Book Critics Award and The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Junot Diaz published his debut, which was called Drown, a collection of short stories that also received high acclaim from multiple critics including Hermoine Lee, the great literary biographer of Penelope Fitzgerald; yet it was not until this first novel, this masterpiece of diasporic fiction that he shot his way up to the stars. In a list compiled by the BBC which aimed to find the top 20 best novels of the 21st century, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ranked as the first above great modern classics such as Wolf Hall, The Known World, The Corrections, White Teeth, Gilead, Austerlitz, The Line of Beauty, My Beautiful Friend and The Half of a Yellow Sun. In a reader's poll conducted by The Millions, the novel won the popular vote of being the best novel of the 21st century, yet again. By then, and I can cite many more critics, polls and references, it was clear that Junot Diaz, a man, a writer of novels and short stories couldn't have been ignored by the literary world.
Since the past few weeks, I have undertaken a task to read and review some of the best known novels of 21st century, because, I am afraid, it feels that I have to change my usual course of reading now, in order to analyse the voice lurking in our time; breathing, singing, and rising in the air, these voices from all different parts of the world cannot be ignored especially for a student of literature, they are paramount. The term Great American Novel has been used by many condescendingly and ignored by most. Jonathan Franzen is the only one to have appeared on TIME Magazine's front cover as the Great American Novelist after he published his second masterpiece, Freedom. America can only be captured by the orchestra of polyphonic voices; otherwise, its soul would still be hidden in the mist. I would agree wholeheartedly that Jonathan Franzen is the Great American novelist, but others can claim the throne for themselves like Toni Morrison and Junot Diaz. If somebody were to say that it would not only be logical but also be true.
Tumbling headlong into the heart of the novel, it is the story of Oscar Wao, a troubled, disturbed young teenager who is sexually and emotionally frustrated due to loneliness, the lack of women in his life and the constant humiliation he has to face in consequence. He is on the receiving end of the curse (Fuku) which has haunted his family for generations. It is also the story of women; bewitching, enticing and magical women who are so well placed, portrayed and depicted in the novel that it becomes hard to think of any contemporary novel written by a male writer who has been able to accomplish that feat. It could be said that the novel is a long, heart-breaking anecdotal joke which takes the reader through a whirlpool of different emotions. I will explain certain aspects of the novel so that I will be able to unpack the virtual oxymoronic sentence which I have written.
The novel is set in the Santo Domingo and New Jersey during the times of the menacing Rafael Trujillo dictatorship. Oscar Wao is a lonely, overweight kid who loves to read books, especially fantasy, science fiction and he has another deadly venomous passion in life; he loves to fall in love with girls. He thinks about them, he falls in love them, and he desires them, wants to be with them unlike his fellow macho Yunior, who woos them and dumps them later for a new sexual escapade.
Looking back on the whole journey, I'd say there is so much packed and written and injected into this three hundred thirty-five-page novel that one is left unbelievably shocked at the symphony of themes hidden in the novel. The novel is a fable which addresses the most fundamental issues of our times and perhaps of all times. Amongst issues addressed in the novel are themes of dictatorship, gender inequalities, depression, sadness, loneliness, nerd culture, science fiction, escapism, writing, and mythology, especially the curse of the Fuku.
Junot Diaz's novel has the flow and ebb of a fable; a philosophical tale of mythologies, but it proves to be much more, in the end; the whole portrait takes the shape of reality. Most critics I have read, have praised the novel's humour or the humorous treatment of some of the most difficult and miserable themes of the novel. The novel is, strictly speaking, notwithstanding the satirical humour, a difficult, depressing and extremely sympathetic experience which demands from the reader the emotion of love and compassion for all characters, especially Oscar Wao. The story is so painfully heart-breaking and so innocently tear jerking that you feel dismayed at the web of reality that the writer concocts. I have never come across, in literature, a character like Oscar Wao. His remarkable stoicism, his quest for manhood, his innocence and childlike passion for love and literature can melt the heart of the most stone cold and immune readers. Oscar Wao is a legend and, in my view, the perfect Macho we are all looking for and hoping to be in our lives but not quite in the same way as we fantasise masculinity to be.
Structurally, the novel is perfect with beautifully written and sparse sentences which nonetheless depict the strength of a page in few words. The use of slang and diasporic colloquialism is inherent in the backbone of the novel's prose and stylistic achievement. Words and sentences which readers wouldn't be able to understand completely are there to fulfil a higher purpose. The bi-lingual faculty of the novel evokes the sense of nostalgia and authenticity and reminiscence in the reader's mind. It feels like you are being drawn into a world which already exists, waiting to be unveiled from the shadows of third world fantasies.
There are two kinds of great writers: The ones who write beautifully poetic passages and craft longer novels; and the ones who write sparse, short and crisp sentences which remove the relaxed pace of the novel and compel the reader to jump into the action straightaway. Junot Diaz, especially in this novel, belongs to the latter. The novel has the pace and diversity of themes which would usually be attributed to a five-hundred or six-hundred-page novel. Most critics and readers admired this vibrant, dynamic quality of the novel, but some readers had a huge problem in getting through the flux of magical realism; which accentuates the already accentuated heightened sense of reality.
The novel is superbly humorous yet devastatingly tragic; it makes the reader feel helpless, who is a spectator unable to do anything to pull out the characters from their pit of overwhelming unhappiness. Whatever happens to Oscar Wao is incredibly sad, yet the character himself is wonderfully written. There were times in the novel when he became more real to me than anyone else around me, and I felt his misery and pain and solitude and loneliness. Perhaps, the feeling of compassion for the protagonist and frustration at his constant failures made me immune to the humour, because even though the novel itself is clever, sharp and witty; I couldn't help but see the sadness beneath it all. It felt almost inhumane to laugh at the incidents and happenings in the novel, yet I can understand why other readers weren't immune to the humour.
The novel beautifully addresses other aspects of the first-person narration, for instance, the unreliability of the narrator. It is very difficult to differentiate between physical reality and the subjective psychological perception of it, which the characters are experiencing. It is difficult to analyse the entire novel because, as a reader, as a student and as a person, I am at a very distant plane from where the novel is coming. If there is one thing the novel proves about the authors, is that he has a calculated ingenuity and inventiveness about his writing. His sentences enliven the English language with breath-taking renewal and redemption from the cluttered mass of repetition it had become.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a tour de force which will make you laugh, smile and feel heartbroken at the way things happen to people and often happen to good people in life. Oscar Wao is unlike anything you have ever come across in literature, he is an original who will demand something more important than attention from his readers; he will demand the reader's love because every great character needs it, to survive in the memories of other people. Junot Diaz has given voice to a new continent and has given a breath of fresh air to the phenomenon of The Great American Novel.


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