text: Duhaime's Law Dictionary Jus Vitae Necisque Definition: Latin: Power of life and death. Part of patria potestas, the power of the father. "The Roman law of persons provided for the patria potestas, the power of the father, about which Gaius wrote in the first century A.D. It included jus vitae necisque, the power of life and death, and, a fortiori, of uncontrolled corporal chastisement over wife, children, and other family members."1 Relying on Henry Maine's Ancient Law treatise, Christoper Stone wrote in his article of the ancient Roman maxim in the context of a father's rights over his children: "... jus vitae necisque - the power of life and death-over his children.... he had power of uncontrolled corporal chastisement; he can modify their personal condition at pleasure; he can give a wife to his son; he can give his daughter in marriage; he can divorce his children of either sex; he can transfer them to another family by adoption; and he can sell them. The child was less than a person: an object, a thing." REFERENCES: NOTE 1: Oppenlander, Nan, The Evolution of Law and Wife Abuse, 3 Law & Pol'y Q. (1981) Stone, Christopher D., Should Trees Have Standing - Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects, 45 S. Cal. L. Rev. 450 (1972) Categories & Topics: Dictionary of Latin Law Terms Duhaime's Family Law Dictionary Always looking up definitions? Save time with our search provider (modern browsers only) If you find an error or omission in Duhaime's Law Dictionary, or if you have suggestion for a legal term, we'd love to hear from you!


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Posted by Pat Brewer on 22 May 2019
We will be holding an evening for new members to have a free trial session on Thursday, 17th October. We run a waiting list so if you are interested in becoming a member, please contact us by email asap to book a place.
If we have places available, we will hold another trials session, but our main intake is in September for all of our courses, so we can ensure members pass their lifesaving exams in time for our awards evening.
Every member has a trial session, which will include:-
- 100 metres (5 Lengths) front crawl.
- 60 metres (3 lengths) lifesaving backstroke.
- 40 metres (2 lengths) side stroke.
- 60 metres (3 lengths) breast stroke.
- Tread water for one minute.
- Surface dives - feet first touching the bottom with hand, head first picking up brick from the bottom (depth approx. 1.8 metres in pool)
- Deep water entry (compact jump or straddle jump)
We accept that not everyone can do either lifesaving backstroke or sidestroke, which are not normal swimming lesson strokes, so these strokes are taught during our lifesaving lessons.
If you have suitable swimming ability, we will offer a place in the most suitable class according to age, ability and availability. We cannot guarantee to put friends together, or to be put in a particular class. Our instructors are able to judge abilities of swimming suitable to make good lifesavers and sometimes members will start in a lower class than some other members of the same age, in order to give them more chance to work on strokes etc.
We also take members who are working towards their Duke of Edinburgh Awards, but again we cannot guarantee to put friends together, or to put in a particular class

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I told myself I was going to shut up about Yaron fucking Brook, but the son of a bitch decided to flat-out lie in the February 16th podcast.
There's no purpose in quoting the entire Q&A. The questioner, dumb as a bag of hammers, suggested that American cities have a dearth of public parks (making the baffling statement, assuming Brook is directly quoting the question, that "there are no urban parks in America, with the exception of Central Park and maybe Golden Gate"), especially when compared to "socialist" countries in Europe. The questioner considers this "a clear failure of capitalist thinking."
Admittedly, Brook has a habit of mangling questions in attempts to paraphrase them, but here it sounded a lot like he read the majority of the question verbatim; it's just that the question doesn't make sense. I've never been to Europe, but I have lived in two of the biggest cities in this country, and it's hard not to find parks. The Chicago Park District lists 596 parks, which excludes beaches. Many of them probably aren't more than a city block, but there's still Grant Park, Lincoln Park (which is significantly larger than Central Park), Jackson Park, Burnham Park… Los Angeles, of course, has Griffith Park, which is over five times the size of Central Park. That's not even getting into forest preserves, state parks, national parks, and the wide open spaces a stone's throw away from every American city.
More importantly, city parks are a feature of urban planning. In other words: a function of government. Even if the claim that there "are no urban parks" was true, even if it was true that American cities have fewer parks and/or smaller parks than European cities (and it may be; I don't care enough to research the comparison), how is it a failure of capitalist thinking when it's not up to private enterprise to fund, build, and maintain parks?
That's what leads to Brook's lie. He latched onto the questioner's mention of Central Park and makes the outrageous claim that "Central Park was established by local businessmen [not true]. It was a private park [not true], established by private people [not true], on private land [not true]. It wasn't established through so-called 'urban planning' [not true]."
Why would he make claims so obviously untrue and so easily verifiable? To be really, really nice, I'll entertain the notion that Brook's pro-capitalist zeal led to this blunder. I don't know what runs through his mind at any given time, so I can't make an honest claim that he's lying to win the argument, or lying to revise history, or just to see how many lies he could cram into three short sentences. So let's leave it at zeal. But it's still a lie. Or rather, a series of related lies.
I could imagine someone like Brook really, really wanting it to be true that the most well-known park in the world (or, at least, in this country), famed for its landscape design and architecture, was a product of private enterprise, rather than (blech!) that nasty old government. In the context of this question, he's trying to prove that Central Park is a victory of capitalist thinking, because it's a great park that, in his imagination, was originally privately owned and operated.
The closest he gets to the truth is that it was local businessmen who saw the need for the park. The problem is, they did exactly what Ayn Rand would have hated: they blustered that the city needed to set aside land for a park, and when they city wouldn't, they blustered to the state and the newspapers until "public support" for the park was so high, the state created a planning commission to make sure the park happened. Even if you think (as I do) that the end result was worth it, this is an early but fine example of private-public circle-jerking. The impetus was impure: the aristocratic Old Money who had been living in New York since it was a colonial hub wanted to get rid of the growing number of freed slaves and European immigrants squatting in shantytowns on undeveloped land. The early result was equally impure: property theft/destruction (via "eminent domain") leading to the displacement of (1) New York's first community of free, property-owning, middle-class African-Americans; and (2) New York's first college for women.
Because it's easier to lie, Brook misses a golden opportunity to use Central Park as reinforcement for his later point that urban planning is a component of socialist thinking, not capitalist. Central Park would not have existed without three things he claims to hate: philanthropy, cronyism, and abuse of individual rights (especially private property rights!). I've already explained why he's wrong about philanthropy, and here I would offer that any feints toward philanthropy just served to mask the racism behind the Central Park plot, but all of that is beside the point: Brook hates philanthropy. He should, therefore, hate the origins of Central Park instead of lying about them.
This leads to another reason Brook might have lied. The philosophy of Objectivism supports capitalism as an economic system, inasmuch as free-market capitalism is the only system that reflects individual freedom. Because the late nineteenth century was the only period in which U.S. economic policy approached laissez-faire, Objectivists—particularly those associated with the Ayn Rand Institute—tend to deify nineteenth-century capitalists.
They shouldn't. Objectivism is an atheistic philosophy, so there's no purpose in anointing human beings to god-like status. Ayn Rand thought the virtuous qualities of man should be admired, not resented. What confuses Objectivists like Brook is when a person has virtuous qualities and negative qualities. Most people do. Ayn Rand understood this; her novels are filled with them. Yet, far too many Objectivists find "contradictions" in humanity baffling. Why? Don't they realize most people in the world are not Objectivists, and even those who are may not always thinking or act philosophically? It can take years—decades—to reorient your brain into a different line of thinking; even children raised by Objectivists to be Objectivists have to do battle with the irrationality of the world in which they live. Instead of recognizing that, you have goofballs like Amy Peikoff acting like Steve Jobs's drug experimentation and interest in Buddhism are the weirdest things she's ever heard, impossible to reconcile with a person whose business dealings tended to reflect Objectivist-style heroics.
Why would he do that? Why would he need it? Why wouldn't he be satisfied merely by pursuing his passion in business? Gee, Davey, maybe it's because he has the entire world telling him it's "selfish" and immoral to want to make money, and yet that was all he was interested in doing. Maybe he was seeking ways to feel good about himself instead of feeling like a monster for wanting things everyone around him was telling him he shouldn't want. To put it in a context I would hope someone like Amy Peikoff or Yaron Brook could understand: maybe he was a Hank Rearden instead of a John Galt.
The true story of Central Park turns the businessmen and "philanthropists" urging the project forward into complicated human beings instead of intentionally exaggerated fictional characters. Considering it was the early 1850s, and we're talking about white aristocrats of that time, there is a high likelihood that these people were Christian, racist, and hypocrites. You know, the sort of people whose Christian values told them it was only okay to be rich if they "gave back," but who wouldn't give back by building a park themselves. They were the sort who used the influence and power their money bought in order to pressure the state to pressure the city to steal the land from the people who owned it and build the park with taxpayer money. That sort of "giving back." Not to mention the sort of people who hid behind an illusion of Christian charity in order to get what they wanted: the forcible removal of black people, European immigrants, and women from the sight lines of their well-appointed homes.
They might have been good capitalists, in the sense of thriving businessmen driven to continued success, but they weren't Objectivists. Yaron Brook likes to trumpet that Ayn Rand was the one who defined capitalism as a moral system—the only moral system—so why would it surprise him or anyone else that the capitalists who predated her would not practice capitalism in a moral way? Hell, most still don't practice it in moral ways, and often misquote Rand to justify it. Why wouldn't they? The fearless leader of Objectivism has gone beyond his usual distortions of Rand's work into flat-out lying about the history of this country, to create the illusion that capitalism is a flawless system.
It's not flawless. Rand knew that, and she explored it in her work. Pure, free-market capitalism can do more good for people than any other system, but in an irrational world, people are still assholes. They can still fuck it up. Why does Brook imagine so much of the world is against capitalism? Because even in the late nineteenth century, human hypocrisy made it look bad. They exposed flaws in the system. Free-market capitalism, I'm sad to say, can't be a perfect system unless and until we live in an Objectivist Utopia, where people deal with each other honestly and rationally. Lying about history won't change that any more than deifying old-timey businessmen will. If Brook is sincere about his desire to promote Objectivism, a better solution is to be honest about this complexity and use it to ARI's advantage. Everyone thinks Rockefeller was an asshole? Explain why that's half-true, but not for the reasons they think. Make it clear that Ayn Rand thought through the flaws that made all of these people half-great and half-rotten, and that Objectivism can help people to scrape away the rotten portions and leave only the greatness.
The fact that the "philanthropists" of 1850s New York weren't pure of heart and rational Objectivists doesn't mean capitalism or Objectivism got it all wrong; it means that those guys were kind of assholes. That should be acknowledged and explored, not obscured with lies.
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On June 23rd 2016 voters in Britain were asked "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?", in the lead up to the referendum the public was repeatedly told by the press and politicians that this was the most important political decision we had made since voting to join the Common Market in 1975.
At 07:00, on what was a damp, grey day, polling stations opened across the country; the only common link between them being the pre-printed posters with the words "Polling Station" in a simple black font.
Just after seven I began to visit and photograph twenty-six stations in my local area (here). In the course of the day I visited churches, schools, a Territorial Army headquarters, village halls, community centres and a village hall that doubles as a cricket pavilion. In architectural terms none of these buildings are notable, substantial but bland Victorian structures, post war primary schools, a colonial-style wooden bungalow, contemporary and brutally ugly low rise blocks, a modernist concrete school, medieval and modern churches. For fifteen hours they acquired the status of political institutions, centres of power, part of the apparatus of democracy; a status conferred by a cheaply produced poster that was variously pinned to a door, propped on a chair or lodged behind the windscreen of the Returning Officer's car. Paradoxically the decision made in these banal and innocent buildings would impact the greatest political institutions across the capital cities of Europe and would be reported on the front pages of newspapers across the world (here).
In the weeks that followed the vote to leave the Union we appeared no clearer on the implications of our decision than we had been before the vote when lost in a fog of opinion, mis-information, scare mongering, claim and counter-claim all filtered through the leave-orientated press and the vested interests of career politicians.
Exactly three weeks after polling day I set up a make-shift studio in Salisbury and asked twenty six people, mostly strangers, to express their thoughts on the result (here).
The buildings were selected at random, a set of twenty-six that I could visit in a day, and the twenty-six subjects of the opinion poll effectively selected themselves by wandering into my studio. I value the random nature of both series, the opportunity to edit the results was removed by strictly working to the number twenty-six in both cases. By relinquishing some of my editorial control I have distanced myself from the result; one element of subjectivity has been removed.
The series explores a major political decision made, not in Westminster, but in banal and mundane places by ordinary people. In effect it records a revolution; politicians on both sides expected Britain to vote to remain but their constituents imposed their will in a decision that impacts 750 million Europeans.
The Architecture of Democracy
Notes on Contextualisation
The influences for this series have developed over a long period and as such, apart from the very obvious reference to Gillian Wearing's Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say, (discussed here and here) the key references that were in my mind included Mark Power's 26 Different Endings (discussed here) and John Goto's Ukadia (discussed here).
Wearing's Signs is an awkward reference, it is difficult to use this idea without creating a pale imitation of her significant 1992 project. As discussed previously (here) it is such a powerful idea that, rather than inspiring photographers to head for the streets equipped with a marker pen and white card, it appears to have closed off the approach. However, because it is a collaboration between subject and photographer it will always achieve an unique result. Wearing's black policeman holding the sign "Help" is an enduring image of the nineties and to a much lesser degree the Asian man with his "I'm Confused" sign defines my series.
John Goto's influence is probably less obvious. I set out to collect sets of building blocks and had visualised one or more montaged images using flags (here), polling stations (here), people (here) and background details (here) but when starting to plan the final images I realised that I wanted a far simpler end result. In practice Goto's approach is technically challenging with each component of his complex images planned and photographed in staged shoots, an approach that was impractical for this project.
The number twenty-six is a reference to two photographers; Ed Ruscha for introducing both this empty number and the concept of seriality and neutrality in a photo series (discussed here); and Mark Power who adopted the same number in his 26 Different Endings. Power but is more relevant here for his banal subject matter which helped me set the aesthetic parameters for this project.


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By Brittany Doohan
When it comes to food, we all have a vice, a guilty pleasure, our kryptonite. If you're one to buckle at the mere mention of a sweet treat (or, say, the smell of fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies), but want to limit your intake, try these tips to tame those sugar cravings.
Switch your sugar. If you're hankering for dessert, instead of your usual chocolate chip ice cream, try unsweetened yogurt with berries and cacao nibs. Enjoying a healthier version (or even just a healthier portion) of your favorite treat lets you get your sweet fix without the extra calories.
Chew gum. If you want to completely avoid a sugar urge, chew a piece of sugar-free gum. Studies have shown that chewing gum can help curb food cravings. Why? It may be because chewing gum fulfills your need to chew, distracting you from your initial desire.
Get moving. Are visions of cupcakes dancing around in your head? Take a walk. A little exercise, and change of scenery, can help take your mind off what you were craving.
Choose quality over quantity. If you're longing for a treat and just can't seem to kick the impulse, go ahead, take a bite. But just one. Research has shown that the first bite is the most pleasurable anyway, and that our satisfaction dwindles with each additional bite.
Eat regularly. If you're famished from going 6 hours without eating, you might be tempted to grab the first thing in sight — whether it's a candy bar or cheeseburger and fries. Aim to eat every 3 to 5 hours (by snacking on nutritious foods, like veggie sticks and hummus or nuts, in between meals) to keep your blood sugar, and cravings, in check.
Whether you have diabetes or no, watching your sugar intake — especially how many added sugars you consume — is a good idea when it comes to good health. Sweeteners have been linked to the development of health problems including diabetes, obesity, liver disorders, and high blood pressure.
Published on April 19, 2016.
Brittany is a health and lifestyle writer and editor in San Francisco.
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Hoboken Photo Leftovers for September 6th
Hoboken photo remains of the week: September 6, 2014
In the Hoboken Photo Leftovers gallery below:
- Photo 1: Napoli's Pizza now has slices, as they proudly proclaim via sandwich board sign on the sidewalk.
- Photo 2: Say what you want about the cookie-cutter Sovereign Building uptown – they make the neighborhood nicer with their landscaping.
- Photos 3-4: Here today, gone tomorrow. Wacky over-priced garage sale junk seller Urban Nesters no longer at 706 Washington Street. They're up in some shack in Union City now, and claim to be coming back to a retail spot in Hoboken. Yawn.
Just a couple more weeks until fall begins!
About Hoboken Photo Leftovers
Hoboken Photo Leftovers is part of the Hoboken411 Photo of the Day series.
These are photos that didn't necessarily warrant an individual posting on Hoboken411.
They may have been related to other stories – or completely independent. These photographs are remnants of our travels in the past week. But equally important in maintaining an historical record of "life as we know it" in the Mile Square City.
At the same time, these photographs may also mirror the unique personal opinion of the publisher of Hoboken411.com.
Regardless, the pictures add to the "virtual encyclopedia" that this site now represents. Thank you for your readership!


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CHICAGO (CBS) — When Miguel Montero hit a grand slam Saturday in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series, it wasn't just a win for the Cubs, it was a win for Wrigleyville.
Fans locally filled the streets of Wrigleyville after the 8-4 win against the Dodgers, CBS 2's Charlie De Mar reports.
After the win, Cubs fans spilled out into the streets, some from Wrigley Field, others from local bars and homes.
Fans said they were nervous when the Dodgers tied up the game in the top of the eighth, but they never lost faith. And while even Cubs manager Joe Maddon couldn't have envisioned how the game played out, it was a win all the same.
"I told my wife, this guy is going to pull it," one fan said. "He hits a grand slam, I went crazy … I think we're going to be champs this year."
"You should never give up on these guys," another fan said. "Maddon, he's a genius, what can I say."
Fans will make it back to Wrigleyville for Game 2 on Sunday, with a 7:08 p.m. first pitch on tap. The hometown call can be heard on 670 The Score.


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Dear Mother,
No word yet from you as to whether you are definitely coming out. I certainly hope you can though, dear. Today I got the sudden fear that my wire miscarried–I know from horrible experience that that can happen–if it did, I said yes, but to come the weekend of the 5th June–and let me know just when & on what train you're coming because there are all sorts of rumors to the effect that we are pulling out of here soon and I'd want to get in touch with you if that happened. And the house–the number has gone up to four others besides myself. I'd want you up there for a time, but not all the while you're here–it wouldn't be fair to them, but there is a very nice hotel a lot closer–by about 40 miles in fact, and I will be able to get a lot of time off, though not a leave. Marriage & sickness are classed as emergencies, but little else.
I will get all weekends and two or three nights a week, and you'll love California. And I'll love showing it to you, and love seeing you, we will do a lot of palling around together in those weeks and it will be a wonderful change for you–I only wish Gretchen could come too. It's too bad that her job is going on the rocks, but I don't worry about it–she'll have ten more in a week.
I saw Cy and Anne last week down at San Diego–he is just the same only a little quieter–she is just what we all expected–a little too prim and will nag him someday.[1] But they are in love, and seem very happy, thank God.
Still no letter from Rusty, but I wrote her today.
Isn't that wonderful about Kitsy?[2] Aunt Kit wrote me and she was tickled to death of course. The more we all see of the Woods the better I like it–they are great folks.
No word from any of the Rapps yet, just as well though.
Write prompt Mother–and let me know all the details. I'll be waiting for you.
[1] Unknown acquaintances.
[2] Phil's cousin, Katherine L. "Kitsy" Wood, recently received her acceptance to Swarthmore.


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By: Dina Francesca Haynes Last week, the Supreme Court issued its (non)-decision in Texas v. United States. At issue: whether one judge in Texas could enjoin a federal immigration program crafted by the Executive Branch, and whether the Executive Branch had exceeded its authority in so doing. I wrote about this case earlier this year, predicting a 4-4 split with the current court one justice down. Unfortunately, my prediction was borne out. The 5th Circuit—specifically one judge, Judge Hanen (who was recently accused of abuse of discretion when he imposed sanctions on federal government attorneys whose arguments he didn't like)—had earlier decided that the State of Texas had established a substantial likelihood of success on the merits of their procedural and substantive claims required for an injunction. What is unusual in this case is that a district judge's preliminary injunction applies nationwide (and not, as would ordinarily be the case, in the judge's district only).
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continue to refuse even to hold a hearing on President Obama's nominee to succeed the late Associate Justice, Antonin Scalia, on the U.S. Supreme Court. The fullest explanation of their collective decision to ignore the Senate's constitutional role in the judicial appointment process has come from Utah Senator Orrin Hatch who, in a recent New York Times op-ed, spelled out their arguments. In that piece, Senator Hatch attacked President Obama's judicial appointments for embracing "the sort of judicial activism Justice Scalia spent his career seeking to curtail." Worse, in Senator Hatch's view, when Democrats controlled the Senate they were complicit in this effort. Thus, he concludes, voters should decide what kind of Supreme Court they want through the 2016 Presidential election—which can happen only if the Senate delays confirmation proceedings on the President's nominee, Judge Merrick Garland. He argues that considering a nominee today would be "irresponsible" and, he concludes, not "in the best interests of the Senate, the judiciary and the country."


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For the month of December the Voice of Liberia is keeping its focus on Christmas in Liberia. We are keen on the economic crisis and security system in the country, vis-a-vis the development and living conditions of school going children.
From Street to School and Global Learning exists with the so purpose of developing students/children socially and academically, helping in school attendance and social development through workshops and students gathering. All this cannot be realized when there is economic instability, insecurity and social imbalances."December 2019: Father Johnny" weiterlesen


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Re: Unacceptable bug in Mathematica
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On Nov 13, 3:02 am, psycho_dad <s.nesse... at gmail.com> wrote: > The other day, a friend discovered something that may qualify as a > major bug in Mathematica (tested in 6.0.3): > > SyntaxQ["Exp[]"] > > (notice that Exp has no argument) returns > > True !!!! > > According to the documentation: > > SyntaxQ["string"] returns True if the string corresponds to > syntactically correct input for a single Mathematica expression, and > returns False otherwise. > > At least for me Exp[] is not syntactically correct. I expected more > from Mathematica... This absolutely is valid syntax. Valid syntax is anything that will successfully parse into an unevaluated Mathematica expression. Once it is evaluated it may or may not produce a useful result, but that does not mean it isn't syntactically valid. Consider the following: In[1]:= f[] Out[1]= f[] In[2]:= SyntaxQ["f[]"] Out[2]= True In[3]:= f[] := 1; In[4]:= f[] Out[4]= 1 In[5]:= SyntaxQ["f[]"] Out[5]= True In the first case the function "f" with zero arguments has no definition, but it is still valid syntax. I later give it a definition and it is still valid syntax. It would be crazy to think SyntaxQ["f[]"] would return a different result depending on whether f [] was defined. -Rob


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Review: Bad meets evil in schlocky 'Bad Samaritan'
Dean Devlin directs this thriller with decided straight-to-video vibes. But in this case, that's a good thing
A trash-schlock-horror-thriller with just enough trash-schlock thrills to work, "Bad Samaritan" knows its role and plays it well.
Robert Sheehan is Sean, the bad Samaritan of the title. He's an amateur photographer who uses his job as a valet at a Portland, Oregon, restaurant to rob people's homes while they're eating dinner. Not the most upstanding of dudes.
But bad meets worse one night when he's creeping through the house of Cale (David Tennant), a Maserati-driving jerkwad who's rude to Sean when he hands him his keys. While stealing passwords from Cale's computer, Sean discovers a girl, bound and gagged, in Cale's home office, along with a room of serial killer tools to rival "Dexter." Sean has to save her, but must figure out a way to do so without outing himself as a criminal.
"Bad Samaritan" isn't a highly intelligent exercise, but it delivers the goods at a base level. Director Dean Devlin knows about delivering the goods in a straightforward manner; he's the writer and producing partner of Roland Emmerich, and together they created blockbusters such as "Stargate," "Independence Day" and 1998's "Godzilla."
"Bad Samaritan" is small scale, especially when compared to those previous popcorn smashes, but it's efficient. Tennant is effectively slimy as the psycho who gets caught up in a cat-and-mouse game with Sean, cyberhacking his life, as well as those of his loved ones. He's like if one of the members of the cast of "Friends" came unglued.
"Bad Samaritan" isn't trying to be steak, it's a burger and fries at a greasy diner. But sometimes that's what you crave, and "Bad Samaritan" hits the spot.
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The three of us were hanging out this weekend when K referred to me as Kathryn (her actual name, though I bet you've already figured that out).
It wasn't the first time she'd done that. It seems like, while she realizes that I'm mommy and she's baby, she thinks we both share the "other name" of Kathryn.
"K," I said, wanting to prod at this a little more. "What's my other name?"
K: "Mommy!"
Me: "Yes, but what's my other name?"
K: "You!"
Me: "Yes, but what's my other name?"
K: [thinks] "Friend."
We played a few more rounds of this game, and I told her that my Other other name was Karinya, and -- my name is not an easy one to pronounce, but she just about nailed it! It was the first time I'd heard her say my Other other name, and it was . . . one of those amazing motherhood moments that sort of cancels out things like last month's Desitin-on-carpet-and-favorite-chair incident.
Names are something we've been thinking a lot about lately. When we started the blog, I asked Bob what he wanted to be referred to as in posts, and after some deliberation about what labels to apply to ourselves in relation to each other and our family, we decided to just use our real names instead of "mom" or "dad" or whatever. Parenthood is all-consuming and life-taking-over enough (not that it's not worth it) but it's nice, sometimes, to remember that we have "other names," too.
*For those keeping score, K usually calls Bob dad or daddy, even though he didn't come into our lives until she was twenty months old. She started doing it on her own (there was no goading on either of our parts to encourage her to apply that label to him; it just happened organically. This thrilled me beyond belief) but she still sometimes rotates Bob or Bobby into her daily speech.
I'm a little tired and birthday partied-out, so I can't come up with a smooth way to tie this into the rest of the post, but: Unlikely Origins now has a facebook page! If you like us (and I hope you do?), please consider "officially" liking us on facebook. If you really like us, perhaps use facebook's handy "suggest to friends" tool, too? (Don't make me play the birthday card, folks. I TOTALLY WILL.)


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Something that crops up from time to time are questions that pit products against each other, none more so than in the case of the Rode NT1 vs NT1A.
When it comes to designing professional studio-ready microphones that don't cost the earth, there are few that come close to Rode Microphones. Hailing from a state-of-the-art manufacturing centre in sunny Sydney, Australia, Rode's crack team of experts cover disciplines as wide ranging as audio and acoustics engineering to robotics. By taking a holistic approach they are able to execute some truly innovative ideas. From professional recording facilities to modest home studios, there is a Rode mic to suit any and every setup.
A couple of their most popular models are the similarly named NT1 and NT1-A. However, though they may share similar specs they are known to produce subtle idiosyncrasies. We're going to do a little digging to find out why that might be so.
Originally released back in 1997, the NT1 was re-designed and re-released following the success of the NT1-A. Rode's engineers approached the redesign of the NT1 by working from the ground up, starting with the capsule. Codenamed the HF6, it embodies Rode's ability to infuse lavish visual aesthetics alongside bleeding-edge manufacturing techniques to produce stunning results. Aluminium is machined to create the body, which is then nickel-plated for improved resistance. Taking things one step further, Rode coat the body in a durable, military-grade ceramic using proprietary techniques to make it as durable as possible.
The NT1's character is rich and full whilst boasting extremely low-noise, quite a feat for such a responsive mic. At the heart of the NT1, the transducer is suspended inside the mic using Rycote's industry-leading Lyre System, which keeps the influence of external vibrations to an absolute minimum. Coupled with premium electronics the NT1 boasts an astonishingly low 4.5dBA of self-noise.
So impressive is the NT1, it holds its own against some pretty stiff competition as can be seen in the video below.
The NT1-A was also released in the late 1990s, and quickly rose to become an industry-standard for vocals and acoustic instrument recordings. The nuanced character of the NT1-A captures instruments with remarkable clarity, whilst its ability to handle high sound pressure levels makes it suitable across a wide range of applications from vocals to percussion.
Looking at the table below, both mics appear to be pretty similar:
|Microphone Model
|Rode NT1
|Rode NT1-A
|Length - 187mm / Diameter - 50mm
|Length - 190mm / Diameter - 50mm
|Net Weight
|326 g
|Acoustic Principle
|Pressure Gradient
|Pressure Gradient
|Active Electronics
|JFET impedance converter with bipolar output buffer
|JFET impedance converter with bipolar output buffer
|Directional Pattern
|Frequency Range
|20Hz ~ 20kHz
|20 Hz ~ 20 kHz
|Output Impedance
|100 Ohms
|100 Ohms
|Equivalent Noise
|4.5 dBA SPL (as per IEC651)
|Maximum Output
|8.0mV (@ 1kHz, 1% THD into 1 kOhms load)
|13.7mV (@ 1kHz, 1% THD into 1 kOhms load)
|-29 dB re 1V/Pa (35mV @ 94dB SPL) +/- 2dB @ 1kHz
|-32 dB re 1 Volt/Pascal (25 mV
@ 94 dB SPL) +/- 2 dB @ 1kHz
|Dynamic Range
|128 dB SPL
|Maximum SPL
|132 dB SPL
|137dB SPL
|Signal / Noise
|90 dBA SPL (as per IEC651)
|Power Requirements
|24V phantom power
48V phantom power
|24V phantom power
48V phantom power
|Output Connection
|3 Pin XLR
Balanced output between pin 2 (+), pin 3 (-) and pin 1 (ground)
|3 pin XLR
balanced output between Pin 2 (+), Pin 3 (-), Pin 1 (ground)
As you can see, the differences between the pair seem to be minimal at best. The NT1 vs NT1A side-by-side table shows they are both as adaptable as each other, can withstand being put in front of a snare hit or an overdriven guitar amp, and are virtually the same size and weight.
However, many users of both mics claim that there are aural subtleties that separate the two - so what gives? The only way to get to the bottom of this is to check out the frequency response charts for each mic.
From the chart above we can observe that the frequency response is incredibly flat. There is a roll-off from around 30Hz to 20Hz and then a slight lift by 1 dB between 4kHz and 10kHz, before tapering off at roughly 15kHz. What this means is that the NT1 captures frequencies between 30Hz and 4kHz with exceptional fidelity. The microphone doesn't introduce colouration or influence the integrity of the audio source, it simply records it as is. With regard to vocals, the NT1 does an excellent job of capturing a true representation of someone's voice without imposing any emphasis on sensitive frequency bands, e.g. people are particularly susceptible to changes across the midrange where vocals sit.
The NT1-A frequency chart tells a very different story. Straight away we can see a more exaggerated frequency response that peaks and troughs freely. There is a less emphasized low-frequency range with a 1 dB uplift from 100Hz to 250Hz. Within the mid to upper mid frequency range there is a stark difference, which rises to a 2.5dB lift around the 12kHz mark. The result is increased focus on higher frequencies, which in turn explains why so many refer to the NT1-A as having a 'brighter' response. The extra lift in the higher frequencies can be helpful for capturing subtle harmonics, presence for clarity, and "air" - which is crucial for creating a sense of openness in a mix.
When it comes to application, the NT1 vs NT1A debate seems moot, as both fit for purpose across everything from vocals to guitars to percussion. The question, as always, lies in what "sound" you're aiming for from the recording and making the recording, editing, mixing process easier. At the end of the day we can all edit things to our hearts content with the plethora of filters, compressors, equalizers, etc., that are available. However, knowing what your mic is capable of and what its limitations are will remove a lot of headaches at the source.
Whichever mic you stand with between the NT1 vs NT1A, you're getting an awesome mic that knocks it out of the park when it comes to value for money.
Rode have even gone to the trouble of creating a video that gives you an insight into the ways that you can utilise the NT1-A to best effect.


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We are launching today (2 July 2014) the Museum of Mathematics to serve the interests of mathematics in the country, and to promote a knowledge and love of mathematics especially among school children.
For many years ETHER has been engaged in supporting museums, libraries, galleries and archives, and today we start to run a museum ourselves. We have contemplated this museum over the past few years, and have especially been exploring the question "how does one start a new museum"? Is it sufficient to simply state that we are a museum, or is there some other qualification required?
Mathematics pervades all of our lives and our society, and yet it is largely intangible since, for example, we cannot capture the number two and show it off in a museum. Perhaps someone out there has the original number two and I should be speaking to them, but I see number two as a shared concept and not as an object.
The Museum of Mathematics is shortened as MμMα (or as MUMA). MμMα will be opening up the world of mathematics to all, showing the part that it plays in life and work, expounding a range of unusual and interesting aspects of mathematics, and will show how mathematics is used, and how to learn mathematics.
A little exercise in mathematical patterns
As a first exercise in the knowledge of mathematics, you can try to find relationships between numbers and see if you can find patterns.
For example, take the numbers in today's date, 2 July 2014, 2/7/14, and see if you can find a relationship.
This one is easy, since 2 x 7 = 14.
Try this every day and see if you can find interesting patterns in the numbers of our lives.
The number 7 is interesting in itself. It is a prime number, meaning that it cannot be divided into equal parts, except for dividing it into 1s (1+1+1+1+1+1+1). But it cannot be divided into 2s or 3s or any other number. These prime numbers are very important in mathematics, and even though they are a simple concept which can be explained to young children, the knowledge of the prime numbers contains some of the most important unsolved problems in the whole of mathematics.
Back to MμMα
The next few months will see MμMα grow from nothing to become a new museum. The challenge is how to make this happen, and in the next blog I will be exploring what I consider to be the most important question, being the purpose of this museum, and in particular who will it serve and what benefits will it provide to the various stakeholders. Whereas these are relatively simple statements, of the purpose, mission, vision, and values, these are also difficult to capture in words. These provide an understanding of the goal of the museum, and all actions will be directed to this goal.
A Request for Collaboration and Help
Many museums, archives and libraries have mathematically-related objects and stories, and we would like to build up our collection by tapping into these existing collections, and to develop links to these in the form of a virtual museum structure. This is done by referencing the items in other museums, so that our MμMα collection consists both of our own holdings and as other links to holdings at other institutions.
We will be developing our Collection Development Policy as one of our early guiding documents, and this will indicate what we will collect and why, and what we will not collect and why, and particularly how we will dispose of items that we do not need in the collection. There is a tendency to collect everything and to decide on how this will be used later, perhaps in future generations, but this is not a good policy since too much will be accumulated which may never be needed. By knowing the user base, current and future, and by understanding the needs of this user base, it is then possible to be more specific about what items are relevant to include into the collection.
At this point, I am interested in knowing what collections, objects, stories, and sites exist in the country and I am making a request to you for collaboration in terms of letting me know what is available in your own collections, so that we can build up an aggregated collection of what is where and how we may work together. I attended the keynote address of the OpenCulture conference in London last week, on 26 July 2014, in which Sir Peter Bazalgette, the Chairman of the Arts Council of the UK, spoke about breaking down the silos of museums by creating shared environments and in seeing museums as a being cooperative, collaborative and collective rather than being individual. My efforts in creating MμMα are to instill this thinking from day one of the museum.
What we are looking for
There a host of types of objects which depict mathematics and how we use mathematics in the real world. I visited the mathematics exhibits at the Science Museum of London during my trip to the UK last week, and found that they were displaying objects in cases but that this was not conveying the exciting world of mathematics to the extent that this is possible. I found that there were almost no children in this section, with all of them in the dynamic exhibits in the science sections.
What I am looking for is collections and items which you may have and which represent the knowledge or usage of mathematics, for example:
- shapes and designs as used in architecture and crafts
- measurement systems and items
- calculating equipment
- stories of mathematics
- how mathematics is represented and conveyed in the different languages
- special collections of mathematical texts and objects
My focus is on school-level mathematics initially, while opening up the vistas of advanced mathematics for others to see how mathematical knowledge develops. I also intend to explore how mathematics is learned and how is is taught as well, since mathematics is not something we are born with as an innate skill and the development of mathematical knowledge is itself a major challenge and a vibrant area of research.
I look forward to hearing from you and engaging with you.
Please contact me on my email below.
Roger Layton


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- "I get dirty! I need washdowns, Gordon only does it to feel important!"
"I am important, I'm an express engine."
"You're a pouty puffer, Percy."
"No I'm not!"
- ―Percy, Gordon and James
Percy's Chocolate Crunch is the eighteenth episode of the sixth series.
Percy has been frequently working the dirty jobs involving trucks and longs for a washdown as much as any engine. Unfortunately, when he goes to the washdown, the Fat Controller informs the engines that due to a water shortage, they can only have one wash per day and that usefulness comes before cleanliness. This irritates Percy as he thinks that Gordon only needs a washdown to feel important. Gordon points out that he is important as he pulls the express. James teases Percy, who does not see the funny side before going back to work.
Percy returns to work at the coaling plant, determined not to get dirty. But the trucks are up to their old tricks and pull Percy right under the coal hopper, with coal pouring on top of him. On their way to Callan, the trucks tease Percy by singing a rude song to him. Percy hates it when they make fun of him, so he angrily tells them to stop it.
Once at Callan, Percy shunts the coal trucks into a siding, right alongside Harold who is unloading medical supplies. Harold takes off, spreading cinders and ashes all over Percy, who demands for a washdown, but his driver reminds him of what The Fat Controller said earlier about usefulness coming before cleanliness. After Percy demands a clean job, his driver suggests taking vans of sugar to the chocolate factory, which Percy agrees to do, feeling happy.
Percy, thinking that he finally has a clean job, is unaware that a patch of oil had been caused by a leakage from a truck in the siding at the chocolate factory. Upon arrival, the brakes are applied, but Percy slips on the oily rails, crashes through the wall right into the chocolate factory, goes through the factory and emerges out from the other end, covered in chocolate.
When Duck brings Percy back to Tidmouth Sheds, Thomas, James and Henry tease him saying how chocolatey he is, but Gordon disapproves. The Fat Controller knows how much work Percy had done despite his problems and the accident; and as he proved that usefulness comes before cleanliness, Percy is rewarded with a washdown and a new coat of paint which makes Percy happy.
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- Henry
- Gordon
- James
- Percy
- Troublesome Trucks
- Harold
- Sir Topham Hatt
- Edward (cameo)
- Toby (cameo)
- Duck (cameo)
- Oliver (cameo)
- Annie and Clarabel (cameo)
- Henrietta (cameo)
- Mrs. Kyndley (cameo)
- Jem Cole (cameo)
- Farmer Trotter (cameo)
- Nancy (cameo)
- Sir Topham Hatt's Brown-haired Assistant (cameo)
- The Storyteller (cameo)
- The Lighthouse Keeper (cameo)
- The Fisherman (cameo)
- Mr. Jolly (factory logo cameo; mentioned)
- Mavis (deleted scene cameo)
- Tidmouth Bay
- The Viaduct
- Tower Windmill
- The Watermill
- Tidmouth Beach
- The Coaling Plant
- Knapford
- Brendam Docks
- Callan
- Gordon's Hill
- Mr. Jolly's Chocolate Factory
- Tidmouth Sheds
- This episode was originally titled Puff Puff Pastry.
- When Percy comes to a stop once he has crashed through the other side of the factory, CGI smoke is used until real smoke appears.
- Alec Baldwin gives Harold a Cockney accent in this episode.
- In Days Out with Thomas' US events, Percy tells the story of this episode with Christopher Ragland voicing Percy since his introduction in 2014. He tells the story word-for-word, but it is altered to a first-person narration.
- The shot of Percy sliding down the hill shouting "Oh no!" is shot in a 4:3 aspect ratio, as opposed to the 16:9 aspect ratio the rest of the episode was shot in.
- A behind the scenes picture shows that Mavis was the engine pushing the Breakdown Train in the yard when Duck brought Percy back to the sheds.
- The logo of Mr. Jolly's Chocolate Factory shown in a picture of Percy after his accident is now in possession of Twitter user ThomasTankMerch.
- When Percy has his accident, the chocolate covering him looks fresh. But in promotional images and rare pictures, the chocolate on him looks dry.
- The LT Warehouse from TUGS can be seen when Percy is loading trucks at the Docks. The aforementioned warehouse also appeared in the fifth series episode, Cranky Bugs.
- At the beginning, Oliver has Duck's whistle sound.
- Harold's unhappy expression is visible behind his happy expression when he says "Hello, Percy!"
- The narrator says "Back at the sheds, everyone thought it was very funny," but Gordon does not seem amused.
- Percy's sugar vans and brake van are nowhere to be seen in the close-up of him sliding down the hill.
- In the scene where the chocolate splats out of the factory's windows, Percy's train was not seen entering the factory.
- In the first close-up of Percy covered in chocolate over the flatbed, the chocolate looks fresh. However, in the next close-up, it looks dry, the same as it was when Percy pulls out of the factory.
- When Thomas and Duck pass at Tidmouth Beach, Clarabel is facing the wrong way.
- Percy: [after all his literally dirty work] From now on, I am only doing work where I won't get dirty!
- (Percy returns to the sheds, covered in chocolate)
- Narrator: Back at the sheds, everyone thought it was very funny.
- Thomas: You look good enough to eat!
- James: UK: Pudding Percy!/US: Bon Bon Percy!
- Henry: Choc ice on wheels!
- Gordon: Disgraceful!
- The Fat Controller/Sir Topham Hatt: Ahem! You have had a trying day, Percy.
- Percy: (from beneath the chocolate) Yes, sir.
- The Fat Controller/Sir Topham Hatt: But you showed us all that usefulness does come before cleanliness. So, you shall have your washdown....
- Percy: Oh, sir!
- The Fat Controller/Sir Topham Hatt: ...and a new coat of paint!
- Narrator: Percy just beamed!
- Take-n-Play (under the name "Percy's Sweet Shoppe"; discontinued)
- Wooden Railway (discontinued)
- Motor Road and Rail (UK version discontinued)
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- Motorized Railway
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Deer Valley is going to RFID. Peak Resorts location will be using VR RFID soon. Sierra-at-Tahoe is going to RFID. It's becoming standard in New England. Gore is adding RFID. What resort isn't using RFID yet?
The FAQ on Sierra-at-Tahoe is pretty good. Includes a question about avalanche beacons.
"The radio frequencies used by RFID are assigned by regulatory agencies around the world to help ensure that no interference occurs. Avalanche beacons operate on 457kHz whereas the our RFID readers are on the 13 MHz frequency, so no there is interference between the two."


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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Hall Of Fame: Close To The Edge by Yes
I have decided, after much thought, that I am going to create a Hall of Fame on this blog. The tab for said Hall of Fame is located at the top of this blog and is called "The Leviathan Hall Of Fame." The Hall Of Fame will contain songs or albums that I consider to be classic. You can call them strong recommendations or just a list of my favorites, but I thought it would be fun to put them in a hall of fame to honor the music that has touched me so deeply throughout my life. The hope is that The Hall of Fame will become a huge list of what I consider the best in music. Then, the viewers of this blog can conveniently go there in order to find some very strong recommendations about which music to pursue. Of course, in the beginning, the list might seem sparse, but I'm hoping over time it will grow and become quite substantial. Also, there is not really any limitations to what I can include there. I will try to stick to music that I consider progressive, though, so as to keep some consistency.
So, for my first entry into the Hall of Fame, I figure that a good choice would be the prog classic, "Close To The Edge" by Yes. For the purposes of this entry, I am referring only to the song, not the entire album (although later I may decide to induct the entire album). "Close To The Edge" was one of the first progressive rock epics I was introduced to when I was first getting into prog music. I was pretty much blown away by it on first listen. My dad was the one to share it with me, and he warned me that it was really weird, especially the beginning. But, I really connected with it right away, and I feel that "Close To The Edge" is one of the biggest reasons why I am a huge prog fan today.
The epic is introduced by sounds of nature, taking you into an alternate world. I feel the best music is able to transport you to another world, and Yes has a unique talent to do just that. The music is then quite chaotic with mainly a crazy drumbeat, noodling guitar, tinkling keyboards and thumping bass, interrupted occasionally by Jon Anderson's spacey vocals. Then, the chaos subsides, the guitar plays the main melody of the song and things get underway. What really sticks out to me here is Chris Squire's bass playing. Before listening to progressive music, I often was unable to recognize the bass in rock music. But, here, it is unmistakable due to Chris Squire's distinct tone and groove. Now, the bass is one of my favorite instruments to listen for.
About eight and a half minutes in, the upbeat music stops, and what is left behind is a dreamy atmospheric section that is truly heavenly. Jon Anderson, Chris Squire and Steve Howe sing some wonderful harmonies that truly bring tears to my eyes. Then, Rick Wakeman comes in with a powerful organ solo that is mind-blowing. It is truly one of the highlights in progressive rock for me. Then, the band kicks back in with the killer main melody of the beginning before it fades out with the same sounds of nature that began the epic, bringing everything full circle. It is truly musical perfection. I wish I had the ability to describe the true euphoria that I feel when listening to this epic. It transports me to another world, and makes me feel true happiness.
Here is the epic split up into two youtube videos. Please have a listen and hopefully you'll be transported to another world like I am.
Part 1
Part 2
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The television quiz show "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" was started on the most popular commercial channel in Hungary. Beep developed the background software needed to operate the show's control and visual elements.
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After years of waiting for one of HBO's top television shows to hit the theaters, Entourage does not disappoint its long-time fans.
With celebrities in every scene, viewers keep their eyes peeled to the screen in the hopes of recognizing world-class athletes, top music industry leaders and even high-profiled actors.
The movie is a continuation of the television series, which aired in 2004; the final episode aired in September 2011 with the cast members seamlessly ending in their "right spots."
The movie picks up with topless girls on Vincent Chase's (Adrian Grenier) boat alongside his crew of Eric Murphy (Kevin Connolly), Turtle (Jerry Ferrara) and Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon).
The movie brings back memories of Sex and the City in that many perceive the show as a "boys" rendition of the famed "girls" television show.
The combination of topless models, sex scenes with hot girls and supermodels, such as Emily Ratajkowski, the movie brings together everything men could ever want (including famed athletes such as Seahawks Super Bowl Champion Russell Wilson and New England Patriots Rob Gronkowski).
The plot of the movie feels like a prolonged episode, Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven) striving to go above and beyond for his clients in addition to his new role of running a California movie studio.
Spoiler alert: E ends of up Sloane (wait, didn't the series end that way?), Drama gets the fame he deserves, Loyd (Rex Lee) gets his dream wedding, Turtle finally gets the girl of his dreams (don't forget, he's also rich throughout the whole movie), Vinnie gets his directorial debut and Ari gets the fame, fortune and wife per usual.
What's not to love?
We anticipated the cameos throughout the entire movie, but we didn't foresee the following:
- Drake rapping in the soundtrack. We knew that Drake and Mark Wahlberg became friends during movie production. While we had high hopes of spotting Aubrey Graham in a scene or two, we could only hear him dropping a track for the high anticipated summer flick.
- Kid Cudi as Ari Gold's assistant. Take a step back Loyd, because Cudi came through. Not only does Kid Cudi play Ari's bitch, he's swagged out in hipster-looking clothing throughout the movie. If rapping doesn't work out, at least he now has the option to break into Hollywood.
- UFC fighter Ronda Rousey playing a pivotal role. While she can be seen in the trailer, we had no idea she would appear as often as she did. Not to mention, she beat the shit out of Turtle in 30 seconds.
The movie lacks cinematic quality, but the acting reminds us of the television show we loved in the past. While critics deem the movie as "Boobs and Famous People," the box office will still see a decent amount of ticket sales; solely because the movie is based from our favorite television show.
Entourage hits theaters on Wednesday, June 3, 2015.
Entourage fans will love the film, but movie lovers won't enjoy the inside jokes from the television show.6
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The Mother Goose Cookie-candy Book
Mother Goose Cookie-candy Book
"Mother Goose Cookie-candy Book" Is Another Book By Anne F. Rockwell
A collection of recipes for cookies, cakes, and candies with a nursery theme including Peter Rabbit's Carrot Bars, Humpty Dumpty's Peanut Brittle, and the Queen of Hearts' Jam Tarts.Cookie-candy Book is a must own book. The author is Anne F. Rockwell and it was published in October of 1983 by Random House Childrens Books. The book talks about Cookies and it is thought of as exceptional juvenile literature. The book is 28 pages long and it comes with a great many brilliantly colored illustrations. To buy a copy at the cheapest price, click on the add to cart button on this page.
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Mindfulness for everyone
Mindfulness Teacher Training Certification Course (Accredited)
This is an accredited Mindfulness Teacher Certification Course conducted by the Centre for Mindfulness (Singapore), that aims to fulfil the need for an authentic certification programme in secular Mindfulness Teaching. By joining this certification programme, the participant will become a part of a global movement of practitioner-teachers dedicated to bringing authentic secular mindfulness to all individuals.
Mindfulness-Based Wellbeing Enhancement (MBWE) Workshop
The eight week workshop on Mindfulness-Based Wellbeing Enhancement (MBWE) was created on the foundation of the practice of secular mindfulness, which encourages being fully present in our lives with greater peace and ease. It is a practice that is useful in the enhancement of wellbeing, self and other awareness, and the prevention and reduction of stress.


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Author: Kelly McManus
Throughout COP15, forests have proven to be the one issue that all negotiating blocs can (at least generally) agree upon. As we arrive at the end of the this historic meeting, a global deal on climate stands on shaky grounds but REDD+ remains stable, shaping up to be quite possibly, the single success story of the COP.
We may argue that REDD+ without broader emissions targets will fail to create net emissions reductions, and that further warming is a major threat to forests regardless. These are valid points that must be addressed. But nevertheless, late last night a REDD+ text was agreed to by negotiators to hopefully be signed today by the heads of state. As one of the delegates of the contact party on REDD+ said of coming out of the session last night, "Compared to everything else, the REDD text is on schedule. Last night the contact groups reported back and you could almost detect the classroom envy as we were the goody two-shoes who handed in the assignment on time. There was a sense of history that this is finally when REDD became real."
Why has REDD+ succeeded where everything else has failed? Perhaps it has to do with the incentives, local to global, to maintain forests. Perhaps it is the "+"-the fact that, beyond functioning as carbon sinks and stores, forests provide essential co-benefits including biodiversity, regional water cycling, cultural identity, and local livelihoods. A carbon-centric view of forests might deem REDD+ in the absence of broader targets a failure, but it is only in taking a larger, holistic view of forests that REDD+ could have made it this far. REDD+ has gotten the incentives right for the countries who needed to agree to it, and thus stands poised to become the largest coordinated effort to stop deforestation the world has seen.
The outcome of the rest of the day is, of course, of critical importance to the fate of the forests and the fate of, well, our world. It is perhaps too soon to celebrate this small victory, and the larger and more ominous context of a failed global treaty in which this small victory may occur must not be disregarded. Efficient, equitable, and fair implementation will be challenging, and long term finance must be secured. But I'd like to think that forests everywhere just breathed out a long, oxygen-filled, sigh of relief.


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Three U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers were killed and two others were wounded Wednesday in an ambush in the west African country of Niger.
U.S. Africa Command confirmed that a joint patrol of Green Berets and Nigerien soldiers was attacked in the southwestern part of Niger, near the border with Mali. Officials told Fox News that between eight and 10 troops were part of the patrol.
Officials told the Associated Press that the commandos were likely attacked by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
The officials added that the two wounded U.S. soldiers were taken to Niamey, the capital, and are in stable condition.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said that President Trump had been briefed on the ambush by Chief of Staff John Kelly.
Africa Command says the U.S. forces are in Niger to provide training and security assistance to the Nigerien Armed Forces in their efforts against violent extremists.
Niger, a former French colony, is one of the poorest nations in the world. In April, the State Department issued a travel warning advising American citizens against visiting the landlocked country's border regions, including the area where the ambush took place.
"Due to security concerns and travel restrictions, the U.S. Embassy's ability to assist U.S. citizens in remote and rural areas is very limited," read the statement, which also warned of the possibility of kidnapping.
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Debt doesn't have to slow your business up if you don't let it. Collecting payments can be labourious, dull and time consuming, not to mention stressful. If you are waiting, sometimes for months, for even a small payment it can niggle at you and distract you from focusing on the more important aspects for running your business. So why not get automated and follow an easy process that will take the hard work out of a crucial part of your business. EzyCollect is designed to do just that. So why not take a free trial and make your business life Ezy-er?
Debt can sink your business
"SMEs must end delayed payments due to its affect on the economy," said one Minister in Malaysia recently. A survey by the SME Media Group and Inti International University showed late payment was a very common problem, with 73% of business operators saying it was a Malaysian business culture and noting that it is a stumbling block for many SMEs, with some waiting up to 94 days to get paid.
Findings from the latest RAMCI Industry Debts Turned Cash (RAMCI i-DTC) indicators show the majority of companies granted a total of 30 days credit terms to their customers. The Minister also urged businesses to make full use of digital financing to compete with the other SMEs globally. Meanwhile in China strains faced by SMEs are expected to grow more visible as Beijing deflates the real estate bubble and eases infrastructure spending.
"Many SMEs probably won't make it this year," said Wang Cong, manager of a struggling mid-sized logistics company in the eastern city of Zibo. Some 1.21 million SMEs went out of business during the first quarter of the year, a jump of almost a third compared to a year earlier, data from the State Administration for Industry & Commerce (SAIC) showed. "The market is going through a quicker process of survival of the fittest," Yu Fachang, a SAIC official said.
Over the past few months data coming out from the Thailand government and the private sector are showing signs that could be worrisome in the medium to longer term for the country. According to the Bank of Thailand, bad loans in the SME sector rose to as high as 4.48% of outstanding loans as of the end of March from 4.35% seen during the fourth quarter of 2016, Jaturong Jantarangs, the Bank of Thailand's assistant governor for the monetary policy group, said soured SME loans showed no signs of declining as a lack of competitive edge and uneven economic recovery hindered businesses' debt-servicing ability. "But when it tends to be more about the structural issue, which is Thai SMEs' lack of competitiveness," he said, adding "the uneven economic recovery and structural problems faced by some business sectors undermined the debt-servicing ability of both households and businesses, particularly SMEs."
Just imagine easy payment collection
Think of all the time and effort that you currently use to collection overdue payments, then halve it. Can you imagine if your business had an automatic collection system for overdue invoices integrated in to your current accounting system? This system sends personalised reminders to your clients to gently nudge them to honour your invoice. Maybe your client is busier than you, or just forgot, or is having a personal crisis or just a bad week. If your personalised email gets no response then go ahead and automate your reminders in a variety of ways; phone, email and sms. Email can be erratic, or even typos might just cause a mix-up in your system so you should attempt to cover all bases. Link these to automated statements that allow you to keep track of payments, then schedule personal calls in a dynamic way to get the results you need, with diplomacy. Cover your back with on-demand credit checks and if you need to get tough then make use of a single-click demand letter reminding your client that your invoice is overdue. The last resort is debt collection and this can also be integrated in to your current accounting system with EzyCollect software.
Boost your cash flow
Cash flow is the life blood of your and every business. Without cash flow you will go bankrupt, no matter how good your products and services are or how hard you work. So why not work smarter with 'Track the cash'. This provides instant mapping and tracking of all money owing and overdue in your business. You can track all debt collection activities in one place, significantly boost cash flow and get paid faster, prevent bad debts and enjoy more cash to buffer your business, service loans and even reward your staff better. Can't be bothered with facing up to clients who still owe you? Just automate your follow up in gentle progression from initial email to final debt collection action. Each follow up should take you further towards payment without you having to constantly remember, take action or worry about it. It will also allow you to reach more customers in less time with a system that saves hours of staff time each week and reaches every overdue customer with persistent, polite reminders. No mistakes with this system if you automate with care. You can customise the proven reminder templates in EzyCollect enabling you to automatically thank customers when a payment is received. It also allows you to improve employee efficiency by add multiple users so your staff, accountant or credit controller can share tasks, reports and deep insights.
Business processes are valuable because they provide you with a systematic, user friendly way to improve your business, at a low cost. If your SME is highly geared then bad debts may cause you to lose sleep and expend too much energy on one aspect of your business. So why not make payment collections 'Ezy' and make a simple addition to your current accounting software with EzyCollect.


text: Todd Davis brings 20 years of professional experience as a project designer for a wide range of private residences and commercial projects. He oversees all phases of design and construction on TDArchitecture projects from conception to completion. Before founding TDArchitecture in 2009, Todd worked with Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura in Paris, Rafael Vinoly Architects in New York, and Jim Jennings Architecture in San Francisco. He received his BArch from the University of Southern California where he was granted a fellowship to live in the historic Gamble House. Todd was born and raised in the Bay Area and established a passion for design at an early age with a variety of interests that have informed his design work including photography, sculpture, and furniture design.


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After a decade, one of Canada's most renowned eclectic singer-songwriters returned to the stage for opening night of the 10th anniversary of Ottawa's WestFest, an annual celebration of community, the arts and music.
Under dismal skies and temperatures more liking to late autumn rather than summer, Jane Sibery brought sunshine to an anticipating crowd of hundreds. Her soothing voice, etherial sounds and poetic synergy warmed the hearts of drenched fans.
Sibery is, and always has been, a fascinating performer, capturing audiences with her signature bleeding of one song into another, often combining her melodic vocals with spoken-singing. On this eve, she performed solo, moving gracefully from acoustic guitar to keyboards with openers, You never know, Love is Everything and It Can't Rain All The Time.
In the late 80's and early 90's, Sibery was known as part of the high art end of the rock world, alongside artists such as Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel. After a few hard knocks from the music industry, Sibery felt creatively trapped in 2006. With the need to free herself from her chains, she sold all of her possessions, including her Toronto home and instruments, and changed her name to 'Issa' (Eh-saa), meaning 'empty cup.' In 2009, after three years of deeper spiritual and creative unfoldment, she re-emerged as 'Jane Sibery,' once again, to the delight of not only her fans, but herself.
Sibery's purity, honesty and ease on stage is her allure… an essence that never needs gimmicks or special effects. She is hers to define and ours to behold, because it is the context of which she is … and despite the absence of her classic hits, Mimi On The Beach and One More Cloud, it was wonderful to behold her, once again!
Jane has recently returned from touring in Europe. For the latest, visit her website. Photos courtesy of WestFest. Photog: Brian Goldschmied.


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AFSCME 3299 announced a one-day job action on November 13, 2019 for both its service and patient care units. The union has been in negotiations with the UC for more than two years, and recently filed complaints about university outsourcing of service work. The California Public Employee Relations Board (PERB) issued its own complaint to … Continue reading UC Service Workers Strike: November 13
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UC Workers to Strike: 10/23-25
Campus workers affiliated with AFSCME local 3299 and UPTE-CWA local 9119 voted overwhelmingly to authorize strikes at the University of California after bargaining stalled. After the vote, AFSCME announced that members in several bargaining units would strike on October 23, 24, and 25. UPTE then announced its members would strike on the same dates. Last … Continue reading UC Workers to Strike: 10/23-25
UC Service Workers to Strike May 7-9
Service and patient care workers across all University of California campuses have announced a three-day strike, May 7-9, 2018. Negotiations between AFSCME local 3299 and the UC reached an impasse after more than a year of negotiation. The university then imposed its "last, best offer," which the union says included cuts to pay and benefits. … Continue reading UC Service Workers to Strike May 7-9


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Model Predictive control
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Part of the Advanced Textbooks in Control and Signal Processing book series (C&SP)
Part of the Advanced Textbooks in Control and Signal Processing book series (C&SP)
From power plants to sugar refining, model predictive control (MPC) schemes have established themselves as the preferred control strategies for a wide variety of processes.
The second edition of Model Predictive Control provides a thorough introduction to theoretical and practical aspects of the most commonly used MPC strategies. It bridges the gap between the powerful but often abstract techniques of control researchers and the more empirical approach of practitioners. Model Predictive Control demonstrates that a powerful technique does not always require complex control algorithms.
The text features material on the following subjects:
All of the material is thoroughly updated for the second edition with the chapters on nonlinear MPC, MPC and hybrid systems and MPC implementation being entirely new. Many new exercises and examples have also have also been added throughout and MATLAB® programs to aid in their solution can be downloaded from extras.springer.com. The text is an excellent aid for graduate and advanced undergraduate students and will also be of use to researchers and industrial practitioners wishing to keep abreast of a fast-moving field.


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The week's headlines and YOU
Studio Berlin is KCRW Berlin's weekly show that brings together local journalists, lawmakers and experts to provide you with context and analysis around the issues shaping the news locally and nationally. Tune in every Saturday morning from 10:00-10:30 a.m. on 104.1 FM.
Each week we'll take a closer look at the events shaping our lives here in Germany's capital. You'll hear from hosts Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, Erik Kirschbaum and Sumi Somaskanda as we tackle the issues moving Berlin, Germany, Europe — and YOU.
Show broadcast July 27, 2019: The growing concern over right-wing extremism in Germany
On this week's episode of Studio Berlin, host Sumi Somaskanda discusses the murder case of CDU politician Walter Lübcke and how it has alarmed the public to right-wing extremism as well as political violence across the spectrum.
Sumi is joined by Till Eckert, journalist with CORRECTIV, criminal attorney Onur Özata and Tarik Abou-Chadi, assistant professor of political science at the University of Zurich.
This show was produced by Monika Müller-Kroll with production assistance from Arie Burshtein and Caleb Larson.
Listen to previous episodes of Studio Berlin.