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As unfortunate and time-consuming as it can be, concrete does need to be properly maintained and taken care of over time. Many people do not realize that concrete can't just be poured and left, and this is what can lead to problems down the line. However, the elements can also take a toll on your concrete. Things like spalling or crumbling are usually due to the elements and not due to human neglect. Let's find out more about spalling or crumbling concrete.
What is spalling concrete? How does it happen? Spalling concrete is when the concrete begins to flake and fall away in sheets or pieces. This is usually not due to any error in the pouring of the concrete, but rather the way that it set up and was dried. If it did not dry properly and moisture seeps into the concrete, then years down the line, you will experience problems like this with spalling. This can also occur because of freezing and thawing of water around the concrete. Plus, frequent high pressure washing, or sandblasting can cause this issue.We've all seen foundation walls with spalling, or steps that are falling away. These are all due to this process. They are not necessarily from human neglect, and sometimes they just come with time. Spalling can definitely be annoying, though, and there are a few solutions available.
Crumbling concrete is similar to spalling concrete, but it may literally be falling off in chunks. Crumbling concrete may start as spalling concrete and devolve until it reaches crumbling stage. However, crumbling concrete can also be from old age or from exposure to harsh elements. Concrete needs to be replaced every so often as it will not last forever. However, many people are not aware of this. This leads to disasters with crumbling, unsafe sidewalks and steps that no one wants to pay to fix. Unfortunately, these are safety hazards and could lead to injury. They should be taken care of as soon as you notice that they are crumbling or spalling because it will only get worse from that point, it will not get better!
What are the solutions to this dilemma? Can it be fixed, or is it better to just re-pour the concrete? What about a D.I.Y. job to cover up the spalling or re-attach the crumbling pieces? These are all questions you might have, and they're great questions! Let's answer them.
A Do-It-Yourself (D.I.Y.) job is questionable in this situation because this is work that should be done by a contractor or concrete specialist. If you tried to re-attach crumbling pieces, this will not solve the problem. You would not have fixed the root of the problem, and more pieces would continue to fall off. There's a difference, in this case, between a cracked and crumbling piece of concrete. However, in either case, a trained professional needs to look at the issue and find out what's going on.
A lot of the times the first instinct is to re-pour the concrete in all situations. However, in most situations, that is not necessarily the best option. In this case, depending on the inspection, it may be better to re-pour. However, there are solutions available for repair.
The biggest solution should be getting water away from your concrete. Make sure downspouts are far away, water is able to drain away instead of pool against it, and the concrete is properly graded so it doesn't all pool in the middle or at the end. This can be a big problem for the stability of the concrete. Additionally, try to pressure wash or sand blast your driveway to help keep its integrity. If the spalling or crumbling is intense, it may need epoxy injections. These will fill and correct cracks and lines and get the concrete back to its original state. However, if the damage is too extreme, the slab may need re-poured.
If you think you have spalling or crumbling concrete, it's time to call Custom Concrete & Foundation Specialists. We are experts in the area, and we're happy to help you figure out the right solution for your concrete. Give us a call today and we can get you started!


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I've always considered life to be a journey…an endless one at that. I believe that we learn things everyday that allows us to continue to expand on our learning as we grow. I mean we all had to walk before we could run, right? Just like we had to learn to swim before we could dive.
But let's look at the bigger picture. Sometimes it's more literal than figurative, but don't we all need to get burned before we know not to stand too close to the fire? Every relationship we've been in…we've walked away from saying: "NEVER AGAIN!" How much you feel like you've poured into a relationship and then be left with nothing in your life…all that hard work, gone.
And then every once in a while, you get struck by lightning. I have got to be honest with you, I was perfectly happy living my life without that strike of lightning. I knew that I had never really been with anyone who both got me…and who was attractive to me. I have found myself in many casual friendships or platonic relationships with men who have read me like a book…and what a shame since I'm not into that guy at all.
Then of course there were the relationships where you had this guy who you were in love with…or thought you were…until you realized he never knew you at all…which means you never knew him since all your actions had been based on the fact that the feelings were mutual…when clearly they were not.
You continued to get disappointed in life…by the partners you kept hanging your life on…only to find out that they were not on the same page as you…or even in the same chapter (while some would swear he and I were in different books entirely!).
Not a month ago, my friend can tell you, that I said that I was satisfied with the men I had been with in life and that I was completely fine knowing that I had never met my soul mate. I knew that I had been with men who had, I want to say "completed" me. But there was no soul connection. Never did I feel as though, he gets me…no need for me to have to explain myself. (I swear that I spent many of my relationships constantly trying to explain how I was feeling while so many men looked at me like I had three heads.)
To the point where I literally just gave up. I have always hated to repeat myself…and if you know me…which I know many of my readers do…then I know you know how little patience I have for people who can hear me, but who are clearly not listening. If I ask another man "What are you thinking?" to only be told, "Nothing"…I might puke!
I don't consider myself to be needy, don't even need someone to hold my hand…God knows I survived 35 years in NYC, 3 years of diving to 300 feet in the Caribbean and the past 4 years in Puebla, which was more of just a spiritual journey from where it was that I came from. I think I always knew, since I arrived in Puebla over 4 years ago, that I was never going to leave here. This city has everything I need…amazingly deep, passionate people who I adore and would never leave behind…great restaurants, museums, concert halls, biking and running paths in gorgeous parks and incredible weather! Not to mention the vistas of the four volcanoes surrounding the city.
But is it too much to ask for me to find someone who speaks my language? (And I don't mean English!) But just someone who gets me. Someone who remembers what a rotary phone was or having to get up to change the channel on the T.V….someone who played outside with his friends and who got lost before we had GPS units…someone who also grew up cheering for the under dog…I had given up the idea of my ever being able to find someone who might actually understand me.
And then..BANG…I was struck by lightning…

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Una joined Ulster University as a lecturer in criminology in 2003. She completed her undergraduate degree in public administration at the University of Glamorgan and her PhD at Ulster University, and has worked as a Researcher at Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University. Una's teaching and research interests include youth justice, imprisonment, families of prisoners, victims of crime, children's rights and women in the criminal justice system. She is the Year one Tutor for BSc (Hons) Criminology and Criminal Justice and module co-ordinator for Exploring Criminology, Crime and Criminal Justice, and Victims of Crime. Una is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Centre for Higher Education Research and Practice (CHERP) and of the Children of Prisoners Europe (COPE) network.
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Children, Crime and JusticeConvery, U. V. & Seymour, M., 14 Dec 2015, The Routledge Handbook of Irish Criminology. Healy, D., Hamilton, C., Daly, Y. & Butler, M. (eds.). Oxon: Routledge, p. 242 18 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Locked in the past: An historical analysis of the legal framework of custody for children in Northern IrelandConvery, U. V., 1 Mar 2014, In : European Journal of Criminology. 11, 2, p. 251-269
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
An offending strategy: The state's response to women within the criminal justice system in Northern IrelandConvery, U., 2013, Women, Punishment and Social Justice: Human rights and penal practices. Oxon: Routledge, p. 167-177
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
The Custodial Detention of Children and the Youth Justice Review & a new vision for the education of children and young people in custodyIrwin, T., McCord, J., Moore, L. & Convery, U. V., 21 Mar 2013.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
'Protecting the Rights of Children in Custody'Convery, U. & Moore, L., 2012, Vulnerable Children and the Law. Sheehan, R., Rhoades, H. & Stanley, N. (eds.). London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, p. 109 -124
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter


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"It" being to write about art without tediously reciting what the art is made of, what the art looks like and what we supposedly feel about the art, and using plain English without resorting to pretentious, empty language. Thank Karen Archey for this rare example of a non-bollocks art press release, related to an exhibition in Stockholm.
Curatron #5 release
All artworks in this exhibition deal with the body, its removals, artificiality, and ineffability. Lost limbs, artificial hormones, forgotten cultures, made-up people, dead celebrities. Since when is it so hard to get real in this world? I wake up and feel invisible. I work and feel invisible. I eat, shit, and sleep invisible. It's 2015 and we've regressed so far that identity politics feel new again.
What will make our shadows stick?
I've noticed a lot of artists who grasp anything in sight and describe and smother it with words, as if blind. Like babies who mull over the world in their mouth because their sight is too abstract. This impulse to smother reminds me of Pompeii's last afternoon. As Vesuvius erupted, the most boring shit was cast pristine in ash to pick, prod and hold for centuries to come. Everything also died. Ask your favorite archeologist: was it worth it?
What is an exhibition but a body—a sum totaling more than its parts? If I give you five fingers and a press release, will it make a hand? I want an exhibition that totals less than its parts that detracts from what we already know. I want to go deep, toward death; figure out why we all feel so fucking invisible and fuck phantom soulmates. No words.
In contrast to all the bad writing I cover here, there's relatively little commentary required on this one. Regardless of whether this piece of writing's tone or voice is to your taste, it's personal and it undeniably has character. It is evocative and non-literal about its subject. Note especially that she's talking about the theme of the exhibition without ever short-circuiting (or assuming) the reader's need or desire to see the exhibition itself. If one can't trust the art to communicate with the public then the art probably shouldn't be shown. A critical or review text's legitimate, productive roles do not include excusing or handwaving an artist's failure to connect and communicate. It's also not very much to ask of a writer that they too communicate in clear, honest and meaningful language instead of fridge magnet poetry or random jargon strings, but many don't. Archey does. Good for her.
I like her observation about many artists grabbing everything in sight and smothering it with words. I agree, and I think in many cases they do it because they're plain old charlatans whose artistic, imaginative or aesthetic abilities are so limited that they have no alternative. There are now several generations of artists and curators who've been indoctrinated with the idea that it doesn't matter how hollow or slight your work might be if you can armour plate it (or better still, have it armour plated by a curator or art academic) in a solid wall of baffling International Art English.


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The biannual Urban.com.au crane count - March 2015
What better way to judge the health of the construction sector than by ushering in the first Urban.com.au crane count for 2015. And the sector must be booming given the current number of tower cranes plying their trade, blitzing any previous count to set a new record at 131 units.
It's not necessarily the inner city shouldering the burden either with tower cranes spread far and wide. Ringwood for instance has seven in use while Werribee, Knox, Frankston and Melbourne Airport also add to the spread.
At our assertion there's currently 131 tower cranes in use, comfortably outnumbering previous periods where the count averages roughly 110. While a variance of a handful of units is always factored in, there's no doubt that at this point in time Melbourne has never seen so many projects under construction. The importance to the employment rate and Melbourne's overall economic health can be extrapolated from the very healthy current numbers.
|Cranes in use
|Residential / aged care
|Commercial office
|Education / affiliated student housing
|Health and medical research
|Retail shopping centres
|Demolition of existing structures
Considered the wheel house of our city's property development sector, the City of Melbourne accounts for a relatively light one third of all the tower cranes currently in use, with the remainder throughout greater Melbourne.
As always crane use for residential projects is at the heart of the census, accounting for 70% of all tower cranes erected at the moment. While those dedicated to commercial use have seen insignificant change over recent years, the number dedicated toward student housing and retail purposes have served to spike the crane count.
Probuild are handling large-scale expansions of Eastland Ringwood, Chadstone and Pacific Werribee, which now account for ten tower cranes dedicated toward the retail aspect of these three projects. The combined monetary value of these three developments is about the $1.5 billion mark, with The Glen and Westfiled Knox also shaping up for regeneration during the latter part of 2015, which is valued at a combined $1 billion.
The high demand for cranes in Melbourne has seen new operators flood into the market in recent years. Latest to appear on the Melbourne skyline is Sydney-based Titan Cranes who provided cranes for Leighton Contractors' Melbourne Airport expansion, and are now present at Knox Private Hospital in Wantirna.
Peering into the next Urban.com.au crane count toward the last quarter of 2015, a host of high profile apartment towers will keep demand for tower cranes buoyant. The likes of Lighthouse, Australia 108, Victoria One, Tower Melbourne and EQ Tower are set to receive multiple tower cranes each over the course of 2015, with the shortest of these five being EQ Tower at 200 metres.
Elsewhere a rash of projects in Docklands will see the precinct attract its fair share of tower cranes while Doncaster looks like a construction hot spot to watch in the latter part of the year.


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Transcripts and/or student records will not be released to another school while account remains open and unpaid. A student is also subject to suspension until the account is made current. All families must be current to begin school each year, current at Mid-term, and current to graduate.
If annual, semi-annual, or monthly tuition payment has been made and the student is either expelled or withdraws, tuition monies will not be refunded.


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Many people these days register for an online account with the Social Security Administration because they are about to apply for a replacement social security card. More and more people are finding out that you can submit the application online. However, there are many more services that the SSA offers online. Let's take a look at what all you can do online when you register for an online account with the Social Security Administration.
Apply For Replacement Card
First, yes you can of course apply for that replacement card, if the online application applies to your situation. If you need to change your name or social security number, then the online application is not for you. That doesn't mean that you don't need an online account with the SSA though. Did you know that you can also get your annual social security benefits statement online as well?
You can also apply for benefits, too. The online portal also allows you to appeal a decision that has been made by the SSA office. You can also look at important rules about whether or not you qualify for benefits. You can estimate future benefits, and you can also download and print important documents. These documents can be ones that are provided to you about your benefits, or they can be forms that you need to fill out and submit to the SSA office.
Local SSA Office Near You
It sure beats having to go to the local SSA office in your area for every single matter involving social security benefits or your card. The office is only open during regular business hours on weekdays, but the website is always accessible. With an online SSA account, you can do so many things. The services mentioned are just part of what you can expect when you register for an online account.
Some people aren't in need of doing much business with the Social Security Administration Office, at least for now. They would still benefit from an online account though, going paperless for future benefits statements and the likes. They would have easy access to applying for a new social security card when they find themselves in that situation, too. Are you one of those people, or do you correspond with the SSA office quite often?
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If you are frequently reaching out to the SSA office, then you are going to want to get that online account for sure. You only need a few minutes, and you will be registered and verified. Yes, you are going to have to make sure that you prove your identity when you sign up, but that is quite the simple process as well. Instead of showing forms of identification, all you have to do is answer some simple questions.
After you get a look at the online portal available to you, all the forms and experience the benefits for yourself, you are going to wonder why you didn't do this long ago. Take just a few minutes and register with the SSA. You are going to be glad that you did. Know more at https://www.assistedonlinefilings.com


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I'm a brave little monster
But one thing I dread—
At night, there's a kid
Up on top of my bed.
Mom says kids aren't real,
That it's all in my head.
Perhaps she should try
Sleeping in here instead.
I can hear that kid breathing
All during the night.
Sometimes I hear growling
That fills me with fright.
I've heard kids are hornless,
And not very hairy,
With only two eyeballs—
Now that's pretty scary!
Some have metal teeth
That they grind with their jaws,
While others have glitter
And paint on their claws!
Dad says I'm a wimp,
And it's all in my head.
Perhaps he should come
And get eaten instead.
I'm a brave little monster,
But one thing I dread
Is that darn creepy kid
That's on top of my bed.
© Shane D. Williams
I was walking down the street
When trouble started forming.
It frankly caught me off my guard;
It happened without warning.
Somebody's dog came up to me,
He didn't sit or beg,
Just sniffed at me a little bit
Then lifted up his leg.
I guess it was a bad idea
(If you know what I mean)
To be a fire hydrant
This year for Halloween.
© Shane D Williams
"You're a wonderful dancer,"
She said with a smile,
As I shimmied and shuffled
And boogied with style.
"Thank you..." I stammered,
"I appreciate that…
But I just need to know
Where the bathroom is at!"
© Shane D. Williams
If I write about nothing,
Then nothing is this.
But now it is something,
Or it wouldn't exist.
I was trying for nothing,
But something came out.
Still, it's pretty much nothing
This something's about.
© shane D. Williams
Sometimes I wear it curly,
Sometimes I wear it straight.
No matter what I do with it,
My hair looks really great.
Sometimes I add a blue barrette,
Sometimes, a purple bow.
Sometimes I add conditioner
To really make it flow.
Sometimes I like it hot pink,
With glitter and some charms,
But Mom just rolls her eyes and groans,
"Sue! Shave your underarms!"
© Shane D. Williams
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Learn how to take creative pictures with your camera or smartphone in two of the most scenic areas in Boston. Discover the tips and tricks for taking pictures of the city's most iconic buildings in Copley Square and walk along the picturesque streets of Back Bay's 19th-century French-inspired neighborhood.
Capture the endless photo opportunities along the Charles River Esplanade with the spectacular views of Cambridge's panoramic skyline each step of the way.
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Naval police officer Claire Bell has told of life as the first woman in the role on board HMS York.
The Regulating Petty Officer, from Redcar, joined the Type 42 Destroyer's crew from the Royal Naval Police last February.
But the 33-year-old says gender has never been an issue in her work.
Claire said: "HMS York underwent a refit, with changes to facilities which would allow women to be on board."
She describes her job as a senior investigator for the Royal Navy's police as being "like a bobby in a village of 249 people, but on board a ship."
Claire added: "It is very rewarding work.
"We investigate alleged crimes and collate evidence, from investigating crime scenes to taking photographs and medical examinations of injuries.
"We decide whether charges should be brought and can prosecute. The commanding officer decides the punishment and we oversee it."
Crimes can range from rowdy behaviour to lateness, seen as a breakdown of discipline. Part of her work also involves daily inspections of the ship.
Claire, who is one of 45 women on board HMS York, is also a flight deck officer in charge of take-off and landing of the ship's Lynx helicopter.
When Claire joined the Navy, aged 17, she initially trained as a radio operator, before transferring to the police force.
Claire is a former pupil of Redcar's Sacred Heart School and St Mary's Sixth Form College in Middlesbrough.
Her parents, Kathleen and John, a former TA Sergeant Major, live in Redcar.
Her sister Tracy, 35, also joined the police after gaining a psychology degree and is currently an inspector on Special Operations with the Met at New Scotland Yard. Mum Kathleen said: "We're very proud of both of them."


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Best Value Procurement Methods for Professional Services - Overcoming the Limitations of Low-Bid and QBS affirms that publicly advertised price and cost competition is a key principle for achieving taxpayer value in government procurement of services from private sector providers, and that public procurement professionals must be empowered to determine the most relevant application of that principle and the most appropriate selection method to achieve best value when procuring services, including professional services. NIGP does not support mandates that require public entities to apply the Qualifications-Based Selection (QBS) method for selecting providers of certain professional services.
Maintaining Procurement Principles as Technology Advances is a new position paper (from NIGP) on the importance of maintaining principles in our profession and the challenges presented by an ever-changing environment. As advances in technology permeate procurement activities, it is incumbent upon procurement professionals to understand the potential implications of technology utilized in procurement systems in their organization.
The Strategic Value of Procurement in Public Entities flows from the creation of opportunities for advance planning, obtaining best value, reducing risk and maintaining the integrity of the use of public funds. The strategic value of procurement is realized when an organization shifts its focus from reactive, transactional purchases to proactive, value-based procurement actions.
NIGP maintains that preference policies, including local preferences, conflict with the fundamental public procurement principles of impartiality and full and open competition. Therefore, NIGP does not support the use of preference policies.
Procurement authority is a foundational concept in the public sector and the administration of government. It is of the utmost importance that the government spends taxpayer dollars responsibly, protected from undue influence and in the best interest of its community. Procurement policies and processes are the means to achieve all of the goals
Just as government policies must adapt to social, economic and political forces, so too must the supporting functions that enable government effectiveness. Public entities legislating broader operating authority to professionals in public service are moving along the evolutionary path to greater effectiveness. These changes are growing acknowledgement of Procurement's value and an expectation that those leading the function deliver on the promise of professionalism.
Negotiation is a valuable skill for procurement professionals. Negotiation is a standard method of contracting in federal, state and local government procurement.
Procurement professionals need to know how to prepare and plan for negotiation in order to achieve win-win solutions. Negotiation can improve the overall combination of quality, service and other elements required for successfully meeting the organization's requirements.
The Institute expresses its support of cooperative practices as an important alternative means for securing goods and services at best value to the agency. As cooperative programs have proliferated procurement practitioners have been challenged to differentiate between the many programs and identify the cooperative methodology that will return the greatest value for their agency.
Outsourcing has a direct impact on a government entity's ability to function successfully and deliver necessary services to the public. The decision to outsource must be well-informed and thoughtful and should be supported by skilled professionals with the strategic vision and expertise to improve operations while protecting the public good. Outsourcing in the Public Sector emphasizes the essential role of procurement staff in the outsourcing decision and its successful execution.
NIGP highlights the historical importance of transparency in a democracy and the contemporary tools available that enable greater transparency, and offers a series of recommendations governments can adopt to achieve transparency in practice, without undue burden.


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I may not live in NYC, but I do know concrete's not supposed to glow. The issues with the Big Apple's subways have continued to mount as the rail systems decay, but this one is definitely new.
Sadly, for those who saw the mysterious green goop in NYC recently, swimming in it will not give you superpowers. It's not a mutagen, nor Chemical X. In fact, it's hard to tell what exactly is in those bins. But, as I currently work at an environmental lab [Disclaimer: my views and statements here are not meant to be official statements by my employer], and have worked in automotive paint before, I thought I might be able to puzzle out what the witches' brew could be.
While it would take a thorough chemical analysis to make any definitive statement, some of my co-workers thought that phosphorus could be the cause. Famous for its greenish glow, the element lent its name to the term phosphorescence. In urban settings, phosphorus is usually found in the form of phosphates, which are a key part of the fertilizer and agricultural industries. My lab regularly checks phosphate levels from various sources—which include construction site runoff, due to permit regulations—because they can be harmful to people in large concentrations.
However, I don't think phosphorus is responsible for the ooze's hue. While pure white phosphorus can glow like Nickelodeon slime, phosphates shine a different shade. Also, ironically, phosphorus doesn't phosphoresce. Fluorescence and phosphorescence occur when chemicals absorb certain wavelengths of light, then emit other ones. Phosphorus' light, on the other hand, comes from a chemical reaction with oxygen (chemiluminescence). In the photo, note that the only bins glowing are the ones lit up by the construction workers' lights. If phosphorus had been found in large concentrations, they would've all been glowing.
Speaking of concentrations, there would've been serious repercussions if that much phosphorus had gotten into a water supply. It seems unlikely for a working crew to dispose of that much all at once.
Finally, phosphorus smells like garlic. No one smelled garlic at the site. They smelled sulfur.
Sulfur seems like an odd candidate for the eldritch light. Its pure form is a yellow rock, after all. However, in the presence of UV light, sulfur can fluoresce green.
In addition, there are quite a few ways for sulfur to get into a construction site. My lab also tests for the presence and concentration of sulfides in environmental samples, again, due to permit regulations. Considering the subway lines were being worked on, based on OSHA information, it isn't infeasible for sulfur to be the color culprit. Unfortunately, I don't think sulfur is actually what's responsible for that shade of green.
For sulfur to fluoresce that brightly would require the construction workers' lights to produce UV rays of the correct wavelength. While some kinds of lighting can produce UV radiation, manufacturers take steps to prevent those waves from leaking out. Even full-spectrum LEDs don't emit UV light unless something's physically wrong with the lights themselves. But, that doesn't mean the lights can't be the guilty party in this.
Here's where it ties back to cars. After working in automotive coatings alongside experts in the field of paint and color development, one of my key takeaways was that color is contextual. Change the light source, the surface it reflects off of, and/or where you're standing, and your car's color changes. My first car, an 02 Malibu, demonstrated this very well. During the day, it was a metallic green. But when I drove into gas stations at night, it turned completely blue under the fluorescent lights.
This is why it's sometimes difficult to accurately photograph certain colors. I struggle sometimes to find the right white balance settings, or the correct angle, to snap some shades of red. Sometimes they look more orange than they are IRL. Ever notice how playing with the white balance settings often noticeably changes a photo's colors? That's because those settings are what help the camera's sensors interpret the data they're receiving.
Incoming light is characterized by color temperature. Know how metal glows when it heats up? Color temperature basically uses an ideal glowing body as a reference point. At 3000 K (Kelvin) light's colored like this, at 6000 K like that, and so on. White balance settings are based on the temperatures of reference lights, such as fluorescent bulbs and sunlight. But sunlight's temperature can change. That's why some cameras include settings for cloudy days, shade, and sunset. As sunlight passes through the atmosphere, it travels different distances at different times of the day, which shifts the light to a different part of the visible spectrum. Sunrise and sunset wouldn't color the Sun red if that weren't the case.
Why is all this important? Because that's what commenter Bdog thought might be the reason behind the funky bins. In a comment to the Jalopnik post, Bdog noted that the workers could have been using recently switched-on metal halide lamps. Having no experience with the bulb technology, I did some more digging. Turns out, it's an absolutely solid hypothesis.
These lamps work by passing an electrical arc through vaporized mercury and metal halides. When it's cold, and when there are several of these bulbs lit close together, the perceived color temperature shifts (as shown in the above video) as the vaporization process hasn't really started, and the bulbs' individual beams interfere with one another. Add in some plausible screwiness with automatic white balance setting, plus the effects of observation angle andend time of day, and you have slime seemingly straight from the set of Ghostbusters.
As much as I laugh/cry at the scenes from New York's subways today, I'm glad we can take solace in knowing the MTA isn't trying to cover up a spill of cartoon nuclear waste. Instead, we have—quite literally—a trick of the light.


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I don't know if anyone remembers the security disaster called Heartbleed. If not please refresh yourself on the topic. Its not just ugly, unmaintained code of OpenSSL (personally, I would love Artix to switch to LibreSSL - mass cleanup of code, more secure).
The general idea was to get yourself between your bank and you via badly configured, unsafe SSL negotiations. Its 2021 (Heartbleed comes from 2012) and yet Mozilla Firefox is completely misconfigured. It looks like they want the bug to stay (is that why nobody has switched to libressl? on purpose?). Negotiations is the key. You want safe negotiations, otherwise the rest that is happaning after the shakedown is irrelevant!
So lets see why Firefox is still vulnerable to this security hole:
security.ssl.require_safe_negotiation ---> no /should be TRUE
security.ssl.treat_unsafe_negotiation_as_broken ---> no /should be TRUE
Firefox Security Misconfiguration (Security Hole)
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No idea why https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665859 is still undecided. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssl-pulse/ shows that only 0,3% of sites nowadays use insecure renegotiation, so we could include that setting in our firefox/waterfox config. Personally, I have it for more than 2 years and rarely run into problems. You probably wouldn't want to visit problematic sites anyway. Any other opinions?
On a personal note: Please try to voice your opinions more friendly. Just politely ask us to include that setting. We are always open to suggestions like that.
On a personal note: Please try to voice your opinions more friendly. Just politely ask us to include that setting. We are always open to suggestions like that.
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Shall I include these in firefox-solydxk-adjustments and waterfox-solydxk-adjustments?
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+1 to ilu. I see no reason to panic here. the problem is mostly on server side. even with that option turned off, if the server is enabling ssl negotiation, we'll use that. I think the option was turned off for compatibility reason. even if only 0,3% server is using unsafe negotiation, with those option enabled, those sites would broken. I think we should leave it as it isVulnerability to Heartbleed is resolved by updating OpenSSL to a patched version (1.0.1g or later). OpenSSL can be used either as a standalone program, a dynamic shared object, or a statically-linked library; therefore, the updating process can require restarting processes loaded with a vulnerable version of OpenSSL as well as re-linking programs and libraries that linked it statically. In practice this means updating packages that link OpenSSL statically, and restarting running programs to remove the in-memory copy of the old, vulnerable OpenSSL code.
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There's one other aspect: If we want to keep uniqueness of our browsers low, we should keep the browser config as near to default as much as possible. Every config change increases tracking. So after some consideration I agree with kurotsugi: leave it as it is.
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Breast Cancer Diagnosis Improved by AI and Computer Aided Detection
Results showed that the use of automation reduced reader interpretation times for screening the exams by 33%
According to recent study, the performance of an AI-based computer-aided detection system showed fast interpretation times and diagnostic accuracy.
The research which was carried out at the University of Chicago, was said to be the first of a concurrent-read AI/CAD system. Researchers tested the approach for screening automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) exams.
Results from the research showed that the use of automation reduced reader interpretation times for screening the exams by 33%.
In the study, "Interpretation time using a concurrent-read computer-aided detection system for automated breast ultrasound in breast cancer screening of women with dense breast tissue," researchers conducted a reader study to compare diagnostic accuracy and interpretation time of screening ABUS for asymptomatic women with dense breast tissue, with and without the use of the concurrent-read CAD system.
The study, published in the American Journal of Radiology, had 18 radiologists interpret 185 screening ABUS studies of women with dense breast tissue. Each reader interpreted each case twice, once without a CAD system and once with the system, from View Medical. Case interpretation time was recorded in each instance.
The principle investigator for the school and associate professor of radiology Yulei Jiang explained that results from the study showed that the use of the concurrent-read CAD system can make interpretation of screening ABUS studies significantly faster without negatively affecting diagnostic accuracy.
He added that a reduction in interpretation time would provide little value to radiologists and patients if accuracy suffered . However, sensitivity was preserved, and the results also showed significant specificity improvements in some readers, which could translate to improved clinical confidence as well as productivity gains when used in a clinical environment.
To improve reader productivity, the QView Medical system provides synthetic 2D images of all six volumetric datasets in a standard ABUS exam to provide an immediately visual overview of the case.
The C-thru images, which are minimum intensity projections, summarize each 3D ABUS volume in a 2D image and bring attention to specific areas of interest by enhancement of radial speculations and retraction patterns in coronal reconstructions, which are highly suggestive of breast cancer in ABUS.
The results are vita because clinicians believe ABUS can speed up diagnosis of breast cancer detection in women with dense breasts. However, the interpretation of ABUS exams, which often result in as many as 2,000 images per case, is complex and time consuming, particularly for new users.


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Skip to 0 minutes and 0 seconds Welcome to Babcock LDP's five-week course - Equity in Education: Supporting active participation in lessons. My name is Ruth Trundley, I'm the lead maths advisor for Babcock LDP and I'll be working with you throughout the course. Our aim is to help you engage with research and practical classroom strategies to understand how to use pre teaching and assigning competence to support learners to be active and influential participants in lessons. Over the next five weeks we'll explore the essential elements of pre teaching and assigning competence. Whilst our research involved using these strategies in primary schools to support learners in mathematics, they can and have been used in other subjects especially to focus on language and with the learners of all ages including adults.
Skip to 0 minutes and 44 seconds Let's think about why pre teaching and assigning competence to support learners? Our experience of interventions used to support struggling learners is that there is often a lack of connection between the experience in the intervention and what happens in the class lesson - in other words it does not change the learners experience in the lesson. As a result many of our struggling learners have low status in classrooms which further limits their participation. Pre teaching by the teacher aims to fully connect the intervention with the lesson.
Skip to 1 minute and 15 seconds There is still the issue of status and assigning competence explicitly sets out to address this - it's about publicly bringing attention to something the low status learner has said or done that everyone can learn from. Throughout this course there will be opportunities for reading, engaging in activities and trying out strategies with your pupils. There are videos of teachers sharing their experiences, we will ask you to share and reflect on your experiences and to finally answer the question for yourself - How can you best support your struggling and low status learners to be active and influential participants in lessons?
Welcome and introduction!
Welcome to this Babcock course - we are thrilled you have joined us to learn more about pre-teaching and assigning competence.
Lead educator and Lead maths adviser for Babcock LDP Ruth Trundley introduces the course and what you'll be learning over the next five weeks.
**Please leave a comment below introducing yourself to our group of learners. it would be great if you could also follow the below link which will take you to a short survey, enabling us to know more about you. It also gives you the opportunity to express your interest in knowing more about us too!
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If your favourite Sarabhai is Maya, cutting costs may not come artlessly to you. You like all the classy and lavish things and obviously, you dislike bargaining. As we all know, Indian weddings are all about doing the best and doing it often extraordinary. We Indians love spending on everything and shaadi comes at the first priority, but then sometimes we have to control on unimportant things. So, here we at Shaadisaga, give you certain ideas that will be wallet-friendly without making you look like a penny pincher.
We know how amazing it is to have a winter wedding when the weather is just so awesome for sundowner parties. But you should also remember these are the months of heavy saya, so whether it's decor, food, bands or the venue, you have to flush out more money during these months. Try selecting an offseason date which will actually do wonders on your budget.
After decorators, the makeup artists are earning handsomely on weddings. If it's your cocktail or sangeet, and you don't prefer heavy makeup, just tell your makeup artist you want to go for party makeup packages. They are way cheaper are will provide that required pop.
Always look out for the venue that allows you to bring in your own booze, this will help you to save a lot at your wedding. Usually, farmhouses and five-star hotels charge double per bottle, if you arrange your drinks there will be certain corkage fees which will be much less than original rates given by the venue.
There's a reason people have their weddings in their hometowns and especially if you have jack at the defence grounds or a good banquet – they're mind-boggling cheaper. If you go to a destination wedding venue, you will end up splurging an awful lot of money for an evening of elegance. Putting up people and flying them down and entertaining them burns a hole in one's pocket and mind too, unless you have superb financial resources.
A smart and a pocket-friendly way of getting the things done is your friends and what are friends for. In your circle, there must be someone who is at par in organising things- give them the duty of organising a certain part of the wedding, ask your jugaadu friend for getting a cheap DJ.


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UCU union members at Lewisham and Southwark College were set to begin a two-day strike on Thursday of this week.
The workers face cuts that put up to 200 jobs at risk and could see an entire campus, in Camberwell, close down.
The cuts would close down the college's trade union studies department.
The walkout follows a successful 24-hour strike earlier this month.
One UCU member told Socialist Worker, "Further education isn't being funded—it's not on the agenda.
"We are going to have to do a 'skills match' then an interview to try and keep our jobs. It's awful.
"But we've been recruiting people to the UCU during this dispute."
Another worker said, "Once we started striking you saw a mood change. It made people make decisions about where they stood.
"If you're under 40 you haven't seen workers win anything significant in your lifetime. Some people asked what a picket line was.
"People are being politicised at our college."
UCU members at the college backed strikes by 85 percent in a recent ballot.
UCU members at Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College were set to join the strike for 24 hours on the Thursday.
Those at Hackney College planned to walk out for one hour on the same day.


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Bug reports, comments, help or feature requests, complaints, etc.
Development of ALP is conducted on GitHub, where there is an issue tracker. Please use it to make bug reports, suggest improvements, complain about stuff that doesn't work the way you want it to, etc.
Anything else
Please email me. Details can be found over on my personal website.


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Changes in mitochondrial stability during the progression of the Barrett's esophagus disease sequence
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Citation:O'Farrell N.J, Feighery R, Picardo S.L, Lynam-Lennon N, Biniecka M, McGarrigle S.A, Phelan J.J, MacCarthy F, O'Toole D, Fox E.J, Ravi N, Reynolds J.V, O'Sullivan J, Changes in mitochondrial stability during the progression of the Barrett's esophagus disease sequence, BMC Cancer, 16, 1, 2016, 497-
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Background Barrett's esophagus follows the classic step-wise progression of metaplasia-dysplasia-adenocarcinoma. While Barrett's esophagus is a leading known risk factor for esophageal adenocarcinoma, the pathogenesis of this disease sequence is poorly understood. Mitochondria are highly susceptible to mutations due to high levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) coupled with low levels of DNA repair. The timing and levels of mitochondria instability and dysfunction across the Barrett's disease progression is under studied. Methods Using an in-vitro model representing the Barrett's esophagus disease sequence of normal squamous epithelium (HET1A), metaplasia (QH), dysplasia (Go), and esophageal adenocarcinoma (OE33), random mitochondrial mutations, deletions and surrogate markers of mitochondrial function were assessed. In-vivo and ex-vivo tissues were also assessed for instability profiles. Results Barrett's metaplastic cells demonstrated increased levels of ROS (p < 0.005) and increased levels of random mitochondrial mutations (p < 0.05) compared with all other stages of the Barrett's disease sequence in-vitro. Using patient in-vivo samples, Barrett's metaplasia tissue demonstrated significantly increased levels of random mitochondrial deletions (p = 0.043) compared with esophageal adenocarcinoma tissue, along with increased expression of cytoglobin (CYGB) (p < 0.05), a gene linked to oxidative stress, compared with all other points across the disease sequence. Using ex-vivo Barrett's metaplastic and matched normal patient tissue explants, higher levels of cytochrome c (p = 0.003), SMAC/Diablo (p = 0.008) and four inflammatory cytokines (all p values <0.05) were secreted from Barrett's metaplastic tissue compared with matched normal squamous epithelium. Conclusions We have demonstrated that increased mitochondrial instability and markers of cellular and mitochondrial stress are early events in the Barrett's disease sequence.
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Petra Adds Stanley Mounts
Suncraft Solutions announced earlier this week that it has reached a distribution deal with Petra to carry the Stanley Mounts line throughout the U.S.
The deal covers the entire Stanley line, from basic super slim fixed mounts to high-performance interactive solutions that fit flat panel products.
"We're excited to partner with Suncraft and incorporate their innovative products into our home theater category," Tate Morgan, President of Petra Industries, said as part of the announcement. "Stanley is such a trusted brand name. We're confident we'll have great success with their line."
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Has Technology Killed The Post-Sex Cigarette?
Face it, Millennials, the future is here for the long-haul. All around us, we see the effects creeping into the most intimate aspects of our lives. Texting over calling. Sexting over texting. Tindering over sexting. It's the most technologically-advanced era of our lives and, like everything, sex is the biggest casualty in this happy-version-of-Blade-Runner that we call 2014.
This got us thinking, how much of our sexy routine has really been affected? Take the post-sex cigarette, for instance. We broke down all the elements of this historically wonderful bedroom tradition to find out if the electronic cigarette has officially defeated the analogue cigarette in the post-coitus smoking game.
Cigarettes: Look, no e-cigarette or vaporizer is ever going to compare to the inaugural drag of a cancer stick. It's more than a flavor… it's a feeling that spreads from the lips to the toes. It's harsh and robust and makes you cough your brains out, but it's unbeatable.
E-Cigarettes: On the other hand, every cigarette — more or less — tastes the same. You can smoke any flavor as long as it tastes like tobacco. With some e-cig companies going deep into the taste-game by releasing flavors that legitimately taste like churros and rice krispies treats, we've got to call this one a stalemate.
Verdict: Tie
Cigarettes: One of the biggest drawbacks about cigarettes — aside from cancer — is the lingering smell that practically screams "Hey, I'm addicted to this thing" to anyone nearby. Even a heavy dose of cologne and a shower won't get the smell out. It's enough to spoil any intimate moment.
E-Cigarettes: No smell. Nothing. It's actually pretty impressive, judging by the amount of vapor that comes out.
Verdict: E-Cigarettes
Cigarettes: There is nothing more attractive than a shadowy figure taking a deep, pensive drag of a cigarette.
E-Cigarettes: Sorry, but you will never ever look like Don Draper if you're sucking on an oblong black robot d*ck-sized mini-phallus that glows blue at the end. That look is reserved for tourists and greasy club dudes. Don't be any of those guys.
Verdict: Cigarettes
Cigarettes: What's the easiest way to kill the calm post-sex vibe? Noisy roommates who burst into room with wild accusations of smoking indoors. Like we said, the smell is un-maskable.
E-Cigarettes: We call it like we see it — e-cigarettes are covert and everyone knows it. You can puff away in your room and the vapor will dissipate in seconds.
Verdict: E-Cigarettes
Cigarettes: You're outta luck if you run out of cigarettes. How much of a mood-killer is it to put on all of your clothes again and run outside to the closest corner store for a pack of cigarettes? A huge one.
E-Cigarettes: But you know what's also a mood-killer? Unscrewing your e-cigarette, rummaging around your drawers for the USB plug, plugging the thing in, waiting for it to recharge, dripping in the necessary amount of fuel, and taking a puff.
Verdict: Tie
E-cigarettes with a bullet. It's a sad thing to let go of such a classic, but in the search for a smoking device that provides the least amount of post-coital discomfort, technology prevails. They smell better, they taste better, and they won't cause unwanted attention... or unwanted emphysema. E-cigarettes will never match the built-in sexy sophistication that analogue cigarettes have historically provided, but looking cool is hardly worth the metal tube in your throat at age 40.
Jeremy Glass is the Vice editor for Supercompressor and often wonders if cigarettes will ever be made illegal like they did in the that awful Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.


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Don't you worry your pretty little mind. People always throw rocks at things that shine.
Mark Twain was a man who become famous for a number of things, most of all his writing. Mark Twain quotes show that he was a man with a vivid imagination and a strong grasp of writing, and his stories enchanted and delighted almost everyone who read them. Some have called Mark Twain the father of American literature, but today some of his topics and the words used in his stories could be considered slightly offensive by today's standards. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn is a popular tale for kids that was written by Mark Twain and it talks about the joys and pain of growing up. The author was also well known for his sense of humor and his quick wit, and many were astounded by the speaking ability of Mark Twain as well as his writing.
Don't you worry your pretty little mind. People always throw rocks at things that shine.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence
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Midsumma / Arts Centre Melbourne, until Feb 8
Does performance art get more powerful and intimate than Joel Bray's Daddy? It's a show where the artist invites the audience to lick icing sugar from his body – which might feel like a gimmick if this soul-baring erotic odyssey weren't matched by a deeply personal, and intensely political, exploration of gay and Aboriginal identities.
Combining dance, theatre and audience participation, Daddy begins with Bray reclining atop a plinth ringed by pink fairy floss.
Slowly the sculpture comes to life; object transforms into subject. A series of tableaux vivants are created with audience volunteers. No one constructs identity alone, Bray seems to be saying, and nor do these fantasy scenes spring from a vacuum.
This artist embodies a confluence of Oxford St and Aboriginality, of mainstream gay culture and the oldest living culture on earth. Through puppet-like dance and revealing monologue, Bray offers a playful critique of the gay scene's obsession with youth, beauty, casual hook-ups and untrammelled pleasure – a quest for freedom that perhaps carries its own confining sense of tribalism.
But the "daddy issues" behind the show arrive most poignantly on the issue of Aboriginal identity.
The blond, pale-skinned Bray admits to looking "Swedish", though he is a Wiradjuri man on his father's side. His mob's language, dance, traditions and cultural knowledge weren't transmitted to him as a child, and a sense of loss drives Bray's adult attempts to reconnect.
Being light-skinned and identifying as Aboriginal puts Bray on the front line of an ugly culture war. That's tackled head-on in (of all things) a porn audition, where he doesn't get the part because he doesn't look Indigenous enough.
Bray's response – that the inheritors of a genocidal colonial project have no business defining Aboriginal identity – stills the room with its anguished and ferocious eloquence, before the artist reveals a fleeting memory of cultural connection with his father.
It's a quiet, moving moment before camp excess reasserts itself. Bray, as Queen of the Dessert, is showered with hundreds and thousands, whipped cream, marshmallows and a cherry on top.


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Ghosts of Albany Walking Tour
10-15-2016 to 11-12-2016 – Visit one of America's most haunted locations, Albany, New York. Let us see if we can scare you with stories of ghosts, antique sites, scandalous tales, haunted places, mysterious sightings of apparitions, strange and unusual accounts of centuries past, legendary stories, folklore and ghostly experiences stranger than reality, and ultimately the supernatural intrigues of Albany, New York. Listen to the ghostly encounters of our guides. And you may be surprised by ghost stories told by participants on our tours. Our tales and legends are blended with bits of human interest and historical fact to make us entertaining and educational for tourists and locals alike.
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There are many, many things that have made me (both of us here at Reason to Believe, really) a devotee of Bruce Springsteen's music for the last 30 years or so. For starters, and for obvious, he writes and performs great music. His ear for what he does well and what sounds right when he lays it down is mind-bogglingly good. In nearly 40 years of recording he has never had a misstep. Even his "weakest" efforts (Human Touch, Working on a Dream) have first-rate material, and the albums as a whole easily rate at at least the 3-star level (going by Rolling Stone's well-established 5-star system).
Another obvious reason is his unsurpassed ability as a performer. There were a few of those who came before him who maybe did an even better job live (James Brown comes foremost to mind), but really none since (Prince very well may be his equal, but I can't say he outdoes Bruce onstage). I saw him most recently in Boston in late March and he played a phenomenal 25-song set that lasted 2 hours and 50 minutes. And the shows have only gotten longer since. The man is 62 years old, and the band is still airtight, his energy is always full-tilt and his voice never ever weakens. He's been doing this for 40+ years now and he may be an even better performer now than he was 15-25-35 years ago. And again, the man is 62!
But then there's the voice. And I don't mean his singing voice (which is still rock solid and loaded with depth and pathos, BTW). But I am talking about the voice he gives his characters, the way he chooses to portray them. It has been steady, by and large, since he first entered the studio to record Greetings From Asbury Park. Not every character is the same—not even close—but most seem to have some commonality in who they are and what they want.
The people he sings about and for are workers and dreamers, realists and believers. They are not perfect, and not always particularly virtuous. Whether they are narrators bathed in romance (Spanish Johnny in "Incident on 57th Street," the narrator in "Born to Run" and throughout that whole album, the youthful imp in "Growin' Up"), in their darkest of hours (most of Nebraska, the narrator in "Racing in the Street," the forlorn lost soul in "Long Walk Home") or somewhere in between, the voices of most of his characters all seem to come from the same place. The ones who struggle still want to do good. The ones who do wrong seem to know right from wrong. The ones who are pushed, pulled, beaten, discarded, let down, dragged or torn apart from something important to them are fully aware of this, but still know who they are and long for a place that believes in them.
Like the narrator of "Badlands," his first song of hard realism that came after a damaging three-year lawsuit with his old manager that kept him out of the studio for way too long. The singer is angry and his youthful enthusiasm is gone ("I'm caught in a crossfire that I don't understand…I don't give a damn for the same old played out scenes…") but he is still holding out hope, even if he's not counting on it ("I believe in the hope and I pray that someday it may raise me above these Badlands.")
As much as anything, that is why I admire Bruce Springsteen as much as I do. The voice with which he sings is so staggeringly consistent.
Which brings me to the topic of this post. "Jack of All Trades." The best song off his excellent new Wrecking Ball album and one of the five best songs he has recorded in the last 20 years.
"Jack of All Trades" is the fourth song on an album that is rife with anger and frustration about the death of the working class at the hands of estimable ruling class for the past decade. Characters on this album are unemployed or underemployed, they feel cheated by the "robber barons" (he actually does use that term) and the fat-cats, and they're pissed off. Some want to start committing crimes the way Wall Street has criminalized itself for the past 10 years. Some just shout from the rooftops "THIS IS WRONG" and wonder what's happened to the country they believed in. Some see the potential for change and hope that their voices are heard (interestingly, as the album moves along through its 11 tracks, the "hopeful" tone slowly overtakes much of the anger, something I don't believe is a coincidence.).
But throughout the album, people don't just feel cheated and blindsided—as the 99% have so painstakingly tried to say for the past year and more, they have been cheated and blindsided.
The narrator on "Jack of All Trades" gets this, and while his tone is not necessarily anger, he's not happy either. A tradesman looking for work, any work, to pay the bills and support his family, he stays tried and true to the belief, "We'll be all right." He sings it over and over again—at the end of nearly every verse, he first states his case ("I'm a Jack of all trades") and then offers hope to his loved ones ("We'll be all right.") Whether he is trying to reassure them or himself is left for the listener to guess. But he's a worker and he's not afraid of a hard day's work. He just wants someone to let him work, and the results will speak for themselves.
The song is hushed and gorgeous, following a single piano melody that loosely resembles "Color My World" throughout, with an orchestral backing that slowly builds as the nearly six minute song progresses. Bruce's voice is hard, deliberate. He sings as a man who's tired, but needs to work.
I'll mow your lawn
Clean the leaves out your drain
I'll mend your roof to keep out the rain
I'll take the work that God provides
I'm a Jack of all trades
Honey, we'll be alright
I'll hammer the nails
And I'll set the stone
I'll harvest your crops when they're ripe and grown
I'll pull that engine apart and patch her up
Until she's running right
I'm a Jack of all trades
We'll be alright
After backstory and simple statement of need in these first two verses, Bruce goes deeper and more universal on the first bridge that follows, with a sentiment so achingly lovely that it seems to hang on long after it is done, thanks in part to Curtis Ramm's ethereal trumpet solo that follows and takes the song up into the clouds.
A hurricane blows
Brings a hard rain
When the blue sky breaks
Feels like the world's gonna change
We'll start caring for each other like Jesus said that we might
I'm a Jack of all trades
We'll be alright
That is stunningly brilliant writing. And can't we all see it? Don't we all see the hope in a blue sky after a storm? Can't that bring a feeling of optimism, however fleeting, that if nature can resolve itself and bring the sunshine, can't we too start to help each other? Bruce leans rightfully on Gospel teachings here to bring the point home—yes, this is exactly what Jesus taught, so why can't we do it? And why can't we believe it?
He tells us why in the next verse.
The banker man grows fatter
The working man grows thin
It's all happened before and it'll happen again
It'll happen again
They'll bet your life
I'm a Jack of all trades
Darling we'll be alright
It's all happened before, it'll happen again. We've heard sentiments like this before from Bruce Springsteen—the impediment to getting the downtrodden what they need. We heard it in "Born in the U.S.A." in the voice of the forgotten Vietnam veteran ("…10 years burning down the road, nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go"), from the frustrated workers in "My Hometown" and "Youngstown," and from the virtual Last Man Standing ("Radio Nowhere," "Last To Die," "My City of Ruin.") And we keep hearing it, because this is the way the world treats the ones who don't make the rules.
We don't get resolution in "Jack of All Trades"—and I'm not sure we could, or should— but we do get a tiny sliver of optimism mixed into the cold, brutal reality in the final two verses.
Now sometimes tomorrow
comes soaked in treasure and blood
Here we stood the drought
Now we'll stand the flood
There's a new world coming
I can see the light
I'm a Jack of all trades
We'll be alright
So you use what you've got
And you learn to make do
You take the old,
you make it new
If I had me a gun I'd find the bastards and shoot 'em on sight
I'm a Jack of all trades
We'll be alright
And then, after nearly 5 minutes of simple piano, weary vocals and subtle orchestration, we are stunned upright by one of the most perfect, chilling guitar solos ever recorded. Guest star Tom Morello takes it and rather than angry shredding, he gives us melodic, understated perfection, with crystallized notes that shoot like a flare from the small, cruel world the narrator sits in and attempt to awaken and inform every creature on earth who may possibly see or hear. It is the final battle cry after the exhausted effort, the last ounce of energy available, and it lands "Jack of All Trades" somewhere deep inside your chest, where it is sure to stay awhile.
No, it's not exactly hope the song leaves you with as Morello's solo draws it to a close, and it's not angst and it's certainly not emptiness. What it is is what we all long to have at the end of one more long, hard day. Pride, and a stubborn belief in ourselves that we'll see it through to another one.
We'll be all right. Hopefully, we all will.


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Quality Web Designing Services are the crown and foremost needs of any business organization. Simply put, it is the process of designing the HTML web pages for the World Wide Web, slotting the different elements together sewn into one just to create a website. These elements include design, architecture, color, fonts, content and overall graphical outlook. Professional web designers, while creating a usable and profit assuring interactive website, take care of several principals that enhance the performance of the website that consist of User Interface, Navigation, Functionality and Accessibility.
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Professional high end business website designing services definitely render some colossal gains and tend to attract maximum customers. If your website appears to be rich and informative, they are going to stay. A book is judge by its cover, in the real world.
Enhanced Brand Identity:
A simple yet robust website design is sure to bear sweet fruits. Your business website is the visual representation of your business ideas, principals, services, ambition and goals. They are sure to play a cardinal role when it comes to lifting the business to peak of wealth and recognition.
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A user can determine whether a website is worth visiting or not. He will just take a glimpse on the website and will decide instantly whether he wants to stay or leave. If you have a highly interactive website design than you are going to retain maximum number of customers.
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A workable and applauded design helps you earn multiple trophies as compared to boring business rivals. If your company is offering the right stuff in right moment through a well developed and easy to use platform then it can successfully leap to the top.
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Any potential business clients and partner usually assess and recognizes you through your website design and thus, these elements has the potential to boost the market presence. Let their research and assessment take them to your website and garner new projects.
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We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support our tier 1 banking client on a major program of critical importance.
This will initially be a 6 month contract with strong chance of extension and will involve delivering compliance and regulatory solutions for a New Payments Program.
The duties of this role will involve:
- Design and documentation of a Target operating model
- Analysis of solutions being provided
- Support and review the process and controls
- Provide input into proposals
- Process Maps
- Business Requirements
- Delivery of quality artefacts within aggressive time frames
- assisting with the end to end requirements across the SDLC
The Successful candidate will have the following background and skills:
- Previous experience working in an agile environment
- Strong process analysis skills
- Previous experience working in banking environment
- Previous experience working on a NPP project (New Payments Platform)
- Ability to work in a large, complex environment
If you would like to be considered for this position, please submit your application urgently!


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As we embark on a new era with Dean James at the helm, here's a deeper look into her journey to Wharton, and the impact she has made during her time in academia.
Introducing Dean Erika James
"We are living in an era in which corporations are sometimes more powerful than the politicians that we elect. What we're trying to say to folks now is, 'Flex that power in the interest of your Black employees.'"
How Corporations and Local Government Can Join the Fight Against Racial Injustice
Sharing Stories to Find Common Ground at One Wharton Week
Sherry Ann Mohan, WG'13, says the EMBA program is an inclusive environment for underrepresented minorities. "Being in supportive spaces like Wharton helps me navigate in places where there aren't that many people who look like me."
How Wharton is Adding Value for this Finance Executive
Tanusri Balla, a senior in the M&T Program, shared how being a Wharton 101 TA and Co-Chair of Wharton Council enabled her to positively impact the freshman experience.
How This Undergrad Revamped the Club Recruitment Process for Wharton Freshmen
During this time of rapid adoption of technology, how can companies use digital tools to stay afloat and stay relevant? Scott Synder weighs in.
All Leaders Need to 'Think Digital' in the Age of COVID-19
From donations to delivery services for at-risk populations, the Wharton community is joining in the fight against the pandemic.
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Angela Specht, WG'20, chief of staff at Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health, came to Wharton for the credential of an MBA, but says she is getting "exponentially more" out of this program.
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We designed the On the Road collection to pay tribute to our favorite makes and models of vehicles. From passenger cars to trucks, vans, emergency vehicles and more, these die sets are fun to assemble and are perfect to use with our On the Right Track and Build a Scene collections (sold separately).
The On the Road - Wagon reminds us of the classic Radio Flyer from our childhood that we used to load up with toys and the neighbor kids to take for a ride. This set coordinates well with several of our Little Bits die sets (sold separately).
Set of 6 individual dies (when fully assembled, the wagon measures 3" x 1 3/4").


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Kamaole III
Nothing says summer quite like a BBQ at the beach and a few sacrificial watermelons. Luckily, Kam III already has the picnic tables and BBQ pits built in, so all you have to do is bring the food, family, fun and fire up the coals, then enjoy the fresh air, beach and all the joys of island living. Even if you're not the best outdoor chef, one of the best things about Kam III is that it's near all those great restaurants in Kihei (some which made it into BOM), for when you're tired of eating burnt BBQ and dealing with your brooding pre-teens complaining how all this sunshine is bad for their Twilight tans. @angryshortgirl
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How Does a Workplace Improves the Working Environment
As people who are experiencing various changes due to the effect of technology, we can say that this kind of technology will just keep on improving and it will not stop from creating for possibilities. In this connection, we can also see how technology is changing the workplace environment where so many private and public offices has been trying to adapt in these changes that keeps on happening because they might have foreseen some circumstances that these are all for the betterment of everyone as well as their company and business processes. The following are just some of changes that technology has brought to the workplace environment so learn more info.
Decreases the Surveillance Liability for Employees
Surveillance liabilities usually is coming from the cyber attacks these days, and it is mostly employees who overcome this kind of situation that they are the one who is working in the front line. There is an alarm and software that is now being installed to detect such attacks and is very sophisticated manner though. This is to let you know that if you are a worker you are no longer alone to fight if this incident might occur again. That is the leading way towards the success of the business it is great for the business matters and employees.
The Instance Where Marketing Procedure Are Both Stable and Accurate
The use of algorithms and web requirements that can make you get a plenty of customers are a bit trendy these days. If you are just comfortable to make time with people and have a strategy to get them with your ads, you can prevent wasting your money too much because you will no longer be putting your time just to post your online advertisements in front of people who will also have no time to read them at all but since there could be a lot of possible alternatives, you will be more confident about learning things like to feel more comfortable. All of this will be guaranteed to the insights provided by the latest technology.
To sum it up, technology will definitely become a main part of our lives since most of the things we do could somehow be related to technology. In the future, businesses will be able to make use of the business processes and create business strategies that aligns with the continuous development of technology in the workplace in order to make sure that all of these will give the company an edge over their competitors. One thing that is quite common at present is the presence of virtual merchant services and this helps people make their purchase safe and click here for more why it is without revealing their credit card details to other people.


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The difference between an ordinary corporate event and an extraordinary event comes down to the details. That's what an Encore Event Technologies' event is all about. We believe a great stage design is essential for a memorable experience – and is a key element in inspiring the people who attend.
Through our years of experience, we've come to know the right formula for a great stage design. Here are the elements we're always thinking about.
Stage design is about working with specific spaces, often within a limited set of possibilities. But our stage designers thrive on limitation, using space in unique and creative ways – to complement event speakers, boost brand messaging, or bring out the best in a performance or presentation. It's often a challenge, but one we'll find a solution for.
The harder the space is the more creative you need to be. We have built stages over pools, used modular stages, curved stages and many more. The possibilities really are endless. A great solution to help envisage the end stage design is to view a graphic render of the desired look. This can help you see how the stage will look in relation to the event space and help foresee any design and technical issues. View some of our render to reality examples.
Make the stage come alive with great lighting. When it's time to make a dramatic change, professional lighting can transform a plain space from a blank canvas into a completely new environment. It can control the mood of a stage, and hype up its energy. And it can create an event atmosphere that's both eye-catching and unforgettable.
A stage is simply an elevated platform, a blank canvas if you will, that requires design and AV elements to take it from something ordinary to something extraordinary. Corporate events are evolving and event planners are looking for new ways to make their events bigger and better than the last, without breaking the bank. An effective way to do this is investing in interesting stage design. Encore have developed a range a of stage design solutions that add impact to your event.
Event Backdrop is a visually striking and flexible branding solution, perfect for all events. It is a high-tech illuminated frame wrapped in a photographic-quality printed nylon. So simple, yet so effective! It's a great way of delivering a message, promoting a product, enhancing the theme of an event or building recognition of a brand.
Event Backdrop's also come in a variety of sizes to cater for small meeting rooms all the way to large ballroom size. This has been our most popular event product this year and can been used for a variety of events.
If you want to add WOW-factor to your next event, a simple solution is to incorporate digital stage banners and widescreens into your stage design. Traditionally, a stage set consists of the elevated platform underneath a large screen. With digital stage banners you can creatively position them across the stage to present your multimedia content in an interesting and engaging way.
Another option is to use Widescreens – which are by name, very wide digital banners used to project multimedia content onto. These are highly effective when you have a large stage to work with and through the use of blend projection can house highly immersive imagery.
Why not use both! If you're interested in exploring new ways to design your stage, speak to your Encore representative or contact us today.
We always pay particular attention to the visual elements of your event. Tools like animation and high-impact video are great ways to capture your audience's imagination, while 3D projection mapping can transform dull presentations into stimulating visual journeys. The use of LED walls, projection screens and stage backdrops can also engage your audience and help deliver your message – but also enhance your overall branding and create a lasting impression.
At Encore, we believe the stage should be as much a feature as what's happening on it. With the proper use of space, lighting and visuals, it can become its own key part of the experience. This transformation helps to boost your event's theme, and it adds another dimension to audience engagement. Ultimately? Great stage design can be the difference between a run-of-the-mill presentation, and an enjoyable real-life experience with a sense of ceremony and lasting messages.
With more than 30 year experience designing amazing stage sets for event of all shapes and sizes, you can count on Encore to create something extraordinary for yours. Whether your event is a conference, product launch, gala dinner or a small C-level presentation - with all eyes on the stage it's important you get its design right. Get in touch with one of our friendly team members to start discussing your event needs and hear our ideas. Send an online enquiry or give us a call today on 1800 209 099.
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Every technical aspect that Encore Event Technologies (formerly Staging Connections) was involved with ran perfectly. It was a pleasure to work with you and such dedicated and experienced staff.
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The most important attributes of Encore Event Technologies (formerly Staging Connections) is their reliability and honesty. In all dealings with Encore complete transparency is used and what they promise is always delivered.
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Encore Event Technologies (formerly Staging Connections) are a company that continues to grow because of its strong focus on staff, training and commitment to the purchase of high quality products which ensures they can deliver the services to the expectation of their clients, every time, without fail.
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Dynamic's core competencies lies in designing, building and commissioning a complete range of looms including Rapiers for the textile industry. It enjoys a position of respect & admiration in its markets for providing the latest world-class technologies designed specifically for the Indian market.
Dynamic is proud to be the only large Rapier Loom Machinery Manufacturer who has all its products developed indigenously without any technology transfer or collaboration. Dynamic has been able to achieve this because of its great team of managers & engineers, most of whom are from respected institutions in India, led by its entrepreneur Chairman, Mr. Vasantbhai Patel.
Dynamic has manufacturing facilities at Ahmedabad (Gujarat) & a marketing base in the textile city of Surat (Gujarat).
Dynamic has constantly contributed to promoting accelerated growth of the textile industry especially the Automated weaving sector. Today, after 27 successful years of constant endeavour, it has reached maximum efficiency at the manufacturing stage and has achieved the highest production capacity. This has enabled it to reach out to every textile market across the country: i.e., Bombay, Bangalore, Salem, Coimbatore, Benaras, Hyderabad and Ichalkaranji and Asian Continent with existing clientele in Nepal , Sri Lanka etc.


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Scary Spider Cookies
These chocolate treats are scarily easy to make and fun to share.
Buttery baking spread*, softened
Caster sugar
Cocoa powder
Self-raising flour
Plain chocolate
Liquorice strings
White chocolate buttons
*Recipe is based on 70% fat buttery baking spread.
You will also need…
Baking trays lined with parchment
Step 1 of 4
Preheat the oven to 180°C, (160°C for fan ovens), Gas Mark 4.
Step 2 of 4
In a large bowl, cream the buttery baking spread, sugar and condensed milk until light and fluffy. Mix the flour and cocoa powder together then add to the buttery mixture to form a soft dough.
Step 3 of 4
Tip the dough onto a piece of parchment and roll into a log 3 to 4cm thick. Chill in the freezer for 15 minutes then cut into slices about half a cm thick. Place onto the baking sheets spacing well apart as they'll spread! Bake for 12-15 minutes.
Step 4 of 4
Cut the liquorice strings into 2cm pieces. Melt the chocolate and add to the Carnation Caramel, mix well and allow to cool slightly. Once the cookies have chilled, spread a thin amount of chocolate caramel icing on the base of each one. Pair them together and glue with 8 liquorice legs. Use the remaining chocolate caramel icing to stick the Milkybar buttons for eyes in place and decorate.
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