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Monika Sosnowska
- David Pollock
- 30 October 2008
While Polish artist Monika Sosnowska's architecturally-concerned works can often be playful in tone, the pieces on display here are masked by a kind of bleak austerity. In this regard, Sosnowska has taken inspiration from her home city of Krakow, and in particular the grey concrete and steel of the ugly, prefabricated buildings which rose upon the sites of World War II destruction.
Of course, this 20th century cycle of razing and regeneration will be familiar to most other European cities, and Glasgow has seen the worst of it. It seems fitting, then, that Sosnowska's main piece, an untitled assemblage of two steel bars rising upwards and parallel with each other from the centre of a volcanic mound of fresh-dried concrete, should sit in the patch of waste ground next to the gallery. Caged in by a rusty fence and set amidst a weeded and partly-walled patch of cleared ground (none of these surrounding items are part of the installation), the work is both camouflaged and contextualised by its position. The steel and concrete thrusts from the land itself, a natural result of the inevitability of human progression.
Indoors, Sosnowska's work is perhaps more subtle. A single right-angled corner of painted metal bleeds off into seemingly melted lumps, the surety of the structure undermined, while two plastic crates (Barr's drinks crates, which may or may not be a conscious cultural comment) lay filled with set concrete, which serves to somehow commodify the material rather than what it might create. Elsewhere, a web of steel poles grows outward, filling a room and burrowing into the walls and ceiling, further coinciding these inanimate materials with something organic in our minds.
The Modern Institute, Glasgow, until Sat 8 Nov


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As he began a visit to Syria on Monday Annan called the "tragic" massacre in the central town "an appalling moment with profound consequences".
The former UN chief said those responsible must be held to account, and urged "everyone with a gun" to abide by his six-point blueprint to help end 15 months of bloodshed.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem met Annan and the head of the UN observer mission in Syria, Major General Robert Mood.
Muallem explained "the truth of what is happening in Syria and the attacks against law and order which are aimed at sowing chaos ... (despite) the reforms that Syria has adopted in all areas," the official SANA news agency reported.
World leaders have voiced outrage over the deaths of at least 108 people in the central town of Houla on Friday and Saturday, among them 49 children and 34 women, many blown to bits or shot dead at point blank range.
French President Francois Hollande's office said on Monday that Syria's leaders would have to answer for their "murderous folly".
Pope Benedict XVI was "pained" by the massacre and called on religious communities in Syria to co-operate to bring peace to the violence-wracked country.
Meanwhile Canada's foreign minister called on the UN Security Council to take "stronger diplomatic action," including economic sanctions against the regime over its "senseless slaughter of its own people."
The comments came after the UN Security Council – where Syrian allies Russia and China wield veto powers – on Sunday condemned the Damascus government's use of heavy artillery in the assault on Houla.
Annan told reporters in Damascus that he was "personally shocked and horrified by the tragic incident in Houla," saying the Security Council was right to condemn it.
He urged Damascus to take "bold steps" to signal it is serious in its intention to resolve the crisis peacefully.
"And this message of peace is not only for the government, but for everyone with a gun.
"The six-point plan has to be implemented comprehensively. And this is not happening. I intend to have serious and frank discussions with President Bashar al-Assad," he said.
Those talks are scheduled for Tuesday, a Syrian official said on condition of anonymity.
Human Rights Watch demanded that Annan push Assad's government to allow the UN-appointed Commission of Inquiry on Syria to investigate the massacre.
Annan's peace plan was supposed to begin with a ceasefire from April 12, but this has been broken daily.
A Syria watchdog group said another 64 people were killed throughout the country on Monday, a day after 87 died despite the putative truce.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 34 of Sunday's dead were killed in random shelling of the central city of Hama by troops retaliating for losses.
The Observatory says more than 13,000 people have been killed in violence since the outbreak of the revolt of the Assad regime in March last year.
The UN Security Council's condemnation of the Syrian government's role in the Houla massacre did little to bring the international powers together to end the crisis.
Britain and France had proposed a text making an even stronger condemnation of the Assad government, but Russia would not agree on the wording and demanded a special meeting before approving the eventual text.
France said on Monday it would host a Friends of Syria meeting in Paris, after Hollande and British Prime Minister David Cameron held talks on the crisis, and slammed the Assad regime for its part in the Houla massacre.
"The murderous folly of the Damascus regime represents a threat for regional security and its leaders will have to answer for their acts," Hollande's office said.
And Britain summoned Syria's top diplomat in London to protest against the "sickening and evil" Houla massacre, the government said.
Saudi Arabia, which has advocated arming the rebels and called for Assad to quit, urged the international community "to stop the bloodshed and the use of force against unarmed civilians," the official SPA news agency reported.
But Syria's UN envoy Bashar Jaafari said accusations of government responsibility were part of a "tsunami of lies."
Russia defended its key Middle East ally at the Security Council, and on Monday said both sides bore responsibility.
"Here we have a situation where both sides clearly had a hand in the fact that peaceful citizens were killed," said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Syria's opposition renewed its call to the international community to help Syrians defend themselves.
"The Syrian National Council calls (on) brothers and friends of the Syrian people to help before it's too late," the exiled group said in a statement.
The Free Syrian Army has warned that unless the international community takes concrete action it will no longer be bound by Annan's plan.
Syria's Muslim Brotherhood lashed out at the UN Security Council for sending what it said was the "wrong message" to Damascus by only condemning the Houla massacre.
A growing concern for the international community is the more than 280 UN observers deployed in Syria as part of the peace plan.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the Houla massacre had added to pressure on the monitors – the first UN force to be thrown unarmed into a conflict with a non-existent ceasefire – and that there was no "Plan B" if Annan's peace plan failed.
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Here's the victim, getting a little branch bump sliced off, for between-centers balancing purposes.
Cape Chestnut, it is.
Photo lifted from Web.
This, I know now, is a stunning bit of wood.
Finding that this tree, evidently , grows in layers. Layers that will sometimes flake off.
Not to worry. I've dealt with worse things.
Oh, the movement in there.
Hogging out wasn't easy. Nothing's easy for me.
I had someone else's goblet in my head, I guess, when I settled on this shape.
These cracks, if you'll go back a coupple shots, were internal. Not to worry. I've dealt with worse things. Super Glue, which later popped out and had to be re-done.
After the thinning was dome, of course.
I wonder, now, if I should just go with a Palm Tree-Shaped stem.
Nah. That's not what I set out to do. This is what I set out to do.
This is how I make something wobble on the chuck.
So many ways to go.
A little Rattle-Can Shellac.
A little WOP, brushed on.
And we're back where we started.
-- Mark
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#1 posted 09-26-2015 05:31 AM
Wow! Mark, you are an artist. That chestnut finished out nicely.
-- The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. Benjamin Franklin
#2 posted 09-26-2015 05:48 AM
Thanks, John. The finish could be better. And it will be next time.
-- Mark
#3 posted 09-26-2015 12:20 PM
Good to see you achieved the object Mark, nice goblet with the wobbly stem. Well done, nice finish.
-- Bob C, Australia. Your best teacher is your last mistake.
#4 posted 09-26-2015 01:09 PM
I like this contrast between natural edge and turned part of the project.Remind me on kind of tulip flower.
-- Ivan, Croatia, Wooddicted
#5 posted 09-26-2015 01:22 PM
Nicely Done!!
-- Lew- Time traveler. Purveyor of the Universe's finest custom rolling pins.
#6 posted 09-26-2015 03:54 PM
Nice. Now you are making it look easy. A face shield may be needed on the next adventure. Keep them coming.
-- Dave, Downers Grove, Il. -------- When you run out of ideas, start building your dreams.
#7 posted 09-26-2015 09:10 PM
Pretty cool, Mark. But where'd you buy that wood magnet? I've searched and searched, cant find one anywhere!
-- Perform A Random Act Of Kindness Today ... Pay It Forward
#8 posted 10-21-2015 12:28 AM
Clever work mate.
-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python
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Valvoline Co. for the first time is targeting Generation X with a motor oil campaign.
"One of the company's goals is to have the youngest user in the category," said Jan Horsfall, director of marketing and advertising.
Valvoline decided to focus on the younger crowd because 35% of people who change their own oil start between the ages of 18 and 24.
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If you have corrections or additional details regarding records in the collection, please use the digital collection's public comments feature, or contact the Denny Ashby Library directly to update the information.
At one time there were five distinct communities in Garfield County, Washington, not including the city of Pomeroy. In 2010-2011, the Denny Ashby Library worked with the Garfield County Museum and the community at large to gather a collection of photos revealing the towns of Columbia Center, Gould City, Mayview, Pataha City, and Peola. While many local residents had heard of the early towns of Garfield County, very few had seen photos showing what these towns looked like or documenting the social life that once existed in places that, for the most part, have reverted to open fields and grassland. This collection provides a glimpse into the varied and culturally rich past of Garfield County's earliest communities.
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In 2009-2010, the Denny Ashby Library worked to compile a comprehensive pictorial collection of early rural schoolhouses throughout Garfield County, Washington. At one time there were over 47 schools in the area, and a significant portion of Garfield County's elderly population attended these schools, which were phased out in the mid-1940s. The material in the collection comes from a variety of sources including the Garfield County Museum (Pomeroy, WA), private collections of community members, and the collection of local photographer Lynn Leaverton. Mr. Leaverton, a local historian and retired school teacher, was inspired a number of years ago to collect photographs and information about the many schoolhouses scattered throughout Garfield County. His 43 images date to 2007, and depict schoolhouses in various states of repair, as well as the sites on which schoolhouses once stood. These present-day images document a vanishing facet of early community life in Garfield County, and underscore the importance of preserving information about these schools before the last of them fall to the ground and the people who have first-hand knowledge of them are gone.
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Discussion in 'iPhone' started by iphonehype, Jan 30, 2013.
Oh how I love Apple
Enjoy the troll guys !
Thanks for the link.
Saw this clip doing the rounds on twitter earlier.
Absolutely incredible.
That is hilarious!
This guy must have been a politician in his former life...
Just saw the keynote, so there is a Z-10 touchscreen and a Q-10 physical kbd BB. THEY ARE STICKING to the physical kbd!
I have nothing against physical kbd EXCEPT they take room, makes screen smaller, other than that...
Haha, great clip
Don't be niggardly when choosing which aluminum to use for the body.
His lack of confidence in the product is pretty apparent. If you can't answer a simple question because it scares you to mention the competitor's products, it just makes you look like an idiot.
oh, even I can come up with something off the cuff that would still be diplomatic.
How about "don't stop innovating?"
to some, that would mean the artists formerly known as RIM learned a humble lesson about continuing to improve their products.
To others, it would be a dig at Apple and a nod to those with cell phone ADHD who insist Apple's products are stale and they'll be out of business in a few months if Tim Cook isn't fired.
Everyone is happy.
also: shame on the BBC for not having mobile-friendly content.
"What have you learned from the iPhone"? I think it's an insulting question for the former kings of the hill. I'm sure they hate with a passion the company that nearly ran them out of business. Wouldn't surprise me if 'Apple' was a forbidden work over at RIM/Blackberry.
He could at least acknowledge the question even if he doesn't give a forthright answer.
It's more insulting to the interviewer that he was COMPLETELY ignored.


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POLICE have arrested a 16-year-old girl and seized copious amounts of alcohol from underaged drinkers littering the streets of Halton.
Operation Binocular launched by Halton's Community Action Team (CAT) is cracking down on drink-fuelled 'hot spots' - including Ascot Avenue, following a string of residents' complaints .
In recent weeks, the police have dedicated more than 100 man hours to areas such as Ascot Avenue, and have doubled the number of officers out on patrol.
Sergeant Andrew Delooze of the CAT team has praised Operation Binocular for leading to the Malpus Road arrest, and the recovery of 37 bottles of booze.
Police reports also reveal the number of complaints from local residents has dropped from 58 to 28 since Operation Binocular began.
Sgt Delooze said: 'Operation Binocular has proved very successful in targeting vandals and under-aged drinkers.
'We arrested a girl for being drunk and disorderly. She was later reprimanded for her first offence.'
He added: 'It isn't unusual for people across the town to use surveillance cameras as a means of protecting their property, but these problem areas are getting better.
'We do welcome calls from the public. We're not neglecting the area, on the contrary we are concentrating a lot of our energies on this area.'


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text: Newsweek is reporting that Bart Simpson shows his mini-twig and berries in the new Simpson's movie. Apparently Bart makes a bet with Homer and the loser has to skateboard through the streets of Springfield bare assed naked. Bart loses and pays up on the bet, airing his cartoon crank for the world to see. Personally I am not into cartoon porn, but this is brilliant marketing by the Simpson's writers. Chalk up another buzz worthy stunt for Hollywood.


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Since Solare specifically asked people not to go off topic in the other thread, I thought I'd paste this post here instead. The worst that can happen is that it falls into oblivion, eh? I would probably survive if it did. Anyway:
I can't help but think it would be neat if CB worked a bit like:
Except that instead of paying for new equipment tiers you'd need to break various milestones to unlock stuff. Because anyway, no special ability would make a base 2 weapon more desirable than a base 40 one. (Unless that special ability could augment in effectiveness as you upgrade the item...but even then, some things can't work that way or they'd be OP.) Forget daggers. They don't exist anymore. They can't be buffed. As long as NuBs keep making so much cash, they'll always be able to afford the best loot FAST, while disregarding the sucky, static stats of lower quality gear. If you wanted to prevent that (and bring back the thrill of moving through the loot ladder) you would have to force players through the various equipment "tiers"...somehow.
But not by buffing existing items.


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It may not have been a Christmas miracle, but it certainly was a surprise.
When Indiana State Police Master Trooper Don Farris pulled an Indianapolis man over to the side of Interstate 74 for a traffic violation Thursday, the violation itself wasn't what stood out — what stood out was the cargo Christopher Hansen was hauling across the state in the back of his big white van, police said in a news release.
After the trooper let Hansen off with just a warning, police said that Hansen made the officer an unusual offer: Want to see the reindeer in the back of my van?
Hansen wasn't bluffing, either. When Farris took a look in the back of the 2014 Dodge, he saw the adult reindeer in the back of the vehicle for himself, police said.
Naturally, Farris got a couple pictures to prove it to any non-believers.
"You just never know what will transpire during a traffic stop along our highways," Sgt. Joe Watts, an Indiana State Police spokesman, said in a statement.
Hansen told the trooper that he was en route to Attica, Indiana at the time to put on a show for elementary school students, police said. Hansen puts on the shows as a part of a business, Silly Safaris Shows, Inc., which is based in Indianapolis.
Silly Safaris provides more than 3,000 live, conservation-inspiring animal shows across the country every year, according to the company's website.
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You can only access to the enclosure and to the merchandising zone. You won't have access to the panels zone and other activities and you won't be able to buy extra tickets for you. In case you would like to take a picture or access a panel, you must do an upgrade to a higher pass.
You have more information regarding this in our FAQ (read here)
If you're a parent/legal guardian that have already bought the pass when this option wasn't available, send as an email to email@example.com and we will repay it to you with the difference of the pass that you purchased.
Clearly, every parent/legal guardian that want to enjoy the event with their son or daughter, can purchase any other pass, not just the "companion ticket".


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doxyparser 1.3
Ruby Gem for parsing C++ header files. This library is based on Nokogiri (http://nokogiri.org) and takes as input the xml files generated by Doxygen (www.doxygen.org). Parsing with Doxygen allows us to parse even a set of non-compilable include files. This is very useful in case you need to parse only a subset of a big library which won't normally compile because of being incomplete or needing further build configuration (e.g Makefiles, VS, SCons, etc). By using other tools which rely on a real C/C++ processor like gccxml or swig, you would normally get lots of compilation-related errors (which is undesired because we don't want to compile anything!!). Doxyparser is, in such cases, the lean alternative.


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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed into law by the president in December of 2017, affects the income tax of both businesses and individuals and the federal estate tax on the estates of certain high-net-worth individuals.
Some highlights:
Except for increasing the deduction ceiling on cash gifts from 50% to 60% of AGI, the effect on charitable giving is more indirect than direct. The deduction of charitable gifts by itemizers and the gift instruments have been preserved. The income-tax savings from charitable gifts will generally be somewhat smaller because of the lower tax rates and because a larger number of individuals will not itemize deductions and thus will not realize tax savings from their gifts.
Here are some charitable strategies to consider for this year:
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White House Seeks to Regain Control of Its Message With New Strategy
The White House -- knocked off balance by a resurgent Republican Party, stagnant poll numbers and partisan gridlock in Congress -- is seeking to regain its stride with a new communications strategy.
Dan Pfeiffer, the new White House communications director, vows to do a better job of delivering the Obama's message and says the strategy in 2010 will include a sharper focus on the president's signature issues and a faster and more aggressive response to Republican attacks.
Obama will spend more time reminding Americans he's the candidate who promised to change Washington's toxic ways and will spend more time out of Washington where his message is more warmly received, Pfeiffer said.
The refined strategy already has been put into effect. Last week, right after a meeting with Republicans, the president conducted his first news conference in six months to make sure the GOP comments to reporters outside the White House didn't define the day.
On Sunday, Vice President Biden countered former Vice President Dick Cheney by appearing in two morning news shows instead of waiting until the next day to respond.
And the president is expected to hit the road at the end of the week.
Stephen Farnsworth, a communications professor at George Mason University, says the strategy might work.
"No matter how unpopular a president is, the Congress is still more unpopular than the president," he said.
But other experts doubt a new strategy will make a difference.
It's hard to make the case that voters don't know what Obama wants, since he had more prime time news conferences in his first year than any president in history, said Dana Perino, the last press secretary for President George W. Bush.
Perino thinks the White House's tone has been too aggressive.
"I think aggressive tactics is one thing," she said. "I think a softer tone would be helpful."
In the case of health care reform, Farnsworth said the president's "deference to Capitol Hill" was costly, He thinks the White House gave Republicans an opening that they exploited.
The Republican insistence that the reforms would be a government takeover drowned out the president's contention that the reforms are needed to keep future budget deficits in check, he said.
In his news conference last week, Obama conceded the public's view of legislative deal making in the debate turned people against the reforms.
"I think that actually contaminates how they view the substance of the bills," he said.
But Perino believes it's not a matter of packaging. She said Obama spent "most of his political capital on the health care bill when he should have been focusing on jobs."
Farnsworth said the overreach was typical.
"It's very tempting for an administration to pull all of the levers at the same time and Washington simply cannot work effectively if the president's attention moves in 10 different directions," he said.
Perino also said the White House picked fights it should have left to surrogates, including disputes with Cheney, Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh.
Sunday's virtual confrontation between Biden and Cheney served as an example. While Cheney moderated his tone, Biden said Cheney was "either misinformed or misinforming" the American public about the Obama administration's efforts in the war on terror.
Farnsworth said a more partisan atmosphere and the Democrats' lopsided majorities in the House and Senate exacerbate the problem.
"There are fewer and fewer moderate elected officials," he said, explaining that for Republicans "there is no downside to opposing the president."
Farnsworth suggested likely Republican Congressional gains in the 2010 elections could lead to "more of an environment that is conducive to compromise," as Republicans have more chance to influence legislation instead of simply blocking it.
Every president adjusts his ways of dealing with Congress and talking to the American people at some point in his administration, Farnsworth said.
He said the changes happening in the Obama White House are "something a lot like you saw in the third year of the Clinton presidency or the fourth year of the Bush presidency," suggesting that the mistakes of the first year aren't necessarily fatal.
Perino feels the proof of the pudding will be the 2010 midterm elections. She said the Obama White House both misread the polls before Republican Scott Brown won the Senate seat in Massachusetts previously held by the late Ted Kennedy, and misread the meaning of the win afterward.
"So where do they go from here is the big question," Perino said.


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Fiddler On The Roof rehearsals continue
St. Mary's Choral Society in Clonmel has commenced rehearsals for Fiddler on the Roof, the society's 113th production, which will be staged from April 25 to May 3 in the White Memorial Theatre.
One of the most popular and beloved of all stage musicals and one of Broadway's longest-running of all time, Fiddler on the Roof enjoyed a marathon run of over 13 years and over 3,000 performances from its premiere in 1964. It won nine Tony Awards, had four Broadway revivals and was made into a film of the same name starring Chaim Topol.
Fiddler on the Roof captures all the emotions of laughter and joy to tears and sadness and is filled to the brim with memorable and instantly recognisable songs including If I Were a Rich Man, Matchmaker Matchmaker, Sunrise Sunset, To Life, Tradition and many more. This will be the third time St. Mary's has staged this ever-popular musical and while still in the early stages of rehearsal, new and old members are welcome to come along and join the cast for what promises to be a wonderful show. Rehearsals continue each Wednesday night at 8pm in the White Memorial Theatre.


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Epic Sea Feud details:
Location: Allied Port: Tunis Port
Offensive: France with England and Portugal as her ally
Defensive: Venice with Netherlands and Spain as her ally
- 1st Round: June 23th 7:00pm – 10:00pm [PST]
- 2nd Round: June 24th 7:00pm – 10:00pm [PST]
- 3rd Round: June 25th 7:00pm – 10:00pm [PST]
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- Double Experience: level up twice as fast!
- Sailing consumes 50% less water and food
- +1 to all battle skills
- 100% success rate for Body Language skill
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|Looming Challenges: Internal Structures and Systems
Duplicative and Ineffective Organizational Structures. The newly appointed management team inherited two almost completely unrelated entities. Little or no coordination has been occurring in areas where, to external observers, opportunities are abundant: both HCD and HABC operate social services programs (including day care), and both maintain separate personnel, housing development, and financial management operations. This compartmentalization inhibits opportunities for more effective and efficient management.
Limited Neighborhood Planning and Partnerships. One of the clear successes of the Schmoke Administration is the successful redevelopment of long-standing troubled public housing projects. In developing Pleasant View Gardens and other similar projects through the federal HOPE VI program'the program has provided HABC with $200 million in redevelopment funds over the last seven years'HCD has been able to change neighborhood dynamics and improve living conditions for low-income people, while creating places that are assets to their surrounding neighborhoods.
Beyond HOPE VI, neighborhood planning and the strategic placement of resources are notably absent. HCD and HABC development efforts (acquisition, disposition and demolition of smaller properties as well as larger-scale development projects), are largely performed piecemeal rather than as part of overall neighborhood improvement and recovery strategies. The corresponding result is that in very few instances have the use of the Department's development funds resulted in significant impact on the surrounding neighborhood. This absence results in part from the paucity of neighborhood planners within HCD. The Department lacks the planning capacity to be good partners with neighborhoods in developing successful futures for Baltimore's communities.
Absence of Performance Standards. In examining program performance, our overarching finding is that the Department is not performance-driven. Despite the fact that certain divisions and sections (HOPE VI and CDBG Compliance, for example) have performed quite strongly, their success is due more to the talents of the individuals involved than to a management system based on performance measures. The project team can find virtually no program or activity within the Department that is evaluated regularly on the basis of output measures. For example:
Although the Neighborhood Service Centers are responsible for handling citizen complaints and requests for service, no regular reports are generated describing the number of complaints received and those successfully handled.
Before the appointment of the new management team, there was no norm established for the number of inspections that should be completed daily, weekly, or monthly by housing inspectors.
The staff responsible for property acquisition and disposition'a critical function to see to it that new real estate development can occur in the city'are not held accountable for achieving any particular volume goals.
Property managers within HABC are handicapped in being held accountable for matters like building maintenance, turnover of vacant units, rent collections, etc.'which are handled centrally by HABC'rather than being given full responsibility for what is commonly understood to be property management.
Those operating the Section 8 leasing program are not held accountable for increasing the number of landlords participating in the program, or getting rent payments out on time.
Nonprofit contractors are not monitored closely enough or held accountable for their failure to meet desired outcomes.
Critical Management Information System Needs. The HABC management information system (MIS) is in crisis. According to an internal Inspector General Report, in 1994, HABC senior management determined that the mainframe computer system supporting all HABC and HCD business functions needed to be replaced, and that a new system needed to be put in place prior to the end of 1999 since the old mainframe was not Y2K compliant.
The deadline was not met. As it stands today, the following public housing applications are not part of the new computer system, and a manual system is being used: all tenant rent collections (TARS, for Tenants Accounts Receivable); payments to landlords under the Section 8 program; the tenant accounts data system (TADS); the Housing Authority Utilities Management System; and the Inventory/Procurement/Work Order system. Under a manual system, the Housing Authority cannot reliably count the number of occupied public housing units or utilized Section 8 vouchers and certificates.
The most serious failure caused by the system breakdown has been within the federally funded Section 8 leasing program (in which 13,000 rental certificates and vouchers are distributed to the elderly, families and persons with disabilities). While most other housing authorities run Section 8 at a 'profit,' HABC has incurred considerable additional costs due to the system breakdown. Landlords have threatened to evict tenants because the Authority is slow to pay the landlords their rent due, and the Authority has incurred extra costs in overtime for manual data entry (cashiers have had to manually type more than 1,000 court cases to pursue tenants delinquent on rent). In addition to resulting in extra costs, the manual system increases the potential for fraud.
HCD, which is serviced by HABC's MIS division, also faces critical information technology needs. The Acquisitions and Disposition Division cannot make much-needed progress on the backlog of properties to be acquired and disposed of without the development of a central repository of information about the status of those properties. Housing inspectors need an automated system to record, store, retrieve and transmit housing code violation data in order to more quickly resolve code violations. Without these and other upgrades to the Department's MIS system, HCD will be unable to implement many of the recommendations included in this report.
Personnel Systems Impede Effective Management. Despite the fact that the Department benefits from some very strong employees, the overall culture needs to be transformed to become far more results-oriented. Employees are not managed to performance goals, with the result that there is barely any basis to discipline poor performance or reward excellent performance. Consider that in an organization as large as the Department'2,200 employees'the project team heard of only half a dozen or so terminations for cause in recent years, and these were for blatantly inappropriate behavior such as drug use and frequent unexplained absences. There were no instances in which someone was terminated simply because they were not performing to management's standards. To the extent legally possible, more management staff'particularly at the division director level'must be exempted from Civil Service regulations in order to provide the Commissioner and her deputies with more control over staffing decisions. In addition, improved management systems and training programs are needed so that these large organizations can be managed more effectively.
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The results come from surveying 525 middle-aged people participating in the Morehouse-Emory Partnership to Eliminate Cardiovascular Health Disparities (META-Health) study on their sleep quality and sleep duration. Data from the study are presented Sunday in Chicago by Doctor Alanna Morris, a cardiology fellow at Emory University School of Medicine.
Acute sleep deprivation leads to an increased production of inflammatory hormones and changes in blood vessel function, but more research is needed on the physiological effects of chronic lack of sleep, Morris says.
"Most of the studies looking at the body's response to lack of sleep have looked at subjects who have been acutely sleep deprived for more than 24 hours in experimental sleep laboratories," she says. "Nothing of this sort has been investigated in epidemiologic studies."
In the META-Health study, the researchers assessed sleep quality using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index survey, where a score over six (based on the median sleep score of the study population) is considered poor. They also analyzed their data based on hours of sleep.
Individuals who reported six or fewer hours of sleep had higher levels of three inflammatory markers: fibrinogen, IL-6 and C-reactive protein. In particular, average C-reactive protein levels were about 25 percent higher (2 milligrams per liter compared to 1.6) in people who reported fewer than six hours of sleep, compared to those reporting between six and nine hours. That difference was still significant even when the data is corrected for known risk factors such as smoking, blood pressure, diabetes and obesity, Morris says.
C-reactive protein is used as a marker of inflammation and heart disease risk. People whose C-reactive protein levels are in the upper third of the population have roughly double the risk of a heart attack. "For people who got little sleep, the C-reactive protein levels were increased, but still in the range of what health authorities would consider low to intermediate risk," she says. "However, our study population represents a community-based population, so they have overall lower risk and lower C-reactive protein levels than many of the high risk populations in other studies."
Previous research has shown that people who sleep between seven and eight hours per night live longest, and that especially short or especially long sleep durations bring higher mortality. Researchers find that short and long sleep durations are often seen together with high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes and psychological stress – all risk factors for heart disease and stroke.
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Peridot Restaurant (at The Bentley Hotel), Gloucester Road
People love the food and service! and like the ambience
1 Peridot Restaurant (at The Bentley Hotel) customer reviews
27-33 Harrington Gardens
Phone: 02072445555 Fax: 02072445566
Gloucester Road (only 225m away)
Earls Court
Within the discreet surroundings of The Bentley London - A Hilton Hotel, Peridot is our brasserie offering breakfast, lunch, dinner and afternoon tea. Peridot is set in a light summery room with refreshing natural day light and a view of neighbouring residential gardens.The informal restaurant bustles through the day, starting with a varied lunch setting to dainty afternoon tea complete with pastries and cakes and finishing with a grande dinner.
Average Price
Main Course £8
Three Course Meal £35
Three Course Meal £35
Recent Customer Reviews of Peridot Restaurant (at The Bentley Hotel)
Popular Local Sights
Earl's Court
Warwick Rd. Exhibition Halls and Royal Tournaments.
French Restaurants near Gloucester Road:
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Children bring joy and laughter to any event. On long days like weddings children can get restless, so it is important to keep those little guests entertained. This is where Hooray Entertainment can offer our experience, professionalism and support to provide children with the best kind of fun at your wedding.
From classic entertainment such as games, balloon modelling, magic, and activity entertainment including jewellery making, t-shirt colouring and more, to a walk-around entertainer, mascot hire and face painting, you're truly spoiled for choice and can be confident your excitable little guests will be thoroughly entertained.
All our wedding options are flexible and can be entirely customised to suit your wedding and children's needs. Discover more by party entertainer, mascots or machine hire. Cost depends entirely on how long you would like to hire our services so feel free to call us today on 0800 118 2400 / 020 7183 8837 for a more detailed breakdown or to enquire further as to how we can help.


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Discussion in 'The Bar' started by A Succulent Chinese Meal, Sep 13, 2010.
Gotta trim up these guns.
Is that you in your av?
if you're serious, let me know how it is. I have been eating nutri-system regular stuff for like 8 months, and lost weight. but this select stuff looks better. I am sick of greyish looking food.
It's preferable not to have triceps that flap in the breeze.
Green drink and EECP sessions are really the only way to go.
Have you considered walking some deer trails in Germany?
Just eat a damn portion, will ya.
i think that's how nutri-system works. You ever see the portions? it is laughable. Especially after 11 minutes in the microwave...
Plus, some of it tastes to bad, you lose your appetite. some of it is really good tho.
those nutrichocolates are my faaaavorite, and the m&m things. I like some of the things, but after so long i am sooooo sick of it.
I'm the same way with portions. I love food.
i stay away from the chicken. rotini & meatballs is gooooood!
Move to Ladies Forum plz
I'm having chinese leftovers for lunch
In your fat face
Ive lost 11 pounds eating lean cuisines and yogurt. I use one of those apps to track the food too. I also go to the gym 3 times a week now. Let me know how the nutri system works out. I was going to try that.
Bobtraw and Dalepie, combined weight :190, are on diets
It is a man's world
i lost 47 pounds on it. took a while. like 8 months. i am really anxious to see how bobtraw like the select. I want to try it.
I think the only way I can keep the weight off is to eat nutri-system 3-4 times a week.
gotta look good for men on message boards ya know.
Did you eat the whole week's worth of food in one day?
Diet schmiet. All you have to do is expend more calories than you consume. Eat 6 small healthy meals a day, drink a lot of water w/ at least 30 minutes of exercise (cardio and weights).


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Our mission is to deliver excellent service and provide you with an extraordinary experience. At First Centennial Mortgage, we believe the home purchase and finance process should be exciting, enjoyable and exceptional in every sense. In business since 1995, brothers Steven and David McCormick have grown their mortgage firm from a simple mortgage brokerage to a multi-office mortgage banking powerhouse currently licensed to do business in 12 states.
Mortgage Executive Magazine named First Centennial Mortgage one of the Top 100 Mortgage Companies for the last 7 consecutive years. In 2017 and 2018, First Centennial Mortgage was ranked a Fastest Growing Company in America by Inc 5000. First Centennial Mortgage is also one of less than 3% of lenders in America recognized as a LendRIGHT™ lender.
Today, First Centennial Mortgage is one of the most respected and referred lenders in the communities which we serve; both by real estate professionals and clients we work with.
Core Values
Integrity guides all of our decisions. When we act with integrity, we build trust by always making the right choice, regardless of circumstance.
We strive to uphold a standard of excellence in all that we do while embracing integrity and discipline.
We continuously seek enhanced solutions that address the needs of our clients, employees, and business partners, in the least complex manner possible.
Each interaction with our company and its employees should be an extraordinary experience – whether transactional or inconsequential. Our passion is to execute our mission with spirited and unmatched service, going above and beyond to exceed expectations.
We believe creating real value for our clients, employees, and business partners is what we do best. As an organization, we create value by delivering financial solutions and services which are competitive, sustainable, quality driven, and affordable.
As a family-owned company, we promote a positive, uplifting and harmonious work environment. When people love the work they do, and the people they work with, it's easy to deliver an exceptional experience. We believe strongly in promoting happiness.
We are the perfect size; big enough to offer everything a borrower would want from a big bank while still being able to react quickly and focus only on the needs of our borrowers. Our commitment to the borrower and their satisfaction is the reason for our continued success.
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Jordan Smith's decision to drop out of junior college six years ago to pursue a career as a poker pro paid off early Sunday morning at the World Series of Poker.
Smith captured his first gold bracelet by winning the $2,000 buy-in no-limit hold'em championship and a first place prize of $586,212.
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The 27-year-old from College Station, Texas, said he almost didn't make the trip to Las Vegas.
"I was not sure if I was going to come," Smith said. "I was pretty much broke. It's been a rough year or so. I was looking for backers and people turned me down. Now, I guess they are not too happy about that."
He now has one final table appearance and 13 in-the-money finishes at the World Series of Poker. He has $693,824 in career series winnings.
He just missed a final table appearance in 2007, finishing 10th in an event.
Official event report from the World Series of Poker
Total Net Prize Pool: $3,084,900
Number of Places Paid: 171
June 18-21, 2009
Tournament Highlights:
Event Headlines –
1. After Just One Female Final Table Player in First 35 Events (Annie Duke), Two Female Players Make the Finals of Event 36
2. Final Table Includes Chess Grandmaster and former European Champion Almira Skripchenko – Who Finishes Seventh
The Winner —
The 2009 World Series of Poker $2,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em champion is Jordan Smith, from College Station, TX.
Smith is a 27-year-old professional poker player.
Smith admits that his decision to play poker for a living caused some hardship, enduring virtually unavoidable financial pitfalls. Smith stated that each time he encountered difficulties, various backers (including his parents) were willing to help him out in times of need.
Smith was highly complimentary of his mother and father, who he noted "are the best parents in the world." Smith stated that his parents have helped him at various times when he was down and have generally been very supportive of their son and his career as a poker player.
When age 21, Smith dropped out of junior college to play poker for a living. He has been playing since then full time. He mostly plays online.
Winner Quotes (Jordan Smith) –
On what it means to win a WSOP gold bracelet: "It's the World Series of Poker….I play for living and I play for money. But so far as prestigious things go, winning the gold bracelet is the only goal to have."
On his goals coming into this year's WSOP: "I wanted to win a gold bracelet and make a million dollar score. So, I'm past half of that now."
On whether or not the victory will change the direction of his poker career: "Maybe. But I'm still the same person."
On his relationship with his parents and their reaction to his decision to play poker professionally: "They wanted me to stay in school. But after I had some success, they said – 'if poker makes you happy, do it."
On the ups and downs of playing poker for a living" "I've had some ups and downs. They (my parents) have really helped me when I was struggling. They helped me with moral support and financial support."
On the timing of his victory: "This definitely came at the right time. I usually get blessed when I need it the most. I guess I am very fortunate."
On his views about poker in his home state of Texas: "I think poker definitely needs to be legalized and regulated. Legalize it. Tax it. Regulate it. I don't think it's the government's job to tell me what to do or how to spend my money – even though they sure want a cut of this (taxes) whenever I win it."
The Final Table —
The final table contained no former WSOP gold bracelet winners. This was the 12th of 36 finales held this year with no former winners — which guaranteed a first-time champion.
The final table included nine players from five different nations – including Canada (2), England (2), France (1), Sweden (1), and the United States (3).
This was the first final table at this year's WSOP with more than one female player. Laurence Grondin finished third and Almira Skripchenko finished seventh.
The runner up was Ken Lennaard, from Stockholm, Sweden. He is a wine merchant. In what was his ninth time to cash at the WSOP and best finish ever, Lennaard picked up $360,439 for second place.
The third-place finisher was Laurence Grondin, from Montreal, QB (Canada). She became the highest female finisher so far at this year's WSOP. Grondin was convinced to play in this event at the last minute by some friends. That turned out to be a terrific investment as third place paid $237,537
The fourth-place finisher was Joe Morneau, from Candia, NH. This was his first time to cash at the WSOP.
The fifth-place finisher was Anthony Roux, from London, England. This was his fourth time to cash at the WSOP.
The sixth-place finisher was Patrick Atchison, from Fort Worth, TX. He has cashed in various WSOP Circuit events, in addition to the WSOP in Las Vegas.
The seventh-place finisher was Almira Skripchenko, from Paris, France. Skripchenko is a professional chess player. She is originally from Moldova and started competing in international chess matches as a teenager. Skripchenko has won several major chess titles, most notably the individual ladies European Championship in 2001. She was decorated with the "National Order of Merit" by her native country of Moldova for her accomplishments and continues to represent herself and her nation in international competition. This marked her first time to cash at the WSOP.
The eighth-place finisher was Andrew Seden, from London, England. This was his second cash within a week's time, as he took 18th's place in the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em event.
The ninth-place finisher was Jonathan Plens, from Toronto, ON (Canada). He finished 42nd in last year's WSOP Main Event.
In-the-Money Finishers —
Former WSOP gold bracelet finishers who cashed in this event included – Robert Cheung, Dick Carson, Hieu (Tony) Ma, and Rob Hollink.
David "Chino" Rheem, who finished seventh in the 2008 WSOP Main Event cashed for the first time at this year's WSOP – finishing in 80th place.
The defending champion from 2008 was Alexandre Gomes, from Curitiba, Brazil. He entered this event but did not cash.
Odds and Ends —
Turnout for this year's $2,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em championship was 1,695 players. By comparison, all of the $1,500 buy-in events this year have drawn in excess of 2,000 players. However, the higher buy-in for this event trims the field size down slightly.
The Event —
The chip leader coming into the final table was Pat Atchison. He ended up finishing sixth.
Winner Jordan Smith came into the final table ranked seventh out of nine players.
Play at the final table lasted about nine hours.
The final hand came when Jordan Smith flopped a diamond flush against Ken Lennaard, who flopped a higher-flush draw with top pair. Smith had 9-7 of diamonds. Lennaard had J-8 (jack of diamonds). The final board showed 8-4-3-3-6, with three diamonds. That meant Smith's flush held up. He won the tournament.
The tournament officially began on Friday, June 19th, at 12 noon. The tournament officially ended on Sunday, June 21st, at 12:45 am.
WSOP Statistics –
Through the conclusion of Event #36, the 2009 WSOP has attracted 36,295 entries. $71,768,288 in total prize money has been awarded to winners.
Through Event #36 – the nationalities of WSOP gold bracelet winners reads as follows:
United States – 26
United Kingdom – 2
Canada – 2
Russian Federation – 1
Finland – 1
Australia – 1
Sweden – 1


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The K shell parameters such as K shell photoelectric cross–section at K shell binding energy, K shell jump ratio, K shell jump factor, the Davisson–Kirchner ratio and K shell oscillator strength of silver have been determined using high resolution HPGe detector coupled to 16K multichannel analyser. In this method the K X–ray photons in the energy region from 8 to 52 keV are generated by sending 59.56 keV gamma photons from Am–241 source on various targets. These X–ray photons are allowed to pass through a silver foil in good geometry arrangement. By measuring the intensities of incident and transmitted photons, the mass attenuation coefficients are determined at various X–ray energies. Measured mass attenuation coefficient around K shell binding energy and K shell parameters have been compared with values predicted by XCOM and FFAST and with other experimental values.
Keywords: silver, HPGe detector, K shell parameters, absorption edge, jump ratio, jump factor, EDXRF, mass attenuation coefficient, photon absorption, photon scattering


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Today (17th March) saw a truly epic edition of Milan – San Remo, the longest of all the great one-day classics.
Snow caused chaos, freezing the peloton and leading to the race having to stop to avoid the snow-bound climbs.
The riders rolled into San Remo with epic tales of the extreme conditions. As Robbie Hunter said to David Millar "when my left eyeball froze, that's when I lost my shit".
So, inspired by this brutal, special day, I've created this special edition, drawn on the day of the race in honour of those who survived.


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Information about the Galapagos Islands
The geologically recent volcanic eruptions attest to the fact that the Galapagos Islands are a place born of fire. In the last 200 years, a remarkable 50 plus eruptions have occurred, some threatening the unique flora and fauna, some creating new land (such as the new pāhoehoe lava flow on Santiago Island) that was unseen in Darwin's time.
Perhaps Galapagos' most prevalent feature is its harsh and dynamic volcanic landscape. Initially formed between 3 million and 5 million years ago, the islands are "young" in geologic time. Not unlike Hawaii, the islands are located over an area of particularly hot mantle that in essence burns through earth's crust, creating volcanic activity.
At these "hot spots, " volcanic eruptions pile upon former volcanic eruptions over millennia until the volcanic earth is pushed to the surface of the ocean -forming islands.
As the tectonic plates move (at a rate of about 5 cm per year), the volcanic activity moves with them, creating newer islands to the west and reducing activity of older islands to the east. This explains the relatively "youthful" rocks of the western islands and the geologically older rocks of many eastern islands. For instance the easterly islands are among other islands that are partially or entirely sunken aging over 5 million years old. However, many of the central and western islands (such as Fernandina and Isabela) have more recent volcanic activity dating back only 2 million years.
Generally, the individual islands form from a single shield volcano's eruptions of basaltic lava flows expanding its shores. However, the largest island, Isabela, is made up of six volcanoes which have flowed into each other, filling the Pacific gap between them.
Formed by this combination of dynamic volcanic activity and the effects of rain and the continual force of the vast Pacific at their coasts, the islands attest to their origin. The quarter-moon shape of Genovesa and the sunken core across the bay from Pinnacle Rock at Bartolome testify to these islands born of fire and tempered by saltwater. These forces created the setting for the trials of evolution to select the uncanny animals and flora that now inhabit these desolate isles.
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Frameworks are fantastic. What they do is allow you to modify your existing ROM without having to worry about using your desktop to dive into the code and make specific changes to APKs.
The modifications that frameworks provide are often the kinds of things that you would usually need to flash an entirely new ROM in order to use, but with frameworks you can simply manage the customisations through a single app on your device and not have to worry about losing your beloved build.
Here, we're looking at the Xposed Installer framework, which was developed by rovo89 on the XDA forums. It's worth checking out his post on the forums, if for no other reason than getting a little peace of mind with regards to the installation and use of this framework.
We're going to show you how to get it up and running, but if you have a relatively old or niche device then there may be some teething problems with the framework, in which case you'll want to know where you can go for support.
When you're ready, read on to find out how to get hold of the APK file that contains Xposed Installer – this will let you install both the framework and the modules that plug in to it. After that, we're going to run through the setup of a module.
Download Xposed Installer
The first thing that you need to do is download the APK for Xposed Installer. Once you've done that, transfer the file onto your device – we put it into a Dropbox folder and then exported it to the SD card from there.
Install the APK file
You might then need to use an APK installer to install that file properly – we used the one from Rhythm Software. Make sure you've got Unknown Sources enabled in the Security section of your device's settings first, else Xposed Installer won't install.
Get the Framework
Once your app is installed, fire it up. It's a nice, clean interface, and the next step is to install the Xposed framework using this app. Tap on the Framework option, and then Install/Update on the next screen. Give it Superuser access when prompted, hit OK then reboot your device.
Let it check for updates
After you've rebooted, the Xposed framework will be running on your device. Head back into the Xposed Installer app and this time Settings. You'll want to make sure that the 'Enable downloads' option is ticked, so that any new updates and modules are made available to you within this app.
Check out the downloads
Now for the fun part. Head to the Download section– right at the top of the interface, you'll see your currently installed version of the framework, and then all of the modules listed below. There are scores of them, and while many target Xperia devices, most work for any device.
Search for a module
Especially when you're just starting out with this app, it can be helpful to use the search function to drill down to exactly the kind of module that you're after. Here, we're looking for some kind of CPU tool that will give us more information about our device's operation.
Select a module version
Once you've found a module you like, tap it. Read through the descriptions on the next page, and possibly the linked support documents too, before continuing. When you're ready, either download the current version or tap on one of the older versions to reveal its download button.
Install the module
When your chosen module has finished downloading, you'll be taken to a screen asking you to confirm the installation. Do so, and once you get the App Installed message pop up on-screen simply tap the Open button at the bottom-right in order to run it.
Customise the settings
The next screen that you see will show you the settings options for your module, if any are available – customise your module as you see fit. You'll also see a notification appear in your status bar (a round 'i' icon) saying that your module is not yet enabled.
Switch on the module
Head to the Module section and then tick the box beside the module that you've installed to enable it. Upon rebooting your device, your module will be working. In the main image on the other page you can see our CPU temperature displayed in the status bar.
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I wonder if someone could help here. I have the following situation:
I have the equation:
g(z) = z - f(z,p,q) = 0
also z is a function of p and q
I have already solved this for fixed p and q using Newton-Raphson and hence I have already calculated partial df/dz
Now I need to calculate partial derivatives dz/dp and dz/dq.
I can't work out how to do this.


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Website: http://berkeley.academia.edu/mhlin
Dissertation Committee:
- Jonathan Simon (Chair)
- Malcolm Feeley
- Thomas Gold
Dissertation Title: "On Legitimacy: How the Prison-Labor Complex Changes with the Political Terrain in China"
Mao-hong Lin is a J.S.D. candidate at Berkeley Law. With a diverse combination of socio-legal, positive, and comparative approaches, his research is situated at the intersection of law, punishment and society. Before coming to Berkeley Law, he practiced law in Taiwan for several years.
Mao-hong's dissertation project focuses on the entanglement of prison and enterprise in communist China and its connection with Chinese Communist Party's re-legitimization plans.
J.S.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law, 2016 (expected)
LL.M., University of California, Berkeley School of Law, 2013
LL.M., National Taiwan University, Department of Law, 2013
LL.B., National Taiwan University, Department of Law, 2007
Research Areas:
Legal Subjects: Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Criminal Law, Comparative Law
Interdisciplinary: Penality, Sociology of Law, Empirical Legal Studies


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Hey yall, I just recently got this new Kentucky KM900 from the Mandolin Store back in November, and I just now noticed some finish cracking at the fretboard joint, it just appeared..
This mandolin hasnt been subject to any extreme temperatures or undue stress.
Just wondering what it looks like to yall, and if it might be worse than just the finish.
I have a pickguard that I am planning to install, and also a truss rod cover(which would include plugging old holes and drilling new holes), so my question is, with it having a 1 year warranty, should I postpone any modifications for a few months to see if this changes any before I void the warranty? Thanks in advance, Jesse


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You didn't ask for it, but here it is - a mash up of Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and "Bad Blood." Both songs are ridiculously catchy, talking crap about someone who did Taytay wrong, and basically the perfect teen pop song.
The mash up actually sounds like it is one song even the vibe of each video is so different. Well done whoever made this - I can't say I like it better than either of the originals but I'll still jam.


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