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teaching staff
- Rebecca Griffiths - Curriculum Leader
- Natalie Jim - Lead Practitioner
- Nick Bentley - Lead Practitioner
Curriculum Aims
The Drama Curriculum Area at Sarah Bonnell School seeks to build a learning culture of aspiration, achievement and creativity. We aim to empower our students through the development of excellent communication and collaborative skills whilst instilling confidence. We feel that the study of Drama reflects the ethos of our school motto:
- Be Proud: Students are proud to showcase their work both in class and at extra-curricular events and performances.
- Aim High: Students are challenged to push themselves – be it to increase their confidence or perform at the Shakespeare Schools Festival.
- Work Hard: Students work hard to achieve great results, be it at GCSE or as a performer in school productions.
- Be Nice: Drama is all about communication, working with others and having great team work skills.
- No Excuses: Everyone has an important role to play in Drama, be it performing, directing or technical support.
Year 7
From Year 7 students develop not only performance skills, but literacy and analytical skills. There is a mixture of practical and written assessments, and skills students learn from Year 7 build up to ensure that they are equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to be able to study the subject at GCSE.
Throughought KS3 the curriculum area runs trips to the theatre to build students skills of reviewing a live performance, which is necessary as this is a specific component of the GCSE course.
Year 7 curriculum includes:
- A Midsummer Night's Dream – Shakespeare Transition Project
- Pandora's Box – Devising Drama
- Darkwood Manor - Introduction of Genre and Physical Theatre
- Antigone - Introduction to Greek Theatre
- Macbeth - Exploration of the text through drama
Students also have the opportunity to perform in a number of forums including lesson as well as extra-curricular activities such as school productions, assemblies and showcase evenings.
Over the years the Drama Curriculum Area has built excellent relationships with world renowned institutions including Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, The National Theatre, The Barbican, UCL: Insitutue of Education. In addition to this, students have the opportunity to work with a range of professional actors who regularly run workshops here at the school.


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"LT-319" was a human male Controller and officer that served in the Galactic Empire's Information Office in 2 BBY. He led a team of Imperial intelligence officers based aboard an IGV-55 surveillance vessel. After discovering the presence of the rebel droid Chopper at Killun Station, LT-319 led an ambitious plot that involved reprogramming Chopper into an Imperial double agent so that they could find the location of Chopper Base. This plot failed and LT-319 perished when Hera Syndulla caused a data surge that destroyed his ship.
LT-319 was an Imperial intelligence agent who was stationed aboard an IGV-55 surveillance vessel. As part of his services to the Empire, he wore an AJ^6 cyborg construct and yielded part of his autonomy. LT-319 was part of Grand Admiral Thrawn's efforts to gather intelligence on the growing Alliance to Restore the Republic. He led a team of Imperial intelligence officers which included 3-9 and a female intelligence officer, who also wore cybernetic headsets.[2]
In 2 BBY,[3] LT-319 was aboard his surveillance vessel when one of his subordinates 3-9 informed him that an unauthorized droid had entered the Imperial Security Bureau's station on Killun 71. This unauthorized droid turned out to be the C1-series astromech droid Chopper, who was a member of Phoenix Leader Hera Syndulla's Spectres rebel cell. Believing that this was the spy droid that Thrawn had warned them about, LT-319 ordered his crew to set a course for Killun Station. After 3-9 obtained visual imagery of Chopper, the former Imperial inventory droid AP-5, and their stolen Sentinel-class landing craft, LT-319 confirmed that the droid was indeed Chopper and hatched a plan to hijack the droid.[1]
When 3-9 found that Chopper had plugged into a network terminal, LT-319 ordered him to "capture" the rebel droid by reprogramming him. Pleased with his results, LT-319 boasted that Grand Admiral Thrawn would be pleased. When 3-9 found that Chopper did not contain the coordinates for the Phoenix Cell's base, LT-319 decided to use the astromech droid to obtain this information. After the female intelligence officer expressed concerns that Chopper's companion AP-5 had stolen Lothalian clearance codes from the base, a defensive LT-319 insisted that the rebels only had a 31% chance of using the coordinates. Believing the odds favored them, LT-319 embarked on his plan to use Chopper to find the coordinates for the rebel base. He used the droid's visual processor to operate the hijacked droid.[1]
Though AP-5 was suspicious of Chopper's changed behavior, LT-319 dismissed the traitorous inventory droid as a threat after AP-5 antagonized his colleague Wedge Antilles. Once Chopper had boarded the Spectres' ship Ghost, LT-319 sent Chopper to obtain the ship's hyperspace logs. When Hera stopped him, LT-319 then sent Chopper to the engine room and brought the rebel ship out of hyperspace. The Imperial-controlled Chopper then trapped the other rebels in the cargo bay and exposed them to zero gravity space in an effort to kill them.[1]
LT-319 then ordered Chopper to install a data spike into the Ghost's navigation computer and download its information. When Chopper spotted AP-5 trying to open the cargo bay door from outside, LT-319 sent a blaster-wielding Chopper out to deal with AP-5. Chopper missed AP-5 on the first round which gave the inventory droid enough time to open the hatch leading to the cargo bay. Chopper then managed to pushed AP-5 into space on the second round. LT-319 then directed Chopper to return to the cockpit. However, the droid was stunned by the Lasat rebel Garazeb Orrelios, who hit him with a bo-rifle.[1]
Another rebel named Ezra Bridger then removed the data spike from the navigation computer, disrupting LT-319's operation. Chopper's owner then plugged Chopper into the ship's computer and used the droid's visual processor to send a fierce message to LT-319. Denouncing him as an Imperial "sleemo", she reverse-fed Chopper's data feed back at the surveillance vessel. This caused a data surge which fried the surveillance vessel's circuits and compromised its fuel cells. LT-319 and his fellow intelligence officers were killed when the vessel exploded in space. As a result, the rebels were able to restore Chopper's original programming and keep the clearance codes they had stolen from Killun Station.[1]
Personality and traitsEdit
LT-319 was a human male intelligence officer who worked for the Imperial Information Office .[1] He wore an AJ^6 cyborg construct and a pair of glasses. LT-319 yielded part of his autonomy as part of his services to the Empire.[2] He was an ambitious Imperial intelligence officer who wanted to please Thrawn by helping him to hunt down Chopper Base. He viewed Chopper as a tool to help him in achieving this goal and was willing to take big risks including withholding information about the theft of clearance codes from his ISB colleagues at Killun Station.[1]
LT-319 was confident that his plan would succeed and boasted that the rebels only had a 31% chance of using the stolen coordinates. LT-319 regarded the former Imperial–turned–rebel RA-7 protocol droid AP-5 as a traitor and almost succeeded in destroying him. LT-319's hubris led him to overlook the resilience and creativity of his rebel foes, particularly Hera Syndulla, who destroyed his ship and all hands aboard in revenge.[1]
Behind the scenesEdit
LT-319 first appeared in the Star Wars Rebels Season Three episode "Double Agent Droid" on March 11, 2017. He was voiced by Josh Gad. LT-319 was designed to resemble Pablo Hidalgo of the Lucasfilm Story Group, who also recorded the temp voice of LT-319 until Josh Gad recorded it.[4]
- Star Wars Rebels – "Double Agent Droid" (First appearance)
- Rebels Recon: Inside "Secret Cargo" on StarWars.com
- Controller LT-319 in the Databank (backup link) (First identified as LT-319)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 Star Wars Rebels – "Double Agent Droid"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rebels Recon: Inside "Double Agent Droid" on StarWars.com
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Double Agent Droid Trivia Gallery on StarWars.com

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Buhr, Kevin
buhr [at] biostat.wisc.edu
Ph.D. 2002, Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research Interests
Design, conduct and analysis of multicenter clinical trials & interim monitoring of clinical trial data, multiple endpoints.
Selected Publications and Presentations
• Dan T. Holmes and B , "Error Propagation in Calculated Ratios," Clinical Biochemistry 40:728–734, 2007. August 15, 2007 – Page 2 of 3
• Dan T. Holmes and B , "Mathematical Modeling: Assumptions Affect Results," Clinical Chemistry 52:1606–1608, 2006.
• Thomas G. Kurtz and B , "A Brownian Particle System with Local Time Interaction and Its
Corresponding SPDE." Presentation at the Topics in Modern Stochastic Analysis Workshop at the
Fields Institute, Toronto, September 22, 2000.
• Thomas D. Cook and B , "Report Production for a Data and Safety Monitoring Board—A Unix
Based System for Report Generation." Presentation at the Society for Clinical Trials Meeting,
Anaheim, May 4, 1999.
• B and Jacques F. Carri`ere, "Simplifying Conditional Expectations," Appl. Math. Lett. 11(4):71–75, 1998.
• Edward R. Bruning, Harry J. Turtle, and B , "Canadian Foreign Direct Investment into the
United States: 1980–1989," Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Economics and
Finance, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 1993.
• Michael W. Dunne, B , Thomas D. Cook, John A. Dawson, Dearborn Edwards, "A Prospective
Analysis of Respiratory Tract Infections and their Influence on the Secondary Incidence of
Cardiovascular Disease in the WIZARD Study."
• Canadian Mathematical Bulletin August 15, 2007 – Page 3 of 3
Design, conduct and analysis of multi-center clinical trials & interim monitoring of clinical trial data, multiple endpoints.


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The American brand is freeing designers from mass-production and connecting consumers with affordable products.
The future of houseware design is arriving, and it's courtesy of 3-D printers. Today, entrepreneurs Joe Doucet, Dean Di Simone, and Evan Clabots are launching Othr, a home-goods disruptor set to liberate designers from mass-production and consumers from the premium costs of limited-run products. (Full disclosure: Surface editor-in-chief Spencer Bailey is an advisor to and investor in Othr.) "3-D printing has just reached the point of viability in terms of price versus quality," says Doucet, a designer who formerly used the technology to model his designs in different types of polymers and resins, but still had them manufactured in high-end materials the old-school way.
"Now we can produce products in 3D-printed metals, porcelains, and on-demand textiles," he says. Luxurious materials and methods like 3-D knitting will shape Othr's 13 initial product lines, unveiled at Manhattan's New Museum on May 11. Beyond that, a new one will come to market every two weeks—an unheard-of pace, but not a surprising one. "It seems breakneck, but once you remove all of the hurdles of traditional manufacturing and all of the complexities of the supply chain, it's actually quite leisurely," Doucet says.
Not only does 3-D printing shorten the creative process, it eliminates the need to choose between mass-manufacturing and high production costs. Now, designers can take greater risks—objects will be printed individually for each customer rather than pre-fabricated and stocked in a warehouse. Nothing is made until it's sold. That explains how the founders have roped in elite names like Claesson Koivisto Rune and Luca Nichetto to design their initial collections, which include candlesticks, vases, breakfast trays, and birdcages.
The individual merchandise might be small, but Othr is a company with big ambitions. "Technology allows us to bring more exceptional design to the world with minimal impact on the environment," Doucet says, highlighting one advantage. Another: the opportunity to take chances on emerging talent, a deep focus for the company. "Having been in the game ourselves, we understand how difficult it is to break through. We'd love to become a source for not only the greatest designers, but also for what and who comes next."
It all adds up to something that has the potential to be truly game-changing. "We believe there's an opportunity to become the first important American design brand in decades," says Doucet. "That's what we're striving for."


text: The predecessor of BICS, has been connected to BNIX since 1997. Already before my time at BICS, I professionally already knew of BNIX. BICS (Belgacom International Carrier Services) provides IP Transit services to multinationals and to big enterprises, who are customer of Belgacom. In the Belgian market it is important to show the fastest possible routes to all other important Belgian service providers, both for hosting and customer access. Additionally, BNIX provides us the platform where operators with whom we have multiple interconnections worldwide can deliver traffic directly in Belgium, without having to be transported over our own backbone. Traffic volumes available for peering within Belgium are quite limited. So connecting to BNIX allows us instant access to the vast majority of the public IP traffic. Therefore is BNIX an integral part of our IP Transit offering as part of the eleven exchanges that BICS is connected to. For our organisation, BNIX remains essential to our Wholesale transit offering in Belgium. We hope to see the internet market expand in Belgium, attracting ever more traffic.


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Rude Music Inc v. Newt 2012, Inc. et al
Filing 1
COMPLAINT filed by Rude Music Inc; Jury Demand. Filing fee $ 350, receipt number 0752-6785514.(McGarry, Annette)
Disclaimer: Justia Dockets & Filings provides public litigation records from the federal appellate and district courts. These filings and docket sheets should not be considered findings of fact or liability, nor do they necessarily reflect the view of Justia.


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"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."― Marcel Proust
Hello darlings,
Happy Friday! I hope you all have some fun things planned for the weekend. I will be going to Rockaway Beach tomorrow for an all white bbq beach party with WM Hope Foundation. If you guys are in the tri-state area, you are welcome to join this fundraising event at the beach. Click here for more info.
After the gym a couple of weeks ago, I had nothing better to do with myself so I decided to pass by Mandees (I don't recommend going to one of your fave stores when you are bored). I'm very happy I went there though because I came across a whole bunch of cute printed stuff including this matching midi skirt and crop-top. I must say, you will never find me wearing this super short crop top anywhere but it looked so cute with the skirt, I couldn't leave it (don't judge me). I'm pretty sure I'll be getting a lecture on this outfit from the father and the hubby; I already have an excuse in mind :-).
Photo Gallery
Photo Credit: Versicolor Closet
Outfit Details:
Crop-top and Skirt - Mandees // Heels - Rainbow
Until next time, stay blessed!


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The SynTouch Story
Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Los Angeles, SynTouch is the world leader in Machine Touch®, the robotic equivalent for the most human of our five senses. Our proprietary characterization system, the SynTouch Standard®, quantifies the tactile qualities of materials and consumer products with more accuracy than human experts, and has been used for product design and quality control by leading manufacturers around the world. Our BioTac Toccare™ reproduces both the mechanical properties and sensory modalities of human fingertips, allowing us to measure how products feel in all the same dimensions that your customers can perceive.
Our sensors enable machines to achieve humanlike tactile awareness, perception and dexterity. Our BioTac® and BioTac SP sensors are the most biomimetic tactile devices in the world, and have been integrated onto nearly all robotics research platforms. Our NumaTac® sensors have been used to improve prosthetic hands and personal assistive robotic arms. Our consulting and research teams look forward to developing Machine Touch for your applications.


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Welcome to the first of something new we're doing here at Unsung – what we're reading. Just like you, we've always got our nose in something, and we spend a lot of time talking about it.
We'll do this once a month, a few thoughts on what we've got through and maybe what's up next. Let us know what you're reading in the comments as well!
I've made a promise to myself that I'm going to fill some of my significant gaps in 2016. This means you can expect a few confessions in coming months. It also means the first thing I read this year was Crime and Punishment.
Man, is that an intense book. It's about drop-out law student, Roskolnikov, who decides to murder an old avaricious pawnbroker for her money. Of course, it doesn't go quite to plan, and his moral and criminal aspects fight it out. Add in various sub-plots around his family, marriages across class boundaries, prostitution, alcoholism and TB, and you have a titanic commentary on the effects of poverty on people.
It's excellent. Harrowing at points, sure - the murder itself is particularly tangible and unfiltered - but so very good. Also, there's this bit at the end where Dostoyevsky kind of foreshadows zombie/plague fiction...
My other read was Ballard's The Unlimited Dream Company. Definitely a striking book, and Ballard is a sophisticated prose stylist, but not one I enjoyed. Were it down to his writing alone this would be a delight to read, the lurid descriptions of Shepperton blooming into a bizarre new Eden really capture something. The characters never felt real though, and it felt more like Ballard telling me something than the narrator.
I've also been keeping up with series 2 of Serial, which is fascinating. At the moment it's exploring how massive systems can't handle small details, the system being the US military and the detail being the kidnapped Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl.
I have an ongoing obsession with the English civil war and its fallout. It's a fascinating and crucial piece of history that is strangely under-represented in fiction – luckily, there are some decent works out there if you're willing to dig/go on AbeBooks.
David Caute's 1961 novel Comrade Jacob focuses on Gerard Winstanley and the mystical proto-communist sect he founded in the years after the fall of the monarchy. His ecstatic religious epiphany on St George's Hill, Surrey, leads to the creation of the Diggers (many of them ex-soldiers from Cromwell's army), who take it upon themselves to live collectively and farm the commons on the hill, in a time of great famine, poverty and social unrest.
It's wonderful novel about a tricky subject, exploring religious faith, power, the system of land ownership in England, and how, inevitably, brute force is meted out to those who try and live a different kind of life. (St George's Hill, incidentally, is now home to stockbroker-belt residences and a private golf course.)
The other novel I read this month was Sarah Perry's The Essex Serpent. Out later this summer, the story concerns a group of modern (to the 19th century) Londoners – surgeons, a widowed fossil hunter taken with Darwin's theories – who congregate on the Essex town of Aldwinter, staying with a local clergyman and his family. The town is plagued by the alleged return of the Essex Serpent, a wyrm believed to be responsible for various mishaps in the area; a dead body washed up in the estuary, a poisoned well, the delayed coming of spring, a breakout of hysteria among schoolgirls. Religious belief, rational science and the continued existence of pre-Christian superstitions both clash and intertwine in an Essex landscape rendered wondrous and sinister. It's a novel about the limits of both faith and science, and how the essential strangeness of the world persists.
In the world of short stories and journals, I've been enjoying the output of The Ghastling, who's third issue contains some real gems of dark ghostly fiction. I also read Helen Marshall's Gifts for the One who Comes After, an intriguing and unnerving, if at times uneven, collection that will appeal to fans of Kelly Link and other modern weird fiction writers.
Finally, 12 years after I said I would read it, I've begun Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. It's very good so far; i'll report back after the remaining 900 pages.


text: I watched this trailer because Richard Ayoade's name was attached to it, but I really didn't pay attention to what capacity it was attached. Well he's the writer and director of The Double and man oh man this movie looks good. Future Lex Luthor is in the movie, that's Jesse Eisenberg in case you were wondering. I'm not going to set the film up for you. I didn't need it and neither do you. It looks really good though and I can't wait to see it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG8qATRtNuU


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Welcome to our hostel
The Hostel "Europa Villa Camerata" is located in a beautiful villa that the original nucleus is from the time of some of the greatest artists and historical characters of Florence: Leonardo Da Vinci, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Michelangelo Buonarroti. At the bottom of the hill of Fiesole, Etruscan village (one of the most beautiful corner of the world!), Villa Camerata is surrounded by the green, sheltered from the caos of the city, but near the city centre, is easily reachable by public transport. The Hostel Europa Villa Camerata, that has all the comfort is the ideal structure for formative staying of students of all the ages. Immersed on its atmosphere the schools can organize their visit at the several historic-artistic beauty of the city of Florence, and after a day of excursion the kids can entertain theirself and play in freedom and security in the garden of the villa and in the park that surround it, and their teachers can have a moment of relax.
The Hostel organize then theme evenings, musical events and animation of different genres for entertain their customers of every ages.
The Hostel for its dimension (more than 300 beds) and for how its structured it's particulary indicated to host groups and offer different possibilities of staying: multiple rooms from four to six beds with bathrooms at floors divided between boys and girls and rooms with two, three, four or five beds with private services for the teachers, chaperon and drivers. The Hostel offer also many services: bar, restaurant, laundrette, parking for cars and coaches, tv, cinema, internet, free Wi-fi… In Villa Camerata is also possible, if you're equipped, to do Camping.


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Frendly Cot Tent
Frendly Cot Tent
The Solo Adventurer
The Out sunny tent cot is the ultimate individual camping experience.
It has a cot with an attached tent that wraps around and attaches to the bottom. The cot is perfect for one person to sleep comfortably through the night. This cot comes with its own air mattress, sleeping bag and pillow to make sure you sleep soundly. The air mattress comes with a foot pump so you can fill it without having to use a loud electric air pump. The Outsunny tent cot is the perfect camping tool for an individual who wants to sleep great and enjoy the outdoors.
This tent cot is so comfortable you will want to use it indoors too!
- Easy to set up and take down
- Large zippered door for entry and exit
- Can be detached to form separate tent and cot
- Comes with storage bag to hold tent
- Made of durable, high quality materials
- Overall: 76"L x 34"W x 63"H
- Tent: 74 1/2"L x 31 3/4"W x 41"H
- Cot: 76"L x 34"W x 16 3/4"H
- Air Mattress: 70"L x 29 1/2"W x 6 1/2"H
- Sleeping Bag: 70"L x 26 1/2"W x 3/4"H
- Pillow: 17"L x 11"W x 2 3/4"H
- Foot pump: 8 3/4" x 6 1/4"
- Net weight: 26.2 lbs
Includes: Tent, cot, air mattress, sleeping bag, pillow, foot pump, carrying bag
Pickup Instructions:
Pickup at the Magic Mountain Will Call office from 5pm Thursday June 26th-Saturday June 28th 8pm.


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The reason why I collected them in the first place was that that's where a lot of the "good stuff" lived. Distribution of re-issued music was sketchy and in many cases non-existant. If you wanted to hear real honest to goodness Western Swing, you weren't gonna find it on the radio or even in a modern acts recordings, you were going to have to do the work and find the music and then struggle to listen to it. My old roomate Mark Hays sat me down one day and played me 4 different version of a Bob Wills 78, all with different lyrics and lead breaks, it was revelatory and set me off on a nearly 20 year path of collection.
It many ways it was my "adult "version of how I consumed music during the American Hardcore Punk rock movement, the similarities were many. You had to be proactive to find good music, and collecting 78s for me was the natural progression to buying Necros 45's from a mail order catalog in the back of a 'zine, or a Bad Brains cassette from a little independent label you never heard of. All of this was in the pre-Internet and pre-digital age, a study in musical archeology and it prepared me well for my life bent over on my knees in antiques store across the US and Canada while Bad Livers were at their touring zenith.
But then I started meeting the fetishists. We all know who they are, guys to whom the possession of the platter is FAR more important that the information contained in it. Those to whom "rarity" was more important than "quality." They can sit for hours and tell you every detail of every little obscure recording label and all the artists on them, in many casing even taking to expertly mimicking these recordings, mistakes, false starts and all. It's actually very impressive this track that so many collectors I know find themselves on. They extend it to their lives and even professions, becoming living Re-Enactors for a a period of history (that frankly I think is best left forgotten, other than the wonderful art that was created at that time.)
But more and more I see that as a trap, a "death trip" as we used to call it in Bad Livers and the weight both allegorically and actually is a burden I no longer wish to carry. The truth is that the vast majority of music I possess now, and the format it arrives in to me is frankly less than meaningless as that is simply how my personal relationship with music has developed, I could listen to it all and die an old man by the time I got back to the start. I'm sitting here now with a hard drive loaded with 15 gigs of Moldovan and Romanian music that I suspect will take a decade to properly digest.
These records brought me lots of pleasure and joy in my life and I will forever cherish not only the music contained in them, but in the places in which I found them and the journeys made to locate them. That I will have always. So cut to the chase, big boy.
If you would like them, I would be pleased for you to have them. I do not wish to sell them, but I will offer them, all of them, to anyone who would like them. All I ask in return, is that you leave me something that was meaningful to you; maybe a book, a work of art, home made cookies, whatever. I'll even accept nothing at but your thanks, if that's all you have to give. I even have a couple play back machines which I would let go as well, even a lovely Cherrywood RCA Victor console, which my TV lives upon currently, which I'd sell for mighty cheap.
Y'all know how to get me and I hope to have everything divested by Carnival time, so I can enter the Mardi Gras season with a little less baggage.
Cheers and much love to you all.
(PS: no shipping, gotta come by in person, ok? )


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City Officials Denounce Park Slope Food Co-op for Boycott of Israeli Goods/
By:Â Justin Chan
A food co-op in Brooklyn is under fire from city officials for attempting to boycott products from Israel, according to the New York Times.
The criticism comes at a time when religious groups such as Jews and Muslims have been targeted by governments across the world for carrying out what authorities perceive as unsanitary food practices. The Park Slope Food Co-op will hold a referendum on the proposed boycott, which encourages sanctions against Israel for political reasons. Members are scheduled to vote on Tuesday, but the issue has already divided neighbors, who are part of a politically active constituency that regularly votes in local and citywide elections.
Several notable politicians have also joined the discussion. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a news conference that he was perplexed by the co-op's proposal and voiced his support for Israel. He said that he did not understand why the co-op would engage in a debate on foreign policy. "I think it has nothing to do with the food," he said of the boycott. "The issue is there are people who want Israel to be torn apart and everybody to be massacred, and America is not going to let that happen."
Bloomberg encouraged the city to work closely with Israel rather than distance itself. Public advocate Bill de Blasio, a native of Park Slope himself, also shared in the mayor's denunciation of the co-op's boycott. "I really have a lot of respect for the co-op and its history, and maybe that's in part what's motivating me," he said. "I'm pained that an organization that has done so much good would wade into these waters."
Scott Stringer, the Manhattan borough president and a mayoral candidate, was much harsher in his criticism of the proposal and said that it bordered anti-Semitism. "This action is an unwarranted attack on one of America's strongest allies and an embarrassment to our city," he wrote in an email.
The boycott is not expected to have much of an impact on Israeli businesses since the co-op only carries six or so products from Israel. Some of the products include paprika, olive pesto and vegan marshmallows. As such, a boycott of such commodities would only serve a symbolic purpose. Still, it has not stopped prominent city figures such as Bloomberg, de Blasio and Stringer to publicly voice their disapproval. "The relationship between New York and Israel, in my opinion, is very, very significant, and something I feel very, very strongly about," said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. "This boycott is ill conceived. I don't think there should be a vote, and I hope that is what happens."
Photo:Â Wally Gobetz
For more on food politics, follow me on Twitter (@MarcusCooks)


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The 'Risk Free Return' (or risk free rate of return, or risk free interest rate) is the rate of return on the instrument with the lowest risk. This typically refers to the rate paid by the government on government debt such as bonds and bills. Government debt is generally considered to be risk free given that the government can print money (unless it is part of a currency union). It is also considered unpallatable for a government to default on its debt due to the impact this would have on the cost and availability of future financing as well as flow on economic impacts. Thus for most purposes the risk free rate is usually the 1-year government bond. The risk free return is used in benchmarking for certain types of funds, as well as in valuation and analysis.
Synonyms: Risk free rate, Risk free interest rate, Risk free rate of return
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You know, one of the reasons I don't post more often is that I write to Blue every night and basically get whatever was on my mind out of my system. We bitch about stuff, count our blessings, get very philosophical about all manner of things, and of course we never tire of endlessly dissecting Fake!
My life is freakishly busy nowadays, but I do see a respite shining softly on the far horizon. The good news is that I'm back to writing, even if it's just dribs and drabs here and there. More good news --at least I hope it's good--Blue has sent Chapter ten of A New Day back to me for the second time and I believe we've worked the bugs out of it, so I'll be ready to post it very soon. If not tomorrow, then Wednesday at the latest. And it has a big ol' D up A lemon in it, too.
You know, I went to the trouble of buying a green tea flavoured Kit Kat bar when I was in Japan, and I haven't even eaten it yet! Maybe it's the 'green' part. Chocolate just shouldn't be...well, green. Of course I ate all the cherry blossom Kit Kats, and they were pink! Is it okay for chocolate to be pink but not green? I think I'm irrationally discriminating here.
But I do know that I must not unwrap that green tea Kit Kat until I am in a state of clear desire. We must both be ready for the experience. The poor thing is blameless; the limitations are mine.
If I were a coward, I'd eat it in the dark. But that would be Wrong.
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I Make No Apologies
You know, I don't care if you don't post as much to your LJ as long as you're emailing me.
You're MINE DAMMIT!! MINEMINEMINEMINEMINE!!
You, and Sw0rdy, and GD - You're all MINE!!
BWAA HAAA HAAA! Feel the greedy wrath of the only child!
You're MINE DAMMIT!! MINEMINEMINEMINEMINE!!
You, and Sw0rdy, and GD - You're all MINE!!
BWAA HAAA HAAA! Feel the greedy wrath of the only child!
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*edges away slowly*
Uh oh... who gave her E numbers? ^_~
Uh oh... who gave her E numbers? ^_~
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Don't be scared--I'll distract her with a maple latte. Decaf, of course, since it sounds like someone has had a LITTLE too much caffeine today...
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Oh please, like you don't love her insane. Now be good little possessions and start writing. (She totally didn't make me say that.) (Wink) (No, seriously, it was all me.)
Well I never took you for . . .
So you prefer the oh so innocently blushing pink to the oh I'm raring to go green eh? Are you a seme? I feel as if the "green tea" chocolate is trying to seduce you and it's making you nervous. Just give in the the desire. It's okay to give the chocolate some control during the experience, as long as it feels good. And (a very strong and) you firmly take back that control when your done. Think Ryo handling Dee. Hee hee. Let me know how it works out.
RJ (Who enjoys both sides)
RJ (Who enjoys both sides)
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You know, it's not so much a question of whether I'm a seme or an uke. I am either or both, depending on circumstances. The problem is more that I'm a total SLUT, at least in the chocolate department. And Christmas, followed by the January sales, revs up my choco-ho quotient like you wouldn't believe. For example, I am currently working my way through a Terry's chocolate orange snowball, which, for the uninitiated, is a white chocolate orange. Yesterday, it was half a box of Hershey's almondillos (only available at Christmas time), and before that, a Terry's mint chocolate orange. The endless temptation of these exotic seasonal treats sends me careening between fits of outrageous promiscuity to all too brief periods of shuddering self-denial. The excessive nature of my urgent consumption of so many in such a relatively short period of time has made my appetite a a dulled and heavy burden. It lacks the whetted sweetness of my more temperate times....No, I can't face my little green tea Kit Kat until I have my desires in hand, er, that is, 'under wraps'. Or perhaps until I have worked my way through the rest of 'the competition'. Well you know what I mean. How I long to run my tongue along my Kit Kat's verdurous, quivering furrows! But I still have two and a half boxes of almondillos. May God forgive me for my sins.


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Men In This Town
I was interviewed last week on Sydney's 702 ABC Breakfast with Robbie Buck. You can have a listen here if you missed it:
Street style photographer Giuseppe Santamaria's book Men In This Town is a study in what the everyday man of Australian wears today. Blogging and photographing street wear was pioneered in New York by The Sartorialist in 2005, and Santamaria saw an ever changing Sydney he felt should also be captured and romanticised.


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iKONICs rejoice as previews from Fansite Masters confirmed the good news that Song Yunhyeong has safely returned to us from the wilds of Fiji, New Zealand!
Yunhyeong left for New Zealand 5 days ago on August 21st to embark on his debut solo Variety appearance as part of the cast of SBS' Law of the Jungle!
His activities have been a mystery since then but as iKON (minus Bobby who flew in from LA) who are scheduled to perform at A Nation today, left South Korea for Japan without him yesterday, fans wondered if they would have to perform without their high note specialist.
Fans were profoundly relieved when he finally showed up at Hanada Airport looking a little tired and slimmer but safe and sound!
(Cr: Brilliant Moment)
We do hope he will get a chance to rest a little before climbing A Nation's famous stage later today.
Thank you to the hardworking and passionate Fansite Masters that captured his return for us.
Welcome Back, Yoyo!


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By David Cruz
If you were lucky enough to have the day off — from school or from work — today was pretty, well, awesome. But, a season's first storm is not all snowboards and sleds, especially when clearing sidewalks and streets is your job. Around North Jersey there was a lot of work to be done, clearing roads for those who did have to get around today. At the emergency command center, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop was assessing the job after riding along with salt spreading crews all night.
"Just talking to the guys about how they do it. It's not easy work, where you think you just drop the plow and go. That's not how it goes, especially when you're dealing with very steep roads," said the mayor. "It's pretty challenging."
Around the city, streets were mostly cleared, with blacktop visible for long stretches, but some streets, especially secondary roads, looked like they hadn't seen a plow for hours. Officials say they will be working throughout the day to clear those roads.
"There's always room for improvement," he added, "but the guys worked really hard. I was out there, so I have a new appreciation for what they do."
The overnight snow was just phase one of this weather pattern. Now comes the bone-chilling cold, with wind chills below zero expected tonight. That means heat complaints from tenants. In Newark, city officials say they had a number of calls overnight. We were there as code enforcement officials investigated a complaint on Irvine Turner Boulevard.
A woman said the heat in her apartment was inadequate. It turned out the heat was set — albeit to the bare minimum — by the landlord.
"The inspectors were here two times this week," said Mayor Luis Quintana. "Some of it appears to be drafts coming through the window.
Down the hall, we came upon a window in the common area. "Look at this," said Quintana, holding his hand near the window, through which the wind could be heard whistling. "This is really cold. You're getting all the wind through there."
Code Enforcement Officer Tom McDonald said inspectors had been to this building three times this season. He said they were in compliance, "barely."
Officials say they hope that moderate temperatures on Sunday will help get rid of some of the ice, but forecasters say more snow could be headed our way on Monday.


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Par MillardPiggs dans Accueil le 6 Juillet 2018 à 13:37
If you've discovered urine tracks, nibble marks, nests, or droppings, or if you've heard dubious scuttling noises, you most likely have a rat or computer mouse control trouble. Don't place off employing a rat control/mouse control professional. Rodent pest control is an urgent matter, for the factors delineated below.
1. Computer mice and rats could trigger major structural damage.
Realtors value the requirement for mouse and also rat control; they see it as a residential property worth concern. Beyond the shallow damage created by their feces as well as pee, rodents are known to be constant chewers of every little thing from lead pipelines to attractive woodwork. Like beavers, Rats need to maintain gnawing due to the fact that their incisor teeth never stop expanding. Also electric cables are not unsusceptible to rodents' extraordinary jaw power - rats have been understood to strip the safety covering off of electrical wire.
To puts it simply, if you postpone on setting up rodent parasite control, you may be looking at expensive electric rewiring or pipes repair costs. Firefighters likewise encourage promptly settling rodent insect control issues, since home fires are more potential when rats exist. (A stripped electrical wire is much more likely to trigger a fire.).
2. Rats and also computer mice are providers of fatal diseases.
Our impulse is to shout after detecting a rodent, and also for excellent factor: they bring some of the globe's deadliest ailments. Rodent bug control is a major health, http://www.pest-control.bg/services/unishtojavane-na-pluhove/ and wellness issue around the globe, also in these modern times.
There are several ways for rats to pass on their diseases; as the name rat-bite fever implies, some illness are passed on by rodent bites. Various other diseases, such as hanta infection, stick around in rats' waste, as well as are handed down by means of inhalation of tainted air. Mouse control as well as rat control experts should be entrusted with clearing out areas consisting of rodent feces; laypeople could easily get hanta infection or else.
One last way rodents can transmit illness: through bloodsuckers, such as fleas or mites. This is exactly how one of the most dangerous diseases in background was spread out. Oriental rat fleas living on black rats spread out the Black Plague, which eliminated 30-60% of Europe's populace in the 1300s. Also today, this illness is deadly for 30-75% of those that contract it, so obtain any rat control troubles in hand as promptly as possible.
3. Rodents make it easier for other pests to grow.
With their continuous gnawing, rodents produce pest-friendly environments. If a mouse digs right into the added food stores in your kitchen, it's much less complicated for pests to lay eggs in opened up packages. Similarly, after a rat has eaten a leakage in a plastic water pipe, it's less complicated for other bugs to endure. All living creatures need water to survive, yet termites and various other insects are specifically drawn to moist locations. Usually, rodents are the harbingers of bigger pest control problems. Rats' behaviors make it simple for various other bugs to thrive. In this means, practicing good rodent parasite control will certainly limit the growth of various other bug populaces.
To preserve your home and also your wellness, as well as to prevent more parasite control concerns down the road, it's a good idea to attend to rat control and computer mouse control issues as soon as possible.
Rodent insect control is an urgent matter, for the reasons delineated listed below.
Firemans likewise suggest rapidly solving rodent pest control issues, since home fires are more potential when rats are present. There are several means for rodents to pass on their diseases; as the name rat-bite high temperature suggests, some healths issues are passed on by rodent attacks. Computer mouse control and also rat control experts ought to be tasked with cleansing out locations including rodent feces; laypeople could quickly contract hanta virus otherwise.
In this method, practicing good rodent parasite control will restrict the development of various other bug populations.
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Hi guys! So I've been so busy working and getting ready for my big move in a few weeks that I literally haven't been wearing polish, so I thought I'd do a post showing you what's in my five z-palettes.
First off is my "everyday pallette" which has most of my neautral shadows and a few coloured ones. I can create so many looks with this palette. This is the PRO or jumbo size palette while all the others are the large size
At the top of the palette is my favourite shadows palette is my favourite shadows from my Naked palettes. Now obviously this isn't all of them, some I used up completely, some broke when I depotted them, and some I keep in a box somewhere lol. I'm about 98% sure that my naked2 palette was actually fake but the shadows all work well so yeah
Virgin, Buck, Naked, Half Baked, YDK, Smog, Snake Bite, Sin, Chopper, Sidecar, Suspect, Hustle, Blackout
L-R: MAC Vellum, MAC Ricepaper, MAC Woodwinked, MAC shadow from Dynamic Duo 1, Makeup Geek Drama Queen, MAC Black Tied
L-R: MAC Solar White, MAC Femme Fi, MAC Charcoal Brown, MAC Coppering, MAC Cranberry, Ben Nye Cake Eyeliner in Black (I keep this in here for when I travel and forget my eyeliner)
At the bottom of the palette I keep my favourite shadows from Urban Decay
L-R: Blackout, Back Door, Muse, Baked, Mushroom, Never Mind, Echo Beach, Laced, Anonymous
Along the side of the palette I keep some shadows from the Sigma Paris Palette
L-R: Eiffel, Triomphe, Ellyses Seine, Notre Dame, Versellies
My next most used palette is where I keep my face powders.
On the left is my Australis huge bronzer which is a big pain because it takes up so much space!
The blush at the top is Rouge from the Sigma Paris Palette. Top right hand corner is a bronzer from Sleek Makeup in Light. I keep my Rimmel Stay Matte powder in here and Brule eyeshadow by Wet & Wild... I'm not really sure why thats in there lol
Next is my Sugarpill palette!
I keep all my pressed Sugarpill eyeshadows in here
Love +, Flamepoint, Acidberry, Taco, Poison Plum
Buttercupcake, Mochi, After Party, Midori
Poison Plum (again), Velocity, Dollypop, @#$%!
Next is my purple palette where I keep Urban Decay shadows (& two from Sigma)
L-R: Zephyr, Skimp, Kinky, Sin, Missionary, Freestyle, Midnight Rodeo, Provocoteur, Freebird
L-R: Midnight Cowgirl, Penny Lane, Blitz, Jagged, Cobra, Barlust, Lost, Armour, Bust
L-R: Vice, Gravity, Rockstar, Rapture, Blue Bus, Chaos, Evidence, Unhinged, Junkie
L-R: Loaded, Hijack, Bender, Desperation, Asphalt, Occupy
L-R: Gunmetal, Black Market, Noise, Crystal
And Finally is my "everything else" palette
L-R: Makeup Geek Manderine, Makeup Geek Razzleberry, Coastal Scents Hot Pot 'Vampy', MAC Passionate, Coastal Scents Hot Pot ME16, MAC Sketch, MAC Bronze
L-R: MAC shadow from Dynamic Duo 1, MAC Stars & Rockets, Coastal Scents Hot Pot ME05, Coastal Scents Hot Pot Lavender Lace, Coastal Scents Queens Jubilee, Makeup Geek Unicorn
L-R: Coastal Scents (CS) Blue Hawaiian, CS Tropic Green, CS Cyan Frost, CS S02, Urban Decay Haight, CS Deep Veridian, MAC shadow from Double Feature 4
Coastal Scents Fresh Chive, Makeup Geek Peacock, Makeup Geek Shimma Shimma, Urban Decay Baked mini from Fun Palette
Thanks so much for reading guys!
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So far today I've been okay. My sister took me on my first official "outing" to Wal-Mart to pick up a couple things I needed and to the bank. It felt good to get out for awhile. I feel like there are things I need to be doing for Saturday, but I can't bring myself to go there yet.
I lost another 8 pounds since yesterday. I was actually able to put on my jeans this morning. Granted they are my "fat" jeans, but they are jeans and not maternity clothes. Thank God. For those keeping count, that's 33 pounds gone since Friday, and of course, that doesn't include the weight I lost the first two days I was on lasiks.
My first two hospital bills have arrived. Wow. I'm very thankful for the health insurance I took out on the last day of open enrollment, otherwise we'd be hurting. It's not pretty. BUT, at least I'm on the mend and finally home. I'm ready for this week to be over and to try to attempt moving on and finding some peace in all of this.


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This year is expected to be a great vintage not only for reds, but also for Chardonnay and Chenin blanc wines, according to Distell.
|Erhard Wolf
Commenting on the 2014 harvest, group GM for grape and wine supply, Erhard Wolf, said it had been one of the best vintages experienced by the company in recent years. "Measured in terms of our ability to bring in grapes at optimal sugar levels with well-balanced ripeness, this vintage stands out for exceptional quality."
He also confirmed that Distell's yields were 11% up on last year, compared with the industry average of 5% higher for comparable wine-growing areas. "Although as a whole, the South African grape wine harvest is expected to be about 2% down on last year."
Callie van Niekerk, who heads the winemaking teams said the harvest had delivered excellent colour for reds and outstanding flavour all round, with excellent fruit sugar and acid balance.
Drikus Heyns, chief viticulturist said a cold winter with good rains had resulted in well-conditioned vines. Bud break had been pretty even, while a cooler January, with maximum temperatures at least 1°C lower than average, and a cooler March had helped to slow ripening.
"The cooler January meant the harvest began between 10 to 14 days later than usual," said Heyns, "but we were very fortunate in that by the time of the March rains, about 80% to 85% of our grapes had been picked, so fruit was largely unaffected by the difficult weather at that point."
Rainfall levels were amongst the highest over the past five to seven years and had substantially reduced the need for irrigation during ripening, he added.
He said that by following an open canopy management approach for enhanced light and air penetration, it had been possible to achieve a favourable micro-climate around grape bunches to promote optimal ripening.
|Callie van Niekerk
Van Niekerk said the practice had resulted in outstanding quality crops. "We are again spoilt for choice with excellent fruit sourced from across the Cape."
Wolf said the company had invested extensively in researching ways to achieve optimal ripeness and to streamline grape intake and was now successfully implementing its findings.
"The role of our viticultural team is to prepare the vineyards to deliver the best possible results given the prevailing vintage conditions, while ensuring the best possible management of water resources and then to allow for optimal handling of the fruit by improving planning and processes for delivery.
"Improved yields, matched by an ongoing rise in quality, means we have the very best fruit at our disposal this year."


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A bad year for the extreme centre
With further elections coming this year in Europe, socialists must organise against racism and for alternatives to neoliberal politics.
If the year just ended had a single guiding theme, it was the accelerating crisis of what Tariq Ali dubs the "extreme centre": mainstream political parties and institutions that have become addicted to the neoliberal status quo.
December was a fitting end to a year that had already seen Britain reject the EU and the US reject Hillary Clinton. In Austria, where the annulled presidential election run-off was restaged, an independent candidate from the Green Party defeated the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) candidate.


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One of the cornerstone features of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, to be announced next Wednesday, is a screen based on the Force Touch technology from the latest MacBook trackpads and the Apple Watch. However, as we noted in previous articles such as our event expectations roundup from yesterday, the Force Touch feature in the new iPhones will actually be a next-generation version of the technology. According to sources familiar with the new iPhones, the new pressure-sensitive screen will likely be called the "3D Touch Display"…
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Following last week's leak of a substantially complete iPhone 6S display assembly, another screen has slipped out into the wild, where it has been placed alongside and compared against the same part from the iPhone 6 (shown above at left). European part and accessory vendor MacManiack shared this image, the photos in the gallery below, and a YouTube video contrasting the components.
While very few differences between the components are worth noting, the iPhone 6S part again appears to have a place for the much-rumored Force Touch/haptic feedback component introduced in the Apple Watch. MacManiack claims that at least part of the "Touch ID home button is integrated in the LCD and digitizer connector," and points out that the connectors are different on the parts. Two galleries showing the parts in much greater detail follow…
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Yep, that's a cracked Apple Watch display. Nope, it's not actually an Edition, just plated, but the $549 and up steel model uses the same sapphire display as Apple's $10,000 and up watch. And yes, the Apple Watch's sapphire display reacts to accidental drops against hard surfaces just like iPhones.
In describing the craftsmanship of the Apple Watch, Apple calls sapphire "the second-hardest transparent substance after diamond," adding that "that's why we chose it to cover the Apple Watch and Apple Watch Edition faces," but it still sells a $79 AppleCare+ warranty to cover accidental damage because sapphire is clearly not invincible.
Here's what to expect if you accidentally break your Apple Watch display and what I learned about how easily it can happen… expand full story
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Bryan Jones has taken close up images of the Apple Watch screen, magnified such it is possible to discern the individual pixels and sub-pixels. The images show the arrangements of red, green and blue light that make up the images users see on the Apple Watch Retina Display.
Jones compares the screen technology with that of iPhone screens (shown below). They look quite different likely due to the fact that Apple Watch uses an AMOLED display rather than a LCD. iPhone pixels are tightly packed together with the red, green and blue aligned vertically. With the Apple Watch, the blue sub-pixels act as spacers for the stacked red and green sub-pixels. Jones also notes that the imaging specs are a lot smaller than compared with an iPhone which seems to be in aid of maximising battery life. When zoomed in to this level, it means you can see a lot more black space. Jones says this contributes to the Apple Watch's excellent contrast ratios.
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Apple Watch propels LG to over 90% of the smartwatch display market
According to market research firm DisplaySearch, LG Display—the sole company currently making displays for the Apple Watch—brought in over $186 million during the first quarter of 2015, a number more than 90% of the overall market estimated to be worth a total of $240 million (via Business Korea). Other players in the market have tiny shares in comparison, with Samsung Display in second place with a 3.1% share, followed by Japan Display at 2.1%…
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A new report from The Wall Street Journal today is corroborating many previous rumors about Apple's upcoming wearable, including that the device will include some form of NFC technology and will be shipping in multiple sizes. Furthermore, the report notes that Apple will also be bringing NFC to its next iPhone as seen in previous leaks, making it easier for the two devices to pair and signifying that the watch will be more than just a fitness gadget:
The gadget's use of near-field communication, or NFC, reflects Apple's broader ambitions for the so-called iWatch beyond health and fitness tracking, the most commonly cited use. Apple also is expected to add the wireless technology to the next versions of its iPhone, people familiar with the device said, potentially simplifying the process of connecting, or pairing, the two devices.


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READER POSTCARD: Long Sands Beach, Maine
Introducing our first "Reader Postcard" suggesting fabulous beach destinations. Thank you, Susie, for sharing this sublime spot. Looks like our travel lists will be getting very very long ...
"I love Long Sands Beach in York, Maine. It's quiet, convenient, large, and entirely consumed by every high tide--which means that the sand is packed down and not blowing all over the place!"
--Susie Riley via the Style Maniac Facebook Page
"Long Sands Twilight" photo courtesy AJ Messier. For more amazing photos check out his website
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"Use the good china for breakfast."


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New Toyota RAV4 for Sale in Gastonia, NC
For years, Toyota's five-passenger crossover SUV has been helping families throughout Shelby get around with ease, and the new Toyota RAV4 is the latest and greatest installment in the RAV4 history. Edmunds notes that "its accommodations are spacious, and its seats are soft enough for hours in the saddle." The RAV4 has also earned awards like a Top Safety Pick+ rating from the IIHS. Experience the new Toyota RAV4 in Gastonia by scheduling a test drive of any new RAV4 for sale here at Toyota of Gastonia!
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This month, Stanford University's Pathways magazine gave new meaning to the phrase "third-world America" when it published an article reporting that, in any given month of 2011, 1.65 million U.S. households with children were living on less than $2 per person, per day—the sort of extreme poverty threshold usually associated with developing nations. According to H. Luke Shaefer of the University of Michigan and Kathryn Edin of Johns Hopkins, the number of families living under that low, low line has grown 159 percent since 1996. This, they argued, may have partly been the result of Bill Clinton's welfare reforms, which made it harder for many families to receive cash assistance.
"The prevalence of extreme poverty in the United States may shock many," the pair wrote. But is it really as prevalent as they suggest? A new report from the Brookings Institution argues: maybe not.


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Israeli Treatment of Palestinians Worse than South African Apartheid
Wikipedia notes that South Africans have called Israel an apartheid state (footnotes omitted):
Former deputy mayor of Jerusalem Meron Benvenisti relates in his 1986 book Conflicts and Contradictions that during the 1970s, an official of the South African apartheid government compared Israeli–Palestinian relations to South African policy for the Transkei in a meeting. The Israeli officials present expressed shock at the comparison, and the South African official said "I understand your reaction. But aren't we actually doing the same thing? We are faced with the same existential problem, therefore we arrive at the same solution. The only difference is that yours is pragmatic and ours is ideological."
On 24 November 2009, the South African government responded to Israeli plans to expand the settlement of Gilo in East Jerusalem by condemning it harshly, stating, "We condemn the fact that Israeli settlement expansion in East Jerusalem is coupled with Israel's campaign to evict and displace the original Palestinian residents from the City." The South African government drew a parallel between Israel's actions in Jerusalem and forced removals of persons effected as part of the South African apartheid regime.
On 21 April 2010, the South African government expressed "the greatest concern" over Israeli Infiltration Order 1650, saying that the order has a broad definition of "infiltrator" and unclear terms as to which permits would allow a person to reside in the West Bank, as well as how valid residency might be proven. The South African government said the terms of the order are "reminiscent of pass laws under apartheid South Africa".
In 2002 Anglican Archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu wrote a series of articles in major newspapers, comparing the Israeli occupation of the West Bank to apartheid South Africa, and calling for the international community to divest support from Israel until the territories were no longer occupied. In an April 2010 open letter to the University of Berkeley, Tutu wrote "I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid. I have witnessed the humiliation of Palestinian men, women, and children made to wait hours at Israeli military checkpoints routinely when trying to make the most basic of trips to visit relatives or attend school or college, and this humiliation is familiar to me and the many black South Africans who were corralled and regularly insulted by the security forces of the Apartheid government." In 2011, Tutu wrote an article for the Tampa Bay Times, arguing that Israeli apartheid is now so bad that only an international boycott can force Israel to change its policies. [Earlier this month, Tutu said, : "It is not a Muslim or Jewish crisis. It is a human rights crisis with roots to what amounts to an apartheid system of land ownership and control. It is a crisis that fuels other crises…" At the same World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, former South African president – FW de Klerk – said: "I think for the Israelis and Palestinians, the lesson to be learnt from South Africa is that there is no dispute which cannot be resolved by meaningful negotiation if there is the will on both sides to negotiate bona fide."]
Other prominent South African anti-apartheid activists have used apartheid comparisons to criticize the occupation of the West Bank, and particularly the construction of the separation barrier. These include Farid Esack, a writer who is currently William Henry Bloomberg Visiting Professor at Harvard Divinity School, Ronnie Kasrils, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Dennis Goldberg, and Arun Ghandhi,
On 15 May 2008, 34 leading South African activists published an open letter in The Citizen, under the heading "We fought apartheid; we see no reason to celebrate it in Israel now!". The signatories, who included Kasrils and several other government ministers, COSATU General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, Ahmed Kathrada, Sam Ramsamy and Blade Nzimande, wrote "Apartheid is a crime against humanity. It was when it was done against South Africans; it is so when it is done against Palestinians!"
On 6 June 2008, Mr. Kgalema Motlanthe, the Deputy President of South Africa and of the African National Congress, who had recently visited the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, told a delegation of Arab Knesset members visiting South Africa to study its democratic constitution that conditions for Palestinians under occupation were "worse than conditions were for Blacks under the Apartheid regime".
In 2008 a delegation of ANC veterans visited Israel and the Occupied Territories, and said that in some respects it was worse than apartheid. One member said "The daily indignity to which the Palestinian population is subjected far outstrips the apartheid regime."
One of the Jewish members of the delegation said that the comparison with apartheid is very relevant and that the Israelis are even more efficient in implementing the separation-of-races regime than the South Africans were, and that if he were to say this publicly, he would be attacked by the members of the Jewish community.
In May 2009, The Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa released a legal study, subsequently published in 2012 as Beyond Occupation: Apartheid, Colonialism and International Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, finding that Israel is practicing both colonialism and apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territories, according to the definition of apartheid provided by the International Convention for the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid. Further, Israel's practices could be grouped into three "pillars" of apartheid comparable to practices in South Africa:
The first pillar "derives from Israeli laws and policies that establish Jewish identity for purposes of law and afford a preferential legal status and material benefits to Jews over non-Jews".
The second pillar is reflected in "Israel's 'grand' policy to fragment the OPT [and] ensure that Palestinians remain confined to the reserves designated for them while Israeli Jews are prohibited from entering those reserves but enjoy freedom of movement throughout the rest of the Palestinian territory. This policy is evidenced by Israel's extensive appropriation of Palestinian land, which continues to shrink the territorial space available to Palestinians; the hermetic closure and isolation of the Gaza Strip from the rest of the OPT; the deliberate severing of East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank; and the appropriation and construction policies serving to carve up the West Bank into an intricate and well-serviced network of connected settlements for Jewish-Israelis and an archipelago of besieged and non-contiguous enclaves for Palestinians".
The third pillar is "Israel's invocation of 'security' to validate sweeping restrictions on Palestinian freedom of opinion, expression, assembly, association and movement [to] mask a true underlying intent to suppress dissent to its system of domination and thereby maintain control over Palestinians as a group."
In a November 2011 interview Reverend Allan Boesak called Israeli apartheid "more terrifying" than South Africa ever was. Boesak commented on many pernicious aspects of Israeli apartheid and said that two separate justice systems exist, one for Palestinians [who are tried in Israeli military courts] and Israelis [who are tried in civil, not military courts]. Boesak stated: "So in many ways the Israeli system is worse."
In October 2012, Baleka Mbete, chairman of the ANC, described the situation as "far worse than apartheid South Africa".
And Nelson Mandela said:
Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians ….
Wikipedia points out that several UN officials agree:
Former Special Rapporteur John Dugard described the situation in the West Bank as "an apartheid regime … worse than the one that existed in South Africa." In 2007, in advance of a report from the United Nations Human Rights Council, Dugard wrote, "Israel's laws and practices in the OPT [occupied Palestinian territories] certainly resemble aspects of apartheid." Referring to Israel's actions in the occupied West Bank, he wrote, "Can it seriously be denied that the purpose […] is to establish and maintain domination by one racial group (Jews) over another racial group (Palestinians) and systematically oppressing them? Israel denies that this is its intention or purpose. But such an intention or purpose may be inferred from the actions described in this report."
In October 2010 Richard A. Falk reported to the General Assembly Third Committee "It is the opinion of the current Special Rapporteur that the nature of the occupation as of 2010 substantiates earlier allegations of colonialism and apartheid in evidence and law to a greater extent than was the case even three years ago. The entrenching of colonialist and apartheid features of the Israeli occupation has been a cumulative process. The longer it continues, the more difficult it is to overcome and the more serious is the abridgement of fundamental Palestinian rights."
According to a 2008 report in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, then-President of the United Nations General Assembly Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann "likened Israel's policies toward the Palestinians to South Africa's treatment of blacks under apartheid…. Brockmann stressed that it was important for the United Nations to use the heavily-charged term since it was the institution itself that had passed the International Convention against the crime of apartheid."
- Amnesty International: Israel Remains the Occupying Power in Gaza and is Thus Bound By the Law Of Occupation


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Sunday, November 12, 2017
3:00 – 5:00pm at The Print Center
Network commissioned composers Cynthia Folio, Robert Maggio, Jeffrey Mumford and Roberto Pace to write new music in response to Martin Puryear's prints. Charles Wuorinen's String Trio will also be performed. There will be a reception following the concert.
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I've had the opportunity to publish with the fine folks at Envato Tuts+ Web Design on the dangers presented by vibrating and garish color schemes. Check out the article.
I want to thank the organizers of the inaugural O'Reilly Design Conference for putting together such an amazing event. I had some great conversations with fellow speakers, attendees and especially with the readers who made it out to my talk.


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I didn't grow up with a lot of money, so my parents always taught me to be resourceful with what I have. This post is all about that … being resourceful. My goal was to buy a Macbook Air because my old 17″ laptop was just too heavy but after looking at the prices ($999 for a 64GB 11.6″ laptop?!), I felt like I needed to build my own that is better and cheaper…
I started with a Asus X202E Vivabook 11.6″, it weighs 2.9 lbs (weighs even less with a SSD!) and is made out of aluminum and plastic and has a very 10 finger responsive touch screen… the problem was .. it has a slim spinning 500GB harddrive which is considerably slower than a SSD. The bigger problem is that standard 2.5″ SSD's DO NOT fit in this laptop since the hard drive space is so slim. I decided to be resourceful and take matters into my own hands…
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Update: 2/17/2013 : Also regarding the touchpad, it looks like the software drivers from Asus is the main problem. After researching the Samsung 7 Series uses the same touchpads and have a better driver but Samsung removed it from their webpage. I found a mirror from notebookreview.com – credit goes to user John Ratsey for uploading and sharing this link!
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Friends, Countrymen, Fellow Writers…
I must beg your pardon on posting your Wednesday Writing prompt so late (so much so that we're already greeting Thursday here in the UK!). My feeble excuse is that my dear old laptop is at last showing its age this week. Wouldn't you know it would kick in during our Annual Writing Retreat? Ah well… builds character, right?
But before it can act up again, here is a prompt that caught my eye whilst skimming the Jeff Gerke guide we've recommended to all you Novel in November participants, Write Your Novel in a Month. This one's brilliant if you're still searching for that spark of an idea that gives you tummy flutters of excitement & makes your fingers just itch to start typing. But even if you're not quite ready to take the plunge of a month-long challenge, this exercise will get you dreaming about that perfect novel you hope to write…some day.
Hey, it all starts with a spark! So here it is:
Imagine you are given the key to the Room of Wonders and allowed to retrieve 10 items that you believe belong in the best novel ever written. What items will you collect?
Now go wild! Close your eyes and look around that Room. Then write down the 10 items that caught your mind's eye & hang on to the list! It might just be the beginnings of your next awesome novel!
Oh yea, & need I mention we would LOVE to hear about your lists in the comments below? You know how nosy we are by now. 😉


text: To illustrate a point, Chris asked me this thought-provoking question about a simple field mark on a very common bird: the American Robin. I knew the answer, but had to think about it hard. To identify 700 species, I continually study field guides and learn the possibilities of what thrushes could show up in North America- Fieldfare, Redwing, Dusky Thrush, Aztec Thrush... but did I know all of our thrushes to the same degree of detail? How well do I know the common species? Could I pick out a Bicknell's Thrush by sight on migration in early May along the Atlantic coast, instead of making a special trip to New England? Time (and luck) will tell!


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It's my absolute pleasure to welcome to CBTB today Pierre Lemaitre, the author behind arguably my favorite psychological thriller, BLOOD WEDDING, and the brand-new THREE DAYS AND A LIFE, which releases from Quercus today, 11/7/17! Lemaitre is an award-winning author and screenwriter—in 2013, Lemaitre received the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary prize, and his novels Camille and The Great Swindle won the CWA International Dagger in 2015 and 2016, respectively. It's an honor to welcome Lemaitre to the blog to discuss his newest novel THREE DAYS AND A LIFE, his brilliant thriller BLOOD WEDDING, the inspiration behind his work, his upcoming projects, and much more.
This is truly one of the most thoughtful Q&A's I've had the pleasure of hosting on Crime by the Book, and I hope you will enjoy reading it as much I have enjoyed putting it together! You can catch my reviews of THREE DAYS AND A LIFE and BLOOD WEDDING on CBTB—these are two very different kinds of novels, both written with the beautiful prose and distinct style that make Lemaitre a standout. Fans of dark and shocking psychological suspense will love BLOOD WEDDING; readers looking for a subtle and refined character study will find THREE DAYS AND A LIFE up their alley. Many thanks to Pierre for taking the time to answer my questions so thoughtfully, and to the publisher for facilitating this Q&A!
Plot Summary: THREE DAYS AND A LIFE
In 1999, in the small provincial town of Beauval, France, twelve-year-old Antoine Courtin accidentally kills a young neighbor boy in the woods near his home. Panicked, he conceals the body and to his relief--and ongoing shame--he is never suspected of any connection to the child's disappearance.
But the boy's death continues to haunt him, shaping his life in unseen ways. More than a decade later, Antoine is living in Paris, now a young doctor with a fiancée and a promising future. On a rare trip home to the town he hates and fears, Antoine thoughtlessly sleeps with a beautiful young woman from his past. She shows up pregnant at his doorstep in Paris a few months later, insisting that they marry.
Meanwhile, the newly discovered body of Antoine's childhood victim means that the case has been reopened, and all of his old fears rush back. With the gravitational pull of his hometown strengthening its grip, Antoine may finally be forced to confront his past. Is he prepared to do what he must to keep his darkest secrets buried?
Author Q&A: Pierre Lemaitre
Crime by the Book: Where did you come up with the idea for THREE DAYS AND A LIFE?
Pierre Lemaitre: The idea of childhood and the idea of crime are antagonistic ideas: in childhood we associate readily images linked to naivete, to innocence. At first, a "criminal child" is in itself a challenge to our representations.
Secondly, what interested me is not to know HOW this could happen, that a child became a murderer, but WHAT would happen next…
That's the reason why this novel is a Noir novel and not a crime novel.
CBTB: If you had to describe your book in three adjectives, which would you choose?
PL: Ambivalent – Black – Tragic
CBTB: THREE DAYS AND A LIFE is, in many ways, an intimate portrait of small-town life. Was this setting inspired by a place you have lived? Or is it entirely fictional?
PL: All provincial towns in France resemble each other. But they're not very different than provincial towns regardless of the European country. I'm certain that the story could have taken place in Ireland, in Germany, or in Finland.
I'm certain that all of these towns operate in the same way: through a permanent spreading of rumors, a mistrust of others vis-à-vis others but they are also capable of unexpected solidarities in circumstances beyond one's control.
CBTB: The main character of THREE DAYS is a man who, in his childhood, committed a terrible crime - and now he must live with the knowledge of what he's done. How did you get inside the head of this character? What inspired you to write about him?
PL: The project of this character was to place the reader in permanent ambivalence. I wanted that from one page to another he (the reader) likes Antoine or disapproves of him, that he understands him or condemns him, that he wishes for his arrest or his impunity. As in life…
CBTB: THREE DAYS is a bit of a departure from your darker, more violent books like BLOOD WEDDING and the Camille Verhoeven trilogy. Why did you choose to explore a new style of writing in this new release?
PL: This is the kind of question that I never ask myself. When I have a good idea, I mean to say, an idea which suits me, I make it in to a novel. If the idea is that of a crime novel, then this novel is a "thriller," that's all. For "Three Days and A Life" I had the choice to make a thriller or a Noir novel: what I desired to show consisted more of a Noir novel, that's all.
CBTB: When looking back on the books you have written, do you find that there are common themes that you tend to explore in your writing? Or is each book entirely its own?
PL: A novelist is someone who has two or three things to say and who tries, book after book, to say them in the best way possible. The entire work of Proust or Modiano illustrates this idea. As far as knowing what the dominant themes of my own work are, I have a certain idea of them but I leave it up to the readers or to the analysts to discern them.
CBTB: Your book BLOOD WEDDING is a longstanding favorite of mine - I think it must be one of the best psychological thrillers I have ever read. It's such a visceral and unnerving read, with so many surprises in store for the reader. Where did the idea for that story come from?
PL: To be honest, I have a great regret that this book, Blood Wedding, was not crowned with The Dagger: it's a perfectly Hitchcock-ian novel (besides, it was composed with the goal to pay homage to this master of the crime story) while The Dagger was awarded to The Great Swindle [another Lemaitre title]…which was not a crime novel. Frankly, these decisions are quite strange.
To reply to your question, I imagined this book, saying to myself, "I'm going to create a novel that Hitchcock would say, 'This book is for me!'" Obviously it's quite flattering for me to imagine this but at least, that was the goal of the book.
This is a period where I liked to start with an idea (though today I like to begin with characters.) For this one, the idea started with a title of an essay of clinical psychology by Howard Searles which, in French, is titled, "How to make the other crazy." This title was a perfect project for a crime novel. Sometimes, ideas don't make bad books.
CBTB: When you are not writing crime and suspense novels, do you read crime fiction as well? If so, what are some of your favorite crime books? (And if not, what kind of books do you enjoy reading?)
PL: I read little. I've read a lot my whole life but since I've been writing novels I don't read as much because I live fully in the story that I'm in the process of writing, and I don't have the necessary free time for the sincere reading of a novel. I am a poor reader in this regard, I'm always thinking of something else…
But for some months I've been reading or re-reading many crime novels because I'm writing a "Dictionary for Thriller Lovers." I like this project which was proposed to me by the publisher, PLON. It involves writing short notes like those for an encyclopedia but selecting only what I like. I'm under no obligation that it be exhaustive. My only obligation is to speak about what I like. It's a delight.
Book Details:
Read CBTB's Review of THREE DAYS AND A LIFE
Read CBTB's Review of BLOOD WEDDING
Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: MacLehose Press (November 7, 2017)
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