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Blogdown and Tranquilpeak Hosted on Netlify: a Deep Dive
This blog will outline what I see as differences between Hugo and Jekyll, some benefits and drawbacks of using Netlify vs. GitHub pages to host, and how to launch the Hugo Tranquilpeak theme from scratch.
Why Hugo?
One of my first posts was about blogging with Jekyll hosted on GitHub. About six months after writing that post, I hit a few bugs trying to debug it and got frustrated because I had already forgotten all of what I binge-learned earlier. I was tired of re-updating my Jekyll code, and ultimately gave up since I didn't use it often enough. And so I switched to Hugo and blogdown. Here are the reasons why I've already switched from Jekyll to Hugo:
- Jekyll requires you to download and manage the software which caused me a lot of headaches and debugging. Blogdown manages all of the Hugo installations for you.
- I wanted to be able to use R Markdown in my blogs and Jekyll doesn't have a native integration. Andrew Brooks has a solution that allows you to use R Markdown and Jekyll, though I had trouble using it1.
- Netlify allows HTTPS for custom URLs, whereas GitHub only allows HTTPS for
username.github.iopages (not custom URLs). Here's a discussion on GitHub pages v. Netlify.
- Configuring a custom URL on Netlify is extremely easy compared to GitHub pages. (If you don't use a custom URL, you won't like the one Netlify provides by default.)
Enter blogdown
blogdown is an R package that manages the Hugo software, which is a static website generator. Here's the package on GitHub, which has a handy 5 min instruction to get your feet wet. Here's the official tutorial on blogdown and is a great resource.
You will spend some time getting to know blogdown and Hugo, and Hugo requires as much work figuring out as does Jekyll if you want to get into the gritty customization. That being said, blogdown makes it easy to get started and come back several months later without having to worry about managing all of the Jekyll packages.
A few things about blogdown and Hugo I've learned:
- Hugo is a static site generator (meaning it makes a very basic website)
- Hugo is software you download and run to build and compile your website
- blogdown is a wrapper for Hugo terminal commands
- blogdown renders R Markdown files (Hugo can't)
- blogdown automates installing everything you need for Hugo. (This was very difficult to do with Jekyll at first.)
- blogdown runs the Hugo commands to compile your site locally
serve_site()lets you edit your posts and view the changes simultaneously with every save
build_site()prepares the site for production
blogdown for Tranquilpeak theme
Every Hugo site is different, and each has a different config file. So I'll go step by step on how I launched my blog.
Launch your website in 5 minutes locally
- Run
install_hugo()to get the latest version. You may have to update Hugo periodically, as it's open source and keeps updating. So if you're having issues building your site, try debugging using
install_hugo(force = T).
- Run
new_site()command to build a website from scratch. (Note, these two steps can save you hours of reading documentation if you go the Jekyll route.)
- Make sure you specify the theme you want, e.g.
new_site(theme = 'kakawait/hugo-tranquilpeak-theme'), because it'll download the right
config.toml. Here's a note from the docs:
...You need to be very careful when changing themes, because one theme can be drastically different with another theme in terms of the configurations. It is quite possible that a different theme will not work with your current config.toml. Again, you have to read the documentation of a theme to know what options are supported or required.
- Now the site is built, you'll see several folders. The github Hugo theme is saved in
themes. The entire site is saved and compiled in
public. And Blogdown and Hugo do the work of preparing your content and putting it in the
publicfolder. Your posts are in
content, and your images are in
- To get started, put all your blogs in the
content/post, and your site images in
staticand run
build_site()when you're ready.
- If you run
new_post(), it'll create a post in
Host your blog on Netlify
If you want to do GitHub pages, see Tyler Clavelle's tutorial, Amber Thomas' tutorial or the blogdown docs.
I cover here how to use Netlify to host, which is extremely easy! Here are the steps:
- Put your entire site as a repository on GitHub, Gitlab, or Bitbucket. (I did GitHub.)
- Go to Netlify.
- Connect your GitHub accounts.
- Click
New site from Git.
- Continuous deployment: click
GitHub. You can limit access to only public repositories.
- Click on your GitHub blog repo.
- Branch to deploy:
- Build command:
hugo_0.19(See docs on build command)
- Publish directory:
- Branch to deploy:
- Click
Deploy site. Netlify will generate a random URL
<netlify-name>.netlify.com, like
destiny-jones-84018.netlify.comand launch your site.
Connecting your custom domain
Netlify makes it very easy, more straightforward than GitHub pages to connect your custom domain.
Go to
Settings > Configure domain. Just add your custom domain in the space provided and update your DNS configuration. For some reason, this took me forever to figure out on Jekyll and GitHub pages (it seemed like everyone knew how to do this but me…).
Encrypt with HTTPS
If you want, you can encrypt your site with HTTPS, as Yihui recommends. Once your site is deployed, you can click the
HTTPS tab on Netlify and follow instructions.
Connecting Disqus
Disqus is great for comments, but can be confusing to get set up. There are two parts - setting up a Disqus account and site and updating your Hugo
Set things up on Disqus:
- Go to disqus.com and create a profile.
- Click on
Admin(or www.disqus.com/admin)
- In the top left corner, click
Your sitesthen
+ New
- Under website name, just put something like "data science blog", or whatever you want to name it.
- It'll now ask you to connect to a platform. Skip this and go to
3. Configure Disqus.
- You'll see your website name. Under
Website URL, put the
http://<netlify-name>.netlify.com. (I don't know if you can put your custom domain here, but for me putting my Netlify URL worked fine.)
- Go to
Settingsand it'll provide the shortname. Copy that.
Set up
- Under baseurl I put my custom URL "https://www.bryanwhiting.com".
Note, Disqus won't work when you use
serve_site() command. It only works on the live website.
Change the background photo
This took me a minute to figure out, but I learned something about Hugo, so I'll share it here.
- Put your desired photo in
- Under `[author] picture = yourphoto.png'
You'll notice in the
public folder, the
static folder doesn't exist, but
images does (after you
Adding a static About page
I love the Tranquilpeak about popup page, but I wanted to have more than just a 10-word description. Here's how you add one to the sidebar menu. The blogdown docs explain this.
- Add a file in
- Add the following menu link in
config.toml. Note the default URL connects to
#about, which is defined in
theme/hugo-tranquilpeak-theme/scr/js/about.jsand yields the cool pop-up. When you create
content/about.mdand run
serve_site(), the file
public/about/index.htmlis created.
weight = 4
identifier = "about"
name = "About"
pre = "<i class=\"sidebar-button-icon fa fa-lg fa-question\"></i>"
#url = "/#about"
url = "/about/index.html"
There's probably a better way to do this, but that's beyond my current understanding.
Categories and tags
I could use the following YAML to tag this post. Since
"blog" is the second category, it's considered a subcategory of tutorials. Each blog should fit into only one category, but have multiple tags.
title: 'Blogdown and Tranquilpeak Theme Hosted on Netlify'
date: '2017-06-20'
author: 'Bryan Whiting'
categories: ["tutorials", "blog"]
tags: ["blogdown", "r", "hugo"]
Debugging tip: I think you need to have the brackets
[]for the categories and tags, even if you only have one element. I was getting the error "Error while rendering "page": template: … <.>: range can't iterate over …
" when I lacked the brackets
Takeaways and next steps
You've got a great blog ready to go! There are things I'd like to add to my Tranquilpeak site, such as a project page (similar to having a second post page). The key to learning how to do that may be documented here.
- Alternatively, I could knit the R Markdown file to HTML and Jekyll could read the HTML file, but each R Markdown post ultimately had a different formatting than the normal markdown posts. [return]


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| I was driving out in the country late yesterday afternoon. I spend so much of my time in the city that I sometimes fail to take in the natural world around me. Perhaps it was just because of the way I was feeling during that window of time, but the scenery was just majestic. Clouds were sailing along in the brilliant blue sky like dolphins in an inverted sea. The corn stalks and the leaves on the trees seemed to be an almost iridescent green. The grass was like a closely cropped carpet stretching for miles. And the temperature was perfect and pleasant.
It is moments like this that I can appreciate God's majesty and feel and know that there is a higher power that rules over the earth and its dominion -- including humankind. And in my minds eye, I can almost see the cycles of life passing by, how the scars that are inflicted on God's green earth by pollution and plunder will be healed on God's timeline, not ours. It is in moments like this that I am both fearful and joyous by God's majesty. And it reaffirms my belief that in His/Her own time and place, God will make the hilly places flat and will ensure that justice rules the earth. When I don't believe, it is because I expect these things on my timeline and not God's. And when I understand these things, in that fleeting moment of wisdom, my soul soars to the heavens.
I needed a little bit of soaring because I have to admit I've been a little down for the past two weeks. Wasn't it just a couple of years ago that we were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision in Brown versus Board of Education that declared that separate but equal was unconstitutional? The Brown decision, more than any single event, signaled the beginning of the modern civil rights era. The Brown decision led to the integration -- with various degrees of success -- of our public lives whether that was through our schools, our public accommodations, the voting booth or our housing. It was a recognition that "We Are America, All of Us."
It seems so cold and ironic that three years later the U.S. Supreme Court with Justice John Roberts as the chief justice has begun the dismantling of the Brown decision. In a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision on June 29 struck down the Seattle and Louisville school districts integration plans that took into account the students' racial status when making assignments to schools. While Justice Anton Kennedy, the swing vote on the court, modified the impact of the ruling through his concurring opinion, this decision is the first-step to dismantling most of the social gains that have been won over the last 70 years as this very conservative Supreme Court attempts to turn back the hands of time to 1937.
What is frightening is that most of the conservatives on the court are relatively young Euro-American men -- some would place Justice Clarence Thomas, the only African American on the Court in those ranks -- and may be around for two decades making decisions about how we live our lives. While conservatives have often lambasted the Supreme Court for being activist and for "legislating from the bench," it is now the conservatives who are legislating from the bench.
In his concurring opinion, Clarence Thomas said that the dissenters would "constitutionalize today's faddish social theories . . . if our history has taught us anything, it has taught us to beware of elites bearing racial theories." Well, I wonder what Thomas has to say about the "faddish social theories" of America's past that said African Americans were inferior and used this fabrication and lie to deprive African Americans of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for hundreds of years. Would Thomas admit they existed and that much of the social and economic order of contemporary American, the social order that has African Americans earning about 70% of what Euro-Americans earn? What would Clarence Thomas do about that? Is it a faddish social theory to believe in justice, to believe that a wrong should be made right?
I fear that this decision is only the beginning of a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions that will justify and create a "separate, but equal" social, economic and housing structure in the United States, a structure with fewer individual rights. While this structure will not be totally based on race, it will have that historical racial basis that no one likes to talk about and conservatives pretend does not exist. It is the beginning of the separating of the American people into more of a caste structure where rich do not have to meet poor while enjoying the fruits of their labor.
This new Supreme Court decision could very well become the "Plessey versus Ferguson" decision of our time that will once again justify the "separate but equal" doctrine. Now is not the time to become depressed. Now is the time to seek justice through civic engagement and participation in the voting process. What you do now will matter in the future.
Jim Crow Jr. is coming of age. Work now to send him back to where is daddy is, in the ancient past.
|July 11, 2007
* The Literary Divide: Bush pardon of Scooter Libby smacks of hypocricy,
by Paul Barrows
* And Still I Rise: The story of Arthur Jones, Milwaukee's First Black Top Cop (3),
by Jonathan Gramling
* Asset Builders of America's Youth Power Academy of Finance:
Taking stock of finance,
by Jonathan Gramling
* Asian Wisconzine:
The Dalai Lama in Madison (Part 2 of 2),
by Heidi M. Pascual
* Simple Things:
If at first,
by Lang Kenneth Haynes
* Politicas de hoy: Apaga la tele! (2),
por Alfonso Zepeda Capistran
* Voices: Free Scooter Libby!,
by Jean Daniels
* Project JAMAD trip to Jamaica: Touching the heart,
by Andrea Weiss
* Mt. Zion Baptist Church Ministry Celebration,
by Jonathan Gramling
* Following their Dream,
by Jonathan Gramling
* China Dispatch: Escape from Xuan Cheng,
by Andrew Gramling
* Elements of Change's Hip Hop Revival: Old meets New Skool,
by Jonathan Gramling
* A spicy gumbo of Zydeco,
by Jonathan Gramling
* Letter to the Editor
|Vol. 2 No. 14 July 11, 2007
|Reflections/Jonathan Gramling
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By Mitchell
It's too bad I used such a bad pun for the title of this post, which is a link to Badda-Blog's very good piece on guilt. Seems as if guilt's had a bad name for too long, and more people are coming to realize the beneficial role guilt can play in our lives. Badda-Blogger quotes from a variety of articles and their takes on guilt, but offers an excellent take of his own:
Guilt merely reminds us of loyalty or obligations to others that we are failing to uphold. Some folks work hard to bury their guilt... to forgive themselves. I've actually heard of people forgiving themselves for heineous sins. What hubris! The height of arrogance... to forgive yourself before you have sincerely reflected upon the wrong you commited. You must also admit your wrong-doing to the people you have crossed and then seek forgiveness from them!
As I ventured in the comments section, the important thing about guilt is that you can 1) learn from it (you did it, you know how you felt - don't do it again!), and 2) let go of it through the sacrament of reconciliation. Properly understood, guilt can be a valuable tool, an "early warning system" to help you ward off trouble. Properly confessed, guilt vanishes before the eyes of Our Lord, Who puts between us and our sins a distance that is as great as East is from West.


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Published: the 13th of May 2013
Written by: Sophie Kinsella
Narrated by: Finty Williams, Beth Chalmers, Michael Fenton Stevens
Series: Standalone
Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
Source: Amazon Audible
The blurb
Lottie just knows that her boyfriend is going to propose, but then his big question involves a trip abroad — not a trip down the aisle. Completely crushed, Lottie reconnects with an old flame, and they decide to take drastic action. No dates, no moving in together, they'll just get married . . . right now. Her sister, Fliss, thinks Lottie is making a terrible mistake, and will do anything to stop her. But Lottie is determined to say "I do," for better, or for worse.
I REALLY wanted to like this book, but unfortunately I just couldn't! My previous reads by Sophie Kinsella have been hilarious, adoring, sweet and filled with relate-able characters. If it wasn't because the authors name is printed right there on the cover, I wouldn't have believed this to be her work. The characters are exhausting, unlikable, immature, narrow minded, petty, selfish and just SO manipulative.
Lottie and Fliss' relationship can only really be described as weird, at best. Lottie is like the carefree child, while Fliss has gotten (or taken) the role as the sensible provider and the grownup. At least that's how it looks at first glance. You don't even have to dig deep before you realise that couldn't be further from the truth. The two heroines, are two very dysfunctional representations of Sigmund Freud's famous id theory. While Lotti is the embodiment of the immature and desire fueled id, Fliss represent some weird, uptight and manipulative version of the ego and superego.
Those personality traits still held potential for being hilarious, but the way their characteristics are displayed are really unattractive. While Lottie will cut off her nose just to spite her face, before admitting she doesn't know what the heck she's doing – Fliss will bulldoze over everyone and everything, that doesn't follow her very definition of how she thinks things should be done.
When readers are first introduced to Lotti, she's at a restaurant with her boyfriend Richard. She's sure this is leading up to him proposing to her. She's so set on this that she doesn't realise that she's been making up the clues in her head. After the cringe worthy misunderstanding is straightened out, Lotti leaves him. When she moves from a serious and steady relationship with Richard, to marrying her gap-year sweetheart Ben, Fliss is hell bent of stopping them from consummating the marriage. Her reason for doing this? It could be because she wants to save her sister from a potential messy divorce later on, and without doing the deed, it is possible to get an annulment. Or it could just be because she's an annoying control freak, who due to lack of control in her own life feels she needs to control her sister.
In between ruining Lotti & Ben's honeymoon and ranting about her soon-to-be ex husbands parenting skills, Fliss fails to even notice how lousy of a mother she is. For the majority of the book I couldn't stop thinking, that if she just took a step back and actually thought of her kid, maybe he wouldn't be a pathological liar. And that's another thing that bugged me! Throughout the book Fliss' son tells extreme lies, about having had heart surgery, being an olympic gymnast and so on. All around him grownups swoon over this little miracle, give him free sweets, ice creams etc – and what does Fliss do? Nothing! She's too busy blackmailing the employee in charge of VIP guests, at the hotel her sister is spending her honeymoon. I'll admit that the guy doing his best to inconvenience Ben and Lotti is quite funny, and really inventive.
What I found really interesting with this character setting is, that instead of the classic setting with a hero and a heroine, there's two heroines. The men in the story act more like secondary characters, which means that the spotlight only sparsely shines on them. As a reader I didn't feel like I really got to know them. There was only little bit and pieces making it clear whether they were hero or jerk material. But not enough for me to really get invested and rude for any of them.
Have you read this book, or any books by the author? What's your take on two heroines in a romcom? Let's talk in the comments!
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Casa Palacio
If you're on the N111/E901 Madrid-Valencia motorway, south of Madrid, you might ask why you should detour to Ucles, apparently in the middle of nowhere. Arriving at the sleepy small hill town with a vast, eerily deserted monastery-church perched at the top, you may ask again what a decent hotel could be doing here. Which makes Casa Palacio all the more charming when you find it. The solid stone town house, several hundred years old, has been beautifully converted into a hushed small hotel. Down one side of the central courtyard is the restaurant. A wooden gallery at first floor level (supported on antique stone columns at each corner), works the usual charm. A delightful little sitting room on the ground has an elegant, but simple fireplace with logs piled each side, perhaps as you would have them at home.
Genuine, unpretentious country antiques and artefacts - here a weighing scales, there a chest - rub shoulders happily with the occasional modern piece. Bedrooms are just about OK for space, done out in simple rural style; bathrooms are also smart-rural, with many a hand-painted tile. At the back is a sheltered swimming pool area around which the grass is kept green, even in the furnace of the Castillian summer.
Drawbacks: service may not be instant, and (for foreign guests) little or no foreign languages are spoken. But it's a real Charming Small Hotel.


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Throughout their research degree a typical postgraduate research student can expect to engage in the following key activities:
|On arrival and at the start of each academic year (September)
Students are required to confirm their personal and course details, accept the University's terms and conditions, pay their fees and confirm their attendance.
|On arrival
Students are welcomed to their Faculty and School and provided with useful information to assist them throughout their studies.
|Learning Agreements
|One month after first registration
Students are required to complete a Learning Agreement at an early stage of their research degree in consultation with their supervisor. It provides confirmation that students have received, understood and accepted the expectations of their research programme.
|Faculty Research Training
|Ongoing throughout studies, but likely to be weighted towards the early stages of the degree
Students must engage in research training to ensure they develop the skills that are essential for successful research. Evidence of engagement in research training is requested as part of the Annual Progression Review.
|Project Approval
|Approximately three months after first registration
Students must submit a research proposal and research plan to be approved by their supervisors, an independent panel, the Head of School and the Dean of Postgraduate Studies. An essential requirement for progression.
|Meeting Records
|Ongoing throughout studies until the point of submission (home students) or completion (students holding Tier 4 visas)
As required by the Code of Practice, students must maintain records of all structured interactions as evidence of engagement with their studies. Requires the involvement of both the student and their supervisor(s).
|Attendance Monitoring
|Ongoing throughout studies until the point of submission (home students) or completion (students holding Tier 4 visas)
A central University process undertaken to provide confirmation that students are engaging with their studies. This process allows the University to meet its obligation to the Home Office to ensure students who hold Tier 4 visas are complying with the terms of their visa.
|After 9 months then annually up to submission
An activity to confirm a student is making satisfactory progress and that they can progress to the next stage of their studies.
|At end of studies, on completion of minimum candidature
Students submit their completed thesis, undertake an oral examination and are advised of any corrections/revisions. Once these steps have been completed and a hardbound thesis is submitted, the degree is awarded.
Further information for International Students
International students may need to renew their visa during their studies or to seek advice on their visa options. Further information on specific issues that may affect PGR students holding Tier 4 visas can be found here.
If you are a research student who wishes to take up employment on campus, you may find the following information helpful.
The Policy on Student Employment outlines how students are able to engage with work opportunities on campus. The policy outlines that full-time students are normally limited to 20 hours of employment per week. Research students are able to work additional hours during holiday leave periods. There is a FAQ page that may also be helpful. https://newcastle.sharepoint.com/projects/seoc/Pages/QuestionsandAnswers.aspx
There are linked policies that Supervisors and research students should be aware of:
PGR Holiday Policy - please see page 2 of this policy for further information on employment within the University
Policy on Postgraduates who Teach


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In this issue we hear about the commercial property landscape in Melbourne, saving an historic icon and more from the national awards.
Brisbane Professional Takes Out Top National Commercial Award Once Again16-Jun-2017 14:35:10
Director of Commercial Sales and Leasing for NAI Harcourts Pinnacle Aspley in North Brisbane, Phil Grant has been awarded 'Top Commercial Sales Consultant' across NAI Harcourts Australia.
Commercial, NAI Harcourts, Australia, Brisbane, Harcourts, Commercial Property, Industrial space and warehousing, newletters
Waterfront development opportunity awaits27-Mar-2017 13:13:12
A prime waterfront development opportunity is for sale at Sandstone Point, Bribie Island.
Launceston's iconic 'Holyman House' goes under the hammer06-Mar-2017 15:50:48
NAI Harcourts commercial broker Andy Howell jointly with Burgess Rawson have just recently sold 'Holyman House', one of the most iconic art deco buildings in Launceston for the price of $3 million at a yield of 7.9%.
What's ahead for commercial real estate in 2017?08-Dec-2016 09:52:37
NAI Harcourts leaders from around Australia give their perspective on where the commercial market is heading as we approach 2017, while also reflecting on the past twelve months of commercial activity in their region.
Huge win for up and coming commercial real estate business27-Oct-2016 13:16:02
It was success all round for NAI Harcourts in Launceston at the Real Estate Institute of Tasmania (REIT) Awards for Excellence on Saturday October 22nd at the Country Club Casino, Launceston, Tasmania.
NAI Harcourts in Launceston is beaming after taking out two top awards. Andy Howell was awarded the 'Commercial Sales Person of the Year' and Jessie Legge received 'Commercial Property Manager of the Year'.
Warrick Hobart takes out top national award15-Jul-2016 14:52:48
When it comes to selling commercial real estate in Hobart and its surrounding areas, you will always choose the man with the same name as the city he represents.
New textbook to streamline training for commercial real estate agents15-Jun-2016 09:20:29
The release of NAI Harcourts' first Commercial Sales and Leasing Textbook is a clear indication of the group's commitment to delivering the very best of service to their customers.
New construction on the increase02-Jun-2016 11:31:32
The news for the Australian construction for the March 2016 quarter was mainly positive, according to the recently released Cordell Construction Marketing Movement Report.
NAI Harcourts opens in Noosa25-May-2016 11:17:54
NAI Harcourts has expanded into the Sunshine Coast market with the group opening its latest office in Noosa Heads. The office, specialising in commercial sales and leasing, officially opened in early May with NAI Harcourts CEO Richard Laery present.


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The last 24 hours have been bizarre. I got home from work yesterday and felt fine. I'd had two good lessons and sat down to have a cup of tea when I started feeling ill.
Within an hour I was at my doctors with horrific stomach pain. I felt like I was going to faint, could hardly stand and started throwing up so I was put straight through to see a doctor immediately.
They didn't know what it was but after a lot of tests they ruled out anything serious. They said to go home and rest and it's only a short walk to mine but I didn't think I'd make it.
I ended up throwing up in the park and it landed right on a pile of dog poo. I should've filmed it really, Paul puking on poo in the park would have been a great video.
I felt even worse after getting home and couldn't stop being sick. At about 8pm I fell asleep and even missed Eastenders before I woke up at 9 for another 3 hours of heaving.
I woke up this morning and I feel fine! I don't know what that was but it was some of the worst pain I've ever felt.
I'm taking today off to be safe. It's worked out well because my new cameras are coming so I'll be in to sign for them.
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American tattooist, model and make-up entrepreneur Kat Von D's new line of beauty products were to be launched with an in-store appearance at Debenhams' store on Regent's Street, London.
By utilising radio and TV contacts, as well as introducing pioneering new live-stream technology, Facebook Live, 4media group UK created a very successful campaign around the launch.
One of the most important factors of the LVMH campaign was the introduction of 4mediarelations' brand-new live-streaming technology that affords the ability to stream HD, broadcast quality video direct to Facebook.
While also garnering a number of high-profile TV and radio appearances, 4mediarelations produced a 15 minute live-stream Q&A between Kat Von D and beauty blogger Lou Teesdale.
The pair answered questions about Kat's new beauty line to over 375,000 live viewers, with a reach of over 2 million.
The broadcast received over 16,000 'reactions' as well as 378 live-shares.


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Release Date: October 11,2018
Fall Main Event series resumes with No.1 Ladies Detective Agency bestselling Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith
Fall lineup includes film professor and Akron native Joe Fortunato reviews Christmas classic
Akron-Summit County Public Library's Fall Main Event Speaker Series will feature acclaimed writer Alexander McCall Smith, author of well-known No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series Sunday, November 11, 2 pm at Main Library, 60 South High Street in downtown Akron.
One of the most popular and prolific authors of our time, Alexander McCall Smith has written or contributed to more than 100 books, including mysteries, children's books, short story collections, and academic articles. Most well-known for his No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of mysteries, his many other novels include the Sunday Philosophy Club series, 44 Scotland Street, Corduroy Mansions, and Chance Development. His children's books include the School Ship Tobermory series and the Harriet Bean series, among many others. McCall Smith was born in what is now Zimbabwe, became a law professor in Scotland, and returned to Africa to work in Botswana, where he helped to set up the University of Botswana Law School. He has also served as vice-chairman of the Human Genetics Commission of the UK, and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh. Alexander McCall Smith currently lives in Edinburgh with his wife Elizabeth.
The Colors of All the Cattle - his brand new novel, the 19th in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series, will be available for sale at the event. A Q&A, and a book signing will follow McCall's presentation.
Fortunato Film School Presents It's A Wonderful Life
Wednesday, December 5th, 6:30 pm
Just in time for the Holidays, Arizona State University film professor (and Akron native) Joe Fortunato premieres his Fortunato Film School series at Main Library with a fun analysis of this timeless classic featuring James Stewart, Donna Reed, and Lionel Barrymore. If you think you "know" this popular film, you need to see it with Joe's informed and often humorous commentary! Featuring a short introduction, and a post-screening discussion, Joe Fortunato gives insight into the filmmaking process and shows how to "read" a film creatively. The Fortunato Film School will be a regular series in 2019 at Main Library. Come and hear "every time a bell rings."


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Good job on the review, nice to see this get reviewed
Album Rating: 4.0Thanks for the feedback! I enjoyed writing this review. Elliott Smith is one of my favorite musicians.
This is a great review.
You've made a lot of progress from where you were just a week(ish) ago! It strikes an excellent balance between comprehensive, but not overly detailed. It's casual and easy to read, but still very informative. It also really translates your love for his work, without coming off as fanboyish or overly biased.
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Album Rating: 4.0I really appreciated your critique on my early reviews. Thanks for all the help Spirit.
Album Rating: 3.5nice review. I was initially very disappointed with this release, but in context it makes a perfect soundtrack.
I just wish they could've incorporated a few more unreleased tracks.
Album Rating: 4.0Its hard for me to be disappointed with the record. Knowing the intention behind the release is what set my expectations. Most were thinking, "Finally, a bunch of unreleased tracks," but forget the movie aspect of it. The film incorporated these songs throughout its duration as well as a few tracks just for the album itself. I'm sure Elliott Smith's estate will drop a few more albums throughout the years, but Heaven Adores You is solely meant to celebrate the career and development of him as an artist rather than release a bunch of extra material.
Album Rating: 3.5I pretty much agree completely. I picked this up on vinyl recently and it made me really appreciate this release. A lot of these tracks, especially the instrumental ones probably would've never even seen the light of day had it not been for this Documentary, in which they fit perfectly.
My want for more unreleased material is really a selfish desire, and not a slate against this release.
Album Rating: 4.0I think every Elliott fan wants more material released. It's a little selfish, but we enjoy his music a lot. I'm mostly surprised "True Love" was never released. I easily see that song being a top 5 single. Most fans downgrade the album due to their disappointment with the film. The film adaption wasn't perfect, but again, the intention is what they ignore. The film celebrates his life rather than documenting it. It may have been disappointing in that sense, but this was a giant tribute project anyways. The album is hard to criticize sense its just a compilation of things. I can't dig into it aside from which tracks they chose. Though, this was a fun review and I enjoyed it.
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Spencer Johnson's Who Moved My Cheese is an interesting look on how and what motivates us to make decisions. The story centers around four fictional characters:
- Two mice named Sniff and Scurry
- And two little people named Hem and Haw
This may sound a bit like a Shrek fairy tale but it does have some important messages.
Sniff, Scurry, Hem and Haw all live in a maze. Every day they get up and venture into the maze to find cheese. Sniff and Scurry do exactly what their name implies – they work every day to sniff out and scurry to new cheese spots.
Hem and Haw, the little people pride themselves on being much more intelligent and use more complex strategies to find their cheese. And one day they find the mother lode of cheese. There is so much cheese that they move their house closer to the cheese, they even forget how to run the maze.
There is so much cheese they expect it will always be there. They become very comfortable with their lifestyle to the point that they don't notice what is happening around them. Life was good until one day Hem and Haw went to get some cheese and it was all gone!
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Hem and Haw continued to wait and analyze the situation until they were near starvation. Finally, Haw came to the conclusion that it was time to move on because if you do not change you can become extinct, but Hem couldn't leave. Hem was afraid.
When Haw started out by himself he was afraid as he moved down the dark corridors, and as he started running he realized that when you move beyond your fear you feel free.
Haw soon he concluded that old beliefs do not lead you to new opportunities. And he started behaving differently rather than returning to the old spots. Once Haw let go of the past he sped through the maze and then it happened – he found a new cheese station – piled with new cheese. To his surprise Sniff and Scurry were already there!
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- The biggest inhibitor to change lies within ourselves
As I read this story I keep thinking about the current plight of our automotive manufacturing sector. I wonder if these messages from our little people could have circumvented the industry downturn and the public sector bailouts – to sniff out changes ahead of time and scurry into action, rather than get hemmed in and be left behind.
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Extrasolar planet is also known to astronomers as an exo-planet.
Extrasolar planet is a planet beyond the solar system. As of 11 November 2006, 209 extrasolar planets have been discovered. Known extrasolar planets are members of planetary systems that orbit a star. There have also been unconfirmed reports of free-floating planetary-mass objects (that is, ones that do not orbit any star). Since such objects do not satisfy the working definition of "planet" adopted by the International Astronomical Union, and since their existence remains unconfirmed, they will not be discussed in this article.
For centuries, extrasolar planets were a subject of speculation. Astronomers generally supposed that some existed, but it was a mystery how common they were and how similar they were to the planets of the Solar System. The first confirmed detections were finally made in the 1990s. Since 2002, more than twenty have been discovered every year. It is now estimated that at least 10% of sunlike stars have planets, and the true proportion may be much higher. The discovery of extrasolar planets raises the question of whether some might support Extraterrestrial life.
History of detection of extrasolar planets.
Claims have been made for the detection of exoplanets going back many decades. Some of the earliest involve the Binary star 70 Ophiuchi. In 1855 Capt. W. S. Jacob, working at the Madras Observatory of the East India Company reported that orbital anomalies made it "highly probable" that there was a "planetary body" in this system. In the 1890s, Thomas J. J. See of the University of Chicago and the United States Naval Observatory claimed that the orbital anomalies proved the existence of a dark body in the 70 Ophiuchi system, with a 36 year period around one of the stars. But shortly afterward Forest Ray Moulton published a paper proving that a three-body system with those orbital parameters would be highly unstable. During the 1950s and 1960s, Peter van de Kamp of Swarthmore College made another prominent series of detection claims, this time for planets orbiting Barnard's star. Astronomers now generally regard all these early "detections" as erroneous.
The first published discovery to have received subsequent confirmation was made in 1988 by the Canadian astronomers Bruce Campbell, G.A.H Walker, and S. Yang. Their radial-velocity observations suggested that a planet orbited the star Gamma Cephei (also known as Alrai). They remained cautious about claiming a true planetary detection, and widespread skepticism persisted in the astronomical community for several years about this and other similar observations. Mainly that was because the observations were at the very limits of instrumental capabilities at the time. Another source of confusion was that some of the possible planets might instead have been brown dwarfs, objects intermediate in mass between planets and stars.
The following year, additional observations were published that supported the reality of the planet orbiting Gamma Cephei. But subsequent work in 1992 raised serious doubts. Finally, in 2003, improved techniques allowed the planet's existence to be confirmed.
In 1991, Andrew Lyne, M. Bailes and S.L. Shemar claimed to have discovered a Pulsar planet in orbit around PSR 1829-10, using pulsar timing variations. The claim briefly received intense attention, but Lyne and his team soon retracted it.
In early 1992, the Polish astronomer Aleksander Wolszczan (with Dale Frail) announced the discovery of planets around another pulsar, PSR 1257+12. This discovery was quickly confirmed, and is generally considered to be the first definitive detection of exoplanets. These pulsar planets are believed to have formed from the unusual remnants of the supernova that produced the pulsar, in a second round of planet formation, or else to be the remaining rocky cores of gas giants that survived the supernova and then spiralled in to their current orbits.
On October 6, 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva announced the first definitive detection of an exoplanet orbiting an ordinary main-sequence star (51 Pegasi). This discovery ushered in the modern era of exoplanetary discovery. Technological advances, most notably in high-resolution spectroscopy, led to the detection of many new exoplanets at a rapid rate. These advances allowed astronomers to detect exoplanets indirectly by measuring their gravitational influence on the motion of their parent stars. Several extrasolar planets were eventually also detected by observing the variation in a star's apparent luminosity as a planet passed in front of it.
As of October 9, 2006, 210 exoplanets have been found, including a few that were confirmations of controversial claims from the late 1980s. Many of these discoveries were made by a team led by Geoffrey Marcy at the University of California's Lick and Keck observatories. The first system to have more than one planet detected was ? Andromedae. Twenty such multiple-planet systems are now known. Among the known exoplanets are four pulsar planets orbiting two separate pulsars. Infrared observations of circumstellar dust disks also suggest the existence of millions of comets in several extrasolar systems.
Methods of detecting extrasolar planets.
Planets are extremely faint light sources compared to their parent stars. In visible wavelengths, they usually have less than a millionth of their parent star's brightness. In addition to the intrinsic difficulty of detecting such a faint light source, the parent star causes a glare that washes it out.
For those reasons, current telescopes can only directly image exoplanets under exceptional circumstances. Specifically, it may be possible when the planet is especially large (considerably larger than Jupiter), widely separated from its parent star, and young (so that it is hot and emits intense infrared radiation).
The vast majority of known extrasolar planets have been discovered through indirect methods. At the present time, six different indirect methods have yielded success:
For the future, several space missions are planned that will employ already proven planet-detection methods. Astronomical measurements done from space can be more sensitive than measurements done from the ground, since the distorting effect of the Earth's atmosphere is removed, and the instruments can view in infrared wavelengths that do not penetrate the atmosphere. Some of these space probes should be capable of detecting planets similar to our own Earth. Huge proposed ground telescopes may also be able to directly image extrasolar planets.
A lower case letter is placed after the star name, starting with "b" for the first planet found in the system (e.g. 51 Pegasi b), with the next planet being for example "51 Pegasi c", then "51 Pegasi d"... (The letter "a" is not used because it might be interpreted as referring to the star itself.)
Planet naming conventions are based on discovery date - for example, the first planet detected will be designated with the letter "b." Any additional planets will be given additional letters regardless of position. A real world example is the Gliese 876 system: that latest discovered planet is Gliese876d, which is the closest orbiting planet.
Before the discovery of 51 Pegasi b in 1995, extrasolar planets were named differently. The first extrasolar planets found around pulsar PSR 1257+12 were named with capital letters: PSR 1257+12 B and PSR 1257+12 C. When a new, closer-in exoplanet was found around the pulsar, it was named PSR 1257+12 A, not D.
Several extrasolar planets also have unofficial nicknames. For example, HD 209458 b is unofficially called "Osiris", and 51 Pegasi b is called "Bellerophon."
General properties of extrasolar planets.
Most known exoplanets orbit stars roughly similar to our own Sun-that is, main-sequence stars of spectral categories F, G, or K. One reason is simply that planet search programs have tended to concentrate on such stars. But even after taking that into account, statistical analysis suggests that lower-mass stars (red dwarfs, of spectral category M) are either less likely to have planets or have planets that are themselves of lower mass and hence harder to detect. Recent observations by the Spitzer space telescope indicate that planetary formation does not occur within the vicinity of an O class star due to the photo-evaporation effect.
All stars are composed mainly of the light elements hydrogen and helium. They also contain a small fraction of heavier elements such as iron; astronomers refer to that fraction as a star's metallicity. Stars of higher metallicity are much more likely to have planets, and the planets they have tend to be more massive than those of lower-metallicity stars.
The vast majority of exoplanets found so far have high masses. Ninety percent of them have more than 10 times the mass of Earth. Many are considerably more massive than Jupiter, our own Solar System's largest planet. However, these high masses are in large part an observational selection effect: All detection methods are much more likely to discover massive planets. That observational selection effect makes statistical analysis difficult, but it appears that lower-mass planets are actually more common than higher-mass ones, at least within a broad mass range that includes all giant planets. Also, the fact that astronomers have found several planets only a few times more massive than Earth, despite the great difficulty of detecting them, indicates that such planets are fairly common.
It is believed that the vast majority of known exoplanets are in substantial part gaseous, like the giant planets of our own Solar System. That has only been confirmed, however, for the exoplanets that have been studied with the transit method. A few of the smallest known exoplanets are suspected to be rocky, like Earth and the other inner planets of our Solar System.
Many exoplanets orbit much closer around their parent star than any planet in our own Solar System orbits around the Sun. Again, that is mainly an observational selection effect. The radial-velocity method is most sensitive to planets with such small orbits. Astronomers were initially very surprised by these "hot Jupiters," but it is now clear that most exoplanets (or at least, most high-mass exoplanets) have much larger orbits. It appears plausible that in most exoplanetary systems, there are one or two giant planets with orbits comparable in size to those of Jupiter and Saturn in our own Solar System.
The eccentricity of an orbit is a measure of how elliptical (elongated) it is. Most known exoplanets have quite eccentric orbits. This is not an observational selection effect, since a planet can be detected about a star equally well regardless of how eccentric its orbit is. The prevalence of elliptical orbits is a major puzzle, since current theories of planetary formation strongly suggest planets should form with circular (non-eccentric) orbits. One possible theory is that small companions such as T dwarfs (methane bearing brown dwarfs) can hide in such solar systems and can cause the orbits of planets to be extreme. This is also an indication that our own Solar System may be unusual, since all of its planets do follow basically circular orbits.
Many unanswered questions remain about the properties of exoplanets, such as details of their composition and how likely they are to have moons. One of the most intriguing questions about them is whether they might support life. Several planets do have orbits in their parent star's habitable zone, where it should be possible for Earth-like conditions to prevail. All of those planets are giant planets more similar to Jupiter than to Earth, so if they have large moons perhaps those would be the most plausible abode of life. Detection of life (other than an advanced civilization) at interstellar distances, however, is a tremendously challenging technical task that will not be feasible for many years, even if such life is commonplace.
Notable extrasolar planets.
There have been a number of milestones in the discovery of extrasolar planets, beginning in 1992, when Wolszczan and Frail published results in Natureindicating that pulsar planets existed around PSR B1257+12. Wolszczan had discovered the millisecond pulsar in question in 1990 at the Arecibo radio observatory. These were the first exoplanets ever verified, and they are still considered highly unusual in that they orbit a pulsar.
The first verified discovery of an exoplanet (51 Pegasi b) orbiting a main sequence star (51 Pegasi) was announced by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz in Nature on October 6, 1995. Astronomers were initially surprised by this "hot Jupiter" but soon set out to find other similar planets with great success.
Since that time, other notable discoveries have included:
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Download Prayers for Trinity Sunday – Year C BCP
Readings: Isaiah 6:1-8; Psalm 29 or Canticle 2 or 13; Revelation 4:1-11; John 16:(5-11) 12-15
King of all the earth,
Creator of the universe,
Holy Triune God,
From everlasting to everlasting, you are Lord.
You are full of glory and strength, and we worship you in the beauty of your holiness;
Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.
You are worthy to receive glory and honor and power;
Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.
By your will, all things exist and are created;
Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.
The whole earth is full of your glory;
Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.
This is our God, the Holy One.
Come before him with thanksgiving and offer him the sacrifice of praise.
How worthy you are, Holy God, to receive all our praise. We worship you in the glory of your perfect Trinity and ask for grace to steadfastly believe and proclaim your unity.
We pray for your holy catholic church;
Guide us into your truth.
You have taken away our guilt and atoned for our sin;
Send us to do your will, O Lord, for we belong to you.
Grant that every member of the church may truly and humbly serve you;
That your name may be glorified by all people.
We pray for all bishops, priests, and deacons;
That they may be faithful ministers of your Word and Sacraments.
I invite you to add your own prayers for the worldwide church, remembering especially our brothers and sisters in Rwanda.
Creator of the earth, you spoke the world into existence and sustain all things by your life giving word. Consider the toil and sorrow of the people of the earth and, in your compassion, have mercy on the world.
We pray for all who govern and hold authority in the nations of the world;
That there may be justice and peace on the earth.
We pray for the poor, the persecuted, the sick, and all who suffer;
For the refugees, prisoners, and all who are in danger;
Relieve and protect them, O Lord, and grant them eternal hope in you.
Teach us how to rightly steward the gift of your creation,
That the resources of the world would be used to your honor and glory.
I invite your prayers for the needs of the world.
God of all love and peace, we come to you in faith, offering you access into every area of our lives.
We pray for this congregation,
That we might follow the leading of your Spirit.
Deliver us from hardness of heart;
Show forth your glory in all that we do.
We look to you, Lord of all, mindful of our helplessness,
Glorify your name in the midst of our need.
I invite you to cast all your cares and concerns on the Lord, remembering that He cares for you.
We praise you for your saints who have entered into joy;
May we also come to share in your heavenly kingdom.
We believe in you, Lord Christ.
We cry out to you, Father God.
We receive your witness, Holy Spirit.
Abide with us as we abide in you this week and always, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.


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