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By Max Marchi
With its versatile services and open-source platform, R has develop into a big instrument for reading specific, top quality baseball information. Analyzing Baseball information with R presents an advent to R for sabermetricians, baseball lovers, and scholars drawn to exploring the wealthy resources of baseball info. It equips readers with the required talents and software program instruments to accomplish the entire research steps, from collecting the datasets and getting into them in a handy layout to visualizing the information through graphs to appearing a statistical analysis.
The authors first current an outline of publicly on hand baseball datasets and a mild advent to the kind of information buildings and exploratory and knowledge administration services of R. additionally they disguise the normal photographs services within the base package deal and introduce extra refined graphical screens to be had during the lattice and ggplot2 applications. a lot of the ebook illustrates using R via renowned sabermetrics issues, together with the Pythagorean formulation, runs expectancy, profession trajectories, simulation of video games and seasons, styles of streaky habit of avid gamers, and fielding measures. every one bankruptcy includes workouts that motivate readers to accomplish their very own analyses utilizing R. all the datasets and R code utilized in the textual content can be found online.
This publication is helping readers resolution questions about baseball groups, gamers, and procedure utilizing huge, publically to be had datasets. It deals particular directions on downloading the datasets and placing them into codecs that simplify facts exploration and research. during the book's quite a few examples, readers will find out about glossy sabermetrics and have the ability to behavior their very own baseball analyses.
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"`I imagine he used to be a ballplayer. From someplace round here,'" stated one softball participant to a customer at Ray Schalk box in Harvel, Illinois, in might 2007, as chronicled via baseball historian Brian E. Cooper in Ray Schalk: A Baseball Biography (August 2009; McFarland & corporation, Inc. , Publishers).
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In the 1st book-length biography of Schalk, Cooper weaves throughout the beautiful profession as a participant, supervisor and trainer, with ancient antidotes and a wealth of photos to provide an entire photograph of his existence and occasions. Schalk can have simply carried "The common" as a nickname; his first mammoth holiday happened on the age of 15 in 1908, while he was once a final minute alternative at catcher for a semi-pro membership in Litchfield, Illinois. He had no mistakes and tallied numerous assists, whereas scoring a couple of runs and notching hits in 3 at-bats.
A highschool standout in basketball, Schalk remained a semi-pro baseball superstar who may be signed for round $2 a online game. He entered the professional online game at age 18 on might nine, 1911, with the category D Taylorville Christians within the Illinois-Missouri League. Schalk was once batting . 398 and had swiped thirteen bases via mid-July, however the league was once in monetary turmoil and Taylorville - to chop charges - published Schalk for $1,500 to the Milwaukee Brewers of the yank Association.
His play with the Brewers drew curiosity from MLB groups and on August nine, 1912, he used to be dealt to the Chicago White Sox for $10,000 and gamers. Schalk used to be within the beginning lineup days later. "Until he entered Cooperstown, Schalk categorized the afternoon of his first major-league online game as his maximum thrill in baseball," Cooper writes.
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"Then there has been the Black Sox scandal. Schalk had a different standpoint at the global sequence of 1919, while teammates conspired with gamblers and deliberately misplaced to the Cincinnati Reds," Cooper writes. "Schalk was once the 1st of the sincere avid gamers - the so-called fresh Sox - to understand anything was once up; finally, he may perhaps inform instantly while his pitchers overlooked his indications and once they grooved the ball to Reds hitters. "
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This past weekend while others mourned or watched Whitney Houston's funeral, I mourned over the loss of Mikey – our lovely cat. Although he had been with us over 6 years short, it seemed he had been with us so long or all his life. He was moved from Seattle by his mom (my sister) and lived with us – been pet-sit by granny (our Mom), enjoyed the big house as his own world, while his mom can travel for work. He got struck by cancer which was found out so late, just 3 months ago. Remorsefully thinking, he could have lasted longer if I could spend days and nights with him the past 1 month. But we tried our best. Mikey stopped consuming any foods and barely drank. I could only feed him twice a day – morning and evening, tried to pump-feed him with CatSure milk, liquid, and meds and all that could help. About 10 days ago, gotten home after work and looked for him, I noticed his body started deteriorating, he lost a significantly huge volume of muscle. For some magical reason, he held it so strong until Sunday morning 02/19/2012, one day after his Mom finally got home. He was happy to see his Mom being home with him on Saturday night. He had her in his last moments – just like any child would ask for mom when crying in pain. I heard that human beings also do that … In their dead beds they always call for or think of their mothers, or loved ones(?). Just seeing an animal or anyone going away in suffering was so hard… Living in suffering is even harder.
We are not accepting the fact that Mikey is gone. He is still around here, as if someone waits patiently for us home by the window, sometimes sneaks behind me in the closet while I subconsciously watch out not to step on or run into him…
He left us a valuable lesson – pets are the only ones who can bring you happiness and that is all they bring – happiness only, but they can only stay with you that long. I read from someone's one blog that her cat was with her for 19 years. That must be some well-cared for healthy cat. We love them always. Love Mikey always.
Although we can not avoid the natural law – if there is birth, there is death. Life on this earth is a four-stage line of "birth – aging – sickness – death".
Having seen what happened to senior(s) at dead-beds had me thinking many times of how we all should live in order to die without suffering. We can eliminate the 'sickness' part. Advanced science and technologies have made it possible for extending human life expectancy. At the same time, it is not too late to adopt a healthy lifestyle, to be aware of the air we breathe in, the water we drink, and the foods we consume.


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Wish you had a secondary display for your computer that was built for reading documents? This new 13-inch E Ink monitor could be just what you're looking for.
PaperLike is a new product from Dasung, who took it with them to CES recently. It didn't generate much buzz at the time, likely for a couple key reasons. First, an external monitor that requires only a USB cord for both power and video input isn't a breakthrough by any means. Several display companies have produced portable secondary monitors, and full color ones at that.
They're also quite a bit cheaper than this display. Right now, the PaperLike is selling for $975 (straight conversion), though there's a promotional discount that nets a $325 price break. Even at $645, it's more than seven times the price of the 16-inch AOC e1659Fwu on Amazon.
But the PaperLike does have a much higher native resolution: 1600 x 1200. Most USB displays top out at 1366 x 768, and some smaller ones are as low as 800 x 480. PaperLike's pixel density of 150ppi should allow it to render clean, crisp text — just like a Kindle.
Since it's an E Ink display, PaperLike also won't drain your battery as quickly as a full-color display would. It only consumes power when the image on the display needs to update, so if you're studying a static page for several minutes it's not sucking power from your laptop.
PaperLike's Achilles' heel is the same as any other E Ink display: it can't refresh itself nearly as fast as an LCD display can. It's better than many, thanks to Dasung's optimizations and a high-speed mode that trades a bit of detail for quicker refreshes, but you still probably wouldn't want to play games or watch videos on it.
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This article presents the results of a study carried out in Sweden to investigate the promotion of self‐assessment and reflection in the adult second language (L2) classroom. A method is proposed in which the computer is used first to record a writing session, and later to replay the entire text production in retrospective peer sessions. The method provides the students with an opportunity to look into their own composing processes both linguistically and holistically, as they view and discuss the reasons behind the different actions during the writing process. Results show that after using the method, all writers experienced useful, although different, insights into their own writing behaviours. Furthermore, this method is not restricted to an L2 environment, but is likely to be effective in other learning situations where reflection is useful for the acquisition process.
Keystroke logging records keyboard activity during writing. Time and position of all keystrokes are stored in a log file, which facilitates detailed analysis of all pauses, revisions and movements undertaken during writing. Keystroke logging further includes a replay function, which can be used as a tool for reflection and analysis of the writing process. During writing, writers continuously plan, transcribe, read, and revise in order to create a text that meets with their goals and intentions for the text. These activities both interact and trigger one another.
This thesis includes studies in which keystroke recordings are used as bases for visualisation of and reflection on the cognitive processes that underlie writing. The keystroke logging methodology is coupled with Geographical information systems (GIS) and stimulated recall in order to enhance the understanding of keystroke logged data as representations of interacting cognitive activities during writing. Particular attention is paid to writing revision and a taxonomy for analysis of on-line revision is proposed. In the taxonomy, revisions made at the point of inscription are introduced as 'pre-contextual' revisions, and highlighted as potential windows on cognitive processing during transcription. The function of pre-contextual revisions as revisions of form and concepts was ascertained in an empirical study, which also showed that 13-year-old writers revised more form and concepts at the point of inscription when they wrote in English as a foreign language (EFL) than in Swedish as a first language (L1).
In this thesis, a learning method, Peer-based intervention (PBI), is introduced and examined through case studies and statistical analysis. PBI is based on theories about cognitive capacity, noticing, individual-based learning and social interaction. In PBI, the keystroke-logging replay facility is used as a tool for reflection on and discussion of keystroke logged data, i.e. representations of cognitive processes active during writing. In the studies presented in this thesis, teen-aged and adult writers' texts, written before and after PBI, were analysed according to text quality and revision. Descriptive and argumentative texts in both L1 and EFL were included in the studies. The results showed that PBI raised adult and teen-aged writers' awareness of linguistic and extra-linguistic features, and that the effect varied across levels of learner ability, text type and language.


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Beat them to a pulp, oh kindest God, by your heavenly rolling-pin, scorch with thunder for good their mighty, baleful hopes.
Hit 'em, Lord, I beg you, with whatever and however you can: with plague or famine, a flood, a lightning strike, or perhaps a smack of wind (with your beautiful, Shaman song), so that it seems like they'd never been among us.
And, c'mon, willya, as loud as you can — shout from up above, from the top of the Balkan mountains: so their underwear will tremble, so their brats' asses will stink up, so they hear already who's Boss in this valley while they lunge at us like rabid dogs, while they assault, while they bite, while they demolish, while they obliterate, while they sunder and raze, while they beat us to the ground. While they crush and stomp, while they burn
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And when you tire, don't worry! Sit down! Relax! We, Yours, that like Your image and form are, we will gladly finish them off, with Your mercy, Dear, to the black earth we will expertly run them down.
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Seems I have run into an unexpected conflict when using Notification_Area_Cleaner with the remove shortcut icon arrows registry entry applied.
Please view Untitled0 & Untitled1 at your leisure and post if you know how I might resolve this.
PS: A reboot does resolve this conflict, somewhat inconsistent.
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Thanks "speedgamer01" I honestly overlooked that part of the tutorial, right then it appears that FxVisor & Notification_Area_Cleaner are compatible.
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It's authentic: Maison Rabih Kayrouz has been made an individual from the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, making the Lebanese maison one of the 17 form houses that are formally on the high fashion schedule. The news comes after the couturier was chosen as a visitor part in 2016. The status which was oy given for a few was decided by the French Ministry of Industry and the Fédération Française de la Couture, the overseeing body for the French couture industry and is a major ordeal in the fashion world. The Lebanese creator — who is praising the tenth commemoration of his eponymous mark — was drafted into one of France's most world class design clubs at a gathering of a commission of the Ministry held at the French Couture Federation on December 3, 2018. Maison Rabih Kayrouz joins built up names, for example, Christian Dior, Givenchy, and Chanel just as newcomer Alexandre Vauthier on the couture logbook. Kayrouz propelled his womenswear name in 2009 after stretches at Dior and Chanel. He is known for his organized outfits in ethereally liquid textures, plume light cuts with a dainty gentility, and expertly-custom fitted isolates that have discovered fans in everybody from Céline Dion and Jessica Kahawaty to Ciara and Jada Pinkett Smith. The Chambre de la Haute Couture audits its list of authority couture houses yearly. There are 13 visitor individuals on the couture logbook this January, including Balmain, which declared its arrival to the couture date-book without precedent for a long time. The couture indicates are to happen from January 21 to January 24, 2019.


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With the advent of the internet, there came an increase in swimwear briefs designers that put their efforts forth in order to change the world of men forever. Thankfully, that change has been accepted with open arms and now we can all enjoy the great designs that have come forth from said effort. I love the fact that I can walk down just about any beach in the world and see a briefs design that I have not seen before, It really makes me wonder what other things could happen in this day and age that might change things later down the road.
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI or MR) is one of the safest, most comfortable imaging techniques available. It combines a powerful magnet with an advanced computer system and radio waves to produce accurate, detailed pictures of organs. MRI is a noninvasive way for your doctor to examine your body, in particular your brain, neck, spinal cord and soft tissues.
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The MRI system we use was designed with patient comfort in mind. It's a scanner with a Wide Open Bore that accommodates patients up to 550 pounds. This gives us the added ability to accommodate large and claustrophobic patients who cannot be scanned in other systems. Music can be provided by headphones and the patient is encouraged to bring in a favorite CD or tape. In most instances, a family member or friend can accompany the patient into the scan room. They would need to complete an MRI safety questionnaire also.
During the exam, the patient may be injected with an image enhancement agent, which in some conditions, helps to provide additional information.
The typical exam is around 30 minutes, depending on the type of information needed.
There is no special preparation for an MRI exam. The patient should wear comfortable clothing such as a sweat suit without metal snaps or zippers. Gowns are available if needed. Hairpins should not be worn. No jewelry or watches should be worn into the scan room. It is best to leave your jewelry at home.
An MRI exam is safe, simple and painless. However, because some metal interferes with the MRI machine, a patient cannot be examined if they have:
On the day of your scan, please bring your insurance cards, the referral for your scan that you received from your doctor, as well as any X-Rays or other scans we may have asked you to bring. You don't need to fast or discontinue taking any of your medications. If you are taking a diuretic, please delay taking until after your exam. You should arrive 15 minutes before your appointment time to finish completing paperwork. Check in with our front desk receptionist.
You will be asked to change into some clothing that is MRI safe. You then will be escorted into our scanning room where our technologist will explain the specifics of your exam based on what your doctor has ordered. The only thing you will have to do is lie down and rest quietly until your scan is complete. The scan usually takes about 40 minutes. An experienced MRI technologist will be in communication with you at all times. When you are done, you will be able to leave. There is no recovery period or any after affects from a MRI exam.
At FCDI, we have a radiologist on site during the daytime hours, so the test will be interpreted promptly. The results will be sent to your referring doctor within hours of your exam. You may obtain your results from your doctor. A CD copy of the images will be given to you before you leave.
To schedule a non-claustrophobic MRI with Forest City Diagnostic Imaging,
please call (815)398-1300.


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Low Back Pain: Questions and Answers (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this article, we discussed the fact that 95 percent of all low back pain (LBP) is non-specific. That means the cause is unknown, leaving back pain sufferers at the mercy of a huge industry of practitioners and drug manufacturers who frequently offer conflicting opinions and recommendations for treatment. If you are the patient, be sure to do your research.


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June 25 2018
Sommarlov – school's out!
What an amazingly warm start of the Swedish summer we've had! The month of May has offered temperatures never before recorded!
During the summer months, June to August, the beaches and parks are filled with happy children enjoying their summer break, in Swedish called 'Sommarlov'. Life in Sweden slows down as many offices close or aren't working at full speed as many of their employees have taken some weeks off. Schools begin their autumn term in August.


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This post is sponsored on behalf of #appleweek. Our generous sponsors, Swiss Diamond, Envy Apples, Imperial Sugar, Nordic Ware, Rodelle Vanilla, Flahavan's Irish Oatmeal, Nairn's and The Spice House have provided us with products for recipe creation and a giveaway for our readers. As always, all opinions are my own.
I can't believe that fall officially starts this weekend! I used to really dread this time of year because it means that winter is right around the corner but that's before I really got in to baking. Now that I'm a huge baker fall is one of my favorite times of year! The spices, apples, pumpkins, and holidays give me all the feels once school is back in session.
Today I'm sharing a recipe for Caramel Apple Sheet Cake. While most cakes are made in cake pans or baking dishes, this one is made on a baking sheet. This makes for a thinner cake but I think it's better because the caramel really goes through the entire cake. I used Nordic Ware Prism Quarter Sheet Pan. These baking pans are awesome because the bottom is ridged and things don't stick to it. It was perfect for this Apple Cake!
One reason I like this cake is because the batter is super simple. In fact, I bet you have all the ingredients just lying around your kitchen. It's a basic sheet cake that gets dressed up with apples, cinnamon, brown sugar, and caramel.
This cake smells amazing as it's baking. I couldn't wait to get it out of the oven and cut it into squares. Because it's made in a sheet pan it's a fairly thin cake so I didn't feel nearly as guilty eating a piece of this as I would a regular cake. I like that the cake stays moist from the apples throughout and the caramel on top.
To make this cake even better I added a scoop of Salted Caramel ice cream on top. It wasn't a very big one but the creamy ice cream added something special to the apple cake. I also gave the ice cream a sprinkle of cinnamon. I think vanilla bean ice cream or cinnamon ice cream would be just as good on top!
- 2 apples, peeled, cored, and diced
- 2 T. brown sugar
- 1 t. cinnamon
- ½ t. sea salt
- 1 c. flour
- ⅓ c. sugar
- 1 t. baking powder
- ½ t. salt
- 1 T. vanilla
- 2 T. butter, melted
- 1 egg
- ½ c. milk
- ½ c. caramel sauce
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Line a 9 x 13 inch baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl combine the apples, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Toss to coat and set aside.
- In a large bowl combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Mix well. Add in the vanilla, butter, egg, and milk and mix until combined.
- Stir in the apples.
- Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan. Drizzle with half the caramel sauce.
- Bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Cool on a wire rack for 30 minutes.
- Drizzle with the remaining caramel sauce and cut into squares.
- Serve with ice cream if desired.
Check out Tuesday's #AppleWeek recipes:
Tuesday Recipes:
- 1-Pot Apple Sausage Meatballs by Books n' Cooks
- ABC Sheet Pan Dinner by Jolene's Recipe Journal
- Apple Bacon Goat Cheese Salad by Jonesin' For Taste
- Apple Bourbon Float by Our Good Life
- Apple Butter Overnight Chia Oatmeal by Love and Confections
- Apple Cinnamon Layer Cake with Brown Butter Streusel by The Baking Fairy
- Apple Cornbread Cakelets by The Redhead Baker
- Apple Crumble Muffins by The Anthony Kitchen
- Apple Noodle Kugel by Palatable Pastime
- Caramel Apple Pie Dip by Mildly Meandering
- Apple Pie Donuts by Daily Dish Recipes
- Apple Pie Turnovers by The Bitter Side of Sweet
- Apple Pork Burgers by Cindy's Recipes and Writings
- Apple Cranberry Crock Pot Stuffing by West Via Midwest
- Baked Chai-Spiced Apple Chips by Culinary Adventures With Camilla
- Beet Apple Salad with Maple Vinaigrette by Caroline's Cooking
- Butterscotch Harvest Cake by Tip Garden
- Caramel Apple Cookie Bars by A Day in the Life on the Farm
- Caramel Apple Sheet Cake by Hezzi-D's Books and Cooks
- Cinnamon Apple Crumb Cake by Cookaholic Wife
- Cinnamon Caramel Apple Frozen Custard by Faith, Hope, Love & Luck
- Cold Apple Cider with Caramel Infused Rum by Amy's Cooking Adventures
- Creamy Blue Cheese & Sliced Apple Crostini by Who Needs a Cape?
- Deconstructed Chocolate Caramel Mini Apple Pie by The Freshman Cook
- Deconstructed Skillet Apple Dumplings by Seduction in the Kitchen
- Fall Panzanella Salad by House of Nash Eats
- Fresh Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Glaze by Soulfully Made
- German Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting by Cooking With Carlee
- Glazed Spiced Apple Cider Cookies by Savory Moments
- Hasselback Apples by Kate's Recipe Box
- PB Apple Muffins by A Kitchen Hoor's Adventures
- Skillet Apple and Sausage Stuffing Recipe by Lemon Blossoms
- Skinny Apple Crisp by The Saucy Fig
- Slow Cooker Apple Butter by Shockingly Delicious
- One Pan Pork Chops with Apples and Cinnamon by Strawberry Blondie Kitchen
- Out of This World Apple Cake by Family Around the Table
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- Market Growth Index above 50 for the first time in 11 months
- Monthly sales pick up sharply in March
- Rate of price inflation remains substantial
The February inflation report released in March by the National Bureau of Statistics revealed that the rate slowed down in February for the first time in 15 months.
"The market growth index grew to 53.5 in March as the monthly sales growth index edged up to 51.3, its highest value since March 2016. It is too early to speculate if the recovery is built on solid fundamentals for a sustained recovery but the changes reflected are not insubstantial.
"Price inflation for March, which is tracked by the Prices Charged Index, remained high at 61.3 – and indicative that very high levels of inflation continue.
"Overall, conditions in Nigeria have improved over the past month and managers are expressing optimism that the economy will continue to grow."
The World Bank had earlier projected that Nigeria will get out of recession in 2017 and the economy would grow by one percent.
The recession currently experienced is the worst in almost three decades.


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Elegant Edge
You'll get a one-of-a-kind cuff that was once alive during the Jurassic era! Yes, the ammonite roamed with dinosaurs. That makes this cuff 500 million years old. But we've added a modern twist by sturdily encasing the ammonite in our sparkling, nontarnishable alchemia!Pair with the Alchemia Ammonite Post Earrings and Ammonite Ring for a completed look.
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The debut LP by the Hep Stars is mostly made up of guileless and style-less rock & roll.The Hep Stars were like a lot of English bands of the period, rippling through the harder rock & roll numbers with thumping efficiency or aping the originals on songs like Carl Mann's "Rockin' Love" without any real feel for or comfort with the words. Parts of this album resemble English releases of the period, in the sense that the group is covering Phil Spector, Carl Mann, and Shel Talmy numbers in an earnest manner, but they lack the originality to pull off anything more than going through the motions. The best song here is the Swedish Top Ten single "Cadillac," a hot, bluesy organ-dominated number that might have passed for a Gene Vincent or Marty Wilde song. Otherwise, the group works best with melodic numbers that allow them music to hook their work around -- "Be My Baby" as a guitar-driven piece is passable, and it and the organ-dominated version of "And Then She Kissed Me" come off best; plus, they throw themselves into Neil Sedaka's "Oh! Carol" with compelling passion. "Bald Headed Woman" comes off surprisingly well also, mostly because it's similar in character to "Cadillac." "That's When Your Heartaches Begin" is pretty poor, apart from Benny Andersson's elegant piano playing, and little of the rest works better. The bonus tracks on the 1996 EMI reissue are mostly superior to the original LP's, apart from their debut single (a piece of pathetic Euro-pop/rock called "Kana Kapila"), "I Got a Woman," "Tribute to Buddy Holly," "Summertime Blues," and "Farmer John" are all worth hearing. ~ by Bruce Ede
1. Hep Stars - Cadillac (2:41)
2. Hep Stars - Be My Baby (2:59)
3. Hep Stars - That's When Your Heartaches B (3:57)
4. Hep Stars - Send Me Some Lovin' (2:56)
5. Hep Stars - Young And Beutiful (2:34)
6. Hep Stars - Rockin' Love (2:55)
7. Hep Stars - No Response (1:39)
8. Hep Stars - I'll Never Quite Get Over You (3:18)
9. Hep Stars - Sweet Little Sixteen (1:03)
10. Hep Stars - Oh! Carol (2:17)
11. Hep Stars - Then She Kissed Me (3:06)
12. Hep Stars - Bald Headed Woman (2:10)
13. Hep Stars - Kana Kapila (1:43)
14. Hep Stars - I Got A Woman (2:07)
15. Hep Stars - A Tribute To Buddy Holly (2:52)
16. Hep Stars - Bird Dog (1:58)
17. Hep Stars - If You Need Me (2:23)
18. Hep Stars - Summertime Blues (1:54)
19. Hep Stars - Farmer John (1:55)
20. Hep Stars - Donna (2:17)


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Fantastic Bunny Bits
Unwrap all of the cards. Large cards with a Fantastic Sinister Bunny on the back are shuffled into the Draw Pile. Add the four new Carrots to the ones already for sale at any Kaballa's Market. The small Carrot, Cabbage, Water, Defense, Mysterious Place, Radish and Milk cards are shuffled into their respective piles.
Game Mechanics
Celebrity bunnies have no color (Blue, Green, Orange, Violet or Yellow) or kind (Congenial, Gleeful, Lumbering, Sinister, Timid, Evil, Hypnotic, Ludicrous, Spiffy or Truculent). Celebrity bunnies are their own kind of bunny. A player may, of course, win the game with one of these bunnies in The Bunny Circle.
Celebrity bunnies come as singles, doubles or triplets that make forming a Bunny Triplet easier. If a player has three single Celebrity bunnies in The Bunny Circle, then he has formed a Bunny Triplet and may play two cards per turn. If a player has a single Celebrity Bunny and a double Celebrity Bunny, then he has also formed a Bunny Triplet and may play two cards per turn. If a player has a triplet Celebrity Bunny in The Bunny Circle, then he automatically has a Bunny Triplet and may play two cards per turn.
If an opponent attacks and kills a Celebrity Bunny, then all bunnies in the double or triplet are lost and the card is discarded. In that respect, Celebrity Bunny doubles and triplets are treated as a single target. When counting for Roaming Red Run cards, and weapons that affect bunnies many spaces away, Celebrity Bunny cards (singles, doubles or triplets) count as one space.
When you draw a Mysterious Place Card, you must immediately place it face up in front of you and draw another card. Mysterious Place Cards may not be kept in your hand. If a player is given a Mysterious Place card during the initial deal at the start of the game, or picks one from the Draw Pile during play, then the card is saved and the player draws another card. This is very similar to how players save Kaballa Dolla and Zodiac cards. Many new cards will refer to these saved Mysterious Place cards during play.
After the initial deal, and once game play begins, any player who draws a Mysterious Place card will take control of the Yellow Ball (with the Red Stripe). The Yellow Ball will always be placed on top of the last Mysterious Place card that was drawn. The player who has control of the Yellow Ball may control the destiny of any card played by any opponent that has a Yellow Ball in the picture. The opponent must play the card first, then the player may redirect it to any other player, bunny or the Discard Pile. Control of the Yellow Ball will always reside with the player who drew the last Mysterious Place card.
At the end of the game (before the winning Zodiac or Magic Carrot is revealed), the small deck of Mysterious Place Cards, hidden away at the start of the game, is inspected. The player holding the Mysterious Place card that matches the picture on the small Mysterious Place Card at the bottom of the deck is allowed to steal all saved Zodiac cards of any one type (Air, Earth, Fire, Water) from any opponents.
It is possible that at the end of the game no player is holding the matching Mysterious Place card. If this is the case, then the game simply continues by revealing the Winning Zodiac using the small deck of Zodiac Cards. If no player is holding a Zodiac card, then the game simply continues by revealing the Magic Carrot.
When a player places a 50/50 Weapon on an opponent's bunny in The Bunny Circle, the opponent must guess which of two dice he will roll higher. If the opponent guesses correctly, then his bunny will survive. If the opponent guesses incorrectly, then his bunny will die (discarded). If the same number appears on both dice, then the opponent must roll both dice again.
A 50/50 Weapon Ultimate may be given to any player and puts all of his bunnies at risk.
All cards that have a Pink rectangular box on the left border of the card are considered to be Aggressive cards with the exception of Choose A Carrot (any amount of Carrots) cards. To play an Aggressive card, you must have a bunny in The Bunny Circle.
All cards that have a Pink rectangular box with a Pink circle are also considered to be Aggressive cards and players must still have a bunny in The Bunny Circle to play these cards. This icon will appear only on Special cards. If a player wishes to save (and keep) these Special cards then he must have (and maintain) a bunny in The Bunny Circle. If at any time the player does not have a bunny in The Bunny Circle, then the card is immediately discarded.
A Special card may be played from your hand instead of flipping your Top Run card. This is still true for the Special cards with the Pink rectangular box with a Pink circle, but instead of playing them, you may save them (assuming that you have a bunny in The Bunny Circle).
ZERO VALUE (small cards)
When a player draws a Zero Value small card (Cabbage, Water, Radish, Milk or Defense) it is, as the name implies, worth nothing. These cards may be immediately discarded by the player who is free to feel horrible and cheated… but that's the way the carrot snaps sometimes!
NEGATIVE TWO (small cards)
When a player draws a Negative Two small card (Cabbage, Water, Radish, or Milk) not only does he gain no supply, but he must give back (discard) 2 units of that supply if he has 2 units to give. If a player does not have 2 units to give, then he is in the clear and will not owe those units later.
FOREVER (small cards)
When a player draws a Forever small card (Cabbage, Water, Radish or Milk) it is, as the name implies, an endless amount of that supply. The player may use or give away any amount of his Forever supply, but keep in mind that trading may only occur during either of the player's turns that are involved in the trade. Since most Feed The Bunny cards come due during the needy player's turn, the trading rule is usually accommodating. Please note that cards such as: Maggots, Drought, Starving Snails and Sour Hour which eliminate all of one supply will also eliminate Forever supplies.
Facts About The Cards
Anvil may be placed on any bunny in The Bunny Circle who holds the Anvil. The two adjacent bunnies leave the game for two rounds of play. When the two adjacent bunnies return to The Bunny Circle, the bunny in between them is crushed by the Anvil and discarded.
Blake Take may be used once by a player to liberate (take) seven cards in total from play. Cards may be taken from any player's saved Special or Very Special cards or randomly chosen from any player's five-card hand. The player may choose to liberate his own cards. All cards may be taken from a single player, or a combination of several players. All liberated cards are discarded. Starting with the player who played Blake Take and proceeding in the order of play, all players who had cards taken from their five-card hand must draw new cards from the Draw Pile.
Furry Wall may be used once by a player to make any three of his adjacent bunnies in The Bunny Circle into a Bunny Triplet. The Furry Wall card is placed underneath the three bunnies which can be any type of bunny (single kind, single color, half color, Specialty, Super and Celebrity). If any of the three bunnies is moved for any reason, abducted or killed, then the Bunny Triplet is broken and Furry Wall is discarded.
Jay Is Okay may only be used once by a player whose first name starts with the letter J to take one Carrot, one Weapon and one bunny from Kaballa's Market, Rooney Weapons Emporium and Weil's Pawn Shop respectively if their stores are open. The player may only take items from the stores that are open.
Pillars Of Gulu may be used once by a player to steal one bunny and one Carrot from any one opponent. The player may not steal a bunny from one player and a Carrot from another player. The Pillars, bunny and Carrot start in the center of the table and become the property of the first player to roll a 7 on any die, for any reason, on his own turn.
Guardin' Gnome may be placed under any bunny in The Bunny Circle. If the player's bunny is attacked and killed, then Guardin' Gnome immediately attacks any one of the opponent's bunnies. The player chooses which of the opponent's bunnies, and that bunny must roll higher than 9 to survive. After the attack, Guardin' Gnome is discarded.
High Rollers may be used once by a player to choose a Carrot if he can stack all eight 12-sided dice in 12 seconds or less. No opponent may disrupt the player either physically or verbally.
Make It Sow may be used once by a player to take Cabbage Units or Radish Units (or a combination of both) from any open store that total the number rolled on either die. If the same number appears on both dice then the player receives no supplies.
Paparazzi may be used once by a player to scare off (discard) all Celebrity bunnies (and Super Celebrity bunnies) in The Bunny Circle.
Pawn Cloning may be used once by a player to clone a Pawn. The new Pawn gives the player all of the privileges of the first Pawn. Pawn Cloning moves with the Pawn if it is traded or stolen, but is discarded if the Pawn is returned to Weil's Pawn Shop.
Six Plosion may be used once by a player to collect and redistribute all players' Top and Bottom Run cards if the total numbers on the dice is a factor of 6. The player reads through the cards first and then replaces the cards in any positions that he wishes. The player may keep the best cards for himself. When the Top and Bottom Run cards have been restored for all of the players, then play continues.
- Factors of 6: 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 42, 48, 54, 60, 66, 72, 78, 84, 90, 96
Transmogrifier may be placed on any bunny which must roll higher than 9 to survive. If the bunny does not survive, then the player may take Water Units or Milk Units (or a combination of both) from any open store that total the number rolled on the die by the opponent.
Fat Bunny Sings may be used once by a player to place any one Aggressive card (a card with a Pink Rectangular Box) from his hand off to the side and to use it just after the last Carrot is claimed but before any of the small cards (Mysterious Place, Zodiac or Carrot) are revealed. The player must still have a bunny in The Bunny Circle to use the Aggressive card.
Trip's Trips allows a player to play an extra card every turn for each Bunny Triplet that he has in play (no limitations). If at any time the player has no bunnies in The Bunny Circle, then Trip's Trips is immediately discarded. Other situations (such as owning certain groups of Zodiac cards) do not allow the player to play extra cards.
For The King may be used once by a player to immediately sacrifice any one of his actual Pawns to eliminate any weapon targeting one of his own bunnies. The Pawn is returned to Weil's Pawn Shop and may be purchased again. Any card representing a Pawn (Pawn Cloning) may not be used. May be used at any time!
Ultimate Chaos forces all players to discard their Top and Bottom Run cards, and their five-card hands. All bunnies remain in The Bunny Circle. All saved cards (Special cards, Very Special cards, Kaballa Dolla cards, Carrot cards, Zodiac cards and Mysterious Place cards) and supplies (Cabbage Units, Water Units and Defense Units) remain. All players draw new cards, discarding any Play Immediately or Rank cards, saving any Kaballa Dolla cards, placing two cards down as the Top and Bottom Run cards, and keeping five cards in their hands.
Barrier may be placed between any two players and stops weapons that affect adjacent bunnies. For example, the effects of a Nuclear Warhead may not reach your bunny if there is a Barrier between it and the target bunny in The Bunny Circle.
Barrier reverses the direction of Roaming Red Run cards (such as Cyber Bunny or Cruise Missile Prime). Barrier will cause any Roaming Run card to move in the opposite direction after it is reversed. Barrier does not stop any multi-target, non-Roaming Red Run card circumstances. More than one Barrier may be placed side by side between the same two players.
Blinky Madison may be used once by a player to challenge an opponent for a saved Carrot. The player chooses the opponent's Carrot. Both players look directly at each other and after a countdown from three, the last player to blink takes the Carrot.
The player holding the US Dollar bill (any denomination) with the highest serial number may take any one saved Special or Very Special card from any opponent and the Carrot with the same city identification letter from an opponent or any Kaballa's Market.
The serial number is an eight-digit number printed twice on the front of every US Dollar bill. The city identification letter is a large single letter printed inside a black circular design on the left side of the front of every US Dollar bill.
Fantastic Fez may be placed under any bunny and allows the player to roll the d10 dice anytime that he rolls any of the d12 dice that match in color and to choose which number to use.
The diamond shaped icons indicate the five d10 dice (Violet, Orange, Green, Yellow and Blue) that came in the KinderBunnies game. The player may continue to use the d10 dice until such a time when the bunny with the Fantastic Fez is abducted or killed.
Gazpacho Soup may be used once by a player and given to any opponent who must immediately attempt to kill one of his own bunnies. The opponent may use only the cards from his five-card hand. These cards may be weapon cards or other cards that kill bunnies during the same turn (not Feed The Bunny cards). If the opponent has exhausted all of his options and none of his bunnies has been killed, then the opponent must discard the remaining cards in his five-card hand and all of his bunnies (including Holographic) in The Bunny Circle. Bunnies with a Heavenly Halo or Angel Wings Bunny Modifier remain. The opponent must draw five new cards from the Draw Pile.
All opponents may send the player a text message of this card title. The opponent whose text arrives last loses his next turn. If a number of players are unwilling or unable to send a text message within one minute, then they all lose their next turns.
Out Of Harm's Way may be used once by a player to immediately move a bunny out of harms way to any position in The Bunny Circle if it will be affected by a range weapon or if it will become the next target of a Roaming Red Run card. Directly targeted bunnies cannot be moved. May be used at any time!
When a player draws the Dated Dolla card, he must immediately spend an amount of Dolla equal to the date (01 – 31) at any open store. Dated Dolla may not be saved. If no stores are open, then the player is out of luck.
When a player draws the Random Dolla card, he must roll the Clear 20-sided die immediately and spend the amount of Dolla rolled at any open store. Random Dolla may not be saved. If no stores are open, then the player is out of luck.
As we mentioned earlier, questions always seem to arise that cannot be resolved by a careful inspection of the instruction book. If that should happen then please feel free to write to us.
All characters and events in this game – even those based on real people or characters as parody – are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual living persons is purely coincidental or is strictly for the purpose of satire. No actual bunnies were harmed in the making of this game or will be harmed by playing it.
In the great tradition of the United States military, all players in the game are referred to in the male gender. We are in no way negating or ignoring the vital importance of women in gaming and frankly, in our lives as both the mothers who bore us and the wives that support us. Absolutely no offense is meant or should be implied on any level of our menial XY existence, it was simply easier to compose the rules using only one gender reference. So please ladies, don't get angry or hit us.
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More than ten years ago, I began reading the Alex Rider series, and it quickly became one of my favorites. My obsession with Alex Rider started after I saw the movie, Operation Stormbreaker, an adaptation of the first book, and has only grown stronger as I continue to read this series. With each book, I grow more in love with the writing style, the storyline, and the missions Alex is assigned to go on. I hadn't been a bookworm for very long when I found this series, but after finishing the first eight books my love for reading took off. For years I've been looking for a book series as great as Alex Rider, and one day I hope that I will be able to write as amazing as Anthony Horowitz.
The series follows fourteen-year-old Alex Rider, whose world is turned upside down after his uncle's sudden death. A whole new world is opened up to Alex, and he soon learns that his uncle wasn't the man he said he was. In fact, not only was Alex's uncle a spy but for years he had been training Alex to follow in his footsteps. Needing another operative, MI6 recruits Alex to finish the mission his uncle died trying to complete. However, what was supposed to be one mission turns into multiple and Alex soon becomes one of MI6's top spies.
This is a gripping, action-packed, series that is great for teens who have a love for adventure. One of my favorite things about reading these books is the detail Anthony Horowitz puts into the storylines. He doesn't just write everything that Alex is doing; instead, he lets us go inside Alex's brain to explain how his epic escapes or fight scenes come together. When I read those scenes, I feel as if I'm watching it all unfold; like in the movie Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr. when Sherlock does a step-by-step of what he was going to do in slow motion before the scene plays in real time.
About six years ago, Anthony Horowitz announced that he had finished writing the Alex Rider series; however, in 2017 he once again picked up his pen and has decided to continue Alex's story with Never Say Die with more to come. The child inside of me burst with excitement when I learned there was going to be more Alex Rider books; even at 21, I am still in love with this series and connect with Alex though there is now a seven-year age difference. I'm beyond excited that the series is continuing and cannot wait for Nightshade to come out next year!
Ages: 14+
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Licensed Conveyancers are specialist professional property lawyers, trained and qualified in all aspects of dealing with the law in regards to property and also of a property conveyance.
In other words, the ownership transfers of a house, plot of land, or an apartment from one person, or entity, to another party is known as 'conveyancing'. The licensed conveyancer may act in transfers for the buyers, sellers and mortgage lenders.
What Is The Role of The Conveyancer:
A licensed conveyancer's responsibility could well extend to the arranging of mortgages and re-mortgages, also they can offer mortgage advice to the potential purchaser. If this is your first time – do not become concerned. Remember if the conveyancer is licensed then the professional will be regulated by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers.
All licensed conveyancers that offer
services to the public sector will always carry 'professional indemnity insurance'. They will also take responsibility in contributing to the profession's compensation fund which will protect clients in the event of fraudulent or less than honest actions. This in itself allows clients to be confident if they used licensed conveyancers, as it provides evidence for clients that their financial position is secured at all times.
(Note: Professional Indemnity Insurance – this simply is an act that was passed which states that this policy protects their clients in any event of errors or omissions.)
Commisioners For Oath:
Finally, any documents, including those that are unconnected with the transfer of the property, requires the documents to be sworn under oath, a licensed conveyancer is able to deal with this matter on your behalf. Since, all licensed conveyancers are able to administer an oath or affirmation and take an affidavit as well as a declaration.


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We're At Total Reshape Mode For 5 Days Now .. Within This Now, Almost Month Of Transfiguration Event ~ We Are Focused On Fully Restoring The Chakra System, Pineal Gland Miracle Restructuring, After The Event That was Performed During Early Years To Retard The Octave Having My Chakras Work Backwards Meaning My Third Eye Was Redone To Be Placed At My Anus Point … And So On .. All Was Reversed. Consciously Done By The Hasnamuss To Make Sure I Never Get Total Recall; The Focus Was To Create A Uterus That Can Host Life, And Get Me Married; The Song That Was Picked For My Wedding (Belle) Was Intended To Be A Sarcastic Pun On Lucifer; Them Still Believing I Am The Devil.
My Chi Force Was Reversed. I Was Made Work Out Contrary To Human Nature. Inhaling Into The Muscles When The Usual Human Is Instructed To Exhale. Energy Points In My Back Were All Expertly Tweaked By Acupressure/Acupuncture Specialists Who Were Payed For The Job. To Totally Render My Masculine Side (Right Brain Hemisphere's) Electricity Null.
For Me To Never Recover My Powers, That Actually Remained Fully Active And Got Back At Each Charlatan Since The Beginning Of Time.
They All Keep The Indoctrination Active Still; For Instance Banning Gaga's Album To The Whole Zone When All She Sings Is Lucifer And Swears By My Name.
All My Angels Are Mistreated Too. For Instance Shakira Who Is Half Lebanese Visiting And Going To Her Birth Village To Claim Her Heritage And Land. And Instead Of honoring The Goddess They Send Her Away..
At School They Had To Send In My Mom Every Year To Tell The Teachers And Principal Whatever She Did To Keep The Illusion=Maya Going .. I Was In Absolute Not Knowing Of What Was Done Over My Body Over Altered States.
Recovering The Real Events That Have Happened On My Time Lines Over The Illusion Is A Roller-coaster. I Am Laughing In The Middle Of The Night, Then Crying Non Stop For My Missing Organ. I Have Trouble Relating With Anything Whatsoever At This Point. I Wake Up And IT's Tabula Rasa. Then All The Info Starts To Download. And Now The Last Piece OF Info (Since I'm Getting Visions And Sensations OF My Missing Piece, As Well As How That Feels, And Smells) And Downloading All Information About How Out OF It I Was All Along, Not Feeling My Root Chakra, My Phoenix Center. All The Other Chakras Being Turned Off As Well ;
Everything Being Turned Backwards Inside And Out Heralding The Ends OF Time. And Me Having To Be The Happy Carrier. My Non-Physical Self Is Non messable With, Except With Incantations And Prayers And Rituals That Also Were Performed And Maintained.
Of Course I Have Been way Off The Balanced HArmonics State. The Self Loathing And Guilt. The Shame. The Extreme Fear Of Saying Who I Am. It's Not Like I Ever Was Accepted So Whoever Cares.
All The Ignoramuses That Think Lucifer Is Anything But The Bringer Of The Light Can Honestly BUG OFF MY ATOMS. YOU ALL CAN GO AND DIE.
I Have Studied The Field For Years Now, And All Your Children Feel Comfortable Around Me Like They Never Do You (Unless They Are Being Super Dumbed Down And Ultra Programmed And Run Away From Me). They Revealed How They Have Had Sex At 5 Here In USA. In Middle East At 13. How The Parents Don't Know SHIT. And How Once They Get It On They Are "Open Highways" For The Fems. I've Heard All The Masculines Mock That. Openly Say They Are Taking Advantage Of It But Not MArrying It (That's The Middle East Version) .
I Don't Care Who All You Patriarch Are. Leading Masses Blindly Into Oblivion. All Thinking I Am The Bad Guy. It's Not Going To Work. There Is Nothing That Will Stop Me From Freeing Myself Fully As I Free All The Children From Your Horrendousness.
I Am Still Mourning My Divine Masculine Loss. A Few Moments And I Will Get Guidance As To How To Recover Fully And Do The Due. Claim Everything That My Masculine Self Deserves. As The King.
The Heart Chakra Is Crucial At This Point. And Here's A Tale .. When King David Saw Me First And Married My Heart Immediately, Then Upon Meeting My Body FREAKED OUT YELLING BLOODY MURDER AT ALL MY AGGRESSORS ONE BY ONE. ALL THOSE 3KERIT ENTITLED ENOUGH TO STILL CALL MY NUMBER AT THAT POINT AND LIE TO MY FACE. AND TO MY FORMER HUSBAND'S FACE. AND TOSSING ME AT HIM WRITING ME OFF AS DEAD IN MY HOMELAND.
No Dears. YOUR ASS IS DEAD. So Dave Right Away Cut Me Off From Food. We Fasted Long Time. I Was Naked 24. He Is A Master Homeopath And Master At All Creation. He Studied Me Moment To Moment And Was My Moment To Moment Remedy; As I Was His. He Declared To Me Moment One All USA Men Are Gay. Which Happens To Work In My Favor At This Point 😉 ! LOL
He Taught Me Sex. As A Woman. Me Having Forced Practiced Myself Before But Something Was Off Each Time. The Natural Flow Simply Wasn't There. I Was In The Way! DUH I HAD NEVER BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED TO EVEN BEGIN TO GET OUT OF THE WAY!
I At Times Had Crazy Squirting Experiences (Twice Or Thrice) From My Uterus. Like Gallons Of Water. But For The Most Part He Was Having Full Body Light Ups And I Was Just Amazed At My Power. That's All That Mattered Then. I Wasn't Getting My Period 2 Years Straight And Went Back To Early Child Behavior. Riding My Bike In A Bathing Suit And Spending Days In The Ocean And On the Sand. To Then Go Back To Mystery School Mission House Where I Downloaded All The Codes For New Creation.
I Would Spend My Hours Experimenting With Combos Of All Pure Organic Produce; Raw (When The Fasting Was Stopped). And Cleaning Always. Getting Creative. It Was Work-On Self Which Is The First Stage In All Ashrams. Work On Others Was Done Via Millions Of Emails We Both Sent All Over USA And Middle East And We Blew Up The Field Starting 2009 ~ We Raised RED ALERT After He Gained Consciousness OF His Beloved Having Been Fucked With. And From His Standing Point He Would Have Done Pretty Much Anything in His Power To Stand Up For Me And Protect Me.
It So Seemed Like All The Work We Ever Did Would Reverse On Us. The Language He Used Is That Jack Nicholson Would, In A Feature He Still Hasn't Featured In. One Where He Is Total insane In, And Ready To Kill At Hello.
You Must Understand Here David Himself Is Super Special ~ He Had His Lawyer Shoot Himself After Meeting Him. Same Story As All The Light. The Beat him Down To The Ground After Trapping Him Having Him Leave Hollywood To Co-Own The Ice-Capades In Sarasota. Instead They Took Him Down For All His Worth, His Fem Having Been Out Of The Picture.
He Brought Me Here In Huge Part To Handle All The Mess. Which I Did Beyond Impeccably. To The Point Of Madness, Creating Self-Made Little Furniture Pieces With Each Drawer Or Box Carrying A Letter Of The Alphabet To Organize All The Remedies.
(Homeopathy is A Magical Realm …)
Super Organized Every Art Piece, Moving His Art Out Of A Snake Den Where They Placed Him As Local Amusement … He Never Intended To Sell His Non-Quantifiable Art Pieces As They Each Carry New Creation Codes. I Myself Would Fight Off The Takers Walking Through The Door With Levels Of Consciousness 45% MAX Wanting To Impress Me By Offering To Put 3 Grand On The Table For His Art. OUT MY DOOR>
Every Rug Was Rolled Impeccably. All His Empire And Him Taken Care Of To The Levels Of Mastery He Commanded, Including Training His New Caretakers Of How To Provide For Him In Full. And That's What Happens Over At Empire Hollywood. They Buy His Booz, His Cigs. He Shares In Health Food. Eats Like A Bird … He Says: "Choose Your Poison. It's All Here To Kill Ya… Choose.. If You Want To Drink And Smoke. Don't Eat. Etc.." LOL. Full Body Tanning Highly Recommended At Garden Of Aurora Ashrams. Wind Baths. Sun Gazing. Gardening. Nature Walks. Bathing In Rivers And Ocean ..


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Back then, information warfare was just a sideshow, and Putin's emphasis was on more traditional weapon systems. But things have changed. In the decade since, Russia has rapidly developed its information warfare capability and deployed it in conflicts in Estonia, Georgia, and Ukraine.
Sinister and dangerous
But what exactly do we mean by the term "information warfare"? Dan Kuehl of the National Defence University in the US defined it as the "conflict or struggle between two or more groups in the information environment". You might think that just sounds like a fancy way of describing computer hacking. In fact, it's a far more sinister and dangerous proposition.
The free flow of information within and between nation states is essential to business, international relations and social cohesion.
Credit: City, University Of London
Communications today lean heavily on the internet, or via communications using various parts of the electromagnetic spectrum (such as wireless and microwaves) through terrestrial communications networks or satellite networks in space. We live in a highly connected world, and it doesn't take much to tip a nation state into instability. There have already been questions raised about possible Russian interference in government elections in the US. So will it use its new-found warfare capability to influence international relations to its own advantage in the future?
A study by the World Bank stated that Russia boasts more than 1m software specialists involved in research and development. Russian illegal cyber warriors (hackers) are among the most proficient in the world with around 40 large criminal cyber rings operating within the country's borders.
The Russian government has long been known to source its technology, world-class hacking talent and even some intelligence information from local cyber crime rings. What's more, this criminal fraternity probably receives state immunity for cyber crimes committed outside Russia in return for offering services to the Russian state. It is estimated that these criminal rings have recruited nearly 1,000 software engineers since 2012.
Psychological operations
Hacking activities include the penetration of national infrastructure systems, and money markets, and the stealing of state secrets and intellectual property. All of these destabilising attacks can be considered as preparation for any future conflict.
According to the British defence secretary Michael Fallon:
Russia is carrying out a sustained campaign of cyber attacks targeting democracy and critical infrastructure in the West.
Russia, or its proxy cyber warriors, have been accused of a number of high-profile attacks, all of which can be regarded as attempts to undermine democracy by fuelling doubt or creating distrust through misinformation or "false reporting". In military parlance, this activity is referred to as "psychological operations".
However, according to US intelligence officials, Russian hackers made repeated attempts during 2016 to stage cyber break-ins into major US institutions, including the White House and the State Department.
A further downside is that China, North Korea and Iran seem to be copying this model and have already been active in attacks against other nation states.
The internet has changed mass communication in countless positive ways. But it is becoming an increasingly dangerous tool for subversive activity. A re-think and a re-boot are looking increasingly necessary.


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PITTSFORD – It's a good thing for Zay Jones that Anquan Boldin has a sense of humor.
"I was just talking to Anquan, and it's funny because his rookie year in the league, I was only 6 years old," Jones, the Buffalo Bills' rookie wide receiver, said Tuesday. "It just shows the level of maturity, the experience, and the veteran in him."
Jones meant that in the most complimentary way possible, even if one could mistake it for good-natured ribbing. After signing Monday, the 36-year-old Boldin has now become the oldest player on Buffalo's roster.
"I played with Emmitt Smith my rookie year and I used to give him heat about having his rookie card," Boldin said, "so I guess it's just me getting it back."
Jones said Boldin "just laughed," at hearing how old the rookie was when the latter's professional career started.
"It's funny to really think about, because he played with my uncle, Jeff Blake, at the Cardinals," Jones said. "I knew of Anquan Boldin. I watched Anquan Boldin, have a lot of respect for him. It's just awesome having him in our room. Phenomenal player. In my opinion, going to be a Hall-of-Fame player."
Jones said Boldin has already started passing along lessons.
"He just told us you're not always going to feel the best in training camp. You're going to be sore sometimes," he said. "You have to press through and truly carry yourself like a professional. This just Day One with him, so fortunate to have some like that."
Jones said he wasn't disappointed that he might lose some first-team reps to Boldin – "our goal is to win," he said – but that is going to happen. As a second-round pick, Jones doesn't have much to worry about in terms of a roster spot, but that's not the case for those closer to the bottom of the depth chart.
Veteran Rod Streater, for example, is the type of player whose job got more difficult the moment the Bills signed Boldin. Streater, however, said he can't allow himself to look at it that way.
"I've got to continue to make plays," he said. "Control what you can control. That's all I can worry about. While Anquan is here, I'm going to learn from him. It's an advantage for me. I'm going to pick his brain and see how he's got this far.
"The guy's played 15 years. It aint by luck. So you can obviously learn a lot from him. He's still playing a high-caliber pace. It's great to have him here."
Cornerback Tre'Davious White, the team's first-round draft pick, has the locker next to Boldin's at camp.
"I watched him and Larry Fitzgerald together; those were a dynamic duo. I introduced myself, and I'm fortunate enough to have his locker right next to mine. I'm definitely going to be picking his brain," White said. "I hope game day his locker will be by mine, too. It's definitely something that I do not take lightly, whenever I can get some tidbits, anything about what a receiver is thinking. It's great to have a future Hall-of-Famer right next to me."


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I feel it would be somewhat dishonest of me to only write about the good aspects of both my academic and social life, so this week other than getting another paper online, I've had a bit of a damper put on my research status. Not too major I hope.
In January I put a paper online which was the first that was entirely my own work. There are some fun results and a couple of somewhat important results. The usual course if events is that you submit a paper to the Arxiv first (you only need to be affiliated with an institution to do this, and not be on the blacklist - an interesting story of the balance of academic freedom vs. the domination of crackpots!). After a little time of seeing what the reactions to the paper are, you submit it to a journal to be peer reviewed by an anonymous researcher in a field close to your own. They then say whether a)It should be accepted in it's current form b) It should be accepted with minor corrections c) it should be revised and then reconsidered or d) rejected completely.
I received my news a couple of days ago that (quite fairly) several of the sections to my paper were somewhat superfluous and clouded the more interesting result. It was also claimed that one of the sections was not concrete enough and therefore unclear. These are all perfectly reasonable statements and in fact I agree with them in terms of what is important for other researchers to read. Whether or not once I've made these pretty major structural changes to the paper it will be accepted was a little unclear but I've little choice but to rewrite, resubmit and hold my breath.
Anyway, it was a bit of a blow to my academic confidence which, despite the release of the new paper, is feeling a little low at the moment. My research career so far is around two and a half years old and I've spent almost all that time working in a single rather narrow area. Now that I try and branch out a bit, I realise how many areas in my knowledge have become extremely hazy with the long hiatus since I learnt them for the first time three years ago.
Anyway, I remain somewhat stoic on this and press ahead in an attempt to learn as much as I can as fast as I can. Unfortunately my academic personality is a rather fickle one as I flit from one book to another and skip through papers, probably without studying them in as much depth as I should. There's just SO MUCH OUT THERE TO LEARN that knowing what is vital and what can be left for another time is a tricky balancing act that I'm far from mastering.
Anyway, I'm not too worried and feel that an awareness of these problems, as I've mentioned before, sees to a good part of the battle.
In some maths news which will probably be on every science blog in the next few days is the announcement of the 2006 winner of the Abel prize for mathematics. Essentially the Nobel prize for maths (I'm not sure whether one would claim that this or the Fields medal is more important).
Sorry, this will be a little technical but probably brief.
This year it was awarded to Lennart Carleson, in large part for his work on harmonic analysis and his proof of convergence of Fourier series on the space of square integrable functions. This is something that as a physicist I had taken for granted when introduced to the concept as an undergraduate. Square integrable functions are particularly important in quantum mechanics and in particular in defining the Hilbert space of states. So this proof is an important one in many areas of physics.
Reading the official site for the Abel prize it looks like Carleson has been a major player in solving some of the most complicated problems in mathematics over the last few decades including proofs of the existence of strange attractors in certain systems.
Attractors come about in the study of dynamical systems, whereby a wide range of starting conditions for your system (which may be a complex set of pendulums for instance) end up in, or near, a small set of states after some time. Their states appear to be attracted to the subset. Attractors have very important applications in areas ranging from the stability of heartbeats to solutions in string theory. The state space of such systems can be plotted to indicate the points of attraction and probably the most famous of these is the Lorenz attractor which is found in chaotic dynamical systems.
In my brief meanderings to try and find out a little more about the subject of convergence I found that the concept 'almost everywhere' has a mathematically rigorous definition.
The definition is that if a property holds almost everywhere then the space in which it doesn't hold is the null set. Not being a mathematician, this definition seems pretty odd to me but apparently this concept is important in some areas of analysis.
Anyway, I'm clearly flitting again and have books that I should be reading and coroot lattices to digest (a healthy afternoon snack that I recommend to all). Another full weekend in view but first things first.
Friday, March 24, 2006
I feel it would be somewhat dishonest of me to only write about the good aspects of both my academic and social life, so this week other than getting another paper online, I've had a bit of a damper put on my research status. Not too major I hope.


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A Fibreglass repair on a Lotus Elan without the panel in situ
|We wanted to restore the glassfibre wheel arch of this lotus elan, usualy repairs done to fibreglass panels are easily carried out by removing the panel for easy access, but as in the case of this panel, the left hand front wheel arch is moulded to the right hand wheel arch as one continuous unit running also under the engine, we wanted to carry out the repair without having to remove the whole fibreglass panel and engine.
First of all we need to create a forma by taking a mould from the wheel arch on the opposite side of the car. The lay-up needs to be thin and flexible enough to turn inside out so we can transfer the contours of the right hand side wheel arch to the left hand side.
Make sure all the areas are masked off to prevent Polyester Resin/Gelcoat from running of into unwanted areas.
Apply several coats of PVA Release Agent to the panel letting each coat dry in between coats.
Once the last coat of PVA is dry lightly apply a mould release wax, such as Meguiars M08 or TR 102. This just makes it slightly easier for release we have found combined with the PVA release agent.
Lightly buff off the mould release wax before it dries. .
Cut strips of plain weave fiberglass tape enough to cover the arch with 1 layer, here we used 175g plain weave tape.
Have your fiberglass cut as a kit ready before mixing any resin.
|Refer to our catalyst addition chart on our labels and mix the required amount of resin with catalyst.
Wet out the fiberglass cloth with the catalyzed resin.
|We then placed the wet out cloth onto the waxed area over lapping the joins by approx 2", then stippled the cloth with a brush and expelled any trapped air then left the laminate to cure.
Once cured the laminate is sanded to flatten down any rogue Glass fibre strands.
|Then the laminate is lightly wiped with acetone to remove dust.
The GRP laminate is removed and should be flexible enough to turn inside out and fix to the damaged area.
The forma should easily turn inside out to cover the area where the original laminate is missing.
The forma is taped in place using masking tape.
We then made a couple of ribs to tape to the area which had a bit of sag to it. These ribs were made by moulding another thicker laminate from the opposite wheel arch and cutting 1" strips from the laminate to tape onto the areas of the forma to hold its shape. Once these ribs are in place and the forma looks nearest to the correct shape add more layers of cloth on top - approx another two layers.
|Remove the Forma once it has fully cured and mask off any areas which you don't want any dust or resin running into.
|Tidy the fiberglass edges of the damaged laminate, and key all areas to which the fiberglass and resin is to be applied and wipe down lightly with acetone.
From the underside re-enforce any loose areas of the original damaged panel with fiberglass and resin, when laminating an upside down area fiberglass tends to not hold its own weight once wet, so use a 100g chopped strand matting as this consumes less resin and will not fall off when wet out with resin. Add 3layers making sure each layer is 2" larger than the last
Add again mold release agent and wax to the inside surface of the Forma as we did earlier to create the Forma.
|The forma will be fixed to the damaged area by screwing a series of self tappers through the forma into any of the undamaged original laminate.
Screw the self tappers at least 1cm in from where edge of original laminate is.
This picture shows the view from inside once the forma was screwed into place; the self tappers should pull the edges of the original laminate up against the forma.
Now the forma is in place catalyze a batch of Polyester Gelcoat, we used grey nearest to cars original colour.
Apply the Gelcoat with a brush to the inside of the forma and slightly onto the original body work and leave to cure.
Now catalyze a Gel-coat filler and using a squeegee apply a layer on top of the cured Gelcoat approx 2mm thick and leave to cure this will give a thick surface to the panel if rubbing down is required later.
Apply a couple of layers of 100g matting to the inside of the forma using catalyzed resin and leave to cure.
Once cured, build up another 2 layers of 450g chopped strand matting.
Once the laminate has cured peel away the forma.
As you can see this has left us with a good shell to build up on.
We applied body filler to fill in any slight imperfections and to start getting the original shape back
This model of Lotus has two distinct profile lines running down the original panel so to recreate this we cut two strips of sheet wax and ran the outside edges along where these lines should be, once in please we blended car filler up to the level of these strips and left the filler to cure.
The edges of the wheel arch needed to be grinded back to line up with the bumper, before doing this we built up the area behind with a fiberglass filler to prevent grinding back to nothing.
Now we move onto the damaged bonnet and repair that hole.
The damaged edge is filed to a wedge tapering of towards the painted surface of the bonnet, we also sanded the surrounding area to give a good key to achieve the best mechanical bond possible we then wiped it down with acetone.
Cut a sheet of 2mm self adhesive wax larger than the hole.
The wax should be at least 2" larger than the damaged area.
Push the wax firmly around the edge of the damaged area.
Check that the wax is firmly consolidated to the edge of the damaged area, then mix a batch of catalysed Gelcoat.
|Apply a catalyzed Gel-coat to the wax within the damaged area.
|Cut 4 pieces of fiberglass (450g c.s.m) the first two should fit exactly into the damaged area then should be followed by another piece slightly larger than the damage and the next again slightly larger than the previous.
|Wet the Gel-coated area with catalysed resin, then lay the first piece of C.S.M. on top then wet out with more resin
|Consolidate the matting using a paddle roller to expel any trapped air and flatten down the fibres, repeat this process for the consecutive layers.
|Remove the sheet wax to reveal the repair.
Rub down with wet and dry paper to achieve a smooth finish, using 240 grit is sufficient enough in this case.
The repaired wheel arch was sealed with a protective coat of epoxy resin this creates a harder wearing shell over the area which was built up with polyester car filler.
The car was then sent to be re-sprayed and is now restored to its former glory.
|We are not a body shop and this was a favour as we are very helpful guys here, please do not bring your damaged fibreglass car to the workshop :-)


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As a construction company, you rely on your equipment to do the jobs that your clients require. If you misplace or lose track of a piece of equipment, it can mess with the entire workflow.
Making use of an equipment inventory software can help you make the most of the equipment you have on hand. Here are some ways it can help you:
Understand What Assets You Already Have
Even if you only have a few pieces of equipment on hand, trying to keep track of them using only your memory can be problematic. You might know what you have, but your other employees won't. Keeping records in an inventory format is the best way to help everyone understand what kinds of equipment are available for use.
Equipment inventory software can also help you keep track of several equipment details. Your software allows you to track lifecycle information, equipment make and model, as well as maintenance and repair records. In order to make the most informed decisions about your company's equipment as a whole, you'll need to look at all of this data over time in order to identify asset trends.
Track Asset Usage
Some machinery gets used more than other kinds. Whether it's because the function it performs is more needed on a day to day basis, or because your employees prefer the way that machine operates, it doesn't change that some equipment gets used more.
In order to keep up with maintenance and asset replacement, you'll need to know how often each piece of equipment gets used. If you have a machine that is seldom used, you won't have to take that machine in for maintenance as much as a machine under normal usage. On the flip side, construction equipment that gets used more needs to undergo more regular checkups and requires more frequent maintenance to keep functioning.
Locate Equipment at Any Time
Even if you have a photographic memory, you are only one person and your employees won't always be able to get a hold of you when they need to access a piece of equipment.
Have you ever been caught in a game of telephone tag? It's where you try to get a hold of someone, and end up just missing them. When they try to get a hold of you, somehow they end up just missing you as well. Sometimes, this can go on for days or weeks. You can't afford to have something like this happen when it comes to you and your employees. If they need to use a piece of equipment, it's likely they don't have the time to spend trying to figure out where it is. Keeping inventory records of your equipment will help everyone know where to get the equipment they need when they need it.
Use Your Funds Wisely
Have you ever bought something, only to find out that you already had it? When it comes to grocery shopping, this might not be a big deal, but when it comes to asset acquisition, it can cost you big time.
Knowing exactly what you have on hand will prevent you from buying assets you already had, or purchasing new equipment before necessary. You'll also be able to make your equipment last longer by taking it in for regular maintenance instead of just waiting for it to break.
Asset Panda's equipment inventory software can help you take advantage of the benefits listed above. Whether you have difficulty locating your equipment from time to time or want to make better use of your funds, our flexible software program can help you out.
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