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I'm wondering why there's such a huge gap between BaseballHQ's value for Dunn and yours. HQ has him 72nd and your player rater has him 22nd for batters in mixed 12 team regular 5×5. HQ assigns $ values but I think it's effectively the same thing. PECOTA likes Dunn so i assume the difference lies in the valuation method. Do you know what theirs is? I'm tempted to lean toward your method because i understand it and it mostly makes sense to me, but i just want to make sure that you fully endorse that ranking. right now i have him between Pence and Manny.
Also, do you have the replacement level averages you used for the point shares handy?
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Regarding Dunn, here are the baseline projections for us and Baseball HQ:
Razzball: 513 AB / 100 R / 38 HR / 100 RBI / 7 SB / .256
Baseball HQ: 553 AB / 105 R / 41 HR / 104 RBI / 7 SB / .251
Can't say that I'm familiar w/ Baseball HQ's Player Rater (have the book and access to online projections) but I'm looking in the book and Dunn is drafted 62nd overall in their 15 team mixed league snake draft and tied for about 52nd place overall in projected dollar value at $24. Our Point Shares project him at #40. Blogmate Grey ranks Dunn at #33 in his top 100.
I think if you took Baseball HQ's ranks and put them next to ours, you would find more dramatic differences than this. I see them having Pierre in the top 30 where he barely cracks our top 100 b/c we dock him for his crap HR/RBI (on a side note, I ended up with Dunn and Pierre in my expert league).
Here is one thought for the differences and a reason that compelled me to do Point Shares. Sites like Baseball HQ and BP tend to be snobs on fantasy league structures. They prefer single league auctions or – in the case of Baseball HQ's simulated snake draft – a 15 team league (which I've never seen). I think the majority of players are in 10 or 12 team mixed leagues so the rankings have to be filtered through the scarcity/needs of that universe.
I think 10-12 team mixed leagues aren't as starved for speed and middle infielders as the leagues that a Baseball HQ projects for. Pierre went in the 9th round of my 12 team expert league and no one was patting me on the back for great value (including myself).
Let's dig into Dunn a bit more. While no one loves Dunn, look at where his projections rank him in his position:
1) Projected at #1 for OF HR (38)
2) Projected at #3 for OF Runs (100)
3) Projected at #4 for OF RBI (100)
Compared to the other power positions (1B/3B), the average OF has lesser power numbers: 78/20/77 vs. 1B's 85/28/95 and 3B's 85/25/90. So our point shares system likes Dunn a lot for those three categories. It would value him less if he was a 1B/3B, more if he played 2B/SS/C.
Now if he hit .300, I think he'd go in the 2nd round. He's projected to hit in the .250 – .260 range. Not good since we've got the average 12 team BA at .282. His walks help because he's slated only for 500-550 AB vs. 600-650 AB. The Point Shares takes all this into account and basically says that his crappy average neutralizes his Runs or RBI advantage (BA is -1.5, RBI is +1.5). So an OF hitting .260 with 100 RBIs and an OF hitting .282 with 77 RBIs are worth the same points on an average team (note: for comparison's sake, universally loved OFs like Granderson and Sizemore are set to hit about 77 RBIs and only hit .275. their RBI + AVG point shares equal 0 and -0.4 respectively)
So Dunn's remaining two category advantage and not awful 7 SBs still give him overall positive value. I'd take the Point Shares rank at face value and say he's worthy of a 4th round pick in a 10 team or 12 team league – particularly if a team drafted speed or a pitcher in the first three and needs to compensate on power. His batting average is a drag but it's an overrated drag. Yes, a switch to Ichiro would give you an estimated swing of 3.6 points in AVG but you'd also lose 3 points in RBI and 4.2 points in HR (surprisingly, SBs don't make up this dramatic difference…hence, Ichiro barely makes the top 100 in player rater and is our consensus worst 2nd round pick).
Not sure if this fully answered your question but hope it shed more light on why Dunn does well on Point Shares and why he might end up on more than one of my teams.
Regarding replacement value, I decided to stop using them with our 2008 Player Rater and stick to position averages (making average player stat = 0 vs. replacement player stat = 0). My reasoning is that replacement player stats regress to a similar mean, exacerbated by disproportionate slotting of 1B/3B/OF in the UTIL slot. So the replacement player at every position looks about the same. I think this is misleading as a 1B/3B/OF with that average stat line hurts your team vs. competition more than a 2B/SS/C. By using average, it gives you a better indication that Figgins KILLS a team at 3B (think of the HR/RBI difference vs. teams w/ A-Rod, Wright, Braun, Cabrera, A-Ram, and Atkins) but is pretty valuable as a 2B.


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New GPs will have 75% of RCGP fees paid under indemnity deal
A medical defence organisation has arranged an indemnity deal with the RCGP that will see newly qualified GPs have three-quarters of their college fees paid.
The MDDUS claims that GPs could save over £3,000 for each GP through the new deal.
The RCGP and the MDDUS say that rising indemnity costs have led to them agreeing this deal.
RCGP chair Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard said: 'Rising indemnity costs are a concern for all GPs, and in our manifesto on the run up to the General Election in June, the College is calling for this to be addressed as a matter of urgency.
'I'm delighted that our newly qualified members can opt to benefit immediately from this discount scheme.'
MDDUS director of development David Sturgeon said: 'Joining both bodies through this scheme provides a new lower-cost route for a new GP to get all the benefits of belonging to two innovative and complementary professional bodies.'
Mr Sturgeon said that members would have 'access to expert medico-legal advice from our team of highly skilled advisers and lawyers' as part of the scheme.
Last year Pulse revealed that one in four out-of-hours GPs stopped doing shifts due to indemnity costs.
Indemnity providers stress that higher indemnity costs are linked to steep rises in legal claims against GPs.
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I didn't even waste the money on a stamp. Just cancelled my direct debit online and they came asking me to join them again. I had to laugh. Enjoying spending the money on useful things in life. Save your stamp. Also a lot of money if you have any sense. Ask what does £500+ a year membership give me, then is it really worth it. then log onto internet banking and cancel direct debit. simples.


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Mara and the Kitties
Mara loves kittens. In fact, she has so many that she needs your help to be able to look after them. In "Mara and the Kitties" you can play four different minigames in which you have to wash her kittens, feed them and keep them entertained with fun activities.


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I realize that I went offline on the potty training bit. I stuck with potty training for five days. They were the worst five days of my life. I got so sick and tired of stepping in pee, cleaning it up and turning around only to step in pee a few feet away. I don't know how a bladder so small can hold so much urine.
I decided to stop potty training because of a blog post I read (and I'm sorry I don't have the link right now). The author said that one mistake made about potty training is starting too soon. She compared potty training to walking and talking. You don't force your kids to do those just as you shouldn't think you can force them to use the potty in a week. I realized that Stormy isn't ready. He has shown almost every sign, but I misread his interest in what the potty was with an interest in actually using it.
So I've decided to wait until he's 16 and desperate to get out of diapers because he can't seem to get a date….just kidding. But I am going to give it some more time. In the meantime we will continue to talk about the potty, we'll show him how to use it and we'll encourage his interest in using it himself. It's just a battle I wasn't ready to fight and honestly, we're both a lot happier right now.


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Because Peanut had what we thought were seizures at the time, we are on a different vaccine schedule than most. I was forced to enter the worldly debate of whether or not to vaccinate early on. There is a bewildering amount of information online--but as always, you have to take that information with a grain of salt. It's hard to determine where the knowledge comes from on some of these anti and pro vaccine sites.
Finally! There is now a wonderful book by Dr. Sears that presents both sides of the story and assumes that-gasp!-you are actually intelligent enough to make your own decisions regarding your child's health. The book is called, simply The Vaccine Book:Making the Right Decision for Your Child.
I've really struggled with this and as I'm reading the book I feel much more comfortable about our decision to delay and pass on some of the vaccines--especially given our family history of seizures. And the fact that Peanut is breastfed and stays at home is a huge factor which allows us this luxury.
I highly recommend this book to anyone with a child. It really is important to inform yourself with knowledge when it comes to yours and your child's health. You can't blindly trust the medical community for everything. Don't get me wrong--I have great respect for doctors, nurses, etc. but they are not infallible. Human beings make mistakes and NOBODY knows your child like you do.


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Bernie Sanders has been blowing off Jill Stein for five years. No matter. The presumptive Green Party nominee still wants the 74-year-old senator from Vermont to mount a third party White House bid after Hillary Clinton officially wraps up the Democratic nomination — and she wants him to do it on the Green Party ticket. "I'm not holding my breath, but I'm not ruling it out either," Stein told Rolling Stone in an interview. "The Green Party has been reaching out to him since 2011 without a response." Stein acknowledges that Sanders has all but frowned upon the idea of third party candidacies in the past, but she thinks the Democratic party is sabotaging his insurgent White House bid, and once the nomination finally goes to Clinton, he might be ready to rethink his position on third party candidates. Stein believes, at heart, Sanders is an Independent and points to the fact that he only registered as a Democrat to launch his presidential bid as a sign of his true nature. Plus, she sees a glimmer of hope in the fact that Sanders's brother is a member of the Green Party in the U.K.
What gives her even more than a glimmer of hope is the similarities of their respective political agendas, particularly on issues like the economy and student debt, which she considers her most important issue on the Green Party platform. Stein even sounds a little like Sanders, saying the nation's student debt problem can be solved "with the stroke of a pen, basically, by the Federal Reserve, and the head of the Fed is appointed by the president. Electing a Green to the White House essentially accomplishes that cancellation of student debt, which is really important because that liberates a generation of young people who have basically been hung out to dry, and have two hands tied behind their back."
With polls showing Clinton and Trump, the candidates who are poised to face off in the general election, historically unpopular, Stein thinks 2016 is the year America's two-party political system can be truly disrupted — and she wants Sanders in on the action.
Read the full interview at Rolling Stone.
Who is Green Party candidate Jill Stein?
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Bank of America plans to cut at least 3,500 jobs in the near future and possibly more than 10,000, The New York Times is reporting.
Bank of America will cut 3,500 of its approximately 300,000 positions by the end of September. The total number of cuts has not been determined but one person familiar with the situation said at least 10,000 jobs are likely to be eliminated.
The bank is grappling with its $1 trillion problem-loan portfolio and growing economic concerns.
Bank of America had around 280,000 employees at the start of 2011, according to its annual report.
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There are three main reasons people choose to go Vegan. For the people, for the animals and for the planet.
A recent study came out stating that eating a diet rich in fruit and vegetables could actually be more harmful to the environment than consuming meat. The researchers analysed the impact per calorie of different foods in terms of energy cost, water use and emissions.
Researchers did not argue that humans should be eating less meat, or the fact that livestock contributes to an enormous proportion of global greenhouse gases, up to 51% according to some studies.
They compared the calorie for calorie impact of eating a diet rich in low-calorie vegetables versus meat. I have not met or heard of a vegan that gets the majority of their calories from lettuce or cucumbers. That would be unsustainable not only for the planet but for Vegans/Vegetarians themselves. That is why headlines like "Vegetarian diets are bad for the planet" are so misleading and really irresponsible on the part of the mainstream media.
The research only looked at "calorie-for-calorie" comparison, for example, 100 calories of bacon, versus 100 calories from a cucumber.
According to Scientific American, meat production, especially beef farming, is harmful to the environment, releasing "prodigious amounts of heat-trapping greenhouse gases."
Cows, goats and sheep emit 37% of the planet's methane. A study by Nasa found that methane has significantly more effect on climate change than previously thought: 33 times more than carbon dioxide!
Today, nearly 65 billion animals worldwide, including cows, chickens and pigs, are crammed into Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation. These animals are literally imprisoned and tortured in unhealthy, unsanitary and unconscionably cruel conditions.
Sickness is the norm for animals who are confined rather than pastured, and who eat GMO corn and soybeans, rather than grass and forage as nature intended. To prevent the inevitable spread of disease from stress, overcrowding and lack of vitamin D, animals are fed a steady diet of antibiotics. Those antibiotics pose a direct threat to the environment when they run off into our lakes, rivers, aquifers and drinking water.
– EcoWatch (How Factory Farming Contributes to Global Warming)


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Yamaha CP4 Stage Piano Wins Frankfurt Musikmesse International Press Award
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FRANKFURT, Germany (April xx, 2014)–The Yamaha CP4 Stage Piano received the Musikmesse International Press Award (MIPA) for best Stage Keyboard. More than 100 magazines from around the world participate in MIPA voting, selecting what they determine to be the best musical instruments and audio equipment in 38 categories at the Musikmesse 2014 music industry trade show.
Yamaha formally launched the CP4 Stage Piano at the 2014 NAMM Showthis past January, and it became an instant hit with artists and dealers world-wide.
"We designed the CP4 to be the best stage piano that Yamaha has ever made, and it is gratifying that a large portion of the world's music journalists are able to appreciate the results," said Nate Tschetter, marketing manager, Music Production, Yamaha Corporation of America. "We spent a lot of time and effort crafting the model's sounds, styling and interface so that keyboard players would sound their best no matter what style of music they play."
The CP4 Stage features a selection of 45 Voices from Yamaha's Premium handcrafted grand pianos, including the CFX, CFIIIS and S6; 47 vintage electric pianos with Virtual Circuit Modeling effects and a wide variety of 341 sounds based on the flagship MOTIF synthesizer. These sounds have been matched with an 88-note Natural Wood Graded Hammer triple sensor action to provide the ultimate piano touch and response.
The model's slim, lightweight design combines portability with elegant style and features an easy-to-understand interface with large lighted buttons for splits and layers that gives performers all the controls they need right at their fingertips.
Pricing and Availability: The CP4 Stage Piano (MSRP: $2,999) is currently shipping.For more information, visit http://4wrd.it/CP4ONLINE.


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Does the world need another sample library of another classic synth? This is a question I've pondered several times over the last several years. It's extremely hard to avoid seeing an add for sample libraries built upon some analog synthesizers when doing my nighttime web surfing.

And, to be honest, most of the libraries I've had the pleasure, or displeasure of using that are built upon synthesizers have tended to leave me less than impressed. Possibly because when I play one of the patches made from these libraries, I can hear certain parameters within the patch that I would like to change, but the parameter is usually sampled into the patch. So, I wind up with less than adequate tweak-ability.
So, bottom line: I'm generally not that enthusiastic about sample libraries... Until now!
What's different?
The Mighty M5, upon my first listen, really took my 'glass half empty' outlook and made it 'glass half full'. It really was as if the sound designer reached into my mind and knew what I was looking for to enhance my library.
This is especially astounding to me because it's been the modular and semi-modular synthesizer libraries, to me, that have been the most boring. There will always be neat little sampled sequences, S&H patches, and goofy synth leads, but not enough bread and butter patches. This is where the M5, which is based on the Macbeth Studio Systems M5, differs. There are big, usable, and thick sounding bass patches, which honestly made me look in Kontakt to see how they were getting the sounds.
The sounds
The leads are also very modern, and would fit well in to any form of dance production, retro stylized new wave, house, and more. You can tell when you work with the patches that a lot of love and care went in to the sampling and creation.
The pads are sublime. Very warm, very thick, and with minor filter tweaks will fit neatly into any type of song out there... Well, as long as analog will fit into your production.
You'll also find a very well done collection of arpeggiated patches that are, in fact, arpeggiated through Kontakt's arpeggiator. In this area I wouldn't say that the arpeggiations are intricate, or above and beyond, but they do fit with the rest of the library and when I would drop them into songs I'd been working on, they sat really well.
Finally, the drum patch that was made for this library is big and extensive. And, I must say, I was impressed with the amount of percussion samples provided. We all know that modular and semi-modular synths take a little more work than usual in patch development. This drum bank has tons of patches! The amount of time that went in to the sampling and patch creation would have had to have been extensive.
Keep in mind that the M5 is a rare synthesizer, and allegedly, there are only around 90 of them floating around. They are hand built, and when I looked around to try to see how easy it would be to get a hold of one... Well, it doesn't look good.
And, I'll tell you, this sample library won't give you all of the tweak-ability of the rare synth. But, for $49 dollars, you will get a library that sounds amazing, and you'll use the hell out of it.
Presently, it's only out for Kontakt, so don't get too excited if you don't have it. But, if you do, I guarantee, this will be a library, if you love analog, that you'll come back to quite a bit.
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A waggish friend recently suggested that aging rock stars — like many of their counterparts in the jazz and classical worlds — should consider teaching, where they might contribute to the genre's betterment rather than simply delivering yet another third rate album. And what young mook couldn't learn a thing or two from Steven Tyler ("Hard Rock Makeup 101: Dude! Look Like a Lady!") or Keith Richards ("Drugs, Touring, and Border Police: Who Let the Dogs Out?")?
No doubt a master class in guitar wringing with Eric Clapton would be over enrolled from the get go. Yet unlike other potential rock profs, Clapton (who turns 56 this month) has a thriving second career — as an adult contemporary balladeer. It's not so surprising: His avuncular tenor can conjure the white crooners he grew up hearing on the radio. And against the backdrop of his struggle with drug rehab and the 1991 death of his 4 year old son, Conor, songs like "Tears in Heaven" and "Change the World" have made Clapton a premier channel for the pain and regrets of his boomer constituency. Like Celine Dion, Shania Twain, and Bill Clinton, he's been cast as one of pop's most inspirational survivors.
Reptile follows hot on the heels of last year's "Riding With the King," Clapton's Grammy winning collaboration with B.B. King, and uses many of the same players, including electric bluesman Doyle Bramhall II (whose solo CD "Welcome" is due this June). In addition, R&B vocal champs the Impressions add a gospelish gravity throughout, as do Billy Preston's distinctive organ swirls. The meaty, polished blues arrangements here — "Got You on My Mind," the Ray Charles identified "Come Back Baby," "I Want a Little Girl" — could be Riding outtakes. And while most evoke the image of a tuxedoed Rock and Roll Hall of Fame clap along jam, they still flash respectable levels of soul.
But at heart, "Reptile" is yet another version of the tepid corporate rock records Clapton's been making ever since 1974's best selling "461 Ocean Boulevard." Per script, it boasts notable covers: a fleet take on "Travelin' Light" by J.J. Cale (who penned Clapton's presobriety signature, "Cocaine"), a stiff canter through Stevie Wonder's "I Ain't Gonna Stand for It," and a soppy reading of James Taylor's "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight" that weakly courts the same fireplace and cognac R&B crowd as 1998's "Pilgrim."
The key ballads here are catchy, easy listening vehicles for 12 step rhetoric. "Believe in Life" awaits the end credit roll of the next Nora Ephron "love is wacky" weeper. "Find Myself" has more personality, with a music hall jauntiness and a cheeky Bing Crosbyish vocal. Perhaps to reintroduce Clapton as a hard rock artist, the lead single is "Superman Inside," a self esteem building blues rocker with nice slide work and a chorus ("Keep on pushin'/ Gettin' closer to peace of mind") that Dave Matthews might pay good money for. "Layla" it's not — though it does beat the "Unplugged" version of same. Bracketing the album are two instrumentals smothered in jazz lite dressing.
"Reptile" is accomplished in its scrubbed roots way, but tough to get excited about. It isn't even that Clapton is simply stuck in his tracks. "T.D.F.'s Retail Therapy," Clapton's uncredited but not uninteresting 1997 collaboration with "Reptile" coproducer Simon Climie, mixed New Agey texture jams with the sort of techno break beat blues fusion Moby would later get right. And to be sure, the guy still plays guitar like he cut a deal with the devil. With the upsurge of blues based jam rock (Gov't Mule, Ben Harper) and even punk rock (the White Stripes, the Gossip), it's not like the blues are strictly boomer fare. Perhaps some new young collaborators might help Slowhand with the vision thing.
At this point, Eric Clapton has nothing left to prove — inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame an unmatched three times (for the Yardbirds, Cream, and as a solo artist), winner of countless Grammys, and deified at an age when most mere mortals are still paying off college loans. But it would be nice to see him put his world class talent to some other use than as industry fodder; maybe he could follow his admitted affection for ruffneck hip hop (dude's a Juvenile fan!), or drum and bass, or R&B (Babyface schmaltz aside). Either that, or school some of our new metalheads in Cream style psychedelic blues. Modern rock needs all the help it can get.
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Excited about opening a checking account? You should be. Paying by check can make navigating the financial world easier and much less expensive. Just ask anyone who's had to pay bills by money order.
Once you open a checking account, you'll not only have a safe place to stash the cash you need for monthly expenses, but you'll also have the convenience of writing a check to pay your bills. But it's important to understand checks before you start using them.
What is a Check?
A check is nothing more than a document of instructions for your bank. When you write a check, you are telling your bank to transfer a specific amount of money from your checking account to another person or company.
When you pay an electricity bill, you are instructing your bank to pay a specific amount of money to your electric company.
Let's look at an example. Let's say you have a $50 electric bill from ABC Electric. First, you write today's date on the line in the far right corner of the check. Next, you write "ABC Electric" on the line that begins with "Pay to the order of."
You need to write the precise dollar amount on the check, in both numbers and in words. You write the dollar amount in numbers ($50.00) in the box next to the dollar sign. And you write the dollar amount in words, indicating any cents as a fraction over 100, on the line that ends with the word "dollars."
To authorize the transfer of money from your checking account to ABC Electric, you need to sign the check. By providing your signature on the line in the bottom right corner of the check, you're telling your bank that it's OK to move money from your account.
As soon as you finish writing and signing a check, be sure to make note of the transaction in your check register.
With a checking account, money flows in from your deposits and out when you pay by check, use your debit card, make an electronic payment or make withdrawals.
Monitoring this money flow carefully is essential to your financial health. When more cash is flowing out than in, you run the risk of writing a bounced check.
Why You Should Avoid 'Bouncing' Checks
A check bounces when there's not enough money in your account to pay the amount you specified. If you write a $250 check when you have $200 in your account, your check will bounce. When this happens, you'll be hit with a hefty fee, often $25 or more.
Bounce enough checks and your bank could close your checking account. And you may have a tough time opening a checking account with another bank after this happens.
Here's why: Most banks and credit unions report customers who have their accounts closed due to bounced checks to a company called Chex Systems. This company keeps a database of bank customers who write bounced checks and don't pay them back. Once you are part of this database because of your bounced checks, it may be difficult for you to open a checking account with another bank or credit union.
So it's a good idea to be a squeaky-clean checking customer and keep close tabs on your individual cash flow. Make note of every ATM withdrawal, debit card purchase, electronic payment and check payment in your check register to help you prevent overspending.
Nervous about bouncing a check by accident? You may want to sign up for overdraft protection for your checking account. Put a few hundred dollars in a savings account and have it linked to your checking account. If there's not enough money in your checking account to pay a check, the money will be drawn from your savings account. Be sure to ask about fees when signing up for overdraft protection.
How a Check is Processed
It's also important to understand how quickly a bank processes each kind of checking account transaction.
An ATM withdrawal gets debited from your account almost immediately. Ditto for payments made by debit card where you punch in your Personal Identification Number (PIN) at the time of purchase. Signature-based purchases that you make with a debit card take a bit longer to process. These purchases are typically deducted from your checking account in two or three days.
Processing a payment by check is a bit more complicated. Let's take a look at the journey a check makes after you mail it to a merchant. We'll use that $50 check written to ABC Electric as an example.
- You write a $50 check to ABC Electric and mail the check.
- ABC Electric receives the check.
- ABC Electric deposits the check into its local bank.
- ABC Electric's bank sends the check to a regional processing center.
- The regional processing center sends the check to your bank.
- Your bank receives the check from the processing center and deducts $50 from your checking account.
Back when your actual paper check traveled from bank to bank by mail, this whole process would take a few days. But electronic processing has sped up the process considerably. Now banks can collect and return checks electronically. The days of the long "float" are over. ("Float" is the amount of time that passes from when a merchant receives your check and the moment when your bank deducts the payment from your checking account.)
Once a merchant receives your check and deposits it into a local bank, the payment process moves quickly. Thanks to electronic processing, an electronic image of your check speeds its way back to your bank. In some cases, your check payment could be deducted from your account in just 24 hours. So, in this case, if your merchant's bank receives your check on a Tuesday, the payment could be deducted from your checking account as early as Wednesday.
Some merchants are choosing to bypass the check processing system altogether. You may send them a check, but they don't process your payment as a check. Instead, they take the information on your check — the check number, your account number and the routing number that identifies your bank — and make a one-time electronic payment from your account. This is called an electronic fund transfer.
Some utility companies and credit card companies choose to process their customers' checks this way; in-store merchants may do the same. With an electronic funds transfer, a payment could be deducted from the customer's checking account the same day that a merchant receives payment.
Let's say your check arrives to a credit card company on Tuesday. The card company processes the payment as a one-time electronic fund transfer on Tuesday and the payment amount gets deducted from your checking account the very same day.
Even though you wrote a check, you likely won't see this transaction listed as a check on your next bank statement. Instead, you'll see an electronic debit payment listed next to the merchant's name.
It's a good idea to take some time every month to carefully go over your bank statements. Make sure each transaction listed on your bank statement matches a transaction listed in your check register. If there's an error, be sure to contact your bank.
Paying Your Taxes By Check
Checks can be particularly helpful when making large, one-time payments, like your federal taxes. If you choose to make your tax payment by mail using a check rather than an electronic payment, you'll make the check payable to the U.S. Treasury and mail it to the address listed on the notice you received or the instructions that accompanied your bill.
Per the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), you don't want to staple or paper clip your payment to the return documents. The IRS also requests you include all the essential details on your check so it gets put toward the correct bill. This includes things like your name, address, phone number, Social Security number (if you're filing a joint return, you'll just need the Social Security number that is listed first), employer identification number (if applicable), tax period and related tax form or notice number.
Understanding how to use and manage your checking account responsibly is a great first step to establishing good finances. A checking account is an important building block in gaining access to other services such as credit cards, loans and savings accounts.


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'Watts' Behind Watson? How Cognitive Security Can Improve Energy Climate Impact
Ever since Ben Franklin tried to get electricity from his own "cloud" via a kite string during a thunderstorm (warning: please don't try that at home), energy problems have been entwined with security, climate and location issues. In Dr. Franklin's case, there were needs for transmitting the energy from "there" (the cloud) to "here" (his jar), as well as storing and using it effectively.
Energy and Climate Problems Today
Ben Franklin was, among many things, the world's leading expert on energy in his day. He not only understood electricity in all its forms, but his invention of the lightning rod for buildings continues to save countless lives and billions of dollars per year. Ben Franklin was also a leading expert on climate science: According to PBS, he studied weather patterns throughout his life, and he was one of the first to examine and hypothesize about the Gulf Stream.
Our era doesn't use kites to directly capture electricity from clouds, but we do use aerodynamic blades on wind turbines to generate electricity from the wind. Unfortunately, today's serious energy problems — such as deteriorating infrastructure, community availability disparities, adverse climate effects and others — seem to be intractable. Often, however, these issues can be mitigated by securing energy and securely using information to better understand critical areas within the energy industry.
Cognitive security capabilities can help understand problems in energy usage, protect energy infrastructure during its entire operational and financial life cycle and safely aid, operate and leverage existing resources sustainably.
It has long been remarked that modern society hardly has an energy shortage; the sunlight reaching the Earth on any given day could power it, and we are literally awash in recently found natural gas. There are, however, huge problems in understanding energy usage and in securing its infrastructure — getting the energy from here to there safely, reliably and efficiently.
Whatever one thinks about the climate, I have yet to hear anyone debate the fact that we urgently need to keep the air clean and the water pure, and to appropriately provide energy to those who need it. Another interesting point of consensus is that the energy infrastructure is fragile and needs to be protected via its cyber elements. How can we learn, anticipate, mitigate and shape the climate issues of our time?
Cognitive Security and the Energy Industry
That's where deep capabilities in cognitive security come in. The key is that IBM Cognitive Security is iterative in that it can help predict the climate's impact on energy requirements and infrastructure while simultaneously reducing any adverse impact on the climate from energy production.
Cognitive security can help understand — with full capabilities for anonymization, data integrity and user privacy — vast amounts of information. It can assimilate it, understand it and use it to predict trends.
For example, even if an electric generation system or transmission line doesn't have full capability to handle a peak load at all times, it is possible to stagger demand and the load if the underlying usage statistics and projections are well understood. This can be done with financial and other incentives tailored to (and welcomed by) the individual user.
Similarly, most northeast oil and gas generation is delivered to customers by a complex network of data-enabled pipelines, railroad tank cars and barges. Solid mega items like energy transmission lines are greatly impacted by the amount of electricity they carry and by weather factors such as lightning, wind and temperature.
IBM's Cognitive Security capabilities are vital in monitoring the technical security of this infrastructure and helping provide nondefeatable situational awareness. We may also use Watson's cognitive abilities in climate science and modeling to optimize climate impact on tracks, vehicles, transmission lines and waterways.
Moving Toward the Future
We haven't seen a scientist quite like Ben Franklin since his time, but it's a pleasant reverie to wonder what he would think of Watson's cognitive abilities. Perhaps they would find a lot in common. Dr. Franklin had only two years of formal schooling (his many degrees were honorary), but he read and encouraged others to read voluminously.
Watson, of course, is voracious in reading and assimilating vast amounts of technical journals. Ben Franklin was self-taught; Watson teaches himself, as well. Perhaps their energy conversations would prove most interesting — and, dare I say, enlightening.
Energized by Watson, IBM Cognitive Security solutions will protect energy at the points of generation and transmission, predict usage based on weather, securely allocate and process revenue and costs and appropriately guide the privacy of energy users. With Watson's help, we can predict the impact of weather on energy and do many things to help leverage the weather efficiently.


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The Amazing Mexican Mouthgasm
1 cup rice (I use white aborio, but short-grain brown is also good)
14 oz can of black beans
1 small red onion
1 small green pepper
3 vine-ripened tomatoes or smaller regular tomatoes
1/2 cup medium salsa (I use peach mango, yum!)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 tablespoon canola oil
vegan sour cream (optional)
1 avocado (optional)
*I use a rice steamer for mine, so myinstructions involve that specifically.*
Rinse your rice in a strainer with warmwater until the water runs clear. Putthe rice and 1 1/2 cups of water intothe rice steamer and set to "Cook."
Warm your canola oil in a deep mediumpan over medium heat.
Dice your onion and pepper into 1/2-inchchunks and dump in the pan. You wantthem to carmelize, so adjust your heatto high-medium.
Cut your tomatoes into 1-inch chunks andset aside. Drain your black beans andrinse in a strainer.
When the onions and peppers begin toturn translucent and carmelize add thesalt and pepper and allow to cook forabout one more minute.
Add the tomatoes, black beans and salsa.Stir all together and turn the heat downto allow the mix to simmer and reduce.Cook for about 5 minutes.
Slice an avocado into thin long cuts andcut those in half.
By now your rice should be done. Spoonout of the steamer and into the pan,mixing all the ingredients together. Addmore salsa if you want a more liquidytexture.
Place the rice and bean dish into a bowlor on a plate and arrange your avocadohow you see fit. Add about a tablespoonof vegan sour cream and enjoy!
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Cats spend about half of their waking hours grooming themselves, which makes them pretty clean animals.
However, as any cat owner is well aware, kitties also have a tendency to knock items off tables, track dirt indoors and occasionally leave a few "gifts" outside the litter box.
Whether you're looking for tips on cleaning up that merlot your cat took an interest in or locating the stain you can smell but can't see, check out the infographic below.


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Nelson Square 1955,Dai 'Snowball' Williams is sitting second from the left on the bench. He lived in lived in 45 Commercial Street in one of the cottages next to the Cosy Cinema, which were demolished to build the new library.(Photo courtesy of Bob Evans formerly of the prefabs)
What follows are pictures people have sent to me to add to the site, they are meant to be a reminder of the village to all that view them.
They are in no particular order, just random.However the older photos are at the bottom of this page.
Please visit we love Nelson on Facebook to see more images.
Before the centre of the village was altered in 2005, Robert Amos of High Close, Nelson,took some photographs of the area we knew as the flower gardens. He also captured the old bus station. Here are his photographs.
Nelson Newsagent
Old photograph of Nelson Post office courtesy of Jeremy Swattridge
Fire at Ashgrove 1969
The flower gardens when first opened
The bus stops 1950's
Nelson Police station
Milestone in High Street Nelson
The following are photographs by Jeremy Swattridge who kindly has allowed me to add them to this website mostly taken between 1988 -95.He has a great collection of photos that he took during that time mostly in black and white.
Nelson Square 1989
Nelson Square again
Looking towards Rugby club hill
Bryncelyn/high street Junction
Wellington Stores
The housing estate
Looking down towards Nelson
Commercial street
Former Infants School
Above we see the old entrance to the school on the High Street, its now the entrance to High Close.
Nelson bus stops
Adcocks once a majoy employer in the village
Nelson Fish bar
Pet shop
Darlington Options ,Nelson
Elaine s hairdresser
Dynevor Arms 1989
Flower gardens
The bus station
The Hunt
Hunt on the High Street
Outside Dynevor Arms
Mike Dicks
Bobs Fruit and Veg
The Hunt 2004
The Hunt 2006
Looking down Commercial street
Nelson in the Snow 1982 by Joyce Bolton
Railway Nelson
Pebbles and mate
Alan bare chest Barrett
Llancaiach School
Garage Dynevor Terrace 1982
The Garage opposite Dynevor Terrace 2005,now demolished
The old Garage site 2014
The tunnel and pond near the Llanfabon Inn
Llanfabon Church and Inn by Robert Walters
Car smashes into home on the Laing estate January 2013
The former Nelson Welfare ground…opposite Trafalgar Park (R Amos)
A 1999 view looking towards the Co operative, Nelson (R Amos)
The Former Portlock fruit and Vegetable cabin near the Balfour
The Portlock storage behind the Balfour club.
Rear of the Portlock store 2004
A relatively new collection of photographs of Nelson kindly taken for this site by Roger Vowles of Treharris. March 17th 2010
some views of Bryncelyn and the new housing estate next to it taken from the road between the Greyhound and the Tylers arms(mountain road.)
Three images above looking towards Greenacres and the street above the Tylers arms.
Green Acres from Nelson RFC Autumn 2015
Nelson looking Towards the new houses and to the left Penallta pit
Bwl Road junction
Nelson 1976 with a red and white Bedlinog bus
Bwl road 1920
Bwl Road 1983
Bwl road 2013
Commercial Street 2013
This is the bottom of Heol Fawr, opposite the Chinese (Kung fu)
Taken in the early 1970's this is a photo of houses opposite the new library…they are being prepared for demolition…below is another angle of the same row of houses at the top of Commercial Street.
Ashgrove Villas, Nelson.
The picture above is taken in 1957, it shows the old railway track filled in with earth, the big building in the background is the Balfour club.
Tai Machine house, now demolished, it was once opposite Co-op supermarket on Maben road( where the Tyre and Exhaust company are now)
Wellington Inn at the bottom of the High Street…now Wellington Stores.
Shingrig Road
1960's photograph building the Electric power station Llanfabon
Llanfabon power Station 2012
The picture above is a picture of the Penallta sidings on the main line between Nelson and Ystrad Mynach…know as Nelson Bog to many locals…
The Pre fabs…build in the 1940's as temporary homes, they lasted for over 20 years…some of the street names that people will remember include…Heol Bryn Fab, Heol Pant y Celyn, Heol Mabon, Heol Tasker and Heol Islwyn…number one Heol Islwyn is pictured below, the lady in the photograph is Mrs Tovey (pic Michael Tovey)
The old Prefabs, behind Bryncelyn (R Amos)
Once the Prefabs had been demolished
Views of Bryncelyn once the Prefabs had gone
The old cottages next to the Handball court
Photos thanks to Ann Hill Nelson
The old cottages looking sad
The Corner Fish Shop
Morris Butchers Shop Commercial Street
Shingrig Road
Tom Davies Iron monger
Picture with Nelson Fish Bar, Tommy Davies' shop, Jones the butcher and the shop run by the Pakistani or indian family By Jeremy Swattridge
1989 view
2015 View
Fruit and Flower shop
W Hopkins shop on Commercial Street
Caerphilly road 1990's
Caerphilly road 2012
Electric Cinema
Top of Commercial street
Commercial Street
Two old photos Commercial street
Looking down Nelson from Heol Fawr
Nelson 1990's no cash point
Historic old houses in the High Street, demolished and replaced by modern homes…see below (R.Amos)
A mucky day looking up Long Row 1999 (R Amos)
Former pub called the Farmers Arms Llanfabon
Church at Llanfabon
The Three arches in 1909
The Three Arches approx.1960
Below we see some photographs of the area near the Railway Inn on Mabon Road, They were taken in 1969 when the old railway was removed to improve the road and take out the bend.Thanks to Dino Spinetti for the photographs
approaching the Railway pub
The old air raid Shelter near the Fiddlers Elbow
Another view near the Railway pub, the old arches
The Same area below 2012
Photos by Robert Walters of the area near the Railway


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The silly faux outrage could be mocked on mere factual rounds:
- The gifting also included a vintage book autographed by the queen's favorite american composer
- The queen's reciprocal gift was equally prosaic: a picture of herself and her husband
- We men just aren't that good at shopping; anyway, the president has one or two other things to think about right now, like wars and recessions and stuff.
You see, any information sharing device, be it ipod, blackberry, laptop or 3×5 card, has no value on its own. The value is the information, and the ease with which the device makes it available. When information can be controlled by central authority, that authority can be subverted and We The People kept under control. But when information can be shared freely and easily, it makes people smarter, faster, stronger ... and THAT bothers reichwingers.
They feared Gutenberg's movable type, and they were right to do so, for it enabled the Reformation by freeing information from the tyranny of church scribes.
They fear the teleprompter, and they are right to do so. It lets obama deliver crisp remarks from notes without bobbing his head to look at 3x5 cards or ... as their leader Rush prefers ... simply to add words and whole phrases to our constitution when it suits his purpose.
They fear the ipod, and they are right to do so, for handheld information system empower people to assemble and share information without relying on centraled authority. President Barack Obama's gift ipod included selections personnalized for the queen, such as video of her recent visit to America. In the hands of ordinary citizens, handheld information devices can share almost unlimited amounts of information, much of it embarassing to central authority.
In its information quantity, the video iPod is larger than the gutenberg bible. In its impact on information freedom, and therefore on freedom itself, it embodies something larger than movable type.
Reichwing technophobes are right to fear this.
But let us encourage them to flaunt their technophobia. Our upcoming generation gets it.


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About the Book
Someone is after Starters like Callie and Michael --- teens with chips in their brains. They want to experiment on anyone left over from Prime Destinations --- Starters who can be controlled and manipulated. With the body bank destroyed, Callie no longer has to rent herself out to creepy Enders. But Enders can still get inside her mind and make her do things she doesn't want to do. Like hurt someone she loves. Having the chip removed could save her life --- but it could also silence the voice in her head that might belong to her father. Callie has flashes of her ex-renter Helena's memories, too...and the Old Man is back, filling her with fear. Who is real and who is masquerading in a teen body?
No one is ever who they appear to be, not even the Old Man. Determined to find out who he really is and grasping at the hope of a normal life for herself and her younger brother, Callie is ready to fight for the truth. Even if it kills her.
- Publication Date: January 7, 2014
- Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult 12+
- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Delacorte Press


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Washington, DC (PRWEB) August 13, 2008
The Library of Congress has added several new authors to the award-winning lineup for the 2008 National Book Festival, which will be held on the National Mall from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 27.
Among the some 70 celebrated authors who will be participating in this year's event are early-childhood experts Ellen Birnbaum and Nancy Schulman, Michael Dobbs -- award-winning foreign correspondent for The Washington Post -- New York Times best-selling author Julie Morgenstern, and veteran journalist Cathy Scott.
There have also been several additions to the popular Poetry pavilion, including Michael Lind, Molly Peacock, Jill Allyn Rosser and the recently announced new Poet Laureate, Kay Ryan.
The introduction of new downloadable author podcasts, which are available free of charge through the Library's Web site or on iTunes, makes it possible for booklovers around the country to participate in the event. Interviews capturing their latest works and inspiration are available with Warren Brown, Joseph Bruchac, Sharon M. Draper, Arthur Frommer and Pauline Frommer, Jan Brett, Jon Scieszka, R.L. Stine and Kay Ryan. More podcasts with festival authors, illustrators and poets will be uploaded in the coming weeks.
Other interactive features include event Webcasts, which will be made available this year and have been archived from previous festivals. The Library also will soon launch an updated version of the Young Readers' Online Toolkit to bring the festival into libraries, schools and homes across the country.
You can find out more about this year's National Book Festival, interactive features, and the full list of participating authors, illustrators and poets by visiting http://www.loc.gov/bookfest.
Don't forget to download and display the 2008 National Book Festival Poster in your home, school, local library and community (right click image to save to your desktop or print).
SPECIAL NOTE: The Library has created a Web site for members of the media to download background materials, high-resolution images, video and audio sound bites, b-roll and other audiovisual resources, as well as to request interviews with participating authors. This information can be accessed via the Press Registration link. This release will be updated periodically.


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A couple of weeks ago we reviewed the new LP from A Pint Of Stout and now here's the latest recordings from the Ukraine's only other celtic-punk band and big Celtic supporters O'Hamsters. Coming from the capital Kiev they've so far released one studio, one mini-album and one live album and now this their new 3-track EP 'Celtic Crew'.
The first track is 'Celtic Crew' and starts off with a sample of that wee lad leading the singing at Celtic Park before flying off into fast as feck manic Irish folk punk. The croaky vocals and drumming give it a proper punk feel but accordion and tin whistle keep it firmly in celtic-punk. The lyrics are sung in Ukrainian so anyone out there who can translate them please do… though I'm 100% certain their complimentary!
The following tracks (that I can't pronounce) are all in the same vein so no disappointments here!
You can download the EP from Soundcloud here for as little as a quid so get on it and have a listen to their other records too while you're there. Just like Pint Of Stout they have made their previous releases free to download so get them all but remember to chuck them at least a pound for the new one. you'll not be regret it!
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Active and reactive code review
Posted by Jim Jagielski on Friday, November 10. 2006 in Programming
For any software project, continual code review is crucial. In general, there are 2 methods, at least regarding how I do it. The first is what I call active review. That's when I take time out and pick out a code segment at (semi) random and just read it. I follow any function or method calls and track how the code works. Is it logical? Is it robust? What improvements can be made? I usually find at least some way to make it better. The second is reactive and it generally occurs either when tracking down a bug, or when evaluating a patch. I follow the same procedure as with active, but the starting point is obviously different. The cool thing is that most of the time, in addition to fixing the bug (or validating the patch), I almost always discover something which can be improved or fixed. A good example of this just happened: we're looking at possibly doing a release of Apache HTTPD 2.2.4 in the very near future, and one potential backport was being discussed. This got me looking not only at the backport code itself, but the other functions that the code uses. This lead me to our implementation of
apr_socket_recvfrom() in APR. Unlike the "real"
recvfrom(), ours requires a
from argument. In fact, if you look at some of the various test scripts, they have to go out of their way to create bogus from info to test the function. Why? Certainly it makes sense that one should allow a NULL from, and have
apr_socket_recvfrom() do the right thing... posting this to the APR dev list indicated that other APR developers thought so as well, so I'm going to spend some time implementing that.
Sometimes it's the unexpected byproducts of reviews that are the most beneficial.


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Chittorgarh Fort is a massive and majestic fort situated on a hilltop near Chittorgarh town in Rajasthan state in India. It is one of the most historically significant forts not only in Rajasthan but whole of North India. The fort of Chittor is believed to have been the capital of the Guhilot and Sisodia kings who ruled Mewar from the eighth to the sixteenth century AD. The fort is named after Chittrangad Mauraya. The Sisodia ruler Ajay Pal (AD 1174-1177) improved the fort wall built by the Gahlot king in the ninth century AD. The fort has witnessed three ferocious sieges and each time her defenders, demonstrating true Rajputana pride, fought valiantly against the enemies. The magnificent fort rises 150 m above the surrounding region and runs to an approximate length of 3 km covering an area of 60 acres and peripheral length of 13 km. Seiges of Chittor Out of the three major sieges, the first one occurred in AD 1303 when Ala-ud-din Khilji of Delhi attacked to gain possession of Padmini, the beautiful wife of Rana Rattan Singh. In spite of gaining control of the fort, the goal remained unachievable since Padmini along with other Rajput women marched in procession to an underground cave and committed self-immolation or jauhar. The second siege in AD 1535 was by Sultan Bahadur Shah of Gujarat. The Rajputs fought valiantly but were defeated and jauhar was once again performed. The third siege of the fort took place in AD 1567 with the Mughal ruler Akbar arrayed against the might of the Rajputs. It is believed that Akbar got annoyed with Udai Singh for sheltering the then ruler of Malwa. This was a bloody war with jauhar being performed for the third time. The tales of valor of Jaimal and Kalla are still alive in the local folklore. It is believed that Akbar was so impressed by the valor of Jaimal and Kalla that he got their statues installed at the Agra Fort.
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BBC News
- Coronavirus: UK records more than 40,000 deaths
- George Floyd death: Matt Hancock urges UK public to avoid protests
- Madeleine McCann: New suspect also investigated over missing German girl - reports
- Coronavirus: Kate Garraway opens up on husband's battle with 'evil virus'
- Brexit: Trade deal still possible with EU, says UK minister
- Coronavirus: Ban on landlords evicting renters extended
- Jeremy Bamber bid for evidence dismissed by High Court
- Coronavirus: Job losses 'just the tip of the iceberg'
- Tommy Robinson arrested in Barrow for assaulting 'spitting man'
- Oscar Montgomery: Diving teams end search for snorkeller
- Keith Lemon actor sorry for playing 'offensive' black characters
- Tim Davie: BBC executive named director general
- Coronavirus: Protests warning as death toll passes 40,000
- Teen stuck at home instead of starting at Royal Ballet
- Whatever happened to the NHS contact-tracing app?
- Coronavirus: Families missed funerals 'over webcast issues'
- Coronavirus: How the Lang Whang Wombles became lockdown litter pickers
- Coronavirus: Tractors welcome at Ballymena drive-in country gig
- Nature reserves 'trashed' after lockdown easing
- Coronavirus: Court action threatened over school meal vouchers
- Coronavirus lockdown wildlife recordings appeal
- Coronavirus: Watchdog to investigate racial inequalities
- Coronavirus: How the UK is sleeping under lockdown
- Coronavirus: Are protests legal amid lockdown?
- Coronavirus UK map: How many confirmed cases are there in your area?
- Coronavirus: Who should wear a face mask or face covering?
- Coronavirus doctor's diary: The older doctors risking their lives to battle Covid-19
- Weird weather: Can computers solve UK puzzle?
- Coronavirus: Outbreak exercise showed 'clear gap' in readiness
- Sitting In Limbo: Brother turns Windrush scandal into a very personal TV drama
- Madeleine McCann: False turns and a final breakthrough?
- Coronavirus: Job-hunting advice for graduates, from the Class of 2008
- 'You audition for a show only for it to get cancelled'
- Madeleine McCann case in pictures
- Matt Hancock: 40,000 coronavirus death toll 'a time of sorrow'
- Coronavirus: Kate Garraway's last words to husband before Covid-19 coma
- George Floyd death 'has parallels' with Mikey Powell's
- Coronavirus: Dad of quadruplets leaves Harlow hospital after six weeks
- Abbey Road Studios re-opens after 10 weeks of closure
- UK zoos at risk of closure
- Belly Mujinga: CPS to review Covid-19 death of station worker
- George Floyd death: Sturgeon urges Scots not to gather for protests
- Coronavirus: Primary pupils may be at school 'two days a week'
- Coronavirus: Doctors call for face mask in public rule in Wales
- Coronavirus: Isle of Wight MP admits lockdown 'barbecue' visit
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Monday, 22 December 2008
...And the annual 'Favourite Guess From Christmas Games of Articulate' award goes to:
Posted by John Finnemore at 11:59 am
Labels: Articulate Guesses, Games, Get Dressed Ye Merry Gentlemen, Stupidity - Other People's
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My elderly neighbor said that when he was a boy he had a pet Jay.
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June 19, 2020
201 Willowbend Road
April 3, 2018, 6:30 PM
City Council Retreat – Part II Tomorrow
The Peachtree City Mayor, City Council, and staff will meet in a retreat workshop on Tuesday, April 3, 6:30 p.m., at City Hall. The public is welcome. Staff will provide an overview of funding mechanisms for possible future redevelopment efforts, including Community Improvement Districts (CIDs), Tax Increment Financing and Tax Allocation Districts (TIF/TADs), and Special Assessment Districts. Council and staff will also discuss Transportation Projects (access and mobility). This session is a continuation of the discussions held on March 6 on master planning, economic development, and annexation.


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Isn't it funny how as soon as Easter is out of the way, people start talking about holidays and jetting off to sunnier climes. If only! But, whilst I may not be going on a holiday this year, it doesn't stop me thinking about holidays and enjoying all of the holiday themed prints which seem to be hitting the shelves lately..
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Lobsters, swimmers and ice creams, oh my! Clearly sunbather prints are currently all the rage, as I also have about three different sunbather print fabrics bookmarked at the moment. But here's my pick of the beach prints from the high street for now.
Palava seem to be going all beachy-themed this season with lobster print dresses and cardigans, as well as the long-awaited swimmer print. (006, 003, 005)
I really like the contrast of the red stripe along this Yumi beach print dress, as well. (008)
My Cath Kidston wishlist is long at the moment, and this ice cream bag (001) would be perfect for toting my seaside essentials about. The sunbather print dress (004) is pretty cute with it's shoulder cut-outs and the button detail to the front, but I think I'd need to see it in person as I have a feeling it might be rather short.
007: This Little Moose necklace is still one of my favourites of their current offerings; I'm fairly sure I've mentioned it before. Also this glittery ice cream necklace is pretty awesome, too (002).
Do you have any holiday plans?


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Interview: 10 Years of Wooster Collective
Sara and Marc Schiller founded Wooster Collective to document the beautiful and fleeting street art that surrounded them throughout their neighborhood in New York City. What once started as a way to share their photos with friends evolved into a hub for worldwide street art on the internet. Since they started their website, they've helped curate exhibits, sat on panels, and published books.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of WoosterCollective.com. To celebrate, they collaborated with Jonathan Levine Gallery to curate 10 Years of Wooster Collective: 2003 – 2013, which was held at a pop-up gallery space in Chelsea, featuring work from artists such as Shepard Fairey, Swoon, Space Invader, Paul Insect, The Flower Guy, and FAILE. We caught up with Wooster Collective founders Sara and Marc Schiller to talk about its history, the pop-up gallery show, their love of New York City, and the importance of street art.
What inspired you to start Wooster Collective?
I think it was really our neighborhood, our environment. We've always loved New York City, we've been living here for many years and when we moved into the West Village, we started to explore our new neighborhood. One day, I stopped and realized that there was a beautiful piece of artwork that was wheatpasted (at the time I didn't really know what that was) on a wall. It was very delicate and very special and I was struck by that. I was struck that somebody had put art back into the city. This was before Flickr and photo sharing on mobile phones, so now it sounds obvious, but then it was as if we had opened up a manhole cover and there was a whole other city underneath us. Sara and I realized that the city was exploding with art, that there was art everywhere. We started to document it and do what I think a lot of people do. It's like a little memento because we know it's ephemeral. After a year, we had captured so much street art in our neighborhood that my computer started crashing since I had so many photographs. I was going to delete all of the photos, but Sara suggested I upload them to the internet and we did. We started with this thumbnail thing and we emailed it to about 10 of our friends and suddenly, tens of thousands of people were looking at them. After that, blogging came out so we started to document and share things, kind of the same thing we're doing now. The timing was interesting because mass media wasn't really talking about street art in a positive way, only in the lens of vandalism, and we were celebrating it and loving it and sharing it. I think that the time was one where people around the world realized that there were others that were also thinking the same way about public space and about creativity, and it just started to evolve.
Why do you think street art is so important to document?
I think Marc and I would agree that street art humanizes a city. The documentation really comes from it being ephemeral. If you don't document it, in a sense, it wasn't there. It's really the act of putting it up that's the important part. We always say to people get out and walk around your city and see the art for yourselves, don't just look at it online because it's so much more than that. What really motivates us are site-specific pieces, pieces where the artist has thought about the neighborhood, who's walking by, what are the stores, what is the architecture, and how their piece is going to interact with the environment around it.
I think spontaneity is an incredibly powerful and humanizing thing. You can buy your way into being in somebody's consciousness through them experiencing it outdoors, you can buy a billboard, you can buy ad space, you can do all that, but the artist doesn't really have that ability, but at the same time wants to have the power that advertisers have and wants to have the ability to make an impact. You have to take the space to do that. You can't always ask for it, because you don't get it. You're walking down the street and you look down to see a stencil of Gandhi or when you are rushing to the subway to get to work and all of a sudden you look up to see a beautiful wheatpaste by Swoon or a piece by Faile or somebody you don't know about and it's completely anonymous and unauthorized. There's no way to connect it to anything, and that's a wonderful way to live, where every day, the city becomes a playground and every day can be a treasure hunt not knowing what you're going to find.
What are some highlights of work you've exhibited on your site in the past 10 years?
A lot of the Banksy stuff I would say. We've been fortunate enough to have a relationship with him over the years and I think when he went into the museums in New York City and put his art up, nobody knew and at 7:00 AM he reached out to us to put the photographs online and the museums literally didn't know that the work was still on their walls. I think that was a pretty amazing day. Others had done it, he wasn't the first to co-opt museums, but he was the first to do it at that kind of scale. To be honest with you, every day is pretty amazing. Ten years of doing this every single day, there are some days when maybe it's not the most inspiring thing in the world, but those days are really few.
There's also been some really amazing intimate moments when people have really shared things that are personal to them with the rest of the world on the site like when Swoon who for many years people thought was a guy, as we say, she came out as a "she-momma." We've had young kids who were just experimenting with art who we've put up on the site and gave them that confidence and validation who then went on to great art schools. Those things you don't plan for – they happen in the same way the art happens, but what Marc and I have always said is that the art is wonderful, but the people behind it are so amazing. They're so smart, complicated, thoughtful, intense people. It's a rare bird who chooses to do this.
There's an aspect of any unauthorized act that maybe can be perceived as aggressive, but at the end of the day, what we're celebrating is the act of beautification of derelict and negligent space. Why is it okay to live in a neighborhood with a massive ugly gray wall and not have the ability to beautify that, to create something out of it? For us, the website and the photographs are the entry point to meet a community of people that think the same way, and that the artists are really special people. These often aren't people that have a lot of money, they might have nothing, and if you're willing to get arrested and spend three days in jail, which is not fun and not cheap and not a badge of honor for anybody, because you want to put your art in a doorway that's been boarded up with trash all over it and you want to use that environment as a canvas to say something about the city that you live in, that person is pretty incredible who is willing to do that and that's what Sara and I really get out of this.


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Maybe I should have tried once more.
Maybe tonight would be not so cold, no so tough.
Maybe I could have found a bottle with a message:
Then everything would have been simpler and clearer.
Then I would have felt sure and safe.
Then tonight would have been an evening of glasses of wine, smiles and bodies.
But all of that wouldn't have been my life.
It would have been yours. Others'. Someone else's.
Me, I am on the verge. About to.
No "more maybes" at all, sorry for that.
I keep going and going on: present continuous. Continuous.


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Worth a Hill of Beans
(Yes, I borrowed the title…I'm not that clever)
When I told some folks at work that I eat a plant-based diet, automatically the conversation went to what I eat for protein. "Oh are you eating Gardein?" Because I don't like most of the meat-substitutes out there, I use beans as my primary source of protein. For reasons I've explained in one of my previous blogs, I avoid canned beans when possible. So, I thought I would share the benefits of this nutritonal powerhouse, the bean.
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The Hazards of Canned Food
Since I have a family, I have become more discerning about the food I make for them. Yes, I cook more than we eat out. I could usually use convenience foods to get the job done. However, I recently found out that varies canned foods I buy at the supermarket might not be the best choice for me and my family. Canned beans and tomatoes save me time in the kitchen, but may be putting my health at risk.


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These cowrie shells were found in the waters of Oahu in Hawaii. Three are brown, and two are brown with purple. One of these cowrie shells has a small hole in the top, as seen in the picture. These shells are unaltered and are being listed exactly how they came out of the water. Listing is for all 5. This size shell is great for bangles!
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1. The cost of these wars.
2. Racism and the failure to enforce Affirmative Action.
I find it interesting how Robert Reich doesn't apply the same analysis to Obama as he does towards Romney as Reich is building towards supporting Obama because the Republicans are so bad when in fact Obama and Romney both have the exact same Wall Street agenda couched in different terminology but result in the same thing: wars abroad financed through austerity measures here at home.
No president has ever attacked the living standards as viciously and perniciously as Barack Obama has done yet Reich has the unmitigated gall and audacity--- not to mention total and complete dishonesty--- to pretend Obama is somehow better than Romney:
Shame on the left for not providing the American people with a clear and understandable working class Marxist analysis instead of all of this muddle-headed middle class apology for Barack Obama we are now getting from the well-heeled pundits like Robert Reich and Paul Krugman who build their fantasies supporting Obama around some kernels of truth that end up so distorted all we get is confusion.
Robert Reich writes and speaks from an upper-middle class perspective and then he has the nerve to talk about "us" when he has nothing in common with working people who he keeps inserting into his "middle class."
I like reading Robert Reich's "analysis" because he does provide some important facts as kernels of truth; but, one needs to carefully read between the lines and sort fact from fiction.
Working people need to establish their own Marxist think-tanks and action centers in the communities where they live and where they work because this kind of muddled nonsense will never get us beyond Wall Street's control.
Pick up a cheap used copy on-line of "Dynamics of Social Change: A Reader in Marxist Social Science, from the Writings of Marx, Engels and Lenin" by David Goldway, Harry Martel, Howard Selsam. Here are some selections from this book:


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Britta Peters, curator of Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017 together with Marianne Wagner and Kasper König, will give an insight into the history of Skulptur Projekte Münster and an outlook to the next edition in 2017. The talk is part of the accompanying program of the exhibition 'Shape of Time – Future of Nostalgia. Works of the Art Collection Telekom' at the MNAC in Bucharest.
September 28 2016, 7 pm at MNAC, Bucharest
Since their first edition in 1977, the Skulptur Projekte Münster have developed to become one of the world's most important exhibitions of art in the public space. The generous ten-year cycle makes the Skulptur Projekte not only a special event, but also a venue at which the contemporaneity of public art is examined above and beyond short-lived fashions and trends. In the summer of 2017, for the fifth time, international artists are invited to realize a site-specific project at a location of their choice within the city of Münster. The spectrum ranges from sculptural approaches to temporary installations and performances with which art inscribes itself in the structural, historical and societal contexts of the city. At the same time, many of the projects point beyond the specific place and negotiate current social and urban themes. A special focus of the Skulptur Projekte 2017 is the relationship between public and private space in times of increasing digitalization.
Britta Peters (b. 1967) works as an art critic and free-lance curator. From 2008 to 2011 she was the director of Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof in Hamburg. In 2012 she curated the exhibition 'Demonstrationen. Vom Werden normativer Ordnungen' at Kunstverein Frankfurt, followed in 2014 by the exhibition project 'Illness as Metaphor: Madness in the Garden of the Species' at various venues in Hamburg.


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Guide to Aerial Photograph Collection Available
- Western Libraries closed to the public but Open Online. See the COVID-19 Updates and Resources page for the latest information.
Among the wealth of historic photographs available through Western Libraries' Heritage Resources is the collection of over 30,000 aerial images archived at the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies. Ranging in date from 1935-2001, these images were generated through numerous aerial surveys around the region, including the northwest counties and National Forest lands of Washington State. Formerly housed at Huxley Map Library, these valuable resources were transferred to the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies (CPNWS) in 2011.
Following extensive work by Eric Mastor to further organize and describe the collection, a detailed guide to available flight indices and accompanying sets of images can be accessed online. CPNWS staff welcome inquiries from the public about access and use of the collection, and recommend that interested researchers contact us for an advance appointment to view materials at the archives.
A stereoscope, as pictured above, provides a means to view overlapping, vertical images and obtain a magnified, 3D effect (useful for assessing the depth of terrain). Stereoscopes are available at CPNWS for use by researchers.
The majority of photographs in the collection result from aerial surveys conducted by US government agencies, including the USDA Forest Service and Washington Department of Natural Resources. These include coverage of Whatcom County, the Mt. Baker National Forest and other National Forest and Parks lands in Washington. The collection also includes some coverage of other Washington counties and U.S. states. For example, a small group of images document survey work conducted for the Alaska-Canada Highway during the 1930s. The collection is a valuable resource for researchers interested in environmental history and change (including forestation, glaciation and waterways), and supports fields of inquiry relating to habit restoration, urban growth studies and property history. All are welcome to contact or visit CPNWS to find out more.


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I chose to make a vanilla panna cotta with layers of apple and banana puree, wish I did just by pureeing the fruits with a bit of honey and adding a bit of gelatin to be more consistent as suggested in the recipe. The layers in my panna cotta didn´t come out perfect, but it was delicious.
i was checking the other peoples pictures in the Daring Kitchen forums, and almost everyone turned out with giant florentine cookies. Mine actually came out in a decent size. I just decorated them with dark chocolate instead of making the cookie sandwiches.
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Part 1: Characteristics of the Government Contracting Environment
The legal environment in government contracting differs in significant ways from commercial contracting. Government agencies may have supplemental regulations and guidance that modify primary regulations.
- Government standards are typically more stringent and are subject to audits.
- Government has the right to unilaterally terminate a contract at any time.
- Contractors normally do not have recourse in courts; they must use Board of Contract Appeals (BCA).
- The Government does not recognize unwritten common law.
The difference between common law and a statute is, a statute is a written policy enacted by a legislative assembly. Common law is normally an unwritten rule of action or conduct established by an authority, society, or custom. Common laws may come from the courts in the form of a written opinion.
The Federal Contract Appropriation Cycle looks like this:
- Bill is passed. Congress permits federal agencies to incur obligations and to make payments out of Treasury funds.
- Funds are appropriated. Appropriation bills are created to authorize expenditure of public monies specifying the amount, manner and purpose of each expenditure.
- Budget is committed. Budget becomes available for commitment as a result of an appropriation act or statute conferring contracting authority.
- Funds are obligated. Government commits to spending the obligated funds via contract award.
Government funds are generally classified in two ways:
- Appropriated – Funds are made available by Congress for a specific purpose, including the formation of contracts.
- Non-Appropriated – Monies obtained from sources other than Congress.
Funds are distributed to meet the needs of small business groups through the Small Business Administration (SBA) Government Contracts office. They assist contracting personnel on matters relating to small, disadvantaged and woman-owned business concerns. The SBA defines small business size, makes loans, enters into contracts with the government and subcontracts to small businesses, determines the percentage of contract awarded to a contractor, and certifies the competency and capacity for each business to perform their contractual duties.
The Small Business Act was created to promote policies and actions that ensure small businesses obtain their fair proportions of supply and services contracts.
Under the 8(a) Program, the SBA enters into prime contracts with federal departments and agencies and subcontracts the performance of work to disadvantaged small businesses that are certified participants in the program. The current overall small business goal is 23% of prime contracts.
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- Prime contractor is required to provide the Contracting Officer with a written plan that includes small business subcontracts use for all procurements exceeding $700,000 or $1.5M (for construction).
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Wooded landscape
John Constable
- Art Funded
- 1935
- Dimensions
- 29 x 47 cm
- Presented by
- Alfred Jowett through The Art Fund
This characteristic example of Constable's landscape drawing in black chalk shows a wooded landscape, probably at Dedham.
In its rhythm and large handling the work carries on the tradition of Gainsborough. It is full of light, and the subtly-graded half-tones are largely achieved by the use of the stump.
Sale JH Sothebys 29/5/35 (297)
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A short tube journey on the Central Line from West Acton Underground Station will provide you with access to a number of language schools and universities. Birkbeck University and University College London are within easy reach (12 stops eastbound). Edwards Language School in Ealing is less than a five minute journey (1 stop westbound) and London School of English is around a ten minute journey away (4 stops eastbound).
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