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What Do The Colors Of any Mood Wedding ring Mean?
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It has been 30 years, because the mood jewelry were initially invented, but still the popularity when enjoyed simply by those one of a kind, fun earrings has never washed out away one of several children and adults, as well. Even today, many individuals query the various search engines on what do the colors of an mood diamond ring mean, what makes the feelings ring get the job done.., etc like you.As the brand suggests, ambiance ring is a finger charms that transforms its color according to the mental state in the wearer. You could have seen all of them or have one yourself. Whatever the case can be, the facts I actually is on the verge of share in this article will keep your interest improved up. Stay engrossed.Exactly what is a Mood Diamond ring And How It Works?The Feeling ring as well as in general, the mood charms, is designed with a heat hypersensitive stone inside. 'This stone' is really made from something known as thermotropic solution crystals. 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In earlier times, before the thermometers were also invented, medical professionals used whitening strips of fresh crystals to get measuring temperature. By incorporating this plan with a link of feelings and body temperature, Marwin Wernick, a jewelry developer had commenced a whole innovative era of mood rings. Mood rings and all other mood charms have have come to have a popular fad ever since.During every one of these long years, we all have been told for the correlation the fact that exists concerning our subconscious (mood) and physical wellness. It seems obvious and manifestly true in your day to day existence. For instance, you will seem quick, when you are happy and sick when you are disappointed. These ambiance changes may be evidently witnessed from the running of feelings rings. 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So in spite of the jeweler who have produce the mood band, mostly the interpretations will continue to be the same. However , you might find a little variance in the meanings from subtle sounds, which is quite negligible.This is the brief "how to" that explains how a mood engagement rings react to the ups and downs your emotions.The normal body temperature when sleeping is 82°F (28°C) consequently liquid crystals are calibrated to echo a pleasing green or renewable at this heat.When you are passionate or happy, it makes your skin blush. You may have noted this point, but what happens behind the scenes is really startling. That mood would make your blood circulation towards the surface area of your skin area, which results in heat range increase. Your entire day ring responds to this by means of twisting the crystals to reflect black.On the contrary, if you are stressed or maybe excited, it can take the capillary vessels away from your epidermis surface and directs the idea more on the internal organs causing a drop in heat range. Apparently, the idea twists the crystals towards the other route and in turn, this reflects considerably more yellow.Not forgetting, the points like simply finishing great workout or possibly a hot bath would as well result in temp changes and these are 100 % unrelated on your mood. Also, the winter weather would make the stone unconcerned. At times, it can reflect both gray or perhaps black.Should you remove a good mood band and place it on any kind of surface, until otherwise the ambient heat range is too great, instantly it will change their color to black.Trimming the extended story short, while the warm temperature suggests heated sentiments, cool shades indicate something such as levelheadedness. Nevertheless , the modern feelings rings are created to show plenty of subtle shades in between any kind of two standard tones.


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The recognition was bestowed to AARP and New York based d expósito & Partners team for excellence in the HispanicAd Culture Account Planning Excellence (C.A.P.E.) awards competition.
This is a first for our Industry and we look forward to more great account planning excellence and hope our Industry account planners get motivated to hone their craft in culturally focused account planning. We have set the benchmark.
The Culture Marketing Council: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing (CMC) announced the HispanicAd.com Culture Account Planning Excellence (CAPE) award winners. The award-winning campaigns were recognized during a panel session honoring the CAPE winners on Wednesday, June 6 at the CMC's Annual Conference. Judged by a panel of multicultural marketing experts, the prestigious awards recognized the strategic planning and insights that are the bedrock of any multicultural campaign. CMC has worked with HispanicAd.com to revitalize the CAPE awards from the Hispanic Account Planning Excellence awards.
"Culture-driven insights can make or break a marketing campaign—it's up to the account planners to identify the right insight to help shaping the story for each brand to tell," said CMC Chair Isaac Mizrahi. "We are excited to have recognized their work and inspire account planning professionals through these breakthrough campaigns."
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Gold: Southern Poverty Law Center/Vet Fight Hate- Agency: Wing
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September 24, 2015
California State University, Bakersfield's (CSUB) Dr. Tim Vivian, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, is the recipient of the 2015 Nelson R. Burr Prize. He was awarded this prize by the Historical Society of the Episcopal Churches (HSEC) for his article "Wake the Devil from His Dream: Thomas Dudley, Quincy Ewing, Religion, and the 'Race Problem' in the Jim Crow South." The article was published in the December 2014 issue of Anglican and Episcopal History.
The selection committee noted that the article "makes excellent use of primary and secondary sources to create two portraits in a landscape of racial division that we, sadly, still recognize today."
Originally founded in Philadelphia in 1910 as the Church Historical Society before a name change in 1974, HSEC members include scholars, writers, teachers, ministers, and others with an interest in the objectives and activities of the Historical Society. The HSEC has been dedicated to preserving and disseminating information about the history of the Episcopal Church for more than a century.
The Burr prize honors the renowned scholar Nelson R. Burr, whose two-volume A Critical Bibliography of Religion in America and other works constitute landmark publications in the field of religious historiography. Each year, a committee of the Society selects the author of the most outstanding article in the Society's journal, Anglican and Episcopal History, as the award's recipient. The award also honors that work which best exemplifies excellence and innovative scholarship in the field of Anglican and Episcopal history.
Dr. Vivian received a bachelor of arts in English and a master of arts in Comparative Literature from University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), a master of arts in American Literature at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and an interdisciplinary doctorate (Classics, History, and Religious Studies) at UCSB. Vivian is a dedicated scholar in the field of early Christianity, with an emphasis in Coptic Studies and early Christian Monasticism. He has taught at CSUB in a variety of capacities since 1990.
Serving as Priest-in-Charge at Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in Bakersfield, he received his master of divinity from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. He has also been a Henry R. Luce Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale Divinity School.
Vivian has published 13 books, over 50 articles, and over 100 book reviews in a wide variety of scholarly publications. His scholarship is also based on substantial archeological fieldwork. He has participated in two excavations in Egypt, serving as a director and faculty member at the excavation of the monastery of John Kolobos. He serves as project historian for the team restoration and study of the 13th century wall paintings at the monastery of Saint Anthony in Egypt.
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IT - Corporate Mobility Manager - S&D
Job ID S_D-0439930
Job type Full-time Regular
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Posted 12-Oct-2011
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Corporate Mobility Manager will Manage Mobile Services launched by BT/IT in IBM India provides employees [who are eligible] with the mobile voice and/or data services to meet their IBM business needs. These services are under contract with IBM selected service providers. The program is designed to provide participants with new corporate connection & plan. However employees may elect to transfer an existing personal connection to the program and migrate to the corporate plan. Program manager interact with Service providers, Procurement and Vendor to Manage the program to ensure services delivered to IBM users.
Candidate experience in Managing Cellular services.
Certified in Network, Voice technologies, ITIL3, Project management
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"Excellent knowledge in Cellular services Protocols, Managed programs, Experience in Handling hand held devices, Smart Phone, Blackberry, Traveller, Symbion, Android, Based devices.
Manage enterprise strategic direction and provides technical leadership and monitoring to project teams. Technical knowledge on Switching, Routing, Voice Contact center,IPV6. VOIP,etc various contemporary enterprise network and Voice Cellular services knowledge. with CCNA,CCNP,CCIE certification added advantages
Provides technical and process support to internal departments and/or external customers.
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Develop and maintain documentation and information, e.g. network diagrams, typology, contact information, etc.
he corporate connection eligibility will be tracked monthly. The CMP program office in BT/IT will receive a list of phone numbers from the approved service providers and this list will be reconciled with the internal database of phone numbers and users. If any discrepancies are detected, the CMP program office will investigate the discrepancies, initiate/execute corrective actions and inform the Regional Manager of BT/IT India.
Candidate with IT service Management is preferred.
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Study Spells Out Why Some Insects Kill Their Mothers
By eliminating the queen, a matricidal worker frees the way for workers to lay male eggs, explains UC Riverside's Kevin Loope
An observation nest of yellow jacket wasps that UC Riverside entomologist Kevin Loope used in the study. Photo credit: Barrett Klein.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – One day a few years ago, while working on wasps in a rainforest in Costa Rica, entomologist Kevin J. Loope, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Riverside, began reading about the enigmatic matricidal behavior of some social insects. In most social insects, such as bees, ants and wasps, the workers, which are all female, work their whole lives to help the queen produce new offspring. Yet, in the literature Loope found anecdotal reports of workers killing their queen, presenting a fascinating evolutionary puzzle.
"The observations of queen-killing seemed paradoxical to me," Loope said. "Why does it pay to help the queen in some situations but then also pay to kill her in others? What explains why some queens get killed and not others, and why kill her at all? Most people think of social insects as workers toiling mindlessly for the good of the queen or the colony. But it appears that workers are more calculating, and help or harm the queen depending on the circumstances they find themselves in."
To explore the puzzle, Loope set up observation colonies of yellow jacket wasps in the lab, filmed them continuously using video cameras and then noted when matricide happened. He also collected wild colonies to increase the sample size, inferring matricide from mature, queenless colonies. The behavioral observations and genetic analyses of wasp colonies he performed showed him that worker wasps kill queens when they are in colonies with lots of full siblings, but not in colonies with a mix of full and half siblings.
"Workers are assessing the situation in their colony and deciding to revolt against the queen only when the genetic makeup of the colony makes it favorable to do so," Loope said. "The main advantage is to allow your sister workers to lay male eggs, rather than the queen, who typically stops worker reproduction by egg eating, attacking reproducing workers, and by laying many of her own eggs. By eliminating the queen, a matricidal worker allows other workers and herself to lay male eggs."
Workers do all the tasks of raising the brood. They forage for food, feed the offspring and the queen, build the nest and defend it. Only occasionally do they attempt to reproduce. Males are produced at the end of the year and mate with the new queens. Then the males die. Workers never mate but can lay male eggs due to a quirk in their genetic system.. This allows them to compete with the queen for the production of males.
"Hence the matricide," Loope said. "Workers are not mindless automatons working for the queen no matter what. They only altruistically give up reproduction when the context is right, but revolt when it benefits them to do so."
The study is one of a few that suggest that workers can assess the relative proportions of full and half-siblings of their colony and respond adaptively when conflicts of interest arise over what the colony should do, for example, rear the sons of workers or the sons of the queen.
"In highly eusocial species altruism toward the queen is typically unconditional," Loope said. "This study, however, provides the first thorough investigation of queen-killing behavior, a common but difficult-to-observe event in the life of many bee and wasp colonies. I figured out a way to observe colonies continuously using video, which allowed for the first video observations of this behavior."
Study results appear online today in Current Biology.
Loope explained that the genetic makeup of a colony is determined by how many times a queen mates (usually once or twice), and by how evenly she uses the sperm of two males if she has mated twice. He found that colonies that experienced matricide had a greater proportion of full siblings (measured by the average relatedness between colony members) than those that did not experience matricide.
"This pattern is driven by the number of times the queen mates, as well as the evenness of sperm use for queens that have mated twice, suggesting workers can distinguish among these different kinds of queens," Loope said. "A queen-killing worker benefits from matricide in single-father colonies because she causes the colony to rear the sons of other workers, rather than the sons of the queen. In such colonies, workers are more related to workers' sons than queens' sons.
"Kin selection theory, an extension of evolutionary theory, predicts behavior to evolve that favors close over more distant relatives; half-siblings are more distant than full siblings, so matricide is less beneficial in colonies with many half-siblings," Loope added. "Thus, this study provides rare support of kin selection theory with variation in behavior among colonies. Workers are responding to their colony makeup as predicted by kin selection theory."
Loope is now working to understand how yellow jacket wasps' interaction with other species may shape transitions in social organization.
The research was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation. Loope received his doctoral degree in behavioral biology in 2015 at Cornell University, where the research was done. He joined UC Riverside in August. Currently, he works in the lab of Erin Wilson Rankin in the UCR Department of Entomology.
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A state capital changes its name and a mayor jumps into an icy lake in two of several gimmicks deployed by cities to attract Google's fiber networks.
Photo: Don Ness, mayor of Duluth, Minn.
When it comes to how far states are willing to go for a supersonic fiber-optic network, Google has become the proverbial Klondike bar.
Ever since the search engine kingpin announced in February its plans to use at least one city to test a broadband network that's 100 times faster than what's typically available in America, local governments have gone off the deep end (literally, in the case of Duluth, Minn.'s mayor) to try to win the affections of Google Fiber for Communities.
It has been a battle of one-upmanship, but all in good fun. The mayor of Topeka, Kan. temporarily changed the name of the capital city to Google for the month of March. In Duluth, Minn., officials fired back with a YouTube spoof video of a press conference, proclaiming that henceforth every firstborn male in the city will be named Google Fiber and every firstborn female Googlette Fiber.
"Please remember that just because Topeka was the first to make an obnoxious symbolic gesture to suck up to the good folks there at Google, doesn't mean that we can't suck up even more," a fictional mayor says in the spoof. "Cast aside all dignity and self-respect because that is what it's going to take if we are going to beat the good folks of Topeka, Kansas -- I mean, Google, Kansas."
Another viral video shows the real mayor of Duluth, Don Ness, leaping into icy Lake Superior.
"I've laid down the gauntlet," he boasted after he emerged from the lake, a drenched white T-shirt clinging to his frame. "All right, you other mayors: You want Google Fiber, you jump in Lake Superior."
These examples represent the most extreme publicity stunts, and who knows whether they will sway Google's decision. Cities have until March 26 to submit their pitches. Google plans to select a winner before 2011, which leaves plenty of time for more creative antics by governments. But most cities have stayed out of the madcap fray, primarily using Facebook fan pages to show public displays of interest.
But Sarasota, Fla. recently jumped into the mix. In a move out of Topeka's playbook, the coastal city changed the name of its City Island to Google Island. But campaigners wasted no time taking shots at Topeka's boring landscape and Duluth's freezing weather in this video, which contrasts those dreary images with tropical vistas of Sarasota as Bobby McFerrin sings "Don't Worry, Be Happy" in the background.


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Up to five pro-Russian separatists were killed in an operation against rebels in eastern Ukraine, Ukraine's Internior Ministry said Thursday.
A Ministry statement said that "up to five terrorists were eliminated" as Ukrainian forces removed three rebel checkpoints in the separatist-held city of Slavyansk, Reuters reports. The statement said one member of the government's forces was wounded in the fighting.
However, a rebel spokesperson said earlier that only two fighters were killed in the clashes.
The deaths are the first since interim Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov ordered Tuesday the resumption of operations against separatist forces in eastern Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened unspecified consequences as the result of those renewed operations. Russian soldiers amassed on the Ukrainian border conducted military exercises Thursday.
International parties agreed last week to a joint roadmap to ease tensions in eastern Ukraine. However, pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have so far defied the agreement's stipulation that they disarm. U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday Russia was failing to live up to "the spirit or the letter" of the agreement.


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What have you been doing? My company Friend2Friend connects people and products on social media. We have a range of applications on Facebook, where users perform social actions around products: gifting, recommending and commenting, creating lists, etc. We work with brands and advertisers to integrate them in such a way, that the brand a part of the conversation. Most of the product interactions are short...a brief comment about a product, gift, etc. We found that although each individual comment may or may not be meaningful, taken as a group they're quite revealing.
Why did you create tweetcloud? How long did it take you/ your team to develop? We realized we could evolve our work dealing with product comments even more quickly in an environment that has an incredible volume of short user comments about everything. Given we had the system running across our applications on Facebook, we only had to focus on integrating with the Twitter API (straight forward) and laying out the site so it was easy to use. It took us 3 or 4 weeks total, but again we were leveraging our existing core technology.
Where do you see tweetcloud headed? I think the fascinating thing about Twitter is that it's a blizzard of comments about what's going on right now...but at the same time it's unruly and hard to separate the signal from the noise. Tools like TweetCloud have the ability to help people understand what's being said and to follow the conversations that interest them. These types of tools also make Twitter far more accessible to new Twitter users. Think of someone that lands on the twitter.com page for the first time, or even someone that has 100 people they follow. Without tools to help navigate the sea of content, you're simply not getting the benefit of the medium. On the marketing front, brands are absolutely interested to know what consumers are saying about them and to participate in those conversations to them. We developed TweetCloud to help both users and businesses tap the potential of Twitter. In the future we see the ability for users to track many clouds and watch how they change over time and understand the sentiment of comments / discussion threads. This area is really wide open and we see lots of opportunity.
Tell me about Friend2Friend and how the 2 sites are related? Friend2Friend is all about connecting people and products on social media. Friends naturally like to talk about things like music, gadgets, gear, food and drink, places, etc. Friend2Friend's applications facilitate those conversations within the largest community of friends online--places like Facebook. Given Twitter is emerging as a place where people and ideas interact online, we think our model works there too. The concept for a TweetCloud was born out of our work on Facebook, but it may ultimately have even more appeal on Twitter. Now that we're experimenting with Twitter I'm sure we'll learn things that apply to Facebook and other areas of our business too.
Where do you see Twitter in 2 years? 5 years? Wow, this is a tough question. A little over a year ago I would have said, "Twitter who?" I think there are 3 incredibly exciting trends playing out in the social media space right now: Facebook, Twitter and the iPhone. In each case there's a leader (the 3 companies mentioned) and everyone else in those respective segments trying to catch-up. Does it mean that these 3 companies will rule their market? Maybe, but more than likely it means that the best areas of innovation (social networks/social graph, micro blogging, mobile web and applications) will be embraced across the Internet and dramatically changing the experience forever. Specifically, Twitter has riffed off of the interest in blogging, but has significantly lowered the bar to allow far more people to participate. Writing a blog takes a lot of work, but laying out a cogent thought, astute observation, linking an interesting article or picture or just speaking your mind/feelings couldn't be easier. As a result, people are responding in HUGE numbers. Twitter is no longer a trend it's a movement and that's exciting! For these reasons we feel it's critical to be involved in the Twittersphere and with Facebook and the iPhone too.
Tell me something fun about yourself. I'm an aspiring Rock Star! After hours I riff away on a Stratocaster with my 6 and a half year old son. Actually this is why I need social media to take off, because I'm not so sure about my musical prospects.


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Wow! What a difference some artificial grass can make! It looks fabulous! xReplyDelete
It looks fab Hayley!! :) xxReplyDelete
You've done such a great job of transforming your garden! We're thinking about having the artificial grass put down at our new house and your table and chairs are gorgeous! Summer is obsessed with our sandpit but it's just a plastic one and it's all cracked so a wood one like yours would be better, love everything :) xxxReplyDelete
What a gorgeous space...The artificial grass looks fantastic.ReplyDelete
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The pricing will increase due to commercial title property will be subjected to GST..however, this question also always come with do you have budget for your investment ? Personally, I suggest just buy it after GST, do not rush for it as the implementation of GST also coming really soon. It won't have so much impacts whether you buy before or after. Research for the good and right property, so no matter what also keep you earning :)
If you are buying a commercial property from an individual (who also owned a business income of > RM500,000 per annum), it's recommend to buy before GST. As you will need to pay 6% GST upon GST regime kick off on 1st April'15. Say a shoplot selling RM1 million now, after GST you will have to pay RM1,060,000.
I think this is the clearest explanation so far about how GST in property sector -http://www.propsocial.my/topic/61/gst-implementation-posted-by-jordan-chen
@Magdelin Thanks for the latest info. Best i still think buy before GST as goverment keep changing the in GST rules
If you looking for a commercial property, better buy it before GST. After GST, you still can own any commercial property without GST. Some of the developer will bear the GST for their buyer also.
Don't forget the GST rate in Malaysia is not fixed at 6% forever. It will be revised if deem necessary.
Good news GST remain unchanged...for now. Commercial Property still subjected to GST after budget announcement right? :^)
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'Irrefutably badass' is not the obvious phrase to reach for when discussing a late-Renaissance lutenist and composer whose output was chiefly a capella madrigals and settings of sacred texts. But it is how Alex Ross, the esteemed critic of The New Yorker describes Don Carlo Gesualdo, who died 400 years ago this week – and badass Gesualdo indisputably was, both as a musician and as a man.
A figure of fascination over the years for artists as diverse as Igor Stravinsky, Aldous Huxley, Bernardo Bertolucci and Werner Herzog, the continuing fixation on Gesualdo four centuries after his death is not surprising when you consider the grisly and gruesome details of his biography.
We tend to think of classical music as a rather staid affair; its practitioners generally well-behaved servants at court who busy themselves with counterpoint and harmony, not murder and sadism. Gesualdo, on the other hand, lived a life – and death – that the most luridly resourceful director of slasher B-movies might struggle to dream up. A prince and nobleman from a prominent aristocratic family in the Kingdom of Naples, at 20 Gesualdo married his 24-year-old first cousin, the legendarily alluring Maria d'Avalos, who already had two marriages behind her. Both husbands are said to have expired "in excess of connubial bliss".
One fateful night in October 1590, Gesualdo discovered her in flagrante with the Duke of Andria, Don Fabrizio Carafa (he was wearing Maria's silk nightgown at the time). Gesualdo immediately set about slaughtering the pair, slashing their limbs with his sword, mutilating their sexual organs, and puncturing their skulls with the bullets of his gun. He then allegedly murdered the baby boy who may or may not have been his or Don Fabrizio's child by swinging him to death in his castle courtyard.
Immune from the law by dint of his noble status, things didn't look up much for the prince after that: married again, he became subject to fits of depression that could only be relieved by regular beatings from a group of young boys kept at his castle for this express purpose. Embroiled in both the Spanish Inquisition and a witchcraft trial (he was supposedly tormented by the spells and potions of his rejected former concubine), Gesualdo ended his days in a depressive tumult and is said to have been beaten to death, aged 47, by his servants in some kind of masochistic rampage.
Driven by demons
And so, as the anniversary of that grisly demise marks a timely moment to reflect on Gesualdo's art, the question arises: are we more intrigued by the music because of what we know of his life story, or do the ghastly details of his biography in some way make the music what it is? As Ross points out: "many bloodier crimes have been forgotten; it's the nexus of high art and foul play that catches our fancy. As with Gesualdo's contemporary Caravaggio, who killed a man by stabbing him near the groin, we wonder whether the violence of the art and the violence of the man emanated from the same demoniac source."
One thing is certain: Gesualdo was astonishingly – even diabolically – inventive. His music, and in particular his harmony, is revelatory. I've always been a believer in 'before-and-after' pieces of music: those that, once heard, change everything. And I will never forget the first time I experienced Gesualdo – the memory still sends goosebumps rippling over my flesh. It was late at night (suitably), around ten years ago, and I was hanging out with a friend with dizzyingly wide musical tastes. We'd been listening to a succession of vintage vinyl jazz records, and then, out of nowhere, he stuck on a CD. The sound that came out of the speakers was like nothing I'd never heard. Eerie, creepy harmonies whose nerve endings seemed disturbingly close to the surface, yet which were wrenching in their beauty. Pure vocal lines whose crystalline clarity was a form of sonic rapture, yet were clearly devilishly difficult to sing. What was up with this insane music? And what on earth had the composer been on when they wrote it?
"When do you think this was written?" my friend asked.
"Er…? Last week?"
"1611", he replied.
I nearly fell off my chair.
Killer harmonies
Some critics argue that Gesualdo was not quite the ahead-of-his-time prophet that figures like Stravinksy and Schoenberg insisted when they cited him as a model for their own radical, 20th century innovations. (Describing Gesualdo as "one of the most personal creators ever born to my art", in 1960 Stravinsky composed Monumentum pro Gesualdo and reworked at least a dozen of his madrigals by hand). This argument has Gesualdo, like his artistic counterparts Tintoretto or El Greco, merely representing his era, in which the style known as Mannerism was emerging as a deliberately disruptive, virtuosic rebellion against the smooth surfaces of high-Renaissance humanism.
And yet, those unhinged harmonies! The crazy chromatic shifts! In his pioneering of intricate canonic forms and his exploding of established contrapuntal structures, tonalities and relationships, Gesualdo went boldly and wildly beyond what any of his Mannerist colleagues were doing, even in the comparatively avant garde musical hotbed of Ferrara, where he moved after marrying his second wife (who must have been one brave lady). "His art is infinite… and moves in an extraordinary way," remarked an aide to Prince Alfonso II at the Este Court where Gesuldo worked.
Not only was it extraordinary for his day, but Gesualdo's complex chromaticism would not be heard again, even hinted at, for another two hundred and fifty years. Not until Wagner came along, in fact, after which it was taken to new extremes by Schoenberg and the Serialists in the early years of the last century. And this I find most fascinating of all: how Gesualdo's art shatters the received idea that classical music, like visual art, simply trundles forward in a linear progression as practitioners get bolder and more imaginative in the way they break rules. It's as if you had discovered Les Demoiselles d'Avignon had actually been painted in the early 16th century, then buried in a time capsule, not to be opened until 1906.
And where Picasso's abstractions no longer have the power to make us blink twice, Gesualdo's freewheeling harmonic progressions remain viscerally disconcerting. Ross, as ever, explains this handily: "To put it in modern terms: if a piece is in A minor, one would expect to hear such related chords as D minor and E major, whose notes overlap with the A-minor scale. One would not expect, say, C-sharp major, which is alien to the key. That chord sounds defiantly at the outset of one of Gesualdo's greatest works, the A-minor-ish madrigal Moro, lasso, al mio duolo."
As it happens, it was the "A-minor-ish" Moro, lasso that my friend had played me that night. I listened to it again while writing this story and as I did so, I was returned to the singular emotional experience of that night. And the blood and gore I had learned about and been troubled by subsequently seemed altogether secondary to the sheer audacity of Gesualdo's ear, his pen, his musical imagination. Four hundred years on, that – if nothing else – must be celebrated.
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I have about 60 posts queued and ready to post on specific dates, but I forgot to set the post time. I really don't want a bunch of posts posting at 3AM, so I need to change the times on all these posts.
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Marichyasana D
Definition - What does Marichyasana D mean?
Marichyasana D is a seated twist with one leg bent into a squat position and one leg in padmasana. The name comes from the fact it is named after the sage, Marichi. His name is Sanskrit meaning "ray of light."
It forms part of the primary series in Ashtanga yoga, where the first four variations of Marichyasana A, B, C and D are performed in sequence.
The Western name for Marichyasana D is Marichi's pose D.
Yogapedia explains Marichyasana D
The sage, Marichi, is a mythological Hindu figure and the son of Brahma. He is said to be one of the seven seers, or wise lords, who heard Brahma's words and translated them into Sanskrit. These words were the divine law of the universe, or dharma.
Like many twists, Marichyasana D is said to be a cleansing and purifying pose. It is stimulating and energizing as it improves the flow of prana throughout the body. Because of the challenging nature of this posture and the danger of forcing the body into the pose before it is ready, it is a good posture for teaching the importance of patient, consistent practice. It is also a good pose for teaching surrender, as the most comfortable way into the posture is through release and calm breathing, as opposed to striving and effort.


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The firm Thevenin, Lynch & Bienvenue, LLP has submitted a bid to the selectmen to provide financial consulting to the town in two phases. The purpose of the services would be "to evaluate the condition and status of the treasurer's cash book and bank account reconciliations," said Select Board Chairman Donlin Murray at the September 12 meeting.
Phase 1 would take three to four days at a cost of $3,500. Phase 2 would cost approximately $15,000 and involve going into further detail should they find a problem with the cash flow. The selectmen signed the letter of acceptance, which would give permission for the firm to conduct Phase 1 only. "If they find a discrepancy, we'll go from there," said Murray. The bidding is still in process, and no final decision has been made regarding which firm will be used.
Other business from the September 12 select board meeting:
• Due to heavy rainfall and lightning, the Sterling Fair was closed for approximately two hours on September 8. The police and fire departments activated a severe weather evacuation plan, one which Selectmen Richard Sheppard said "worked very, very well." Residents were asked to return to their cars and evacuate the grounds. "It was a very orderly flow of people from the fairgrounds," said Sheppard. Chamberland said most of the credit should go to Fire Chief David Hurlbut. Town Administrator Terri Ackerman added that the entire Safety Committee did a great job handling situation.
• Selectmen were officially presented the Sterling Fair painting done by artist Rosemarie Santos MacPherson that they commissioned from her two years ago. "It's been a long time coming. I think she's worked on this for approximately two years, researching it and then finally painting it. As most will attest, it's a masterpiece, there's no doubt about it," said Sheppard. The painting will hang in the selectmen's room permanently, but it was suggested that it should be on display at the special town meeting on October 15. "It was a challenge and a joy. I am very honored to have been able to do it for the town," said MacPherson, who added that her favorite part of the process was finishing with the sparkle on the fireworks while listening to Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. The painting depicts various aspects of the fair dating from 1880 to present day.
• Police Chief Gary Chamberland presented his July and August 2007 monthly reports.
The new animal control vehicle has been delivered and should be in operation shortly. The 2007 Ford Ecoline Van is decked out with all of the necessary animal control equipment, and Chamberland expects it to last for at least 10 years. Selectmen Paul Sushchyk asked if the vehicle would be stored inside or out, and Chamberland said outside. "It's either the dog officer [van] or the motorcycle," he said.
The department will use a portion of their community policing grant to purchase bicycle helmets to distribute at the Fire Department's Safety Awareness Day on October 13.
The new patrol motorcycle has been receiving rave reviews from residents. Chamberland said he took it out for a threehour ride himself for the first time recently, and said "I cannot believe the positive response I got."
Dispatchers will soon be required to wear a uniform while on duty. "It presents a better appearance," Chamberland said. "It will be a little more relaxed than a police uniform, but it will still be a uniform."
The new police chief vehicle, a Ford Explorer, has been delivered and is currently in operation.
• The Selectmen interviewed and appointed the ninth and final member of the Building Needs and Utilization Committee, resident Susan Harragin. Harragin has lived in Sterling for two years, and says she thinks it's a "really a super town. I think it's important that all towns and all communities look forward with a clear eye of what they want to be down the road." After reading over the committee's charge, Harragin said she believes the group will help "shape the next phase of changes in Sterling."
• Selectmen voted to transfer $1,500 from the George P. and Mary Gibbs trust fund to George P. Gibbs Little League. League president Joe Curtain said their board voted to donate the money to the Sterling Recreation Department to provide financial assistance to the playground that the Recreation Department will be building at the West Sterling fields. "I think that it's commendable that they have decided to do this," said Sheppard. The money will be taken from $4,500 of interest accumulated over the years.


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The articles on this site were written as assignments for the London Geographies course at the London School of Economics and Political Science. We decided to give them a longer life by sharing them with those interested in the city. The articles respond to a number of different briefs: to interpret an imperial object in the city, to discuss how a place and its people have been represented in archives, and; to look at how the history of a site comes through into the present. They provide a range of insights into London which we hope you will find thought-provoking. Please leave a comment.
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If you have some tree in your garden then you are surely hosting some birds every day. If you are a bird lover and wanted to welcome more and more birds to your garden, then you also need to have some birdhouses so that your feather friends can feel safe and come to your home regularly. The pre-made bird houses can become little expensive so why don`t you try making DIY bird houses. This can not only be a fun activity but it can also help you in saving some money.
Wooden Birdhouse
If you have some experience in the field of woodworking then you can easily make a wooden birdhouse. It is lot easier for you to start with and the birds will surely love it.
Old Tea Pot and Drawer
An old tea pot and drawer can make a perfect birdhouse. You just need to attach the tea pot upside down with drawer. Last thing you need to do is to glue the top of teapot at the bottom of drawer to make a landing perch.
Customize birdhouse with Pennies
If you want a really simple DIY birdhouse then why don`t you purchase a premade bird house and customized it to give a personalized look. Once you buy a birdhouse you need to paint it and then glue some pennies on its roof. The important thing that you need to care for in all this is to use the adhesive carefully so that the roof won`t fall.
These are just few simple ideas for DIY birdhouses which you can follow and come up with beautiful birdhouses. Other than this there are some other ideas too or you can come up with your own by just using your old material which is not being used currently.


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Chair Massage
A seated chair massage might be more than a luxury that leaves you feeling refreshed and rejuvenated. It can have positive health implications.
Any type of massage, including chair massage, can reduce stress, improve sleep, help sore and tight muscles and enhance immunity.
Deep Tissue
This massage is recommended for those seeking a more intense therapy. This technique is directed specifically to individual muscle fibers. Deep Tissue releases tightness and decreases muscle fatigue while removing toxins, soothing and thereby re-educating, and encouraging the muscle to operate at full capacity. Deep-tissue massage is a specific type of massage therapy that concentrates on the deep layers of muscle and fascia in the body.
Foot Massage
The Foot is the second heart of the human body. Plantar itching can explain higher sensitivity along meridians experienced in other parts of the body. A daily foot bath can not only keep your feet clean, but also smooth qi and provide a nourishing vigor and anti-aging qualities, enhance metabolism, improve resistance to external pathogens, and prevent chapping, chilblains, athlete's foot and other foot disease.
The benefits and history of Reflexology
Reflexology functions in two ways: as a diagnostic tool and as a method of treatment. A reflexology treatment can be used for the correction and prevention of ill health.
Reflexology is the physical act of applying pressure to the feet and hand with specific thumb, finger and hand techniques. It is based on a system of zones and reflex areas that reflect an image of the body on the feet and hands with a premise that such work effects a physical change to the body. By using the thumb and fingers in a particular way to massage the relevant reflex points, pain and other symptoms in the corresponding area of the body can be alleviated.
The History of Reflexology. Around the world and throughout history reflexology has been rediscovered and reinstated as a health practice time and time again by people around the globe seeking to deal with health concerns. Archeological evidence Egypt (2330 BCE), China (2704 BCE) and Japan (690 CE) points to ancient reflexology medical systems. In the West the concept of reflexology began to emerge in the 19th century, based on research into the nervous system and reflex. While no direct evidence of direct cross-fertilization from ancient times has been discovered, the practice of foot and hand work in a variety of cultures, belief systems and historical periods speaks to reflexology for health as a universal bridging concept.
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Brentwood Celebrates National Bike to School Day
The City of Brentwood and officers from the Brentwood Police Department Bicycle Patrol unit joined students from Williamson County and others around the country to celebrate National Bike to School Day on May 8, 2019.
Bike Walk Brentwood, led by Richard Hunter, organized a 'bike train' to ride from various neighborhoods along Granny White Pike to Brentwood Middle School. "A bike train is a parent as an engine and a parent as a caboose to go around a pre-determined route in a neighborhood to collect kids and ride to school," Hunter explained.
Brentwood Officer Billy Townsend and Officer Josh Wickwire were available to provide extra safety to students who don't normally bike to school. "We want to help encourage the student and provide a little extra safety in case kids had questions about crossing rules and other rules of the road," Officer Wickwire explained.
Bike to School Day encourages a nationwide bike-focused celebration for students in the month of May and builds on the popularity and success of Walk to School Day, which is celebrated across the country – and the world – each October.
Bike to School Day events raise awareness of the need to create safer routes for bicycling and walking and emphasize the importance of issues such as increasing physical activity among children, pedestrian safety, reducing traffic congestion and concern for the environment. The events build connections between families, schools and the broader community.


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Whether you're building a new brand or considering rebranding, it's always a smart idea to have a clear understanding of the intended outcomes and benefits to ensure success. Too often brand initiatives are delegated to the marketing team without the involvement and clear expectations of leadership, employees and key stakeholders. Other times, the very idea of branding is reduced to a new logo or ad campaign with the expectation of delivering some economic value and that's what gets many marketers in serious trouble.
True brand vision, strategy and best practices embrace a company's business objectives and specific desired outcomes. This process also takes in account the role and involvement of the entire organization and its ecosystem, so it's critical that all parties understand why they are making the investment, what it means to them and most importantly, how it's going to help move the business forward.
Almost without exception, when we engage in a business branding assignment the client will ask, "How can we prove that our new branding is working and how can we measure success?" These are great questions and the answers can be found, measured and explained, but unfortunately there is no silver bullet. Our methodology centers around measuring the change, effect and brand power (or affinity) across multiple constitutes with a defined quantitative methodology. But first, it starts with an agreed upon set of outcomes. At RiechesBaird, we like to measure the effectiveness or impact of a brand in the following ways:
- The Impact on Employees: Understanding/Inspiration/Satisfaction/Referral to peers
- Customer Loyalty: Satisfaction ratings/intent to purchase (index rating)/referral source
- Competitive Differentiation: Yearly competitive Brand Power rating including awareness/consideration/preference/buying intent
- Infrastructure Contribution: Reduction of budget waste due to meaningless marketing activities (such as unnecessary brand investments or misaligned corporate architecture/support)
- Stakeholder Confidence or Economic Value: Stock valuation and brand contribution/valuation model
Regardless of the size of your company or brand, having a well thought out plan and approach can only help guide and support your investment opportunities. In addition, it will help closely monitor the impact of your brand across all audiences. Imagine a brand dashboard you monitor on a quarterly basis to assist with investment strategies. Imagine at the end of the year providing your organization with a detailed summary of how your brand is performing and how you will optimize next year's investment based on the analytics. Imagine aligning your personal performance goals with the plan and outcomes.
So if you want to ensure your brand efforts or rebranding initiatives will be successful, use these best practices and advances in technology to prove your success and drive decision making. We hope this information is helpful and look forward to your feedback, experience and conversations.


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I made some new lists for The Daily Window! Make sure to check out all of their print and cuts. They're the same size and quality that I offered here a couple messages down.
They've even started a Home Hostess Program!
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In case you had ever endured a flood or a wildfire, and misplaced the performance of your house, then you understand that it may be tough to think about salvaging your property within the midst of such an emotional time. In moments like these, the most effective plan of action is to rent an expert restoration service. They've the know-how and expertise to revive your dwelling to liveable requirements. To search out out extra about how they rehabilitate properties broken by floods and wildfires, learn on.
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Within the occasion of a fireplace, restoration service crews take away gadgets and home equipment instantly since many will accumulate yellow discoloration if left within the dwelling inside a couple of minutes of the blaze being put out. After a few hours, an acidic compound can stain partitions and loo fixtures. This acid can result in rusting if not handled, and this may trigger irreparable injury if not cleansed with specialised compounds immediately.
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New York City is a case in point. There, municipal employees are getting a sweet deal on the backs of taxpayers. For each dollar they put into their pensions, other taxpayers contribute an average of $8.60.
Moreover, the pain for the city's taxpayers has been increasing rapidly over recent years. According to the New York Post, taxpayers' share of pension costs in the city are up 900 percent in a decade.
It's a double-whammy for taxpayers," Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow E.J. McMahon told the Post. "If they're privately employed, they shoulder the risks of saving for their own retirement. At the same time, they have to pay a steadily mounting cost of guaranteed pensions for government workers."
The total cost shouldered by taxpayers in the city for municipal pensions reached $6.5 billion in 2009, the Post reported. That number is expected rise once again for 2010, to $7.6 billion and again in 2011 to a whopping $8.7 billion.
Who are the big winners in this fleecing of taxpayers?
• Teachers — "the city puts in $15.50 for every $1 they contribute," says the Post.
• Firefighters — the city's taxpayers contribute $10 for every $1 contributed by firefighters.
• Police — they get $9.13 from taxpayers for every dollar they supply.
But, the question is, don't they deserve it? Especially in the case of firefighters and police who perform important and often dangerous jobs on behalf of the city's residents, it appears difficult, if not outrageous, to criticize the funding of their pension plans.
Nonetheless, there are critics even among those who once worked within the system. John Murphy once served as executive director of the New York City Employee Retirement System. He told Post writer Susan Edelman that changes to the system may have been shortsighted and were put in place at exactly the wrong time. "The cost has risen because employee benefits were dramatically increased in 2000, just as the [stock] market began to collapse," Murphy said. "In retrospect, it was one of the most irresponsible things to have done."
As a result, the city now has to look at cost-cutting measures. "We are starting to focus on all our expenses," Mayor Bloomberg explained, saying, "clearly pensions are right near the top."
New York City is not the only municipality to find itself facing financial problems after years of big spending at taxpayer expense.
In Florida, the city of North Miami Beach is working to cut administration costs associated with city pension plans. According to the Miami Herald, the city voted to merge two plans, one for managers and one for other employees, into a single plan to save money. The move brought some "protests from the city's employees," the paper reported, but it was a necessary step to cut costs stemming from duplicate services because "a rise in the cost of … pension plans is expected to put a strain on the city's finances."
The same is happening statewide in New Jersey. There Governor Chris Christie has said that "real pension reform" is needed so the state can "get back on track."
In a radio interview, Christie elaborated: "I have nothing against people who work in the public sector," he told listeners to WABC-AM. "They work hard, they're fine folks, and they're doing a good job, in the main, for the people of our state. But there should be no sector of our society that is shielded from this recession at the expense of all the rest of our society."
Meanwhile, in Oakland, California, city and police union officials have been embroiled in efforts to avoid layoffs of up 80 of the city's officers. So far, some progress has been made, again with regard to pensions.
"With Oakland desperate to cut its public safety costs to balance its budget, the police union has agreed to two key city proposals," the San Francisco Chronicle reported. These include "that officers contribute part of their salaries toward their pensions and that retirement age be pushed back for future hires."
Meanwhile, it's city homeowners who could foot the bill in the form of new taxes. Some on the city council want a new tax that "would cost an estimated $360 per homeowner annually and would bring in $50 million," the Chronicle reported.
One option most municipalities have been loath to do is to move from traditional pensions to plans, like 401K plans, in which employees fund their investment accounts. Private businesses, by and large illustrating that the private sector is more fiscally responsible than government, moved aggressively to 401K plans decades ago.
Now, faced by the damage caused by years of irresponsible waste of taxpayer dollars, municipalities will have to make tough belt-tightening choices.
"Pensions, along with health benefits, are the 'budget busters' for towns and cities," Kevin Maloney of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities told the Connecticut Post for a story on the problems with municipal pension plans in that state. "Local leaders are fighting to make the needed dramatic changes," he said.
If fiscally responsible leaders succeed, perhaps taxpayers will finally catch a break.


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The Pentagon's research arm, the Defense Advanced Project Agency, wants a better way to identify who is executing cyber attacks as part of its new Enhanced Attribution program.
It's difficult to identify hackers in cyberspace, complicating the military's ability to quickly respond to attacks.
DARPA issued a so-called broad agency announcement to change that by "providing high-fidelity visibility into all aspects of malicious cyber operator actions" and allow the government to publicly identify the hackers without "damaging sources and methods."
Agency officials outlined what they wanted to develop through the Enhanced Attribution program.
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that even as NOLA's burnin'
I can play my geetar 'n sing a song
'bout all the things I ain't done wrong
Ol' Brownie he's good like rosebud petals
When this is over I'll give him medals
Like ribbons you git at them horsey shows
Ask ol' Brownie - he can tell you 'bout those.
I'll sing about my dedication
To clearin' brush on my vacation
Aww, don't cry, Mama, I gave up my retreat
So I could go to Phoenix to beat the NOLA heat.
And now I'm here and don't you fear
Human prop-photo ops will keep me from smear
Let me dry all your tears with a big surprise
I'll investigate my very own failures and lies.
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Today marks 40 days to go until the start of the�XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.�With the Games fast approaching its time to take at look at what Australia's official Olympics broadcaster the Ten Network (Ten) will be offering Australian viewers.
Ten will deliver its coverage across its various platforms, including its primary channel TEN, HD channel ONE and its new online platform tenplay.
Ten will broadcast over 360 hours of live�coverage (there will be 24 hour coverage on ONE), including the opening and closing ceremonies. It will have more than�550 hours of coverage in total. Also, similar to Foxtel's coverage of the London Summer Olympics in 2012, Ten will have eight dedicated channels online�on tenplay.
Ten Chief Executive Officer, Hamish McLennan, said:
�Sochi will play host to the most spectacular Olympic Winter Games…the combination of TEN, ONE and tenplay will ensure our coverage of this global sporting event is comprehensive, compelling and engaging.�
Ten's Olympic programming will include:
Joining Ten's commentary team for the Games includes Olympic Winter Games Gold medallists Steven Bradbury and Alisa Camplin, Steven Lee, Mitch Tomlinson, Steph Hickey, Mark Howard, Nuala Hafner, Matt Doran, Magdalena Roze, Danielle Isdale and Scott Mackinnon.
Ten will also leverage its Olympics coverage across other programming with:
With strong ratings for Ten's coverage of the KFC Big Bash League, the platform is set for Ten to generate strong ratings with its Olympics coverage. Hamish McLennan has bet a lot on sports programming to regenerate Ten's ratings and advertising revenue share.
Given the early success of the BBL on Ten, 2014 is looking good for Ten and the Winter Olympics coverage from February 7 (Feb 8 in Australia) should only help the network reach its former glory days.
The Countdown Is On. 100 Days To Go.