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Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Words are blunt instruments
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25 August, 2014
Stella - 1955
It is the thirteenth of the month
My bad-luck day
I don't want to set eyes on
or great a single soul
Every time it is the thirteenth
I don't get out of bed
I close the doors and windows
buy my eyes refuse to close
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18 June, 2014
The Monk by the Sea
"How wonderful it is to sit completely alone by the sea under an overcast sky, gazing out over the endless expanse of water. It is essential that one has come there just for this reason, and that one has to return. That one would like to go over the sea but cannot; that one misses any sign of life, and yet one senses the voice of life in the rush of the water, in the blowing of the wind, in the drifting of the clouds, in the lonely cry of the birds ... No situation in the world could be more sad and eerie than this—as the only spark of life in the wide realm of death, a lonely center in a lonely circle..."
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15 October, 2013
13 October, 2013
Gertrud - 1964
-Who are you, really?
-I am many things
-The morning dew, dripping from the leaves of the tree.
White clouds sailing where no one knows.
-Who else are you?
-I am the moon. I am the sky.
-And what else?
-Yes, I am a mouth.
A mouth seeking another mouth.
-Sounds like a dream.
-It is a dream. Life is a dream.
Life is a long chain of dreams, drifting into one another.
-And the mouth you spoke of?
-A dream.
-And the mouth you seek?
-Also a dream.
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01 January, 2013
Colossal Youth (2006)
"My love, being together again will brighten our lives for at least 30 years. I'll come back to you strong and loving. I wish I could offer you 100,000 cigarettes, a dozen fancy dresses, a car, the little lava house you always dreamed of, a threepenny bouquet. But most of all, drink a bottle of good wine and think of me. Here, it's nothing but work. There are over a hundred of us now. Did my letter arrive safely? Still nothing from you. Some other time. Every day, every minute, I learn beautiful new words for me and you alone made to fit us both, like fine silk pajamas, wouldn't you like that? I can only send you one letter a month. I often get scared building these walls. Me with a pick and cement, you with your silence, a pit so deep, it swallows you up. It hurts to see these horrors that I don't want to see. Your lovely hair slips through my fingers like dry grass. Often, I feel weak and think I'm going to forget you."
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26 September, 2012
Walt Whitman
funny remarks
Double entendres
"witty" remarks
Only that which
is simply earnest
meant, —harmless
to anyone's feelings
nothing to
excite a
*Walt Whitman instructs himself in an 1855-56 notebook about the Second Edition of Leaves of Grass.
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21 September, 2012
Nina Simone
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19 September, 2012
The Book of Disquiet
There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.
The idea of any social obligation, just the idea of it embarrasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that I worry, and don't sleep well, and the real affair, when it happens, is absolutely insignificant and justifies nothing; and the case repeats itself and I never learn to learn.
Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows.
For the moment being, given that we live in society, the only duty of superior men is to reduce to a minimum their participation in the tribe's life. Not to read newspapers, or read them only to know about whatever unimportant and curious is going on. / [...] The supreme honorable state for a superior man is in not knowing who is the Head of State of his country, or if he lives under a monarchy or a republic. / All his attitude must be setting his soul so that the passing of things, of events doesn't bother him. If he doesn't do it he will have to take an interest in others in order to take care of himself.
.. And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear it as nothing and as something else simultaneously, as if gross horror and non-existence could coincide there, as if my coffin could entrap the eternal breathing of a bodily soul, as if immortality could be tormented by confinement. The idea of hell, which only a satanic soul could have invented seems to me to have derived from this sort of confusion - a mixture of two different fears that contradict and contaminate each other.
I have now so many fundamental thoughts, so many really metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write more, not to think more, but allow the fever of saying to make me sleepy, and fondle, with closed eyes, as if to a cat, all that I could have said.
To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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12 September, 2012
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
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29 May, 2012
Barenboim on Beethoven
1st movement
2nd movement
3rd movement
1st movement
2nd movement
3rd movement: 1 - 2
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24 May, 2012
Una Furtiva Lagrima
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Students' difficulties with learning science have generally been framed in terms of their generalized conceptual knowledge of a science topic as elicited through their explanations of natural phenomena. In this paper, we empirically explore what more goes into giving a scientific account of a natural phenomenon than giving such generalized explanations. We audio-recorded pairs of upper secondary students during lab-work in electrochemistry. We used a situative and pragmatist approach to study learning in action. This approach made it possible to study how the particulars and contingencies of working with a real electrochemical cell went into students' reasoning. Our results show that students needed to learn to make distinctions, recognize, and name the particulars in encounters with their cell. They also needed to learn what counts as reasonable readings and to deal with quantitative issues and correlations pertaining to their cell. We refer to these additional learning requirements as the students' taxonomic and measurement interests. Implications for what is involved in giving a scientific account of a natural phenomenon in school are discussed. The study constitutes an attempt to include, in a systematic way, also the particulars and contingencies of actual practice in an account of students' reasoning in science.
The thesis takes its departure from the extensive literature on students' alternative ideas in science. Although describing students' conceptual knowledge in many science areas, the literature offers little about how this knowledge enters into the science learning process. Neither has it focused on how particulars and contingencies of curricular materials enter into the learning process. In this thesis I make high-resolution analyses of students' learning in action during school science activities about real or idealized electrochemical cells. I use a discursive mechanism of learning developed to describe how students become participants in new practices through slow changes in word use. Specifically, I examine how alternative and accepted scientific ideas, as well as curricular materials, enter into students' reasoning. The results are then used for producing hypotheses over how a teacher can support students' science learning. Alternative ideas in electrochemistry did not necessarily interfere negatively with, and were sometimes productive for, students' reasoning during the activities. Students included the particulars and contingencies of curricular materials in their reasoning not only when interacting with a real electrochemical cell but also in a more theoretical concept mapping activity about an idealized cell. Through taxonomic and correlational investigations students connected the particulars and contingencies of the real electrochemical cell to the generic knowledge of electrochemistry. When actively introduced by the researcher, such investigations had consequences for how single students framed their explanations of a real electrochemical cell. The results indicate ways in which teachers may encourage the productive use of contingencies to promote learning within the science classroom. However, this may require consideration of what students say in terms of consequences for their further learning rather than in terms of correct or incorrect content.

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The Devil Can Wait by Marta Stephens
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The city of Chandler, Massachusetts is plunged into terror when the bodies of three local teenagers wash ashore. While homicide detective Sam Harper hunts down the guilty, a sinister plot emerges overseas. From the Vatican to the jungles of South America, a cursed black pearl ring, the demonic prophecy it represents, and the men who pursue its powers find their unfortunate way onto Harper's turf.
Enthralled by the ring's story and a front-page spread, newspaper reporter Jennifer Blake agrees to pick up the ring at a local pawnshop for her former college professor. When she does, unforeseen events shoot Blake to the top of Harper's prime suspect list. Soon, the seemingly unrelated cases converge and the heat is on for Harper to expose the truth behind a Vatican secret and stop the self-righteous man who does the unthinkable in the name of God.
ISBN: 978-1-905202-86-7 (paperback) 978-1-905202-87-4 (eBook)
Price: £8.99. $15.99 (US), $16.99 (Ca), €11.99
Page count: 316
Release date: 3rd November 2008
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This time last year, YouTube channel heavyweight TheSoundYouNeed released their first ever compilation album to huge critical acclaim with iTunes naming it one of the top electronic albums of 2014. As a YouTube Channel, TSYN is dedicated to exploring the finest music of our time and is known for covering a huge range of genres within not just dance music, but the broader spectrum of electronic music as a whole.
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I know these are horribly out of order, but at least this completes the last of our pictures from our trip across the US last summer. After leaving Yellowstone we made our way north through Montana, stopping for the night in Helena (pronounced Hel-eh-na, not Hel-lee-na like I'd been saying my entire life in those name the capitol quizzes).
We decided to check out the Lewis and Clark Brewing Company for dinner since 1) it was just down the road from our hotel and 2) like the yuppies we are, we're fond of local breweries. The reviews online praised their beer and burgers, but when we got there they only had beer – no food except some popcorn and bar nuts. Also as a brewery they had some interesting rules:
Fortunately Helena had a great little pizza place just a block away and we filled up our bellies there instead.
Montana bills itself as one of the last great wildernesses in the contiguous United States and after spending much of the next day driving through it, the claim is pretty accurate. Despite being June it was cold and we spent hours driving without passing another car or building. I can only imagine the solitude here in the depths of winter.
Our goal was to see Glacier National Park and drive its famous Going-To-The-Sun road as one of our final destinations before Seattle. We should've known that wasn't going to happen when we stopped at a diner in West Glacier for some huckleberry pie and the only people there happened to be us and a park worker that said he started next week "at the beginning of the season". My entire life I was somehow incorrect in counting June as a summer month – in Montana at least it is more of a late winter/early spring season.
We were some of the only tourists going into the park and one of the only rooms occupied in the Village Inn at Apgar. The Going-To-The-Sun road was closed due to snow and they hadn't yet finished plowing it. I was pretty disappointed because I was looking forward to driving what has been called one of the most scenic roads in America, but we made the best of the evening and treated ourselves to a delicious meal at the nearby and nearly empty Lake McDonald lodge before retiring to our hotel room to hunker down under several blankets with the heater cranked on high.
The next morning we decided to drive the 10 miles of the Going-To-The-Sun road that were open to at least see a little of the park that we'd budgeted two days to explore.
Since our ability to see more of Glacier was hampered by the snow fall we decided just to go ahead and drive to Seattle that day and end up there two days early.
To round out our road signs:
The day we drove in Washington was characteristically rainy – appropriate I think for our first time together in the Northwest.
Eastern Washington reminds me a lot of Kansas – flat and agricultural.
And that rounds out our trip across the US. If you ever have a chance to do it, go. We have a vast and diverse country. Travel on back roads as often as you can. Eat huckleberry pie from the dingiest diner you can find. Play all your favorite songs and listen to some new books. Pick a good co-pilot. Know that BLTs are best enjoyed at the local gas station/restaurant. Experience the areas you've only ever seen in books and on postcards. Do everything you've ever wanted – who knows when you'll make your way there again.
And always keep in mind that the best part of the trip is the journey itself.


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Mannatech, a multilevel marketing health products firm, is promoting itself as a "nutraceutical frontrunner." "Nutraceutical" is a marketing term for foods alleged to favorably alter the structure or function of the body beyond what normal foods can accomplish. The company's lead product, Manapol, is simply aloe vera juice. Mannatech promoters acknowledge that many counterfeit products emerged during past aloe vera fads, but they claim that this juice is the real thing.
It is generally acknowledged that breaking off a leaf from a living aloe vera plant and applying the juice to a burn is an excellent first aid measure. Aloe vera juice is also used in burn wards to soothe, protect and moisten wounds. The problem with marketing the juice is that it doesn't keep well. Processing inactivates the ingredient that produces the desired effects. So, many aloe vera products contain processed juice that has lost the plant's helpful properties.
According to Mannatech's literature, aloe vera expert Ivan Danhof, PhD, MD, warned aloe promoters about making claims, and on the instability of beta-1,4-mannan molecules. Mannatech says that the "future of aloe vera belongs to those who have the ability to stabilize and standardize (emphasis added) this labile polysaccharide," and that Manapol is the "only commercially processed aloe vera product capable of achieving and make the claim for standardizing betamannans."
Mannatech has a licensing agreement with Carrington Laboratories, an aloe processor that has a jaded history on Wall Street in connection with its product Carrisyn. Carrisyn was said to have an Investigational New Drug (IND) permit from the FDA as a topical gel for treating bedsores. Carrington also announced that it had filed for patents in 43 countries for Carrisyn and that the drug might be useful for AIDS. AIDS is a buzzword that sends stocks flying. However, the FDA denied that it had issued an IND for Carrisyn. It had only assigned a number to Carrington's IND application. All of this produced quite a stink among investment watchdogs, which was detailed in two reports in Barron's [1,2].
NCRHI believes that extreme caution is advised on Mannatech. Mannatech's President Caster has a checkered history. In 1991, his Eagle Shield Inc. claimed its Electracat device would repel insects and other pests by emitting high-frequency vibrations. The Texas Attorney General disagreed. "The device is a hoax and stands on the same scientific footing as a perpetual motion machine," said Assistant Attorney General William Goodman, who won a permanent injunction against Caster and Eagle Shield in Travis County District Court. Caster agreed to stop selling the Electracat, to not make unsupported scientific claims about any other product, and to pay $125,000 in investigative costs. Two years earlier, Caster and Eagle Shield were accused of deceiving consumers by claiming their Eagle Shield Radiant Barrier was a scientific breakthrough in home insulation and would provide significant savings in energy costs. The Texas Attorney General got a court order banning such claims after arguing the product had been available for more than 40 years and that the energy-saving claims were false. Caster and the company agreed not to make more false statements, and Eagle Shield filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Caster co-founded Mannatech in 1993.
Mannatech tells consumers scientific studies show its nutritional supplements are safe, promote good health and are even covered by a health insurance plan. Investors have been given another story. In documents for its initial public stock sale in February, 1999, Mannatech told potential buyers it doesn't know whether its products were safe, or even if they worked. Yet Stephen Boyd, a physician who is Mannatech's international medical director, praises its supplements in a recorded message for prospective customers. He says the products facilitate the body's ability to heal itself and are "inherently non-toxic." Coppell, Texas-based Mannatech warned in the share-sale prospectus, however, that there is no assurance its products, "even when used as directed, will have the effects intended, or will not have harmful side effects."
"Why are they telling consumers one thing and investors another?" asked Stephen Barrett, M.D, chairman of Quackwatch Inc., a not-for-profit organization that monitors healthcare fraud. "A company has a responsibility to determine its products are safe and effective before it sells them." Company executives declined to comment about the products, which are sold through more than 400,000 independent agents in the United States and in Australia. In its IPO filing, Mannatech cautioned investors that its MVP product, marketed for weight control, contains ephedrine, a substance the FDA has linked to heart attacks, strokes and death. There are no warnings in the company's literature for consumers about MVP. The FDA, which has received more than 800 reports of adverse events associated with ephedrine, has proposed banning its sale for weight control.
While Mannatech says it has an eight-member scientific team, its monthly magazine recently said there are no double-blind, placebo-controlled studies of the type used by drug companies establishing that its products work. It said it that between 1995 and 1997, it spent about $667,000 (0.25% of sales) on research. The company offers consumers insurance called MannaCare that reimburses up to 50% of the cost of its supplements. It also provides full medical, dental and vision coverage for premiums of up to $9,120 annually. The insurance is offered through U.S. Alliance, a Crofton, Maryland, insurer that said it's unlicensed in the state. "There wasn't an insurer they met with in the last three years that would reimburse" for Mannatech products, said Walter Nieves, president of U.S. Alliance. "That's why they came to me." Nieves said he doesn't need a license because his plan is exempt from state regulation.
NCAHF has been concerned about Mannatech because of reports it has received that cancer patients are being advised to use its products as part of their cancer treatment. There is no good reason to believe that aloe vera products would be an effective anticancer agent. In fact, aloe vera latex failed to show an anticancer effect [3]. From the consumer conversations it seems that overzealous salespeople are going overboard in their enthusiasm for their products. Even if aloe vera products are good sources of dietary fiber (aloe gel contains a substance similar to guar gum, it would not make them appropriate for cancer patients under radiation or chemotherapeutic treatment. Because of impaired absorption, such patients generally require highly concentrated nutritional formulas, not high-fiber foods. If fiber plays any role at all in cancer management, it would more likely be in the prevention of the disease, not treatment. It is not clear at this time the extent to which the company is aware that some of its distributors are making inappropriate claims regarding cancer. NCRHI has seen a common pattern of excessive health claims by multilevel marketing distributors whose imaginations run away with them in their enthusiasm for their products. Companies often try to distance themselves from such claims, but rarely do anything to effectively control such abuses. For more see NCAHF's consumer information statement "Multilevel Marketing."
Some of the "medical experts" that Mannatech has employed in its promotions have brought discredit upon the company. A naturopath, "Dr." Stephen Nugent, has been used by the company in videos and major events. According to his own curriculum vitae, Nugent's naturopathic diploma was obtained from the Clayton School of Natural Healing, a diploma mill operated by Lloyd Clayton of Birmingham, Alabama. Clayton also operates Chadwick University and the American Holistic College of Nutrition. He also sells "Dr. Clayton's herbals and homeopathics." Although the Clayton "schools" operate in Alabama, they are not licensed there. Alabama's Department of Education attempted to close Clayton down in 1981 but was no successful. The State Attorney General opined that the "schools" would not be required to be licensed if they offered no programs to Alabama citizens. [Joe Miller, Private School Licensure Section, Alabama Dept of Education, letter 9/18/95].
Mannatech also used a questionable physician in its promotions, but it is possible that the company can be considered somewhat of a victim in this case. Dr. Darryl See claimed to have done a study that ranked Mannatech's pills, including its flagship product Ambrotose, in the top five of 196 nutritional supplements tested. See recommended Mannatech's supplements for treatment of diseases such as AIDS and cancer in an audio cassette distributed by the company. However, on August 20, 1999 Mannatech said it has cut all ties to See, and is considering a lawsuit against him, because he backed his claims with false documents. A company investigation confirmed a Bloomberg News report that See's study was neither funded by the National Institutes of Health nor conducted under the auspices of the University of California at Irvine medical school, as it claimed. "We have disassociated ourselves completely and unequivocally from Dr. See," said Samuel Caster, Mannatech's president. Mannatech also quoted from a Bloomberg News report in which Marikel Chatard, the technician who See said did most of the lab tests for the study, denied participating in it. The company said it verified Dr. See's claims before using the his study. "We did everything we possibly could to ensure the material was authentic," Caster added. That included paying $30,000 for an audit of See's study, which it previously used to defend it. Bloomberg News reported that See never provided the laboratory notebooks requested by the auditor to authenticate his data. Mannatech paid See more than $100,000 to speak at sale rallies and conduct research, and that his wife has been a Mannatech distributor since 1997, as See told Bloomberg in an interview. Mannatech sells its pills through an army of more than 400,000 distributors. Company executives weren't available for comment. See resigned from the university's faculty after an investigation censured him for violating research rules, including falsifying documents and conducting laboratory experiments on a rabbit without sufficient anesthesia. The Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association, which published See's article, has stopped selling reprints of See's articles, books, and videotapes.
Portions of this article were adapted from a series of articles by David Evans (Bloomberg News) that is posted in full on MLM Watch Web site.
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To get to San Sebastian we took an early morning train from Paris. For our first time navigating the European train system and not speaking the language, I'd say it was a pretty smooth process.
Six hours later, we were in San Sebastian, Spain! (Or as the locals call it, Donostia).
From the train station it was about a 15 minute walk to meet up with our Airbnb hosts to grab the keys to their apartment (review for our Airbnb coming soon!).
Now that we were settled in, it was time to grab some food, a beer and explore this beautiful city.
Our first surprise came quick. Turns out they don't speak Spanish in San Sebastian; they speak Basque. Call me uncultured, but I've never even heard of Basque. So much for the hour that I spent on the train brushing up on my Spanish phrases. When our first experience ordering food resulted in Casey eating a sausage link on a loaf of bread, accompanied by a few snickers from the waitress, I knew we were kind of screwed.
If we're being honest, the city and it's culture are great, but we were really in San Sebastian for one thing and one thing only: the beach. We couldn't wait to be on the beach! We are beach people, both completely content doing nothing as long as we have sand to sit on and an ocean to look at. Which is why 90% of our itinerary for this trip (the main exception being Eastern Europe), involves us sitting next to a body of water, working on our tans.
So, you can imagine our disappointment when we woke up the next morning to overcast skies. Big buzzkill.
But, we were determined to make the best of it so off to the beach we went. There are three different beaches in San Sebastian, all three with very different personalities. That day we decided to head to Zurriola Beach, which is on the Northern side of the city and known for its big waves.
Before getting there we stopped by a small market to pick up some lunch (and booze) and holy hell it was cheap. For ten euro (about $11 USD) we bought yogurt, pasta salad, fruit, a bottle of rosé and a six-pack of beer. Eleven dollars. Grocery shopping is definitely going to be our daily budget's saving grace on this trip.
Zurriola beach was great. Even with cloudy skies we managed to get a lot of sun and we were feeling pretty content with finally getting some time on the beach. That evening we headed home for a little siesta and had a great dinner at a cute spot downtown called FooDoo, which had an untraditional Basque menu (see: less bread, more salads) and then headed to the Old Town for some cheap beers and local nightlife.
Side note: I'm a BIG nap person. I used to take a three-hour nap every day in college. You heard me. Every single day I would come back from an hour or two of class, pop in a DVD (because Netflix didn't exist in 2006) and sleep for THREE HOURS. Man, was life hard. (cue the eye roll). But anyway, you can imagine my excitement about visiting Spain, a place KNOWN for their afternoon siestas! Clearly, I was born in the wrong country.
Second side note: They don't do tapas in San Sebastian, they have what are called Pinxtos (pinchos). Same look and feel, except they cost money (traditionally tapas come free with a drink order). The really unique thing about Pinxtos is the way they are served. Every bar that you go into has plates and plates and plates of food on the counter and you just walk up and take whatever you want. In some bars, each Pinxto has a toothpick in it and when you're finished, the bartender counts how many toothpicks are on your plate and that's how much you pay. Quite the honor system.
Anyway, back to the regularly scheduled programming…
On day three it rained. So much for another beach day. Since we were both feeling a little fat from the amount of carbs we had consumed, we spent the morning hiking to the top of Monte Urgull, which looks out over the entire city of San Sebastian. As you know, I'm not really a person who works out (ever), but I love a good hike. It must be because when you hike, 99% of the time there is an end goal (aka: the top of whatever you're hiking) and it usually involves some type of Instagram worthy, photo-op. And let's be honest, we'll do anything for a "like".
That evening we went back to FooDoo for dinner (because it really was that good) and spent the night with hundreds of our closest friends drinking wine in the streets of the Old Town. My second favorite thing about Europe, other than the naps, is that it's legal(ish) to drink in public places like the streets, parks, etc. It's so much better than drinking in a dark bar.
On our last day in Donostia, we woke once again to cloudy skies but since the forecast predicted that they would be gone by noon, we headed to a coffee shop to get some work done and cross our fingers. Sure enough, as we were walking home from lunch the clouds burned off and we ran (literally, ran) home to change and head to the beach.
This time we checked out Playa de Ondarreta, which was the furthest beach from our apartment, but the water was much calmer and it seemed like the most remote beach out of the three. Wrong. The rest of the city must've been just as excited as we were for the sunshine because within an hour it went from desolate to packed. Despite the crowds, spending the entire afternoon on the beach was the perfect way to end four days in Donostia/San Sebastian. We headed home that evening to pack, watch Stranger Things on Netflix (so good!) and prepare for our five hour bus ride to Madrid the following morning.
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Tyson Fury is free to resume his boxing career -- subject to regaining his boxing licence -- after he accepted a backdated two-year doping ban, UKAD have confirmed.
The former world champion -- along with cousin and fellow heavyweight fighter Hughie -- has been under investigation by UKAD since June 2016, after he tested positive for the banned steroid nandrolone a year earlier.
Fury and his cousin regularly denied taking the banned substance and claimed that the positive result came as a result of eating wild boar that had not been castrated.
UKAD released a statement on Tuesday which read: "UKAD's position is that the anti-doping rule violations it has asserted have been committed and the consequences set out in the UK Anti-Doping Rules should apply.
"Tyson and Hughie Fury's position is that they have never knowingly or deliberately committed any anti-doping rule violation. In recognition of the respective counter-arguments and the risks inherent in the dispute resolution process, each side has accepted a compromise of its position.
"Taking into account the delays in results management that meant charges were not brought in respect of the nandrolone findings until June 2016, and the provisional suspensions that Tyson and Hughie Fury have already effectively served, the two year period of ineligibility is backdated to 13 December 2015, and therefore expires at midnight on 12 December 2017."
The same statement also confirmed that the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC) have agreed to the outcome.
Fury, who has not fought since he stunned Wladimir Klitschko in Nov. 2015 to claim three major world titles, responded to the news by posting a tweet which read: "Guess who's back?"
Guess who's back?👑 #returnofthemac pic.twitter.com/U67ejc6LGn— TYSON2FASTFURY (@Tyson_Fury) December 12, 2017
"I'm a fighting man through and through and I've never backed down from anyone in my life and I was certainly not going to back down from fighting this dispute," said Fury in a statement released by his management company, Hennessy Sports.
"Hughie and I have maintained our innocence from day one and we're now happy that it has finally been settled with UKAD and that we can move forward knowing that we'll not be labelled drug cheats.
"I can now put the nightmare of the last two years behind me, which has been particularly hard on my family, but with their support and strength, along with my uncle Peter, Hennessy Sports and Morgan Sports Law, we've fought through relentlessly together and I can now enjoy Christmas with my family and new born daughter."
Fury, 29, has been eyeing a return to the ring over the last few months and has returned to training in a bid to get back to full fitness.
The former champion has previously said that he intends to fight three times in 2018 and, although he is still to have his boxing licence restored by the BBBoC, he is a big step closer to putting his plans into action.
He continued: "Next year I will be back doing what I do best, better than ever and ready to reclaim the World titles which are rightfully mine. It's time to get the party started #themacisback"
The heavyweight has repeated his desire to fight Anthony Joshua and wasted no time in resurfacing his ongoing feud with the former Olympic gold medalist.
"Where you at boy?" Fury said in a tweet directed at the IBF and WBA world champion. "I'm coming for you punk ent [sic] no1 blocking my path now."
@anthonyfjoshua where you at boy? I'm coming for you punk ent no1 blocking my path now!👊🏻— TYSON2FASTFURY (@Tyson_Fury) December 12, 2017


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Following up on our intention to develop the publishing activities through Unity Publishing, we held our third writing camp this year, returning in one of the best locations of London, the Miloco Orinoco complex. The possibilities of this place allowed us to bring seven producers this year from December 6th to December 9th. Amongst this class of 2017 we had a few veterans that assisted to the three annual editions of the camp like Fabich and BCX for the producers, Raphaella for the singer-songwriter and even two engineers of Miloco – Billy Halliday and Sam Harper. We also had the pleasure to work with Nick Peters, Addal, Mozambo, Naxxos and Betical.
This 3 days'camp represent an organization six months in advance, we're working to bring the best topliners / writers / singers to match each producer's project universe. Every day was divided into two sessions of six hours in order to make most of the studio time and that all producers could experiment each studio.
If you want to learn more from our writing camp, you'll find 2 videos of the first and second year camps on the Unity Publishing page of our website.


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Do You Need Earthquake Insurance?
Here are some questions to ask yourself when considering Earthquake Insurance:
- Is my home covered in my regular policy if an earthquake does occur?
- Can I afford the cost of rebuilding or repairing my home if damaged as the result of an earthquake?
- What would it cost to replace my personal belongings damaged as a result of an earthquake?
- How would I pay for temporary housing if an earthquake causes structural damage to my home or makes it uninhabitable?
Do I Need Earthquake Insurance in Tennessee?
Earthquakes have occurred in 39 states since 1900, and about 90% of Americans live in areas considered seismically active.
In the Midwest - According to the Insurance Information Institute, there's a 40% to 63% chance the New Madrid Fault (which runs through Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee) region will suffer an earthquake with a 6.0 magnitude in the next 15 years.
What Does Earthquake Insurance Cover?
Earthquake insurance provides coverage if your home is damaged by an earthquake. An earthquake endorsement generally excludes damages or losses from floods and tidal waves – even when caused or compounded by an earthquake. However, if you experience a loss due to a landslide, settlement, mudflow, or the rising, sinking and contracting of earth, your endorsement may cover it if the damage resulted from an earthquake.
There are several options to consider when purchasing earthquake insurance, including:
- Does the policy cover only your home? Are other structures, such as garages, also included?
- Will your policy pay for the contents of your home and for additional living expenses if your home is badly damaged or destroyed?
- Are there any exclusions or limitations to coverage?
- What deductible must you pay before the insurance kicks in?
Earthquakes Can Happen in Tennessee – Protect Yourself
- Make sure your water heater, gas appliances, and other fixtures are fastened securely.
- Check that bookcases and furniture are secure and fastened to walls.
- Have a family emergency plan that all family members know. Designate a meeting place outside the home where family members can gather once the danger has passed.
- Designate a distant relative or friend who can serve as a point of contact and communication for you and your family members if you get separated.
- Plan ahead. Keep flashlights, batteries, and candles on hand. Have a portable radio.
- Be sure everyone in your house knows how to turn off utilities (electricity, water, and gas).
When shopping for earthquake insurance, ask the company to help you identify possible repairs and other improvements that will make your home safer and minimize damage.
What to do when an earthquake strikes:
If you are inside when an earthquake hits, stay inside and get under a heavy table or desk. Stay away from windows. Do not evacuate the building unless emergency personnel direct you to leave.
If you are outside, get away from buildings and power lines, and remember that stone and masonry facings can break loose and fall away from upper parts of buildings.
If you are in a car, stop safely away from structures, large trees, power lines, and other hazards. Stay inside the vehicle.
Keep in mind:
- Don't use candles until gas lines are checked. Also, check throughout your home before you use certain utilities, such as water and electric, sewage connections, and even chimneys.
- Don't tie up phone lines except to report emergencies.
- Be prepared. Remember that you will need food and water, even for the short term. Keep your family together and stay alert for aftershocks.
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Hirose has introduced their DF52 Series, which is a small 0.8mm-pitch wire-to-board connector that delivers up to 2.5A per contact. The DF52 Series provides a space-saving, robust, wire-to-board connectivity solution for applications requiring more strength and durability.
The connector range consists of crimp plugs and right angle receptacles in a single row and with a height of only 1.75mm and a depth of 4.1mm, the miniature wire-to-board connector provides significant PCB space savings. The low-profile DF52 Series combines a compact design with a thick housing structure, ensuring high reliability and ruggedness in consumer, gaming, imaging, security and wearable applications.
The DF52 Series utilizes robust box-shaped crimp terminals that prevent snaring or breakage and stabilize the contact. The header terminals are C-shaped with two points of contact on the top and bottom. The DF52 Series housing is designed with an open side that allows for visual inspection to insure the connectors are fully mated preventing accidental disconnect.
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Nobody plans on getting lost in the woods, but when it happens to you, you'll probably wish you had brought a more viable fire source than your unreliable lighter. If you happen to have the windproof, splash-proof, running-out-of-lighter-fluid-proof Saberlight Plasma Beam Lighter, you'll be able to stay warm, cook up some food, and wait for rescue in (relative) comfort.
This USB-rechargeable, flip-top lighter sets objects ablaze quickly and efficiently thanks to an electrically generated plasma beam that burns hotter and cleaner than a butane flame. The Saberlight ignites perfectly even in wet or windy conditions and it can be used over 300 times on a single charge.
The Saberlight Plasma Beam Lighter is an essential addition to any survival kit. Get yours today for $15.95, marked down from $99.99.


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Discovering the charming Borough of Greenwich should be on everyone's list of things to do when visiting London. With three designated UNESCO World Heritage sites: the Old Royal Navy College, the Queen's House and the Royal Observatory all within walking distance, a day spent exploring this quieter side of London gives you an opportunity to see some incredible and unique landmarks.
After checking off the top classic sights of London from my travel bucket list, I had decided it was time to discover a different part of London and find out first-hand what makes the Royal Borough of Greenwich so special.
Getting There:
The most popular and scenic way to reach Greenwich is via a cruise down the Thames River. The 45-minute journey begins at the Westminster Pier (located by "Big Ben") and ends at the Greenwich Pier. Even though it is relatively close to London's city center, Greenwich seems like a world away with its small village atmosphere.
Traveling by ferry is not only relaxing, but passengers are also treated to an informative (and at times comedic) commentary of the history behind some of London's most famous landmarks and iconic sights as they float past the London Eye, St. Paul's Cathedral, The Tower of London, The Tower Bridge, The HMS Belfast, The Shard and Canary Wharf. For avid shutterbugs (and there were plenty on board), the Thames River cruise provides a great opportunity for some stunning photographs, as well as a few obligatory selfies.
The Walking Tour:
When you get to Greenwich, it's time to explore. What I loved most about this day trip was that Greenwich is surprisingly compact and easy to navigate on foot. All the major sites and attractions are located less than 1 mile from the pier, allowing you to pack in a lot of sightseeing in a short amount of time. Just make sure to wear comfortable shoes, as part of your journey will include a moderately steep uphill walk.
My walking tour of Greenwich began with a quick stop at the Greenwich Visitor's Center before heading out to the farthest destination on my itinerary and then working my way back through the town to the pier for my return trip to the city.
Sights to See:
Stops (B) Royal Observatory and (C) The Prime Meridian
My first two stops of the day involved a scenic walk through beautiful Greenwich Park and up a moderately steep hill to reach the highest point in Greenwich. Recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site, the Royal Observatory is home to an incredible wealth of astronomical history.
Founded in 1675, The Royal Observatory consists of several buildings, including the Flamsteed House, the Prime Meridian, the Peter Harrison Planetarium and the Weller Astronomy Galleries. This is where you will also be treated to some of the most breath-taking views of the London skyline.
One of my highlights was having the opportunity to straddle the Prime Meridian. You may need to have a little patience with waiting your turn, but actually standing in two hemispheres at the same time is one of those rare experiences you don't want to pass up.
Stop (D) Greenwich Market
After the journey back through Greenwich Park I needed a bit of refueling, so a stop at the Greenwich Market was in order. Established in 1737, the Greenwich Market houses everything from boutiques, great restaurants to a myriad of vendors selling a variety of items from antiques to handmade jewelry.
The Carriage and Horse, one of many eateries at the market, served up a mouth-watering fish sandwich with chips and a refreshing pint of strawberry ale (not pictured). With my belly full, I was ready to see more of Greenwich.
Stop (E) The National Maritime Museum
A short stroll from the Greenwich Market along the perimeter of the Greenwich Park, you will come to the National Maritime Museum. The museum, one of the many free museums in London, is a fascinating look back into England's powerful maritime history.
Filled with historic treasures, this unique museum attracts visitors of all ages with its educational exhibits. After learning about the rich history of Britain's maritime might, it was time to explore the next stop on my itinerary.
Stop (F) The Queen's House
Located next to the National Maritime Museum sits the quieter Queen's House. Completed in 1636, the Queen's House is an architectural masterpiece designated as a UNESCO site.
The museum is home to the world-famous Tulip Stairs, the first geometric self-supporting spiral staircase built in England and the Gilded Ceiling.
The best part of visiting the Queen's House is the lack of crowds (even though it's free admission), which gives you the feeling that you are on a private tour. There are rumors of ghost sightings, but on the day I visited there were none to be seen.
Stop (G) Old Royal Naval College
The third UNESCO World Heritage site to visit in Greenwich is the Old Royal Naval College. Established in the 17th century, the Old Royal Naval College was the center of maritime study.
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The Chapel and the Painted Hall Ceilings, London's largest painted ceiling, are the main attractions that draw visitors to this historic place. The symmetry of the buildings are remarkable and the grounds are beautiful.
Stop (H) The Cutty Sark
My walking tour of Greenwich ended with a visit to the Cutty Sark museum. Built in 1869, the Cutty Sark was the world's fastest cargo ship, primarily designed to carry tea from China. It was fascinating to walk through the ship and take a peek at how sailors lived for months on end.
Back at the dock, I waited for my return cruise back to London's city center and reflected on all the wonderful surprises that Greenwich had to offer.
If you do make the journey to Greenwich, let me know what your favorite place was. As a side note, admission to the Cutty Sark, Royal Observatory, and the Thames River cruise are included with the London City Pass. Admission to the Queen's House, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich Market and the Old Royal Naval College is free of charge.
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Do you want a fun, easy way to build gross motor and fine motor skills in young children? Take them outside, give them a paintbrush, add a small bowl or bucket or water, and let them paint! Water painting is great for little ones and for children who have difficulty making strokes with writing tools. My youngest daughter has Down Syndrome. I will never forget when her occupational therapist took us outside and taught us how fun prewriting could be with a paintbrush and water. Of course my older children loved it too! And now I get to have fun all over again with my grandchildren.
Let's talk about what is going on in this picture. I've numbered each picture, so I could better explain how to support your child with this fun activity along with how it can strengthen fine motor, and gross motor skills.
- sidewalk chalk
- small container
- small paint brush
Start out by using a small container with water. Toddlers will benefit from experimenting with putting the brush in and out. Basically, they will make a MESS! Don't be surprised it your child picks up the container and pours it out. Using a small container will keep more of your sidewalk or cement area dry as they experiment with this. Talk about what your child is doing. "Are you putting the brush in the water?" "Are you taking the brush out of the water?" Then repeat simple words as your child does these actions. Use one word directionality words such as in, out, on, over, under. You are building important vocabulary too.
I put this as step two because young children need to have time to explore and play creatively first. There doesn't always have to be a learning objective to play. Play is a child's work. If your child is getting frustrated with it tipping over or spilling, then help hold the container while they paint.
Draw lines, curves, shapes, or even a letter for toddlers to paint. Don't worry if they don't stay on the lines. Notice the gross motor skills that are happening in this picture as LITTLE M moves up and down bending her legs, using her trunk support, and building balancing skills while getting her paintbrush wet. All of these experiences and movements are sensory building experiences. Young children need lots of opportunities to twist, turn, bend, and stoop while playing.
Enjoy your time with your child. Don't worry about the Pinterest perfect pictures out there. Your child will be learning so many things when they experiment with different tools for writing. If you are modeling writing for your child, then your child will want to use those same tools. How many of you have children who know how to turn your cell phone on and off by pushing the button? They learn by watching you. Those first strokes with sidewalk chalk and a paintbrush are the building blocks to writing. If they want to do both at the same time, HURRAY!
Basically, this means that toddlers and young children will go back and forth experimenting. Sometimes they will be very interested. Sometimes they will be done quickly. I always tell my daughter that using those large motor muscles (bending, stooping, walking) and fine motor (holding the chalk and paintbrush) stretch their bodies and minds as they learn how to use them. It also takes motor planning which is a cognitive learning skill. Remember that play is a child's work. If they are engaged, play away. When they get tired, put it away.
As always, adult supervision is a must. Talk to your child as you play together. And remember you are building vocabulary, creativity, gross motor, and fine motor skills too!
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AMS Radar Conference
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From the 16 September 2019 until the 20 September 2019 the 39th International Conference on Radar Meteorology from the American Meteorological Society (AMS) is held in Nara, Japan.
The AMS Radar Conference is one of the larges conferences for research and applications on weather radars world wide. Again, the working group on radar meteorology in Bonn is taking part here and shares their newest research and results on radar meteorology. JOYCE-CF plays an important role in these studies, as the two operating polarimetric X-band radars BoXPol and JuXPol build a basis for many of these studies. If you are interested in the AMS Radar Conference take a look at https://cscenter.co.jp/icrm2019/.
Registration: open via: https://cscenter.co.jp/icrm2019/


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The Illusionists: Direct From Broadway
Simon Painter, Tim Lawson, Andrew Spencer & Alexandra Hirst
QPAC Concert Hall
January 11 – 19 2019
Reviewed by Xanthe Coward
Why do people continue to come in droves to experience The Illusionists? It's a mystery. The magic of the theatre…and savvy marketing.
Paul Dabeck, enigmatic and entertaining host and emcee of the latest incarnation of The Illusionists, direct from Broadway, is the highlight of the show, with magic tricks to amaze and lively, witty banter to amuse. I adore him. A natural entertainer of the highest calibre, Dabeck is the most down to earth of the group, with the genuine charm and good humour lacked by the others. His style is sophisticated and super relaxed, with just the right amount of spice; he's a crowd favourite and the highlight of opening night in Brisbane.
Every other act comes with a super-size-me serving of spray-on cheddar jack cheese, nope, not even pepper jack, just that old-school schmaltzy, sickening, pausing-for-effect, praise-me style that we thought had died out just as the rest of the circus and burlesque worlds continued to evolve, keeping only the very best aspects of vaudeville and real showmanship, as demonstrated by Hugh Jackman in The Greatest Showman, and Todd McKenney – I anticipate – in Barnum.
Not everyone is immune and there are just a few who leap to their feet at the conclusion of the show, having clapped and cheered at each trick much louder than anyone else – in the Concert Hall it's more obvious than it is anywhere else – and perhaps they're all the mates of our Aussie escapologist poster boy, Sam Powers…or perhaps they really love this strangely halting show. The American cheese bookending each act has a different impact upon most though, slowing the pace and flow of the show, and distancing us from the entertainers and their art, putting it all on a very high pedestal instead of inviting us in, seducing us, bringing us anywhere near any sort of mystery surrounding each performance, except that we're actually so physically close to the action to notice the glitches from the outset. I seem to recall this being a disappointment last time (2015) and like the anti-climax that comes with yet another close-up magic card trick rather than a magical spectacular full company finale, I wonder why there hasn't been since then, an assistant director or one of the producers or publicists, making the same observations aloud. These clumsy errors are quick to happen and just as quickly glossed over, swept into the shadows in an instant – if you blink you miss them – but if you catch them, it's hard to un-see such imperfections. As is the case with any disappointment in life, our high expectations are mostly to blame, and as much as we go in ready for anything, it's a general expectation that anything of this calibre will be fairly flawless.
Mark Kalin (The Showman) and Jinger Leigh (The Conjuress) perform an old ring trick, using jewellery taken from the hands of audience members, and it appears to be the real deal, but like disappearing and reappearing people, we don't look too closely at the detail. Eliciting gasps and warm applause from the audience, these illusions are a couple of the best. Leigh's manipulation of a glowing sphere is less convincing, especially when we see it disappear beneath a black cloth, despite her showgirl eyes and smile alluding to the magical powers of the cloth she triumphantly wields in the foreground.
The frenetic energy of Chris Cox (The Mentalist) does not endear him to everyone, but apparently the success of his act is largely due to his "side-splitting, confident, silly, charismatic and mischievous sense of magic". It's all very well to admit to reading behaviour not minds as the basis for a potentially entertaining and highly amusing act, but make it entertaining. And amusing. And foolproof. This act was foiled on opening night by the father who had to remind his son exactly what costume Cox had told them before the show, was what he'd be wearing beneath his suit.
Florian Sainvet (The Manipulator) is too ridiculously good looking to be human, and this is the most intriguing part of his act. Both he and Leonardo Bruno (The Alchemist) are less than convincing. This is a shame, both for the audience and the award-winning Berlin male model types. We won't mention the pretty female assistants at all because included in the company, are the pretty male assistants also. More clothing. Less lighting. Fewer sexy moves. Whatever.
Luckily for our Sam Powers (The Enigma), his life or death world-first suspended escape act is a success. He even has time, twice, to pause and pose, hanging upside down by his boot straps during the 2-minute race to remove himself from a straitjacket, and then from the hooks that hold him upside down, before a burning bear trap collapses on where he would otherwise have fallen to his death. THE NEW ELEMENT BEING A BURNING BEAR TRAP. There is at least some comedy in the ridiculous.
In 2015 we saw The Daredevil (Jonathan Goodwin) hoisted upside down and left to hang by his boots too, while a fuse was lit and flames crept towards his trousers, leaving him just sixty seconds in which to get free and put out that fire. Has Powers even raised the stakes? Again, chiselled good looks saves this entertainer from too much criticism. But as part of his persona, he's almost too relaxed, nonchalant, so that we don't actually care very much about him while he's dangling from a rope, apparently struggling…we're actually confident that he'll be fine. All in all the scene lacks tension. This is typical of each act, with a grandiose buildup doing more harm than good, and causing those around me to snicker at times, and others to yawn. You won't see that in the pull quotes. BUT YES ABSOLUTELY WITHOUT A DOUBT SOME PEOPLE LOVE IT. And it comes as no surprise because our reality television shows are still rating highly too.
Let's just note that the particular performance style perhaps preferred by Australian audiences within the magical realm now, or always, is less about the grandiose and more abut the genuine entertainment value. This may be about to change with all the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas (we hope not), or it may depend on which aspect of their show we're referring to…anyway, the Americans will get a run for their play money when Brisbane's infamous duo The Naked Magicians take up a strictly limited MGM Grand run, opening February 13 at Brad Garrett's Comedy Club. Now THAT'S entertainment!
A big, safe, shiny, eternally touring show, The Illusionists: Direct From Broadway likely won't exceed expectations, but it's a fun night out for the family and friends – let's say three stars – and the shared experience will probably provide some entertaining fodder for a few days of dinner table conversation. It might even inspire a new generation of entertainers. But if you're the type who won't have the television on during dinner, and can't name even one of our latest "celebrities" to find themselves stuck somewhere in Africa, you'll agree that this impressive franchise also continues to glitter, but it isn't gold.


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The Normandy American Cemetery
The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial is the most lasting physical legacy of the invasion and a solemn tribute to the soldiers who died there. Featured in the film Saving Private Ryan, the 170-acre site overlooking Omaha Beach is technically considered American territory and includes the graves of 9,387 fighters. This website features photos, videos and a 22-page guide to this moving location.


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We've all heard about WinZip but have you heard about Wobzip? In this day and age when everything is moving online and into 'the cloud', Wobzip is yet another web application that seems to have a promising feature. The software lets users unzip/unrar/uncompress archive files on the go, entirely using a web interface. Wobzip currently supports a number of different archive formats including WinZip files and WinRAR files. The next time you are working on a PC that doesn't have WinRAR/WinZIP, you'll now know where to go :p.
Uncompressing a file using Wobzip is pretty simple. All you have to do is to login to their homepage and choose the file that needs to be extracted using the 'Browse' function. Additionally, if your archive is hosted online, you can use the 'uncompress from a URL' function to directly handle the file.
Right now Wobzip supports the following file formats: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZHCHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS. You should be able to uncompress all of the above archive types through the web interface without issues. All files are automatically scanned for viruses upon extraction. There is however one limitation; maximum file size for supported archives is 100MB.
Wobzip is currently in development and testing stages so there may be undiscovered bugs and glitches present (we didn't run into any). The app is free for anyone to use – check it out.
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Welcome to the website of Paco Viciana
On this website you can find all the information about the various musical activities held by the composer Paco Viciana and listen to his works.
Discover a selection of the best recordings
of Paco Viciana's work.
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Classically trained composer
From 1976 to 1994, is musically formed through studies and courses in different conservatories and music schools in Barcelona. Since 1987 plays pedagogically teaching courses, classes, lectures and performances. From there begins to be known as a composer and piano player and collaborates in different festivals, plays, creates its own shows, participate in radio programs or music composed for film, documentaries and television programs, among others. More information
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Up or down
New opera in creation: UP OR DOWN a divertissement in catalan for 8 lyrical singers, piano and violin, with forecast of premiere 1 of july of 2017.
Humans, a show with a peculiar and particular approach to human reality. In what we believe it means to be a human.
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Macro show for orchestra, rhapsody, choirs and solo vocal about 1939 exile in Catalonia.


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Just wanted to drop all the blog subscribers a quick note letting you know that I will be signing off for the remainder of the month. I will resume blogging in September. Have a blessed August and thanks for reading!
Month: August 2011
I'm not that stupid
I Samuel 26:21-24 21 Then Saul said, "I have sinned. Come back, David my son. Because you considered my life precious today, I will not try to harm you again. Surely I have acted like a fool and have erred greatly." 22 "Here is the king's spear," David answered. "Let one of your young men come over and get it. 23 The LORD rewards every man for his righteousness and faithfulness. The LORD delivered you into my hands today, but I would not lay a hand on the LORD's anointed. 24 As surely as I valued your life today, so may the LORD value my life and deliver me from all trouble."
In today's reading, we have yet another instance where David had the chance to kill King Saul but didn't. Last time, he cut off the hem of his robe while he sat on the throne… not the royal one, the porcelain one. Today, we read that Saul was sleeping when David snuck into camp and took his spear and water jug. He then travels a safe distance and calls out to Saul's camp, "Why are you trying to kill me?" Again, Saul realizes his sinful ways and apologizes to David – again. This time, however, Saul tells David to come back and refers to him as "son." He promises not to try to harm David again.
David's response? "I'm not that stupid." Good for David, you know. It would be so easy to get caught up in the approval of the king or for restoration to take place. But David was wise. He tells Saul to send one of his young men to come get the stuff. There is no way he is going to walk back into that camp with everyone awake. I applaud this wisdom, this discernment. We need this kind of wisdom in our lives, don't we? We need to know who to trust. We need to know who is reliable. This kind of wisdom, the kind David had, comes from God.
Wisdom led David to honor the king and at the same time, not trust his motives. Because even though God had promised David the throne, he did his part to stay alive while he was waiting. He wasn't recklessly counting on God to bail him out. He exercised wisdom. I pray that I have this kind of wisdom in my life. I pray that it will guide my decisions, my actions, and my thoughts. I pray that it will define my relationships and my leadership. Lord, give me your wisdom today!
Behind every good man…
I Samuel 25:32-34 32 David said to Abigail, "Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me. 33 May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands. 34 Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak."
Okay, men – let's be honest. How many times has your wife bailed you out of something stupid that you said or did? I can relate to this, for sure. Abigail comes to meet David, who now wants to kill her husband, and says: "Sorry about my husband. He doesn't know what he is talking about." It says here that she was a beautiful and intelligent woman. David seemed to think so, anyways. She calmed David down and calmed him down fast. Her actions saved the lives of many in her family.
It's nice to have someone clean up after you have done something boneheaded isn't it? Many of us have wives, husbands, or good friends who have bailed us out. But we have someone else you know. The Bible tells us that there is an accuser of the brethren who wants to pin us to the wall for every mistake we make. But we have an advocate – his name is Jesus. He took our judgement upon himself and stands on our behalf. When judgement is about to come on us, He stands up for us. He bails us out like Abigail bailed out Nabal. He says, "don't mind him, you know he is foolish. But he's MINE." Thank you Jesus, for being my advocate today!


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Release Blitz and Review: SAY I'M YOURS
From New York Times Bestseller, Corinne Michaels, comes a new second chance standalone romance.
I spent twenty years waiting for Trent Hennington to open his eyes and see me. But it was all for nothing. He chose to keep himself guarded and let me walk away, proving that my time and efforts were wasted.
I'm done being invisible.
It's time to move on.
A single dance sets my new reality into motion, and I welcome it. After all, Cooper Townsend is perfect. He's kind, sexy, and attentive--everything a girl could want.
I thought I got it right this time.
That my heart could mend, and I would be happy.
Apparently, some things really are just too hard to walk away from.
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I devoured this book. Read it straight through in one sitting! Fair warning, fans of the series will be sobbing at points. Killed me with this one!
We have seen Trent and Grace dance around each other in the previous stories. They have dated off and on for 20 years. Finally, Grace needs him to piss or get off the pot! But will it be enough to move Trent into action?
Great second chance romance even if the second chance comes only weeks apart from the separation. Grace and Trent needed to work on some things. The rest of the family and the townspeople are there to support them on the way. So much pain and angst in this one. I just wanted to shake these two and get them to sort everything out.
This book has lots of the Harrington family in it. We catch up on everyone throughout the book. We also get a little more information about Cooper. Hoping he finally gets an HEA soon! Such a good man. LOVED the epilogue.
Great series! Pick up all of these books.
Corinne Michaels is the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author of The Salvation Series (Beloved, Beholden, Consolation, Conviction & Defenseless), Say You'll Stay, Say You Want Me, and Say I'm Yours. She's an emotional, witty, sarcastic, and fun loving mom of two beautiful children. Corinne is happily married to the man of her dreams and is a former Navy wife. After spending months away from her husband while he was deployed, reading and writing was her escape from the loneliness.
Both her maternal and paternal grandmothers were librarians, which only intensified her love of reading. After years of writing short stories, she couldn't ignore the call to finish her debut novel, Beloved. Her alpha heroes are broken, beautiful, and will steal your heart.
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This week I stopped at Banamex on Canal and looked at the current photography exhibition, Armando Salas Portugal, Chronicle of a Trip to the Yucatan, 1946. The photographs stopped me in my tracks because I spent so much time in the Yucatan during the 1990's while I was photographing the 16th century churches spread across the peninsula. Some of Armando's images showed the thatched roof houses and churches that I, too, photographed. Not a lot happened between 1946 and 1993 except that doors were put back on the churches, fences were repaired and painted and the road was paved. I say paved in a most general sense. At least they were no longer sand and dirt but they still had pot holes and lots of topes. Our car moved at a slow place.
The church above is in Hoctun where we met people who had tiendas around the square. We returned many times and I took photographs back to the people we met the first time.
The image below is of a family in another little village. Actually I doubt that it could even be called a village. They lived in the small settlement of a ruined hacienda. The last time Ned and I went to the Yucatan in 2008, we tried and tried to find their house but a new road had been cut through the area and I'm afraid that it wiped out the little settlement.
I walked out of Banamex wanting to go back to the Yucatan and follow the maps in the guidebook that I used while I was working on the 16th Century photography project. What has happened to the old two-lane road that connected many of these churches now that everyone travels the toll road between Cancun and Merida? What do the churches look like today? Could I find some of the people that we met back in the 1990's? Could I find a driver? How long would it take?
Mmmm.....can you tell that a seed has been planted?
Back to Armando Salas Portugal and his trip in the Yucatan in 1946. This exhibition covers much more of the Yucatan than just the churches. It covers the beaches, Mayan sites just being uncovered, villages and people. Although I don't think that these are vintage prints, they are beautiful prints and definitely worth a stop in Banamex.


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ObjectFrame.ObjectVerbs Property (Access)
You can use the ObjectVerbs property in Visual Basic to determine the list of verbs an OLE object supports. Read-only String.
expression .ObjectVerbs(Index)
expression A variable that represents an ObjectFrame object.
Data Type
An element in the array of supported verbs. This is a zero-based index, meaning zero (0) represents the first verb in the array, one (1) represents the second verb in the array, and so on.
This property setting isn't available in Design view.
You can use the ObjectVerbs property with the ObjectVerbsCount property to display a list of the verbs supported by an OLE object. The ObjectVerbs property uses this list of verbs to determine which operation to perform when an OLE object is activated (when the Action property is set to acOLEActivate).
The Verb property setting is the position of a particular verb in the list of verbs returned by the ObjectVerbs property. For example, 1 specifies the first verb in the list (the Visual Basic command ObjectVerbs(0), or the first verb in the ObjectVerbs property array), 2 specifies the second verb in the list (the Visual Basic command ObjectVerbs(1), or the second verb in the ObjectVerbs property array), and so on.
The first verb in the ObjectVerbs property array, called by the Visual Basic command ObjectVerbs(0), is the default verb. If the Verb property hasn't been set, this verb specifies the operation performed when the OLE object is activated.
The list of verbs an object supports varies, depending on the state of the object. To update the list of verbs an object supports, set the control'sAction property to acOLEFetchVerbs. Be sure to update the list of verbs before presenting it to the user.
The following example returns the verbs supported by the OLE object in the OLE1 control and displays each verb in a message box.
Sub GetVerbList(frm As Form, OLE1 As Control)
Dim intX As Integer, intNumVerbs As Integer
Dim strVerbList As String
' Update verb list.
With frm!OLE1
.Action = acOLEFetchVerbs
intNumVerbs = .ObjectVerbsCount
For intX = 0 To intNumVerbs - 1
strVerbList = strVerbList & .ObjectVerbs(intX) & "; "
Next intX
End With
' Display verbs in message box.
MsgBox Left(strVerbList, Len(strVerbList) - 2)
End Sub


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Brtiney Cleaned Out Her Closet for Katrina
Britney Spears has created 14 pages worth of crap from her closet to raise money for Mississippi Hurricane Recovery Fund. Items include a jewel encrusted bra, furniture, J Crew Flip Flops, and the famous Golden Ticket Tank is currently going for $300.
Now I love Britney and I can see why people would want her used anything, but it sort of seems all wrong to me. It's clearly stuff she no longer wants and it's a way to make money off it - even if it is for a good cause.


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This discharge can be used to store almost anything except food (unless it is specially stored for food). You should not be finding what suits your home decor or your current office problem because they are available in countless designs and colors that are also very practical to create more organized storage facilities. Husky stackable storage bins allow you to select their content at first glance, while different colors are often used to store different items. Plastic is the most popular material because of low price and durability. If you are not too happy with the plastic you can also choose between cardboard and wood. Both are available in various shapes, colors and patterns and are very decorative, especially those made of wood that are often furniture-like.
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You can also make more space and order with a stackable storage drawer that offers all the advantages of a classic staircase. They are very convenient when compared to a box because they do not require lift when searching for some items that make it very useful in the office. It may be hard to believe as you peek in the bedrooms a few small children, but most children really enjoy the tidy and organized spaces. Consider using materials such as storage areas and cubes that are widely used in kindergartens and primary schools. Adding this simple layer instills serenity on the mess. Imagine the utility of bringing some of this clever and useful bin into your home.
As an adult, we may want to look "our own" treasure lined up on the shelves. But our children may not have the patience or motor skills to keep playing a little lined up in neat rows. After all, they want to play, touch, taste, chew and throw their toys. Use stackable stacking storage for the purpose of containing items your baby is working well.
For those who have very limited space, Husky stackable storage bins is the best way to store a lot of stuff in a small area. There are many kinds of miracles that provide this space. This is perfect lid container for unnecessary items available immediately, such as holiday ornaments. It can be stacked in a garage corner until it's time to use it. There is also a stackable garbage can, often used in work areas or store to hold equipment or supplies. Storage containers are as large as items that need to be stored. One can find many types and colors of storage stackable in convenience and appliance stores or online.


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In 1985, when I was fifteen, I found a large spool of white cotton string in the parking lot of the apartment complex where my mother and I lived. I promised myself at that time that I would save it and create a piece of art with it at some point. Twenty-two years later, at age thirty-seven, I followed through on that promise.
Based on a dream about projecting something off of a canvas I embarked on putting together my first string art piece.
Sewing the string I had been saving to the canvas, and proceeding through a series of steps with paint, glue and gravity, I created my first string art piece which can be best described as wall sculpture.
The sewing of the string and the large size of the canvas stem from two different influences.
Sewing is what I was exposed to as a kid. My mother was always knitting, sewing or making me clothes so naturally I saw this as an excellent way to adhere the string to the canvas.
The canvas is stretched on 2 x 6's which comes from my idea that I wanted the canvas to be an intensely noticeable statement in addition to what was presented on its surface. I did not want the piece to be framed. I built it so it would not be framable from a practical point of view. At this time I coined the pieces "In Your Face" as they project straight off the wall and in your face.
Symbolically, the colors of the pieces are also significant and personal. I have restored two vintage American muscle cars, a 1970 Dodge Challenger and a 1970 Plymouth Road Runner, which was definitely a labour of love as well as indicative of the era during which I grew up. The factory colors that these cars came with were amazing and totally influence my color choices.
This body of work encompasses my desire to use personally significant materials to express the complex emotional attachment I have to these facets of my past, which helps me to explore how those events shaped who I am as an artist and a human being.


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By: Heather Williams
It is no surprise that our body changes as we get older. We see it in the mirror and in how we feel over time. Maybe we see those wrinkles that weren't there before, the hair changes to a greyer, silver color, and maybe even notice a little thinning. Our skin even gets a little dryer. As the physical body ages and the external body begins to change, so do our organs and organ systems. Even those parts that are designed to keep us healthy begin to weaken over time, leaving us susceptible to more infections and illness.
Knowing this, you might find yourself taking vitamins, going to the doctor more regularly, avoiding sick people, and all the things we can normally think about to keep us healthy. But what about foodborne illness? Did you know that the aging body also loses its resistance to foodborne bacteria? The digestive system begins to fail at the basic immune and digestive functions and slowly deteriorate over time. This results in an increase in food related illness as we get older. In fact, individuals over 65 years old are reported more often than any other age group to seek medical care for gastrointestinal (GI) related complaints. This reduction in immunity puts older adults in the risk risk group for foodborne illnesses and long-term complications. It is more important than ever as we approach the golden years to protect ourselves from unsafe foods and foodborne illness. We should also reach out to the older adults that we know to make sure they are healthy and protecting themselves.
How Does Age Affect Response to Foodborne Infection?
Body Changes
Core organ functions begin to change as we age. Older adults produce less stomach acid, an agent that not only helps digest food but also kills pathogenic bacteria. Additionally, kidneys begin to weaken with age. Weakened kidneys have more difficulty filtering bacteria, allowing harmful bacteria to enter the body and other systems. The lining of the intestines becomes weaker. The barrier in the small intestine known as Gut Associated Lymphoid Tissue (GALT) as well as intestinal epithelial cells are the first line of defense against invading microorganisms making it out of the digestive system. As the GALT ages, it allows easier entry of pathogens in to mucosal layers, allowing inflammation and infection to occur. Antigen response to pathogens is also retarded, allowing the harmful bacteria to remain longer and multiply than in younger, healthier organs.
Safe Handling of Food
According to a consumer survey conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), "older adults appear to be less consistent in practicing safe food handling than the general population." They suggested that sense of smell begins to deteriorate, eye sight worsens, and sometimes memory lapses at key disinfection steps. These issues combined with food preparation may lead to food being consumed after expiration date and not noticing spills of hazardous food items. It can also lead to forgetting to wash hand, food that should be washed prior to consumption, and not thoroughly cooking foods to proper temperature.
How Can I Prevent Age-Related Foodborne Illness?
There are a lot of ways the prevent age related foodborne illness. To begin, boost your gut's immune system and help prevent foodborne infection from occurring before it leads to illness.
Boost Your Gut's Immune System
"80 percent of your immune system is located in your gut, which is just one more reason why 'tending to' your gut microflora is an essential element of good health," says Dr. Joseph Mercola, a New York Times Best Selling Author and osteopathic physician. Dr. Mercola promotes optimizing gut flora as a way to combat foodborne illness and digestive related illnesses. These suggestions are great for those of all ages, but particularly important to incorporate as the body ages and immune response declines. Dr. Mercola recommends regularly consuming fermented or cultured foods. He suggests fermented foods such as cabbage, carrots, celery, collards, and kale as well as fermented raw milk such as kefir or yogurt. Kim chi, sauerkraut, and kombucha are other great sources bacteria rich foods. He even suggested consuming these food products that are good bacteria rich multiple times per day. Not all food product labeled probiotic are truly beneficial. Dr. Mercola says to be sure that the fermented foods and beverages you select are not pasteurized, contain added sugars, and that the bacteria are live for best results. Pasteurized products kill most of the beneficial bacteria rendering the product useless for protecting your digestive system. Sugar adds stress to the digestive system and reduces efficiency in proper processing. He goes on to explain that there is a higher beneficial bacterial count in food sources than in probiotic pills, so consuming fermented and cultured foods and beverages is a better source of this healthy defense.
Take Precautions to Prevent Foodborne Illness
While the body can do what it can do once infected, it only takes care of the consequences of foodborne illness. Prevention is the best way to ensure the body stays healthy. Taking a few extra steps will help prevent foodborne infection. Be sure to label perishable food and observe best by dates. Do not rely on color or smell to determine if food has gone bad. Refrigerate leftovers right away and reheat food to a proper temperature prior to consuming. Other tips include follow proper food storage guidance to ensure food is discarded after the appropriate time, refrigerated cooked food within 2 hours, and ensure appropriate temperature is used for cooking. Use a food thermometer to be sure food is cooked to proper temperature. Do not use touch as a test of doneness. Be sure to wash hands regularly and before preparing or eating food. Be sure all food equipment is thoroughly cleaned before using or put away and anything that comes in contact with raw food is properly sanitized.
While food safety is particularly important for older adults, it is important for everyone's health. Follow these basic tips to keep yourself and your family safe from foodborne illness and reach out to the older adults you know who may need some help.