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President Bashar al-Assad rejected outright the possibility of handing over power to the Syrian opposition as part of any negotiations in the anticipated Geneva II talks, visitors to the Syrian leader quoted him as saying, a local Lebanese daily said Wednesday.
"They want us to relinquish Syria to [the head of the opposition Syrian National Coalition Ahmad] Jarba in II, and thus there is no need [for us] to go to if this is the general idea," As-Safir quoted Assad as telling members of the General Secretariat of the Arab Parties' General Conference in the Syrian capital Tuesday.
"There will be no success for any conference if Syrians do not paint the future of their country," the Syrian president said, according to the paper.
The Damascus conference was attended by Hezbollah Arab Relations official Sheikh Hasan Izzeddine, Amal Movement politburo member Mohammad Jbawi, as well as senior officials from the Syrian National Socialist Party (SNNP) and the National Nasserite Organization. Representatives from Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Morocco, Tunisia and Bahrain also attended.
Assad, participants told As-Safir, said was willing to "absorb" opposition members on certain conditions and strike reconciliatory deals with them "but it cannot pardon those who betrayed and shed its peoples' blood."
According to the daily, Assad also accused Saudi Arabia of seeking to disrupt the talks aimed at ending the 2-1/2 year-old war in Syria.
"Saudi Arabia is trying to disrupt some regional and international understandings and is seeking with its strength to postpone the 2 conference," Assad told the representatives, the paper said.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said he expects to open the 2 peace talks on by mid-December but an official date has yet been announced.
Assad also echoed remarks by Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah last week in which the chief stressed that Lebanon and regional states must push toward a political solution in Syria.
said representatives from the Lebanese parties stressed that would always remain loyal to and noted Damascus' contributions to the resistance and the foiling of the new "Middle East scheme."
The representatives said Lebanon's disassociation policy – a Beirut government decision that calls for distancing from regional crises, namely in – was being used to evade national commitment to Syria.
The Lebanese party delegates also said Hezbollah's military role in was a decision aimed at confronting those who want to target the resistance-rejectionist axis.
Via SyndiGate.info
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Stage 5 Summary:
Stage 5 of the Tour de Zack y Tony took the tour into Central America carving an 1800km serpentine path through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.
The main theme of this stage was one of perseverance. The 2 month long journey to the border of Nicaragua put both our bodies and our travel spirits through the toughest trials of the tour. After a near emotional breakdown in Belize though we pushed on and steadily knawed our way through the backroads of Guatemala- the most consistently difficult hills and roads of the tour. Along these backroads we got to know rural Guatemala with an intimacy that both delighted and saddened us. Eventually – shortly after celebrating 10,000 kms – we arrived in Antigua, the former colonial capital, where we passed a couple weeks resting, dancing, and studying before returning to the road. From Antigua it was all easy sailing the rest of the way to Nicaragua and we blasted through El Salvador and Honduras in just 9 days.
Now , with savage hills of Guatemala far behind us and just 1500 km of relatively easy roads separating us from Panama City we are having trouble keeping the grin of self-bewilderment off our faces.
Photos from Stage 5: Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras AKA Operation: Jungle Boogie!!!
Blog Entries
- Central Ameri-WHERE?
- Stage 5: Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras AKA Operation: Jungle Boogie!
- A Bad Day in Belize
- Traveler's Fatigue: It's Complicated
- Day One in Guatemala
- Is it rainy season yet!?
- The land of a thousand villages.
- The US Peace Corps in Guatemala
- The tough life in Antigua.
- Breakfast in El Salvador
- Life Cycles – What we think about on the bike
- The Gringo Trail
- Roadside Advice: Free in Honduras
- Blasting through El Salvador and Honduras – The End of Stage 5
But WAIT! There is more!
Want to keep going? Go on to Stage 6: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama AKA Operation: Enduring Freedom!
Missed Stage 4? Back to Stage 4: Southern Mexico AKA Operation Glorious Ruination!

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Pure instant messaging — simple, fast, secure, and synced across all your devices. Over 100 million active users in two and a half years.
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|100,000,000+ downloads
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Mortgage rates may be low, but home-equity loans are souring at record pace
An American Bankers Assn. report today illustrated homeowners' struggles to repay debts they already have shouldered. Home equity loan delinquencies jumped from just over 4% in the second quarter to a record 4.30% of all accounts in the third quarter.
Delinquencies on home equity lines of credit also hit a new record, rising from 1.92% to 2.12% of all accounts, the bankers group said.
The troubles with housing debt contrasted with a general decline in consumer loan delinquency rates, as the economy begins to stabilize, recession-chastened borrowers pay down debts and banks write off dud loans as uncollectible. Delinquency rates improved in the third quarter on loans for cars, home improvements and even boats and recreational vehicles, the bankers group reported in its quarterly survey.
The survey by Freddie Mac, the government-controlled mortgage buyer, was conducted Monday through Wednesday and should be posted on Freddie's news site later today. It assumed that borrowers had good credit, a 20% down payment or equity in the home, and paid 0.7% of the loan amount in upfront lender charges, or points.
Last week, the average for a 30-year fixed loan was 5.14% and the week before 5.10%, Freddie Mac said. For the seven weeks before that, the average rate was less than 5% as government support for the mortgage market took effect, including heavy buying of mortgage bonds by the Federal Reserve. Last year at this time, the 30-year fixed rate mortgage averaged 5.10%.
Other mortgage rates, according to Freddie Mac:
–The 15-year fixed rate averaged 4.50% with an average 0.7 point, down from last week's 4.54% and 4.83% a year ago.
–The rate for a hybrid home loan, fixed for five years and then fluctuating with yields on Treasury securities, averaged 4.44% this week with 0.6 point, unchanged from last week and compared to 5.57% a year earlier.
–The 1-year Treasury-linked adjustable rate mortgage averaged 4.31% this week with an average 0.6 point, down from last week when it averaged 4.33%. At this time last year, the one-year ARM averaged 4.85%


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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 29, 2016) - Cypherpath, the leader in on-demand containerized infrastructure solutions, today announced that its Cypherpath Infrastructure Container System is now available for enterprise-level infrastructure deployments. The Cypherpath Infrastructure Container System is the industry's first Infrastructure as a File (IaaF) solution to provide customers with the power to model, build, deploy, run and manage data center infrastructure as easily as sharing a file.
Despite billions of dollars of investment made in legacy hardware and software infrastructure solutions, enterprises are discovering that they are increasingly unable to keep pace with modern computing demands. By encapsulating the full IT stack in a container, Cypherpath seamlessly helps transition the enterprise to a modern infrastructure by enabling organizations large and small to build highly-scalable, agile and portable infrastructures on top of existing investments.
To extend its solution to thousands of enterprise customers, Cypherpath also unveiled its emerging partner ecosystem that includes Tegile Systems, the leading provider of multi-tiered flash storage arrays for all-flash data center, Quali, the leading Cloud Sandbox platform for DevOps automation, and Hedvig, the company modernizing storage and accelerating enterprise adoption of private and hybrid clouds. Through these strategic partnerships, joint enterprise customers receive:
With Cypherpath, businesses looking to modernize can quickly and easily build and deploy highly-secure IT infrastructures in private and public clouds on bare metal hardware. The Cypherpath software-defined approach to data centers boosts productivity and brings resiliency to the enterprise while providing a future-proof solution that supports modern apps and services. Deploying Cypherpath infrastructure containers is achieved with a simple, scalable drag and drop interface and puts the infrastructure completely under software control, facilitating a flexible and scalable IT system that responds to the on-demand needs of modern-day businesses.
For more information on Cypherpath's Infrastructure Container System, please visit: www.Cypherpath.com.
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"Infrastructure as a File takes the encapsulation pioneered with compute virtualization to the next step to enable those without specialized skills to deploy complex infrastructure, including compute, network and storage," says Dan Conde, analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "The capability to deploy on public and private clouds on bare metal hardware with ease will provide organizations with the flexibility to achieve appropriate hybrid cloud solutions."
"Reconfiguring an enterprise-grade IT infrastructure to run more efficiently, securely and at an acceptable cost is nothing less than overwhelming," said Danial Faizullabhoy, president and CEO, Cypherpath. "The Cypherpath Infrastructure Container System for the enterprise helps organizations, regardless of size, need or existing legacy solutions, to build and deploy highly secure private or public cloud scenarios on bare metal in a manner of minutes. We've created a platform that makes infrastructure as portable and simple as a data file."
"Information technology needs to reflect the pace at which businesses operate today -- fast and agile. Today's infrastructure solutions do not provide users with the flexibility needed to support the growing demand for compute and storage," said Rob Commins, vice president of marketing at Tegile. "Tegile and Cypherpath work together to help organizations achieve enhanced hyper-convergence that does not limit scalability regardless of workload size."
"Modern IT infrastructures for data centers and cloud require agile 'real-world' testing of complex environments to ensure that performance, security and functionality requirements are met. However, the cost of replicating a production environment is a deterrent causing enterprises to take shortcuts and make compromises," said Shashi Kiran, chief marketing officer of Quali. "Cypherpath's on-demand infrastructure containers combined with Quali's cloud sandboxing software provides users with a highly-sophisticated, cost effective and agile way to create and manage physical and virtual dev/test environments with applications to help optimize for security and performance in enterprise-grade IT systems."
"Most customers today do not want to be locked into any single vendor because they require the flexibility and compatibility a white box x86 hardware solution provides," said Avinash Lakshman, founder and CEO at Hedvig. "With Hedvig and Cypherpath, all our customers can realize the promise of Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) on any server, at the performance they need and at the best value."
About Cypherpath
Enterprises rely on Cypherpath to create, deliver and manage containerized on-demand infrastructure at the lowest possible cost while providing container security and simplified control of the entire stack. Cypherpath's industry-leading enterprise software platform encapsulates virtualized compute, network, and storage resources into software containers running on commodity hardware. Learn more at http://www.cypherpath.com.
Media Contact:Anton Molodetskiy510.984.1524Email Contact


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Rising residential property values in Detroit's historic Corktown enclave are welcome windfalls for longtime residents ready to cash in, but less welcome by some neighbors skittish about changes ahead.
Unease and activism in the area that's a redevelopment hotbed are chronicled by Bridge magazine managing editor Joel Kurth in a pair of articles.
Blocks on both sides of Michigan Avenue near downtown were gaining condos, apartments and renovated homes even before Ford Motor Co. bought the Michigan Central Station in May 2018 and laid out plans for an autonomous vehicles campus in Corktown. That accelerated real estate investments and residents' concerns -- a noteworthy phenomenon for Detroit, Kurth writes:
The mere existence of discussion about managing growth and maintaining neighborhood character is remarkable for a city that eight years ago was debating downsizing by shutting services to entire neighborhoods.
And it's a debate largely confined to a few pockets of the impoverished city.
The comprehensive main article, a 2,300-word overview of emerging and re-energized neighborhood groups citywide, is headlined "Down for so long, can Detroit remember how to include neighbors in growth?"
Experts say decades of decline, disinvestment and policy changes have left Detroit with few robust neighborhood-based development groups, giving city hall an outsized influence in shaping Motown's comeback. . . .
Folks like [Roseann] Micallef in Corktown [are] worried the neighborhood of small houses will lose its character and become what she calls a "soulless version of Midtown."
Micallef, who started the Corktown Neighborhood Association last year, is among those Kurth quotes:
► "There's a lot of excitement, but some are anxious too because Ford is the icing on the gentrification cake. There's tension based in fear of losing connection to the neighborhood you grew up in." -- Tim McKay, longtime preservationist
► "I'm not the old man, shaking my fist at the sky, saying 'No change.' I just want the neighbors to have some sort of say in what happens in the neighborhood. Maybe that's impossible. . . .
"We're really excited about Ford's plans. Nobody wants to be part of the ruin porn industry, where Japanese and German tourists would come into our neighborhood, posing in front of the train station and flashing peace signs. It's the people [and developers] who come in after Ford, who ride in on their coattails, that we are all a little scared of." -- Roseann Micallef, who lives in the Church Street home where she was raised
► "The fear is they are going to replicate the success of Midtown throughout the city, but not every neighborhood wants to be Midtown." -- Maggie DeSantis, east-side activist who created a nonprofit called Building the Engine for Community Development in Detroit
► "Planning is so centralized that Detroit is becoming a personal canvas for city planners, with no buy-in from people who have to live, sleep and eat in these little experiments." -- Jonathan Kinloch, 13th Congressional District Democratic Party chairman
► "There are strong organizations out there and we want to engage in them. We want to get even more connected to neighborhood organizations out there." -- Arthur Jemison, mayoral aide
Sheila Cockrel questions who really
is 'speaking for the neighborhood'
An accompanying article presents views from Sheila Cockrel, a former city council member (1994-2009) who grew up in Corktrown and chaired a Neighborhood Advisory Council in recent years. The 71-year-old political veteran is founder and CEO of Crossroads Consulting, a public policy advisory firm.
Excerpts from her discussion with Kurth, presented in Q&A format by Bridge:
► "Can I get mad at someone who has been here 30 years and feels like their ship is coming in because someone is coming to their door who will give you cash five times what you paid for your house? This is capitalism, baby."
► "There's a big issue sometimes when people start saying, 'I'm speaking for the neighborhood.' Did you wake up and put on your socks and someone said, 'You are now speaking for all of us?' Electing officials [to council] is supposed to be the structure that gives legitimacy."
► "There's a consciousness about balancing neighborhood concerns and [expanding the tax base] with [Mike Duggan's] administration. . . . They aren't paying lip service."
-- Alan Stamm


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Watch this webinar with IDERA and Mindy Curnutt as she covers an introduction to the spatial features in SQL Server.
In this session, you will learn how to create, procure and leverage spatial data. You will be made aware of tools you can use to integrate your own spatial data with a variety of public data sources such as the Census Bureau, National Weather Service, etc. Functions and T-SQL commands related to spatial data analysis will be demonstrated. We will end the session by using the geometry data type to actually mimic a bitmapped picture using SQL (that's the fun part!).
Mindy Curnutt is a SQL Server MVP and has been actively involved in the SQL Server Community since 2000. She has presented at her local North Texas SQL Server User Group (2002, 2003, 2015), SQLPASS Summits (2005, 2006, 2012, 2013), and numerous SQLSaturday events (2013-2015). She was a SME for both the SQL 2012 and 2014 Certification Exams and is an MSPress Books co-author. Mindy works for Trimble Navigation/TMW Systems as a distinguished engineer and the director of database architecture.


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Between Women Episode 2
The second episode of the series Between Women. For more info visit www.BetweenWomenTV.com!
Twitter @BetweenWomenTV
Executive Produced, Created and Written by
Michelle A. Daniel
Directed and Edited By
Christina Brown
Director of Photography
George Cartwright
Dred Carpenter
Toya Sessoms
Amber "Smiles" Jones
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After his successful run winning Pop Album of The Year with Sean Tizzle, Fast rising producer PrinceBoom calls upon Reekado Banks, The Rookie of the Year and MMMG starboy Tekno to release a hot new single titled Give Them. PrinceBoom's beats stand out yet again.
DOWNLOAD:PrinceBoom - Give Them ft Reekado Banks & Tekno (6.1 MiB, 5,109 hits)


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Problems with no elegant solution
June 9, 2011
One of the things that bothers me the most in software development is when you come across a problem for which there simply is no nice solution to be found. You come up with some ugly hack and get the job done, but the nagging feeling of having fallen short lingers for days.
Problem in question: A project I'm working on sells stuff and uses a payment gateway for this. API access is expensive so we're opting for the proxy method, meaning that the page that reads credit card information is actually served by the payment provider. It looks something like this:
This means that our /payment page is a very special case. All asset paths must be relative, ie. images/foo.png instead of /images/foo.png. In contrast, links must be absolute, http://shop.com/about instead of /about.
I want the rest of the site to follow normal Rails conventions, so I need to special case this very page. This in itself is a challenge, because as it turns out my ugly hack will affect the application layout as well.
I first tried a few different routes:
- Override url_for and set :path_only => false. This solves only half of the problem (asset paths would still be wrong) and turned out to be painful because of the two different url_for implementations. Figuring out why is left as an exercise for the reader because frankly, I can't be bothered to explain why. Leave a comment if you want to know.
- Define some default_url_options. For some reason, I never got this to work reliably, and after some time of fruitless digging trough the Rails source, I abandoned the idea.
- Create middleware that kicks in only if controller == Xxx and action == Yyy. It would then process the HTML and change href="/…" instances to be relative etc. You may object that this is a terrible way of abusing the middleware system, but if it had worked, it would actually have been the least intrusive option. The reason it broke down was unexpected and enlightening: I was able to rewrite the HTML, but afterwards the Apache module pagespeed rewrote it again to optimize CSS includes etc. Obviously this only happened in our production environment, so it took me a couple of hours to track down.
The solution
Warning: You will be appalled.
What I ended up doing was:
- In views/layouts/application.html.haml, I only include JS and CSS if we're not on the payment page.
- In the payment view, I include all JS/CSS like this (notice that the path does not begin with a slash): %script{ :src => "javascripts/jquery.min.js", :type => "text/javascript" }
- Also in the payment view, I added some JS that absolutifies all links. It looks like this:
$('a[href^="/"]').each(function (idx) { fullUrl = "http://myshop.com" + $(this).attr("href"); $(this).attr("href", fullUrl); });
I have created some code that works, but which I'm really, really unhappy about. I hope that some day I'll come up with a better idea and fix this, but I doubt it. Suggestions are obviously welcome – please leave a comment.
My Org-mode journey – Chapter 1
January 30, 2011
As the title suggests, I expect this to be the first in a series of articles about how I use org-mode. Right now I'm at the point where I'm really starting to see the light. I've known about org-mode for several years, but only recently decided to give it a serious try.
Since I started my own company, I have been looking for a simple, effective tool for keeping track of all the various projects I am working on. I'm already using Harvest to track billable hours. For detailed planning of each sprint in an ongoing project, I love Pivotal Tracker, and I'm going to stick with that for the time being.
But I needed something else to get an overview of all those projects and ideas that are floating around in various stages of completion. Both in my head, in emails, on my hard drive and in Google Docs. Something to record all sorts of metadata about each project (estimates, ideas, contracts) as well as actual work artifacts (pointers to code commits, design docs, links to user stories).
I'm going to skip the details, but I briefly evaluated Highrise (for projects and tasks), but quickly discarded it. I may explain why in a separate post, but the gist of it is just that the workflow didn't really feel natural to me.
So I decided to have another go at org-mode, and this time I think I nailed it!
Org-mode is an Emacs major mode which provides features for organizing information in a hierarchical manner. Lists of items can be nested into sublevels, and each item can contain plain text contents. There is support for links to URLs and to places in other files.
There is also support for lots and lots of other stuff. A much better introduction can be found at the Org-mode website.
File structure
One of the things I found hard to begin with was file organization. How do you layout the directory structure? Should you create a folder per project, with files like "plan.org", "estimates.org" etc. inside each? Or maybe organize the files by contact?
Eventually, I ended up simply having a bunch of files in a single directory:
buzz.org leads.org links.org notes.org passwords.org projects.org readinglist.org todo.org wb.org
Side note 1: passwords.org is of course encrypted and, incidentally, replaces my use of 1Password (which worked fine but I never bothered to learn 90% of its features so the UI felt very bloated to me).
Side note 2: The file notes.org collects stuff I capture with remember.el.
Everything related to projects (whether active, planned or potential), goes into projects.org. Each project just gets a top-level item with related information organized into sub-items.
This was the real revelation for me: Links.
It sounds trivial, and it is, but linking to all kinds of stuff seems to be one of the best ways for me to organize my work. I have no idea why I didn't realize this sooner. One of the reasons I tried out Highrise was because of its support for organizing emails. I still think that this is pretty clever, but org-mode is just simpler and more versatile.
The text "Data model" links to the Google Doc containing the data model description. Likewise, the text "Mail about data model" links to an email (in Gmail) I sent to the client about the data model.
This is a very simple building block, but very powerful. I can insert into my project any resource I can link to, which means almost anything these days. Commits in Github, web pages (obviously), documents, spreadsheets, presentations, video clips.
Org-mode is ideal for breaking down major tasks into subtasks, so it makes sense that it also has support for attaching estimates to these tasks.
What you see here is column mode in action. The estimates on the lowest level tasks (cyan items) are entered by hand, and Org-mode then sums up these values in the higher level items, ending up at the root with a total estimate of 36 hours.
Highrise has support for tasks, and I'm sure it's good.
However, I created support for tasks just by creating the file todo.org. I really don't need anything more fancy than a list of text strings right now. When I do, org-mode has lots of nice features for tracking deadlines, time spent on tasks etc.
Exporting to PDF
This is really easy once you have everything set up.
Suppose I want to export this very simple file:
This is done with the command org-export-as-pdf, and here is the resulting PDF.
Next steps
I'm not sure, what do you think? Any suggestions for improvements on these workflows would be greatly appreciated. Just drop a comment.


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Dog stabbed in Brockville parking lot; charges laid
BROCKVILLE – A dog owner has been charged with stabbing another person's animal during a stop at a local chip truck.
Brockville police were called around 2 p.m. Saturday to the Giant Tiger parking lot on Central Avenue.
A chip truck worker had thrown out some food for a couple of dogs and when a smaller dog was nipped at by a larger dog, police said.
The owner of the small dog is accused of pulling a knife and stabbing the larger animal numerous times.
Police said the dog was "stitched up" at the Brockville Animal Hospital and is "stable."
The owner of the smaller dog, whom police won't name, has been charged with possession of a dangerous weapon and injuring an animal.
Police said the accused was also charged Friday with impaired operation of an E-bike and refusing to provide a breath sample.


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The marble original in the Akropolis Museum, Athens, was most probably produced immediately after Alexander's arrival in Athens after the Battle of Chaironeia in 338BC by the sculptor Leochares.
This bust is cast for us, in Greece, using the traditional 'lost wax' method. As nothing is mass-produced, there will inevitably be slight variations in patination and colouring. Each piece is, therefore, unique. He is mounted on a marble base.
He is shown here with the slightly larger version:
|dimensions etc
|Height including base: 15cm
bronze Alexander the Great (mini)
- Code: BB-24
- Status: In Stock
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Thursday, August 4, 2011
Making the Old New: A Family Film Favorite ~ Loving Leah
14 comments:
- Jeanne Takenaka said...
Casey, this is such a great post! I really like the way you showed how to put a twist into "the old cliches" with this movie. This is the second time this movie has been mentioned to me in as many weeks. Something tells me I need to rent or borrow it. Thanks also for giving me ideas on how to deepen my characters. Well done!
- August 4, 2011 at 12:34 AM
- Casey said...
Good morning Jeanne! You visited early this morning. :)
Yes, this movie is a great family film and perfect for us writers. :) Twisting cliches are a great way to make our stories unique. It's so fun to break them. :)
- August 4, 2011 at 6:37 AM
- Cindy R. Wilson said...
Casey, I love taking old plot lines and making them new--that's one of the most enjoyable things about writing for me. I haven't ever seen this movie but it sounds like a good one ;)
- August 4, 2011 at 9:13 AM
- Joy Tamsin David said...
I have never heard of this movie, but now I'm going to have to check Netflix for it. Sounds like I'd love it.
Great example of twisting cliches.
- August 4, 2011 at 10:40 AM
- Mary Vee Writer said...
Good points
Breking cliche's are difficult to do mostly because they are stuck in our heads. But to the writer who can venture to a new angle, they will be victorious.
- August 4, 2011 at 12:13 PM
- Faith said...
Great post Casey! I have seen this movie and really enjoyed it, and I agree that it is well done! I can't really think of something right off the top of my head. Maybe it's because I like cliches way more than I should! But typically any clean movie where the guy gets the girl :p
- August 4, 2011 at 2:56 PM
- oodlesofgrace said...
Just found your blog today . . . already a huge fan. Have been reading old archives when I should be doing paperwork for my "real" job. Thanks for such a fun diversion!
- August 4, 2011 at 4:53 PM
- Krista Phillips said...
This is a new movie for me too! Great post, Casey!
- August 4, 2011 at 5:05 PM
- Casey said...
Cindy, I love how sweet the romance is in this story. So captivating. And I agree with you...it's a challenging (but fun) way to make our fiction stand out!
Hey Joy! I think you would REALLY love this movie. :)
- August 4, 2011 at 5:50 PM
- Casey said...
Mary, very well said. You should have writtent this post. ;-)
Faye, lolol! Very true, which is why more and more new cliches are being invented all the time. :)
- August 4, 2011 at 5:51 PM
- Casey said...
Susan, so glad to have you here! Glad we could be a nice diversion for you. :)
Krista, thanks! Soo glad you are now home with the fam. :)
- August 4, 2011 at 5:52 PM
- Sarah Forgrave said...
Excellent breakdown, Casey. This sounds like my kind of movie. Now I've gotta track it down somewhere so I can watch it. :)
- August 4, 2011 at 7:16 PM
- Keli Gwyn said...
I thoroughly enjoyed Loving Leah, so much so I purchased it. Like you, Casey, I'm a real fan of marriage of convenience stories, and this one had such a fresh new twist. Well, it's really taken from the Bible, but when put in today's world it made for a great story.
- August 5, 2011 at 12:43 PM
- Casey said...
Sarah, I hope you can find it! And all this talk has got me wanting to see it again. :)
Keli, I was thinking of you actually while I wrote this, because I saw your a fan of The Magic of Ordinary Days. Hmmm...do I see a theme going here? :)
- August 5, 2011 at 1:38 PM


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Visual Display Is Needed Everywhere!
Students often think window dressing or visual merchandising is for clothing retailers only. All stores need to display their merchandise. Can you think of some other establishments where your skills could be put to use?
Here's a clue for one idea:
But there are so many more…..in fact everywhere! The skills you acquire doing visual display can be used for interior design, set design, even event planning. Start looking around as you go about your daily errands and pay attention to the displays you see in the bookstore, grocery store, trade shows, big box retailers. What looks good and what doesn't? The hardest part for me as a teacher is not teaching you about the principles of display: balance, symmetry, color, etc…..it's trying to teach someone how to have that "eye" for style and good taste.
Why is it that some people can throw together any outfit and still look good? Why is it that some interior design work is a mish mash of found objects but still looks well-edited and really pulled together. I'm sorry kids but having that "eye" is not something that can be taught, but you can train yourself to be able to pick up on what is aesthetically pleasing and what is not.
How you do this is? – by paying attention, everyday to what you see! I understand beauty is subjective, but good taste is not! I've seen lots of designs that don't fit my aesthetic but were done really well. This is why I give you that store study assignment to complete every week. The only way to learn is by doing.


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Sage of the week seeks unique yet oblique
Resolution (obeying the Constitution) for fiscal absolution
In terse, unreherse verse. What's worse,
Apocope doesn't rhyme—nope-ey.
"President Barack Obama formally ordered broad cuts in government spending on Friday night after he and congressional Republicans failed to reach a deal to avert automatic reductions that could dampen economic growth and curb military readiness."
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Bangladesh Bank on Wednesday asked all scheduled banks operating in the country to take necessary steps on deduction of source tax at the rate of 5 per cent on interest income from investment on savings instruments worth up to Tk 5 lakh with effect from August 28.
The National Board of Revenue on August 28 issued a gazette notification slashing the tax from 10 per cent imposed in the budget for the current fiscal year 2019-2020.
Though the gazette notification did not mention any date about the effectiveness of the reduced tax rate, income tax wing on September 2, in a letter to National Savings Directorate, said that the tax rate became effective from the date of issuance of the SRO.
The central bank, in an instruction to managing directors and chief executive officers of all scheduled banks in the country, informed the decision of the revenue board and asked them to take measures in line with the decision of the NBR.
According to the NBR gazette notification, small investors whose investment will not exceed Tk 5 lakh will enjoy the reduced rate of source tax on income from investment irrespective of the time of making investment.
The benefit will not be applicable if investment exceeds Tk 5 lakh and, in case of that, 10 per cent tax will be applicable to the total investment.
NBR chairman MD Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan initially announced that the benefit would be effective from July 1 and investors would be able to adjust or get refund the additional tax deducted at 10 per cent since July 1.
Income tax officials said NBR fixed the effective date as August 28 as the tax on savings instruments was considered as final settlement and there was no scope for adjustment.
There will be no tax on income or interest from pensioners' savings certificates and wage earners development bonds if the total accumulated investment at the end of the relevant income year in such certificates and bonds does not exceed Tk 5 lakh, according to the SRO.
The tax rate will be 10 per cent if the investment in the sector exceeds Tk 5 lakh, it said.
Investment on pensioners' savings certificates up to Tk 5 lakh has been enjoying tax exemption over the last few years.


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The fundraising contest ends Wednesday! Vote now! And if you're on Reddit, upvote it! As of this writing, Camp Quest is very close to doubling their grant money from $10,000 to $20,000! And the SSA is just a little above the line for keeping their $50,000! So let's make that free money happen!
And to those who don't want to do this because they don't like Facebook giving away their info: You can sign up for Facebook in less than a minute, not give them any info, vote, and never use that Facebook account again. You can also help by spreading the word on Twitter, Reddit, and other social media!
This is a guest post by Noelle George, Operations Manager, Foundation Beyond Belief and co-host of the Parenting Within Reason podcast, and by Kate Donovan, 2012 Fall Communications Intern, Foundation Beyond Belief and blogger at Teen Skepchick.
In between checking your email and the latest updates on your Facebook wall, can you spare a few clicks? Foundation Beyond Belief, Secular Student Alliance, and Camp Quest need your votes to earn up to $450,000 combined in the Chase Community Giving contest! They're all 501(c)(3) non-profits, so a little money never hurt—and you know it's not going to pay for increasing the size of their yacht fleets.
The Chase Community Giving program awards funding to charities based on votes from Facebook users and Chase customers, and there are lots of grants available.
The first place winner gets $250K, next 10 get $100K, the next 35 get $50K, and the next 50 get $20K.
As of September 10th, Day 5 of the contest, SSA has almost 900 votes, FBB has about 580, and Camp Quest has about 230. SSA was ranked 34th as of this morning (a $50K grant) but they have been slipping down since the start and will drop to only a $20K grant at 36th place if we don't do something.
Right now the top ranked organization in the contest has 5500 votes total, and 11th place has about 1000 more votes than SSA collected. Oh, math! The point is, every single vote counts! We need every vote, and we need you to share this with your friends and get them to vote!
On Facebook, you can get two votes automatically that have to be used on different charities, and you can earn a third vote that can be doubled up or used on a third charity if you share a link on your wall and someone clicks on it. Here's the Facebook event with all the voting links that you can use to RSVP and let your friends online know about the contest.
To go directly to the Chase giving pages on Facebook and vote, here are the links:
Vote for Camp Quest: Camp Quest provides an educational adventure for kids 8-17 years old that is shaped by fun, friends and freethought, featuring science, natural wonder and humanist values.
Vote for Secular Student Alliance: The Secular Student Alliance organizes, unites, educates, and serves students and student communities that promote the ideals of scientific and critical inquiry, democracy, secularism, and human-based ethics.
Vote for Foundation Beyond Belief : Foundation Beyond Belief provides a venue for humanists to put their values into actions by supporting efforts to improve this world and this life, and to focus, encourage and demonstrate humanist values such as generosity, compassion, mutual care and responsibility.
Chase customers get two additional votes in addition to the Facebook votes. That means one person can have up to 5 votes to spend on three or more charities.
Voting ends on Wednesday, September 19th. Please vote today, and help spread the word!
For more stories about this drive and these organizations, visit and follow, visit the Parenting Beyond Belief blog, the Foundation Beyond Belief blog, the Secular Student Alliance blog, and the Camp Quest blog. Another post appeared recently on Dale McGowan's parenting website, Parenting Beyond Belief. You can also follow these groups on Twitter: @foundbb, @volunteersbb, @secularstudents, and @campquest.


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Whether fronting a band, performing solo, or pairing with a collaborator, Mark Lanegan's voice can be counted on to add a little weight to the proceedings. The seriousness isn't an act by a long shot, either. Interviewing Lanegan is like trying to have a deep conversation with Hellboy. Not Ron Perlman, the actor who plays him, but the actual phlegmatic, taciturn, constantly hungry, gravelly voiced demon. Lanegan tends to give one-sentence answers and makes no bones about questions that he considers normal journalistic bullshit. He also apparently likes crunchy food, which he consumed between giving answers and erupting in throaty coughs. We spoke over the phone, and I never asked Lanegan exactly what he was eating — it took enough guts to ask him whether the Screaming Trees would ever get back together.
Tell me something exciting about Sunday at Devil Dirt, which you recorded with Isobel Campbell.
Dude, I don't know how to answer a question like that. The album is a guy singing and a girl singing. It's nothing more, nothing less. If you're into that sort of thing, then buy the album. If not, then buy something else.
How did you end up collaborating with Isobel Campbell in the first place?
She sent me some songs in the mail and asked if I wanted to sing them. I did.
Was there anything different this time around?
I was actually in the same room with Isobel this time. That was a different experience than the first time.
Do you approach singing your own songs differently than songs written by someone else?
I just try to find my place in the song and get comfortable singing it. It's something that just happens naturally. It's hard to explain, but sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't. I wish there was something magical to tell you about. There's not. You go in and sing the song. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. I've been lucky enough to have it work more often than not.
In addition to fronting two bands, you've also worked with Campbell and Greg Dulli. Which collaboration worked the best for you?
You can't really compare the experiences. It's like apples and oranges. I will say that working with Greg and Isobel has been great, but each of them has their own good points. The important thing is that it's easy to do. After I finished up with Screaming Trees, I said I wasn't going to do anything that wasn't easy for me.
Is there a chance that you'll call the Conners up and get the old band back together?
They are both good guys. I love those guys and played music with them for fifteen years. I think that whatever that band had to say was said, and the process got to be too grueling. Does that mean that if a promoter called me up and offered me a million dollars for a reunion concert, that I wouldn't take it? No. But a promoter isn't going to call with that kind of offer, so I don't have to worry about it. But since I was in that band, there will always be that question out there.
Will you ever get out from under being part of the grunge movement and Seattle sound?
I can't change what I've done. I don't think I would if I had the chance. Elsewhere around the world I'm better known for my work on other projects. In Europe they know me for my work with Isobel and an album I did with Soulsavers. I don't consider myself a part of the Seattle thing. That became mainstream really quickly, and anytime anything in my career has headed anywhere near the mainstream, I've taken a hard left. There were places where I could have gone all in, but I wasn't ready to do that kind of thing. I'm pretty lucky to have worked as long as I have in this business.
You don't have any regrets, then?
I always consider myself to be a pretty good breakfast cook that ended up as a singer. If you told me when I started in 1984 that I would still be singing in 2008, let alone have somebody asking me about it, I would have laughed. I'm sure there are things I missed somewhere along the line, but I don't think about it. When I wanted to make music the opportunity has been there. There were times when I didn't want to make music and I did other things.
What other things have you done?
I worked construction. I was painting houses for a while. The music thing wasn't happening. I did something else.
Did anybody know that you were a musician?
Nobody cared. There was a job to be done.
Your artistic persona seems pretty intense. Do you ever just kick back and bowl or something?
I do normal shit. I spend time with family and friends. I've bowled on occasion. I listen to a lot of music. I follow basketball pretty closely. I have season tickets for the Clippers, which is the only economically feasible way to follow the sport in my town.
What do you think about the Sonics heading to Oklahoma City?
It's a bummer, man. That was my team, you know, the one that I followed. It sucks that they're gone. There's no hard feelings, though. You can't be angry that a city wants to have a team, you know.
What kind of music do you listen to when you're kicking back?
I listen to anything but the kind of music that I play. I need something other than all that darkness. There are lots of things, you know?
Are we talking the Carpenters?
No. I just can't think of specifics without having my iPod out in front of me. I just sort of plug in and let in go. Definitely not the Carpenters, though: It doesn't get any darker than that.


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As the BAT Program Coordinator, Ellen is involved in a wide range of requests relating to BAT: CBATI applications, BAT seminars and general communication on all things BAT-related.
Ellen is responsible for ensuring the CBATI applicants' Practical Skills Assessments are thoroughly evaluated and handles communication channels during the process. Her role within the BAT organization also includes helping with participants' organization at the certification courses and there's a high probability you will find her assisting at a CBATI course here or there.
"As the BAT Program Coordinator, it is an honor and privilege to work with Grisha Stewart and her team of BAT experts. As a CBATI and BAT Program Coordinator, I am thrilled to witness the growth and success of Behavior Adjustment Training taking place around the world. Every day I'm in awe of how many dedicated professionals are out there striving to learn and to do more. The opportunity to interact with so many of these talented and knowledgeable trainers through the CBATI/BAT platform is inspiring and rewarding. It's exciting to see even more people discover BAT; to be involved in their education of it is pretty amazing." - Ellen
Ellen began her career in dog training by volunteering at the Los Angeles County Animal Shelter in Agoura Hills. It was here that she experienced first hand the tremendous variety of breeds, dispositions, and behavior issues. She also realized how just a little bit of training could have a huge impact on the dog and their future families.
Inspired by the transformations at the shelter, Ellen soon began devoting her career path to working with dogs on a professional level. She became a Certified Behavior Adjustment Training Instructor (CBATI) at the very first course offered in 2012. As a CBATI, Ellen helps families throughout the greater Los Angeles area while mentoring other trainers within her local area. She is also a Certified Professional Dog Trainer-Knowledge Assessed (CPDT-KA). She lives in San Pedro, California with her adopted foster dog, Skittles, and her partner, Tony.
If you have a BAT question, please use our contact form to get in touch with Ellen.
PSA Evaluation Team
These great trainers work with Ellen and me to review the Practical Skills Assessments that CBATI applicants submit to demonstrate their knowledge of BAT. Their evaluations are an essential part of the process in deciding whether the trainer's videos of BAT in action meets the high standards of a CBATI.
CBATI Jennie Murphy has been training dogs since 1990, both in a class situation and through private sessions. For the past 6 years, she has made the transition to totally positive training methods and for this she thanks her 8 year old German Shepherd, Lexi. The traditional compulsion based methods she had been using were making her dog more reactive and defensive. At the time, there were very few positive based training opportunities in her area so she began to search the internet for more humane methods to help in the rehabilitation of her dog. She began to use Leslie McDevitt's Control Unleashed Program and saw positive changes. Through more on line studying, Jennie came across BAT and found it to be the missing link for her dog. In 2012 she signed up for the BAT Instructors Course in Westborough, Mass and in 2013, she became a certified Behavior Adjustment Trainer and started A Rock Solid Dog, her own training school,. She specializes in dogs that have reactivity issues, but also has a large clientele of dogs in need of learning every day manners.
In addition to her private practice, Jennie is also an instructor with the Newfoundland Athletic Dog Association and teaches occasional classes with the Newfoundland Kennel Club. She is a Canine Good Neighbor Evaluator, a Fun Scent Games Instructor, and a member of NADA. She also volunteers with the city shelter providing training advice and working with the dogs in hopes to make them more adoptable. Jennie was recently hired by Canine Game Theory, an on line game based dog academy to make videos for their website, and she appears in Emily Larlham's (known as Kikopup on YouTube) Dog Reactivity DVD where Jennie's BAT training abilities were highlighted by a clip of her training her dog, Lexi.
Jennie continues her education through learning opportunities such as Grisha Stewart's Animal Building Blocks Academy, Karen Pryor Clicker Foundation Training course; Susan Garret's Recallers, Puppy Peeks, Nosework Courses and several classes with the Fenzi Dog Sport Academy. Most importantly, she is a lover of dogs and looks forward to helping trainers and clients reach the goals they've set forth with their dogs.
Jennie lives in Newfoundland, Canada with her husband, Robert, son Colin and her two dogs, Lexi and Benny. You can check out A Rock Solid Dog at www.facebook.com/arocksoliddog to learn more and to contact Jennie directly for information on her private sessions and group classes.
CBATI Jo Laurens has been working with people and their dogs since 2006, offering both 'regular' training and also behavioral work. Jo had been using BAT for a while, before taking the UK BAT Instructors' Course run by Grisha, in February 2014. This was the first BAT Instructors' course to cover the new BAT 2.0 material.
Jo is a Registered Practitioner with the Animal Behaviour and Training Council (ABTC); a full member of the APDT (UK); and a full member of the Pet Professional Guild (PPG). Jo's background is firmly in clicker training, and she has attended many courses at Kay Lawrence's Learning About Dogs - gaining her CAP1 and CAP2 awards with Distinction. Jo is a proponent of force-free gundog training, and works and competes with her own dogs. She is an Accredited Assessor for The Gundog Club (UK) and runs force-free gundog training classes.
Jo runs DogWorks, an organization offering training and behavioral work - including a full spectrum of classes and behavioral packages. One of her favorite classes is the ongoing weekly group BAT class.
Jo lives with her husband, Adam, and fur-kids Slate (Weimaraner); Grey (Slovakian Rough Haired Pointer) and Moye (black labrador)."
CBATI Lisa Walker has a passion for shelter dogs with behavior and/or medical challenges, and has privately rescued, fostered, trained and placed hundreds of homeless dogs over the last thirty years. Her deep understanding of the behaviors a rescued dog may bring into a new home inspired her to specialize in working with families who love and live with dogs who are fearful, anxious, or reactive, through her business Center for Canine Excellence in Freeport, Maine. She is a Licensed Presenter for Dogs & Storks® and Dog & Baby Connection™ programs, teaches training classes at the Animal Welfare Society in Kennebunk, Maine, and is an Approved AKC Canine Good Citizen Evaluator. Lisa attended Triple Crown Academy for Professional Dog Trainers, and is a member of the Pet Professional Guild, International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants, the Association of Pet Dog Trainers, and the Association of Animal Behavior Professionals.
Dr. Nick Dodman, Tufts Animal Behavior Clinic, suggested Lisa try Behavior Adjustment Training with her own dog, Seguin, shortly after she rescued him. "BAT literally saved his life, igniting a desire to learn as much about BAT as I could to help as many dogs as possible." Lisa attended a BAT Seminar in RI and a BAT Instructor's Workshop in MA in 2012 and became a CBATI shortly thereafter, and was a Team Leader in BAT Instructor Workshops in 2013 and 2014. "BAT is a very valuable tool in my toolkit and has made the difference for many frustrated dog/handler teams."
Lisa shares her home with Seguin (White German Shepherd Dog) and five more rescued dogs; Jill (Chow-X), Zoe (Wirehaired Terrier), Emmett (Dachshund), Ava Grace (Japanese Chin), and Hazel (Poodle). Her dog training business, Center for Canine Excellence, is based in Freeport, Maine.
CBATI Viviane Arzoumanian has been training people and their dogs professionally since 2005. She learned about BAT in 2013, took the instructor's course in October of that year, and became a CBATI. Viviane's commitment to using gentle, fair and force free methods made BAT a "no brainer" and she loves the structure and language that Grisha has brought to this aspect of behavior modification for reactive and fearful behavior in dogs. She considers herself fortunate to have been able to serve as a team leader for two BAT Instructor's Courses held in the Northeast. Team leading at that early stage allowed Viviane to experience BAT in its transition from 1.0 to 2.0.
Viviane began her dog training studies with Pat Miller and continues her affiliation and advanced course education with Peaceable Paws. She also attends a variety of courses, seminars and online events to continue her education.
Living and working in NYC, Vivane identifies with the training task an urban setting can create. She loves the challenge and the elegance of incorporating BAT techniques in this crowded city where dogs are so often overwhelmed. The pieces of BAT 2.0 that she can teach her clients have proven to be powerful even when executed in less than ideal circumstances. The nuanced underpinnings of BAT keep Viviane thinking and improving all the time.
Viviane's canine volunteer activities over the years have included participation in a HSUS relinquishment prevention program, offering pro-bono training services, and fostering two stray momma dogs and raising, then placing their litters of puppies.
Viviane lives in Brooklyn with her husband of 32 years Greg, and their three dogs, all rescues: Toby an 10 year old Silky Terrier, Willow a 5 year old Heinz 57 mix (one of the momma dogs), and Willow's daughter, Greta a 4 year old. Both of her grown daughters live in Brooklyn as well; Rachel is a dog a trainer and Elizabeth is in the hospitality industry. You can check out Viviane's services at pumpkinpups.com to learn more and to contact her directly for information on private sessions and group classes.


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No one likes a growling stomach, especially not a kid on a long car ride. So for starters, time your meals carefully. If you hit the road at 6 a.m., don't wait until noon before you stop for lunch. Heck, even adults would be cranky under that scenario. Aim for reasonably filling meals every four hours or so.
Have plenty of healthy snacks and drinks on hand for the hours in between. You've got a lot of options, such as water, milk, low-sugar juice, cut up veggies and hummus, fresh fruit, string cheese, yogurt and nuts [source: Rogers]. An occasional cookie, piece of candy or scoop of ice cream is fine, but in general, stick with the healthy stuff.
Pack your snacks in a cooler before you leave, or buy them in grocery stores along the way. Don't assume you can purchase items as you go. If you find yourself in a small town, there might not be a supermarket that's easily accessible, and convenience stores usually have limited, often-unhealthy options.


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Moulin Roty Le Voyage d'Olga Pull Along Geese
$ 40.00
Beautiful and fun wooden toy from Le Voyage d'Olga collection by French toymaker, Moulin Roty. This lovely family of geese is connected with wooden beads and string. They are happy to march as a child guides them and Mommy goose flaps her rubber foot as they march for extra fun!
Size: 12 x 6.5 x 2.4 inches tall.
Materials: Wood.
Recommendations: 10 months+
Made in China.
Moulin Roty is a wonderful French toy company formed by a group of young families composed of craftsmen, farmer18s, philosophers and visionaries more than 40 years ago. The innovative designs and dedication to quality are the hallmarks of the Moulin Roty toy company and embody the spirit of the original founders.
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When four inmates at the Oregon State Correctional Institution (OSCI) approached Chaplain Kelly Raths about starting a victim empathy and insight development dialogue group, Raths reached out to members of the Department of Corrections Facilitated Dialogue Program for Severe and Violent Crime (FDP) to help launch the project. Morgan E. Moore is an FDP participant and CR student who has become one of the dialogue project developers.
Moore worked with Raths and OSCI inmates to map out a core curriculum; she also helped set up a practicum opportunity to involve fellow CR students and alumni in the project. The pilot dialogue program launched in January 2009, and focuses on three phases of dialogue, which Moore describes:
"Our first ten weeks educates the inmates on basic CR theories and practical knowledge. We ask the inmates to explore and take responsibility for the larger impact of their crime through dialogue with other inmates and facilitators.
The second ten weeks focuses on the offender's timeline and the concepts of trauma, grief, shame and guilt, values, and thinking errors and tools.
The third block, which we are still developing, attempts to apply the skills gained through role-plays, projects that provide the offender the opportunity to contribute back to the community, and examination of the depths of service they can provide and how it may help them in the future."
Moore says that other CR students are tracking the project's success through surveys, and the group plans to publish its pilot project.
To learn about internship or volunteer opportunities with the OSCI dialogue program, contact Morgan E. Moore at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Pictured (L-R): Pam Melick, CR grad student; Anna Gagnon; Rachel Foxhoven, CR alum; John Evans, CR alum; Maria Scaneli, CR alum; Michael Barrett, CR grad student; Morgan E. Moore, CR grad student.


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Several years back (eek!) I was involved in a funded project by the Technology Strategy Board that covered gesture driven interfaces etc. Off the back of it I started playing about with some ideas for different types of input methods. This was all before Kinect appeared on the scene in any serious way, and visual detection of gestures was rather crude at the time (still is to a large respect) – so I went down the physical route.
The glove basically controlled several inputs via a USB prototyping board (Interfaced with C++). I wrote some software that just latched onto the mouse events for Windows so I could send right/left clicks etc.
The nifty bit was how you turned the inputs on/off:
The darker areas on the finger tips in the above image are a type of conductive fabric, handily it had an adhesive backing so I didn't need to stitch anything (a "proper" version of this should really use conductive thread rather than the narrow gauge wires I used). The thumb acts as a ground and each of the finger tips control an input to the USB proto board. This means that when you touch your finger and thumb together you turn that input on etc. Combinations are supported too, just hold more fingers against your thumb.
The real aim of this wasn't to provide simple left/right mouse clicks – but rather than different fingers, and combinations thereof, would relate to "modes". Think of your index finger controlling a "move" mode, middle finger scale, ring finger rotate – that sort of thing.
Another neat bit of this was the other glove (not pictured – I need to find the blasted thing!) that provided the ability to control the movement of objects and such-like. Using a wiimote on top of my monitor, pointing toward me, I tracked IR LEDs on the finger tips of the glove and fed that information into GlovePIE to control the cursor movement. A wave of my hand and a tap of my fingers and I could control my desktop without touching anything 🙂
Of course in the last few years this has all exploded into the commercial space (to mixed response) with more sophisticated, visual, methods, but this has a nice cyber-punk feel to it 😀


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The area of computer science embodies the development of new software, the improvement of present software and database management for current firms. Most corporations depend on computer-based programs for their daily jobs and careers in the computer science arena have gone up significantly as a consequence. Folks with a technical mindset and an interest in mathematics and science might find that earning a computer science degree is the best tutorial course.
Informational technology and computer pros have to start with an associates or BSc. Most corporations need a college degree in a computer-related discipline before hiring a candidate for a computer position. Since technology is always developing, execs may be needed by their bosses to keep on their schooling after they're employed, to earn computer science licenses or IT authentications. An associate's degree in computer science comprises the fundamentals of software and databases and may include courses like Database Ideas and Applications, Systems Administration and Desktop Publishing.
Some little corporations may hire a student of the associate's programme for basic programming or IT jobs. Getting a BSc in computer science will supply more sundry job prospects for a graduate. The BSc programs include a syllabus that's more in depth. It includes some math-based courses and programming courses including Information Structures, Idea of Operating Systems and Macroeconomics. These all-embracing courses are made for PC Science majors who at last wish to develop new software and programs. Master's degrees are also available in computers. Scholars who enter the master's programme ought to have a grasp on their explicit career objectives in the computer science field because they'll need to select courses that deal with their career trail. If you're a pro looking for to advance your education while working, there are several online computer science degrees that may be earned from home.
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About TXOLAN Alpaca Association
TXOLAN is an official regional affiliate of the national organization, Alpaca Owners Association, Inc. TXOLAN is an acronym for the 5 state region we represent - Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and New Mexico. We also have members from around the U.S.A. for a variety of reasons which may range from show participation to partnerships with ranches primarily located within these 5 states.
This non-profit association offers alpaca breeders, fleece enthusiasts and others an opportunity to work toward excellence in an industry dedicated to promoting alpacas through education, marketing and networking with similar interests in becoming more involved in our business.
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I don't even drive but i DID and if I had a panel van, this would TOTALLY be the pic on the side. Happy Full Moon for in a few hours. I think it works just fine once the wisdom of it has been processed. It's sooo insightful…And brill for beauty zoosh-ups too. Plus absolute genius relationship revelations.
Note that anywhere that is about 23 degrees of any Mutable sign – Gemini, Pisces, Virgo, Saggo – is being skitzed right up by the approaching Mars-Uranus conjunction. Fab for rad changes, being innovative. But boredom threshold drops through the floor. Don't attempt to guilt/moralise to/control ANY of these signs in the next week. Well, EVAH. But especially in the next week. They'll go you.


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The Features list displays all features that may be added to the map. You may place a feature or several types of favorites. When you select a feature or favorite on the Features list, it is added to the Targets tab on the Attribute Editor. Use the Attribute Editor to edit fields on the feature or favorite before placing it.
Note that you cannot use the ArcFM Attribute Editor to place standard annotation features. Use Esri's Create Features window and Editor toolbar to create those.
- With a map open and an editing session started, click a
feature or favorite on the Feature tab. A single click sends the feature
or favorite to the Targets tab and populates the Target field.
Figure 1, When the user clicks Fuse: Current Limiting, that feature is displayed on the Targets tab.
You may place a subtype (e.g., Current Limiting in the example in Figure 1) or you may click the feature layer (e.g., Fuse). If you select the feature layer, it will place the subtype your administrator designates as the default.IMPORTANT: You may only place the features that exist in the currently open map. The Feature Classes section lists only the features in the current map, but the Favorites section lists all favorites available to the current user in the geodatabase. If you select a favorite that contains a feature not in the map, you will not be able to place it. ArcFM will prompt you with an informational message indicating that the selected favorite has a layer not available in the current map.
- Optional. Before placing the feature or favorite on the map, you can select it on the Targets tab and modify attributes. When you edit an attribute value, it is displayed with a blue label.
- When you single click the feature or favorite on the Features list
or the Targets tab, the cursor becomes cross-hairs and a gray
circle: . With this cursor, click the map to indicate
the point at which you want to place the feature or favorite.
If you're placing a feature or favorite, only a single click is necessary to place the item on the map (except for linear features; click at each vertex and double-click or press F2 to finish). The following favorites may require more to place them:
Composite Favorite: You may need a second click to indicate the rotation. See Composite Favorite Rotation for more information.
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Robot and Frank
The children of a grouchy former jewel thief invest in a robot butler to ensure their father's care.
Even if a screening is sold out, tickets are often available 30 minutes before the start of the film at the box office at each venue.
- Director Jake Schreier
- Producer Galt Niederhoffer, Sam Bisbee, Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Lance Acord
- Screenwriter Christopher D Ford
- With Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, James Marsden
- 89 mins
- UK distribution Momentum Pictures
Frank Langella plays Frank, a grouchy former jewel thief with absent, grown-up children (James Marsden and Liv Tyler) who worry about his memory-loss and invest in a robot butler, as much to soothe their own conscience as to ensure their father's care. Immediately suspicious of his new companion, Frank's sulky protestations soon turn conspiratorial when he realises that the robot's skills can be useful for more than just the housework. Frank's crush on the local librarian (Susan Sarandon) turns protective when a wealthy local developer threatens to acquire their beloved library. The old cat-burglar and his shiny new companion (superbly voiced by Peter Skarsgaard) hatch a cunning revenge plan. Set in bucolic upstate New York, in a 'near future' that bears a remarkable resemblance to 'now' (with a few glossy technological improvements), Jake Schreier's wholly inventive riff on odd-couple comedy is also a poignant mediation on ageing and loneliness.
Clare Stewart
Director statement
We did research on robots, [but] the most fun was to research jewel thieves. When you read about those guys – really high-class jewel thieves, ones that pull off these big heists – they talk about their work like artists. They're not doing it for the money, because you really can't spend it, if you're stealing famous jewels, they're hard to spend, so the heists are like these little art projects for them. It's all about proving what they can do; they love it in the same way that an artist does. So that was sort of fun. It's buried in the movie, and I don't know if many people would pick up on it, but for me it's sort of about how being an artist can screw up your relationships – what that did to Frank's family. I think that's something that most people that try to do this stuff can relate to, how hard it is to kind of juggle that passion for the craft while trying to maintain real relationships with people.
Jake Schreier
Director biography
A graduate from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a founding member of the Brooklyn-based filmmaking collective Waverly Films, he began his career making short films, commercials and music videos. Jake signed with Park Pictures in 2006 and has appeared on 'Best New Directors' lists for Creativity, Shots, Boards, and Shoot magazines. He has helmed campaigns for clients like Absolut, Comcast, Playstation, EA Sports and Verizon, among many others, and directed a number of music videos for acts like My Morning Jacket and Francis and the Lights. His feature directorial debut, Robot and Frank, is the first movie from Park Pictures' newly formed feature division.
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Posted: August 14th, 2017
DE-Tenants.org has been following the money behind Douglas Emmett Inc.'s recent $2 billion buying spree in the Los Angeles commercial real estate market.
Using primary sources and news reporting we have already identified nine California commercial properties that Douglas Emmett acquired in partnership with the nation of Qatar's sovereign wealth fund called QIA. Together QIA and Douglas Emmett have already closed on over $2 billion of Los Angeles commercial real estate since March 2016. A large stake of the funding comes from QIA's deep pockets. But QIA and the Qatari royalty who control it have made a series of other high-profile deals of late. Most notably, Douglas Emmett's financing partner recently purchased part of a 19.5% stake of the Russian state-owned oil company called Rosneft for $11 billion.
In December 2016, the Qatar Investment Authority and a Swiss oil-trading firm Glencore jointly acquired the third-largest stake in Rosneft, which pumps more crude than Exxon Mobil Corp. Here is a regulatory disclosure from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange also announcing the QIA-Glencore joint venture.
Publicized terms of the deal
Multiple reports have suggested the last-minute deal was a move to bolster Russian state finances as Vladimir Putin struggles to meet domestic spending commitments before his possible re-election bid in less than two years. Russia's economy has struggled in recent years and Western sanctions have targeted the country's oil, gas and financial sectors. Additionally, Russia relies heavily on oil revenues and international oil prices reached 12-year lows in 2016. The revenue from the $11 billion Rosneft sale was reportedly intended cover budget shortfalls. And despite the odds, the deal arrived just in time to shore-up state revenues for the final quarter of 2016.
According to a Reuters source close to Rosneft's management board, the deal came as a surprise to Rosneft's shareholders, including Britain's BP oil corporation, which itself owns 19.75% of Rosneft and is represented on its board.
The deal was publically announced—live on television—on 7 December 2016 and marked "one of [Russia's] biggest privatizations [of state assets] since the 1990s," but it was highly secretive and the terms were not immediately disclosed (SOURCE).
Per a Rostneft press release, QIA and Glencore acquired 19.5% of the company for 710.8 billion Russian rubles (approximately U.S. $11 billion or EUR10.2 billion). The purchase price would come from EUR2.8 billion in equity and EUR5.2 billion of debt financing from an Italian bank called Banca Intesa Sanpaolo. The EUR2.8 billion in equity consisted in EUR300 million from Glencore and the remaining EUR2.5 billion from the Qatar Investment Authority. (SOURCE)
However, between the three sources of funding, journalists could only account for EUR8 billion; the remaining EUR2.2 billion, nearly 22% of the purchase price, could not be accounted for and Rosneft declined to explain. No known source has been able to account for the missing 22% of the capital stack. This has led reporters at Reuters to raise questions about shadow buyers involved in the deal.
|Percentage of purchase price
|Qatar Investment Authority (QIA)
|EUR 2.5 billion
|Glencore plc
|EUR 300 million
|Banca Intesa Sanpaolo SpA
|EUR 5.2 billion
|EUR 8 billion
|EUR 2.2 billion
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Despite the missing money, it is known that QIA and Glencore combined their EUR2.8 billion in equity into a 50-50 joint venture vehicle called QHG Shares Pte based in Singapore. The firm was founded on 12 August 2016. That same day, two Singapore-based directors were appointed to QHG Shares: a South African named Lodewyk "Lood" Van Rooyen and a Briton named Richard William Dumpleton. The men are, respectively, the Head of Risk Management at Glencore and an Operations Manager at Glencore. According to corporate filings, the purpose of the company was to serve as a "holding company for oil entities". Its primary office was 1 Temasek Avenue, #34-01, Millenia Tower, Singapore 039192, the headquarters of Glencore's Singapore operations.
A short time later on 12 December 2016, QHG Shares appointed a secretary, a Singaporean named M. Sivaananthan. And subsequently the firm would change its name to QHG Oil Ventures Pte on 8 February 2017, after already purchasing 19.5% of Rosneft two months earlier in December 2016.
The next post in this series tracking the QIA's Russia oil investment picks up again in Singapore.
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Gluten or gluten-free?
Nowadays it's modern not to eat products with gluten, but there is a misunderstanding. Not everyone needs to. But there are illnesses that require to have such a diet. For example, celiac or allergy for wheat.
Gluten or no gluten
Gluten is grain's proteins. They could be found in wheat and other grains. They give flexibility to most of the products such as pasta or bakery. There's no reason for anyone to remove gluten from a diet. Some people think that gluten may call overweight or diabetes but it's not true. Moreover, a diet that contains whole grains is good and has positive outcomes. It can help to reduce heart diseases or having diabetes or cancer illness.
But there are some diseases when it is necessary to avoid such products in food: celiac illness, wheat allergy and sensitivity to gluten.
Celiac illness
This disease causes the damage of the small gut. Then, the human body cannot work with nutrients.
So, nowadays, celiac refers to exclude such protein completely.
Celiac disease is when you have:
- diarrhoea;
- obstipation;
- vomiting;
- heartburn;
- fatigue.
However, a lot of people don't know that they have such a disease. At the same time, the disease can cause dangerous health problems such as:
- anaemia;
- infertility;
- avitaminosis;
- neurological problem.
A blood test or biopsy could help to diagnose.
With celiac illness, you should eat food free of such proteins. It means no food with wheat. Some other grains could also contain gluten, such as barley, rye, bulgur.
Wheat allergy is just backlash of body and it's a usual food allergy. It means that the human body generates antibodies and fights. Besides gluten, wheat has other protein elements. To know about the wheat allergy you should do skin or blood test.
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People with a wheat allergy should be very cautious and exclude wheat from their diet. But, people with this type of allergy can eat other crops.
Gluten sensitivity Non-celiac (NCGS)
NCGS is a new disease. This name describes the state of a person who feels worse when eating food with gluten and better when food is without gluten.
Symptoms of this disease are:
- swelling;
- constipation;
- headache;
- brain fog;
- numbness.
All symptoms may occur within hours or in several days.
Gluten sensitivity requires a diet complexly free from gluten. Just for a time. People with this illness should avoid all food like persons with celiac or allergy, including all product from their list. If you have gluten sensitivity, you should be in touch with a specialist who can control the elimination of products in your diet.
Where gluten or wheat could hide
Some people have found that exclude gluten is not so easy. It's not just bread. So, remember that gluten or wheat can hide in other different products:
- ice cream, frozen yoghurt and pudding;
- muesli or some kind of bars;
- meat;
- crisps and fries;
- canned soup;
- dressings in bottles;
- mayonnaise or oil;
- lipsticks and cosmetics in general;
- medicines.
You should be very careful when removing some necessary elements or products. This removing from a diet is an important change and may seem some difficulties at first. But, choosing the right food may seem to you to feel well.
Remember, you should always be in touch with your doctor before deciding to do any major changes to your diet or your health is in danger.


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It can be extremely problematic to facilitate and organize commercial moving. Houston is home to several reliable and reputable moving companies from which to choose. Nevertheless, it can also be challenging to hire the right moving professionals for your office's relocation. It is however a non-negotiable.
To be quite frank, commercial moving takes more effort than a residential move. There are too many expensive pieces of equipment involved and you simply do not want to be responsible for keeping them in one piece. Moreover, too many things can go wrong should you decide to DIY your office's move. From convincing the right people to help you pack to hauling the packed equipment to your new office, it is a daunting task indeed.
Still unconvinced? Below are a few reasons why you should not think twice about hiring only the best moving company for your impending commercial relocation:
A Reputable Moving Company Can Ensure the Safety of Your Belongings
A computer, copier, or fax machine is not cheap. It might run you a couple hundred dollars, easy. Commercial relocation can involve several expensive pieces of equipment for which you truly do not want to be liable. Professional movers can guarantee that your office's belongings remain in one piece.
Professional Movers Equals Less Stress
Commercial relocation takes more than packing peanuts and heavy-lifting. Frankly, you might not be prepared for the tediousness it entails. Fortunately, there are moving companies that offer full service features that can help with your relocation – from start to finish. These services may include:
- Planning and consultation
- Disassembling, securing, and transporting of office items
- Tracking of the entire move online
- Estimation and budgeting
Commercial Moving Done Right Takes Expertise
As said earlier, it is more complicated to conduct a commercial move than a residential one. Professional movers are involved in the process day in and day out. It is after all, their bread and butter. No matter how diligent you and your team are, you simply do not have the experience to match their expertise. While you might be able to accomplish the move, it would likely not be a seamless endeavor.